Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 624

  1. IMPORTANT notice re: staffing of Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office and E-news
  2. ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – call for presentations
  3. Australia ICOMOS membership & subscription fee increases
  4. Call for EOI for two Co-opted members to the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee
  5. Lime Workshop, WA, Thursday 27 March
  6. Australia ICOMOS Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group – call for EOIs
  7. Brickwork Conservation Workshops – registration open
  8. Calling AustICOMites attending 2014 General Assembly
  9. 20th Annual National Trust Heritage Awards open for registration
  10. Australia ICOMOS / Docomomo Sydney Talk Series, 27 March
  11. The Resilience of Vernacular Heritage in Asian Cities, Singapore, November 2014 – call for papers
  12. AIA NSW Chapter coach tour, 5 April
  13. Course Announcement: International Protection of Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century: Threats & Challenges (Switzerland) – applications open
  14. Port Arthur Talks, Thursday 27 March 2014
  15. Book launch for Jane Lydon (ed.) Calling the shots, Brisbane, 2 April
  16. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne
  17. Call for Entries: 2014 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation
  18. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
  19. Heritage Victoria’s latest Inherit e-newsletter available online
  20. News from World Monuments Fund
  21. SITUATION VACANT Manager Conservation, NSW Heritage Division, Office of Environment and Heritage

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1. IMPORTANT notice re: staffing of Australia ICOMOS Secretariat Office and E-news

The Australia ICOMOS Secretariat will be staffed at a reduced level between 28 March – 11 April 2014 inclusive.

E-newsletters – PLEASE NOTE:

  • The E-news will not be published on Friday 4 April
  • The subsequent E-news will be published on Saturday 12 April

Though the Secretariat will be staffed intermittently, responses to queries, etc may take longer than usual.

Australia ICOMOS appreciates your patience during this time.

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2. ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – call for presentations

Presentations are now invited for the ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – download the ACT and Region Annual Australian Heritage Partnership Symposium 2014 – Call for Presentations for further information.

The details of the Symposium are outlined below.

Date & Time: Saturday 19 July 2014, 8.30am to 5.00pm

Venue: Sir Roland Wilson Building Theatre, Bldg 120, ANU campus.

Cost: $70 full, $50 members of the host organizations, $30 concession & full-time students – registration details will be available by the end of April 2014.

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3. Australia ICOMOS membership & subscription fee increases

At its recent meeting in Hobart, the Executive Committee (EC) decided that it was the appropriate time to review membership fees, which have stayed the same for the last three and a half years. In deciding on a new fee scale, the EC took the following into account:

  • The fact that fees have not been raised since 1 January 2011
  • The need to cover the costs of our contributions to ICOMOS International
  • The need to keep increases as reasonable as possible for our members, while providing enough resources to run an effective NGO
  • The reduced level of Government funding available to NGOs such as Australia ICOMOS
  • An increase in costs associated with the printing and distribution of the journal Historic Environment
  • CPI increases over the past 3 years

The new membership and subscription rates will be as follows, effective 1 July 2014:

  • Full member – $253.00 (and increase of $22.00)
  • Full member (retired/unwaged) – $126.50 (and increase of $11.50)
  • Young Professionals – $126.50 (and increase of $11.00)
  • Associate members – $189.75 (and increase of $16.50)
  • Associate members (retired/full-time student) – $63.25 (and increase of $5.50)
  • Corporate/Institutional members – $759.00 (and increase of $66.00)
  • Individual & Library subscribers – $189.75 (and increase of $16.50)

Current members who are non-financial are encouraged to renew ASAP in order to avoid the paying the increased fee. If you are unsure about your membership status, please email the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat. Individuals whose membership application will be considered at the May 2014 EC meeting will be required to pay the increased fee. For further information about membership, go to the Membership section of the Australia ICOMOS website.

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4. Call for EOI for two Co-opted members to the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee

I am contacting all Full members on behalf of the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee to encourage submissions for an Expression of Interest to be co-opted to the Executive Committee for the remainder of the year. I would like to acknowledge the contributions of two members of the EC who have recently resigned due to other commitments – Kate Cowie and Lance Syme – and thank them for their considerable efforts as members of the EC.

