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Please Note

This report was written to provide source material for Australian State of the Environment Committee's purposes. Independent contract authors prepared the seven supporting theme reports that the Committee considered during preparation of the 2001 SoE Report. The opinions in the theme reports are those of the authors, not of the Committee.

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• Natural and Cultural Heritage - full report (PDF - 9648 KB)
• Part 1 - Contents, Executive Summary and Introduction (PDF - 913 KB)
• Part 2 - State of knowledge about Australia's heritage (PDF - 1477 KB)
• Part 3a - Current condition of heritage places and objects and pressures affecting them (PDF - 1224 KB)
• Part 3b - Current condition of heritage places and objects and pressures affecting them (continued) (PDF - 1501 KB)
• Part 4a - State of government protection and funding of heritage places (PDF - 1880 KB)
• Part 4b - State of government protection and funding of heritage places (continued) (PDF - 353 KB)
• Part 5 - State of community awareness and action (PDF - 164 KB)
• Part 6 - Indigenous control of indigenous heritage (PDF - 1761 KB)
• Part 7 - State of indigenous languages related to cultural heritage (PDF - 355 KB)
• Part 8 - Conclusion, Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography and Index (PDF - 148 KB)

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Acronyms and abbreviations
• Executive summary
• Introduction
• State of knowledge about Australia's heritage
• Current condition of heritage places and objects and pressures affecting them
• State of government protection and funding of heritage places
• State of community awareness and action
• Indigenous control of Indigenous heritage
• State of Indigenous languages related to cultural heritage
• Conclusions
• Appendix 1: Heritage Legislation
• Appendix 2: Australian Heritage Places Principles
• Appendix 3: Outline of key aspects of the Commonwealth's new heritage regime
• Appendix 4: Natural and cultural heritage indicators, 1998
• Appendix 5: 1996 Key findings for natural and cultural heritage
• Appendix 6: Summary of the operation of historic heritage legislation.
• Glossary
• Case studies
• Environmental Indicators
• Figures
• Maps
• Tables

Prepared by

Lead Author: Jane Lennon, Jane Lennon and Associates Pty Ltd
Dr Michael Pearson, Heritage Management Consultants Pty Ltd
Duncan Marshall, Heritage consultant
Dr Patrick McConvell, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Sharon Sullivan, Sullivan Blazejowski and Associates
Dr Warren Nicholls, Heritage consultant
David Johnston, Australian Archaeological Survey Consultants Pty Ltd

Theme coordinator

Ian Robertson, State of the Environment Reporting Section, Department of the Environment and Heritage

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