#murujuga — Public Fediverse posts
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#Murujuga 50,000 year old & largest #rockart site in the world with 2 million #petroglyphs / rock engravings spread across the #Burrup Peninsula, part of the Dampier Archipelago in WA’s #Pilbara region. These include long-extinct megafauna, marine mammals and archaic faces - the oldest known depictions of the human face on earth.
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#Murujuga 50,000 year old & largest #rockart site in the world with 2 million #petroglyphs / rock engravings spread across the #Burrup Peninsula, part of the Dampier Archipelago in WA’s #Pilbara region. These include long-extinct megafauna, marine mammals and archaic faces - the oldest known depictions of the human face on earth.
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What climate pollution?
The UN to ensure Australian compliance with international law
The right to a healthy environment as mandated by international law"A UN special rapporteur has intervened in Australia's decision to extend Woodside's North West Shelf gas project by another 40 years. Australia did not adequately consider the climate impacts of extending its largest gas project, an independent United Nations expert has told the Federal Court."
"We are living a triple planetary crisis, not only climate change, but also biodiversity loss and toxic pollution...The project's emissions — the third-highest in Australia — were likely causing irreversible damage to the World Heritage site, Murujuga, home to some of the world's oldest known rock carvings."
"As recently as last month, Australia was one of 141 countries to endorse a landmark resolution by the International Court of Justice, which found that states had a legal imperative to consider climate in their environmental impact assessments." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-04/un-special-rapporteur-woodside-north-west-shelf/106724220
#FossilFuels #climate #GHG #EPBCAct #UN #IndigenousPeoples #oilandGas #HumanRights #RockArt #FARA #biodiversity #environment #pollution #harm #burrup #Murujuga #law #RuleOfLaw -
What climate pollution?
The UN to ensure Australian compliance with international law
The right to a healthy environment as mandated by international law"A UN special rapporteur has intervened in Australia's decision to extend Woodside's North West Shelf gas project by another 40 years. Australia did not adequately consider the climate impacts of extending its largest gas project, an independent United Nations expert has told the Federal Court."
"We are living a triple planetary crisis, not only climate change, but also biodiversity loss and toxic pollution...The project's emissions — the third-highest in Australia — were likely causing irreversible damage to the World Heritage site, Murujuga, home to some of the world's oldest known rock carvings."
"As recently as last month, Australia was one of 141 countries to endorse a landmark resolution by the International Court of Justice, which found that states had a legal imperative to consider climate in their environmental impact assessments." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-04/un-special-rapporteur-woodside-north-west-shelf/106724220
#FossilFuels #climate #GHG #EPBCAct #UN #IndigenousPeoples #oilandGas #HumanRights #RockArt #FARA #biodiversity #environment #pollution #harm #burrup #Murujuga #law #RuleOfLaw -
@gusseting @OneInterestingFact
Another “northern WA” injustice ongoing
#Capitalism #Murujuga aka #Burrup
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@gusseting @OneInterestingFact
Another “northern WA” injustice ongoing
#Capitalism #Murujuga aka #Burrup
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At Murujuga, stone tools rise to the surface not because people moved them, but because clay soils expand and shrink with water. New research shows how wetting and drying quietly reshape archaeological landscapes.#Archaeology #Geoarchaeology #Murujuga #HumanHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-ground-itself-rearranges
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At Murujuga, stone tools rise to the surface not because people moved them, but because clay soils expand and shrink with water. New research shows how wetting and drying quietly reshape archaeological landscapes.#Archaeology #Geoarchaeology #Murujuga #HumanHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/when-the-ground-itself-rearranges
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“What’s Sacred “2015
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/whats-sacred-now/6549614Megafauna Rock Art
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/burrup-peninsula-rock-art-shows-extinct-megafauna/6561788#Burrup #DeepTime #FirstNations #iceAge #illustration #MegaFauna #Murujuga #Petroglyphs
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“What’s Sacred “2015
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/whats-sacred-now/6549614Megafauna Rock Art
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/burrup-peninsula-rock-art-shows-extinct-megafauna/6561788#Burrup #DeepTime #FirstNations #iceAge #illustration #MegaFauna #Murujuga #Petroglyphs
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Murujuga Petroglyphs
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-25/deep-time-murujuga-rock-art-gallery/10479859850,ooo + years old Rock Art
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Murujuga Petroglyphs
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-25/deep-time-murujuga-rock-art-gallery/10479859850,ooo + years old Rock Art
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Plundering and polluting for profit (Business as usual) https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2025/09/woodside-vs-the-planet/extract
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Plundering and polluting for profit (Business as usual) https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2025/09/woodside-vs-the-planet/extract
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Top statistician breaks silence over Murujuga rock art study near Woodside gas plant
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/murujuga-rock-art-study-woodside-government-interference/105806508The rock art at Murujuga (the Burrup Peninsula, surrounding lands, and nearby islands) has immense cultural importance for Indigenous people. They've told us that, we should listen, and the Western Australian government should not be acting dismissively.
