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What is happening with federal cultural heritage protection? The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 (Cth) (ATSIHPA) is long overdue for change. The Federal Government (Minister Plibersek and the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water) entered into a partnership with the First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance
Nyangumarta Country (Photo: Jacob Loughridge)
(FNHPA) to explore ways of improving (and modernising) cultural heritage protection legislation at a national level and engaging in a process of consultation about this. See, culturalheritage.org.au.