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2024
‘WA rock art expert scolds national counterparts for accepting Woodside donation’, WAToday, 25 October 2024
‘'Highly offensive': Cultural heritage conference sponsored by Woodside’, The Last Place on Earth, 23 October 2024
‘Opinion: It is time to invest in tomorrow’ by Benjamin Smith, Energy News Bulletin, 24 September 2024
‘Oldest art gallery in the world at risk as Traditional Owners are being gagged from objecting to development’, NITV, 30 August 2024
‘Burrup Peninsula Aboriginal elders unable to object to industry on culturally significant land’, ABC, 28 August 2024
‘Traditional owners slam ‘offensive’ heritage agreement’, The Australian, 26 August 2024
‘“A great day" - Ngarda-Ngarli celebrate return of West Intercourse Island’, National Indigenous Times, 12 August 2024
‘West Intercourse Island handed back to traditional owners to support World Heritage nomination’, ABC, 11 August 2024
‘Carmen Lawrence: Woodside’s Burrup Hub no good for WA’, The Last Place on Earth, (republished from Friends of Australian Rock Art), 1 August 2024
‘Leaked letter reveals internal concerns about science on Australia’s next world heritage site’, WAToday, 6 June 2024
‘Labor must thwart Woodside bid for gas facility on WA's Burrup Peninsula to protect 50,000-year-old Aboriginal art, party legend Kim Beazley says’, Sky News, 6 June 2024
‘UN committee says WA government's botched handling of Aboriginal heritage could be racial discrimination convention breach’, ABC, 27 May 2024
‘‘Slow’ response may have already doomed Burrup rock art: campaigners’, The Australian, 21 April 2024
‘Kim Beazley urges Tanya Plibersek to reject Woodside LNG plant extension’, The Guardian, 27 March 2024
‘Kim Beazley backs campaign to thwart Woodside project, save Aboriginal rock art’, The West Australian, 27 March 2024
‘Ex-Labor leaders among group call on Tanya Plibersek to protect Aboriginal rock art from gas emissions’, ABC, 27 March 2024
'Labor legends push Tanya Plibersek to block WA gas project', The Australian, 27 March 2024
‘Concerns remain for Murujuga despite statement of intent on heritage protection’, Ngaarda Media, 1 March 2024
‘First Nations consultation underway for Pilbara hydrogen hub’, Ngaarda Media, 20 February 2024
2023
‘Woodside’s Pluto trucking contract shocks Pilbara traditional owners’, WAToday, 6 December 2023
‘Woodside pushes on with Scarborough plan after consultation controversy', The Australian, 9 November 2023
‘Raelene Cooper challenges Woodside as it renews Pilbara seismic testing application’, ABC, 9 November 2023
‘Woodside’s seismic blasting approval for Scarborough gas quashed', WAToday, 28 September 2023
‘Whose voice counts on Aboriginal heritage?’, Arena Online, 17 August 2023
‘Ancient Aboriginal underwater site in Flying Foam Passage thought to be deepest in Australia', ABC, 28 June 2023
‘Murujuga’s rock art is at risk – where is the outrage?' The Conversation, 16 May 2023
‘World’s largest collection of ancient rock art threatened by Australia’s petrochemical plants', Science, 12 May 2023
‘See the photos seized by police of Perdaman moving Murujuga rock art’, Ngaarda Media, 8 May 2023
‘WA police seized photos from home of journalist who took images of ancient rock art being removed', The Guardian, 3 May 2023
‘Construction starts on WA’s Burrup amid outcry’, AAP, 26 April 2023
‘Pilbara gas-fuelled fertiliser plant gets $6b green light, but rock art concerns remain', WAToday, 26 April 2023
‘Remote WA peninsula with rock art nominated for world heritage listing', The Guardian, 10 February 2023
‘WA lashed over rock art heritage bid', The Australian, 9 February 2023
‘Ancient West Australian rock art up for World Heritage nomination', Sydney Morning Herald, 6 February 2023
‘Rock art before industry: activists’, The Australian, 6 February 2023
2022
‘Indigenous Australians Fight to Protect Sacred Art From Industry and Pollution', The New York Times, 11 December 2022
‘Federal assessment of millennia-old rock art begins on Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula’, ABC, 23 November 2022
‘Feds launch inquiry into WA gas plant, rock art clash', WAToday, 20 October 2022
‘Fears for Indigenous rock art as construction begins on WA’s Burrup peninsula', The Guardian, 24 September 2022
