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The Coast Community News (CCN) article dated 24 June 2025, titled “Appeal to Commonwealth Ombudsman over Kariong development,” serves as a revealing artifact in the broader campaign of cultural appropriation, environmental conspiracism, and anti-Aboriginal land justice currently unfolding across the Central Coast and Northern Sydney regions. While presented as a report on grassroots community concern,…https://bungaree.org/2025/06/25/appeal-to-commonwealth-ombudsman-over-kariong-development/
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Abstract This article orients the theoretical framework of coercive control, cult psychology, and settler mimicry directly to a cohort of interrelated public figures in contemporary Australia: Tracey Howie, Neil Evers, Laurie Bimson, Brad Twynham, Colleen Fuller, Lisa Bellamy, and Jake Cassar. These individuals, associated with the so-called GuriNgai group and Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA), exemplify…
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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.…
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Abstract This article examines the emergence and persistence of the so-called “GuriNgai” identity movement, as a case study in contemporary Indigenous identity fraud, settler conspirituality, and the performance of cultural authority. The GuriNgai are referred to as ‘so-called’ because this name has been self-assigned by individuals whose claims to Aboriginal ancestry have been consistently rejected…
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Charlie Needs Braces is the musical project of Melbourne-based artist Charlie Woods, frequently accompanied by her sister, Miri Woods. Together with their mother, Rebecca Hird-Fletcher, the Woods family has actively claimed Aboriginal identity by asserting descent from the historical Broken Bay leader Bungaree and his wife, Matora. These assertions have been widely and consistently challenged…
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Neil Evers is a Northern Beaches resident who has publicly asserted a ‘fifth-generation Aboriginal’ identity linked to the historic Carigal peoples of the Sydney region. In recent years, he has assumed high-profile roles as a cultural representative, including delivering Welcome to Country ceremonies on behalf of Hornsby Shire Council and other institutions. However, extensive research…https://bungaree.org/2025/06/19/neil-evers-and-hornsby-shire-councils-impact-on-aboriginal-people-and-communities/
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The speech titled A Scar on Country, delivered under the name “Walkaloa Wunyunah” at a Central Coast Council meeting, is presented as a spiritually grounded and culturally legitimate opposition to proposed development at Winney Bay, New South Wales. Its tone and language attempt to situate the speaker as a Traditional Custodian of so-called “Guringai Country,”…https://bungaree.org/2025/06/18/a-scar-on-country-a-critical-examination-of-the-speech-by-walkaloa-wunyunah-tracey-howie/
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This article critically evaluates the genealogical and historical claims made by Tracey Howie and her family, particularly regarding their asserted descent from the renowned Aboriginal leaders Bungaree and Matora of Broken Bay. Drawing on genealogical records, expert anthropological opinion, DNA testing, native title documentation, and archival material, the analysis demonstrates that the descent claim is…https://bungaree.org/2025/06/18/disputed-descent-a-critical-examination-of-tracey-howies-claimed-connection-to-bungaree-and-matora/
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In the northern suburbs of Sydney, a quietly devastating crisis has taken root within the workings of Hornsby Shire Council. At its core is the sustained institutional recognition and funding of a group of non-Aboriginal individuals falsely claiming to represent the so-called “GuriNgai” people. This group, which first emerged in the early 2000s through the…https://bungaree.org/2025/06/18/hornsby-shire-council-and-the-guringai-cash-for-twice-stolen-country/
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Jake Cassar is a Central Coast ‘bushcraft’ tourism operator, conspiracy promoter, and founder of the Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA), a group opposing several development projects on land owned by the Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council (DLALC). Cassar has campaigned against proposed developments exclusively undertaken by Aboriginal people and organisations, framing himself as a defender of…
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