The destruction of 46,000-year-old sacred Aboriginal rock shelters in Western Australia has prompted a national inquiry and calls for urgent reform of Indigenous cultural heritage law. During a mine expansion project, Rio Tinto detonated explosives in the Juukan Gorge in May, destroying two deep cave sites of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura People (PKKP). […]
‘Embarrassingly out of kilter’ law destroys 46,000-year-old Aboriginal sacred sites
Posted on: June 17, 2020 by Elizabeth Pearson