Choose a different future

Imagine the oldest and largest art gallery in the world. A collection of a million rock carvings just off the North-West Shelf of Australia - some six times the age of the Pyramids, including images of the now-extinct Tasmanian Tiger and perhaps the world’s earliest engravings of a human face.

For decades this site has slowly been pulled apart and destroyed, due to ill-placed industrial development that could have occurred on flat, unmarked land further down the coast. Already 10,000 carvings have been lost.

With your voice demanding the win-win solution, we've finally cracked open a debate constrained to government and industry boardrooms. The Federal Environment Minister has announced a heritage listing that covers most of the Burrup Peninsula and the Dampier Islands.

Yet even as you read this, Woodside Petroleum is bulldozing priceless rock carvings in a small area excluded from the listing. This is for a new gas plant that could have been re-negotiated to already destroyed land only 500m away from the current site - a wasted opportunity by Minister Turnbull.

GetUp presented your 42,000 messages at Woodside's AGM, calling for a more sensible location to mine the offshore gas. WATCH THE VIDEO HERE!

The heritage listing could have been THE opportunity to ensure safe, respectful visitation for the broader community and world-class scientific study, in close consultation with local custodian groups and local community.

Speak up now and we will take your message to the international and national corporate and government parties affecting the future of this unique site. Call for an ongoing solution that puts industry profits back into protecting the little that remains of our Indigenous heritage for future Australian generations.

Sign the petition today:

"I support an inclusive management plan for the Dampier Precinct that heritage-lists all of the remaining rock carvings, and balances the aim of future economic development with the duty to care for cultural treasures, that once destroyed, can never be replaced.

Please move all future industry to any one of the other suitable, nearby sites, as called for by a diverse range of leaders from business, science, conservation, Indigenous affairs and politics."

New target: 25,000! 21,664 have joined this campaign - help us get to 25,000.