Parks Australia charged with damaging sacred site in Kakadu national park

Aboriginal authority alleges the federal organisation built a walking track near Gunlom Falls in the Northern Territory without permission'

Parks Australia, which manages the world-heritage listed Kakadu national park, has been charged under the Northern Territory's Sacred Sites Act with damaging an area near the spectacular Gunlom Falls, one of Kakadu's most popular attractions.

The Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority alleges that Parks Australia built a walking track on a sacred site at Gunlom without permission, close to a ceremonial feature of the sacred site that is restricted according to Aboriginal tradition".