20031028 Opposition through Hon Jeff seeney lends its support the opposition would not have supported the December 1998 draft model cultural heritage legislation but otherwise congratulate the State in having found greater balance between competing interests during the intervening period noting in particular that while there may have been more than 10 000 years of heritage orginally that amount of heritage is already considerably diminished and people have otherwise lost much of the kind of knowledge and connection necessary to see heritage a real issue