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Partnership to protect First Nations heritage
The partnership will seek to protect the cultural heritage of First Nations people
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will have a greater say on heritage planning and developing laws and policies to protect their culture.
- SBS
A partnership between the federal government and a network of Traditional Owners aims to address gaps in the protection of cultural sites exposed by Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia in 2020.
“It is about the environment that is part of our essence of who we are,” federal Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt said on Monday.
“We have totems, we have country that is sacred.”
The partnership with the…