Protecting Australia's Cultural Heritage

Protecting Australia’s Cultural Heritage provides an informed, unbiased review on this topical issue.
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It is part of the series What’s the Issue? which aims to fill in the facts behind the headlines, developing students’ understanding of the issues they hear about in the media and assisting them to develop and justify their own opinions and arguments.
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Within a highly visual and engaging design this book comprehensively outlines the main aspects of cultural heritage and provides information to generate discussion and thinking, including questions that invite students to think about their own views on the issue.
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Special features:
• complex issues written clearly and simply, without bias or prejudice
• the issue defined and explained
• up-to-date facts
• a ‘Viewpoints’ page to guide further thinking and discussion
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Contents:
What’s the issue? Protecting Australia’s cultural heritage
What is Australia’s cultural heritage?
Why is Australia’s cultural heritage important?
How is Australia’s cultural heritage protected?
Indigenous heritage
Convict heritage
Maritime heritage
Wartime heritage
Migrant heritage
The future for of Australia’s cultural heritage
Viewpoint: Do we need greater protection for Australia’s cultural heritage