
One-year grace only after heritage uproar
In the ultimate sign of chaos over the implementation of new Aboriginal cultural heritage laws, backlash against updated survey requirements resulted in a one-year reprieve — largely benefiting miners — being hastily written into guidelines just days before they were released. The West Australian can reveal guidelines published last Tuesday — then yanked offline within hours — originally applied new, more rigorous requirements to any Indigenous heritage survey undertaken from July 1 of this year.