Man found guilty of breaching WA’s Aboriginal heritage laws for disrupting ‘Rainbow Serpent’

News.com.au - 18/02
A Western Australian landowner has been found guilty of breaching the state’s Aboriginal heritage laws for disrupting a creek on his property associated with the “Rainbow Serpent”.

A Western Australian landowner has been found guilty of breaching the state’s Aboriginal heritage laws for disrupting a creek on his property associated with the “Rainbow Serpent”.

Tony Maddox appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court on Monday where he was fined $2000, given a spent conviction and ordered to pay $5000 in costs, the ABC reported.

Mr Maddox, 72, was charged by the WA Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage last year after he built a crossing over a tributary of the Avon River on his property in Toodyay, 85 kilometres northeast of Perth, without seek...
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