What is the Australian Heritage Advocacy Alliance (AHAA)?
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NSW State govt. refused to protect heritage listing.
Australian Heritage Advocacy Alliance was formed to raise awareness about the value of heritage assets and to influence the heritage policy agenda at a key political moments.
AHAA has no membership base. It is simply an alliance of concerned heritage stakeholders and enthusiasts – organisations, groups, networks, individuals, etc.– all sharing a serious concern that currently there is no effective national heritage agenda to preserve, manage and fund our Australian heritage assets.
Elections are opportunities to exert influence on politicians and policies. The 2022 federal election and 2022 Victorian election presented an opportunity to trigger policy reform in this completely deficient but nationally significant policy area. Reference to national heritage assets is absent from the political agenda. The upcoming 2025 Federal election presents another opportunity for AHAA to advocate for heritage on a federal level.
As the AHAA logo states, AHAA is working to Protect Australia’s Heritage – to stem the loss of our national heritage assets which is happening all over Australia while politicians look away.
Unlike our political representatives, the Australian people do understand that heritage assets have cultural, economic and social value. They do understand the urgent need for political reform to preserve our national heritage.
And importantly they vote.
2025 Heritage Situation
Three years on from the last election, five years on from the Samuels Review (2020) which recommended 38 reforms required to up-grade the EPBC Act (1999), the heritage policy ‘vacuum’ persists.
Inexplicably, and shamefully, legislative reforms to address the dire deficit in relation Australian built-form heritage protection have been ‘shelved’.
We can but hope – and staunchly advocate – that decent heritage reform policy emerges – and promptly legislated – in the next term of the Parliament. Much is at stake.
For more detail on our analysis and past campaigns see:
Register Your Interest
Register to become part of the Australian Heritage Advocacy Alliance – simply email your contact details to: info@ahaa.net.au
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