Save Our Songlines

Murujuga is a place of worship.

Our rock art tells our stories; it is our Bible.

We practise and continue to follow our cultural protocols, passing down knowledge of Lore and culture.

As custodians we are entrusted to carry on our traditional customs.

We are joining together to stop new industry on the Burrup from damaging our Songlines, our rock art, our health and our climate.

Murujuga is a place of worship.

Our rock art tells our stories; it is our Bible.

We practise and continue to follow our cultural protocols, passing down knowledge of Lore and culture.

As custodians we are entrusted to carry on our traditional customs.

We are joining together to stop new industry on the Burrup from damaging our Songlines, our rock art, our health and our climate.

Ask Tanya Plibersek to protect Murujuga

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Woodside Energy and Perdaman have plans to build new industry at Murujuga, also known as the Burrup Peninsula. These developments would be disastrous for cultural heritage and for climate.

The new Federal Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has received applications from Traditional Custodians of Murujuga, asking her to intervene to stop Woodside's Scarborough gas and Perdaman's urea plant.

We want Tanya Plibersek to put an end to new industrial development on the Burrup Peninsula.

Email Tanya Plibersek to show support to Traditional Custodians fighting for Country.

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To the Hon. Tanya Plibersek

I write to support the Traditional Owners who are urging you to stop new industrial developments on Murujuga/the Burrup Peninsula. These projects, including Woodside’s Scarborough gas project and Perdaman’s urea plant, will damage precious Aboriginal cultural heritage and have devastating impacts on our climate.

Murujuga is a globally significant heritage site that is home to the world’s oldest and largest collection of rock art. As Minister for the Environment, you are responsible for protection of Aboriginal Heritage under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act.

Traditional Owners have cared for their Murujuga Ngurra (Country) for tens of thousands of years. According to Mardudhunera Traditional Custodian Raelene Cooper:

“Murujuga, to us, is the most culturally significant place on earth, with more than 1 million petroglyphs and over 60 000 years of occupation. Murujuga is a place of worship.

“Our rock art tells our stories; it is our Bible. We practise and continue to follow our cultural protocols, passing down knowledge of Lore and culture.

“As custodians we are entrusted to carry on our traditional customs.”

I wish to support Raelene Cooper and other Traditional Owners who are deeply concerned by the threats to Aboriginal cultural heritage posed by new industrial developments at Murujuga. Ms Cooper and others are calling for a stop to Scarborough, Perdaman, and all future developments.

There was much public outrage after the Juukan Gorge rock shelters were destroyed in 2020.  Two years later, we are on a pathway to similar destruction of heritage at Murujuga. I plead that you take action to prevent another catastrophe.

Scientists have proven that industrial emissions on the Burrup Peninsula are gradually wearing away at the rock art. Professor Benjamin Smith of UWA states that, the way things are going, the rock art will be gone in decades, rather than centuries. We should not be adding to the emissions on Murujuga, and yet Woodside and Perdaman plan to do just that by going ahead with their projects. I fear this will hasten the damage to the petroglyphs.
Perdaman also poses a direct threat to the rock art, as its plans to move four sacred heritage sites. Woodside is facilitating Perdaman’s disruption to Country by selling them the gas they need to make urea. These sites should be left undisturbed.

The climate impacts of these developments are also significant. Proceeding with Woodside’s Scarborough project would contribute over a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions. I fear these emissions will have devastating impacts for people across the world.

Given the recent warnings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, it is clear we can no longer afford to build fossil fuel projects. Renewable energy presents us with many opportunities, and we should be making a rapid, just transition away from fossil fuels. We have no need for gas projects like Scarborough, which will only add to dangerous levels of carbon pollution.

Given the risks outlined above, we can allow no further industry at Murujuga. I urge you to consider the viewpoints of Traditional Owners who are calling on you to halt these developments, for the sake of cultural heritage and climate.

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