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Endangered Heritage in Australia

ICOMOS identfies in it's 'Heritage at Risk World Report 2011-2013 on Monuments and Sites in Danger' publication the main risks to immovable culutral heritage in Australia as flooding, fires and other natural hazards which will increase in frequency due to climate change.

Wikimedia activity in Australia

Wikimedia Australia chapter was created in 2008, Australia has never taken part in Wiki Loves Monuments but has taken part in Wiki Loves Earth in 2016.

Immovable cultural heritage management in Australia

ICOMOS identfies in it's 'Heritage at Risk World Report 2011-2013 on Monuments and Sites in Danger' publication identifies human processes and a lack of public sector resourcing as major threats to immovable cultural heritage. ICOMOS identified that public sector resourcing includes 'a lack of government support and leadership for heritage with no national strategy or adequate resourcing for heritage protection', there was a systematic failure of the planning system to protect heritage within the planning system especially mining and urban development. Additionally government definition of heritage does not properly take into account Indigenous heritage. This implies we would need to work with indigenous communities as well as with the official government register.

Legal protection for immovable cultural heritage works in Australia

The Australian Heritage Database holds information including comprehensive CC-BY licensed descriptions and images about more than 20,000 natural, historic and Indigenous places.The Australian Heritage Database includes all sites listed on the following protected lists:

World Heritage List
National Heritage List
Commonwealth Heritage list
Register of the National Estate
List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia
places under consideration, or that may have been considered for, any one of these lists.

Policy decisions on access to public information

All state heritage registers are available within the Australian Heritage Database, the database including the descriptions of all the sites are available under CC-BY-SA 3.0. These descriptions could be used as stub Wikipedia articles.

Legislations hindering the distribution of pictures in Australia

Freedom of panorama allowed in Australia