Summary of the Public Submissions up to No. 193, the Draft Recommendation Submissions up to No. 418, and the public hearing transcripts from around the country.
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Australian Government Productivity Commission
Conservation of Australia's Historic heritage Places Inquiry 2005
Click link to index page - then individual Submission number for full details.
http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiry/heritage/subs/sublist.html
Submissions 101 - 141
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101. Maribyrnong City Council - 2p 831kb
Responsibilities of government - government agencies have a 'duty of care'
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102. Burwood & Districts Historical Soc Inc - NSW 3p 653kb
(*this is a must read)
28,000 residents 10km west of Sydney's CBD. 30 National Estate listed items. City Council stewardship of heritage has been poor - Heritage items have been demolished under delegated authority, no heritage committee, no heritage incentive program and little community education. Council has refused to review a Heritage Study (now nearly 20 years old) - has pushed ahead with attempting to rezone areas of the Town Centre which will inevitably lead to a conflict with conservation zonings.
(SOUND FAMILIAR!)
It should not be possible for Councils, due to political pressure, to fail to list items which are significant.
Assistance for networking between the different people involved in heritage conservation - *additional funding for Council staff to receive education in these matters would benefit the community
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103. Maitland City Council - confidential 8p
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104. Gary Vines - Archaeologist Vic - 4p 28kb
(*Brilliant - please read) (and 198, transcript 389-404)
Historic heritage is now an established "product" with a measurable dollar value - Heritage based tourism saved towns - consistent legislation and legal protection for historic heritage across all governments - a single comprehensive listing process for all levels of historic heritage places - sense of community - tourism values. Gaps - cultural landscape and social heritage. Historic archaeology - Heritage lists no comprehensive or consistent approach to finding, assessing and listing heritage places of the type used in the graded Register of English Heritage. Inconsistent legislation.
"This results in the unnecessary duplication of effort, conflicting and contradictory approaches, and unnecessary bureaucracy surrounding heritage management. It also leads to many gaps in the system that allow important heritage places to be overlooked or neglected."
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105. Brighton Residents for Urban Protection - 13p
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106. Associate Professor Renate Howe - Vic 5p 14kb
Faculty of the Arts Deakin Uni - Heritage & Planning in Victoria Member. Heritage Council of Vic - Local Government is not well integrated into National and State heritage planning - reports have recommended improvements in identification of heritage places, assessment, documentation standards, rigour and preparation of significance. Heritage Overlays Victorian planning system explained.
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107. Professor Logan - Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia & Pacific
(Adelaide speaker) - 2p
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108. National Trust WA -
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109. Ian Pausacker - 4p
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110. The Jaycees Community Foundation - Albany WA 8p 428kb
1980 gifted last operating whaling station - closed 1961 - over last 25 years converted into Albany's No. 1 heritage attraction, 65,000 - 72,000 - need new system to encourage philanthropy in Australia as it relates to heritage - new suggestions to improve grant schemes
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111. Dr. Barrie Melotte - too big 5p 2.3mb
- a bit academic
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112. Plan: The Planning Action Network - 17p 37kb
(*Heritage in the Northern Territory)
Community organisation with voluntary membership in Northern Territory. Saving and interpreting significant heritage place, needs as much emphasis as the expensive fabric restoration of particular buildings. Example - First Settlement Site (Goyder's Camp) in Darwin, now still unlisted, and overshadowed by the current Waterfront Project.
'Blow by blow' death of a thousand cuts of heritage listed house and garden. - we must not even dream of abandoning our historical heritage to private enterprise. The seriously flawed and outdated Heritage Conservation Act has been under review for at least 4 years. - much of our city heritage remains unlisted - years of back-logged heritage applications (SOUND FAMILIAR!)
The Planning Act ignores places of heritage significance not yet listed, so there is no protection for even much loved places. (SOUND FAMILIAR!)
"It is often stated that war and cyclones destroyed a lot of Darwin's heritage, and the government is destroying the rest."
Need legal provisions for protection. The Northern Territory has no EPA!
