Federal government steps in to halt Bathurst go-kart track three days before construction to start

Traditional owners to show Sussan Ley the sacred women's site they fear will be destroyed by the proposed track

The federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, has stepped in at the last minute to stop construction of a contentious go-kart track at Wahluu/Mount Panorama in Bathurst over concerns it threatens a sacred Indigenous site.

Ley made an emergency protection declaration on Friday, three days before construction was due to begin at the famous motor racing site in regional New South Wales.