I was shocked to learn Philip Ruddock was once considered the standard bearer for ‘progressive Liberals’ in Parliament, championing human rights causes, Indigenous issues and founding the first parliamentary Amnesty group.
On multiple occasions throughout 2023 Mayor Ruddock has been advised by members of the Aboriginal community that Laurie Bimson, Tracey Howie, and their supposed ‘tribe’ are NOT Aboriginal, and ARE NOT accepted as being Aboriginal.
This information is not new, is not a secret, and has been a matter of public record for considerable time. But for some reason, Hornsby Shire Mayor Philip Ruddock has chosen to disregard actual Aboriginal People – again.
Mayor Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have taken it upon themselves to become some devine arbiter of Aboriginality – to have the right and responsibility of creating Aboriginal Culture. The reality that this enterprise is being conducted exclusively by non-Aboriginal People, in direct opposition to Aboriginal People, Culture, Lore and laws is especially galling.
Within months of 6/10 Australian’s denying us a Voice, Mayor Ruddock and his non-Aboriginal GuriNgai friends are profiting from filling that gap, rather than closing it.
Prior to this year my memory of Philip Ruddock includes in 2001 when he backed a decision to deny entry to the asylum-laden ship Tampa. He was the author of the so-called “Pacific solution” that denied asylum seekers arriving on boats the opportunity to come to this country, and which was condemned by Human Rights Watch as contravening international law, as being a human rights violation: Oxfam and the UNHCR (United Nations refugee agency) agreed with this viewpoint.
On 27 May 2004, Ruddock introduced the Marriage Legislation Amendment Bill to prevent any possible court rulings allowing same-sex marriages or civil unions. The UN Human Rights Commission found the Australian government in violation of equality and privacy rights under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights, but Ruddock insisted the government was not bound by the ruling.
Yet Philip Ruddock has also served as the Special Envoy for Human Rights since 8 February 2016, representing Australia abroad for the ‘promotion and protections of Human Rights’.
We find Philip Ruddick to be a lifelong politician, a former Indigenous Affairs Minister who appears unable to distinguish between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal People, Culture or Country.
We find Philip Ruddick to be a Special Envoy for Human Rights who does not recognise or value human rights, or seemingly the United Nations or International Law.
Rather than admit error/causation/responsibility of endorsing known non-Aboriginal frauds as ‘Traditional Owners’; Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have once again disregarded and dashed the rights of genuine Indigenous Peoples of the Hornsby Shire.
My Country, my Ngura, is Dyrubbin and Marramarra Creek.
Yet when my family and I are on Country, we have to be hypervigilant to the ongoing threats to our safety posed by the non-Aboriginal People that make up the so-called GuriNgai organisation.
My family and my Rights, as laid out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007, are disregarded entirely.
The following is not an exhaustive list of the UNDRIP breaches resulting directly from the actions of Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council.
Article 1.
Indigenous peoples have the right to the full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognised in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right of full enjoyment, as a collective or as individuals. We are no longer free to identify ourselves or tell our true hereditary family story in public, because Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have ensured that ‘Guringai’ criminal behaviour will continue against our Aboriginal family.
Article 2.
Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and individuals and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right of being free and equal to all other peoples and individuals, and our right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of our rights, in particular that based on our indigenous origin or identity. Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have instead ensured that our Aboriginal family will receive further ‘Guringai’ Racist attacks and criminal threats of violence, online and in public.
Article 3
Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right to freely pursue our economic, social and cultural development.
Article 5
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their right to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right of participation in local cultural matters.
Article 7
- Indigenous individuals have the rights to life, physical and mental integrity, liberty and security of person.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have removed our rights to security of person by awarding our Non-Aboriginal ‘Guringai’ criminal intimidators with positions of authority for which they are not in the slightest way qualified (including on the grounds of character), which will also elevate the Racism and attacks which members of our Aboriginal family already receive from these Racist ‘Guringai’ hoodlums. This also undermines our mental wellbeing.
2. Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group to another group.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have enacted a genocidal policy on us, and our personal security is under elevated risk of violence from the ‘Guringai’ because of it.
Article 8
1. Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right not to be subjected to forced assimilation or destruction of their culture.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council has breached our right not to be subjected to the destruction of our culture and forced our assimilation with the hostile criminal Non-Aboriginal ‘Guringai’, who are not and never have been members of our clan.
2. States shall provide effective mechanisms for prevention of, and redress for:
(a) Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities;
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council has taken action which has the aim or effect of depriving us of our integrity as distinct people, and of our cultural values and our ethnic identity.
