Truro Bypass Project
Consultation has concluded. Thanks for your contributions.
If you are a Traditional Owner or Aboriginal party with an interest in Truro and surrounds, we want to hear from you.
What's being decided?
The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport (the Applicant) proposes to construct a new section of the Sturt Highway (a bypass) so that traffic does not have to travel through the Truro township. The application area is about 95 km northwest of Adelaide.
Your views will help the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (the Minister) decide whether to authorise potential excavation, damage, disturbance or interference with Aboriginal sites, objects or ancestral remains (Aboriginal heritage).
Background
The Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Minister), who is responsible for the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 (SA) (Act), has received an application for authorisations under the Act from the Applicant to enable its proposed Truro Bypass Project (Project) near the Truro township.
Under the Act, authorisations under sections 21 and 23 are required to excavate, uncover, damage, disturb and/or interfere with Aboriginal heritage.
Get involved
Prior to considering whether to grant the authorisations sought, section 13 of the Act requires the Minister to consult with the State Aboriginal Heritage Committee (Committee), relevant Traditional Owners and any other Aboriginal people or organisations that he considers may have an interest in this matter.
If you are a Traditional Owner or an Aboriginal party with an interest in the matter, please read the Consultation Information Pack and the Public Consultation Notice and consider the following three questions:
- Should the authorisations sought be granted to the Applicant? Why or why not?
- If the authorisations are granted, what conditions (if any) should be imposed on them?
- What should the Minister consider when deciding this application?
If you wish to request a meeting with Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation (AAR) and/or the Applicant, to learn more, to lodge a submission and/or be notified of the Minister’s decision in this matter, please:
- Call us on (08) 8303 0742
- Email your feedback to AAR.CIR@sa.gov.au
- Post your feedback to:
Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation,
Attorney-General’s Department
GPO Box 464, ADELAIDE SA 5001
See the Consultation Information Pack or the Public Consultation Notice for further details on how to lodge a verbal or written submission.
Submissions must be received by AAR by Thursday 20 July 2023.
What are the next steps?
Unless otherwise requested, consultee submissions will be forwarded to the Applicant for comment. Once the public consultation period has closed, submissions and the Applicant’s comments about them will be forwarded to the Committee. The Committee’s own views about the application will then be sought.
AAR will collate all feedback and provide its own recommendations to the Minister within a single brief to assist him to make a final decision about the application.
If you are an Aboriginal person with an interest in this matter, please consider making a submission.
Traditional Owners or Aboriginal parties with an interest in this Project are invited to participate in this consultation.
