WA Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act taking effect from 1st July 2023 is real – check out the below
I wouldn’t hold any hope for the new Premier to do anything helpful
Good morning,
I had a grim encounter a few days ago, heard a fellow on the ABC ‘talk back’ gardening show asking how to plant fruit trees on his block in Gosnells, and if it was OK to dig the holes so deep under the new Aboriginal Cultural Heritage act where one is only allowed to dig to 50mm without written permission!
I phoned the ACH office and asked what were my obligations when I want to replace a gate come strainer post as it has rotted off at ground level, which it really has, I was told that I could do that but I must not enlarge the hole or disturb the soil around.
Fair enough! How do I remove the remaining post, understanding that the post will be thicker in diameter the lower it goes in the hole, and how do I insert a post into the hole and firm it up to do the job of a strainer without disturbing the surrounding soil? The only tools to my disposal are a fencing bar and post hole shovel and tractor mounted posthole digger.
And as the job has to be done in the one day so I can’t run a temporary bit of ringlock around the gateway and the short section of fence in question as I am not allowed, they told me that is a new fence!
Such posts in that case are not to be driven into the ground more than 50mm without making application to the ACH people, it will initially cost me $250 for the application and pay, I think, from $80 to $150 dollars per hour for it to be inspected.
Looks like this is what I will have to do every time I have a fencing repair job!
So can your broad e-community help me, from a starting point, with a good way of getting that butt end of post out of the ground, while observing the ACH Act and its regulation?!!!
You can send this around just keep my name out of it as I do have good relationship with many real Aboriginals, not the ‘Tickabox’ and Canberra type!
Cheers to you both,
WA leads the way to the pre-stone age, but accuracy not verified.
With rules like these, no wonder they never laid the foundations of houses.
My own experience of trying to build three homes within 100m of a storm drain is one of the main reasons I will NEVAA invest in Oz again. The Faux Tribe wanted $15,000 to carry out an archaeological dig to determine if there was a ‘midden’ (aka Rubbish Dump) on the property. I sold at a loss in 2012 as it was more trouble than I needed.
Consider the following the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Act seeks to preserve:
“What does the Aboriginal Heritage Act seek to preserve?
The section of the Act concerning what is to be preserved is given below. (Please take any stress or anxiety medication you require before reading the list). The bold highlights of the exceptional items and the comments in red are mine. Under the strengthened Act the following is to be protected:
- places outside of the cultural management plan process – in other words anywhere any Heritage Advisor chooses. If they have a ‘feeling’ about a spirit, or whatever, development cannot proceed, but maybe a substantial payment of invaders money will help so a made up, make-believe ceremony can be performed to exorcise the feeling.
- the night sky – hard to comment on what this means or how we protect this darkened sky, but I guess streetlights, satellites and some stars might have to go.
- intangible cultural heritage – all you need is a ‘feeling’ … Now an RAP can charge whatever compensation they like, or simply stop development against people who tell the fauxaborigines this is just a rort. The New Dark Age of Unreason is upon us.
- post-contact cultural heritage – as I understand it this could include any site camped on or ‘occupied’ since 1880. Try St Kilda Reserve where a group permanently resides and put this park out of bounds to all families.
- objects of special significance to Victoria – Buckleys Well at Torquay and the reputed massacre site at Anglesea, etc, but it can be anything ‘they’ claim.
- intellectual property rights of Traditional Owners – the decorative patterns etched on boomerangs, nulla nullas, etc cannot be duplicated by non-registered aborigines. Who knew that traditional aborigines had patent and copyright laws and electric etching tools for their possum coats?
- living culture – where any modern part-aborigines and fauxaborigines now gather e.g. St Kilda Park
- scar trees – old trees from which the bark has been stripped for canoes or for shelters. There are 37 such trees known to exist in Dandenong
- middens – my favourite competitor to the Coliseum and Stonehenge. This is anywhere the refuse of campsites, fires and animal bones have been left when the tribe moved on. If a nomadic people tramped across Victoria for thousands of years these could be everywhere. There is already a dozen registered in Dandenong – and the search goes on.”
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