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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

  • National Heritage List Branding Style Guide - 2019

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.

  • World Heritage Committee documents: Great Barrier Reef 

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

  • Issue 3  Jan-Jun 2012
  • Issue 2  Oct-Dec 2011
  • Issue 1  Jul-Sept 2011

Macquarie Island

  • Eradication of Rabbits and Rodents on Subantarctic Macquarie Island - 2007
  • State of Conservation report for Macquarie Island - 2010

Riversleigh and Naracoorte

  • World Heritage Australian Fossil Mammal Sites - 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

See also

  • Publications of the Australian Heritage Council and the former Australian Heritage Commission
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