Nightmare on Minjungbal

A Communitarian Venture The political construct of  Communitarianism  underlies the ethos of the Sovereignty land-share scheme at Mt Burrell. In Communitarian systems the rights of the individual are subordinate to the collective. As presumed descendants of the original indigenous occupants of Australia, Sovereignty Activists aligned with the Minjungbal Tribe seized the land, evicting the purchase money creditors who paid for the properties.  They justify the land-grab by appeal to higher communitarian precepts, based on their belief that Aborigines should be the rightful owners of all Australian territory. The property at Mt Burrell in 2014, now occupied by Aborigines Recommended Reading on Communitarianism "Living Outside the Dialectic" :  See Niki Raapana's blog and books on Communitarianism  Communitarianism and Global Citizenship   Seeking a Path Not Included in the Plan 2020: Our Common Destiny & t he Anti Communitarian Manifesto  Niki R...

Local opposition to Nightcap Village proposal, 2008 The first attempt to build a Village in an environmentally protected Tweed valley began in 2007 by l andowner Peter van Lieshout,  when his  wife, Joan van Lieshout was Tweed Mayor .  Despite a storm of local opposition,  development approval was granted  in 2009 .  However,  Peter van Lieshout  was unable to complete necessary infrastructure, the venture failed and development approval lapsed. Peter and Joan van Lieshout In 2006 Nimbin GoodTimes reported local opposition to a proposal for a "Village Community" in Tweed Valley:  "Nightcap Nightmare: Tweed "Village" proposal sounds alarm bells" .   The project was rebirthed in 2016, when Peter van Lieshout made shareholder agreements with Sovereignty Activists controlling a failed neighbouring venture, Bhula Bhula Village Community, that left purchase money creditors disenfranchised.  In collaboration with Peter van Lieshaupt, the ...

By Charlie Peel, The Courier-Mail | 23rd Jul 2017 " A SECRETIVE colony for people who wanted to live off the grid in "earthships" has collapsed, leaving a community divided. " " Some out-of-pocket investors have been critical of the community's founders but others remain supportive, threatening The Sunday Mail with a class action should the paper publish an article, " the  Courier Mail  reports. " The Sunday Mail can reveal what was meant to be a dream Utopia in the forested foothills just over the Queensland-NSW border has turned into a nightmare.  Villagers paid up to $160,000 each to be part of Bhula Bhula but have now split into squabbling factions as they try to protect or recover their investment. " https://www.tweeddailynews.com.au/news/financial-scandal-destroys-alternative-community/3203729/ Mt Burrell Commercial, purchased  in 2016

An Australian land-share venture that began in 2014 as  Bhula Bhula Village Community , is now marketed "Nightcap Village," "Nightcap on Minjungbal" and also as " Earth-Haven Sustainable Communities and Display Villages ". After the original founder,  Mark Darwin , withdrew from the project, other Sovereignty Activists with legal and financial control expanded the venture to greater heights of ambition, with greater depths of harm to their clamouring creditors. In 2016, the incipient intentional community at Mt Burrell  was exposed as an alleged fraud in local newspapers, on social media and in our blogs. In 2017,  Bhula Bhula  was expanded to 3,500 acres with addition of a neighbouring property owned by Peter van Lieshout.  The project, promoted by Tyler Tolman, was neatly rebranded as " Mt Warning Eco Village ," until mountains of warning from angry investors crying " fraud " triggered another name change to " Nightcap Village ...