The state government passed laws aimed at protecting Aboriginal culture and heritage last December to replace rules which enabled the destruction of a 46,000-year-old sacred site at Juukan Gorge in May 2020.
New Act ‘has holes’
Kimberley Land Council (KLC) chief executive Tyronne Garstone said the co-design process for the regulations had fallen short.
“That process isn’t a process of co-design, we’re basically being consulted, asked to put in some opinions, put a submission in and again, behind closed doors, government will draft the regulations,” he said.