Slide 1: Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage Edgar Basto – President Minerals Australia Colin Johnston – Principal Indigenous Affairs Dave Bunting – Manager Heritage Benjamin Proudfoot – Superintendent Heritage Coal
Slide 2: Cultural heritage: Strategy
Cultural heritage: Strategy BHP Indigenous Peoples Policy Statement BHP aims to be a partner of choice for Indigenous peoples through which our relationships contribute to their economic empowerment, social development and cultural wellbeing. BHP Indigenous Peoples Strategy Governance Economic empow
Slide 3: Cultural heritage: BHP Structure
Cultural heritage: BHP Structure Organisational structure • A dedicated Heritage Team is responsible for working with the project and production teams and Traditional Owners to understand where planned land disturbances may impact on heritage sites. • If mine plans indicate that a heritage site is t
Slide 4: Cultural heritage: Policy
Cultural heritage: Policy Policy • Driven by commitments made in BHP’s Indigenous Peoples Policy Statement, the BHP Indigenous Peoples Strategy, our Reconciliation Action Plan and by BHP’s support for the Uluru Statement From the Heart. • Our commitments include: – Undertaking participatory and incl
Slide 5: Cultural heritage: Agreements
Cultural heritage: Agreements Agreements with Traditional owners • Mining companies enter into agreements with native title parties with informed consent. • These agreements document how native title rights and mining tenure rights will coexist over the lands of native title owners, enable native ti
Slide 6: Cultural heritage: Recent developments
Cultural heritage: Recent developments Existing section 18 approvals • BHP holds a number of section 18 approvals granted by the Western Australia Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage, which permit impacts to specific cultural heritage sites. These do not include any of the exclusion zones cal
Slide 7: Cultural heritage: Recent developments (continued)
Cultural heritage: Recent developments (continued) Recent developments • In the case of the South Flank project, BHP and Banjima have set up a Heritage Advisory Council and will speak to other Traditional Owners to understand the best approach for them. • Requirement for approval from senior managem
Slide 8: Cultural heritage: Management
Cultural heritage: Management Processes at WAIO related to heritage sites • Ongoing and regular dialogue and engagement with (and feedback by) Traditional Owners in relation to cultural heritage, which occurs through both informal and formal mechanisms (e.g. Heritage Committee meetings). • Ethnograp
Slide 9: Reform of the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act
Reform of the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act BHP is supportive of the following measures being incorporated into the new legislation • Statutory recognition of agreements: the heritage legislation would be improved if it specifically recognised and accommodated agreements reached between land users and
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