Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. I draw the minister’s attention to the astonishing vandalism of this nation’s ancient art heritage on the Tarkine coast of Tasmania in the last three months, where vandals have moved in with rock drills and drilled crosses and faces over ancient Aboriginal petroglyphs estimated to be as old as Stonehenge. I ask the minister what action the Commonwealth has taken over the last three months to ensure that the vandals responsible are tracked down and what action the minister will insist be taken to make sure that no stone is unturned in protecting these petroglyphs, which just five years ago a little further up the coast were daubed with swastikas.