THE ridges of iron-red rock stifle whatever breeze is blowing across the Burrup Peninsula. Even near the entrance to Deep Gorge, the oppressive Pilbara heat starts to take on a different character. It ...

But public comment would be sought before a decision on the site's fate was known, he said. The site, said to include hundreds of thousands of petroglyphs, is several thousands of years old, dating ...

Director, Centre for the Study of Social Change, The University of Western Australia Most people know the Burrup Peninsula - if they know it at all – from TV footage of gas tankers powering through ...

Professor Jo McDonald is the Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research and holds the Rio Tinto Chair of Rock Art Studies at the University of Western Australia. She is currently Lead Chief ...

UNESCO’s World Heritage committee is set to consider a proposal that would see it abandon almost all conditions aimed at curtailing industrial activity on Western Australia’s rock art-rich Burrup ...

Caleb Pitt-Cook is drifting just above the ocean floor, running his fingers through the soft sand. The 24-year-old Ngarluma man is searching for the stone tools his ancestors used thousands of years ...