A Current Affair Exposes Minjungbal Land-Grab

Channel 9, A Current Affair -

"Pete Evans teams up with bankrupt to spruik commune-style development"

A Current Affair exposes the kingpins and celebrity promotor behind the Nightcap on Mingungbal development. 

Channel 9 also highlighted the Mingungbal Tribal Treaty claim:

... recording from 2016 suggests Brennock may look to progress projects by relying on an Aboriginal treaty. “Any court action, any jurisdiction, this treaty stops it. All-purpose, get-out-of-jail-free card," Mr Brennock said. 

It bears some resemblance to views expressed by the Original Sovereign Tribal Federation, a "sovereign citizen" organisation McMurtrie is affiliated with. The OSTF claims it travels Australia "explaining the legal argument we have developed against the crown's claim to have sovereignty over tribal lands.”

Nightcap promised to donate plots of land to local Aboriginal custodians.

In a letter to council, several elders have urged it to support the project as "more than $12 million worth of land and housing (would be) donated to our Tribe by the developers". 

A Current Affair does not discuss the false Mingungbal land claim, but warns that investors who provided purchase money for property have not received promised land-share entitlement, and many have lost life savings.

The report shows that despite knowledge of claims by angry creditors, celebrity chef Pete Evans likes the ethos, and says he's "Fkn IN!"

https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/pete-evans-commune-spruiked-by-infamous-celebrity-chef/4ce11e57-f63c-4cff-8bcc-53c90e36ad19

Minjungbal False Claim to "Sacred Land"

By Gi Linda -

Nightcap on Minjungbal is offering a special deal on Sacred! 

Residential lots on "Sacred Land" are marketed by "Sacred People" offering "The Solution for these Sacred Times".

"Sacred" elders from the Minjungbal Tribe now occupying property at 3222 Kyogle Rd, Mt Burrell, NSW, claim Aboriginal ancestral rights and, without development approval, they're selling "Tribal Title" to over 800 residential lots on land where multiple occupancy is prohibited.

"Part of living here is.. you buy in, you buy a block"

But for about twenty previous investors, including myself, who were lured into the incipient venture and received nothing after paying in total over $2 million for promised co-ownership of the property in 2015, this supposed "sacred" land has certainly left many people running scared!

Prospective new investors in Nightcap on Mingungbal, also called "Nightcap Village," are given a tour of the property, but what they not told is that although the Minjungbal Tribe claims an Aboriginal inheritance of land from early inhabitants of the Tweed Valley, the Minjungbal people are not authentically Aboriginal.

 

The LoreMen confirm that the Minjungbal have no ancestral, cultural ties or legal claim to the private property that the Minjungbal are occupying and marketing. 

Nightcap Realty Promotional Video - Tribal Title For Sale

In June 2020, Nightcap Realty distributed a video presented by developers Adrian Brennock and Mark McMurtrie (Gunham Badi) with former marketing manager Richard Moate, all Caucasians who self-identify as Aborigines.

The promotional video says the Minjungbal Tribe want the 3,500 acre venture to be a staging point for expansion in the rest of the country. 

Mark McMurtrie claims "tribal ownership" of Mt Burrell properties

They propose that the Minjungbal tribal venture should be recognised as an independent Aboriginal Sovereign Nation representing all Aboriginal people and extended across Australia.

"It's available to everyone within price point."

Even though the Minjungbal are not authentic Aborigines and have no valid land claim, the promotors elevate the potentially lucrative venture to higher virtues: communitarian wealth-sharing, and the proposed return of "country" to Aborigines, based on a belief that they should be recognised as the "true owners" of all Australian territory. 

Nightcap Village Community Rules establishing enforceable private laws, and guidelines providing protocols for submissive deference to the Mingungbal Tribe are included in the marketing package.

A sacred Minjungbal Elder is introduced to new investors by Richard Moate

In the Nightcap Realty promotional video, Adrian Brennock proposes that "within price point" investors of any nationality can buy into the Sovereign Minjungbal Nation, become "Community Members" and receive dual citizenship.

"The Minjungbal people are happy..."

Promotors say the Mingungbal Tribe are happy with the deal. 

Four DA applications for Nightcap on Minjungbal have been refused since the venture began in 2014, even so, a Nightcap Village Newsletter published in June 2020 by Richard Moate, falsely assures investors that development approval already exists:

"Most of you are aware of the existing DA approvals for 424 sites, and that over $2.1 million dollars was spent on the DA submission of last month, taking the project to over 850 spots."

Nightcap Village Concept Plan, 2019

Celebrity promotors, including chef Pete Evans, Don Tolman, Tyler Tolman and activist Max Igan, still offer sale of "Tribal Title" to residential lots. Blocks start at $295,000 each. Each dot on the concept plan represents a proposed residence.

As a result of unfulfilled land-share offers and false Aboriginal land claims by the Mingungbal Tribe and Nightcap directors, many creditors have been fleeced after investing in the venture, with angry neighbours and concerned environmental protectors agreeing that the "tribal" land claim is bogus and the "sacred land" on offer is just a lure to profit dishonourable opportunists. 

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Gi Linda is a journalist,  documentary filmmaker and publisher of Nightcap Nightmare Blog.

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