What historical artefacts do we value in this country? Or is everything just rubble to be bulldozed and forgotten, blown up and shipped overseas as dust?A few weeks ago, a convict-era pub in Sydney — the Royal Oak Hotel, in the suburb of Parramatta — began to be demolished to make way for a light rail.
But after 180-odd years, and despite the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage acknowledging the Royal Oak Hotel was "relatively rare in its age", the pub has been razed.Mining giant Rio Tinto has destroyed something so ancient in WA it's hard to fathom with a human brain. Rio Tinto, operating legally under a law written in the early 1970s, detonated the shelters to extend its Brockman 4 iron ore mine.
More of our aboriginal heritage lost that is a big part of who we are as a nation. Lost for a bit more of that red dirt. Rio Tinto and the Western Australian Government should hang their heads in shame.
Name one single rock shelter or outcrop in WA that isn't a heritage site!
I’ll never get over the amount of bogan scum in this country unreal... the same folk that get upset over bit people...
Can somebody please stop this from happening
The holes are still there?
I’ll never get over the amount of bogan scum in this country unreal... the same folk that get upset over bit people...
How about we let The scum sucking history wreckers to bomb the Sydney Opera House, Parliament House or Na I didn’t think so.. they are CRIMINALS!!
kellyhd
It will be probably be forgotten in a few weeks by almost everyone and I suspect that played a large part in the decision by Rio Tinto to proceed.
vogels4 Putting it mildly...
actually quite sad this happened. however i'm frustrated that the same concern is not shown for our cities. Not only are landmarks being sold off to foreigners(Adelaide arcade), but the aesthetic value and liveability has drastically decreased.
Well that fatuous headline must be the understatement of the fucking year. Cheers ABC!
Just a rock.
No it shows a deep-seated racism. White supremacy was the justificatiom for colonisation, dispossession and 240 years of looting.
Thank you for covering this important story. Very sad that this happened. Shame on Australia.
Australians assume this is indigenous history that is lost, and it is, but it is OUR history as a country that is lost and we are all the poorer for it.
NO SHIT REALLY YOU THINK?
Australian Government shows, yet again, that Australia's heritage means nothing to them. They have no respect for the oldest civilisation in the word.
The powers that be and those they enable will do anything they can to destroy black history
Those low life’s at Rio/BHP/Fortescue/Hancock never gave a fuck about Australian Aboriginal people... only the greed and self interest for the company. And yet they still dictate to the government and the government bends over to greet them...
The destruction of truth in the media has a disturbing trend namely FakeNews like the ABC
Again the all mighty dollar wins.
If TheirABC and their fellow comrades the Greens had their way we'd all be living in rock shelters, scavenging for food.
Rock shelters? That's not my heritage.
No problemo, currently they have shelter in local pub, allowed 50 😀😷 spending compensation money for this rock
Looks like a hole in the ground.... Nothing to see here
have a sook
Analysis 😂😂😂
Wonder why?
Heartbreaking
.And a whole lotta racism
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