Tony Maddox built an access bridge over a tributary of the Avon River, a site associated with the Rainbow Serpent, or "Wagyl" to the Noongar people. A Western Australian landholder has been found ...

The prosecution of Tony Maddox for damaging Aboriginal cultural heritage was textbook but it was also mean. Maddox concreted ...

A Western Australian landowner has been found guilty of breaching the state’s Aboriginal heritage laws for disrupting a creek on his property associated with the “Rainbow Serpent”.

The river is associated with Wagyl, the Rainbow Serpent central to the mythology of the region’s Noongar people. Magistrate Andrew Matthews said while the works did not cause significant damage ...

A real estate agent has been found guilty and fined for breaching WA’s Aboriginal Heritage Act after work on his farm that he ...

A Western Australian landholder has been found guilty of breaching the state's Aboriginal Heritage Act by altering a culturally sensitive site, after he built an access bridge at his property ...

The river, whose Aboriginal name is Gugulja, holds deep cultural importance for the local Noongar people because Dreamtime stories say it is traveled by the Wagyl, a river serpent. Sign up to The ...