Save Our Songlines, a grassroots campaign led by Murujuga Traditional Custodians, remains vigilant in its fight to protect their sacred rock art and song lines from the \u2018Burrup Hub\u2019, which includes Woodside\u2019s Scarborough gas project and Perdaman\u2019s urea plant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Federal Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has bowed to pressure from the campaign and granted a full assessment of the impact of all industry in the Burrup Peninsula on cultural heritage, under Section 10 of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act (ATSIHPA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although welcome news, the Minister\u2019s denial of a Section 9 application from the group last month, means work can commence as scheduled and the movement of the rock art will take place while the Section 10 assessment is being completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yamatji-Noongar Senator Dorinda Cox, the Greens spokesperson for resources said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf Labor wants to meet their climate targets, they can\u2019t allow the Burrup Hub to continue producing some of the dirtiest LNG in the world to fire the Perdaman plant.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe North West Gas Shelf, and now Perdaman, will make their huge profits off the back of destroying First Nations\u2019 cultural heritage while setting off a climate bomb that will cause irreversible damage to the environment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis Labor government can not talk about recognition, they are silencing the voices of traditional owners and ramping up another Juukan Caves. When Traditional Owners say no, governments need to listen. None of this work has ever received free, prior informed consent and this is why our grassroots organisations need to find legal assistance to make them listen.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMurujuga National Park is due to bid for World Heritage listing in February next year, we need this fast-tracked to protect it from destruction. Murujuga contains the world\u2019s largest collection of rock art, one of the oldest women’s law grounds in the world, as well as the Seven Sisters dreaming song-line linking stories across Australia and the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe cannot continue to allow projects to go ahead that wreck the climate and destroy cultural heritage. We need investment in cleaner, greener renewable energy sources now, and for this Government to stand on the right side of history and protect Australia\u2019s First Peoples stories and sacred places.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Save Our Songlines, a grassroots campaign led by Murujuga Traditional Custodians, remains vigilant in its fight to protect their sacred rock art and song lines from the \u2018Burrup Hub\u2019, which includes Woodside\u2019s Scarborough gas project and Perdaman\u2019s urea plant. Federal Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has bowed to pressure from the campaign and granted a full … Continue reading “Destructive \u2018Burrup Hub\u2019 finally under investigation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18256,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18255\/revisions\/18256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}