Australia
ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 394
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat
Friday 10 July 2009
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1) Invitation to dine with Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee
2)
Australian Government review of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 -
REMINDER: submissions close 17 July 2009
3)
Broken Hill - a potential National Heritage List place
4)
DEWHA media release: $3.3 million boost to Indigenous heritage protection
5)
News from ICCROM
6)
New Sites added to UNESCO's World Heritage List
7)
IMPORTANT notice re: staffing of Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
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1) Invitation to dine with
Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee
The AICOMOS Executive Committee is
meeting in Brisbane on August 8 & 9. All members, their partners, and
heritage industry colleagues are welcome to the Saturday evening drinks
followed by dinner.
Please see attached
invitation for further information.
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2) Australian Government review
of the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 - REMINDER: submissions close 17 July
2009
The Australian Government has commenced a review of the Historic
Shipwrecks Act 1976 and consideration of ratification of the UNESCO 2001
Convention for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. A discussion
paper was released on Friday 5 June 2009 and is available on the historic
shipwreck web pages of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and
the Arts http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/shipwrecks/review/index.html.
Community participation is encouraged, and written
submissions are invited until 17 July 2009.
The review is looking at the operation of the legislation and
whether it is achieving its objectives.
The review will also consider whether Australia should amend
its legislation to meet international best practice for the management of its
underwater cultural heritage.
This is the first time that the Historic Shipwrecks Act
1976 has been reviewed. As the current legislative regime is now over 30
years old and the Australian Government does not have legislation in place to
protect other types of archaeological sites and artefacts found in Australian
waters, such as aircraft, a review is timely.
While the process of considering ratification of the
Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention is separate to that of reviewing the Historic
Shipwrecks Act, both issues are closely related. This review is therefore
considering whether the Act should be amended having regard to both the UNESCO
Underwater Cultural Heritage Convention and international best practice.
The review of the Historic Shipwrecks Act will
consider the operation of the legislation and the extent to which it is
achieving its purpose, the new international framework for managing underwater
cultural heritage and current heritage policy needs.
The review is to be completed by 30 October 2009 and public
submissions are invited until 17 July 2009 to ensure consideration of a wide
range of views.
Submissions can be directed to:
Secretariat to the Review of the Historic Shipwrecks Act
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
Or
Submissions will be published on the review website unless
marked confidential, at
www.environment.gov.au/heritage/shipwrecks/review
Questions about the review can be directed to the
Secretariat: HSreview@environment.gov.au
Phone: 1800 018 903
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3) Broken Hill - a potential
National Heritage List place
Broken Hill City Council has nominated its whole local
government area for inclusion on the National Heritage List. The Australian
Heritage Council is currently assessing the place. The Australian Heritage
Council has titled the nomination the City of Broken Hill.
Broken Hill is Australia's longest lived mining city, where
some of the world's major mining companies were founded on the rich mineral
deposits and where safe working practises and worker legislation were first
developed for miners in Australia. The Broken Hill landscape is dominated by
prominent mining structures along the Line of Lode and is an important place of
inspiration for artists, filmmakers and tourists alike.
As part of the National Heritage List assessment of the City
of Broken Hill, the Australian Heritage Council is seeking comments from owners
and occupiers with interests in the City of Broken Hill.
For further information, visit http://www.brokenhill.nsw.gov.au/
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4) DEWHA media release: $3.3
million boost to Indigenous heritage protection
More than $3 million in Australian Government funding will
help identify, protect and share Australia's Indigenous heritage.
Funding for 50 Indigenous heritage projects through the
Australian Government's Indigenous Heritage Program, was announced today
by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett.
Mr Garrett said funding will help community groups and
individuals to identify, conserve and promote the heritage values of places
important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
"Indigenous heritage sites occupy a special place in our
nation's history and I am extremely pleased to announce this funding during
NAIDOC Week," Mr Garrett said.
"These 50 projects are spread across the country and
cover a wide range of activities. Importantly, all projects aim to maintain and
protect Indigenous heritage values which make a vital contribution to
Australia's rich heritage."
The projects funded include:
§ The
Willinggin Country - Mangurray Fencing project (WA): will fence a
significant rock art site and burial site in the Kimberley region to protect it
from damage from vehicles and cattle.
