This is the extraordinary tale of modern-day Murujuga, the world's most significant concentration of ancient rock art, and the letter from the minister that acknowledges the devastation about to be unleashed on this unique cultural site.
Anyone observing the approval process of the North West Shelf gas project (NWS) will know that we face two realities. One, my own, knows that extensive recent independent research has shown that pollution is causing serious damage to the rock art of Murujuga. Rock art that is made up of more than one million engravings, made over a longer period than at any other place in the world (seemingly over more than 50,000 years) and containing images of extinct animals and the oldest depictions of the human face. The place is so important that it was declared a U