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The Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006 (Victoria, 2006) has historically been interpretated as the legislative umbrella within which all matters pertinent to First Nations Peoples’ tangible and intangible culture in Victoria seek refuge into. It is both a security blanket and a shackle. The Act is predicated upon mediating harm of the tangible and/or intangible, neither stopping harm and negating it nor creating a platform to heal and replenish. A development application for a telecommunication facility on Anakie Youang represents a case in point, but the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s (Tribunal’s) decision also raised several planning law precedents that has both procedural applicability and for any Aboriginal cultural heritage place across Victoria whether in a regional or urban context.

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    Griffin’s plan actually records the hills as Korangilook, Bakiriburt, and Woolabein, which were varied by WTOAC in 2014 as part of the evidence tabled at the Aerolite Quarries Pty Ltd v Greater Geelong CC [2014] VCAT 1611 proceedings (Rhodes, 2014b: 12).

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    Anakie Youang means ‘Little Hill’, being a topographical assemblage immediately west of You Yangs/Wurdi Youang, or ‘Big Hill’.

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    ‘Tandop’ means ‘Uncle’ in Tournier’s Wathaurong Language version.

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Jones, D.S. (2023). Saving Anakie Youang. In: Planning for Urban Country. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7192-3_7

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