Submitted by Paul Daley on
The imposition of the track on a sacred women’s site would be in contempt of local Indigenous sensibility, culture and millennia of Aboriginal history
Given the global outrage and corporate shame stemming from the destruction of precious Indigenous heritage at Juukan Gorge, you’d think any organisation poised to damage sacred Aboriginal property might be experiencing a little cautionary soul-searching.
It remains to be seen if this is the case with Bathurst regional council which had, on this very International Women’s Day, planned to turn the first sods on a $4.5m go-kart track on a sacred Wiradjuri women’s site that is a timeless centrepiece of the local Wiradjuri creation story.
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