The Meaning of Water

national heritage regime which aims to give Australians a list of natural, Indigenous and historic places with ‘outstanding heritage value to the nation.’ However, Australians need to know a lot more facts about their past and about historical impacts on our society before there is widespread support for new approaches to heritage conservation. As most heritage practitioners know, heritage is a social and political process, at times uncomfortable, but the results create a cultural legacy in which we all share. This book offers lots of ideas about the nature of heritage, has good case studies and an academic approach to the issues based on many years experience. It does not offer any case studies based on the archaeological analysis familiar to readers of Australian Archaeology. The author is critical of the current structures of heritage assessment and management but does not clearly spell out new directions which she considers heritage should take to resolve the criticisms.