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BREAKING: The ABC have decided to surrender Four Corners footage to WA police in a move that betrays their sources from the Disrupt Burrup Hub campaign, breaching basic media ethics and jeopardising public interest journalism by degrading trust in the ABC.
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Frederick McCubbin “Down On His Luck” / spray paint
In January 2023, this 1889 painting was vandalized while on view at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) in Perth, Australia.
Joana Partyka, a local ceramic artist and illustrator, sprayed a yellow Woodside logo stencil onto the center of the canvas before gluing her hand to the wall of the gallery. A Ballardong Noongar man named Desmond Blurton then unfolded an Aboriginal flag on the floor of the gallery before making a short speech, saying, “We must protect our artwork and our cultural heritage… this painting is barely 100 years old. Woodside is destroying 50,000 years of our culture.”
The act was in protest of the Woodside company’s ongoing fossil fuel project at the Burrup Hub, which Partyka cited as defiling sacred Murujuga rock art. “Woodside like to slap their logo on everything while they spray their toxic emissions all over sacred rock art,” she said. “[They are] destroying the oldest, largest rock art gallery in the world...They are also destroying our climate and our world.”
The painting itself was displayed behind a clear sheet of perspex and was apparently not damaged in the incident. Partyka was arrested at the scene; Blurton left the gallery at the request of security guards before the police arrived.
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Iconic Frederick McCubbin painting defaced in Woodside protest at Art Gallery of WA
A 37-year-old woman is in police custody after she allegedly spray-painted over an iconic Australian painting by Frederick McCubbin in a protest against Woodside Energy's $16.5 billion gas project in the Burrup Peninsula.
The woman, wearing a T-shirt with the slogan 'Disrupt Burrup Hub' allegedly spray-painted a stencil of the Woodside Energy symbol over the 1889 painting Down On His Luck at the Art Gallery of WA.
The work is considered one of the gallery's most important paintings.
The Art Gallery of WA said in a statement the painting was protected by an acrylic covering and would not be damaged by the paint.
Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-19/activists-mccubbin-painting-woodside-burrup-rock-art-perth/101873388
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Today I witnessed the Galup VR experience at Boola Bardip. I felt it was important to get educated on local boodja, especially during NAIDOC Week. I would strongly recommend the film as an important, beautiful, and heart-breaking truth-telling meeting. It's free until the 17th of July. 🌱🌞🌱 The irony was that I noticed Woodside's name emblazoned on the side of the building when Woodside is currently building the Burrup Hub, Australia's most polluting fossil fuel project on unceded land that will endanger the sacred Murujuga rock art. Can we please stop giving Woodside social licence? @wamuseum @xrwawesternsuburbs @xrebellionwa should know about this. #naidocweek #woodside https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfvak2YvYrL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Deep History, lore, Pilbara landscape lost to mining.
In the Pilbara region on the edge of the Australian land mass, the Wintawari Guruma people protect the Weelamurra site. Weelamurra contains ancient Aboriginal petroglyphs, where some human habitation at rock shelters can be apparently be dated to over 50000 years old, and possibly about 60000 years old. These Aboriginal rock shelters appear to have been inhabited 45000 years before the end of the last “Ice Age” or the construction of Gobekli Tepe. Other ancient rock shelters at Weelamurra contain artwork, animal iconography, and geometric designs which are sacred to Guruma people and which appear to invoke creation stories.
The Weelamurra site, protected for over 50000 years, is leased to major resource extraction corporation Fortescue. The company has requested permission from the government of Western Australia to destroy these rock shelters to build mines.
In the Pilbara region alone, not considering the rest of Western Australia, there are at least 13300 formally-documented and distinct Aboriginal and ancient cultural sites on land leased to Rio Tinto for mining. (And this doesn’t take into account the thousands of other ancient cultural sites leased to other major mining corporations. The BHP company, for example, “owns” over 8000 ancient Aboriginal sites in the Pilbara.) The Eastern Gurumi report that they’ve lost more than 400 ancient heritage sites between 2010 and 2020. Kathryn Przywolnik, heritage manager for the Wintawari Guruma: “Everybody, every group, has stories about places that were culturally very valuable that are now inaccessible, or gone, or diminished, or perched on the edge of a mining site.” Included in a report by The Guardian from August 2020, a Martidja Banyjima senior elder suggested that it was important to record Banjima resistance to the expansion of mines “so they know we didn’t just sign off on this stuff and forget about it, we put up a fight about these places, about our lore and culture. We need people to know that.”