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113. Save Braidwood Inc - 7p 62kb
(see submissions 36 54 150 173)
Resident - social well being of Braidwood has already been seriously damaged by the apparently thoughtless and inept manner in which the NSW Heritage Office have approached the listing of Braidwood and its setting - division in the town - blanket listing will slow growth and increase the cost of both building and maintenance - economic viability threatened - restriction for private property owners of heritage buildings and no 'court of appeal'.
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114. The Glebe Society Inc - 8p 1mb
Opened in 1969 community response to the despoliation of Glebe through indiscriminate development - National Trust Listing as a Conservation Area in 1974 with the assistance of Professor Smith, University of Sydney. Glebe's location and built character have combined to create such a high market value - the Glebe coalition of some 16 residents groups within the City of Sydney - Foremost Aim: To protect the City's heritage and environment. Heritage streetscapes comprise 75% of the total housing stock - only 4% of this has been identified, evaluated and formally listed for protection. Point 6. Existing situation/conflicts - Way forward. Promote the growth of "an informed community".
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115. The Adelaide City Council (25 pages) (& DR314)
(* Claims ACC nominated The Park Lands to the NHL when they had been nominated by the public 8 months before - nomination dates altered by DEH)
4 pages of general comment on lack of funds for Local Govt - 15 pages of Guidelines Heritage Incentive Scheme 2004 (SPIN SPIN SPIN)
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116. The Urban Development Institute of Australia - 8p
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117. Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) (SA) Inc - 10p
(MAKES AN INCREDIBLE CLAIM - 'Local heritage places (of significance to a community but not necessarily to the State) are protected under the Development Act 1993' !!!!)
(THE MOST QUOTED THING IN THIS SUBMISSION IS - 'We are not sufficiently informed...' SAYS IT ALL). (Repeats all of the SA heritage 'system' and listing criteria when that is comprehensively covered in the Commissioners briefing document)
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118. Australian Heritage Council - 35p with links 221kb
(*comprehensive - *Heritage Principles) (DR258)
Page 2 Table of Contents. Recommendations page 3. Definition of Heritage - Definition of Environment
Loss of historic heritage places - P7 3 key themes - "our values" , "things that make Australia unique", and places that "we feel connected to". Quotations from English Heritage (Heritage Counts 2004) - The Power of Place. Page 10 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
P13 "We believe that the RNE should become the multilevel database containing the complete inventory of Australia's heritage places, which have been identified on a statutory heritage list, and accessible to all through its web links."
'Distinctively Australian' Program explained - (UNKNOWN IN SA) - Page 15 Pressures & challenges - 'inappropriate nominations' - National Heritage Protocol stalled for 5 years already - State government apathy? - 12 Principles page 34-5 agreed to at the National Heritage Convention 1998 (*very useful - please print out as a general guide)
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119. Kosciuszko Huts Assoc Inc - 6p
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120. Ms Amanda Jean - 5p 101kb
15 years Heritage adviser for Shire Councils in NSW, Vic and WA - problems in rural areas - deals mainly with Victorian goldfield sites - inconsistency in listings - the meaning of Local Heritage significance should be very clear and evaluated against regional, State, National and even international comparative studies.
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121. Associate Professor Bruce Davis - 2p
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122. Australian ICOMOS - 135p zip 2.3mb
(*comprehensive) (DR255)
Their history and involvement
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123. RF & WK Mews - 3p
confidential
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124. Old Parliament House (OPH) Canberra - 5p zip 299kb
On the new NH nomination list - their nomination is Attachment A 14 Oct 2004 - Their Heritage Management Plan with website link. OPH is currently updating its Conservation Management Plan (2000) to a new Heritage Management Plan (2005)
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125. The Carlton Residents Association, Eastenders Inc & The Carlton Gardens Group - 3p 16kb (*A MUST READ)
(*see also Submission 129 and DR313)
The Royal Exhibition Building (REB) including Carlton Gardens (CG) were WHL in 2004 under Criterion ii - Managed by Melbourne City Council (MCC) - *Problem - license granted to Melbourne International Flower and Garden show to hold an exhibition - leads to a failure to conform to the intention of the WH listing - *Gardens shut for 10 days and enclosed in a wire fence. All the exhibition set up damages the Gardens. The public have to pay a substantial entry fee, for what is a totally commercial enterprise - a market place. Commercial nature leads to the renaming of an 'historic' fountain. - MCC under-funding capital works and not maintaining the Gardens to their WH status (SOUND FAMILIAR?)
