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On June 24th, 2023 Prof. Augusto Zimmermann and myself published the following article in The Spectator Australia, “Food Security and Property Rights Under Threat in Western Australia”. A shorter version was published in the Epoch Times as “Is Western Australia’s Heritage Law Going to Thwart Food Production”.

Below is the prepublication draft of the Spectator article. Go to The Spectator for the published version.

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The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act (ACH) comes into effect on the 1st July 2023 in Western Australia (WA). Ostensibly it is to protect aboriginal cultural sites across Western Australia. And yet, there is a real concern that this legislation will generate “the deluge of read tape and the suffocation of private property rights which this act facilitates”.[1] Pastoralists and Graziers Association WA president Tony Seabrook, who believes that this is a “very poorly written…