Kalgoorlie | Association of Mining and Exploration Companies chief executive Warren Pearce warned the Albanese government not to wade into the Indigenous heritage space on the back of WA’s radical legislative reversal that has created an approvals minefield for explorers and farmers.

His comments come as one of Kalgoorlie’s Indigenous leaders revealed that he alerted the WA government to the pitfalls of controversial legislation that was formally scrapped on Tuesday last month.