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Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊

19 Feb, 9 tweets, 2 min read

#AusUPR20 Score Card: Australian land management and cultural heritage legislative and regulatory regimes fail to recognise the intrinsic connection between Indigenous lands and cultural heritage. 1/9

Current regimes do not uphold the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to ‘free, prior and informed consent’ or capacity to reject mining and protect cultural heritage, traditional lands and waters. 2/9

The destruction of the globally significant 46,000- year-old Juukan Gorge, described as ‘the dawning of humanity’, highlights the abject failure of Aboriginal cultural protection laws and Native Title. 3/9

The Rio Tinto mining corporation blasted the sacred site, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in May 2020, after having received Ministerial consent to destroy through the Western Australian Aboriginal Heritage Act (1972). 4/9

The failure to protect this site confirms the discriminatory nature of legislation to preserve Aboriginal cultural heritage sites and the racially inferior land title provided to Aboriginal people. 5/9

Traditional Owners had been granted Native Title in 2015, but Native Title legislation does not enable Traditional Owners to refuse mining. Juukan Gorge is one of 463 sites in Western Australia granted permission to destroy... 6/9

under section 18 of the Aboriginal Heritage Protection Act since 2010, with no applications refused and no requirement to consult Aboriginal Traditional Owners, nor does it provide an appeal process for Aboriginal people. 7/9

The Australian Government review and amend the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander Heritage Protect Act (1984) and the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999) to confer ‘free, prior and informed consent’ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. 8/9

Recommendation: The Australian Government ensure that all sacred items removed from Juukan Gorge by Rio Tinto be returned to the Traditional Owners and Traditional Owners be funded to establish an appropriate keeping place. 9/9

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