On Wednesday 18 October, the Senate’s Standing Committee on Environment and Communications will release its report into the destructive impact of industrial emissions on the globally significant rock art of Murujuga/the Burrup Peninsula on the Dampier Archipelago in WA’s Pilbara ...
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Help save the Burrup Peninsula’s world famous rock art Support independent scientic research urgently needed to protect the art from permanent damage from industry Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula, known as Murujuga to local Indigenous people, has the largest known concentration ...
Read MoreExplosive new research findings will reveal the extent to which Murujuga rock art is being destroyed rapidly by industrial pollution. The Burrup Peninsula and Murujuga National Park holds the greatest known concentration of rock art in the world, with an ...
Read MoreWe are well and truly into NAIDOC week once more this year. The seven days aimed at celebrating the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee started on Sunday 2nd and will come to a close on the 9th. This ...
Read MoreThis year the Sydney Film Festival will include some First Nations movies, such as We don’t need a map (by Warwick Thornton) and In My Own Words (directed by Erica Glynn). Among the many documentaries, one is dedicated to the Pilbara. ...
Read MoreWe are extremely pleased to announce that FARA has won the Western Australian Heritage Award for Contribution by a Community-based Organisation. Winners were announced on Friday 26 May 2017. The Heritage Awards have been running for 25 years. They aim at recognising ...
Read MoreFARA has an image of a toxic cloud released recently by YARA during its commissioning phase. The released occurred earlier this month. We understand it might happen quarterly, as these releases of toxic material might occur with every start up ...
Read MoreAs our readers might be aware, Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) did not present any submissions nor testified at the Federal Senate inquiry in February this year. This Pilbara Aboriginal corporation is made up by five groups, the Ngarluma people, the Mardudhunera ...
Read MoreSince the 1960s the ancient petroglyphs of the Burrup peninsula / Dampier Archipelago, estimated now at 45,000 years old, have had to struggle against increasing industrial development. In a recent scientific paper published in the peer-reviewed international Journal of Archaeological ...
Read MoreThat is what has happened in Norway, where the Sami Parliament might have been instrumental in pushing KLP, the second largest pension fund, to divest from the controversial Dakota Access Pipe Line project in the USA. Vibeke Larsen, president of ...
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