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Latest releases
- Climate change toolkit for World Heritage properties in Australia - 2022
- The National Heritage List and Native Title - 2022
- Considerations for National Heritage listing of places with Indigenous heritage value - 2022
- Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the work of the Australian Heritage Council - 2021
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 - General Guide and Application Form - 2021
- Dhawura Ngilan: A vision for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage in Australia and the Best Practice Standards in Indigenous cultural heritage management and legislation - 2020
- World Heritage Tentative List submission - Murujuga Cultural Landscape - 2020
About Australia's heritage
- Australia's National Heritage - 2010
- Australia's World Heritage - 2008
- Biodiversity summaries and species lists for NRM regions (ANHAT)
- The EPBC Act and the Commonwealth Heritage List - Fact sheet
- Great Southern Land: The maritime exploration of Terra Australis - 2005
- A guide to heritage listing in Australia - 2009
- Heritage Laws and Australian Government Agencies
- Historic Heritage - frequently asked questions - Fact sheet
- List of overseas places of historic significance to Australia
- The National and Commonwealth Heritage Lists Statutory Report 1 January 2004 – 30 June 2008 - 2008
- The National Heritage List and Commonwealth Heritage List: 1 July 2008 – 30 June 2013
- The National Heritage List and Commonwealth Heritage List: 1 July 2013 – 30 June 2018 - 2019
- Natural Heritage - Frequently Asked Questions - Fact sheet
- Rock Art Thematic Study - 2016
- 'The Waters of Australian Deserts’ Cultural Heritage Study - 2017
- Understanding World Heritage: what is outstanding universal value? - Fact sheet
Heritage branding
Protecting and managing heritage places
Heritage reports
- Adaptive Reuse: Preserving our past, building our future - 2004
- Amending/Replacing a Heritage Strategy - 2010
- Australia's National Heritage List - the story so far - 2017
- Australian Government response to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Inquiry: Responses to, and lessons learnt from, the January and February 2016 bushfires in remote Tasmanian Wilderness - 2017
- Australian Heritage Strategy - 2015
- Australia's 2007-2011 World Heritage Committee term
- Commonwealth Government response to the productivity commission inquiry into the conservation of Australia's Historic Heritage Places (Report) - 2007
- Development in Parramatta City and the Impact on Old Government House and Domain's World and National Heritage Listed Values: Technical Report - 2013
- Economic activity of Australia's World Heritage areas - 2009
- The economics of heritage (Workshop) - 2007
- Heritage Trades and Professional Training Project - 2010
- Implementing the Australian Heritage Strategy - 2017
- Implications of climate change for Australia's World Heritage properties: a preliminary assessment - 2009
- Management plans for places on the Commonwealth Heritage List - 2005
- National Heritage Places map - 2017
- Policy Statement on the Conservation Agreement for Old Government House and Domain, Parramatta - 2016
- Potential geoheritage values of Australian desert landscapes - 2016
- Preparing a Heritage Strategy - 2010
- Protection of Australia’s Commemorative Places and Monuments Report - 2018
- Reviewing a Heritage Strategy (and reporting to the Minister) - 2010
- Ruins: A guide to conservation and management - 2013
- Steps to Sustainable Tourism (Report) - 2004
- A thematic heritage study on Australia’s benevolent and other care institutions - 2016
- Working Together: Managing Commonwealth Heritage Places - 2019
- Working Together: Managing National Heritage Places - 2008
- World Heritage Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves of Australia Strategic Overview for Management
Australian Convict Sites
- Australian Convict Sites: Strategic Management Framework
- Australian convict sites: World Heritage nomination - 2008
Cape York
- A World Heritage Nomination for Cape York Peninsula - Fact sheet
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
- Additional information on the state of conservation of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia - key updates 1 February 2021 - 2021
- Gondwana Rainforests of Australia State of Conservation update - April 2020 - 2020
Great Barrier Reef
- Defining the aesthetic values of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - 2013
- EPBC Act referral guidelines for the Outstanding Universal Value of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - 2014
- Geological and geomorphological features of Outstanding Universal Value in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - 2013
- Managing the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - 2011
Reports to the World Heritage Committee
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2019
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2015
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area - 2014
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2013
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2012
- Interim report on current Great Barrier Reef development proposals - 2011
- World Heritage Committee notification reports
World Heritage Committee documents
A list of documents concerning the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area is available on the UNESCO web site.
Greater Blue Mountains Area
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Greater Blue Mountains Area - 2022
- Greater Blue Mountains Area State of Conservation update - April 2020 - 2020
Kokoda
- Papua New Guinea-Australia Joint Declaration on the Preservation of the Kokoda Track Region
- Kokoda Initiative - Annual Report 2014-15
- Kokoda Initiative - Annual Report 2013-14
- Kokoda Initiative - Annual Report 2012-13
- Kokoda Initiative - Annual Report 2011-12
- Kokoda Initiative - Annual Report 2010-11
- The Kokoda Track Safety Package - Fact sheet
- Kokoda - Second Joint Understanding 2010-15
- The Kokoda Initiative Second Joint Understanding Mid-term Review
- "The track" - A historical desktop study of the Kokoda Track - 2009
- Voices from the war – Papua New Guinean stories of the Kokoda Campaign, World War Two
Kokoda Initiative Nius
Macquarie Island
- Eradication of Rabbits and Rodents on Subantarctic Macquarie Island - 2007
- State of Conservation report for Macquarie Island - 2010
Riversleigh and Naracoorte
Tasmanian Wilderness
- Additional information on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - key updates 1 February 2021 - 2021
- Aboriginal Heritage of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) - 2017
- Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area - Frequently asked questions - Private Landholders - 2015
- Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area - Frequently asked questions - Adjacent Landholders - 2015
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2019
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2017
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2016
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2015
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2012
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2010
- State Party Report on the state of conservation of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (Australia) - 2008
- The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area - 2007
West Kimberley
- Pastoral activity in the west Kimberley and national heritage listing - Fact sheet
- The West Kimberley, Western Australia - Fact sheet
Underwater Cultural Heritage
- Underwater Cultural Heritage Compliance Strategy - 2022
- Australia’s Historic Heritage: Shipwrecks, Sunken Aircraft and their Artefacts - 2019
- Underwater Cultural Heritage Guidance for Offshore Developments - 2019
- Important changes to the Protection of Australia’s Underwater Heritage: Sites - 2019
- Important changes to the Protection of Australia’s Underwater Heritage: Artefacts - 2019
- Australian Underwater Cultural Heritage Intergovernmental Agreement - 2010