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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