PLEASE HELP US PROTECT ABORIGINAL WOMEN FERTILITY SITE FROM DESTRUCTION BY ROCLA SANDMINING COMPANY | Page 3

I, AS AN INITIATED WOMAN, WISH TO EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS
SITE SO THAT ALL AUSTRALIANS CAN UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR
THIS SITE TO BE PRESERVED AND NOT DESTROYED – as Rocla Sand Mining
intends to do.
I first ask for your respect and acknowledgement of the existence
and importance of our Black History in white Australia.
Secondly, I would like it acknowledged that Black history and
culture is recorded and taught in ways that are different from the
White Fellas ways, but are no less important to its people. White
Australia has The Mitchell Library, given funded and maintained by
the government, to house all your important papers, records, books,
events, stories and artefacts.
At the Mitchell Library, all your White History is kept safe from
vandalism, kept safe for posterity. We, the original custodians of
this land, had no paper, pens or writing equipment like yours to
record our history on. Instead, back then, we used our recall, our
memory to re-tell our stories and the law, and to re-sing our songs
of what came before us, what needed to be passed down, carried on,
down through time for posterity – just like the white man’s way.
Our
people
also
had
the
dedication and patience to carve
those stories and laws into hard
rock platforms, to build entire
sites that record our history,
our culture and our stories –
where we hoped they would be
preserved for posterity.
Every symbol or line we carved
may
have
taken
months
to
complete, but how else were we to permanently record – for our
children, and their children – the stories, the law and the history
of the original custodians of the land? And this area is full of
such sites.
Famous French Archeologist Jean Clottes viewed some of these rock
platforms when visiting the area, and said “This area of the
Central Coast has the greatest diversity of Rock Art in the world
that I have ever seen”.