Stalemate as Redfern Aboriginal tent embassy residents prepare to fight eviction over Pemulwuy

Leaders of the Redfern Aboriginal tent embassy and Aboriginal Housing Company have reached a stalemate after a "farcical" mediation session on Monday ended with elders walking out of the meeting.

Representatives from the two Aboriginal organisations met to try to find solutions to a standoff over the future of The Block, which is owned by the AHC and scheduled for commercial development.

Tent embassy protesters fear the housing company will not build the 62 affordable homes for indigenous people that it has promised as part of the $70-million Pemulwuy development.

"It was bordering on the farcical," said elder and tent embassy founder Jenny Munro, who left the meeting after 10 minutes. "It just confirmed what we already knew: they're hell-bent on this development. They will now move in and move us off."

Conspicuous in the "short and sharp" meeting, she said, was AHC chief executive Michael Mundine's silence.

The meeting had been scheduled for the last week of February but was postponed after concerns the session was in danger of becoming a "publicity opportunity".

Residents of the embassy, which was founded on Sorry Day last May in an attempt to safeguard the site from developers, were served an eviction notice on February 20 and branded trespassers by the AHC.

The embassy is still there and Munro is calling for supporters to protect the land, where a dozen or so tents are clustered around a campfire and makeshift garden patches.

"We're prepared to fight the sheriff, the police, the bulldozers," she said of the imminent eviction.