-
In recent years, proposals by Aboriginal Land Councils to develop lands granted under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW) have faced fierce and increasingly organised opposition. While these campaigns often adopt the language of grassroots environmentalism, closer scrutiny reveals that many are driven by settler interests, conspiracist ideologies, and false claims to Aboriginal identity.…
-
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia witnessed an intensification of conspiratorial and anti-government ideologies, culminating in visible and increasingly dangerous settler movements that co-opted Aboriginal symbols, narratives, and sovereignty. Among these movements, the Muckadda Camp protest on the lawns of Old Parliament House in 2021–2022 signified a watershed moment. It fused anti-vaccination rhetoric,…
-
For 2 decades the Central Coast region of New South Wales has become a site of contested narratives over Aboriginal identity, land rights, and custodianship. These tensions have been inflamed and sustained, in part, by the editorial practices and reporting choices of local media, particularly Coast Community News (CCN). Operating as a prominent digital and…
-
Indigenous identity fraud has emerged as a pressing cultural and political challenge in Australia, undermining Aboriginal sovereignty and distorting public understanding of Indigenous identity and Culture, past, present and emerging. In recent years, a number of settler Australians with no proven, even disproven Aboriginal heritage have falsely claimed Indigenous status for personal, financial, or ideological…
-
A network of individuals, and community groups on the NSW Central Coast – including the Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA), offshoot “save” campaigns (e.g. Save Kariong Sacred Lands and Save Kincumber Wetlands), the political team Coasties Who Care, activist forums like Coast4One, and aligned entities such as Community Voice Australia (Central Coast), Walkabout Wildlife Sanctuary, and…
-
The appropriation of Indigenous identity by the non-Aboriginal “GuriNgai” group operating in the Northern Beaches and Central Coast regions of New South Wales (NSW) represents a form of neocolonial violence that perpetuates white possession and settler-colonial control over Aboriginal culture, Country, and community representation. Far from being a benign or misunderstood cultural movement, the GuriNgai…
-
Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in New South Wales (NSW) must be managed by Aboriginal people because it is intrinsically connected to our identity, sovereignty, and rights as the First Peoples of the land. This responsibility is not only a matter of cultural continuity but also a legal and ethical obligation informed by international human rights law,…
-
As an Aboriginal man of the Carigal – Marramarra of the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay, I must respond to the recent remarks by Mrs Joy Cooper at the Central Coast Council meeting with clarity and truth. While her public expression of concern over the lack of cultural heritage classification in Council’s land planning instruments…
-
Subscribe
Subscribed
Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
A Long Con, Gone on Too Long. 