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stuck in a rain soaked desert :rolleyes:
They picked them up yesterday. I worked out there for the last decade, storms this time of year can often cause wide spread flooding. They probably could have prevented the incident if they were a bit more aware, but they're also pretty unlucky.
 
Diving the remnants of a WW2 attack on Australia

I spent some time near Broom in early 80s but never knew about the Catalina wrecks back then.
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Also I heard a story about a Dutch Catalina with load of diamonds shot down by Japanese just of the beach, the pilot was picked up unconscious by aboriginals but the safe with diamonds was never found.
 
Diving the remnants of a WW2 attack on Australia

I spent some time near Broom in early 80s but never knew about the Catalina wrecks back then.
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Also I heard a story about a Dutch Catalina with load of diamonds shot down by Japanese just of the beach, the pilot was picked up unconscious by aboriginals but the safe with diamonds was never found.
I've got the safe mate.............everything's fine!!
 

So COVID is fine when you are in someone else's Country :rolleyes:

Should be banned and sent home
 

"Western Australia to scrap new law protecting Aboriginal heritage sites​

The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act came into force on July 1 and is now being dropped after protests by landowners.

The Djadjiling rock shelter at a Pilbara mine site in Western Australia, where a large cache of Aboriginal stone tools estimated to be up to 35,000 years old was discovered in 2008

Western Australia will overturn recently enforced laws aimed at protecting Aboriginal cultural heritage sites following widespread opposition by farmers and small landowners, the state’s premier said.
The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act came into force on July 1 and was designed to prevent a repeat of the destruction witnessed at the 46-000-year-old Juukan Gorge rock shelter, which was demolished by the Anglo-Australian mining firm Rio Tinto during the expansion of an iron ore mine."

Wait till the price ore increases and the Aborigines will dig it up . Same here Maori are quite happy to dam a river, that idea was squashed by environmentalists.
Or you wanna dig up gold... get a license through the local Maori's first to grease the application through. A few waves of a fern leaf does wonders even if the Maoris never inhabited the place to start with.

Families who have farmed in South Canterbury for generations are objecting to the Timaru District Council’s handling of proposed Sites and Areas of Significance to Māori (SASM) and fear restrictions will follow.
Federated Farmers have called the council’s approach “heavy-handed”.
In October, the Timaru District Council sent letters to the first of 4000 property owners in the district who would be impacted by the new regulations stating the land fitted into five differing categories: Wāhi Tūpuna (broad geographical areas/cultural landscapes), wāhi taoka (land-based places), wāhi tapu (sacred land-based sites), wai taoka (waterways based places) and wai tapu (sacred sites/areas water based).
The council said it had worked with the local rūnanga, Arowhenua, to identify SASM while the rūnanga used information from historic maps, oral histories and document archives to identify areas.
Stuff asked the council a range of questions: What was the methodology used in identifying sites? Were visits made to the sites? Were landowners consulted, and if so, what was the process? Why, in one case, was 100% of private land designated a SASM, with no pinpointed location of significance?

“We’re in the middle of a statutory process with the Proposed District Plan, so it’s not really appropriate for us to comment in detail,” the council’s communications manager Stephen Doran said.
“These sites were consulted upon under the Draft District Plan and before the notified plan came out. Everyone who has properties that featured a site of significance to Māori was written to, offered the ability to talk to an adviser about the details of the provisions, and actively encouraged to make a submission.

“We are currently in a statutory consultation process with regards to district plan matters, and it would not be appropriate for council to comment further and risk any undue influence to this process.”
 
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