Traditional land owners won a major victory this month in their long running battle against the proposed Woodside gas hub project at James Price Point on Western Australia's Kimberley coast.
Photo Credit: Save The Kimberley on FB
On December 6, WA Supreme Court Justice Wayne Martin issued a ruling in favour of Goolarabooloo Traditional owners, finding that the WA government acted illegally when it used 'compulsory acquisition' notices to take Goolarabooloo lands for the proposed gas hub.
The land in question contains burial sites and it is part of a song cycle which is vital to Goolarabooloo life and culture. A song cycle is an oral heritage map that's made up of ceremonial grounds, seasonal food places, vegetation for ceremonial usage as well as trees, shrubs, plants, ochre, land and water, all of which is needed, the Goolarabooloo say, "to sustain life both for humans and animals".
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