Fight to stop 'disrespectful' scraping of Aboriginal graves in churchyard

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An Aboriginal land council on the NSW south coast lodges an emergency application to stop the surface excavation of graves in a former churchyard slated for development.

abc.net.au/news/huskisson-church-jervis-bay-dispute-scraping-aboriginal-graves/101487288A long-running dispute over land surrounding a former Anglican Church on the NSW south coast is intensifying, as the land owner seeks to clarify whether Aboriginal graves lie beneath the proposed development site.

The Jerrinja Local Aboriginal Land Council has lodged an emergency federal protection application to try and stop ground scraping of suspected graves on the site in the town of Huskisson, in Jervis Bay. But Jerrinja Local Aboriginal Land Council chief executive Alfred Wellington is against an approval granted by Heritage NSW to proceed with the dig.

The ABC understands the report identified more than 70 objects underground, many of which could be graves, but could not definitively say how many. "We sent our response into the Commonwealth [environment] department with an undertaking we won't be undertaking the works in the next little while," he said.

 

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We seem to be heading into a us & them culture like the US. We need to come together and move forward as 1

A lot of 'disrespectful' going around these days...

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