Four Canberra places spanning the city's pastoral beginnings, architectural development and growth of the public service have been recognised in new ACT Heritage Council decisions.

When the internet went down, people politely queued at phone booths on NSW’s south coast to share tales of survival and heartbreak with the outside world

Archeologists warn AI summaries can repeat false claims about 12,000-year-old rock art from Western Australia’s Kimberley region being painted by aliens

Unless a new generation takes up the trade, the craft will be lost to time, and the buildings with it.

More than a century after Australian troops fought in one of their bloodiest battles, a team of archaeologists and Australian Defence Force veterans has returned from […]

Secure your place at AAA2026 and connect with Australia’s archaeology and heritage community. Join us in Adelaide/Tarntanya from 1-4 December 2026.

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The idea of archaeology as adventure predates the discipline itself.

Eleven Aboriginal organisations across Western Australia's Mid West and Gascoyne regions have received grants to boost their cultural heritage management services and help them meet growing…

Nearly 43% of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Europe are now highly vulnerable to climate-related risks.

If you search Google Images for "cultural heritage Australia," near the top of the results is a photograph of giant carved stone heads rising from a red desert.

Thousands of missing shipwrecks and plane wrecks lie along the Australian coast, many containing the remains of people killed. The US military, archaeologists and local volunteers are determined to…

Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.

La Trobe University has appointed Wiradjuri archaeologist Dr Kellie Pollard as its inaugural Wurruwila Wutja Research Fellow.Joining from Charles Darwin University, Dr Pollard's research brings…

Townsville's Great Northern Hotel, built in 1900, partially collapses after a fire that took firefighters hours to bring under control.

Despite their name, Tasmanian devils could be found across mainland Australia thousands of years ago.

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Amid an ongoing parliamentary inquiry, the National Trust has announced it will undertake an organisational review.

Western Australia's heritage department has asked the City of Busselton for more information on proposed works overlapping a registered Aboriginal heritage site.On July 29, City of Busselton…

The space-age looking, heritage-listed Callam Offices in Woden that the ACT Government is looking to sell would be best used…

A favourite piece of Wollongong greenery is giving up its secret for future residents' benefit

Before it was streets and suburbs, Melbourne was a rich landscape of forests, swamps and grasslands. The new Map of the Month from University of Melbourne researchers is rebuilding it for the first…

While sorting through animal bones in a rock shelter in Queensland, Australia, archaeologists came across a tooth where something was "not quite right." Stuck to the tip of its root was a…

WA Government grants provided under the Native Title Party Capacity Building Program are helping Aboriginal organisations expand their workforces, improve governance and enhance services that support…

Researchers say that past exposure to sulfur dioxide is likely to blame for the increased porosity of the Murujuga rock art created by the Ngarda-Ngarli people tens of thousands of years ago

The elusive Deadwater wreck is Western Australia's longest-running maritime mystery, encompassing colonial eyewitness accounts, artefacts tenuously linked to the wreck, and vivid folklore involving…

Slithering across the ceiling of an Australian rock shelter is a giant snake with a crocodile-like head, razor-sharp teeth and a long tongue. It's more than 6 meters (20 feet) long, making it one of…

Join Heritage Victoria curator Annie Muir to hear about archaeological sites in Victoria where Chinese ceramic artefacts have been found.

Mining companies had believed Pilungah Reserve on Queensland's border with the Northern Territory held critical minerals. Now, three generations of traditional owners have gathered on country to…

RSVP on Humanitix - Dr Laila Haglund Memorial. Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Pl, Camperdown NSW 2050, Australia. Monday 14th September 2026. Find event information.

It's been a widely held belief that Indonesian seafarers had contact with Indigenous Australians prior to British colonisation.

The Shire of Victoria Plains has become the second local government in the Yued Agreement Area to sign up to the 'Noongar Heritage Agreement - Local Government'.Under the agreement, the Shire will…

Dr Anna Florin, Lecturer in Archaeological Science at the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology, has received Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities.…

The 134-year-old Lapstone Hill Tunnel was used to store munitions in World War II and later became a mushroom farm. Now there are calls to make it a link between two towns in the Lower Blue Mountains.

Canberra's bus shelters were described as "concrete monstrosities" when installed in 1975 but have since been noted for their brutalist architectural style and functionality.

School of Social Science Position: Lecturer in Archaeology Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent Salary: $119,462 – $141,545 + 17% Superannuation (Academic

Yued Aboriginal Corporation has collaborated with Archae-Aus to seek Aboriginal Heritage protection for the place widely known as Lake Ninan in the Shire of WonganBallidu.An application for…

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GUILDFORD’S much loved 1897 Post Office is ready to reveal a new layer of its story – and the community is invited to help uncover it.

Nearly four centuries after the Batavia wrecked, a new study about its precious cargo shows that stories can indeed be written in stone.

Six Aboriginal organisations have secured more than $416,000 to safeguard culturally significant sites scattered across Western Australia's Pilbara.The state government's Preserve, Promote and…

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Kelly Ann Blake shares knowledge and perspectives on the deep relationship and connection of dingoes to Aboriginal people and Country.