Speaking from the perspective of a non-indigenous person, I think we should all be capable of recognising Murujuga as unique in the whole world, beautiful and precious for artistic reasons, valuable for historical reasons, and important for environmental reasons. It's a connection with the land and with people (past and present) that we should appreciate, preserve, and regard with respect.
Murujuga has over two million petroglyphs, making it one of the largest, densest, and most diverse historical sites in the world. This art covers a timespan of more than 50,000 years, and is the work of many generations of traditional owners: the Yaburara, Ngarluma, Mardudhunera, Yindjibarndi, and Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo peoples.
I think it's good to see Professor Mullins and his team of scientists have added their voices to the voices of Indigenous people and say the region should be a no-go zone for mining companies. It's also shocking that the government of Western Australia is now misrepresenting the work of those scientists so they can give approval to mining companies to continue and expand their mining operations.
#Murujuga #BurrupPeninsula #AusPol #Indigenous #Art #IndigenousArt #Woodside
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Top statistician breaks silence over Murujuga rock art study near Woodside gas plant
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/murujuga-rock-art-study-woodside-government-interference/105806508The rock art at Murujuga (the Burrup Peninsula, surrounding lands, and nearby islands) has immense cultural importance for Indigenous people. They've told us that, we should listen, and the Western Australian government should not be acting dismissively.
Speaking from the perspective of a non-indigenous person, I think we should all be capable of recognising Murujuga as unique in the whole world, beautiful and precious for artistic reasons, valuable for historical reasons, and important for environmental reasons. It's a connection with the land and with people (past and present) that we should appreciate, preserve, and regard with respect.
Murujuga has over two million petroglyphs, making it one of the largest, densest, and most diverse historical sites in the world. This art covers a timespan of more than 50,000 years, and is the work of many generations of traditional owners: the Yaburara, Ngarluma, Mardudhunera, Yindjibarndi, and Wong-Goo-Tt-Oo peoples.
I think it's good to see Professor Mullins and his team of scientists have added their voices to the voices of Indigenous people and say the region should be a no-go zone for mining companies. It's also shocking that the government of Western Australia is now misrepresenting the work of those scientists so they can give approval to mining companies to continue and expand their mining operations.
#Murujuga #BurrupPeninsula #AusPol #Indigenous #Art #IndigenousArt #Woodside
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Murujuga petroglyphs - putting a "very rosy spin" on the scientific findings
"Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt was advised emissions from Woodside's Karratha Gas Plant may be having an adverse effect on the rock art, before he granted the company an extension to keep operating there for another 40 years."
"A top statistician says he quit a landmark study into whether heavy industry is damaging ancient rock art in Western Australia's north after the government misrepresented his team's key finding. Misstating the results of an expensive scientific investigation is unacceptable and I think that's what's happened."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/murujuga-rock-art-study-woodside-government-interference/105806508
#petroglyphs #Murujuga ##harm #degradation #RockArt #IndigenousPeoples #air #IndustrialPollution #pollution #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #Burrup #science #ScientificReview #governance #culture #values -
Murujuga petroglyphs - putting a "very rosy spin" on the scientific findings
"Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt was advised emissions from Woodside's Karratha Gas Plant may be having an adverse effect on the rock art, before he granted the company an extension to keep operating there for another 40 years."
