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The Draft Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for Gosford Memorial Park and Rotary Park is currently open for public exhibition, and the Central Coast community is being called upon to speak out. This is a critical opportunity to ensure that Aboriginal cultural representation in Council documents reflects truth, evidence, and lawful custodianship. https://www.yourvoiceourcoast.com/gosford-memorial-park-and-rotary-park Research available on…
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Abstract Australia’s sociopolitical environment has entered a phase of rapid transformation defined by economic dislocation, digital disinformation, and ideological fragmentation. Within this environment, far-right mobilisation, pseudolegal subcultures, and spiritualised conspiracy movements have converged into a complex ecosystem of distrust and performative defiance. This report synthesises interdisciplinary scholarship and empirical data (2012–2025) to explain how cultic…
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Abstract Harmful ideological systems, including anti-vaccination activism, sovereign citizen (SovCit) pseudo-law, conspiracy theories, cultic groups, and “conspirituality” (the fusion of spirituality and conspiracy), present escalating risks to individuals and communities in Australia and globally. These movements thrive on social vulnerability, inequality, mistrust of institutions, and fractured belonging, while often escalating into anti-democratic, violent, and culturally…
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Introduction: From Parallel Systems to Deadly Violence Australia is more aware than ever we are facing a convergence of movements once seen as marginal. Sovereign citizen pseudolaw, conspirituality, survivalist prepping, and settler appropriations of Indigenous sovereignty have merged into a dangerous ideological ecosystem. This “Freedom” milieu rejects state authority, embeds itself in wellness and ecological…
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Introduction The Central Coast of New South Wales is experiencing a severe housing and homelessness crisis, characterised by escalating rents, chronic under-supply, and record numbers of households in crisis accommodation or rough sleeping (Homelessness NSW, 2025). While these pressures reflect state and national trends, localised factors are exacerbating the situation. A coordinated activist network led…
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Abstract The term “GuriNgai,” including variants such as “Guringai” and “Kuringgai,” has no legitimate cultural, genealogical, or historical basis in Northern Sydney or the Central Coast. It originated with John Fraser’s nineteenth century misclassification of a vast “Kuringgai” super-tribe, a construct that conflated distinct peoples and languages and later influenced the naming of Ku-ring-gai Chase…



