Juukan Gorge
The Juukan Gorge Legacy Foundation has appointed passionate policy advocate and campaigner for First Nations rights, Christy Hawker as their first chief executive officer.
One of Western Australia's most prominent Native Title bodies has defended closing its offices across the state while its entire staff attended a conference in Perth.
The First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance has launched the Dhawura Ngilan business and investor guides to prevent the repeat of the destruction of the 46,000-year-old rock shelter at Juukan Gorge...
Western Australia's updated cultural heritage laws will soon be put to their first significant test, with the Shire of Toodyay facing fines of up to $50,000 for breaching the Aboriginal Heritage Act.
Western Australia's botched Aboriginal cultural heritage laws are a step closer to being officially repealed. Premier Roger Cook was forced to axe the new laws in August following widespread anger amo...
Traditional Owners have halted a heritage survey on Rio Tinto's Brockman Syncline project in the Pilbara after blasting impacted an Indigenous rock shelter.
A new investigation is under way after blasting at a Rio Tinto mine site in the Pilbara disturbed an ancient rock shelter. The site, somewhere between 40,000 and 50,000 years old, was 150 metres from...
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has been urged to take a stance on Western Australia's bungled attempt to reform the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act.
The Kimberley Land Council (KLC) has cautiously welcomed the WA Government's decision to repeal its controversial Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021, urging the State to include key First Nations s...
Rio Tinto has sought to reassure Traditional Owners it was committed to preserving First Nations cultural heritage as the Western Australian government grappled with repealing its contentious and divi...
The WA government has admitted it "took things too far" as it announced it would revert to the 1972 laws covering Aboriginal cultural heritage, which were in force when Rio Tinto destroyed sacred rock...
A prominent First Nations leader in the Kimberley has called for an independent panel chaired by an industry leader and Indigenous expert to re-draft WA's doomed Aboriginal Cultural Heritage legislati...
The Traditional Owners of a sacred cave destroyed by Rio Tinto in 2020 have threatened to disregard compliance-driven heritage requirements after reports the West Australian government will scrap its...