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.

Make your submission to the Murujuga cultural heritage assessment

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Save our Songlines recently secured the first ever full cultural heritage assessment of all industry at the Burrup Hub under Section 10 of the Aboriginal Heritage Act. This is the best opportunity we have to show the dangerous impact that Woodside’s gas industry and its offshoots on the Burrup are having on sacred Murujuga rock art - not to mention the global climate impact of their emissions.

The Section 10 process allows for anyone to share their story, perspective and insights about the clash of new industry and ancient culture on the Burrup. A Reporter has been appointed by the Federal Government to investigate these impacts and provide a full report to the Environment Minister, who is empowered by law to make permanent protection orders for Murujuga.

We only have until November 30 to tell the full story about the industrial impacts on the environmental, economic, community, cultural and World Heritage values of Murujuga.

It is vitally important that the local community and Murujuga traditional custodians get to have their say about industry on their ngurra without having their voices silenced and concerns gagged. It is also crucial that as many people who care about ancient rock art, Aboriginal culture and the future of our planet make their feelings known about what is happening right now on the Burrup.

You can:

Read the gazette notice announcing the investigation
Make an oral submission by calling 0419 546 435
Make a written submission here or by emailing [email protected] directly.

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Dear Ms Stone,

Murujuga is an area of globally unique and outstanding cultural heritage values. It is not an appropriate location for some of the largest and most polluting industrial facilities in the world.

I support Traditional Custodians calling for urgent action by the Albanese Government to protect the cultural values of Murujuga from industrial development and restore the rights of Traditional Custodians to manage country.

This must include the following actions by the Albanese Government, in partnership with Traditional Custodians:

1) Placing an immediate moratorium on any further industrial development on Murujuga;

2) Progressing World Heritage Listing for Murujuga as a matter of highest priority;

3) Restoring the rights of Traditional Custodians to manage country and exercise genuine Free, Prior and Informed Consent for what happens on Murujuga;

4) Develop a plan to restore the environmental and cultural values of Murujuga with a long-term objective of reducing industry to zero, in line with the wishes of Traditional Owners stated in the Murujuga Cultural Management Plan.

Murujuga is a globally significant indigenous cultural landscape containing values that are equivalent to some of the most well known and loved heritage sites in the world.

Locating Australia’s most polluting industrial developments within this landscape is an act of ongoing desecration which cannot be allowed to continue.

I am appalled that the WA Government continues to actively encouraged and promote destructive industry on Murujuga despite its recognised National and World Heritage Values, and I am deeply concerned that the resulting damage may compromise the proposed World Heritage Listing.

The cultural heritage at Murujuga provides a globally unique record of continuous human occupation for tens of thousands of years. The level of human endeavour required to produce over 1 million hard-rock carvings and other features is comparable to the building of the pyramids. Yet within decades this extraordinary place is being transformed into an industrial landscape for the sake of short-term profits.  This cannot be allowed to continue.
Murujuga must be protected for future generations and I strongly support calls for urgent, permanent protection of this place by the Albanese Government.

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