Sacred sites are an integral part of Aboriginal culture.
They are places that bear the marks of the creative ancestral spirits which continue to have a presence in the landscape. The paths which the ancestral spirits followed, and the sacred sites which mark them, link people of the various language groups into a wider community of Aboriginal people. Sacred sites are the settings of their custodians' most important knowledge and activities. They are fundamental to the sense of self. To destroy or damage a site is a distressing and dangerous act which threatens not only living and unborn generations, but also the spiritual forces and order of the world.