By Vanessa Kairies Watching the Abbott publicity machine in action this week has been sickening. Visiting cows in his freshly pressed suit was just the beginning. Clueless! Off he jetted to his annual ‘community visit”. “While I’m here” he thought, “I’ll visit Eddie Mabo’s grave site on Murray Island”. It was abhorrent. Eddie Koiki Mabo…
Source: Jet-setting, funding-cutting Tony – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The world’s oldest and largest collection of rock art – the Burrup Peninsula, or Murujuga, on the Dampier Archipelago – has been deregistered as a sacred site under new guidelines to the Western Australia’s weak Aboriginal heritage laws, which state there must be evidence of religious activity to qualify it as a ‘sacred site’. The change has led to questions about whether the art will be reinstated to the cultural heritage register following a successful Supreme Court decision that ruled against the WA government’s definition of a ‘sacred site’.
Source: WA Government Deregisters World’s Oldest Rock Art Collection As Sacred Site | newmatilda.com
The connection which Aboriginal people have to the land is not simply a ‘lifestyle choice’, but rather its the very thing which connects us to our ancestors, land and culture. The unbelievable notion to close aboriginal communities in WA shows a complete disrespect for First Nation People.
We call on the Western Australian Government to reconsider this decision!
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