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Big change coming for miners

WESTERN Australia’s mining industry is girding itself for a period of major change with the state seemingly set to finally get revised Aboriginal cultural heritage laws after the WA government tabled the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill 2021.

WA looks set to finally get an update for its nearly 50 year old Aboriginal cultural heritage laws.

WA looks set to finally get an update for its nearly 50 year old Aboriginal cultural heritage laws.

The bill is to replace WA's Aboriginal Heritage Act, which, when created in 1972, was considered well ahead of its time. As the 2020 Juukan Gorge showed, the act had not aged well and provided no protection...

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