Western Australia said Tuesday it is axing a five-week-old law to protect Indigenous sites, introduced after Rio Tinto blew up a 46,000-year-old sacred rock shelter in the state.
The decision to repeal the legislation was condemned by Indigenous groups, who complained of insufficient consultation and said their needs were being ignored.
Western Australia's premier, Roger Cook, said the new law -- which came into force on July 1 -- would be scrapped because it was too complex."We took it too far, unintentionally causing stress, confusion and division in our community." It would add some amendments, however, including an obligation on landowners to notify the government of any new information about an Aboriginal site.
"The Cook government is reverting to laws that allowed destruction of Juukan Gorge," said PKKP land and heritage manager Jordan Ralph.Kado Muir, chairman of the National Native Title Council, which advocates for Indigenous rights, said the state government had not properly consulted First Nations people before deciding to repeal the legislation.
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