Geographies of Australian Heritages

Roy Jones Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Brian J. Shaw The University of Western Australia.

• Contents: Introduction: geographies of Australian heritages, Roy Jones and Brian J. Shaw; Heritage protection in Australia: the legislative and bureaucratic framework, Graeme Aplin; Australia and world heritage, Graeme Aplin; The changing geographies of Australia's wilderness heritage, C. Michael Hall; Aborigines, bureaucrats and cyclones: the ABC of running an innovative heritage tourism operation, Marion Hercock; Waltzing the heritage icons: 'swagmen', 'squatters' and 'troopers' at North West Cape, Roy Jones, Colin Ingram and Andrew Kingham; Fixed traditions and locked-up heritages: misrepresenting indigeneity, Wendy Shaw; A work in progress: aboriginal people and pastoral cultural heritage in Australia, Nicholas Gill and Alistair Paterson; Lobethal the Valley of Praise: inventing tradition for the purposes of place making in rural South Australia, Matthew W. Rofe and Hilary P.M. Winchester; Perth's Commonwealth Games heritage, whose value at what price?, Catherine Kennewell and Brian J. Shaw; Port, sport and heritage: Fremantle's unholy trinity?, Roy Jones; Places worth keeping, Rosemary Rosario; Reshaping the 'sunburnt country': heritage and cultural politics in contemporary Australia, William S. Logan; Index.

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