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The original owners of the Australian continent were a 60,000 year old human culture. The current owners are occupied by these industries. It is factually a h

The original owners of the Australian continent were a 60,000 year old human culture. The current owners are occupied by these industries. It is factually a human rights violation to destroy the cultural artefacts of other cultures. Remember when ISIS bombed the Buddhas of Bamyan? If China were to, say, demolish the opera house to get at the fish underneath, would you be so happy about it?

roenxi 6y ago
If someone is choosing between bombing people and blowing up the Buddhas of Bamyan you'd have to be a monster to say the Buddahs are more important. My advice to you if you argue this with anyone else is pick a different hill to make your stand. I'm not sure how this ended up being a discussion of the cultural heritage vs life or death matters as that was never a real issue here. Mines don't move very quickly, there would have been plenty of time for Rio to do the wrong thing and be critiqued between archaeologists being on the site and the shot being loaded. The difference between "shot is loaded therefore the caves are condemned" vs "shot is fired therefore caves are condemned" isn't important.
- fit2rule 6y ago
  I don't need your advice - you have demonstrated callous disregard for the cultural heritage of a group of people who have experienced nothing but callous disregard for centuries. Such authoritarian attitudes as you espouse here are counter-productive to a healthy society. Your much loved mining company KNEW that the cultural heritage site was there - they dug the holes and placed the explosives regardless. Then when they were confronted, they made up the bullshit excuse that the 'explosives are too dangerous to remove' - which is of course, utter bollocks. My advice to you: confront your covert racist attitude and start to understand the violence that is being enacted on a people who do not deserve it, plain and simple. Real Australians should be furious about this destruction of the country's very, very valuable heritage. More valuable than a few sticks of gelignite, anyway... >The difference between "shot is loaded therefore the caves are condemned" vs "shot is fired therefore caves are condemned" isn't important. Maybe its not important to those who wilfully display a callous disregard for more ancient cultures than their own, but for those of us who are paying attention to the cost to humanity of this kind of behaviour, it is very, very important that this never happens again.

roenxi 6y ago

If someone is choosing between bombing people and blowing up the Buddhas of Bamyan you'd have to be a monster to say the Buddahs are more important. My advice to you if you argue this with anyone else is pick a different hill to make your stand. I'm not sure how this ended up being a discussion of the cultural heritage vs life or death matters as that was never a real issue here. Mines don't move very quickly, there would have been plenty of time for Rio to do the wrong thing and be critiqued between archaeologists being on the site and the shot being loaded. The difference between "shot is loaded therefore the caves are condemned" vs "shot is fired therefore caves are condemned" isn't important.

fit2rule 6y ago
I don't need your advice - you have demonstrated callous disregard for the cultural heritage of a group of people who have experienced nothing but callous disregard for centuries. Such authoritarian attitudes as you espouse here are counter-productive to a healthy society. Your much loved mining company KNEW that the cultural heritage site was there - they dug the holes and placed the explosives regardless. Then when they were confronted, they made up the bullshit excuse that the 'explosives are too dangerous to remove' - which is of course, utter bollocks. My advice to you: confront your covert racist attitude and start to understand the violence that is being enacted on a people who do not deserve it, plain and simple. Real Australians should be furious about this destruction of the country's very, very valuable heritage. More valuable than a few sticks of gelignite, anyway... >The difference between "shot is loaded therefore the caves are condemned" vs "shot is fired therefore caves are condemned" isn't important. Maybe its not important to those who wilfully display a callous disregard for more ancient cultures than their own, but for those of us who are paying attention to the cost to humanity of this kind of behaviour, it is very, very important that this never happens again.