Word: queensland
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...miners feel outdated and outsmarted by the dotcom people. China's growing metal consumption is pushing up prices across the board, giving companies the upside they need to commit to exploration and mining projects. Comalco, owned by Rio Tinto, recently commissioned an alumina refinery at Gladstone in central Queensland, the first plant of its kind to be built in the world for 20 years. The first liquefied natural gas shipments will begin next year from the North West Shelf to Guangdong province: the start of a 25-year, $A25 billion contract that took many Australians by surprise when...
...Another passion of Walsh's has stirred deeper animosity. Time has learned that Walsh has in the past collected ancient Aboriginal bark coffins, complete with the bones they protected. In the 1970s he bought a demountable shed for the backyard of his outback station in western Queensland to store his collection of the rare cylinders, which he calls "assemblages." He installed climate control and a radar alarm system, and placed the bark coffins in airtight boxes to stop death beetles from attacking his skeletal charges. Walsh claims that he rejected a $A1 million offer from an overseas collector...
...proposal upset the Bidjara. "We got the s__ts, naturally,'' says traditional landowner Lionel Fraser, of Roma, in western Queensland. "Walshy wouldn't come near me after, because I told him I would punch him in the mouth.'' Walsh says he has hidden the bones in a cave in the Carnarvon Gorge region, about 600 km northwest of Brisbane, and will not reveal its location unless he is satisfied the remains will be properly cared...
...Walsh's case is not unique. Queensland authorities believe many more caches are secretly held by people who think they will take better care of the remains than would the traditional owners, or who have recognized their potential value to illegal collectors. In response, the Queensland government last year passed some of Australia's most comprehensive laws on possession of Aboriginal remains and artifacts. It is now illegal for anyone to conceal the location of Aboriginal remains from the state government, or to possess them in any circumstance after the traditional owners have sought their return. Breaches can attract fines...
...really is quite ghoulish for anybody to seek to hold on to human remains," says Queensland Natural Resources cultural heritage unit director Paul Travers, who helped draft the law. "The legislation recognizes that Aboriginal people own their human remains. The approach of saying these remains have some scientific value is just outdated...