Complications and failings

Given that the Board of the Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation (BLCAC) is involved in privileged consultations with several organisations in the Bass Coast area affecting all ratepayers, it is disappointing to read in the Sentinel (3/10/23) that their failed performance in statutory areas such as accounting for the source and destination of large sums of money has needed the intervention of the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation (RATSIC). RATSIC has appointed a special administrator to replace the entire board of BLCAC till March 15, 2024. This was preceded by historic failures to lodge GST with the ATO and lack of statutory meetings. 

Another issue which arose recently within the BLCAC was the dispute between the Bunurong and the Bunwurrung involving their conflicting claims of Tribal perimeters.

This type of dispute could also arise with the choosing of the “composition” of any “Voice to Parliament”. 

According to Google, there are “250 mobs and upwards of seven clans within any mob”. Warren Mundine raised this issue some time ago when he stated the complications which would arise by choosing regional representatives according to colonial divisions rather than tribal regions.

Thomas Mayo, Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton, Megan Davis and Linda Burnie should have spent more time presenting an actual vision of what they will do and how they will do it rather than promoting themselves as bearers of entitlement due to genetic heritage.

Please would voters access the video on the internet titled: “Meet the Architect of the Voice.....Thomas Mayo” before voting in the Referendum.

Rosemary Hutchinson, Inverloch