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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


MELBOURNE, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Western Australia will overturn its 2021 Aboriginal cultural heritage protection laws, introduced after the destruction of the ancient Juukan Gorge rock shelters, in response to opposition from landowners, the state's premier said on Tuesday.

"The Juukan Gorge tragedy was a global embarrassment but our response was wrong, we took it too far, unintentionally causing stress, confusion and division in our community," Cook said.

"The PKKP are outraged that they, and Traditional Owners in Western Australia are back to square one, and the Cook government is reverting to laws that allowed the destruction of Juukan Gorge," the group said in a statement,

Support has been falling nationally for Federal government-backed plans to establish an Indigenous advisory body in parliament that Australians will vote on in a referendum later this year.

Rio Tinto sent a letter to Aboriginal groups, including the PKKP, assuring them of its commitment to protecting cultural heritage, according to a copy seen by Reuters.

One of the key grievances that Aboriginal groups had with the new act was that they had no right of veto and the ultimate decision maker over heritage destruction was a government minister.


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[-] livus@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This is such a travesty.

When Rio Tinto blew up Juukan Gorge, it blew up a site that had been in continuous use for 46,000 years. For reference Stonehenge is only 5,000 years old.

One of the Juukan Gorge artefacts was a 4,000 year old human hair bracelet that has been DNA matched to living descendants.

This is the heritage of Aboriginal people who are traditional owners and at this point it's also our heritage as a species.

[-] BNE 2 points 2 years ago

Well that's my faith in the colony just a fraction more diminished.

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