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WA Premier Roger Cook has apologised to the state for getting the rollout “wrong”, while rejecting suggestions he was under pressure from the federal government to drop it to remove a referendum impediment
The new law, which came into effect this week, aims to better reflect the aspirations of Aboriginal people in decisions that impact their cultural heritage. Some say it doesn’t go far enough.
Indigenous engineering and care for Country points to a better way to manage the Baaka.
Senate Inquiry report “A way forward” recommended Aboriginal heritage protection be co-designed with Aboriginal people. However WA’s new Aboriginal Heritage Act seems to prioritise mining interests.
Western Australia’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill 2021 is set to become law. But the new legislation states one elected official will decide whether heritage sites are destroyed for development.
Australians should see the rainforest as a cultural landscape – one that has been managed and maintained by people, rather than just a relic unchanged since the dinosaurs.
NSW is looking to update its heritage laws, as other states have done. But what actually is heritage?
Submerged in the waters off Western Australia lies an ancient site home to Aboriginal people thousands of years ago, when sea levels were lower than they are today.
An Aboriginal tree on Wiradjuri Country is much younger than anybody thought.
It’s a devastating loss, but the destruction of a culturally significant Aboriginal site is not an isolated incident. Rio Tinto was acting within the law.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, PhD, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology, Flinders University and ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Historian and heritage Specialist, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Associate professor, Curtin University
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Sean Ulm is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, James Cook University
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Hon Professorial Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University
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Academic, Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Geoscience, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of York
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
