Coast Community News – a propaganda wing of the GuriNgai Cult?

A search of the term ‘guringai’ on the Coast Community News website provides two pages of media releases, news articles, and media releases published as if they are news articles; all positively covering the views and opinions of the non-Aboriginal GuriNgai Cult.

Now they were not the only media to have been hoodwinked by the GuriNgai; A Long Con Gone on Too Long is filled with examples including the National Indigenous Times, the ABC, SBS, the Daily Telegraph, the Wallarah II Newsletter, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Manly Daily, and many more. Such appearances are no accident; they are all examples of the non-Aboriginal GuriNgai group creating awareness of themselves as an Aboriginal group – despite that not being remotely true.

How do we know this? It’s literally their top objective according to the Official Rules of GuriNgai Tribal Link Aboriginal Corporation:

Since the July 7, 2023 publication of the evidence showing beyond any doubt that this group are a fiction created by non-Aboriginal man Warren Whitfield in 2001, nearly every media organization has become aware that these so-called GuriNgai are far from what the claim, even the fact-checking adverse Pittwater Life street press eventually realised their past error.

Coast Community News on the other hand have remained steadfast in their opposition to genuine Aboriginal People and the evidence of criminal fraud we graciously offer up to the public and authorities alike.

Since going public with the evidence of the GuriNgai fraud, I have tried to call Coast Community News several times, left several messages, sent emails, and commented on their Facebook Page. At the risk of seeming less than humble, the readership of A Long Con Gone on Too Long and associated Social Media and the like is nothing short of staggering – which I bring up only to point out that the truth about the GuriNgai is extremely common knowledge.

I was under the impression Coast Community News was just a website and Facebook Page, until I spoke to their Sales representative on the phone yesterday, who was in a real hurray to get the latest issue to print: like Jimmy Olson pre-internet.

There have been newspaper articles, radio programs, this website, the podcast, social media and constant yarning locally, nationally, and internationally about these unusual racist people pretending (albeit unconvincingly) to be Aboriginal.

But Coast Community News somehow, for some reason, repeatedly make the choice to not only maintain a pretense of ignorance regarding the GuriNgai – they seem determined to subject their readership to the same.

For instance, on January 19, 2024 we were gifted with the following piece on the Coast Community News website:

Grandmothers unite to oppose housing development

The article is does not disclose that it is merely a reproduction of a media release provided to Coast Community Voice by those involved in this action.

This ‘journalism’ introduces the group only as ‘a group of Central Coast grandmothers’ we are told these mysterious Senior Citizens met “at the base of the Grandmother Tree”, and that “the women said the proposed development would put sacred sites at risk.”

Now readers of Coast Community News may be at this point asking themselves who are these grandmothers, how is it a grandmother tree, what are their credentials, what sacred sites are they talking about and to whom are they sacred. That’s right, I believe the readership of Coast Community News are more informed, more media savvy, and less driven by cooked ideology that Coast Community News gives them credit for.

The closest this Public Relations 101 example comes to answering the above questions is the following:

“Local Elder, Aunty Colleen from Darkinoong, said the development would destroy the hanging swamps that fed into the aquifer and downstream of the development site, causing severe erosion and drying out of the area.

Colleen Fuller Jones is a non-Aboriginal Person who falsly laid claim to multiple mobs and Ancestors before settling with Yuin and Darkinoong. Ms Jones is involved in multiple fraudulent schemes and groups such as My Place and the Church of Ubuntu. Ms Jones own family have come forward to reveal they are definitely not Aboriginal, confirming what was already discovered in her own genealogy. Ms Jones does not have Aboriginal ancestry, AND is not accepted as Aboriginal by any Aboriginal community.

“This in turn will endanger the Grandmother Tree, which the local bloodline custodians of the area hold as sacred,” she said.

The tree referred to by non-Aboriginal People as the ‘grandmother tree’ is not sacred or significant at all to Aboriginal People. The origin of the modern folklore surrounding this tree has been traced to one Beverly (Beve)Spiers. Beve Spiers was a non-Aboriginal Person who assumed a faux-Aboriginal persona in the guise of ‘Goolabeen,’ supposedly an initiated medicine woman.

As absurd as it sounds, this carnival sideshow act convinced enough of the local population, during particularly vulnerable periods of their individual personal lives, for this humbug to persist long after it’s author.

“All races far and wide oppose the rezoning and housing development going ahead.”

WTF?

The women say the development would put sacred sites at risk.

No, it won’t according to the independent experts, and the People to whom actual Sacred sites are actually sacred.

