The study and preservation of Australia’s neglected and decaying historic shipwrecks stands to leap in sophistication through a new multi-disciplinary project.
Bringing in expertise from behavioural archaeology…
UNESCO is reviewing whether more needs to be done to preserve the reef's heritage listing.
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Obtaining a World Heritage listing for a national asset is a source of great pride for any country. The Taj Mahal (1983), Borobudur (1991) and Uluru (2007) are examples where countries have obtained the…
The SS Gairsoppa wreck is believed to hold $200 million worth of silver ingots.
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BBC News has revealed that a shipwreck containing 200 tonnes of silver has been found in the Atlantic Ocean, 500 kilometres off the west coast of Ireland.
It’s the largest haul of precious metal ever…
Australia's heritage is etched in the Burrup's rocks.
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Most people know the Burrup Peninsula – if they know it at all – from TV footage of gas tankers powering through the impossibly blue channels of the Dampier Archipelago, delivering gas to an energy hungry…
Australia has the world's oldest continuously worked mine site.
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There has been a massive revival of interest in Australian history in the last decade. Under Prime Minister John Howard, Australia’s military history, particularly the ANZACs, became little short of a…
The Tarkine is our largest cool temperate rainforest, but will that be enough to save it?
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Once a place is heritage listed, it’s protected, right? Wrong. Politics and a flawed statutory regime are undermining the independence of the listing system, and threatening Australia’s national treasures…
