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The Australian National Heritage List or National Heritage List (NHL) is a
heritage register This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many i ...
, a list of national heritage places deemed to be of outstanding heritage significance to Australia, established in 2003. The list includes natural and historic places, including those of cultural significance to
Indigenous Australians Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
such as
Aboriginal Australian sacred site An Australian Aboriginal sacred site is a place deemed significant and meaningful by Aboriginal Australians based on their beliefs. It may include any feature in the landscape, and in coastal areas, these may lie underwater. The site's status i ...
s. Having been assessed against a set list of criteria, once a place is put on the National Heritage List, the provisions of the ''
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 The ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and cult ...
'' (''EPBC Act'') apply. All places on this list can be found on the online
Australian Heritage Database The Australian Heritage Database is a searchable online database of heritage sites in Australia. It is maintained by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment , in consultation with Australian Heritage Council. There are more than ...
, along with other places on other Australian and world heritage listings.


History

The National Heritage List was established in 2003 by an amendment to the ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999''. The National Heritage List, together with the
Commonwealth Heritage List The Commonwealth Heritage List is a heritage register established in 2003, which lists places under the control of the Australian government, on land or in waters directly owned by the Crown (in Australia, the Crown in right of the Commonwealth ...
, replaced the former
Register of the National Estate The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007. Phasing out began in 2003, when the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Herita ...
, which was closed and archived in 2007. Places on the National Heritage List are places of outstanding heritage value for Australia, while the Commonwealth Heritage List are heritage places that are owned or controlled by the
Commonwealth of Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...
.


Criteria for listing

The National Heritage List is a list of places deemed to be of outstanding heritage significance to Australia. Once on the list, the provisions of the ''EPBC Act'' apply. To be included on the list, a nominated place is assessed by the
Australian Heritage Council The Australian Heritage Council is the principal adviser to the Australian Government on heritage matters. It was established on 19 February 2004 by the ''Australian Heritage Council Act 2003''. The Council replaced the Australian Heritage Commis ...
against nine criteria: * importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history * possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history * potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia's natural or cultural history * importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of Australia's natural or cultural places or environments * importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by a community or cultural group * importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period * strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons * special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in Australia's natural or cultural history * importance as part of Indigenous tradition. In addition, the place must pass a "significance threshold"; it must have 'outstanding' heritage value to the nation as a whole. This is determined by comparison to other similar places. Once the Heritage Council has made an assessment, it forwards a recommendation to the Minister for the Environment, who shall make a determination.


Composition

, the Australian National Heritage List comprised 120 heritage places as follows:


List

The Australian National Heritage List comprises these sites:


Notes

* One of 15 World Heritage places included in the National Heritage List on 21 May 2007. * Yard 4 North was added on 4 August 2009.


Further notes about table


See also

*
Commonwealth Heritage List The Commonwealth Heritage List is a heritage register established in 2003, which lists places under the control of the Australian government, on land or in waters directly owned by the Crown (in Australia, the Crown in right of the Commonwealth ...


References


External links


Australian National Heritage List
{{Authority control National Heritage List Lists of tourist attractions in Australia Heritage registers in Australia 2003 establishments in Australia Australian culture-related lists Australia environment-related lists