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Survey of Aboriginal sites must be a priority
Ed Gilmore stated in the Illawarra Mercury that as far as the Killalea Park Trust is concerned, there is "hardly anything there" in the park when it comes to Aboriginal heritage.
According to the Shellharbour council's own website, www.shellharbour.nsw.gov.au/default.aspx?WebPage=157 there are 94 significant Aboriginal sites within Shellharbour, and Bass Point in particular was a focus of activity, as the 17,000-year-old midden threatened by the Shell Cove development indicated.
The site says only 10.4 per cent of the council area has been comprehensively surveyed and the coastlines south of Bass Point to Minnamurra are yet to be fully surveyed.
Surely one job the Killalea trust should do urgently is to do that survey and not cover potential sites with housing, relying on a tourist blundering around the headland to make a significant find, or grant the power to destroy Aboriginal artefacts to the developer!
Mark Whalan, Kiama.
Illawarra Mercury - 23 June 2007
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