Goongerah Environment Centre

GECO is a volunteer-based community group focused on protecting the forests of far East Gippsland. Its submission outlines witnessing Traditional Owners’ opposition to logging being ignored and Traditional Owners being refused entry to their Country during campaigns to protect the forests. It also describes Traditional Owners being refused native title, under a biased system where their inability to prove connection to country in terms of Government requirements is a result of the impacts of colonisation.