
A RACIST attack on a public plaque at Millards Pool will cost about $500 to repair.
It follows a similar attack in August at Redbank Pool where an Aboriginal display was damaged at the heritage-listed site.
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In the latest attack, one of 10 plaques installed by Toodyay’s Friends of the River on the Bilya Walk Track was damaged.
It was the only plaque dedicated to Aboriginal culture, and the only parts of it vandalised were the words “Aboriginal people” (pictured above) and a Noongar Kaartdijin Aboriginal Corporation logo.
As with the Redbank Pool vandalism two months earlier, it looked like car keys or a screwdriver were used to deface the plaque’s two mentions of the word ‘Aboriginal’.
Toodyay Friends of the River Project Officer Greg Warburton said he believed the same person had carried out both attacks.
The plaque was recently installed by the volunteer organisation to help generate more community understanding of the significance of the Avon River to indigenous people and their connection to it.
Damaging it was an act of “wanton vandalism,” Mr Warburton said.
Friends of the River hoped to replace the damaged plaque next year but Mr Warburton said he feared it might be vandalised again.
The plaque was funded by Wheatbelt Natural Resource Management in conjunction with the Shire of Toodyay and was damaged in the first week of November.