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Historic sulphur emissions the likely cause of damage to Murujuga rock art: new research

Murujuga is a sacred cultural landscape of land and sea Country across the Burrup Peninsula and Dampier Archipelago, in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

The Conversation · Aug 26

Rock art safeguards weakened despite gas hub's harms

The federal environment minister thinks the North West Shelf gas project is damaging ancient rock art, despite opting for weaker emissions restrictions.

AAP · Sep 30, 2025

WA government put ‘very rosy spin’ on report into Woodside emissions at Murujuga, scientist’s private email says

Report part of a project used in lobbying effort to dismiss UN concerns that industrial emissions were damaging 50,000-year-old ancient rock art

The Guardian - AU · Aug 19, 2025

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We were part of the world heritage listing of Murujuga. Here’s why all Australians should be proud

On Friday, the Murujuga Cultural Landscape in northwest Western Australia was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. We were in Paris to see Murujuga become Australia’s 21st world heritage property, but only our second property listed exclusively for its Indigenous cultural values.

The Conversation · Jul 16, 2025

Rock art heritage listing to attract eyes of the world

World Heritage listing for a massive collection of remote Indigenous rock engravings has been celebrated but industry pollution questions remain unresolved.

AAP · Jul 12, 2025

Fears heritage-listed rock art at risk from gas project

A vast collection of rock art has been recognised as a World Heritage site but advocates warn the engravings are under threat from industrial expansion.

AAP · Jul 11, 2025

‘Manifestation of creative genius’: Murujuga rock art in Western Australia placed on Unesco world heritage list

Aboriginal delegation ‘elated’ after 20-year effort to have the ‘genius’ inscribed despite threat of emissions from nearby gas facility

The Guardian - AU · Jul 11, 2025

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New bid for ancient rock art's World Heritage listing

Australia is making another push for ancient rock art sites to be placed on the World Heritage list after its application was sent back over pollution concerns.

AAP · Jul 9, 2025

Murray Watt ramps up lobbying efforts in last-minute push to get Murujuga rock art on world heritage list

Exclusive: Environment minister hosts ambassadors before Paris meeting, aiming to convince at least one member to move decisive amendment

The Guardian - AU · Jul 8, 2025

Murray Watt ‘personally lobbied’ Unesco over barring of WA rock art from world heritage list

Speaking to Guardian Australia, the environment minister said the report had been ‘clearly influenced’ by environment campaigners

The Guardian - AU · Jun 17, 2025

Reliable energy or ‘carbon bomb’? What’s at stake in the battle over Australia’s North West Shelf

Pollution damage to the ‘oldest outdoor art gallery on Earth’ is among the concerns as Woodside seeks to extend the life of a huge liquified natural gas project

The Guardian - AU · May 24, 2025

Call to block Woodside's $50b gas peninsula expansion

Prominent Australians have urged Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to save sacred sites they say are at risk from a new gas export hub in Western Australia.

AAP · Mar 26, 2024

Kim Beazley urges Tanya Plibersek to reject Woodside LNG plant extension

Former Labor leader joins other ex-ALP leaders, Indigenous elders and scientists in calling for protection of Indigenous rock art on WA’s Burrup peninsula

The Guardian - AU · Mar 26, 2024

Murujuga's rock art is being destroyed – where is the outrage?

Three rock art panels were this month removed from Murujuga/Burrup in Western Australia to make way for a new A$6.4 billion fertiliser factory.

The Conversation · May 16, 2023

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The Guardian - AU · May 3, 2023

WA police seized photos from home of journalist who took images of ancient rock art being removed

Eliza Kloser says she was stopped by police while photographing the art’s removal from Burrup peninsula and then had images seized from her Karratha home

The New Daily · Mar 2, 2023

Traditional owners take protest to Plibersek

Traditional custodians from the Burrup in WA have brought their fight to protect rock art to Sydney, protesting outside the environment minister's office.

ABC News · Feb 11, 2023

Burrup's World Heritage nomination 'inconsistent' with heavy industry, Carmen Lawrence says

The former WA premier says past governments made mistakes approving heavy industry near ancient Aboriginal rock carvings in the Pilbara.

Reuters · Feb 10, 2023

Australia nominates Murujuga landscape for World Heritage listing

Australia has formally nominated the Murujuga Indigenous cultural landscape for a UNESCO World Heritage listing, which could help protect more than a million ancient rock carvings, the government said on Friday.

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The Guardian - AU · Feb 10, 2023

Remote WA peninsula with rock art nominated for world heritage listing

Indigenous groups say decision to nominate Murujuga cultural area is ‘deeply hypocritical’ because of government support for industrial projects in the area

AAP · Feb 10, 2023

World heritage bid to 'protect' Murujuga rock art

Traditional custodians have renewed calls to pause development on the Burrup Peninsula while a formal world heritage listing nomination is progressed.

ABC News · Jan 19, 2023

Iconic Frederick McCubbin painting defaced in Woodside protest at Art Gallery of WA

The activists spray-painted over the protective coating on Frederick McCubbin's Down On His Luck in a protest against the "ongoing desecration of Murujuga rock art".

The Guardian - AU · Sep 24, 2022

Fears for Indigenous rock art as construction begins on WA’s Burrup peninsula

Ex-chair of Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation says hydrogen plant, gas facility and proposed urea plant are all threats to cultural sites

ABC News · Jun 30, 2022

EPA gives green light to extend life of Woodside's North West Shelf project to 2070

Western Australia's environmental regulator recommends approval to extend the life of the North West Shelf gas project by almost 50 years, subject to strict conditions, including that it achieves net zero emissions by 2050, to help preserve Indigenous rock art in the area.

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