04/10/2006
“Darkinjung Chairman David Pross has said that there is a ‘myth of Aboriginal naivety when it comes to sound business decision making – a myth that is becoming entrenched in contemporary “wisdom”.

He said that ‘apparently its fine for anyone other than Aboriginal people to sell land without cultural significance and excess to their needs.

“Aboriginal groups are ‘granted’ an old quarry or tip site, apparently they must hang onto it in case it turns out to be valuable and someone wants it back’. He said that political criticisms of the land council for spending money on ‘due diligence, feasibility studies, seed funding, management systems and attendant legal fees’ is ‘deliberate hypocrisy”

Australian Financial Review, 11-Oct-06, pg 60.

Mr Pross would go on to become recognised as a GuriNgai elder somehow.

Mr Pross came across my radar through enabling the GuriNgai to secure deals with local mining concerns, such as Wallarah Coal.

Mr Pross even went so far as writing to the NSW State Planning and Assessment Commission, to plead for the Wallarah 2 Coal Project to be allowed to go ahead- while the GuriNgai Cult were simultaneously claiming to care for their ‘sacred Country’.

You couldn’t make it up; but they did.

Oddly, Mr Pross ALSO is claimed as a Tasmanian Aboriginal man, as his father was believed to be an ‘Indigenous Tasmanian:

The Bloody History of Colonization in Tasmania, in Photos