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which illustrate the materials, construction techniques and technical skills employed in the construction of shipbuilding and dockyard facilities, remain important to Australia as an integral and irreplaceable part of its national cultural heritage.

World Heritage Listing
Cockatoo Island is one of eleven sites, described as the "Australian Convict Sites" that were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 31 July 2010. In this serial listing, the island is referred to as the 'Cockatoo Island Convict site'.
The other sites are:
  * Old Government House and Domain (Parramatta),
  * Hyde Park Barracks (Sydney)
  * Cockatoo Island Convict Site (Sydney)
  * Old Great North Road (Wiseman's Ferry)
  * Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area (Norfolk Island)
  * Port Arthur Historic Site (Port Arthur)
  * Cascades Female Factory (Hobart)
  * Darlington Probation Station (Maria Island)
  * Coal Mines Historic Site (Norfolk Bay)
  * Brickendon-Woolmers Estates (near Longford)
  * Fremantle Prison (Western Australia)
Collectively, the Australian Convict Sites demonstrate the range of convicts' experiences under various systems of control, punishment and reform.
Cockatoo Island Convict Site was included in the serial listing as an outstanding cultural landscape that depicts the pattern, management and lives of convict secondary offenders sentenced to hard labour on public works. The harshness of the punishment on the island was an important deterrent to criminals in Britain and the new colonies. The site was of particular strategic naval significance for Britain, for the new colony and for the development of the nation.

Australian Convict Sites Management Framework
The Australian Government has an international obligation to protect, conserve, present and transmit to future generations the World Heritage values of the Australian Convict Sites. Legislation and associated planning and protection instruments, such as the Australian Convict Sites Strategic Management Framework (2008) endorsed by the Australian government and the NSW, Tasmania, WA and Norfolk Island governments, recognises and complements the tiered statutory planning and management context that applies to the 11 places that comprise the Australian Convict Sites serial listing.
Implementation of the Framework is overseen by the Australian Convict Sites Steering Committee (ACSSC), which was established in 2010. The Harbour Trust is a member of the Steering Committee and supports its role in the sharing of expertise and resources for conservation to benefit the management, conservation and presentation of each of the 11 convict places.
The Framework provides a model for the cooperative management, conservation, interpretation and presentation of the 11 convict places. The Framework's objectives are consistent with and complement 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