Monument and Heritage Site

The derelict Newstead House heritage museum was shut to the public in 2021 for repairs, but it is ready to hold a grand reopening.

For decades, visitors have driven, flown, hiked, and camped across Purnululu National Park without grasping its rich, cultural heritage but future visitors won't miss out. 

Two Just Stop Oil activists sprayed orange paint on Stonehenge to demand a phase-out of fossil fuels.

The local council in Robe, in South Australia's south-east, has decided to not spend ratepayers' money to investigate saving the town's famous obelisk from falling into the sea.

Home owners in a 'War Workers Housing Estate' in Brisbane will learn whether they've won the right to change their homes, this weekend.

Some of the most popular places for tourists to visit in South Australia's south-east have been closed for years. Now, the local council is taking over the leases on two of the city's biggest attractions, upsetting the current operators.

The 1,800-seat stand has been a fixture at the Brisbane Showgrounds for more than a century and Ekka organisers say it needs "urgent attention".

Along with seven bedrooms, almost 6 hectares of gardens, and servants' quarters with a Downton Abbey-like bell system, this heritage-listed property up for auction in the Blue Mountains comes with an interesting backstory.

The crumbling 120-year-old riverside property in Brisbane has been saved by its wealthy new owners and a team of craftspeople.

They were once described as the "opera house" of fuel stops, and tonight the sails over the service stations at the foot of the West Gate Bridge — created in 1989 — will be considered for heritage protection by Melbourne City Council.

A colonial-era statue honouring a former premier who mutilated the body of an Aboriginal man is vandalised on the eve of a tribunal decision on its planned removal.

Residents of a tiny town in the NSW Riverina region are battling to save their historic bakery from becoming a petrol station, as regional areas prove attractive servo investments. 

Protesters rally against the proposed redevelopment of the historic Crown and Anchor hotel in Adelaide's CBD into a multistorey student accommodation building.

One of the world's most coveted urban skateboarding locations is facing an uncertain future, as Perth property developers plan to turn the site into a retail and commercial office space.

The SS South Steyne, NSW's only heritage-listed vessel, sailed its maiden voyage on Sydney Harbour 86 years ago. But the prized ferry has been without a home on the harbour going on eight years as waterfront property takes precedence.

The skills needed to maintain the historic structures in Kiama's hinterland are in short supply as property owners seek to preserve the walls for future generations.

WA's environment minister says the state opposition is confusing the community and giving people the false impression that tourism at the falls will stop.

Kim Beazley is one of several former Labor leaders and other public figures to sign an open letter claiming Aboriginal rock art on the Burrup peninsula is under threat. 

Family members are raising the alarm over vandalism and allegedly paved over burial sites, as Carnarvon's historic cemetery lost heritage protection.

The graves of Captain Moonlite and James Nesbitt are being considered for the state heritage register, not only for their notoriety as colonial-era criminals, but for their publicly acknowledged same-sex relationship.

The descendants of Alexander Lusher, captain of the SS Nemesis, say seeing the place where his ship was wrecked off the NSW coast has "brought to life … a story that has been in our family forever".

Mark and Judy Evans purchased a dilapidated tourist spot with its very own castle 30 years ago. They say its success is due to the park's 100-year history. 

Section 18 was the controversial mechanism that led to the destruction of caves at Juukan Gorge in 2020, and this application is among the first since the WA government changed the law in response to the incident.

A fire that destroyed a heritage building has a silver lining for students at a local school who are being taught stone masonry skills to restore it.  

Western Australia's newly amended cultural heritage laws are being put to the test for the first time, six months after the state government was forced to backflip on its decision to introduce controversial sweeping legislative changes.