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Indigenous Cultural Heritage and History within the Metropolitan Melbourne Investigation Area Aboriginal people who believe that a place or object is threatened and believe that state government processes offer inadequate protection can apply to the Federal Environment Minister to protect the place or object under Section's 9 and 10 of the act. There have been 200 applications for an emergency declaration to the incumbent Minister to protect places or objects believed to be threatened, and where other legislative mechanisms have been perceived to have failed. There have however, only been 22 emergency declarations enforced since the inception of the act. VEAC01 Page | 29
5 Conclusions Indigenous Cultural Heritage and History within the Metropolitan Melbourne Investigation Area Within the Metropolitan Melbourne Investigation Area there are literally thousands of 'places' for which the Aboriginal community hold a range of cultural values. These places may not be immediately apparent or obvious to the wider community, but are nonetheless an important component of any assessment of the social or community values of any public lands within the investigation area. The types of places present within the investigation area range from 30,000 year old pre‐contact archaeological sites to contemporary cemeteries, with almost as wide a range of values. While it has not been possible to address the entire gamut of Aboriginal history, land usage and 'attachment to place' within this report, a variety of information is presented intended to raise awareness about the range and diversity of types of places which may exist on public lands, rather than simply the quantum of places which exist. Importantly, there are countless thousands of archaeological places as yet to be discovered within the investigation area, there will be deeply stratified complex places through to ephemeral places such as small artefact scatters, and such is the nature of 30,000 years of human occupation. Likewise, there will be new places identified or made known to the investigators of tomorrow which will reflect Aboriginal associations and involvement in historical events since European contact. It is vital that the investigation and assessment of any lands ‐ public or private ‐ continues to strive to determine and manage all of the extant values of place ‐ Aboriginal, European, archaeological, social or cultural. Without diligent and professional assessment of the values of 'place', and an on‐going dialogue with both Traditional Owners and other stakeholders, many of the most important associations and values of places could be irretrievably lost to the community as a whole. VEAC01 Page | 30
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