(b) Any action which has the aim or effect of dispossessing them of their lands, territories or resources;
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council has taken action which has the aim of dispossessing us of our lands, territories and resources.
(c) Any form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of violating or undermining any of their rights;
(d) Any form of forced assimilation or integration;
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council action has the effect of forcing us to assimilate with a hostile Non-Aboriginal criminal group who employ criminal intimidation against us as an Aboriginal family.
(e) Any form of propaganda designed to promote or incite racial or ethnic discrimination directed against them.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council now fully endorses Racist Non-Aboriginal ‘Guringai’ propaganda which incites further ‘Guringai’ racial and ethnic discrimination directed against and directly at us.
Article 9
Indigenous peoples and individuals have the right to belong to an indigenous community or nation, in accordance with the traditions and customs of the community or nation concerned. No discrimination of any kind may arise from the exercise of such a right.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council is the agent now bringing us ‘Guringai’ discrimination, Racism and criminal intimidation in our own community. And fraud.
Article 11
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to practise and revitalize their cultural traditions and customs. This includes the right to maintain, protect and develop the past, present and future manifestations of their cultures, such as archaeological and historical sites, artefacts, designs, ceremonies, technologies and visual and performing arts and literature.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have excluded us from archaeological assessments of our own historical sites, for which they used our family’s historical data containing our personal contact details, and without seeking or obtaining our consent in any way then provided access to Racist Non-Aboriginal ‘Guringai’ criminals.
2. States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples, with respect to their cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions and customs.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council is now aiding and abetting the ‘Guringai’ Cultural Theft of our cultural, intellectual and family information without our free, prior, informed consent, and in violation of prevailing law. HSC is also now complicit in the Cultural Theft of our hereditary Aboriginal family story, our identity, and our Country. I so want to tell HSC in no uncertain terms they can no longer use / profit from our Aboriginal family story. This lethal Vampirism on our family has to end somewhere when all we keep repeating for a solid year is ‘enough’, in my case, it’s been 8 full years I can remember. I don’t know how else, i.e. attempt #7539, to say ‘stop it’ at the moment.
Article 12
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to manifest, practise, develop and teach their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; the right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to their religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of their ceremonial objects; and the right to the repatriation of their human remains.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have removed our right to maintain, protect, and have access in privacy to our religious and cultural sites; the right to the use and control of our ceremonial objects.
Article 13
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures, and to designate and retain their own names for communities, places and persons.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have removed our right to revitalize, use, develop and transmit to future generations our histories, languages (Darug, not ‘Guringai’), oral traditions, philosophies, and to designate and retain our own names for communities, places and persons.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that this right is protected and also to ensure that indigenous peoples can understand and be understood in political, legal and administrative proceedings, where necessary through the provision of interpretation or by other appropriate means.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council has failed to take effective measures to ensure that our right is protected in this, or in anything else.
Article 15
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the dignity and diversity of their cultures, traditions, histories and aspirations which shall be appropriately reflected in education and public information.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council has denied us our right to the dignity and diversity of our cultures, traditions, histories and aspirations which will no longer be appropriately reflected in education and public information.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council has failed to take effective measures, in consultation and cooperation with us, the indigenous people concerned, to combat prejudice and eliminate discrimination and failed to promote tolerance, understanding and good relations among indigenous peoples and all other segments of society. Instead, HSC have taken deliberate action which is now actively causing us great harm and loss.
Article 18
Indigenous peoples have the right to participate in decision-making in matters which would affect their rights, through representatives chosen by themselves in accordance with their own procedures, as well as to maintain and develop their own indigenous decision-making institutions.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have failed to afford us the right to participate in decision-making in matters which affect our rights, including HSC’s failure to seek or obtain our consent for sharing our family history information and all our personal contact details with the ‘Guringai’ criminal enterprise.
Article 19
States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.
No free prior or informed consent was ever sought nor obtained by Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council before adopting measures such as giving our family history information containing all our personal contact details to the Non-Aboriginal ‘Guringai’ criminal enterprise.
Article 21
1. Indigenous peoples have the right, without discrimination, to the improvement of their economic and social conditions, including, inter alia, in the areas of education, employment, vocational training and retraining, housing, sanitation, health and social security.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right, without discrimination, to the improvement of our economic and social conditions.
2. States shall take effective measures and, where appropriate, special measures to ensure continuing improvement of their economic and social conditions. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have taken action to ensure the continuing losses of improvement of our economic and social conditions, and taken no responsibility for the resulting loss of rights or special needs of our indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities.
