“What’s Sacred “2015
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/whats-sacred-now/6549614
Megafauna Rock Art
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/burrup-peninsula-rock-art-shows-extinct-megafauna/6561788
#Burrup #DeepTime #FirstNations #iceAge #illustration #MegaFauna #Murujuga #Petroglyphs
Ancient rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula are among more than 1,000 sites the WA government removed or blocked from its Aboriginal heritage register in the last two-and-a-half years. In 2012 the government created a narrower definition of sacred sites. The Supreme Court has thrown out those changes, but the government now wants a single public servant to determine sacred sites. Sarah Dingle investigates.
Murujuga Petroglyphs
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-25/deep-time-murujuga-rock-art-gallery/104798598
50,ooo + years old Rock Art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroglyph
Plundering and polluting for profit (Business as usual) https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2025/09/woodside-vs-the-planet/extract
This is a story of power and influence, pollution and protest. How does one company capture a country? How convincing is Woodside’s argument that gas is a necessary transition fuel, as the world decarbonises? And what is the new “energy realism” narrative being pushed by Trump’s White House?
Murujuga petroglyphs - putting a "very rosy spin" on the scientific findings
"Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt was advised emissions from Woodside's Karratha Gas Plant may be having an adverse effect on the rock art, before he granted the company an extension to keep operating there for another 40 years."
"A top statistician says he quit a landmark study into whether heavy industry is damaging ancient rock art in Western Australia's north after the government misrepresented his team's key finding. Misstating the results of an expensive scientific investigation is unacceptable and I think that's what's happened."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/murujuga-rock-art-study-woodside-government-interference/105806508
#petroglyphs #Murujuga ##harm #degradation #RockArt #IndigenousPeoples #air #IndustrialPollution #pollution #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #Burrup #science #ScientificReview #governance #culture #values
Australian environment law and ongoing degradation
"Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve.
"Australia’s law that is supposed to protect the environment and cultural heritage doesn’t work. There are few, if any, people who argue otherwise.
"The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, introduced by the Howard government in 1999, is misnamed. Its main role is to allow developments to be approved."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/australia-laws-to-protect-the-environment-dont-work-woodside-greenlight-proves-it
#EPBCAct #law #EPA #biodiversity #degradation #EnvironmentalLaw #CulturalHeritage #FossilFuels #pollution #climate #petroglyphs #Murujuga #governance #Australia #conservation #extractivism
Yes Bill taken decades but finally what a contrast to when I was young in 1960s. …ongoing battles/outstanding injustices eg #Woodside vs #Murujuga remain to be sorted “in the long term” too.
Underwater archeology (2025 ) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/indigenous-rangers-join-underwater-archeology-project-wa-burrup/105422454
Deep History of Sea Country (2020)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-02/aboriginal-underwater-site-discovered-off-burrup-peninsula/12391858
Submerged landscape archaeology of land bridges and coastal-hinterland cultural exchange.
https://deephistoryofseacountry.com/
‘Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia’
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233912
#archeology #Burrup #FirstNations #Murujuga #Ngarluma #woodside #Yindjibarndi
Peter Riley
BellingenNSW
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