- Title
- From museum to living cultural landscape : governing Tasmania’s wilderness world heritage
- Creator
- Lee, Emma; Richardson, Benjamin
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/191517
- Identifier
- vital:17847
- Identifier
- ISSN:1835-0186
- Abstract
- At Melaleuca, in the remote southwest of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area ('TWWHA'), visitors may encounter the Needwonnee Aboriginal Walk. Established in 2011 by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service in consultation with the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, the Walk is an interpretive nature trail over 1.2 kilometres that educates visitors about the lives of this ancient Aboriginal culture and their environs. Most of the interpretive installations are ephemeral, fashioned from organic materials in the local landscape, and include huts, tools, baskets, shell necklaces and a paperbark canoe. The area today is unoccupied except for the few intrepid tourists seeking an iconic 'wilderness' experience. Despite the good intentions behind creation of the Needwonnee Aboriginal Walk, it conveys the impression of a past or extinct culture now memorialised in an outdoors museum, without any voice and no longer heard. Yet many Aboriginal representatives in Tasmania see the TWWHA as 'belonging to a much larger living cultural landscape and seascape' that should be managed jointly with Aboriginal communities.
- Publisher
- University of New South Wales
- Relation
- Australian Indigenous Law Review Vol. 20, no. 1 (2017), p. 78-107
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ 2018 University of New South Wales
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Subject
- 4804 Law in context; Aboriginal Australians; Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure; Corporate culture; Cultural landscapes; Indigenous peoples; Land tenure; Laws, regulations and rules; Management; Protection and preservation; Tasmanian aborigines; Wilderness areas
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