World Heritage
Australia currently boasts 41 sites of natural and cultural significance on the global World Heritage list, including Queensland’s Fraser Island, Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics.
The Greens want to see Cape York Peninsula added to the World Heritage list with traditional owner consent, and listing of Tasmania’s spectacular Tarkine forests.
Sadly the Government is falling well short in upholding our international obligations to look after our world heritage. UNESCO have expressed “extreme concern” about the dredging and industrial development in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
The Greens will continue to work for world-class protection and management of our World Heritage Areas.
media-releases
14 May 2012
New research identifying greater dangers for whales from the Government’s plans for increased fossil fuel exports should ...
media-releases
09 May 2012
The devil is in the detail for Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef, with the Government’s failure to extend the s...
media-releases
04 May 2012
Less than three weeks after Queensland Environment Minister Andrew Powell conceded that Gladstone harbour was a mess, he has gi...
media-releases
18 Apr 2012
World Heritage Day is a wake-up call to save the internationally renowned Great Barrier Reef from the devastating impacts of ma...
committee
18 Apr 2012
The Australian Greens share the “extreme concern” expressed by UNESCO about the current management of the Great Bar...
media-releases
14 Mar 2012
The first independent scientific investigation of the marine life contamination in Gladstone harbour still hasn’t prompte...
media-releases
14 Mar 2012
Australians are overwhelmingly opposed to the Government’s approvals for dumping of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Ree...
media-releases
07 Mar 2012
The health and future of Australia’s World Heritage icon, the Great Barrier Reef, is under investigation as Australian Gr...
video
06 Mar 2012
Senator Larissa Waters talks to the hosts of Channel Ten Breakfast about the health and future of the Great Barrier Reef.
audio
06 Mar 2012
Senator Larissa Waters talks to ABC 702 Sydney about UNESCO's mission to investigate the health of the Great Barrier Reef.
