#australian gold

[faunandfloraas]

Countdown to Seungmin's Birthday

↘ D-7: His best (cute) friend, Felix.

[uponthebarricade]

ok but what's even the point of the olympics being in paris if we don't get some les mis olympics au fics out of it. ignore all prior commitments let's get those pens to paper stat.

[gemville]

Australian Opal and 18k Gold Spectrum Earrings by Rachel Jones Jewelry

Photo Courtesy: Rachel Jones Jewelry

Source: jckonline.com

[post-futurism]

Australia NEEDS to be paying attention to this. In essence the Liberal party is going to use the tears of a massive gold mining company not being able to get their way with destroying a significant Aboriginal area to stir up racist and classist aligned votes under a new Liberal Party banner somehow claiming that the party is speaking for the working class.

ICYMI McPhillamy's Gold Mine has gone through the planning process and received development approval for their site near Blayney, NSW, on Wiradjuri land. The mine would be facilitated by the construction of a tailings dam on the Belubula River around which are identified Aboriginal archaeology. Because the dam would have required the destruction of these objects, the planning process included consultation with Registered Aboriginal Parties (RAPs), including the Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council (Orange LALC), and Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation (WTOCWAC).

Despite having planning approval, Tanya Plibersek, Labor's Environmental Minister, made a rare approval of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protection Act Section 10 application which enables the protection of an area provided that the minister can be satisfied that the land is a significant Aboriginal area and is under threat of injury or desecration. This Act is separate to the planning process and is available to Aboriginal people to use where they consider that the planning system has failed to protect cultural sites.

This is exactly what the WTOCWAC did. During the assessment process, the WTOCWAC gave advice to the Orange LALC who were the identified Aboriginal persons to comment on the project in Blayney (because Blayney does not have a LALC). It originally did not support the proposal, the same as the WTOCWAC, however, the Orange LALC changed its final position to neutral. Despite the WTOCWAC being a registered RAP that had written it did not support the proposal, the planning system favours LALCs over traditional custodians who are not part of LALCs and therefore the state government was able to ignore the WTOCWAC's opposition and approve the development anyway.

The area where the tailings dam would be constructed is part of a significant Wiradyuri cultural story that is, at this time, only known to cultural knowledge holders, the Orange LALC and Tanya Plibersek. The cultural significance was clearly enough to 'satisfy' Plibersek that the identified area should be protected under Section 10.

The day that the section 10 application approval was announced was just two days after the 200th anniversary of the Bathurst Wars on August 14 1824, the day on which Governor Brisbane issued a proclamation of martial law which gave rise to a war against Wiradjuri people and colonisers. The war was indiscriminately a war of extermination, with Wiradjuri people fighting back but ultimately forcing to surrender after their population was significantly annihilated and the survivors having dispersed. 200 years later, the elders in the WTOCWAC are some of the many Wiradyuri survivors of the Bathurst Wars. It was during a week long of commemorating and conserving culture that the immensely great news of the Section 10 approval came through.

However, since the announcement, the WTOCWAC group have faced significant backlash from the mining sector and communities at large. In addition, the media has focused on the tears of the McPhillamy gold mine company not being able to get it exactly their way even though their shares have increased by about 16%.

Here are multiple articles weighted toward the mining sector's tears.

I have only seen one (1) mainstream article that actually gives an indigenous voice to the backlash they've been getting for daring to use the coloniser's laws to protect their cultural heritage.

Make a donation to the WTOWAC here. (They are a registered charity and your donation is tax deductible)

Wait, wasn't this post meant to be about the Liberal Party?

Yeah, so remember when The Voice referendum was going up and Peter Dutton said that he would give The Voice another go if it failed, and then when it DID fail, he said he would never give it a shot again? Did you also read the first linked article and read this horrific quote:

“This is not the Australian Labor party of the worker,” Dutton told the Minerals Council’s annual conference this week. “Its members are committed to waging environmental and social crusades, especially against certain industries.” .... The Coalition has carefully analysed the different reasons people had for voting no in last year’s defeated referendum on enshrining an Indigenous voice to parliament in the constitution, and especially those self-identified Labor voters who call themselves working people. Dutton wants to turn that opposition to the voice into disillusionment with the government, and ultimately, votes for the Coalition at the federal election. He reckons the McPhillamys decision helps him do it.

The interests of the mining sector, racism and anti-aboriginal rhetoric goes hand in hand with Peter Dutton's platform. Not only will we never see another attempt at The Voice under a federal Liberal Party, we COULD see an abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protection Act, the mechanism that has protected the waters of the Belubula River from being destroyed by the McPhillamy gold mine. The mining sector has been so shaken up by this 'sudden' and 'unprecedented' decision, and with them lining Dutton's pockets it's not unreasonable to predict that abolishing the act could be one of the first things Dutton does if elected.

This would be absolutely devastating for current and any future Aboriginal sites that need to be protected where the planning system has failed to protect them. And this is going to continue to be the case until the planning system can better identify and protect intangible cultural heritage.

We need to stand up for Aboriginal rights, we need to stand up for the protection of Aboriginal cultural heritage, we need to ensure there are pathways for the protection of culture and we need to believe traditional custodians when they walk their truth.

[felinefractious]

🐱 Australian Mist

📸 Nakari Australian Mists

🎨 Gold Marbled Sepia [Coat Colour Genetics]

[trippingthemoonlightfantastic]

Wandering

Watercolor and Glitter On Black Cotton Paper

2023, 22" x 30"

Mimosa, Wattle, Acacia retinodes

[estebunny]

pierre gasly and esteban ocon at australian gp team radio quiz

via australian gp youtube channel

[world-of-celebs]

Margot Robbie attends the 2024 AACTA Awards Presented by Foxtel Group at HOTA (Home of the Arts) on February 10, 2024 in the Gold Coast, Australia. 

[statelibraryqueensland]

Neon sign for the Pink Poodle Motel, Gold Coast, 1973

27302 John Gollings Gold Coast Photographs, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland. Image number 27302-0001-0023.

(view the collection here: LINK)

[hozukitofu]

If I have a gold coin every time a gay Italian man is called Niccolo, I'd have two. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice now

I've reached the conclusion that every Nico is an undisclosed Niccolo until otherwise disproved bring 'em all to me

The photo is my exact and accurate reaction to hearing Nico's full government name in The Sun and the Moon

[my-outfitisamasterpiece]

Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky at the Met Gala in NY 24'

[gemville]

Night Sky Opal Earrings by Meredith Young

Australian Boulder Opals, Sapphires, Garnets, Spinels, 18k Yellow Gold

Photo Courtesy: Meredith Young

Source: jckonline.com

[aussie-wbb]

[felinefractious]

Thera Blonde Odette [Pedigree]

🐱 Australian Mist

📸 Dreamtime Australian Mists

🎨 Gold Spotted Sepia [Coat Colour Genetics]