West Australian Premier Roger Cook has hailed UNESCO’s decision to inscribe Murujuga and its prized rock art on the World Heritage List as proof that industry and protected cultural sites can co-exist, rejecting claims that a delegation lobbying for the removal of conditions on the Indigenous site’s inclusion was doing the gas industry’s bidding.
The cultural landscape on the Burrup Peninsula, 35 kilometres north of Karratha, home to the world’s largest collection of rock art engravings, was inscribed on the heritage list by UNESCO in France late on Friday.
