Supporters of the Indigenous Voice to parliament fear the West Australian government’s mishandling of controversial new Aboriginal cultural heritage laws has the potential to undermine the Yes campaign.
The WA laws are aimed at improving Indigenous consultation on changes to land with cultural heritage, sparked by Rio Tinto’s destruction of the Juukan Gorge in 2020, and are set to come into effect in July amid a hail of criticism from businesses and
A petition calling for a six-month delay to the implementation of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act will be tabled in the WA parliament on Wednesday afternoon, signed by close to 30,000 people.Premier Roger Cook has insisted the government will push ahead with the implementation, even though Aboriginal corporations say they risk becoming bogged down by onerous, state-imposed compliance exercises.
“You can imagine they are feeling under siege, so you don’t want us to consider a change to the Constitution in a climate where they are fatigued by all of this and angered and frustrated.”Independent Curtin MP Kate Chaney said some No campaigners were “scaremongering” and spreading misinformation about the heritage act to achieve their own political objectives.
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