Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00002:front:0:p45
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016L00002
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 131827–134989

undertake a programme of activities to address concerns about unauthorised access to cultural sites, including:

        (a)      reviewing and improving park protocols on access to cultural sites and the information about them where necessary, and manage sites, including Sickness Country, according to the relevant protocols

        (b)      reviewing and updating visitor guidelines relating to protocols on access to cultural sites

        (c)       installation of signage where appropriate to indicate restricted access

        (d)      identification of cultural sites near or on approved or proposed bushwalking routes

        (e)      development and implementation of a compliance and enforcement strategy to support protection of cultural sites

        (f)        monitoring of cultural sites for unauthorised access (see also Section 9.2: Compliance and enforcement).

     5.1.16          Identify potential actions to minimise the impact of saltwater intrusion on priority cultural sites and implement them where feasible and cost-effective.

     5.1.17          Develop and undertake a programme to address issues impacting on the condition of priority cultural sites, focusing on reduction in numbers of pigs and buffalo and removal of weeds and other vegetation.

     5.1.18          Develop and implement a programme to monitor the condition of priority cultural sites and the effectiveness of conservation measures.

Historic sites

Outcome

    * Priority historic sites are managed to mitigate impacts from threatening processes

Performance indicator

    * A reduction in the overall impact that fire, plants, animals, insects and human activities can have on priority historic sites

Background

The first documented sustained contact that Aboriginal people from the Alligator Rivers Region had with non-Aboriginal people was with Macassan seafarers between the 17th and 20th centuries. The Dutch also visited the northern coast of Australia in 1623, and in 1644 Abel Tasman mapped the northern opening of Van Diemen's Gulf and was the first person to record European contact with Aboriginal people in the region. The next explorer, British navigator Phillip King, sailed up the South and East Alligator Rivers in 1818. The British later established the settlements of Fort Wellington in 1827 and Port Essington in 1938 on the Cobourg Peninsula. The early explorers Ludwig Leichhardt and John McKinlay passed through the Kakadu region in 1845 and 1866 respectively; however, it was only in the years following the establishment of a settlement at Port Darwin in 1869 that ongoing contact with Balanda began.

The history of the Kakadu region after the mid-1800s is characterised by small-scale ventures such as crocodile and buffalo shooting, logging, pastoralism, mining and prospecting and early tourism ventures, most of which were economically marginal. Many of these ventures involved cooperation between Bininj/Mungguy and Balanda, so historic sites often bring up strong feelings for Bininj/Mungguy about individuals and the past as they represent a way of life and use of country that has now gone.

Uranium mining has had