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Introduction The Sovereign Citizen (SovCit) movement in Australia represents a rapidly expanding ideological challenge that blends legal misinformation, conspiratorial thinking, and populist distrust of state authority. Sovereign Citizens are individuals who assert that they are not subject to the jurisdiction of governments or courts, believing instead that laws only apply to them through explicit personal…
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Abstract: This article critically examines the co-option of Aboriginal sovereignty by far-right and sovereign citizen movements in Australia, with a particular focus on the events surrounding the Muckadda Camp protest and the 2021 fire at Old Parliament House. Drawing on the work of Menzel (2022), Coe (2022), Kelly (2022), Day and Carlson (2021), and related…
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Jake Cassar is a Central Coast-based public figure, a self taught ‘bushcraft’ educator and activist whose public persona blends wilderness survival with spiritualised faux-environmentalism. Through his business, Jake Cassar Bushcraft, he conducts workshops on what are presented as traditional survival techniques and native plant medicine, often framed as vehicles for deeper connection to the Australian…
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Jake Cassar, the founder of Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA) and the public face of Jake Cassar Bushcraft, has cultivated a charismatic persona that aligns closely with the model of ‘entrepreneurial spiritual leadership’ described by Angela Coco (2023), in which individual authority is derived from perceived access to spiritual truths rather than institutional recognition. His carefully…https://bungaree.org/2025/07/02/prepping-for-a-doomsday-of-his-own-making/
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Abstract This policy paper proposes a comprehensive, culturally safe, and Indigenous-led framework to support Aboriginal participation in New South Wales’ renewable energy transition. Drawing on the leadership of Professor Heidi Norman, findings from the James Martin Institute and UTS Centre for the Advancement of Indigenous Knowledges, the APPI Policy Insights Paper, and the strategic priorities…
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This paper demonstrates that the GuriNgai group and Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA) operate not merely as fringe community groups but as contemporary cults. They exhibit the core structural and behavioural characteristics of cultic organisations as defined in psychological, sociological, and legal scholarship. Through the appropriation of Indigenous identity, ecological mythologising, and charismatic leadership, these groups…
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The global climate emergency demands urgent and systemic change across governance, land use, and energy generation. In Australia, Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALCs) have emerged as key actors in facilitating climate resilience and energy transition through their unique statutory authority, cultural stewardship, and land-based knowledge systems. As outlined in the Australian Public Policy Institute’s Powershift…
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The emergence of campaigns such as ‘Saving Kariong Sacred Lands,’ orchestrated by Jake Cassar and Lisa Bellamy of Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA), exemplifies a settler-conspiritualist movement deeply entangled with pseudo-Indigenous claims and white environmental populism. These campaigns operate not as legitimate ecological protests. Rather, they function as ideological offensives against Aboriginal self-determination and land rights.…
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Introduction: Protesting Phantoms, Platforming Frauds In 2025, a coalition of familiar fringe ‘activists’ began protesting a proposed development at Kincumber, on New South Wales’ Central Coast. Their banners read: “Save Kincumber Wetlands.” Their outrage was fierce, their aesthetic well-crafted, their narrative stirring…but their cause? Entirely fabricated. There is, to date, no development application submitted by…
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A Long Con, Gone on Too Long. 