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In recent years, Western Australia has issued hundreds of leases to major mining corporations, and the issuing of leases is accelerating, allowing permission to blast, destroy, and remake hundreds of ancient cultural heritage sites. The Guardian reported in 2020 that there are 536 formally-documented cultural heritage sites located within the Paraburdoo iron ore extraction hub, also stating: “Permanent waterholes, which are sacred to the Yinhawangka and rare in the Pilbara, make up 7% of the sites.” Yirra is an unprotected Yinhawangka site in the region with evidence of Aboriginal occupation at least 23000 years old. The Guardian also reports that Yirra is less than 75 meters away from a 110-meter-high major roadway installation that Rio Tinto uses to truck iron ore from the mining pit.
In the same report, Indigenous scholar Marcia Langton said that public attention is all that keeps mining corporations from destroying more ancient sites. “Australians need to understand that the mining industry is making a play for raw power to destroy our heritage, Australian heritage, and world heritage – for a few dollars. [...] The companies ... are just biding their time and waiting for public attention to move to something else, and they will go ahead and destroy hundreds of sites -- amongst them sites as important as Juukan Gorge.”
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The Burrup Peninsula. In Ngayarda language of the Jaburara, the site is “Murujuga.” Home to an estimated 2 million Aboriginal petroglyphs, some of the rock art estimated to be 47000 to 50000 years old. It’s in the Pilbara region along the Indian Ocean coast of the state of “Western Australia.” peninsula is only about 115 square kilometers in size. The peninsula and nearby shoreline is also home Karratha Gas Plant; Yara Pilbara fertilizer plant; the largest mercury treatment plant in Australia; Yara Pilbara and Orica ammonium nitrates and explosives plants; a Rio Tinto iron ore terminal; a Rio Tinto salt production site; what used to be the largest offshore gas production platform in the world; the Pluto LNG plant processing gas from underwater offshore Xena gas fields; the Ichthys liquefied natural gas pipeline, located offshore, is the longest subsea pipeline in the Southern Hemisphere. [More on the significance and loss of Murujuga’s art and landscapes.]
Underwater sites of ancient Aboriginal cultural heritage are not automatically legally protected in Australia. During the Pleistocene and early Holocene, when sea levels were lower, Aboriginal communities in the Pilbara region lived on the continental shelf, along the coast of the Indian Ocean, on land now submerged beneath the sea.
In July 2020, news broke that many Aboriginal tools, at least 7000 to 8500 years old, had been documented from underwater sites just offshore of Murujuga. This research was published by the Deep History in Sea Country project team. And this site is less than 5 kilometers (3-ish miles) from where Australia’s largest gas producer, Woodside Petroluem, plans to build an $11 billion underwater fossil fuel pipeline known as the Scarborough project pending a final investment decision to be announced in 2021. Woodside is not legally compelled to take Aboriginal cultural heritage into consideration when constructing marine pipelines.
The Murujuga Aboriginal Corps (MAC) represents Indigenous land caretakers in the region. One of the leaders of MAC, Peter Jeffries, had this to say about the documentation of the submerged tools at Murujuga:
“At the moment, a 75-year-old shipwreck is automatically protected on discovery, but 8000-year-old evidence of Indigenous cultural heritage is not. This could allow a tragic destruction of important heritage, similar to the Juukan Gorge situation.”
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On 24 May 2020, to build the “Brockman 4″ iron ore mine, major leading international mining corporation Rio Tinto used explosives to destroy Aboriginal rock shelters at Juukan Gorge, which is also in the Pilbara region, relatively close to Murujuga. These now-destroyed Aboriginal sites contained artwork over 45000 years old. This news reached international headlines in 2020. And then, in the first week of September 2020, news also broke that Rio Tinto was not only aware of the significance of the Juukan Gorge site, but, several days before detonating the explosives, upper-level Rio Tinto managers hired lawyers in anticipation of a potential legal injunction launched by traditional caretakers of the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people. In response to these recent destructions, Western Australia’s minister for Aboriginal affairs has said that the state will not reconsider or reevaluate the impact on ancient cultural sites for the leases which it has already issued to mining corporations.
