The Town of Port Hedland has apologised after contractors it employed to build a footbridge and boardwalk drilled a 15-metre deep hole at Pretty Pool without the proper approvals.
abc.net.au/news/port-hedland-council-fined-thousands-damaging-aboriginal-site-/101800716A council in Western Australia's north-west has been fined almost $8,000 for damaging a sacred Aboriginal site believed to be thousands of years old.
The contractors took vehicles and machinery to the site, including a drilling rig, which they used to drill a core hole approximately 15 metres deep. It was also charged with bringing machinery and vehicles onto Crown land without the approval of the relevant minister or registrar. "Once you damage a site, you'll never have that connection again. It's a line that you tampered with, and now you've broken that line," she said.Ms Mason told the ABC she did not feel the council's fine was commensurate with her cultural loss."I'm absolutely appalled by the desecration … it's a criminal offence [and] it's the oldest history in the world, and there was no compensation in the way it should've been," she said.
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