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Across Australia, digitally mediated ecosystems increasingly fuse conspiracism, spiritualised meaning-making, and anti-institutional grievance into forms of mobilisation that can appear, at first glance, as community care, environmental protection, or cultural revival. This article synthesises a large body of public-record analysis and applied theory to examine a Central Coast case ecology centred on Jake Cassar, Coast…
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The sunk cost fallacy describes a cognitive and social pattern in which individuals or groups persist with a course of action because of prior investments of time, money, identity, or reputation, even when accumulating evidence demonstrates that the course is flawed, harmful, or unsustainable. Rather than recalibrating decisions based on present realities and future consequences,…
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Campfire Collective Australia Incorporated should not be understood as a benign or merely inexperienced charity. Rather, it exhibits the characteristics of a high-risk organisational form whose structure, rhetoric, and operational context align with authority laundering, donor confusion, and founder-centric capture. https://www.campfirecollectiveaustralia.com/ The appropriate benchmark is not whether the organisation satisfies the minimum procedural requirements of…
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This report is issued in the public interest to assist Central Coast residents in understanding the activities, narratives, and impacts associated with Jake Cassar, The Campfire Collective, Coast Environmental Alliance, and Jake Cassar Bushcraft. While these entities are often presented as benign environmental, bushcraft, or community initiatives, available evidence indicates that their activities sit at…
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A group of non-Aboriginal People began pretending to be us, stealing our stories, Ancestors, Culture and more on the Northern Beaches, Hornsby Shire, and Central Coast of NSW. This group are aided by other non-Aboriginal People, including Beverly Spiers, Jake Cassar, Lisa Bellamy, Sarah Blakeway, and Vicki Burke. The story of how and why is…
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Jake Cassar’s The cave constructs an elaborate cosmological system that merges ancient aliens mythology, conspiracist worldbuilding, ecological judgment, and drug-fuelled visionary experiences. The most significant feature of this system is its extensive cultural appropriation. Cassar reworks Aboriginal spiritual motifs, ecological guardianship narratives, cryptid traditions associated with Country, and Indigenous custodial language, then embeds them within…
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Introduction This exegesis provides a comprehensive, chapter by chapter critical analysis of The Cave by Jake Cassar, situating the text within the intersecting domains of eco spiritual mythmaking, conspirituality, settler simulation, high demand group dynamics, and the ongoing appropriation of Indigenous cultural forms in Australia. While framed as fiction, The Cave operates as a mythopoetic…
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The Central Coast of New South Wales (NSW) is the site of a profound crisis at the intersection of acute housing shortage and colonial resistance. This report synthesises evidence demonstrating how a coordinated network of settler activist organizations including principally the Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA), led by figures like Jake Cassar and Lisa Bellamy, and…
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A Long Con, Gone on Too Long. 