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The Banjima people care for land near Guruma communities. In August 2020, The Guardian reported that, to expand its South Flank iron ore mine, major resource extraction corporation BHP has received approval to destroy between 40 and 86 of the cultural heritage sites on Banjima land. Senior Martidja Banyjima elder Maitland Parker: “The cumulative destruction of our country is something which sits uneasily with our people.”
An archaeologist specializing in Western Australia Aboriginal rock art, speaking in 2013 about the 50000-year-old Murujuga petroglyphs on the Burrup Peninsula: “This is the longest, deepest, [most] continuous narrative of human production, belief systems, and culture in the world.”
One Martidja Banyjima senior elder said that this iron ore mine will “hurt us Banjima people very bad. We can’t change the lore, the songs or the country, because they were given to us by the old people, but the mining companies can take the country away and make it changed forever.“
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Join me in supporting the Reject the Burrup Gas Hub Campaign https://lockthegate.good.do/rejecttheburrupgashub/emailwagov/?v=8f555165
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"The former foreign affairs minister and former NSW premier put it plainly after the US secretary of state indicated there was no hope of the US dropping the charges against Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remains in a UK prison."
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Sharing this again as one of the biggest Fossil Fuel battles going on right now in Australia with the biggest push-back from corporate, political and policing levels against activists seeking to disrupt Burrup Hub. It's made international news but the climate wreckers and their badge wielding thugs are doing everything in their power to shut down the outrage and fight against them so we can't give up now.
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I doubt a whole lot of people will see this but I have to try so:
Basically police in Western Australia are trying to paint protesters as terrorists (surprise surprise; interesting how that word gets flung around so much by the actual perpetrators in situations, isn't it) because they refuse to hand over the information of all the other protesters who have been trying to disrupt Burrup Hub, one of the biggest sources of fossil fuel extraction and pollution in Australia.
They need to keep raising money to fight the ever mounting charges being thrown at climate activists in an attempt to discredit and cow them into standing aside and letting corporations destroy our country, take land from our First Nations People, and make our entire planet increasingly uninhabitable.
Please donate if you can or boost if you can't. We have to increase our pressure because the corporations and their badge-wielding thugs are certainly increasing theirs in an attempt to retain power and the status quo.
#climate change#climate crisis#climate activism#climate action#climate emergency#climate and environmentalism#human rights#police bullshit
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Last year, 6 activists were arrested for writing chalk messages outside Woodside raising awareness about the Burrup Hub, soon to be Australia's most polluting fossil fuel project, endangering sacred rock art. So me and my fellow pirate busker went out to set the record straight... 🌏🌿💛 @xrwawesternsuburbs @xrebellionwa @xrebellionaus @xrwagrandparents @xrwa_youth @350perth #stopscarboroughgas #noneedforscarboroughgas #noplanetb #ipcc #ipccreport #theyoutharerising #spraychalk6 #shares #shareholders #woodside #burruphub #streetheatre #amatuerdramatics #busker #activism https://www.instagram.com/p/CcCLNubPSbt/?utm_medium=tumblr
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6 people were arrested and homes raided for writing anti-fossil fuel slogans in chalk outside Woodside a few weeks ago. @xrebellionwa 's response was to go back there and chalk more slogans 😂 The Scarborough gas project (Burrup Hub) will emit 1.6 billion tonnes of CO2 in its lifetime - and the project is being pursued weeks after the IPCC report said more fossil fuel developments will cause untold environmental damage. Can't believe they're still pursuing this project. At least the Drummers for Climate Action bought the beats 😂😂 #actnow #ActNow #scarboroughgas #stopscarboroughgas #noplanetb #perth @xrwawesternsuburbs https://www.instagram.com/p/CTYsoAcBywt/?utm_medium=tumblr
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