Article 22
1. Particular attention shall be paid to the rights and special needs of indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities in the implementation of this Declaration.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council has taken action directly resulting in the loss of rights or special needs of our indigenous elders, women, youth, children and persons with disabilities, and will likely result in further harm to them from ‘Guringai’.
2. States shall take measures, in conjunction with indigenous peoples, to ensure that indigenous women and children enjoy the full protection and guarantees against all forms of violence and discrimination.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council has taken action guaranteed to elevate the risk of ‘Guringai’ violence and discrimination against our indigenous women and children.
Article 25
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold their responsibilities to future generations in this regard.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right to maintain and strengthen our distinctive spiritual relationship with our traditionally owned or otherwise occupied and used lands, territories, waters and coastal seas and other resources and to uphold our responsibilities to future generations in this regard.
Article 26
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which we have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right to the lands, territories and resources which we have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.
2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right to use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that we possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use.
3. States shall give legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. Such recognition shall be conducted with due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of the indigenous peoples concerned.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our right to legal recognition and protection to these lands, territories and resources. This was done entirely without recognition or due respect to the customs, traditions and land tenure systems of us, the indigenous peoples concerned.
Article 27
States shall establish and implement, in conjunction with indigenous peoples concerned, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, giving due recognition to indigenous peoples’ laws, traditions, customs and land tenure systems, to recognize and adjudicate the rights of indigenous peoples pertaining to their lands, territories and resources, including those which were traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used. Indigenous peoples shall have the right to participate in this process.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have denied us our rights in not implementing in conjunction with us, the Indigenous peoples concerned, a fair, independent, impartial, open and transparent process, without any due recognition to our indigenous peoples’ laws, traditions, customs and land tenure systems, and removed our right to participate in this process.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to redress, by means that can include restitution or, when this is not possible, just, fair and equitable compensation, for the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used, and which have been confiscated, taken, occupied, used or damaged without their free, prior and informed consent.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have not compensated us for the removal of our rights to our hereditary Marramarra land and giving it to Non-Aboriginal ’Guringai’ crooks, or for any of the other harm and loss caused us.
Article 29 (
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to the conservation and protection of the environment and the productive capacity of their lands or territories and resources. States shall establish and implement assistance programmes for indigenous peoples for such conservation and protection, without discrimination.
2. States shall take effective measures to ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall take place in the lands or territories of indigenous peoples without their free, prior and informed consent.
3. States shall also take effective measures to ensure, as needed, that programmes for monitoring, maintaining and restoring the health of indigenous peoples, as developed and implemented by the peoples affected by such materials, are duly implemented.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have removed our rights to consultation on these matters over our own hereditary lands.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions, as well as the manifestations of their sciences, technologies and cultures, including human and genetic resources, seeds, medicines, knowledge of the properties of fauna and flora, oral traditions, literatures, designs, sports and traditional games and visual and performing arts. They also have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have removed our right to maintain, control, protect and develop our cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions and oral traditions, and to maintain, control, protect and develop our intellectual property over such cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, and traditional cultural expressions.
2. In conjunction with indigenous peoples, States shall take effective measures to recognize and protect the exercise of these rights.
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of their lands or territories and other resources.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have removed our right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for the development or use of our lands or territories and other resources.
2. States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned through their own representative institutions in order to obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources, particularly in connection with the development, utilization or exploitation of mineral, water or other resources.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have never consulted us or sought nor obtained our consent to co-opt our historical family data and private contact details and supply improper access to Non-Aboriginal ‘Guringai’ crooks for criminal purposes.
3. States shall provide effective mechanisms for just and fair redress for any such activities, and appropriate measures shall be taken to mitigate adverse environmental, economic, social, cultural or spiritual impact.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have taken no steps whatsoever to minimise adverse economic, social, cultural or spiritual impact of their completely unethical actions on us.
Article 33
1. Indigenous peoples have the right to determine their own identity or membership in accordance with their customs and traditions. This does not impair the right of indigenous individuals to obtain citizenship of the States in which they live.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have removed our right to determine our own identity or membership in accordance with our customs and traditions. *HSC have even removed our basic right to determine who is a member of our family and who isn’t, even when they are Non-Aboriginal Racist ‘Guringai’ committing criminal fraud against us.
Article 34
Indigenous peoples have the right to promote, develop and maintain their institutional structures and their distinctive customs, spirituality, traditions, procedures, practices and, in the cases where they exist, juridical systems or customs, in accordance with international human rights standards.
Mayor Philip Ruddock and the Hornsby Shire Council have removed our right to promote, develop and maintain our distinctive customs, spirituality, traditions, procedures, practices in accordance with international human rights standards.
A Long Con, Gone on Too Long. 
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