Cultural heritage
Protecting cultural heritage
Protecting our cultural heritage places is as important as looking after the natural environment. Once they're gone, they can never return.
Queensland 's cultural heritage is protected by the Queensland Heritage Act 1992, administered by the department to protect historical heritage places throughout the state. The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 and the Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage Act 2003 are administered by the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy.
Other organisations protecting our heritage are the Australian Heritage Council, local governments, the National Trust of Queensland, International Council on Monuments and Sites and local Indigenous communities and organisations.
Cultural heritage publications
- Cultural heritage protective management guidelines for nature refuge landholders
- Ceremonial sites: earthen rings and stone arrangements
- Coastal fringe wetlands: Cultural heritage values
- Fireplaces, hearths and ground ovens
- Fish traps and weirs
- Great Artesian Basin spring wetlands: Cultural heritage values
- Grinding grooves and implements
- Indigenous burials
- Indigenous contact places
- Landscape features and story places
- Middens
- Mounted native police
- Occupation sites: artefact scatters
- Occupation sites: dwellings
- Quarries and reduction sites
- Rock art sites
- Rock holes, wells and dams
- Scarred and carved trees
Last updated: 24 October 2008