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Nyoongar Elders fear quarry work will destroy sacred sites in the Darling Range

From the newswire: A Perth Aboriginal Elder Albert Corunna and other local Nyoongar Elders fear for the destruction of a cultural heritage site complex at Red Hill in the Darling Range, north-east of Perth. Global German-based quarrying giant Hanson Construction Materials Pty Ltd has recently lodged a Section 18 application with the Department of Indigenous Affairs to seek approval to destroy the sites. The site complex includes archaeological and ethnographic sites, such as the Red Hill campsite, rockshelters, grinding stones, ochre deposits, petroglyphs, ceremonial sites, Susannah Brook and its tributaries and our spiritual Dreaming sites. At the centre of this is the Guardian Ancestral Owl Stone Boyay Gogomat. This is about 20 metres high and is made up of three large balancing stones in the shape of an owl. This area is also home to rare and significant plants and animals, such as carpet snakes, eagles and chuditch. The water of the brook is the purest water flowing into the Swan River. READ MORE/Comment...

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