IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild says farmers feel “absolutely ambushed” by Western Australia’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act and feel they haven’t been consulted properly.

“They don’t know how this is going to affect them,” Mr. Wild told Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“This is just more regulation, more red tape, an entirely new massive unelected, unaccountable bureaucratic apparatus that basically renders any notion of private property obsolete in Western Australia.

“And this is only going to do the one thing for food prices – push them further up.”