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.
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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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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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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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Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University
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Associate professor, Curtin University
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Sean Ulm is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook 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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