ANALYSIS: The destruction of two rock shelters in WA reveals a disturbing lack of appreciation for our heritage
What historical artefacts do we value in this country? Or is everything just rubble to be bulldozed and forgotten, blown up and shipped overseas as dust?A few weeks ago, a convict-era pub in Sydney — the Royal Oak Hotel, in the suburb of Parramatta — began to be demolished to make way for a light rail.
But after 180-odd years, and despite the NSW Office of Environment & Heritage acknowledging the Royal Oak Hotel was "relatively rare in its age", the pub has been razed.Mining giant Rio Tinto has destroyed something so ancient in WA it's hard to fathom with a human brain. Rio Tinto, operating legally under a law written in the early 1970s, detonated the shelters to extend its Brockman 4 iron ore mine.
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