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'Need to heal': Parks Australia admits sacred damage

Judge Elizabeth Morris heard from traditional owner Joshua Hunter at the Gunlom Falls. ((A)manda Parkinson/AAP PHOTOS)

On a scorching day, in front of a pristine waterhole, Parks Australia has accepted it was criminally liable for building a walkway over sacred rock art along Gunlom Falls in Kakadu National Park. 

Parks Australia on Tuesday pleaded guilty to criminal liability after damaging a men's sacred site under the NT Sacred Site Act after building a walkway over the sacred rock art in 2019.

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