The Queensland Government has launched legal action against the owner of a Cape York cattle station at the centre of a land-clearing controversy for allegedly breaching an obligation to care for Indigenous heritage.
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| Mike Ross says traditional landowners need more consultation before widescale clearing. |
The owner of Kingvale Station on the Cape York Peninsula legally cleared 500 hectares of land before the Federal Government intervened in 2016, over internal concerns about the effect on sediment run-off into the Great Barrier Reef.
The traditional owners of the land, the Olkola people, claim the owner of Kingvale Station went ahead with the clearing without their knowledge and may have destroyed a burial site.
Read the ABC News story by Isobel Roe - “Queensland Government launches lawsuit against Kingvale Station owners over Cape York land clearing.”
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