Heritage

Heritage listings

Identifying and protecting heritage places is fundamental to ensuring that they are appropriately conserved, celebrated and passed on to future generations. The reasons to consider heritage as a discrete part of the environment and to list heritage places include:
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Antarctica
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Types of heritage

Natural heritage places are definable locations or areas of land and sea that can be identified and defined as heritage values by applying assessment criteria such as those used to assess places for the National Heritage List.
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South Australian GulfMurray DarlingGreater MelbourneGreater Sydney
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Heritage: 2011–16 in context

The SoE 2011 Heritage chapter concluded that the outlook for Australia’s heritage was dependent on government leadership in 2 key areas:
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TasmaniaTimor SeaGreat Barrier ReefLake Eyre
Mackay R (2016). Heritage: Topics. In: Australia state of the environment 2016, Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra, https://soe.environment.gov.au/theme/heritage/topics?framework=13661, DOI 10.4226/94/58b658bbe13a0