"A top statistician says he quit a landmark study into whether heavy industry is damaging ancient rock art in Western Australia's north after the government misrepresented his team's key finding. Misstating the results of an expensive scientific investigation is unacceptable and I think that's what's happened."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/murujuga-rock-art-study-woodside-government-interference/105806508
#petroglyphs #Murujuga ##harm #degradation #RockArt #IndigenousPeoples #air #IndustrialPollution #pollution #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #Burrup #science #ScientificReview #governance #culture #values -
Australian environment law and ongoing degradation
"Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve.
"Australia’s law that is supposed to protect the environment and cultural heritage doesn’t work. There are few, if any, people who argue otherwise.
"The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, introduced by the Howard government in 1999, is misnamed. Its main role is to allow developments to be approved."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/australia-laws-to-protect-the-environment-dont-work-woodside-greenlight-proves-it
#EPBCAct #law #EPA #biodiversity #degradation #EnvironmentalLaw #CulturalHeritage #FossilFuels #pollution #climate #petroglyphs #Murujuga #governance #Australia #conservation #extractivism -
Australian environment law and ongoing degradation
"Approval of the North West Shelf extension shows the purpose of the EPBC Act is to allow developments, not to protect and preserve.
"Australia’s law that is supposed to protect the environment and cultural heritage doesn’t work. There are few, if any, people who argue otherwise.
"The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act, introduced by the Howard government in 1999, is misnamed. Its main role is to allow developments to be approved."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/01/australia-laws-to-protect-the-environment-dont-work-woodside-greenlight-proves-it
#EPBCAct #law #EPA #biodiversity #degradation #EnvironmentalLaw #CulturalHeritage #FossilFuels #pollution #climate #petroglyphs #Murujuga #governance #Australia #conservation #extractivism -
Stop selling out Australia and its priceless heritage to big greedy corporations who are killing the planet & us all. https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2025/07/16/woodside-gas-murujuga #StopWoodside #auspol #environment #Murujuga
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Stop selling out Australia and its priceless heritage to big greedy corporations who are killing the planet & us all. https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2025/07/16/woodside-gas-murujuga #StopWoodside #auspol #environment #Murujuga
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Underwater archeology (2025 ) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/indigenous-rangers-join-underwater-archeology-project-wa-burrup/105422454
Deep History of Sea Country (2020)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-02/aboriginal-underwater-site-discovered-off-burrup-peninsula/12391858Submerged landscape archaeology of land bridges and coastal-hinterland cultural exchange.
https://deephistoryofseacountry.com/‘Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia’
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233912#archeology #Burrup #FirstNations #Murujuga #Ngarluma #woodside #Yindjibarndi
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Underwater archeology (2025 ) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/indigenous-rangers-join-underwater-archeology-project-wa-burrup/105422454
Deep History of Sea Country (2020)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-02/aboriginal-underwater-site-discovered-off-burrup-peninsula/12391858Submerged landscape archaeology of land bridges and coastal-hinterland cultural exchange.
https://deephistoryofseacountry.com/‘Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia’
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0233912#archeology #Burrup #FirstNations #Murujuga #Ngarluma #woodside #Yindjibarndi
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@IndyMediaAus
#CorporateCapture of #Australia's governments is taking us to disasterous #ClimateChange.#StephenLong #Murujuga #Burrup #Woodside #WesternAustralia #MegONeil #TheFixIsIn #AusPol
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/like-a-version/angie-mcmahon-australian-crawl-reckless-cover-like-a-version/103437742 -
@IndyMediaAus
#CorporateCapture of #Australia's governments is taking us to disasterous #ClimateChange.#StephenLong #Murujuga #Burrup #Woodside #WesternAustralia #MegONeil #TheFixIsIn #AusPol
https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/like-a-version/angie-mcmahon-australian-crawl-reckless-cover-like-a-version/103437742 -
Murujuga, znane z najstarszych rzeźb skalnych świata, właśnie zdobyło status UNESCO! To uznanie dla australijskiego dziedzictwa kulturowego, choć cieniem kładą się kontrowersje związane z lokalnym przemysłem gazowym. Dla rdzennych społeczności to wygrana, ale czy wystarczająca? Jak możemy lepiej chronić te niezwykłe skarby przed zniszczeniem? Dzielmy się tym dziedzictwem, zanim zniknie na zawsze! 🌏🎨 #Murujuga #UNESCO #artnews
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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/murujuga-rock-art-australia-receives-unesco-world-heritage-status-1234747309/ -
Murujuga, znane z najstarszych rzeźb skalnych świata, właśnie zdobyło status UNESCO! To uznanie dla australijskiego dziedzictwa kulturowego, choć cieniem kładą się kontrowersje związane z lokalnym przemysłem gazowym. Dla rdzennych społeczności to wygrana, ale czy wystarczająca? Jak możemy lepiej chronić te niezwykłe skarby przed zniszczeniem? Dzielmy się tym dziedzictwem, zanim zniknie na zawsze! 🌏🎨 #Murujuga #UNESCO #artnews
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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/murujuga-rock-art-australia-receives-unesco-world-heritage-status-1234747309/ -
#Australia #pollution #UNESCO #Murujuga #archeology
"The environment minister, Murray Watt, hosted more than a dozen ambassadors from countries on the world heritage committee on Monday as he ramped up lobbying efforts to get the Murujuga rock art complex inscribed on the world heritage list.
