Whilst Anglo-Saxons have only been present in Australia for a few hundred years, our Indigenous people have inhabited this land for as many as 65 000 years. In Australia there has been a devastating loss of Indigenous heritage with their languages, beliefs and customs often being forgotten. This is a result of a cultural identity that wasn’t values and therefore not protected by conservation policies. As a result many indigenous people feel like there is a missing link to their ancestral roots, to share with future …show more content…
So to understand the values held in a city the society must first be decoded, as the surface appearance can often be biased. In decoding Australia’s heritage and conservation policies, we can surface a nexus between the neglect of indigenous heritage and a long history of racial undertones uprising from conflicting values and cultural identities. Australia’s written history has been I biased one in the past. The education on this topic has focused on the British colonisation and has made little mention of the stolen generation. This has formed a battle between heritages, a cultural war which is still occurring today. Do our heritage and conservation policies reflect this? The ‘Australian Heritage Commission ACT’ was established in 1975 to protect sites that are believed to hold national and cultural value, however it wasn’t until 1984 that the ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act’ legislation was passed by parliament. This Act allows the Commonwealth of Australia to intervene when necessary to preserve and protect sites that are of historic significance to Indigenous or