Documents relating to National Heritage Assets
Brisbane’s derelict Lamb House at Kangaroo Point (Brisbane Times)
National relevance
- The Burra Charter
The Burra Charter was first adopted in 1979 in the historic SA town of Burra. Minor revisions were made in 1981 and 1988. The current version was adopted by ICMOS in 2013. See also ICOMOS Heritage at Risk from Tourism
- Australian Heritage Strategy – commissioned essays
Legislation
Federal
- Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018 replaces
- Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999(EPBC Act)
- Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2002
- Australian Heritage Council Bill 2002 : Australian Heritage Council (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2002: Second Reading. See: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F2002-10-23%2F0124
ACT
Victoria
- Heritage Act 2017
- Heritage Act 1995
- Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006
South Australia
- Aboriginal Heritage Act, 1988
New South Wales
- Heritage Act 1977
- Environmental Planning and Assessment Act – creation and use of heritage items before they are lost
Tasmania
- Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995 (the HCHA)
Western Australia
- State Heritage Act 1999
- Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA)
- Aboriginal Heritage (Marandoo) Act 1992 (WA) which stripped the 193 square kilometre area of its Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA) protections
Northern Territory
- Heritage Act 2011
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Other documents
National
- Australia ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites)
- Australian Heritage Council Strategic Plan 2018-2021
- Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts – Australia’s Historic Heritage – Shipwrecks
- Independent Review of the EPBC Act 2020 ( Prof. Graeme Samuel( AC)
South Australia
- Heritage Directions: A Future for Built Heritage in South Australia (2003), Department for Environment and Heritage, South Australia
- AARD Central Archive including the Register of Aboriginal Sites and objects, Government of South Australia, Adelaide
- SA Shipwrecks database, Environmental information Unit, DEH, Government of South Australia, Adelaide
- SA Department for Environment and Heritage – Maritime
- Ships’ Graveyards of South Australia
- SA Primary Industries and Resources Geological Monuments
New South Wales
Western Australia
- Heritage Perth Inc (principal partner, the City of Perth)
Broome, R chard et al, Remembering Melbourne 1850-1960, Royal Historical Society of Victoria 2016.(https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/product/remembering-melbourne-1850-1960-by-richard-broome-richard-barnden-don-gibb-don-garden-elisabeth-jackson-and-judith-smart/)
Chambers, Don. Wooden Wonders – Victoria’s timber bridges 2006
Cooper, Annette. Chronology of Demolition. Paper 2022.
Davison, G., 1991: The Meaning of Heritage. In Davison, G. and McConville, C. (eds) A Heritage Handbook, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, 1-13.
Garden, Prof Don. Essay: Who are the player in heritage and what roles do they play?
Lowenthal, D., 1985: The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Martin, Helen. A black summer for Victoria’s bridges Engineering Australia May 2021 pp 15-19
National Trust Vic. Lost buildings of Melbourne: Lost 100. Phone App.
Melbourne’s Destruction Daily . Community based list.Access via Facebook
Samuel, Prof. Graeme AC. Final report on the EPBC Act 1999. Published October 2020
Tonkin, Ray . August 2010. Discussion Paper prepared for City of Melbourne” Assistance for Conservation Projects”
UNESCO Draft Report on Great Barrier Reef June 2021
Walker, Lesley, Valueing Voices: Giving all our Pasts a Future. Paper presented at the Peoples Ground Joint conference of the National Trust and ICOMOS Melbourne 12/8/2016
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