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126. National Cultural Heritage Forum (NCHF) - 28p zip 133kb
(WHAT HASN'T HAPPENED SINCE 2001 THAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED ALREADY!)
Includes Museums Aust - the Property Council of Aust - Royal Australian Institute of Architects etc. - National Cultural Heritage Forum is the peak advisory body to Ministers of Environment & Heritage and Ministers of the Arts - Vision for Australia's cultural heritage - speedy development of a NHL - a dedicated National Fund similar to the Natural Heritage Trust is urgently required - Communities nationwide have become increasingly vocal in their concern to see govt policy for publicly owned property determined within a broad framework which recognises and protects the inherent values of these places -
P16 Local Heritage is the heritage asset least protected - Vision - recognise responsiveness and support for communities in caring for their cultural heritage. Establish a "Heritage Care' program to develop community heritage conservation programs - directly involve and resource Indigenous community involvement - NCHF Paper 'The Future Role for the RNE'.
(BASICALLY, A BIG WISH LIST - WE NEED ACTION)
See their letter and recommendations to the Minister in May 2002 - only 8 recommendations out of 49 adopted by the Federal Govt.
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127. David Young - heritage consultant, Canberra - 5p 36kb
Standards of Practice for built heritage - need for technical advisory material skills and training of practitioners
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128. R. Falkinger - 5p
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129. Carlton Gardens Group (** this is a MUST READ) - 5p 51kb
(see Submission 125 also and DR313)
World Heritage site 2004 - The Gardens are substantially degraded and many significant heritage features have been lost. There are no agreed standards required for the Gardens. The present custodial arrangements have failed to protect the site. Accountabilities have not been set up between the three levels of government responsibility. Its continued use for high impact events is inappropriate and causes further damage to the Gardens, the natural assets.
The Carlton Gardens/REB site is a test case for the effectiveness of the legislation and government as custodians, to protect our National Heritage. To this point there is no evidence that the listings are going to ensure the Gardens future as a heritage site.
Heritage Gardens or an Event Site? The grass roots reality is that each year the Gardens are treated as a construction site and take months to recover. Funding goes into repairs instead of improvements. Surely this is not sustainable?
(This submission is a classic example of why we need an independent (of Governments, Councils and bureaucracies), Public Lands Trust. World Heritage Taskforces must immediately be established to set up legislation under Parliament, to create an inviolable Charter to protect the World Heritage significance of such sites for future generations, from Federal, State, & Local governments, from private speculators and from planning bureaucracies)
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130. Lovell Chen P/L, Architects & Heritage Consultants - 22p 198kb
Generalised self-interest response to every question in the inquiry paper. The focus should be on heritage and heritage funding at the Local Govt level
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131. National Trust (Tasmania) - 37p
(zip 3.3mb) - too big to review - go to PC site
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132. Planning Institute of Australia
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133. Phoenix Aero Club - 3p
confidential
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134. The Property Owners Association of Australia (Vic) - 13p 23kb
Lack of property rights, inadequate compensation, plus impostion of rates and land tax - rates and land tax is not a fair, equitable or efficient wealth tax with no corresponding conservation and wealth tax on shares or other asset ownership including farming land, pictures, collectibles etc. Rights to compensation to owners for reservations are insufficiently guaranteed by the Constitution. Municipal red-tape must be removed and powers to place heritage orders must be restricted to a State or Federal body. Green Belts successfully opposed in 1992. The current State Planning laws are a goldmine for lawyers, planners and architects - the "style" police from the National Trust have inundated your inquiry with submissions that are ecologically, financially, and erganomically wrong. The Heritage Industry has descended on Victoria like a plaque. Cases and links.
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135. Anne Beggs Sunter - City of Ballarat - 2p 9kb
Member of "World League of Historical Cities'. There must be incentives to entice owners of heritage listed properties to restore their buildings - need taxation incentive program.
