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Bathurst go-kart track will not go ahead on Mt Panorama’s sacred Indigenous site – The Guardian
Federal environment minister Sussan Ley listens to ‘passionate community debate’ and determines the area is culturally significant
A contentious go-kart track will not be built atop Mount Panorama in Bathurst after the federal government intervened to protect a sacred Indigenous site.
The federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, temporarily halted the plans in March, three days before construction was to begin at the motor racing site in regional New South Wales.
In 2019 the Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation lodged a protection application over concerns a sacred womens site and endangered flora…
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