Ruth MoratzAussie Art Treasures To Be Destroyed
December 26th 2006 22:37
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http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=40244
Burrup tragedy: Campbell sends in the bulldozers
by Burrup X 2006-12-23 11:06 AM 0800
Senator Rachel Siewert has slammed Environment and Heritage Minister Ian Campbell's decision this morning not to heritage list the ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula...
There is a perfect site for this project just up the road on North West Shelf Joint Venture land...
"Instead of protecting the site, the Minister is effectively letting the bulldozers in. It is a tragedy and a farce that the Government still can't get this right," Senator Siewert said.
"By deliberately delaying a decision the Minister is playing for time to allow development to start before the area is added to the list - hence removing any Commonwealth responsibility and washing his hands of the destruction of the art."
"Compounding his failure to list, the Minister is now going down the appalling path of saying that some of the art is more 'special', and the rest can be sacrificed. This is disgraceful from a Minister whose duty is to protect all of this precious and unique rock art," said Senator Siewert.
"How the Government can allow rock art to be relocated or destroyed is absolutely beyond me," she said. "There is a perfect site for this project just up the road on North West Shelf Joint Venture land," Senator Siewert said. "I have contacted all of the partners who have indicated that they are not opposed to co-location as an alternative to destroying the rock art on the Pluto site. All that is needed is for the Minister to facilitate this agreement."
"If the Minister believes he can delay a decision for another six months without serious consequences to this Government's reputation, he is entirely mistaken," she concluded.
Background:
National Trust Forum: "Greatest Open Art Gallery in the world - Australia's greatest Cultural Monument". Forum: Friday 5 May 9am to 4pm at State Library Theatre. READ MORE...
Message from the SWAN VALLEY NYUNGAH COMMUNITY: "The Ancient Rock Engravings left by our Old People in the Burrup and Dampier Area are damaged, many are destroyed and this Ancient Spiritual Area is in grave danger of total destruction."
"Our Aboriginal Values are under full scale attack against our Religion and Culture and our Sacredness, destroying our Land and breaking up our Families by taking our kids away and forcing us off the Land into the White man's concrete jungle, forced assimilation, White Australia Policy..."
National Trust: "The World was disgusted when the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. So far at least 4776 pieces of rock art have been recorded as being dstroyed in the Dampier Rock Art Precinct however the number far exceeds that..."
SVNC: "To all the friends and supportes of the Values of the Aboriginal Nation of Australia: It is important that we all stick together and speak with deep concerns for our Songlines and our Sacredness and all the damage that has been done in the Burrup and Dampier Area where the Ancient Rock Engravings are concerned.
Through the Tides of Time, all other races and peoples that came to our country have never asked permission from us the Blackfellas, the First Nation of People. Peter Costello and John Howard and the whole of the Howard Government, and Alan Carpenter and his Government have not asked permission from us the Original Owners to live in this country or to destroy our Sacred Belongings.
We speak with true feelings, we speak through our Aboriginal values and we remember all that has been done to us since the coming of the white man, the killings in ways of massacres, the raping and killing of the women and children by white men, the taking our children away.
The damage done to the Rock Art of our Old People in the Dampier and Burrup Area, and all the remaining Rock Art under threat is a very damaging blow to us as Aboriginal Elders, Aboriginal Lawmen and Aboriginal Lawwomen from all areas through the breadth and length of Western Australia if not the whole of the Continent..."
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=40244
Burrup tragedy: Campbell sends in the bulldozers
by Burrup X 2006-12-23 11:06 AM 0800
Senator Rachel Siewert has slammed Environment and Heritage Minister Ian Campbell's decision this morning not to heritage list the ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula...
There is a perfect site for this project just up the road on North West Shelf Joint Venture land...
"By deliberately delaying a decision the Minister is playing for time to allow development to start before the area is added to the list - hence removing any Commonwealth responsibility and washing his hands of the destruction of the art."
"Compounding his failure to list, the Minister is now going down the appalling path of saying that some of the art is more 'special', and the rest can be sacrificed. This is disgraceful from a Minister whose duty is to protect all of this precious and unique rock art," said Senator Siewert.
"How the Government can allow rock art to be relocated or destroyed is absolutely beyond me," she said. "There is a perfect site for this project just up the road on North West Shelf Joint Venture land," Senator Siewert said. "I have contacted all of the partners who have indicated that they are not opposed to co-location as an alternative to destroying the rock art on the Pluto site. All that is needed is for the Minister to facilitate this agreement."
"If the Minister believes he can delay a decision for another six months without serious consequences to this Government's reputation, he is entirely mistaken," she concluded.
Background:
National Trust Forum: "Greatest Open Art Gallery in the world - Australia's greatest Cultural Monument". Forum: Friday 5 May 9am to 4pm at State Library Theatre. READ MORE...
Message from the SWAN VALLEY NYUNGAH COMMUNITY: "The Ancient Rock Engravings left by our Old People in the Burrup and Dampier Area are damaged, many are destroyed and this Ancient Spiritual Area is in grave danger of total destruction."
"Our Aboriginal Values are under full scale attack against our Religion and Culture and our Sacredness, destroying our Land and breaking up our Families by taking our kids away and forcing us off the Land into the White man's concrete jungle, forced assimilation, White Australia Policy..."
National Trust: "The World was disgusted when the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamiyan. So far at least 4776 pieces of rock art have been recorded as being dstroyed in the Dampier Rock Art Precinct however the number far exceeds that..."
SVNC: "To all the friends and supportes of the Values of the Aboriginal Nation of Australia: It is important that we all stick together and speak with deep concerns for our Songlines and our Sacredness and all the damage that has been done in the Burrup and Dampier Area where the Ancient Rock Engravings are concerned.
Through the Tides of Time, all other races and peoples that came to our country have never asked permission from us the Blackfellas, the First Nation of People. Peter Costello and John Howard and the whole of the Howard Government, and Alan Carpenter and his Government have not asked permission from us the Original Owners to live in this country or to destroy our Sacred Belongings.
We speak with true feelings, we speak through our Aboriginal values and we remember all that has been done to us since the coming of the white man, the killings in ways of massacres, the raping and killing of the women and children by white men, the taking our children away.
The damage done to the Rock Art of our Old People in the Dampier and Burrup Area, and all the remaining Rock Art under threat is a very damaging blow to us as Aboriginal Elders, Aboriginal Lawmen and Aboriginal Lawwomen from all areas through the breadth and length of Western Australia if not the whole of the Continent..."
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