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Rather than sitting in the back seat, Indigenous Australians must be up front in managing the recovery of Australia’s unique and precious environment.
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.
How can we improve the management of Queensland’s heritage sites? Can farming and the conservation of Aboriginal heritage co-exist?
The A Way Forward report addresses the issues of cultural heritage protection in Australia after Rio Tinto destroyed Juukan Gorge. However, achieving change will be far from straightforward.
In the wake of the Juukan Gorge blast, more land authority is shifting back to First Nations people.
You could hardly imagine a worse report on the state of Australia’s environment, and the law’s capacity to protect it, than that released on Thursday.
Before the goldrush, Indigenous people told stories about how the bronzewing pigeon seeded precious minerals across the land. Europeans stole not just land, but the value deep within it.
Rio Tinto’s own staff wanted the blast stopped.
For far too long, mining companies have let their social and cultural heritage commitments slide. The inquiry report should be a wake-up call for the industry.
Heritage is non-renewable — just like the mineral wealth of this country.
There are many questions about the inquiry into the destruction of an Aboriginal heritage site, including how it will be conducted, what will be publicly disclosed and who will be protected.
The destruction of the 46,000 year old site Juukan Gorge forces us to confront archaeology and history in Australia.
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 and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Chair of National Native Title Council and Ngalia Cultural Leader | EthnoEcologist, Indigenous Knowledge
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
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Professorial Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Research Manager, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland
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Professor of History, La Trobe University
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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Director, Centre for Rock Art Research + Management, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University
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Associate Professor in Indigenous Water Science, University of Canberra
