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| Indigenous community determined to protect ancient rock art 11 March 2008 - An Aboriginal community in the Pilbara, in north-west Western Australia, has warned companies operating on the Burrup Peninsula that it will fight to protect ancient rock art in the area. |
| Aboriginal rock art removed 4 February 2008 - THE controversial relocation of Aboriginal rock carvings from the Pluto onshore facilities site on the Burrup Peninsula has been completed. |
| Turnbull artfully dodges Burrup heritage decision 4 November 2007 - Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has rejected an application by Aboriginal custodians of WA’s Burrup Peninsula (the Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo people) for protection of their world heritage rock art. |
| Burrup rock art on risk list 2nd November 2007- Ancient rock art in the Dampier Archipelago of northern WA has made the National Trust’s first list of threatened heritage sites. |
| Rock art custodians attack green light for Pluto gas project 16 October 2007 - Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has approved Woodside's Pluto gas project. |
| Outrage as 30,000-year-old Aboriginal rock carvings are defaced 26 September 2007 - Daily Mail UK - Prehistoric Australian rock carvings up to 30,000 years old have been vandalised, with some people pointing the finger of blame at supporters of a £5 billion liquefied natural gas plant. |
| WA Government blacklisted as heritage vandals - again! 7 June 2007 - FARA Media Release - The New York based World Monuments Fund has re-listed the ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia as one of the world's most endangered cultural heritage sites for 2008 |
| Burrup rock art treatment poor, says Barnett 31 May 2007 - Liberal MP and former Opposition leader Colin Barnett says world heritage listing of ancient Aboriginal rock art on the Burrup Peninsula is inevitable, describing the State and Federal governments’ handling of the development at the site as a sham. |
| Would the Brits bulldoze Stonehenge? 9 April 2007 - Late last year, thousands of GetUp members rallied to save the oldest and largest collection of art on the planet - the Burrup rock carvings in Western Australia. It's a little-known Indigenous site that includes one of the earliest identified images of a human face and the now-extinct Tasmanian Tiger. We've nearly succeeded in protecting it once and for all. |
| Burrup gas project is approved despite rock art worries 28 February 2007 - Indigenous Affairs Minister Michelle Roberts gave Woodside the green light yesterday to develop a second parcel of land on its $10 billion Pluto gas project on the Burrup Peninsula, arguing the dollar value of the controversial development was too great to ignore. |
| Protesters demand rock art explanation 22 January 2007 - AUSTRALIAN oil and gas giant Woodside has yet to explain why it needs to move ancient rock art to develop a gas plant on Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula, protesters say. |
| Work starts on Burrup LNG plant 8 January 2007 - Work will begin today on Woodside Energy's Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on the Burrup Peninsula in north-west Western Australia. |
| Burrup tragedy: Campbell sends in the bulldozers 22 December 2006 - Senator Rachel Siewert has slammed Environment and Heritage Minister Ian Campbell’s decision this morning not to heritage list the ancient rock art on the Burrup Peninsula. |
| Archaeologists' group backs push to protect rock art 8 December 2006 - A group representing Australian archaeologists has backed a call for emergency heritage listing of the Burrup Peninsula, in north-west Western Australia, to protect ancient Aboriginal rock art. |
| Burrup treasure is history in the taking: One of the world's most significant rock art sites may soon be lost forever 31 October 2006 - IT'S hard to imagine a more impressive cultural site in Australia than the Burrup Peninsula, or a more undefended one. The largest, and possibly oldest, rock art site in the world consists of thousands of jagged red Pilbara rocks bearing remarkable human, animal and plant images etched into shadowed crevasses or sun-beaten surfaces. |
| Gas plant
threatens Australia's ancient art 30 September 2006 - The Independent (UK) - The petroglyphs carved into the red rocks of the Burrup peninsula, on Australia's north-west coast, chronicle the lives of the Aboriginal people who have roamed this rugged region for tens of thousands of years. |
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of rock to become 'global issue' 8 August 2006 - The possible destruction of part of a massive Aboriginal rock art site in Western Australia for a major gas facility was set to become an international issue, Australian Greens leader Bob Brown said. |
| Brown urges
govts to save rock art 15 July 2006 - The Greens are calling on the federal and Western Australian governments to help save ancient Aboriginal rock art on the state's Burrup Peninsula. |
| Gov't accused of playing down Aboriginal rock art destruction 20 June 2006 - An organisation which works to conserve Australia's Indigenous and historic heritage says Western Australia's Resources Minister has been misinformed about the number of Aboriginal rock art carvings destroyed on the Burrup Peninsula in the state's north-west. |
| Bulldozer
threat to ancient Aboriginal art 19 May 2006 - The Telegraph (UK) - A remote stretch of the Australian coastline that is home to the largest collection of Aboriginal rock art in the world is under threat from a plan to exploit the area's oil and gas reserves. |
| Scientists to study industrial damage to Aboriginal rock art 7 April 2004 - PERTH, Australia - Scientists have begun a major study in Australia's remote northwest into how mining and pollution is damaging the world's largest concentration of ancient rock art, a state government announced Tuesday. |
Space-age Technology Developed to Monitor Rock Art |
| List of 100 most endangered sites issued for 2004 September 25, 2003 - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 1908 explorer's hut in Antarctica, ancient palaces in war-torn Iraq, aboriginal rock carvings in Australia and Battersea Power Station in London are among the 100 Most Endangered Sites listed for conservation on Wednesday by the World Monuments Fund |
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