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. As descendants of ancestral spirits, it is the task of contemporary Aboriginal people to care for their sacred sites by performing necessary rituals and singing the songs which tell of that ancestral spirit's deeds. This ceremonial work celebrates and maintains the world's order. Many sites and songs which are sacred are also secret, too powerful for disclosure.