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UNESCO’s Great Barrier Reef report: experts respond

A damning UNESCO report has criticised management of the Great Barrier Reef and warned that the area could be downgraded

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The Great Barrier Reef at a crossroads

Last Friday the World Heritage Centre and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released a report on

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Damage to dinosaur tracks ‘inevitable’ if gas plant goes in

Sauropod footprints cover a stretch of sandstone near Broome. Steve Salisbury The $30 billion Woodside Petroleum development slated for James

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New partnership to improve heritage management

Sites in Western Australia’s Weld Range will be investigated and documented in a new partnership involving Wajarri Traditional Owners and

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Australian inventors help map Pisa tower

Scientists have used a hand-held 3D laser scanner to map the hard-to-reach nooks and crannies of Italy’s Leaning Tower of

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When our cultural heritage goes up in smoke

This month’s New South Wales fire emergency has again focused attention on the threat to life and property caused by

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Merging ‘back-office functions’ is bad news for the museum sector

After a sustained period of slimming down under the previous Labor government it looks like the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries,

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world of architecture will rally to save Mackintosh masterpiece

Glasgow School of Art is one of the few buildings that can lay genuine claim to the word “iconic”, not

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China’s future is bright, and that includes conserving the past

For most Australians, mention of China probably does not evoke preserved buildings and landscapes in the way the English countryside

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Frustration rises over changes to the WA Aboriginal Heritage Act

In June, the Western Australian Government released draft amendments to the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. This is the legislation that