Untitled by Danny Eastwood is a coloured illustration, originally published in the Koori Mail on the 27th of August 2025.
In the top half of the image, the background is a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds. On the righthand side is the tall metal tower of a gas plant, and the top spews a long cloud of yellow and orange, which sheds ash downwards.
In the bottom half of the painting, the ground is covered by many large overlapping red rocks with dark grey and black shading, which have scattered orange ochre drawings of kangaroos, turtles, fish and other Australian animals.
In a strip at the bottom of the image, handwritten text reads, 'Murujuga Pilbara Region 50 thousand years old, and the oldest rock art on the planet threatened by acid emissions/pollution.' In the bottom right corner is the artist’s signature in white ink, 'D.N.E.'
In July the Murujuga Cultural Area in Western Australia, which contains rock art older than Stonehenge and the pyramids of Giza, was granted World Heritage status by UNESCO. The area, in the Pilbara region, contains 1 million petroglyphs, some dating back 50,000 years, and includes the world’s oldest depiction of a human face. The UNESCO committee raised concerns with the Australian Government about the impact of the massive emissions from Woodside Energy’s nearby North West Shelf gas project. In September the government announced a 40-year renewal of Woodside’s contract.
