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ACT = Australian Capital Territory; HH = historic heritage; IH = Indigenous heritage; n.d. = no data; NH = natural heritage (including geoheritage); UCH = underwater cultural heritage; UCH Act 2018 = Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018

Notes:

1. There may be anomalies in the figures for 2015–16 between this report and the state of the environment 2016 report due to the different way in which the figures were collected. The figures for Victoria are annual totals for the Living Heritage Grants Program recombined from subprogram figures, in many cases for more than 1 year (in this case, even annual funding has been assumed). The figures also may not include all heritage grant funding for the period considered, but are believed to include the main grant funding for heritage.
2. This table only includes grant funding for heritage conservation. Protected area grant funding is not included, as grant funding for protected area conservation is not comparable. Protected area grant funding and the National Environmental Science Program funding focuses on protected area management, biodiversity conservation and environmental management, but a portion of this funding goes to natural heritage conservation.
3. This grant funding can be for places in private ownership, government-owned places and/or nongovernment organisations (NGOs). In South Australia, the Northern Territory (NT) and Western Australia (WA), the historic heritage–focused grant funding goes to heritage places in private ownership, with funding to government-owned heritage and NGOs provided separately. In WA, funding also goes to the Roebourne Gaol and to Fremantle Prison (a World Heritage and National Heritage place). Tasmania’s grant funding goes predominantly to Woolmers Estate, a World Heritage and National Heritage place, and additional funding is provided to the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, a government-owned heritage place, and to the National Trust (Tas). In 2019–20, the NT also provided $435,000 for government-owned places and $136,000 as an operational grant to the National Trust (NT).

Source: McConnell (2021d)

– = not requested; ACT = Australian Capital Territory; DAWE = Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment; FTE = full-time equivalent; HH = HH = historic heritage; IH = Indigenous heritage; MPA = marine protected area; n/a = not available; n.d. = no data; NH = natural heritage (including geoheritage); NSW = New South Wales; NT = Northern Territory; Qld = Queensland; SA = South Australia; TPA = terrestrial protected area; UCH = underwater cultural heritage; UCH Act 2018 = Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018; WA = Western Australia

1. Departmental staff numbers, not agency staff numbers.

Notes:

1. Figures are end of financial year figures.
2. Figures in brackets are agency or department figures already reported (in line above) and indicate that the heritage being reported is managed by the same agency or department.
3. FTE staff figures are for employees and in general exclude casuals, contractors, consultants and board members. No data were requested on Indigenous FTE staff in relation to UCH, so these categories have been omitted. As the WA Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage did not exist until 2017, it has not been possible to obtain figures for 2016. The NSW marine protected area data are draft data and may not be 100% accurate. For Qld, there is likely to be some overlap of staffing numbers in relation to protected area staff, given that joint arrangements are in place between the state and the Australian Government for management of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The SA and WA protected area staff numbers have been rounded to whole numbers.
4. In relation to heritage in both the ACT and Qld, 1 Indigenous heritage staff position was vacant at the time the data were provided.
5. In relation to protected area management, the number of science/heritage expert staff provided does not necessarily reflect the science/heritage expert staff who work on, or are available to work on, protected area conservation. For NSW, scientific expertise sits within the broader department, and the figures provided are for the National Parks and Wildlife Service heritage expert staff only. For Tasmania, the Parks and Wildlife Service draws on the scientific expertise in the parent department, the Department of Primary Industries, Water and the Environment (which in 2016 had 120 FTE scientific staff (and 22 FTE Indigenous staff), and in 2020 had 100 FTE scientific staff (and 51 FTE Indigenous staff). For SA, all staffing figures provided are for the Department of Environment and Water, and not the SA National Parks and Wildlife Service. Parks Victoria provided the following science/heritage expert staff breakdown: 8 Aboriginal heritage FTEs, 1.8 historic heritage FTEs and 12 environmental scientist FTEs at June 2016, and 22.64 Aboriginal heritage FTEs, 2.8 historic heritage FTEs and 20 environmental scientist FTEs at June 2016. In relation to terrestrial protected areas, the WA FTE staff agency figures do not include the Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, or the Rottnest Island Authority; and the SA staff agency 2020 figure does not include botanic gardens staff at 3 sites in SA (although these staff were included in the previous state of the environment report).

Source: McConnell (2021d)