As well as these vacancies, we discussed at our last meeting in Hobart that we have some gaps in terms of geographic distribution on the committee and we would be keen to see particular EOIs that may remedy these gaps. This does not mean we would not welcome interest from you if you are not in the states, as outlined below, but that we would give priority to these areas. These co-options would be effective until the next AGM, to be held in October, and we would encourage any appointee to stand for election to the committee for 2015. Our next EC meeting is to be held in Perth on the weekend of 17-18 May and we would hope that appointees would be able to attend that meeting.

Participating in the EC is certainly a commitment, but I am sure my personal experience is echoed by many others who have been involved as an EC member. It is an excellent opportunity to contribute to Australia’s cultural heritage in a meaningful way, to gain a greater understanding of issues at a national level, to network with amazing people and actually have a bit of fun along the way.

Our priorities for EC membership at the moment are for EC membership that reflects:

  • ACT (state representative) – a necessary co-opted position; and
  • Northern Territory

However, we are open to all those interested – and this is an excellent way of getting more actively involved in Australia ICOMOS (AI). You will be working with an enthusiastic and friendly team of people and will have a lot of fun along the way. We are a welcoming organisation, and you will be helped settle into the Committee role both by induction policies that we have now prepared and by other EC members. It is a fast learning curve, but a good one!

Your time commitments would be: 3 x 1.5 day meetings for the remainder of this year; one of which will be associated with the AGM. The meetings are spread around the member states and usually associated with a professional/social event for members in that state. The schedule for the remainder of 2014 is: 17/18 May – Perth; 23/24 August – Sydney; 18/19 October (and AGM) – Melbourne (dates for the meeting in Melbourne are yet to be finalised but the meeting will take place in conjunction with an event/seminar).

All Executive Committee members make a significant commitment to the organisation, giving up not only their time but also paying the first $300 of travel costs to each of these meetings. Any cost over and above this will be reimbursed.

Form of application

If you wish to submit an EOI please provide:

  1. a brief statement of no more than 500 words outlining why you believe you would be suited to the position
  2. a copy of your Curriculum Vitae

If you are interested could you please forward an Expression of Interest as noted above, via email to the Secretariat, to reach us no later than COB Friday 21 March 2014. If you would like to discuss further or have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me (my mobile is 0419 816 525) or any other member of the EC. We look forward to hearing from you.

Elizabeth Vines OAM
President, Australia ICOMOS

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5. Lime Workshop, WA, Thursday 27 March

For over two thousand years the simple process of burning limestone to form building mortar has shaped the built environment. From The Colosseum and the Acropolis to Sydney Harbour and Fremantle Prison lime mortar continues to demonstrate its functionality in our built heritage. It is important that we retain an understanding of this traditional material to allow us to repair and preserve our historic masonry into the future.

Hydraulic Lime is a modern bagged material that combines the practical advantages of modern construction with the suitability of traditional lime mortar. This material is used widely across Europe the US and Australia but has yet to be fully understood in Western Australia. Come along to this seminar to understand the benefits of this material in your heritage project.

Presented by Marc Beattie and Clinton Long this seminar will combine the application of Burra Charter Principles with practical knowledge of using hydraulic lime mortar using examples from Australia and the UK.

Where: Clinton Long Project Management Unit, 1 / 2 Walcott Street, Mount Lawley WA 6050 (next to Shell garage on Lord street Junction, parking on Farnley Street)

When: Thursday 27 March, 5.00 – 7.00pm

Cost: $10

RSVP: by email to Anne Brake by Tuesday 25 March

A short questionnaire will be developed for those collecting PD points.

Download the Lime Workshop flier.

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6. Australia ICOMOS Reconciliation Action Plan Working Group – call for EOIs

At its AGM Australia ICOMOS resolved to review its 2001 Statement on Indigenous Cultural Heritage, and to consider the preparation of a Reconciliation Action Plan. Reconciliation Australia encourages all organisations to prepare Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs) setting out what they will do to contribute to reconciliation in Australia, and it is working with organisations across Australia to turn their good intentions into real actions. RAPs are developed through the organisation as a whole, with opportunities for all members to contribute. For more information about RAPs visit the Reconciliation Australia website which includes endorsed RAPs, such as that prepared by the National Trust of Australia (WA).

