Natural and Cultural Heritage Theme Report  Australia State of
the Environment Report 2001 (Theme Report) Lead Author: Jane
Lennon, Jane Lennon and Associates Pty Ltd, Authors ISBN 0 643
06752 3     • Heritage and the State of the Environment   •
Heritage on a continental scale   • Jurisdiction - extent of
heritage legislation   • The Commonwealth's National Heritage
Places Strategy   • Implementing environmental indicators for
measuring the condition of the natural and cultural heritage   •
-->      Australian history is almost always picturesque... It
does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.
And all of a fresh new sort, no moldy old stale ones. It is full
of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and
contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they
happened.     - Mark Twain (1925)      This report discusses the
natural and cultural heritage places, objects and Indigenous
languages that are significant to Australians. Although heritage
considerations appear in man