Just five weeks after being legislated, Roger Cook announces the WA government will be scrapping its Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Laws which he says caused 'division' and 'confusion' in the community.
The laws have been in effect for only five weeks, and had been designed to avoid a repeat of Rio Tinto's destruction of 46,000-year-old culturally significant caves at Juukan Gorge in 2020.
Mr Cook says the legislation, passed in 2021, will be revoked and replaced with the original laws from 1972, with some key amendments. Instead, government will start a decade-long project to undertake cultural heritage surveys of land in "high priority" sections of the state, with the surveys to be held and published by government.
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