‘WA government plays down Indigenous heritage concerns over new hydrogen plant', ABC, 16 September 2022
‘Minister appoints independent consultant to investigate millennia-old rock art on WA's Burrup Peninsula', ABC, 14 September 2022
'Labor approves removal of sacred rock art on the Burrup Peninsula', The Saturday Paper, 10 September 2022
'Elders ‘objected to Burrup rock art relocation’' The Australian, 26 August 2022
‘Traditional owners' group initially opposed moving sacred rock carvings in Pilbara, documents show', ABC, 25 August 2022
‘Perdaman fertiliser plant near ancient rock art gets nod from Plibersek, leaving some 'devastated'', ABC, 24 August 2022
‘Indigenous group says Tanya Plibersek ‘hasn’t done her homework’ on Burrup peninsula fertiliser plant', The Guardian, 23 August 2022
‘Tanya Plibersek backs contentious fertiliser plant on Burrup peninsula', The Guardian, 23 August 2022
'Fifty-year extension for Australia’s biggest CO2 emitter attracts record number of appeals', The Guardian, 23 July 2022
‘Tanya Plibersek urged to block $4.5b fertiliser plant proposal amid fears for rock art', ABC, 17 August 2022
‘Who cares for country?', ABC, 10 July 2022
‘‘Cultural genocide’: Australian state putting industry before heritage, Indigenous women tell UN', The Guardian, 6 July 2022
‘Gas plants expand while ancient Murujuga rock art waits on modern science’, WAToday, 29 June 2022
'Woodside’s $17 billion Scarborough gas project faces heritage hurdle', WAToday, 13 June 2022
‘Tanya Plibersek urged to protect Indigenous rock art up to 50,000 years old by blocking fertiliser plant', The Guardian, 7 June 2022
‘‘Our ancestors are in the rocks’: Australian gas project threatens ancient carvings – and emissions blowout’, The Guardian, 12 May 2022
‘Pollution is threatening some of the world’s oldest rock carvings', National Geographic, 11 April 2022
'Traditional owners in WA's north demand removal of 'gag clauses' to help them protect ancient rock art', ABC, 24 March 2022
'Pilbara rock art custodians want WA government, Woodside to hit pause on Burrup projects', WAToday, 24 March 2022
‘Fertiliser company urged to halt plans to remove Burrup Peninsula Indigenous rock art', The Guardian, 12 March 2022
‘Pilbara rock art versus $4.5b fertiliser plant: Ley intervenes in clash', WAToday, 10 March 2022
‘Songlines or pipelines in the Burrup?’, The Monthly, February 2022
2021
‘Fears pollution will destroy world's biggest collection of rock art 'within 100 years'‘, ABC, 29 October 2021
‘A year after the Juukan Gorge blasts, it's time to listen to Aboriginal people who want to protect land and culture', ABC, 12 May 2021
2020
‘Woodside faces challenge over Burrup Hub LNG plans amid pollution and rock art fears', ABC, 21 December 2020
‘Juukan Gorge won't be the last priceless record of human history to be legally destroyed by mining', ABC, 11 June 2020
‘The destruction of two rock shelters in WA reveals a disturbing lack of appreciation for our heritage', ABC, 31 May 2020
‘Rio Tinto blasting of 46,000-year-old Aboriginal sites compared to Islamic State's destruction in Palmyra', ABC, 29 May 2020
2019
‘Singing the Stones: can industry and ancient rock art coexist on the Burrup Peninsula?’, ABC, 6 July 2019
‘Can industry and ancient rock art coexist on the Burrup Peninsula?', The Weekend Australia Magazine, 16 March 2019
2018
‘Living Knowledge Centre gets started', Pilbara News, 4 December 2018
‘FARA starts campaigns to re-locate Burrup projects', Pilbara News, 13 June 2018
‘Chevron cuts gas to Burrup Peninsula petrochemical plant', The Australian, 26 April 2018
‘WA accused of undermining Burrup peninsula's world heritage listing', The Guardian, 24 April 2018
‘Burrup Peninsula industry and World Heritage proposal 'go together', Premier says', ABC, 20 April 2018
‘Disappointment over Burrup rock art probe result', Pilbara News, 29 March 2018
‘Western Australia chemical plants threaten 40,000-year-old rock art', The Guardian, 5 February 2018
2017
‘Is industry affecting Burrup Rock Art?', ABC, 23 November 2017
‘Why scientific monitoring of the effects of industry on our priceless WA rock art is inadequate', The Conversation, 22 November 2017
2016
‘Rock art decay 'sure as night follows day', says retired Museum boss', ABC, 10 December 2016
2015
‘Burrup Peninsula rock art shows extinct megafauna and Tasmanian tigers in WA', ABC, 22 June 2015