The right to protect sites

<p>A large and profitable Indigenous heritage management industry has emerged in the wake of the resources boom of recent decades with thousands of Indigenous heritage impact assessments conducted every year. Yet few governments have successfully reformed heritage laws to accommodate native title rights and conflict over site destruction is regularly front page news.</p><p>The right to protect sites brings together a range of authors who explore native title and Indigenous heritage regimes around the country and charts the history of advocacy and policy development highlighting the successes limitations inequalities and opportunities of current arrangements.</p>