UNESCO advisers recommended in May that the nomination be blocked and referred back to Australia until nearby 'degrading acidic emissions', including those from a Woodside gas plant, were stopped.
But the government has said that recommendation was based on 'factual inaccuracies' and says a major monitoring project shows current emissions at the Western Australian site are not eroding the rock art.
The Murujuga landscape contains more than a million pieces of rock art, some almost 50,000 years old."
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#Australia #pollution #UNESCO #Murujuga #archeology
"The environment minister, Murray Watt, hosted more than a dozen ambassadors from countries on the world heritage committee on Monday as he ramped up lobbying efforts to get the Murujuga rock art complex inscribed on the world heritage list.
UNESCO advisers recommended in May that the nomination be blocked and referred back to Australia until nearby 'degrading acidic emissions', including those from a Woodside gas plant, were stopped.
But the government has said that recommendation was based on 'factual inaccuracies' and says a major monitoring project shows current emissions at the Western Australian site are not eroding the rock art.
The Murujuga landscape contains more than a million pieces of rock art, some almost 50,000 years old."
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#Greens leader #LarissaWaters, says the #environment minister, #MurrayWatt, should rescind his provisional approval of #Woodside’s #NorthWestShelf extension to give the nearby ancient #Murujuga #rockart a better chance of gaining world heritage status.
“We want to see this global treasure listed as #worldheritage. What we don’t want is to see it destroyed by acidic emissions from Woodside.” #auspol
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Woodside plundering #fossilfuels and polluting for profit
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-06/unesco-world-heritage-murujuga-rock-art-meaning/105453930#Art #Burrup #Karatha #Marni #Murujuga #Petroglyphs #Woodside
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Woodside plundering #fossilfuels and polluting for profit
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-06/unesco-world-heritage-murujuga-rock-art-meaning/105453930#Art #Burrup #Karatha #Marni #Murujuga #Petroglyphs #Woodside
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#Albanese government minister personally lobbied UNESCO in favour of ignoring #Woodside's destruction of the #Murujuga rock art.
#MurrayWatts, Minister for the Environment.
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#Albanese government minister personally lobbied UNESCO in favour of ignoring #Woodside's destruction of the #Murujuga rock art.
#MurrayWatts, Minister for the Environment.
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Australian government has a tantrum after ignoring heritage and protection of indigenous sites as it supports the fossil fuel industry.
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This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.
Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.
/web/20250529055300/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/28/approval-of-woodside-lng-project-gambles-with-ancient-heritage-for-short-term-gain
#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2
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This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.
Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.
/web/20250529055300/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/28/approval-of-woodside-lng-project-gambles-with-ancient-heritage-for-short-term-gain
#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2
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Woodside’s WA gas export expansion emissions greater than all Australia’s coal power stations (May 2025)
- plundering ad polluting for profit, regardless of the human, social and environmental consequences.
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/woodsides-wa-gas-export-expansion-emissions-greater-than-all-australias-coal-power-stations/