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Rock engravings at Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia part part of the Murujuga cultural landscape and the country’s largest collection of rock art. Photograph: Ken Mulvaney
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The decades-long campaign to secure world heritage listing for Australia’s largest collection of rock art has finally been taken to Unesco. The federal government on Friday lodged a submission for the Murujuga cultural landscape on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula to be included on Australia’s world heritage tentative list, the first formal step toward achieving global recognition for the 50,000-year-old gallery of more than one million petroglyphs.

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