• Australian Heritage Web Sites
  
  
• Archives Authority of New South Wales
  Includes access to the Concise Guide to the State Archives
• Australian Museums On Line
  Museums at your fingertips
• State Library of New South Wales
  Includes the State Library catalogue
• Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists
  Choose 'Archaeological Associations in Australia' from the menu. Includes the AACA archaeological consultants' register
• Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA)
  Includes AIMA's searchable Australian National Shipwreck Database
• Australian Society for Historical Archaeology
  Choose 'Australian Historical Archaeology' from the menu.
• National Trust - (New South Wales)
  A voluntary body concerned with the conservation and protection of natural and cultural heritage in NSW. includes speech by Peter Garrett
• National Trust of Australia
  Includes 'Endangered Places' list and links to State National Trust offices and International Network of National Trusts. The National Trust of Australia is a community based organisation committed to conserving Australia's heritage. The organisation is part of an international network of National Trusts.
• Organ Historical Trust of Australia
  
  
• Professional Historians Association NSW Inc
  Includes links to many history sites, history events and the PHA consultants' register
• Royal Australian Historical Society
  
• Australia's Cultural Network
  Gateway to Australian cutural organisations, websites, resources, news, events
• Australian Heritage Commission
  Includes the Register of the National Estate
• Australian World Heritage Areas
  Links to international sites
• Environment Australia
  Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Heritage
• Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
  Includes the Trust's museums, exhibitions and houses. The Trust manages 13 museums and historic sites in NSW.
• National Parks and Wildlife Service (NSW)
  Includes Aboriginal Heritage
• ICOMOS
  The International Council on Monuments and Sites is an international, non-government organisation of professionals dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites.
• NSW Heritage legislation
  NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 - updated 14 june 2000
  NSW Heritage Act, 1977 - updated 14 July 2000
  NSW Heritage Amendment Act 1996 - Schedule 1
  NSW National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974
  
• Commonwealth Heritage legislation
  Australian Heritage Commissions Act, 1975
  Historic Shipwrecks Act, 1976
  Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986
  World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984
  
• Parramatta Heritage and Visitors Centre
  
• Environment Australia
  A federal government agency which is part of the Department of Environment and Heritage. Environment Australia comprises the following groups, Australian and World Heritage, Biodiversity, Environment Protection, the Marine Group and the Supervising Scientist. The parent body, the Department of Environment and Heritage, is also responsible for the Australian Heritage Commission, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Australian Antarctic Division, the Greenhouse Office and the Bureau of Meteorology.
• Australian World Heritage Sites
  Australia has 13 sites inscribed on the World Heritage List. Information about these places, including management arrangements is available from this site.
• National Wilderness Inventory
  An environmental database designed to identify areas of Australia possessing "wilderness quality".
• Australian Heritage Commission
  The Commonwealth Government's policy advisory body on the National Estate.
• New South Wales Heritage Office
  provides specialist advice and administrative support to the Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning, the Heritage Council of NSW and the wider community about the management of heritage across New South Wales.
• National Parks and Wildlife Service
  The site includes a list of all national parks in NSW and links to information about the Aboriginal Sites Register.
• New South Wales State Heritage Inventory
  A computerised database of over 17,500 heritage places and objects in NSW.
• Unesco's World Heritage Centre
  Based in Paris, France. It was set up in 1992 to assure the day to day management of the World Heritage Convention. More than 150 countries, including Australia, adhere to the Convention, making it an almost universal legal instrument for the protection of cultural and natural heritage.
• IUCN.
  The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, also known as the World Conservation Union was established in 1948. It is a union of governments, government agencies and non-government organisations working in the field and at policy levels, together with scientists and experts, to protect nature.
• ICCROM
  The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property was founded by Unesco in 1956. It is an intergovernmental organisation concerned with conserving all types of heritage whether movable or immovable. The Centre stands as a clearinghouse for information, provides professional training opportunites and promotes awareness of the world's cultural heritage.
• Register of the National Estate
  The Register is Australia's nation-wide inventory of natural and cultural heritage places.
• Australian National Historic Shipwreck Database
  The database is funded by the Commonwealth Government and each State and Territory Government. It is coordinated by the Australian Institute for Maritme Archaeology at the Western Australian Museum.
• New South Wales Heritage Office provides specialist advice and administrative support to the Minister for Urban Affairs and Planning, the Heritage Council of NSW and the wider community about the management of heritage across New South Wales.
• National Parks and Wildlife Service The site includes a list of all national parks in NSW and links to information about the Aboriginal Sites Register.
• New South Wales State Heritage Inventory is a computerised database of over 17,500 heritage places and objects in NSW.
• New South Wales Government - Home Page
• Urban Affairs and Planning, Dept of - NSW
• Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs, Dept of - South Australia
• Heritage Canada & Parks Canada
• Heritage Council of Western Australia
• Heritage Victoria
• Northern Territory Dept of Environment, Lands & Planning
• Qld Dept of Environment & Conservation - Heritage in Queensland
• Queensland: Queensland Heritage Act, 1992 (Use the free Acrobat Reader).
• Queensland: Cultural Record (Landscapes Queensland and Queensland Estate)
• Act, 1987 (Use the free Acrobat Reader).
• South Australia: Heritage Act 1993
• South Australia: Historic Shipwrecks Act, 1981
• Tasmania: Historic Cultural Heritage Act, 1995
• Victoria: Heritage Act, 1995
• Western Australia: Maritime Archaeology Act, 1973
• World of Old Houses - (Helpful maintenance hints & links)
• ACT Heritage Council is the ACT Government's advisory body on heritage matters.
• ACT Heritage List The ACT Heritage List includes places and objects in the ACT which have been entered into a heritage register, are being assessed for entry or been identified as having possible heritage significance.
• Environment ACT The Heritage Section of Environment ACT provides administrative and operational support to the Heritage Council.
• ACT Heritage Objects Act 1991
• ACT Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991
  
