Two Larrakia elders have filed an application to the Federal Government calling on the Environment and Water Minister to protect the Stokes Hill sacred site against the “damage and desecration” they say the proposed hotel at the Darwin Convention Centre will have on the site, which follows controversial changes the CLP Finocchiaro Government made to the NT Sacred Sites Act that the NLC says has “put all sacred sites in the NT at risk”.
The elders are being represented by the Northern Land Council and have filed an application on behalf of all Larrakia people under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act (ATSIHP Act).
What success over 17 years? Letting the nonsense that these sites were secret when, by their very nature, they had to be well-known.
Hopefully, Murray Watt and Malarndirri McCarthy can override any decisions made by the incumbent NT government. T
This mob is bulldozing their way through legislation loopholes, disrespecting the rights and cultural responsibilities of traditional owners.
Shame on them.
How much money will make the ancestors happy and cause the offence to disappear?
It’s always about money with those mob.
The spirits have answered and said “A lot of money,please deposit into me Commbank account”