After the destruction of Juukan Gorge, Indigenous heritage protection gets $500k in budget
Share Share on Twitter The federal budget has promised $500,000 towards improving cultural heritage protection after the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves in Western Australia placed huge scrutiny over the failure to protect the site. The government will commit the investment over two years to “improve Indigenous heritage protection" and what it describes as "Indigenous involvement in Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 decision-making processes”. It comes after a parliamentary inquiry into the Juukan Gorge incident no...
Source: sbs.com.au