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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia

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December 7, 2021

A history of destruction: why the WA Aboriginal cultural heritage bill will not prevent another Juukan Gorge‑like disaster

Joe Dortch, The University of Western Australia; Anne Poelina, University of Notre Dame Australia; Jo Thomson, The University of Western Australia, and Kado Muir, Indigenous Knowledge

Western Australia’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Bill 2021 is set to become law. But the new legislation states one elected official will decide whether heritage sites are destroyed for development.

Among the early footsteps in Australia – The Mungo fossil footprints dating to 20,000 years ago. Michael Amendolia

March 13, 2015

Who we should recognise as First Australians in the constitution

Michael Westaway, Griffith University and Joe Dortch, The University of Western Australia

An Australian senator says the evidence on who should be recognised as the First Australians is only “conjecture”. So what does the evidence really say?

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