Heritage news
Norfolk Island’s Cascade Reserve has been added to Australia’s Commonwealth Heritage List, following its gazettal on March 21, 2022.
This listing recognises the historical and social value of the…
Eighty years after its sinking in World War II, a new heritage virtual reality (VR) experience gives viewers a rare chance to explore the wreck of the Imperial Japanese submarine I-124.
Produced by…
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, has tabled the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and an associated National Interest…
The Australian Heritage Council Free, Prior and Informed Consent Policy outlines how it will work with Indigenous people and communities in the nomination and assessment of places for possible…
Anyone can nominate a place with outstanding heritage values for inclusion. Nominations close on 9 February 2022.
Read more: Nominating a heritage place
Grants totalling $5.3 million are now available for projects that protect Australia’s rich tapestry of cultural, natural and historic heritage sites.
Read more: Australian Heritage Grants
More than $5.7 million in funding will help create jobs, boost visitor numbers and protect Indigenous cultural, natural, and historic heritage sites across the country.
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We are seeking expressions of interest for the delivery of specialist services under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984.
The Act is used to protect significant…
On this day in 1911, the single screw steamer SS Yongala was bound for Townsville. The ship left Mackay and steamed into a late-season cyclone. The Yongala succumbed to the storm in waters off Cape…
An outstanding historic precinct with a diversity of historic parks, gardens, streets, archaeological sites and buildings has been added to the National Heritage List.
Read more: Governors' Domain…