Wilfred Hicks speaks out about importance of Burrup rock art
Last night on The Wire we took a look at a decision by the West Australian Environmental Protection Authority to approve a proposal to allow a gas processing development to go ahead on the Burrup Peninsula. This peninsula home to an estimated one million rock art pictures that are also known as petroglifs. Well one man who knows a lot about the rock art of the Burrup is Wilfred Hicks. He’s an aboriginal lawman from the Woongato people of the Pilbura region, which is adjacent to the Burrup Peninsula. He spent much of his child with his father and grandfather studying the rock art, a large section of which is now under threat from the proposed Pluto Woodside petroleum gas plant. He spoke earlier to the Wire about his feelings about the decision by the West Australian EPA.