by Samantha Mickan – Environmental Advisor | Sep 25, 2020 | Heritage
Long ago, before the Babylonians, Greeks, the Renaissance, and the age of Enlightenment, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island were reading the stars. The First Australians are the oldest continuing cultures in the world, stretching back over 65,000 years. This...
by Briana Diopenes | Jun 19, 2020 | Heritage
An Endangered Culture One to two Indigenous languages are being lost every year (Slattery 2016). Of more than 300 languages that existed pre-colonisation, fewer than half remain and all are considered endangered; many are considered critically endangered. Experts say...
by Brandon Ovens | May 19, 2020 | Heritage
Heritage in Western Australia is protected and regulated under two separate Acts – the WA Heritage Act 2018 and the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972. The current Aboriginal Heritage Act makes provisions on behalf of the community for the preservation of places and...
by Helen Chernoff & Bryanna Minchin | May 12, 2020 | Heritage
Heritage is important for understanding the story of Western Australia – its history, identity and its people. Heritage values can take the form of landmarks, buildings and their contents, structures, gardens, cemeteries, memorials, landscapes, archaeological sites...
by Bryanna Minchin | Apr 2, 2020 | Environment, Heritage
To Indigenous peoples, the term ‘country’ is the relationship between Indigenous people and their land and consists of many factors including flora, fauna, earth, air and water alongside Dreamings (Christopher P Burgess, 2009). Caring for Country was integrated...
by Samantha Mickan | Mar 27, 2020 | Heritage
When you think about cultural heritage, the first thing that may come to mind is artefacts lost in sand and time or places with a past life, where people walked and gathered hundreds maybe thousands of years ago. What you may not know is that cultural heritage extends...
