Posted on 09/08/2026 4:36:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
Here’s a little thought experiment…
Imagine a community spent nearly 50 years building up a popular local sports facility, poured millions of dollars into it, and watched generations of families use it. Then, because of a problem buried deep inside the legal paperwork, they were told to hand over the keys and walk away.
Now imagine people publicly celebrating that move simply because the people losing out were Aboriginal.
Unthinkable, right? The entire world would melt down.
But flip the races, and apparently some people get giddy and call it justice.
That’s the racist little cloud now hanging over a land fight on Sydney’s north shore.
The Northern Suburbs Tennis Association has operated the eight-court Talus Street Tennis Centre since the late 1970s. It’s a thriving place that sees more than 62,000 player visits a year. But the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council took ownership of the Crown land through a land claim and has now ordered the tennis operation to get the hell out.
The Sydney Morning Herald:
One of Sydney’s longest-running community tennis centres has been ordered to vacate its north shore home after an Aboriginal land council secured ownership of the site, setting up a high-stakes dispute that has drawn involvement from sporting champions, politicians and prominent media figures. The Northern Suburbs Tennis Association (NSTA) will be required to hand over the keys to the eight-court Talus Street Tennis Centre at Naremburn by September 30 after receiving a formal eviction notice from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council (MLALC), which took ownership of the Crown land reserve as part of a successful land claim in 2022.
The land dispute involves leases, rent, ownership, and a strange technical problem in the paperwork…
And then the media got involved, and all of a sudden, it wasn’t just a land dispute anymore. Now it was becoming something much uglier, with people cheering and celebrating because white people were losing something.
Here’s a scathing comment from a local.
Sydney Morning Herald:
The irony of an Aboriginal Land Council evicting a group of white upper-middle-class tennis players from their stolen lands has been worth living 73 years to see. Wow. “It’s not just about the social interaction.” Really? Now you might understand just a fraction of the pain that the first six generations of European Australians inflicted so casually and criminally on Indigenous Australians when stealing their lands. Suck it up, Northern Suburbs Tennis Association, and move on like you expected Indigenous Australians to do, and know this, as the census will reveal: the number of Indigenous Australians continues now to grow decade after decade, in their country. They are back.
Keep in mind, this club wasn’t some fly-by-night group. It was well-respected and beloved and had been there for nearly 50 years.
The tennis association spent at least $10 million building and maintaining the facility over the decades. They also spent $50K in the past three years.
The Sydney Morning Herald:
The prospect of losing the courts has alarmed club members, staff and residents, many of whom fear the community facility could be permanently lost.
Love’n Deuce executive director Paul Francis has established an advisory group including veteran broadcaster Ray Martin and former television presenter Steve Liebmann in an effort to negotiate a solution with the land council.
“People play here from age two to 82. I’ve got over 30 staff and their families, and some have been here 25 years. They’re already looking for other jobs, which breaks my heart,” Francis said.
“It’s not just about tennis. It’s about the social interaction. People have made lifetime friends here.”
So how does a busy, respected facility like this just end over an Aboriginal land claim?
That’s where the story gets really disturbing.
The original purpose of the land-rights law was to return Crown land that was unused. But these courts were actively being used and serving the community. Yet because of the way the law and paperwork played out, the white people who built their lives around this place are the ones being shown the door.
The Sydney Morning Herald:
The proposed legislation has faced strong opposition from Aboriginal organisations, including the NSW Aboriginal Land Council, which has argued the changes threaten to undermine established land rights. Willoughby MP Tim James, a patron of the tennis centre, has called for government intervention, arguing the community facility should not be lost.
“It doesn’t sit right with me that a community asset that has served generations of local families is being forced out of a site it’s occupied for more than 40 years,” he said.
As we mentioned earlier, the club was a thriving community facility with decades of history behind it, serving tens of thousands of visits every year. It shouldn’t have been targeted to begin with.
But instead of asking how a law meant to deal with “unused land” ended up swallowing a busy, popular, well-respected tennis club, some people looked at the situation and saw something to celebrate because the people losing out were white.
The legal fight over Talus Street will keep playing out, but the anti-white hate surrounding it is right there, for everyone to see.
A community could lose something it spent nearly half a century building, and some people are openly thrilled because they see it as some “historical payback.”
That’s racism at its ugliest.
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Indigenous People behaving badly!
Does it “sit right” with MP James that natives who were there THOUSANDS OF YEAR were thrown off their land?
They never mention the judge. It had to be a judge who misread the law and made this decision. They make it sound like it just “happened”.
Does it sit right with you that the same thing has happened since time immemorial and every single tribe, people or land has at one time “belonged to” or been inhabited by others whom it was taken from or they had taken from someone else?
Everyone, and I mean everyone on the planet is guilty of this. It’s just that whitey is the scapegoat and is the beneficiary of all the rage.
People need to wake up to what is going on, because soon atlas will shrug and the socialist utopia everyone else seems to be pining for will become reality, then the real suffering will start.
I don’t understand the pervasive sense of white self-hatred that permeates Western Civilization and the white race. All because a bunch of hippies in the 60s tore it all down and marched through the institutions? It doesn’t make any sense.
Australia is the new Zimbabwe.
Yeah, live it up, Abos, but just wait until the ChiComs take over Australia.
“It belongs to them....let’s give it back!”
Your virtue has been adequately signaled ...
it seems to be a bit more complicated - https://www.crownland.nsw.gov.au/news/aboriginal-land-claim-granted-reserve-naremburn
As far as I can read:
- The Talus Street Reserve was state-owned public land, managed on behalf of the public by the Willoughby City Council.
- The Willoughby Council entered into a commercial sub-lease with private tennis operators (Love ‘n Deuce). This was found to be legally “invalid” under Crown land rules.
SO Because the lease was invalid, the land was legally classified as “not lawfully occupied”—making it open to a land claim.
SO the tennis club violated the terms of lease by sub-leasing, so making the land up for grabs.
I do believe if the eviction is enforced, I’d be making the land and the buildings I paid for...totally uninhabitable as I walk out the door.
Yep. Bulldozer it ro the ground,
Does it “sit right” with MP James that natives who were there THOUSANDS OF YEAR were thrown off their land?
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Does it sit right with the Virtue Signalers that the Southern Denisovans lost Australia and other lands to the Australian Aboriginals and their relatives? Thank you for YOUR VIRTUE! We stand in awe of your virtue! /sarc
If they had all been killed off, there could be no claim by survivors.
Perhaps this is what the lesson is they are trying to tell.
Bulldoze down to bare dirt. That’s all they really want, right?..........
So will they just sell it or run it into the ground and then just blame the people they stole it from for their failure ... like most Democrats in the US do.
They will keep it open but expect the taxpayers to subsidize its operation and upkeep because they won’t have any idea how to manage it. But because it now belongs to its ‘rightful’ owners it’s all good. Think of Black owned businesses in this country and government set asides.
Lose?
Take all of the improvements you made with you. Raze everything to the ground, restore it to Its original condition.
...Or you can send them a bill for all of the improvements that you have made.
“Does it sit right with you that the same thing has happened since time immemorial and every single tribe, people or land has at one time “belonged to” or been inhabited by others whom it was taken from or they had taken from someone else?”
By your logic there should be nothing to see here, then. It’s just the indigenous folks taking land that belonged to someone else, in this case the tennis folks. Nothing to see here.
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