Page 3731 - Week 10 - Thursday, 19 September 2019
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This work aligns with the Directorate’s Strategic Plan for 2018 - 21 and the Reconciliation Action Plan – Keeping it Alive providing information to specific schools to support the development of cultural understanding.
Trees—scar
(Question No 2680)
Ms Le Couteur asked the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, upon notice, on 23 August 2019:
Which Representative Aboriginal Organisations (RAOs) were consulted, and when, in relation to the removal of heritage-listed scarred trees MSYB1 (Spook tree) and MST4 and in response to Select Committee on Estimates 2019-2020 Recommendation Number 134, where the Government stated “Consultation with (RAOs) has occurred since ACT Heritage was notified about the removal of the scarred trees. The salvaged tree trunk from MST4 has been moved to a secure location with the consent of the RAOs”.
Mr Gentleman: The answer to the member’s question is as follows:
Under Section 14 of the Heritage Act 2004, four Representative Aboriginal Organisations (RAOs) have been declared, being:
• Buru Ngunawal Aboriginal Corporation (Ngunawal);
• Consultative Body Aboriginal Corporation on Indigenous Land and Artefacts in the Ngunnawal Area (now King Brown Tribal Group) (Ngunnawal);
• Little Gudgenby River Tribal Council (now Mirrabee) (Ngambri); and
• Ngarigu Currawong Clan (Ngarigu).
All four RAOs were notified about removal of the ‘Spook Tree’ (MSYB1) and MST4, and their views on the ongoing management of MST4 have been sought.
ACT Heritage was notified of the removal of the Spook Tree on 6 April 2017. Attempts to contact all RAOs were subsequently made on 7 April and 13 April 2017. As a result, the matter was discussed with Buru Ngunawal Aboriginal Corporation on 7 April 2017, and with King Brown Tribal Group, Mirrabee and Ngarigu Currawong Clan on 13 April 2017.
ACT Heritage was notified of the removal of MST4 on 24 July 2018. Attempts to contact all four RAOs were subsequently made on 30 and 31 July 2018. As a result, the matter was discussed with Buru Ngunawal Aboriginal Corporation on 30 July 2018.
To inform the continued management of MST4, attempts to contact all four RAOs were also made on 9, 10, 16, 17, 25 and 29 October 2018, and on 2, 5, 6 and 24 November 2018. As a result, the matter was discussed with Buru Ngunawal Aboriginal Corporation (on 2, 5 and 24 November 2018) and King Brown Tribal Group (on 24 November 2018).
Consultation with all four RAOs on the continued management of MST4 is ongoing.
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