A federal government official has been found liable under Northern Territory (NT) law for damage to a sacred Indigenous site, in a decision that could set a precedent for how sacred sites are protected.
The case centred around damage allegedly caused by Parks Australia while building a walkway close to a sacred men’s site near Gunlom Falls in Kakadu National Park in 2019.
The cascading waterfall appeared in the movie “Crocodile Dundee.”
Parks Australia apologised and agreed to redirect the track away from the sacred site, but the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority wanted to establish criminal accountability.
In 2020, it filed charges against the National Parks director, and the NT Supreme Court found the work was not properly authorised under the Sacred Sites Act....
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