• Dept of Communications and the Arts provides policy advice and program support to the Australian Government on arts, information technology and communications issues.
• Australia Council
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
• ACT Heritage Grants
• Heritage Victoria provides professional advice and administrative support to the Heritage Council Victoria, the State's main decision-making body on heritage issues. Heritage Victoria maintains an online list of recent Victorian heritage registrations.
• Natural Resources and Environment The Department is responsible for balancing the development and protection of Victoria's natural resource base, including resource and industry development, land identification, and the protection, conservation and management of Victoria's natural environment. Within this Department, Parks Victoria manages over 4 million hectares of the State's national and regional environmental, recreational and tourism attractions including a number of significant historic places.
• National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is a voluntary organisation committed to the conservation of heritage in Victoria.
• Dept for Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs manages environmental policy, environmental protection, heritage, biodiversity and State Aboriginal Affairs
• South Australian Shipwrecks Database is a database of shipwrecks for South Australia. This forms part of a national database of wreck sites coordinated by the Australian Institute of Maritime Archaeology at the WA Museum on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of Communications and the Arts.
• Heritage Act 1993
• Historic Shipwrecks Act 1981
• Dept of Primary Industries, Water and Environment This new Department incorporates the former Department of Environment and Land Management. It is responsible for Primary Industries, Fisheries and Marine Resources, Land and Water Resources, Land Use Planning and Environmental Management, Parks and Wildlife and Government Laboratory Services.

  The Tasmanian Heritage Council is a statutory body responsible to the Minister of Primary Industries, Water and Environment. The THC maintains a heritage register of nearly 5000 places.

• National Trust of Australia (Tasmania) is a community based organisation which aims to preserve Tasmania's heritage for future generations.
• Aboriginal Affairs Department. aims to achieve social and economic equality for Aboriginal people in Western Australia through the effective administration and coordination of Aboriginal Affairs across Government, measures to protect and maintain Aboriginal heritage and culture, and by assisting with land management. The Department maintains a Register on some 15,000 Aboriginal sites throughout Western Australia.
• Department of Conservation and Land Management. is the government agency responsible for the management of WA's national parks, conservation parks, marine parks, State forests and timber reserves, nature reserves, and marine nature reserves.
• The Heritage Council of Western Australia. is the State's advisory body on heritage matters and focuses on places, buildings and sites. It maintains a Register of Heritage Places which lists places of cultural heritage significance to the community in Western Australia
• Heritage Advisory Council The Council advises the Minister for Lands, Planning and Environment on a range of heritage functions.
• Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, NT
• Parks and Wildlife Commission of the Northern Territory The site lists all parks and reserves in the NT.
• NT Heritage List An online list of heritage places and objects declared under the Heritage Conservation Act 1991.
• NT Heritage Conservation Act 1996
• National Trust of Australia (NT)is a community based organisation with a charter to preserve the heritage of the NT.
• Dept of Environment and Heritage. manages Queensland's national parks and wildlife, nature conservation, marine parks, cultural heritage, Aboriginal and Torres Stait Islander cultural land interests, wet tropics, environmental planning, pollution and waste management.
• Queensland Heritage Register is a list of places, trees, natural formations and buildings of cultural heritage significance managed by the Department of Environment and Heritage.
• National Trust of Queensland is a voluntary organisation which aims to identify, preserve and promote Queensland's heritage.
• Canada ICOMOS. The Canadian Committee of the the International Committee on monuments and Sites fosters heritage conservation at the national and international level.
• Canadian Heritage encompasses a diverse range of government policies and programs including museums, libraries, the arts, broadcasting, multicultural affairs, cultural heritage and national parks.
• Parks Canada is the Government agency responsible for national parks, national historic sites and cultural heritage.
• English Heritage is the national government body responsible for the protection of the historic environment.
• New Zealand Historic Places Trust is a charitable trust established by an act of Parliament in 1954 and charged with the promotion and protection of New Zealand's historic places.
• U.S. National Trust for Historic Preservation, chartered by Congress in 1949, is a private, non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting historic properties and landscapes.
• Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The Council is an independent Federal Agency created by the National Trust for Historic Preservation Act, 1966 and is the major policy advisor to the Government in the field of historic preservation.
• U.S. ICOMOS The US National Committee of ICOMOS fosters heritage conservation and historic preservation at the national and international level.
• National Register of Historic Places is maintained by the US National Parks Service, and is the official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation.
• National Trust for Historic Preservation - US
• CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network - (A comprehensive gateway to Canadian heritage)
• Cultural Ministers Council
• English Heritage Archaeology homepage - (Plus links to related sites)

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