§ The
Jawoyn Cultural Heritage Mapping project (NT): will record stories, place
names and history of the Jawoyn regions.
§ The
Ngadjuri Heritage project (SA): will do field surveys to identify and
record Aboriginal sites on Plumbago Station.
§ The
Carbine Rock Art and Axe Quarry project (Qld): will fence off a series of
rock art paintings and carvings, and an axe quarry, and install interpretative
signage.
§ The
Deep Bay cultural heritage site project (Tas): will develop a site plan for
the rehabilitation and protection of Aboriginal heritage values.
§ The
Mount Barker project (Vic): will survey, map and record the stone
arrangements at Mt Barker.
"It is crucial we protect, preserve and promote these
places for future generations and there is no better time to acknowledge this
than during NAIDOC Week," Mr Garrett said.
NAIDOC Week is an annual event to celebrate the history,
culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Indigenous Heritage Program is delivered in cooperation
with the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
Affairs (FaHCSIA) and Indigenous Coordination Centres (ICCs) as part of the
whole of government delivery of services to Indigenous Australians.
A full list of the projects that have received 2009-10 Indigenous
Heritage Program funding is available at www.environment.gov.au/heritage/programs/ihp/outcomes-09-10.html
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5) News from
ICOMOS Documentation Centre
ICOMOS
DOCUMENTATION CENTRE BLOG: Latest posts
(http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/)
§ IFLA
Newsbrief, no 21 (July 2009) (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/07/ifla-news-brief-n-21-2009-landscapes.html
)
§ New
IUCN Publication: World Heritage in Danger: A compendium of key decisions on
the conservation of natural World Heritage properties via the List of World
Heritage in Danger. April 2009. By Tim Badman, Bastian Bomhard, Annelie Fincke
et al. Gland: IUCN, 2009. 42 p. (IUCN World Heritage Studies; 7) (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/07/iucn-publication-world-heritage-in.html)
§ New ICCROM
Publications available: (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-iccrom-publications-available.html)
1.
Conserving Textiles: studies in honour of Agnes
Timar-Balazsy
2.
Cultural Heritage and the Law: protecting immovable
heritage in English-speaking countries of sub-Saharan Africa
§ World
Heritage Review, no 53: 'World Heritage in Spain' (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/06/world-heritage-review-n-53-available.html)
§ Nouvelles
publications de la Chaire de Recherche du Canada en Patrimoine Bati: (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/06/chair-de-recherche-du-canada-en.html)
1.
Proces verbaux de la Table Ronde: Conserver les lieux
historiques: l'approche canadienne de 1950 - 2000 / Proceedings of the Round
Table: Conserving historic places: Canadian approaches from 1950-2000. Edited
by Christina Cameron and Christina Boucher
2.
L'etude des valeurs patrimoniales du campus principal
de l'Universite de Montreal. Mai 2008. Par Christina Cameron, Claudine Deom et
Nicole Valois
§ Getty
Research Library: New titles in the conservation collection (May 2009) (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/06/getty-research-library-new-titles-in.html)
§ Forum
UNESCO - University and Heritage: Newsletter 44 (http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/2009/06/forum-unesco-university-and-heritage_24.html)
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6) New Sites added to UNESCO's
World Heritage List
The World Heritage Committee recently held its 33rd session,
chaired by Maria Jesus San Segundo, the Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of
Spain to UNESCO, and inscribed two new natural sites and 11 cultural sites on
UNESCO's World Heritage List.
For details, visit
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=46023&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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7) IMPORTANT notice re:
staffing of Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
The Australia ICOMOS Secretariat will be staffed at a reduced
level between
COB Friday 17 July and Wednesday 12 August.
Thank you to all Australia ICOMOS members who have renewed
their membership thus far - it is much appreciated. Please note that
membership renewals will not be processed during the above time period.
The E-news will still be published. Please ensure all
submissions for the E-news are submitted by 12 noon Thursdays.
Though the Secretariat will be staffed intermittently,
responses to queries, orders, etc may take longer than usual.
Australia ICOMOS appreciates your patience during this time.
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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
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