TY - JOUR
T1 - The destruction of Juukan Gorge
T2 - lessons for planners and local governments
AU - Wensing, Ed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In May 2020, Rio Tinto, one of Australia’s largest mining companies, destroyed two rock shelters in the Hammersley Ranges in the Pilbara. Juukan Gorge, evidence of 46,000 years of continual human occupation through the last ice age, was destroyed in seconds. ‘The caves that Rio Tinto destroyed had a fundamental religious significance to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Peoples (PKKP), for whom these places constituted a part of their identity and central place in their social fabric’ (Langton, [2020]. The destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves: A cultural property crime in moral terms. The Saturday Paper, 19–25 September 2020, No. 319). They can never be restored or replaced.
AB - In May 2020, Rio Tinto, one of Australia’s largest mining companies, destroyed two rock shelters in the Hammersley Ranges in the Pilbara. Juukan Gorge, evidence of 46,000 years of continual human occupation through the last ice age, was destroyed in seconds. ‘The caves that Rio Tinto destroyed had a fundamental religious significance to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Peoples (PKKP), for whom these places constituted a part of their identity and central place in their social fabric’ (Langton, [2020]. The destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves: A cultural property crime in moral terms. The Saturday Paper, 19–25 September 2020, No. 319). They can never be restored or replaced.
KW - Indigenous
KW - Juukan Gorge
KW - planners law and culture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099387704&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07293682.2020.1866045
DO - 10.1080/07293682.2020.1866045
M3 - Article
SN - 0729-3682
VL - 56
SP - 241
EP - 248
JO - Australian Planner
JF - Australian Planner
IS - 4
ER -