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136. Tasmanian Government - 29p 327kb
(*Brilliant - looks like a useful model)
Historical Heritage is a critical element of Tasmania's identity. A key component of a tourism industry which contributes $1.7 billion annually to Tasmania's economy - key Tasmanian brand - * pristine, green, natural, clean *step back in time, different. The concept of heritage place and heritage value needs to include landscapes, streetscapes, and precincts, and also recognise the importance of archaeology. 'Tasmanian Together' 20 year social, environmental and economic plan for the State, devised by the community and linked to local govt, industry, State government and community stakeholders. One of 24 goals and 212 benchmarks in the "State's Future Planning. 2002 State govt established the Dept of Tourism, Parks, Heritage & the Arts (DTPHA), in a strategic policy to unite these crucial elements of Tasmania's brand, lifestyle, & potential for economic and social capital investment and development. It brings into one organisation, all of the State's responsibilities for managing, protecting and promoting our heritage assets. DTPHA encompasses Heritage Tasmania, Aboriginal Heritage Office, Tourism Tasmania, the Pt. Arthur Historic Site Authority, Arts Tasmania, the Parks & Wildlife Service, the Tasmanian Museum, & Art Gallery and The Royal Tasmanian Botanic Gardens. The aim is to better integrate community, private and public sector activity and foster an integrated heritage sector.
*The Tasmanian Heritage Council established in 1997 comprises 15 representatives from the community and experts from the heritage sector, and is a statutory body separate to government. It is responsible for the administration of the Historic Cultural Heritage Act 1995 and the establishment of the Tasmanian Heritage Register.
Page 18 concerns about provisions in the EPBC Act for NHL sites - Tasmania has serious concerns that the National Heritage System was introduced without a clear understanding of how it was to be implemented within the DEH, resulting in considerable confusion among jurisdictions.
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137. Ms Barbara Hickson 2p -
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138. Australasion Institute for Maritime Archaeology Inc (WA) - 6p 303kb
AIMA founded in 1982 promoting the research and conservation of Australia's historic shipwrecks. 300 members in Australia and New Zealand. Supported by an annual grant from DEH. 1976 Australia leads with Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976. Estimated 7,000 shipwrecks lying in Australian waters. All shipwrecks more than 75 years old protected. ABS stats, marine tourism and recreation is worth $15 billion annually. An astonishing amount of work is performed by volunteers - partial funding from the Commonwealth
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139. Chairs of the AHC, NZHC,
the Heritage Council of NSW, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and ACT and the Tasmanian Government. - 30p 282k
These Councils first met in 1996. *Responsible for 4 year National Heritage co-ordination strategy plan* - a program to identify and document Federation heritage places, Australia's historic themes framework.
*3 Officer Level Groups (A SUMMARY OF THE BUREAUCRATIC NONSENSE THAT THE PUBLIC HAVE PUT UP WITH FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS)
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140. Artlab Australia - speaker Adelaide - 4p 122kb
(Transcript 247-260)
Established 20 years ago - conservation centre based in Adelaide (the State Library) . Part of ArtsSA within the South Australian governments Dept of Premier & Cabinet. Cares for the cultural collections of The History Trust, State Library, Art Gallery and Carrick Hill. Employs 25 staff - slides of projects - operates as a business enterprise within ArtsSA - a plea for funding
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141. Barry Chapman - Heritage Activist & Restorer - Richmond, Tasmania - 3p 28k
(*Good)
(Transcript 685-693)
Richmond Cultural Resource Management Plan - Historic town on RNE - funding from AHC in 1999. CRMP Study, 3 community workshops - plan published 2001 - the Report notes the CRMP's "recommendations are a collective responsibility of the Federal, State and Local Government bodies as well as the community". 2005 few recommendations have been implemented or even initiated - signage and traffic managment not carried out for 25 years. While local and State govt. argue with each other and do very little or nothing to implement the CRMP, Richmond's social, cultural and heritage fabric continues to deteriorate
(Has COAG's 1997 3-tiered 'system' ever worked anywhere?)
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