UPDATE - the Uluru climbing ban is here!
The climbing ban for Uluru that was announced months ago finally arrives. The ban goes into effect Saturday, October 26, 2019. See A...
Uluru - impending tourist ban leads to increased tourism!
“Outsiders are cursed for disturbing the red-colored Uluru monolith reaching for the sky” Governments and agencies that oversee some...
Great Barrier Reef—UNESCO study is not good news
The Great Barrier Reef off the eastern coast of Australia is the largest reef system in the world. In 1981, the reef was designated a...
National legislation to support the Hague Convention for the protection of cultural property during
In 1954, the Hague Convention was developed largely in response to the recognition of the vast destruction of cultural property across...
Modernizing Queen Victoria’s Market in Melbourne
The history of public markets extends back into antiquity and has reached a resurgence in the revitalization of historic cities around...
Eureka! — with relief in sight, an exciting archaeological discovery in Australia
As the story goes, the famous mathematician Archimedes was in the bathtub when he made an important discovery—how the concept of...
The Gwion figures, part of Kimberley's rock art heritage
The Kimberley region of Western Australia is today extremely remote. Although it was the earliest region settled in Australia, today the...
Climate change tourism adds its own threats to the Great Barrier Reef
A number of studies have documented the real and potential threats to heritage sites around the world from climate change. Warmer ocean...
Rosemary Island’s early inhabitants adapted to the rise in sea level
Archaeologists working on an island off of Australia have discovered stone foundations of houses dating from the end of the last ice age....
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural and historical material now under new leadership
The South Australian Museum in Adelaide, South Australia, was founded in 1856. The museum is notable in large part for its large...