ACT Environment Minister Rebecca Vassarotti powerless to protect Mount Ainslie Indigenous heritage from bulldozer

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January 12 2022 - 5:30am
Indigenous elder Shane Mortimer shows how a bulldozer shifted and scored the volcanic rocks on Mount Ainslie. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
Indigenous elder Shane Mortimer shows how a bulldozer shifted and scored the volcanic rocks on Mount Ainslie. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

In a social media post, ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury has restated the need for stronger environment protection laws after "receiving distressing messages from First Nations people" in the wake of the bulldozing of the contentious Doma development site on Mount Ainslie.

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