Juukan Gorge traditional owners show destruction from Rio Tinto blast of Aboriginal site — Transcript

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1. 0:00we're standing in front of the gorge
2. 0:02cave
3. 0:03that is being dated back to 46 000 years
4. 0:05old
5. 0:06um these caves has just recently been
6. 0:08destroyed by rio tinto
7. 0:11this is one of the caves that you can
8. 0:12see visually
9. 0:14this is a jugaan one cave further to the
10. 0:18left
11. 0:18is the jugaan ii cave is completely
12. 0:21covered by the
13. 0:22gravels in that after the detonations
14. 0:27this kb named after my old grandfather
15. 0:33yeah you got a bulgaria there this one
16. 0:36we try to preserve for our old people
17. 0:38and our younger ones what they done is
18. 0:41wrong
19. 0:42they took a lot of heritage away
20. 0:46we've done a hard work over years
21. 0:50nearly six years more
22. 0:54what they've done here they took
23. 0:55everything away from the people
24. 0:57no good hurt people this destroying of
25. 1:01people's country heritage
26. 1:04i just don't know how to really explain
27. 1:08how i feel because we've lost a hell of
28. 1:11a lot of connection
29. 1:13to this area very heartbreaking i can
30. 1:16say that
31. 1:18when we used to come out on country
32. 1:20surveying and all that
33. 1:21we were so proud to come out to walk on
34. 1:24our country
35. 1:25and and just feel so happy being out
36. 1:27here
37. 1:29but i've come back today and i don't
38. 1:32feel like i did back then when i got
39. 1:36there this morning
40. 1:38like coming out in the buses well i just
41. 1:40couldn't believe what i was seeing
42. 1:43i didn't realize how much
43. 1:46our country's being destroyed
44. 1:50i bring my boys
45. 1:53two sons show them their
46. 1:57great-grandfather's country their
47. 1:58grandfather's country
48. 2:01you feel happy bringing them
49. 2:04now all we got is a mess
50. 2:07well the first time i came here it was
51. 2:09natural
52. 2:10untouched green prestige
53. 2:14now i come in here it's it's like
54. 2:16looking at a dump
55. 2:19the feeling is like it's not that
56. 2:21feeling that i had before
57. 2:22is it's very upsetting a lot of
58. 2:24spiritual had been living here for many
59. 2:26many years
60. 2:27i mean now it's been disturbed where
61. 2:29they're going to go
62. 2:30you know this is a lot to us
63. 2:35people have had connection to this area
64. 2:38way beyond 46 000 years
65. 2:42and then rio goes and destroy it they
66. 2:45say
67. 2:45they didn't know about all that they
68. 2:48knew
69. 2:50they knew
70. 2:54with what has happened and this is
71. 2:58how i feel i would never ever trust rio
72. 3:00again
73. 3:02never we did at the mutual trust before
74. 3:05yes um we had a good engagement with the
75. 3:08rio tinto
76. 3:10right up until we made it to may 2020
77. 3:13until we heard that our pressure site
78. 3:15dugan has been destroyed
79. 3:19five years now we've come back to the
80. 3:22very same place
81. 3:23and seen a place like this is quite
82. 3:25disturbing
83. 3:28a heritage law need to change that's the
84. 3:31main one
85. 3:35country blonde with people and it's
86. 3:37getting destroyed
87. 3:39law grounds everything burial sites
88. 3:43everything don't let this happen
89. 3:47never let this happen
90. 3:51don't trust the people you put the trust
91. 3:52to
92. 3:59make them work hard for the trust
93. 4:01[Music]
94. 4:04otherwise you'd finish up legacy
95. 4:18[Music]
96. 4:28[Music]
97. 4:50you