SO-called indigenous elders in Victoria have launched a sweeping native title claim covering most of Melbourne and several other regions across Victoria, a move that brings to fruition a decades-long campaign by the Communist Party of Australia to fracture Australia’s legal and constitutional structure.
Native title claims effectively put control of land into the hands of an “indigenous” elite, a group of Australians with Aboriginal ancestry, that is often very distant or even non-existent, as has been shown in a number of cases.
While this has been happening across Australia since the Mabo case and the passing of Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), Victoria is a special case because of their implementation of a “Voice” system, with a treaty and an indigenous representation room within the actual Parliament of Victoria – effectively creating a race-based alternative government.
The claim over Melbourne and surrounds was lodged by 11 members of the Wurundjeri people in the Federal Court on Friday last week and covers more than 10,000 square kilometres of land stretching from the Great Dividing Range to the Macedon Ranges, across to the Yarra Valley and Mount Baw Baw, and down to Port Phillip Bay.
It effectively creates an administrative region – a type of soviet with an indigenous commissariat – that administers all Crown land and sites within the claimed area include the MCG, several shopping centres, multiple golf courses, public parks, and beaches, but does not apply to “private homes, businesses, or infrastructure”.
However, Indigenous elders would have significant influence over how affected lands and waterways are managed, a mainsteam media report noted.
“They would also have the final say in the protection of ‘culturally significant sites,’ which could impact how fire management is implemented in bushfire-prone forest zones,” the report stated.
“If successful, the title claim would grant recognised traditional owners rights under federal law, including decision-making power over public land use and the right to be consulted on activities within those areas.” The claim will be considered by the National Native Title Tribunal.
Additionally, there are six other native title applications before the Federal Court in Victoria, which collectively cover most of the state.
Law firm Slater and Gordon is representing the latest native title claim, which relies on historical evidence showing the ‘Wurundjeri people’s connection to country.’
The claim that people with indigenous blood “have special connection to country” is essentially racism and a con job. All people, regardless of ethnic background, can and do have a relationship to land as their home.
‘It has also been reported that evidence showing elders have passed down knowledge of the land, ceremony, fishing, hunting, language, and art – ensuring cultural continuity – will be presented to the court,” media reported.
Wurundjeri elder Di Kerr said the process was about “ensuring our connection to country is recognised in law, as it has always existed in truth.” That is selective truth, because all Victorians have some sort of connection to land and location.
Dr Kerr claims the Victorian indigenous community doesn’t want to be separate. “We want to have partnerships with governments and Parks Victoria so we can co-manage and look after that country,” she told The Guardian.
“Partnerships” is another word for joint control of land and ensures the part-Aboriginal elite gets on government payrolls, probably at the highest levels. This elite will also be overseeing government appointments to ensure that they are “culturally aware” i.e. having the “correct” worldview.
Indigenous groups are politically aligned with the UN through UNDRIP, the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the UN environmental agenda.
Wurundjeri elder Perry Wandin says it’s “now time for the traditional lore and customs of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people to be recognised”, which means in effect the renaming of all sorts of locations, roads and waterways and the imposition of the UNDRIP agenda.
He says their goal is to work alongside governments and local communities to “care for and restore the land”, which simply means they will control it along with environmental bureaucrats.
Seven native titles have been granted in Victoria by the courts, while six claims, covering the majority of the state, remain pending.
The latest native title claim came just a week after Victoria’s controversial treaty passed through Parliament.
Negotiations between the government and the indigenous representative body will not start until July 2026, but the government will hold a public ratification with the First Peoples Assembly at Federation Square on December 12.
The long-term “Aboriginal land rights” campaign by the Communist Party of Australia was thoroughly documented by former Melbourne-based CPA member Geoff McDonald in his books Red Over Black and The Evidence, published by Veritas Books in the 1980s.
The theoretical basis of the campaign was the Soviet communists’ National and Colonial Question paper, which was circulated among Australian communists back in the 1940s. The land rights campaign was underway by the 1950s.
McDonald’s books and a video version of Red Over Black was widely circulated by the campaign against The Voice proposal in 2023, which prompted claims by the ABC that it was the work of “white supremacists”.