“The woman say the bloodline custodians are from Guringai, Darkinoong and Awabakal mobs.“

The Woman are incorrect, have no expertise on the topic at hand, and are being led by a non-Aboriginal Person.

“The Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council is not representative of the Central Coast mobs but is a government body,” they said.”

This is false, and harmful rhetoric that a non-Aboriginal Person is saying about the local Aboriginal Land Council, that represents all Aboriginal People, not just its members. Nowhere in this article is there any comment from any Aboriginal Person or representative of any Aboriginal organisation – we literally only get to hear from the GuriNgai, and are expected to take their word at face value. Journalism must be hard hey Coast Community News.

They followed up on January 23, 2024 with bizarre reporting on the gathering of non-Aboriginal People actively in opposition with local Aboriginal People and Organisations, advertised as being held at Bulgandry Sacred Aboriginal Place.

So immediately, to whom are these ‘lands sacred’ and are they genuine, legitimate stakeholders? Also 70 people gathered on site? There are 14 people in the above photo so are we expected to believe that the audience in the above photo are watching 56 people on stage?

In the videos circulating of the event there never appears to be more than 30 people tops…weird.

Once again the opinions of non-Experts with clear bias and vested interest are presented as fact- while no attempt is made to speak to any Aboriginal Person or representative from any of the many Aboriginal Organisations in the area.

January 24, 2024 saw Coast Community News report on Central Coast Council’s decision to follow the advice of their independent Indigenous Advisory Committee and adopt the following as their Official Acknowledgement:

“We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live, work and play.

“We pay our respects to Darkinjung country, and Elders past and present.

“We recognise the continued connection to these lands and waterways, and extend this acknowledgement to the homelands and stories of those who also call this place home.

“We recognise our future leaders and the shared responsibility to care for and protect our place and people.”

A simple administative task, completed in accordance with the Central Coast Councils long fought for Accord with the First Nations People of the region- the change was met with heartfelt relief and joy in many Aboriginal People on hearing the news – a particularly welcome break from the onslaught of ‘Australia Day, Kariong and GuriNgai drama.

Uproar? I only know one very small group to whom this overwhelmingly positive result not only for Aboriginal People, but all residents of the Central Coast.

You’ll notice that unlike the press releases reproduced in full but disingenuously presented as journalism by mysterious journalists – this effort has a name attached, Merilyn Vale.

Merilyn Vale runs the Facebook Page Central Coast Council Watch, in which Ms Vale reports on selected minutia of Central Coast Council bureaucracy like Sisyphus having a worse than average day. Supplementing her regular role by adding Indigenous Affairs to her portfolio of specialist subjects that would make Scott Morrison blush, Ms Vale could seem to imagine that perhaps it was ONLY THE GURINGAI CULT MEMBERS PRESENT who were upset by this news – the rest of us were thrilled to apathetic.

You’ll notice Ms Vale mentions ‘the gallery erupted’ but does not identify that the people screaming the house down were exclusively the faction of GuriNgai Cult devotees to her audience, in spite being aware of who they were, and having photographed them out the front of Council less than 1 hour earlier. Ms Vale does not mention that Mr Van Davy has a long existing relationship with the GuriNgai Cult, or that Shad Tyler has only recently been promoted to ‘Uncle’ of the GuriNgai Cult, which is odd for a journalist objectively reporting the facts…

Of course there is no mention that the so-called GuriNgai group have been conclusively shown to have been misleading the public for 2 decades, and to 100% not be Aboriginal People; rather Ms Vale carries on implying that these fraudsters are ‘traditional owners’ despite this being 100% categorically untrue. Great journalism Ms Vale, gold star.

Not content to leave it there, and not content to simply engage in property damage and further destruction of actual sites of great significance to actual Aboriginal People: the GuriNgai group went to work on a media release of their own that the seemingly content starved Coast Community News were prepared to uncritically regurgitate onto their readership:

Obviously to most people it is clear by now that the people refers to as ‘traditional custodians’ are nonother than the GuriNgai Cult, non-Aboriginal People with a lust for relevance and income streams that 1980’s wall-street investors would think was over-kill.

Ms Vale and Coast Community News are free to choose to ignore reality, to ignore Aboriginal People and Organisations, and to promote blatant hucksters as mob in a gross parody of Aboriginality that is seen by us and most people outside this Central Coast bubble as nothing less than a Minstrel Show for the digital age. But just as they are free to be grossly prejudiced against us to the detriment of the entire local community, I am free to point it out, to yarn about it, and to make sure there isn’t a person on this planet does not know what’s really going on with these unusual racists on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and Central Coast regions of NSW.