"Heritage protection" refers to efforts made to safeguard and preserve important cultural or historical places, objects, or practices that are considered valuable to a particular group of people or society as a whole. It involves taking measures to ensure these elements are respected, maintained, and passed on to future generations, so that they can continue to learn and benefit from them.
Full definition
This is a necessary requirement in order to establish a satisfactory system of prosecution and defence for violation
of heritage protection.
However, the developments within the common law of native title, and amendments to the Native Title Act have
placed heritage protection outside of a rights based discourse.
Currently young people across the world are increasingly involved
in heritage protection and promotion, recognizing that heritage does not only belong to the past, but is also part of their identity.
Additionally, there are significant differences between State and Territory
heritage protection laws and there are problems in how well each of them actually protects Indigenous cultural heritage.
The agreement sets out an
Aboriginal heritage protection protocol that requires developers to notify the Narungga Nations Aboriginal Corporation of when and where they plan to develop infrastructure so that the Narungga people can take steps to protect their cultural heritage sites.
A crucifix is among memorials dedicated to airmen in the First and Second World Wars that have been
given heritage protection to mark the centenary of the Royal Air Force.
Italian cultural heritage taskforce recovers some 900 works lost in Amatrice earthquake Italy's Comando Tutela Patrimonio Culturale (cultural
heritage protection taskforce) reports that it has recovered around 900 works of art that were believed lost in the wake of a devastating earthquake that shook the Amatrice region earlier this year.
However, developments within the common law of native title, and amendments to the Native Title Act 1993 (NTA) have placed
heritage protection outside of this broader frame.
(36) Therefore the Queensland Government intended that, for exploration permits proposed to pass through the procedure, there should be conditions providing
guaranteed heritage protection plus a well - established notification process, meetings, dispute resolution and arrangements for inspections.
Aboriginal
heritage protection laws were found to be a special measure in Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement v South Australia (Unreported, Supreme Court of South Australia, 25 August 1995) and the provision of rental assistance for Indigenous students, as a supplement to income support through Abstudy, were found to constitute a special measure to address the inequality in educational attainment by Indigenous peoples in Bruch v Commonwealth [2002] FMCA 29.
An accreditation standards framework was developed in the Evatt Report with a view to providing uniformity across the country on key aspects of State and Territory
Indigenous heritage protection legislation.
The report says patients shared concerns across a wide range of areas — from the undermining of homelands (that play important national roles including border security and environmental and cultural
heritage protection), particularly with the closure of key regional towns and the loss of critical health services, through to inadequate primary and secondary prevention strategies to inform people at risk of progressive kidney disease.
Information is also provided on the major components of the agreement, in relation to financial payments, whether or not provision is made for a trust to manage funds, employment and training, business development, cultural
heritage protection, environmental management, project monitoring and implementation and land title.
Indigenous
heritage protection (through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984);
The maps can also be used as a basis for cultural
heritage protection and management, and help monitor the impacts of The Living Murray.