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Sunken ship yields silver booty, but should we let sleeping wrecks lie?
BBC News has revealed that a shipwreck containing 200 tonnes of silver has been found in the Atlantic Ocean, 500
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Is the Great Barrier Reef listing? The UN asks if we’re still heritage-worthy
Obtaining a World Heritage listing for a national asset is a source of great pride for any country. The Taj
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how to study and care for shipwrecks
The study and preservation of Australia’s neglected and decaying historic shipwrecks stands to leap in sophistication through a new multi-disciplinary
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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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