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MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Western Australia will overturn its 2021 Aboriginal cultural heritage protection laws, set down after the destruction of the 46,000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelter, in response to widespread opposition, the state's premier said on Tuesday. Farmers, pastoralists and small landowners have been up in arms over what they say is onerous and costly regulation put in place after Rio Tinto legally destroyed rock shelters that had shown human habitation stretching back 46,000 years. The state government will scrap the 2021 legislation and instead restore and amend a 1972 law to ensure the protection of important sites, Premier Roger Cook said.

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