The Greens welcome UNESCO including Murujuga on the World Heritage List and hope Labor will now ensure its survival by cancelling the draft approval for the North West Shelf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Australian Greens and First Nations spokesperson, Larissa Waters:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Murujuga Cultural Landscape is an awe inspiring illustration of culture and stories beginning tens of thousands of years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt truly deserves World Heritage listing, just as it deserves protection from North West Shelf\u2019s acidic emissions so its ancient stories can continue to be told. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA word of warning to Minister Watt, the world is now watching. Cancel the draft approval for the North West Shelf and prove Labor is willing to stand up for the oldest art gallery in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe applaud staunch advocates Raelene Cooper and Save Our Songlines for fighting to ensure Murujuga\u2019s strictest protection from Woodside\u2019s money grab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUNESCO had warned that Woodside\u2019s gas plant threatened the longevity of the rock art prior to the listing, but Minister Watt successfully lobbied other nations when he should have simply rejected Woodside\u2019s climate bomb extension in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis highlights why World Heritage laws need to be strengthened, and once again shows Labor needs to bolster Australia\u2019s limp environmental laws.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greens welcome UNESCO including Murujuga on the World Heritage List and hope Labor will now ensure its survival by cancelling the draft approval for the North West Shelf. Leader of the Australian Greens and First Nations spokesperson, Larissa Waters: \u201cThe Murujuga Cultural Landscape is an awe inspiring illustration of culture and stories beginning tens … Continue reading “Greens welcome Murujuga rock art World Heritage listing, but industrial threats persist”<\/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-33671","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\/33671","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=33671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33672,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions\/33672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}