03/12/2023 20:53
The Guardian
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate says $700m plan for ‘streamlined’ Games failed to win state or federal backing. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMore on the federal approvals granted to Woodside to start drilling and seismic blasting at the Burrup Hub gas plants in northern WA:Murujuga traditional custodian Raelene Cooper said she is “heartbroken, devastated and furious” that the government has allowed Woodside’s Burrup Hub to “destroy our sacred rock art, our songlines and our precious marine sanctuaries”.Our majestic whales carry the stories of our people, carry our songlines from one part of Country to another, they are documented on our munda (our rocks), they are our dreaming stories that I hold. I have warned previously that the risks and the impacts of such destructive activities will be life threatening for these precious species.As custodians, our obligation and responsibility is to protect land and sea. As First Nations people we have to fight in these federal courts to maintain our people’s living culture and the conviction that we hold on behalf of all humanity and all living creatures. Now the governments are forcing us to fight for our living culture and our living knowledge, and we are going to fight this war. Continue reading...
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