![]() ![]() Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Information on listed products and services, including Covid-safe accreditations, are provided by the third-party operator on their website or as published on Australian Tourism Data Warehouse where applicable. In a meeting with Matthew Groom and Hodgman on Thursday, Mansell urged them to “dust off Ray Groom’s report, and go back to what was a very respectful, consultative process”.*Product Disclaimer: Tourism Australia is not the owner, operator, advertiser or promoter of the listed products and services. An attempt, with many changes considered unacceptable by the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, was put in the form of the Aboriginal Heritage Protection bill 2012, but that stalled in the upper house in 2013. However, the changes proposed by Ray Groom, after what the Aboriginal community still holds up as a how-to guide for cultural consultation, were never enacted. The heritage minister, Matthew Groom, has been tasked with consulting with the Aboriginal community to address the “deficiencies” in the legislation, a task his father, Ray Groom, also undertook while premier in 1995. Hodgman said the penalty for damaging the site was six months’ jail, or a $1,500 fine, but acknowledged the Relics Act was “outdated and inadequate”. “Aboriginal heritage is a living cultural experience and it includes songlines, it includes stories.” “The Aboriginal Relics Act is all about the 1876 belief that Aboriginal culture should be the way that it was … we are not talking about sticks and stones here, but that’s that’s the way it’s worded,” he said. Mansell said protections offered under the state’s Aboriginal heritage legislation, the archaically named Aboriginal Relics Act 1975, were woefully insufficient. ![]() “Individuals know that there are few penalties if they go out and destroy our heritage,” he said in a statement. Adam Thompson, heritage officer for the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, said the neglect of Aboriginal heritage by successive governments had “encouraged some elements of the Tasmanian community to think that they can wreak this type of senseless damage with immunity”. Kutalayna, the meeting place, was buried in the Brighton Bypass, which was approved by Labor and opened in 2012. The tracks were closed in 2012 to protect fragile middens (refuse pits) and in February the federal court ruled the area held “outstanding heritage value to the nation.” The damage to the hand stencil comes as the Hodgman government is appealing a federal court decision against the reopening of four-wheel drive tracks on the west coast. “It’s difficult to imagine what could motivate someone to undertake such a senseless act, but that will hopefully come to light following a police investigation,” he said. The Tasmanian premier, Will Hodgman, who is also the Aboriginal affairs minister, said the damage was “a shameful act which I utterly condemn”. Mansell said it was “devastating” to have the site destroyed “by none other than cultural vandals”. If we can’t protect that hand stencil, then we can’t keep it in our interpretation for generations to come.” ![]() “It’s not just a hand stencil, it’s the story that goes with the hand stencils that turns it into a sacred site. “It means that the elders have ground up the ochre, ground it with kangaroo blood, to blow out of their mouth over their hands to leave the outline. ![]()
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