Beverley “Beve” Spiers, who styled herself as “Aunty Goolabeen, Darkinooong Elder”, was a foundational figure in the settler spiritualist movement centred around the Kariong/Gosford area of the NSW Central Coast. From the late 1980s until her death in 2014, Spiers promoted a fabricated Aboriginal identity and constructed a mythological narrative around the so-called Kariong glyphs. … Continue reading Echoes of Goolabeen: Settler Conspirituality, Pretendianism, and the Recolonisation of Kariong Sacred Lands