Aboriginal cultural heritage protected as NSW rejects Glendell coalmine expansion

Wonnarua people want Ravensworth Homestead added to the state heritage register and to become a site of reconciliation

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The New South Wales independent planning commission has for the first time ruled against a coalmine extension in Singleton.

Scott Franks and Robert Lester, representatives of the Plains Clans of the Wonnarua People (PCWP), learned this week that priceless Wonnarua cultural heritage in the Upper Hunter region - centred on the Ravensworth Homestead - would be protected because the planning commission had denied Glencore's Glendell coalmine expansion.

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Sophie Nicholls is a freelance writer based in the Hunter Valley

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