Good morning readers, and welcome to our live news blog for Friday, July 11.
Making headlines today is the culmination of a long-running bid to secure World Heritage listing for ancient Aboriginal rock art petroglyphs located along the Pilbara coast.
An intense international lobbying fight between the Commonwealth and traditional owners will come to a head on Friday as a UNESCO committee decides whether to grant the Burrup Peninsula’s Murujuga cultural landscape World Heritage status.
The bid was dealt a major blow in May, when the International Council on Monuments and Sites recommended it go back to the Australian government to address concerns about the impact of nearby industrialisation and emissions.
Hamish Hastie has the full story. You can read it here.
Carolina Wilga’s Mitsubishi Delica has been found by police.Credit: WA Police
Meanwhile, police have found an abandoned car in their search for missing German backpacker Carolina Wilga in WA’s Wheatbelt region.
Wilga went missing 12 days ago, after she was last seen in the Beacon area about 330 kilometres outside of Perth.
Police said they located the Mitsubishi Delica car abandoned at 1pm on Thursday, but they have still not found the missing 26-year-old.
“The vehicle was located abandoned in the Karroun Hill area, in the north-east Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, and is believed to have suffered mechanical issues,” a spokesperson said.
Wilga was not at the scene. You can read more about that story here, and we will bring you the latest on the search as it happens.
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