But....that's progress for you

Read more: http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/why-australias-aboriginal-rock-art-will-disap...

Intentional destruction

Aboriginal sites are allowed to be ‘disturbed’ or destroyed by state governments.

Between 2005 and 2009 the NSW government approved 541 permits to destroy or disturb Aboriginal heritage sites 

Not a single application to do so was rejected in the first 10 months of 2008.

Between June 2012 and June 2013, the NSW Office of the Environment and Heritage – the organisation that is meant to be protecting Aboriginal heritage – considered 99 applications to destroy Aboriginal heritage and culture and all 99 applications that it considered were approved.

The Office claims, however, that only half of the applications reach this final step.

In 2009 a Tasmanian road project worth $164 million Australian dollars threatened to destroy “thousands of stone

tools, quarry sites and campsites” and possibly several burial sites.

Work began before community consultations were completed.

When the National Parks and Wildlife Act was enacted in 2001, last-minute lobbying by mining and agriculture

interests prevented amendments that would have created a stricter protection regime for Aboriginal sites.

"We've got a system which is basically the managed destruction of Aboriginal heritage."

 

—David Shoebridge, NSW Greens MP

I wonder why we do not read of the obverse situation very much in the mainstream media?????   .... It happens quite often...   does not even have to coincide with a special date     Vandalism

Time is not the only danger Aboriginal rock art is facing. Crude graffiti scratched into rocks bearing thousand-year-old images, construction camps built near sacred sites and tourists (and locals) treading on rock art sites contribute to the decay of sites of priceless Aboriginal history.

When Rachel Perkins scouted locations for her extraordinary series First Australians she had to abandon Bull Cave due to graffiti.

“For instance, Bull Cave in Camden, down in Dharawal country. We went to film there because that was where the First Fleet’s cattle escaped and they wandered down south and they went into Dharawal country and the Dharawal people painted this extraordinary image of this massive bull on the cave wall.

It is one of the first pieces of contact art, a really important site. We went down there to film and of course, someone has spray painted across it in red letters:

‘This is bull**bleep**’ and painted a big **bleep** across it, so of course we can’t film there.”

Other sites damaged by vandals include Red Hand Cave in the Blue Mountains (which now has been completely covered by perspex and bars), Bunjil Cave in Garriwerd, the Grampians (now protected by a metal cage), rock art at Mutitjulu waterhole at Uluru (Ayers Rock) and rock engravings in Darkinjung National Park which were destroyed by someone unloading wet cement onto it.

http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/blasting-the-colonial-past/571/

SOME ROCK ART carries within it the meaning of ancient Aboriginal law, but now its survival depends on the laws the

colonisers imported from Britain.

“Although various forms of legislation make it an offence to disturb a rock-art site this has not stopped a rise in graffiti,

vandalism, and damage from development,”

 

Archaeologist and rock art specialist Wayne Brennan examines a fire-damaged and graffiti-covered rock-art site in the

 

Blue Mountains.

There's nothing I can say to this that wouldn't earn me a month in eBali 

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@bright.ton42 wrote:

Just wondering why you doubt it?  Captain Cook's cottage here in  Melbourne has been defaced overnight, and aboriginal groups are being blamed for it.    I don't believe it's racist to say that that is quite possible.  

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Of course indigenous people are being blamed for it. Aussies like to point the finger at the obvious before engaging their brain.

But I doubt it because exactly the same thing happened last year (same message, same location) and a (non-indigenous) fringe group claimed responsibility. I can't remember who they were but they were the kind that protests anything. For all I know that group might have indigenous members but it isn't an orchestrated campaign by an indigenous group making a statement.

I hate graffiti with a passion, and find it particularly abhorrent on historic and and sacred sites such as you've shown, Colics.

I suspect the attack in Melbourne and Sydney was done by a radical partisan group with an anti- white Australian agenda in the name of the Aboriginal cause.

I doubt however, that we'll ever find out. If these ppl are known to police, I don't think it will ever be made public.

Just heard on the news that there is CCT footage at Captain Cook's cottage and it is expected this will 

reveal who did it.  I hope so , so that that will be clarified.