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the World Heritage values in the EPBC Regulation, and are derived from the World Heritage Convention and its Operational Guidelines. They include:
  * managing the sites in a way that supports, sustains and transmits their identity as a serial listing where each of the parts contributes to the whole;
  * identifying, protecting, conserving, presenting, transmitting the World Heritage values of the sites;
  * integrating the protection and management of the sites into a comprehensive planning program;
  * giving the sites a function in the life of the local Australian and global communities;
  * strengthening appreciation and respect for World Heritage values;
  * taking the appropriate scientific, technical, legal, administrative and financial measures necessary for implementing these objectives;
  * providing for continuing community and technical input in managing the sites; and
  * managing the broad range of heritage values, both World Heritage and non-World Heritage, ensuring that achieving the long-term conservation of the property's World Heritage values is the overriding principle.

World Heritage Values
The Australian Convict Sites are recognised under World Heritage criteria (iv) and (vi) under the UNESCO Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention for its Outstanding Universal Value.
World Heritage Values
Criterion iv: An outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrate a significant stage/s in human history.
The Australian convict sites constitute an outstanding example of the way in which conventional forced labour and national prison systems were transformed, in major European nations in the 18th and 19th centuries, into a system of deportation and forced labour forming part of the British Empire's vast colonial project. They illustrate the variety of the creation of penal colonies to serve the many material needs created by the development of a new territory. They bear witness to a penitentiary system which had many objectives, ranging from severe punishment used as a deterrent to forced labour for men, women and children, and the rehabilitation of the convicts through labour and discipline
Criterion vi: Be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance.
The transportation of criminals, delinquents, and political prisoners to colonial lands by the great nation states between the 18th and 20th centuries is an important aspect of human history, especially with regard to its penal, political and colonial dimensions. The Australian convict settlements provide a particularly complete example of this history and the associated symbolic values derived from discussions in modern and contemporary European society. They illustrate an active phase in the occupation of colonial lands to the detriment of the Aboriginal peoples, and the process of creating a colonial population of European