Nothing more than a sellout.
This whole "culturally significant" angle, for this patch of land on the fringe of Sydney is and was a load of rubbish. First and foremost this is prime land, worth a packet. Some people on board of this land council will no doubt be very wealthy as a result of this construction, where the majority of other indigenous will gain nothing. The part that will be left as bushland will no doubt be either unstable, or too costly to build on, being so steep in areas. To bring any racial elements into this is just a distraction. This may be private land, but to claim land under the guise that it is culturally significant, and then dig it all up to build is a bit much. It would be one thing if profits from this will directly benefit all land owners equally, but that will never happen. It will be interesting to see where the profits from this development end up, and what tangible benefit it will bring to the greater indigenous community in this part of Sydney. I'm thinking the few running the show will get richer, while the others get nothing. If they gave a shit about "the land", they would do what elders in the NT recently did when faced with repeated applications to mine Uranium and stood to make tens of millions, they gave the land to the National Parks, to be absorbed into Kakadu NP, never to be developed or mined, they gained nothing financially, but were so happy to know the land would be remain untouched. That in my opinion is a group of land owners who care about their land.
