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Bathurst go-kart track will not go ahead on Mt Panoramaâs sacred Indigenous site
Federal environment minister Sussan Ley listens to âpassionate community debateâ and determines the area is culturally significant
A proposed go-kart atop Mount Panorama in Bathurst NSW will not be built after the federal environment minister, SussanLey, intervened to protect the sacred Indigenous site. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian
A proposed go-kart atop Mount Panorama in Bathurst NSW will not be built after the federal environment minister, SussanLey, intervened to protect the sacred Indigenous site. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian
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Mon 3 May 2021 21.00 EDT
A contentious go-kart track will not be built atop Mount Panorama in Bathurst after the federal government intervened to protect a sacred Indigenous site.
View from Mount Panorma. Photo: Charles Boag
BREAKING NEWS: At the 11th hour, on March 5 federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley slapped an “emergency declaration” on the go-kart track, stopping work on it for 30 days. The reason cited was that it is a sacred site. She will make her final decision then. It follows a protest outside NSW parliament on March 4 and numerous submissions to the minister.
The park is a magnificent 10.11 hectares perched high above Bathurst on land donated by a former mayor. There are box gums, a children’s playground, a toilet block for campers, a few derelict buildings and a lot of open space.