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Past election results expose the difference between a highly visible activist network and the actual Central Coast community it claims to represent For several years, Lisa Bellamy has appeared near the centre of an unusually persistent Central Coast political ecosystem involving Jake Cassar, Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA), Save Kariong Sacred Lands, Coasties Who Care and…
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The campaign’s environmental concerns do not excuse misrepresenting the land, the planning process or Aboriginal authority At the so-called Save Kariong Sacred Lands rally on 23 August 2026, Lisa Bellamy presented the Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council’s Kariong planning proposal as an immediate threat to sacred land, Aboriginal cultural heritage, wildlife, wetlands and the integrity…
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Jake Cassar, Lisa Bellamy and the Coast Environmental Alliance are mobilising once again against Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council and the local Aboriginal community of the NSW Central Coast, this time calling supporters to gather at Kariong (again) on Sunday, 23 August 2026. Their latest social-media posts make clear that this is no longer simply…
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For more than a year, a campaign has mobilised residents, staged rallies, generated media coverage, organised letter-writing campaigns, encouraged political pressure and built an active Facebook community around a simple and emotionally powerful proposition: Kincumber’s wetlands are threatened by a proposed Woolworths development on land owned by Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council. That story is…
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On Friday 10 July 2026, from 6 pm to 8 pm, the Save Kincumber Wetlands campaign is scheduled to hold a community gathering at the Kincumber Hotel. The public event notice invites Save Kincumber Wetlands members to “keep building momentum,” share ideas, strengthen connections, hear presentations, and learn practical letter-writing strategies for contacting politicians and…
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How public institutions turned shifting Karingai, Guringai, Yuin, Dharug, ceremonial, and “Sydney Traditional Owner” claims into false cultural authority Amanda Jane Reynolds has been publicly presented across museums, galleries, government committees, cultural festivals, local councils, NAIDOC programs, public art projects, possum cloak workshops, healing trails, and Aboriginal cultural education spaces as an Aboriginal cultural practitioner.…
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The SBS article “Prepper used to be a dirty word. But these ‘ordinary’ people think it’s just sensible now” opens deep in the bush of Mangrove Mountain, where Seamus Turton is described as preparing for the end of the world. His off-grid camp includes solar panels, large lithium batteries, stored food, a double-door fridge, a…
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Drawing on cognitive psychology, social psychology, and research on motivated reasoning and conspiracist belief systems, this framework explains how confirmation bias can become embedded at individual, organisational, and network levels. The framework is designed for application to specific incidents and artefacts, including public statements, governance documents, social media communications, institutional correspondence, and advocacy materials, without…
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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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A Long Con, Gone on Too Long. 