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BUSINESS NSW Central Coast, in partnership with Gosford Erina Business Chamber and Central Coast Council, have announced Jake Cassar Bushcraft & Survival as a finalist for the 2025 Central Coast Visitor Economy Awards. This means Jake Cassar “will embark on a unique mentoring program designed to elevate their storytelling, refine their presentation skills, and prepare…
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Introduction: Cultural Theft as Contemporary Colonialism In recent years, the appropriation of Aboriginal identity by non-Indigenous individuals and groups has emerged as one of the most urgent cultural, legal, and political challenges facing Australia. These acts of identity fraud, often legitimised by institutional silence or complicity, undermine Aboriginal sovereignty, distort cultural truth, and weaponise settler…
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What better way to split the progressive vote to the detriment of genuine environmental issues. Lisa Bellamy of Coast Environmental Alliance (CEA) intends to run in the upcoming Federal Election for the outer suburban seat of Robertson on the Central Coast just to the north of Sydney. Having failed to make an impact during last year’s…
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Hornsby Shire Council are taking submissions regarding the Hornsby Shire 2035 Community Strategic Plan. Now is a great time to remind Hornsby Shire Council to please cease claiming the non-Aboriginal GuriNgai are ‘traditional custodians’ or have any Cultural connection to Hornsby Shire. Even better, remove the current incorrect references to the GuriNgai group that have…
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Longtime advocate for the non-Aboriginal GuriNgai group, Jake Cassar is now claiming he has 40,000 followers/members/minions. But if this was the case, why are these numbers not reflected in any tangible way? They claimed they had ‘3000’ submissions to the NSW Planning panel go missing, however this claim was later shown to be a gross…
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Warami, My name is Jayson (JD) Cooke, proud Marramarra Carigal man, descendant of Bungaree and Matora, and producer of A Long Con Gone on Too Long, guriNgai.org and bungaree.org. I write/speak on behalf of the genuine Aboriginal descendants of our Ancestors, to advise that the terms Guringai, Kuringai, GuriNgai, Wannangine, and variations on this theme…
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Indigenous identity is deeply tied to culture, land, and community, forming the foundation for self-determination and collective rights. The issue of Indigenous identity appropriation presents a growing challenge to the integrity of Aboriginal peoples and their cultural heritage. The case of the GuriNgai, a group persistently claiming non-existent Aboriginal heritage in the Northern Beaches and…
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The claims that Charlotte Ashby was the first recorded Aboriginal birth on the Central Coast are not supported by the available evidence. The record cited (NSW BDM BC 1830/2470 30A) is for a child named Charlotte, no surname listed, no parents listed, in 1830. The 1835 blanket list clarifies that the person the GuriNgai claim…
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A Long Con, Gone on Too Long. 