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Foreword

Members

  Members

Terms of Reference

Abbreviations

List of Recommendations

1. Introduction

  The Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura peoples
  Terminology
  Conduct of the inquiry

2. Juukan Gorge destruction

  Different perspectives
  Rio Tinto
  PKKP and its representatives
  State administrative failures
  Update on Rio Tinto: Responses to Juukan Gorge and Never Again
  Other industry responses
  Committee comment

3. Broader Western Australia experience

  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ experiences
  Burden of administration of legislative protections
  Registration of cultural sites
  Agreement making
  Committee comment

4. Western Australian legislation

  The Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972
  Critiques of the Aboriginal Heritage Act
  Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill 2020
  Committee comment

5. State and territory legislative frameworks

  New South Wales
  Victoria
  Queensland
  South Australia
  Tasmania
  Australian Capital Territory
  Northern Territory
  Penalties
  Legislative exemptions from cultural heritage protections
  Committee comment

6. Commonwealth law and international agreements

  Commonwealth legislation
  Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018
  International conventions and declarations

7. A pathway forward

  Findings
  1−Need for an overarching Commonwealth legislative framework
  2−Heritage standards
  3−Economic benefits

Additional Comments from Senator Smith and Mr Christensen MP

Additional Comments from Senator Thorpe

A. List of submissions

B. List of public hearings and witnesses

C. Interim report recommendations

D. Chronology of events

  Chronology of events submitted by Rio Tinto: 2003-2020
  Chronology of events submitted by PKKP: 2019-2020

E. Map of PKKP lands

F. Timeline of cultural heritage laws

G. ATSIHP Act case law

Sacred Country (2020)