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Environment
Poppy Johnston and Farid Farid

Indigenous, climate advocates put heat on Woodside

Traditional custodians want a court to force government to consider their heritage application. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

A bid to compel the government to consider a heritage application to protect Indigenous rock art is going to court as three environmental activists declare they "successfully hoaxed" Woodside.

The preliminary hearing follows Environment Minister Murray Watt's interim approval of Woodside's North West Shelf extension until 2070, a controversial gas project in Western Australia.

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