âHallowed groundâ: Outcry over plan to remove homestead for coal mine
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Opponents of plans to remove a colonial-era Hunter Valley homestead to make way for a coal mine say it would destroy an important historic site that was the likely staging ground for a massacre of local indigenous people.
Glencore is seeking approval to extend its Glendell mine near the village of Camberwell to extract an extra 140 million tonnes of coal. The sandstone Ravensworth homestead, which dates from the 1820s, would be relocated to the town of Broke about 30 kilometres away.
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“Every day it’s happening and a lot is not immediately known to us.”
The council’s Matthew Storey said the federal Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act had not provided adequate protection, and should be “wiped” and new laws drafted.
Dr Anne Poelina, chair of Fitzroy Martuwarra council in Western Australia told the inquiry about the “enormous pressure” traditional owners were facing in protecting the Fitzroy river, the largest Aboriginal heritage site in Western Australia.
“Unjust, invasive colonial development comes to communities in such a way that we don’t have time to respond in the way we want to, to such massive development,” Dr Poelina, a Nyikina woman and expert in land and water management, said.