Commonwealth Heritage List
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The Commonwealth Heritage List is a
The Commonwealth Heritage List, together with the
Places protected under the Act include federally owned telegraph stations, defence sites, migration centres, customs houses, lighthouses, national institutions such as Parliament and High Court buildings, memorials, islands and marine areas.
All places on this list can be found on the online Australian Heritage Database, along with other places on other Australian and world heritage listings.
History
In 2004, a new heritage management system was introduced by the Australian Government to protect
The National Heritage List is to include a small number of places of outstanding heritage significance to Australia.
Criteria
The Commonwealth Heritage criteria for a place are any or all of the following:[4]
(a) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history
(b) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history
(c) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia's natural or cultural history
(d) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of:
(i) a class of Australia's natural or cultural places; or
(ii) a class of Australia's natural or cultural environments;
(e) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by a community or cultural group;
(f) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period;
(g) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons;
(h) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in Australia's natural or cultural history;
(i) the place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance as part of Indigenous tradition.
Composition
As of 30 April 2020[update], the Commonwealth Heritage List comprised 388 heritage places as follows:[5]
State/territory | Number of places | List of places |
---|---|---|
Australian Capital Territory | 82 | |
New South Wales | 130 | |
Northern Territory | 12 | |
Queensland | 31 | List for Queensland |
South Australia | 11 | |
Tasmania | 19 | |
Victoria |
40 | |
Western Australia | 19 | List for Western Australia |
External territories | 43 | |
Overseas | 2 |
List
See also
- Cultural heritage
- Natural heritage
- Commonwealth Heritage
References
- ^ "Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, Section 324A". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ^ "Register of the National Estate". Australian Government. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
- ^ Environment.gov.au, Retrieved 21 September 2009
- ^ "Commonwealth Heritage List criteria". Department of the Environment and Energy. Australian Government. Retrieved 15 May 2019.
- ^ "Search: Commonwealth Heritage List". Australian Heritage Database. Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text by Commonwealth of Australia ( Department of the Environment and Energy) available under the CC BY 4.0 license.