Australia's National Heritage
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2010
Product code: HER01.1209
ISBN 9781921733024
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- Australia's National Heritage - full document (PDF - 9,443 KB) | (RTF - 523 KB)
- Cover and contents (PDF - 1,390 KB) | (RTF - 19 KB)
- Introduction (PDF - 1,380 KB) | (RTF - 28 KB)
- Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape (PDF - 680 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (PDF - 532 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Dinosaur Stampede National Monument Lark Quarry (PDF - 619 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Kurnell Peninsula - Captain Cook's Landing Place (PDF - 612 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Gold Strike (PDF - 619 KB) | (RTF - 19 KB)
- Mawson Huts and Mawson Hut's Historic Site (PDF - 595 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps (Baiame's Ngunnhu) (PDF - 718 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- Port Arthur Historic Site (PDF - 701 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- Glenrowan Heritage Precinct (PDF - 550 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Sydney Opera House (PDF - 612 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Fremantle Prison (PDF - 621 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- First Government House Site (PDF - 599 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- 20th Century Architecture (PDF - 728 KB) | (RTF - 29 KB)
- Recherche Bay (North East Peninsula) Area (PDF - 707 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Richmond Bridge (PDF - 724 KB) | (RTF - 20 KB)
- HMVS Cerberus (PDF - 664 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Melbourne Cricket Ground (PDF - 667 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- South Australian Old and New Parliament Houses (PDF - 716 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- The Tree of Knowledge (PDF - 714 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- Dirk Hartog Landing Site 1616 ・Cape Inscription Area (PDF - 646 KB) | (RTF - 20 KB)
- Batavia Shipwreck Site and Survivor Camps Area 1629 ・Houtman Abrolhos (PDF - 674 KB) | (RTF - 19 KB)
- Hermannsburg Historic Precinct (PDF - 701 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- The Australian War Memorial and Anzac Parade (PDF - 639 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- North Head, Sydney (PDF - 630 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Point Nepean Defence Sites and Quarantine Station Area (PDF - 668 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Old Parliament House and Curtilage (PDF - 581 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Glass House Mountains National Landscape (PDF - 557 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Rippon Lea House and Gardens (PDF - 738 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Flemington Racecourse (PDF - 705 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park (PDF - 684 KB) | (RTF - 19 KB)
- Warrumbungle National Park (PDF - 652 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Royal National Park and Garawarra State Conservation Area (PDF - 638 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Grampians National Park (Gariwerd) (PDF - 642 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Stirling Range National Park (PDF - 663 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Yea Flora Fossil Site (PDF - 613 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Ediacara Fossil Site ・Nilpena (PDF - 161 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Sydney Harbour Bridge (PDF - 644 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Echuca Wharf (PDF - 656 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (PDF - 650 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Fraser Island (PDF - 555 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (PDF - 748 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Great Barrier Reef (PDF - 670 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Greater Blue Mountains (PDF - 707 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Heard and McDonald Islands (PDF - 606 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Kakadu National Park (PDF - 789 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Lord Howe Island Group (PDF - 766 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- Macquarie Island (PDF - 681 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Purnululu National Park (PDF - 708 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Shark Bay (PDF - 662 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Tasmanian Wilderness (PDF - 653 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (PDF - 630 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Wet Tropics of Queensland (PDF - 710 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Willandra Lakes Region (PDF - 602 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Dampier Archipelago (PDF - 572 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Former High Court of Australia (PDF - 715 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Cascades Female Factory (PDF - 1,090 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Coal Mines Historic Site (PDF - 690 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Darlington Probation Station (PDF - 694 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Cockatoo Island (PDF - 601 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Hyde Park Barracks (PDF - 664 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area (PDF - 708 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Old Government House and the Government Domain (PDF - 636 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Old Great North Road (PDF - 660 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Wave Hill Walk-Off Route (PDF - 667 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Point Cook Air Base (PDF - 567 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Brickendon Estate (PDF - 999 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- Woolmers Estate (PDF - 713 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- High Court鋒ational Gallery Precinct (PDF - 624 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Bonegilla Migrant Camp ・Block 19 (PDF - 675 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- Bondi Beach (PDF - 744 KB) | (RTF - 15 KB)
- Mount William Stone Hatchet Quarry (PDF - 668 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Cyprus Hellene Club ・Australian Hall (PDF - 608 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Myall Creek Massacre and Memorial Site (PDF - 665 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout (PDF - 773 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Australian Alps (PDF - 783 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- QANTAS Hangar ・Longreach (PDF - 639 KB) | (RTF - 16 KB)
- Elizabeth Springs (PDF - 819 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Witjira-Dalhousie Springs (PDF - 607 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Porongurup National Park (PDF - 846 KB) | (RTF - 17 KB)
- Cheetup rock shelter (PDF - 640 KB) | (RTF - 18 KB)
- Protecting Australia's National Heritage (PDF - 616 KB) | (RTF - 28 KB)
About this publication
A message from the Minister
Welcome to the second edition of Australia's National Heritage celebrating the 87 special places on Australia's National Heritage List.
Australia's heritage places are a source of great national pride. Each and every site tells a unique Australian story. These places and stories have laid the foundations of our shared national identity upon which our communities are built.
The treasured places and their stories featured throughout this book represent Australia's remarkably diverse natural environment. Places such as the Glass House Mountains and the picturesque Australian Alps. Other places celebrate Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture - the world's oldest continuous culture on earth - through places such as the Brewarrina Fish Traps and Mount William Stone Hatchet Quarry. Australia's built heritage is highlighted through sites as varied as the Echuca Wharf and the Mawson's Huts Historic Site in Antarctica.
Several places featured in this book, like Bondi Beach, are well known both here and overseas. Bondi, arguably the home of Australia's first surf lifesaving club, is one of the world's most famous beaches and epitomises Australia's open-to-all-comers beach culture.
Other locations on the National Heritage List are important for combining remarkable natural and Indigenous qualities. Witjira-Dalhousie Springs, for example, is in the largest artesian system in the world: Australia's Great Artesian Basin. These Springs are special, not only as a home for distinct species of plants and animals, but they also hold significant meaning to the Indigenous people of Australia as a place long associated with traditional stories and songs.
Our heritage places and stories are increasingly recognised as an important driver of regional economies. Places on our National Heritage List are drawcards for domestic and international tourists. When people visit these places they are helping others build sustainable livelihoods through their support of local businesses and service industries in towns and cities across Australia. This is why in 2009 the Australian Government provided $60 million through the $650 million Jobs Fund initiative for high priority heritage conservation projects; the largest ever investment in Australia's heritage.
I hope you enjoy reading Australia's National Heritage, the richness and diversity of Australia's stories are wonderful to check out.
The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP
Australian Government Minister for
the Environment, Heritage and the Arts
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