Indigenous people have had a few new opportunities of late, in the form of international cultural heritage legislation and particularly of the intangible kind, to protect their living cultures, remains, traditions, heritages and sacred art and objects. Australia is not a signatory to the International Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. In Australia, Indigenous peoples have been testing, in the courts, tribal claims against the use or misuse of the sacred bequests from their ancestors in the form of inappropriate and unauthorised copying of their art. They have...
Indigenous people have had a few new opportunities of late, in the form of international cultural heritage legislation and particularly of the intangi...