Australia ICOMOS is forming a working group of members to advance the RAP process and to establish a timetable for its completion. Several members have already agreed to serve on the working group and this is a call for expressions of interest from additional members.

EOIs can only be accepted from individuals who are current financial members of Australia ICOMOS. However, Australia ICOMOS is extremely conscious that the proposed RAP will be enhanced by active involvement of Aboriginal people and Aboriginal people who are interested in contributing to this project at any point are strongly encouraged to contact the conveners of the working group or the Australia ICOMOS Membership Secretary to explore opportunities for membership.

If you are interested in joining the working group please email Lance Syme or email Meredith Walker with an Expression of Interest (EOI) by Friday 21 March.

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7. Brickwork Conservation Workshops – registration open

Australia ICOMOS is pleased to announce Brickwork Conservation Workshops
in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane & Melbourne
to be presented by Dr Gerard Lynch

Gerard Lynch is an internationally acclaimed and highly respected historic brickwork consultant, master bricklayer, educator and author. He followed a traditional apprenticeship as a bricklayer and over the years gained many awards, including the Silver and Gold Trowels from the Brick Development Association and is a Licentiate of the City and Guilds of London Institute.

Gerard is a former Head Lecturer of Trowel Trades at Bedford College, pioneering a revival of almost forgotten traditional craft skills; he is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on brick conservation, and is affectionately known as ‘The Red Mason’.

Workshop dates

  • Adelaide: Tuesday 25 March 2014
  • Melbourne: Thursday 27 March 2014

Workshop program, registration and payment details are available by clicking on the relevant link below for each workshop.

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8. Calling AustICOMites attending 2014 General Assembly

Dear Australian ICOMites,

The next General Assembly (GA) will be held in Florence, Italy between 4th to 15th November 2014.

The Australian contingent is always very well represented at General Assemblies and I am sure Florence will continue to be likewise.

A GA includes allied meetings of the Advisory Council of national presidents, the Scientific Council for the ISCs, and individual ISCs holding their own meetings and some may also organise specialised excursions.

At past GAs, AustICOMOS members gathered for an Oz Dinner (invariably plus a few honorary “Aussies”).

As we travel so far, several Australians seek to minimise expenses by sharing an apartment rather than hotel rooms.

Australia ICOMOS members who intend to go to Florence, please email Sue Jackson-Stepowski by 14 March 2014. NOTE those seeking to hire an apartment intend / need to do so speedily i.e. within the next month.

In your email please advise:

  • name of person(s) attending the Florence General Assembly
  • name of person(s) attending the Advisory Council meeting
  • name of person(s) attending the Scientific Council meeting
  • name of person(s) attending an ISC meeting(s), and if so please state which ISC meeting(s)
  • interest in sharing accommodation and if so what type : single bedroom/twin share room/double share room/other (please state)

Many thanks,
Sue Jackson-Stepowski

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9. 20th Annual National Trust Heritage Awards open for registration

Saving Our Past For The Future: Heritage Awards 2014 – 20th Annual National Trust Heritage Awards open for registrations

The immaculate restoration of a now-vibrant wetlands in Tomago in the Hunter, the rebuilding one of Australia’s oldest churches in St Albans, the revival of Wollongong’s North Beach Bathers Pavilion and the reshaping of the Chinese Gardens in Darling Harbour. These were all projects recognised by the National Trust of Australia (NSW) at their Heritage Awards in 2013. Nominations are open again for this year’s competition.

The Awards have come to celebrate those people who are saving our past for the future. Not only do they showcase the work being saved for future generations to enjoy, they celebrate the often painstaking work that people undertake with impeccable attention to detail.

National Trust NSW CEO Brian Scarsbrick notes that The Heritage Awards are as much about our future as it is about our past. “We owe a debt of gratitude to all our award winners. What they have managed to give us what is always a wonderful gift for the future.”

The awards are the signature event of the Heritage Festival, which is held each year to celebrate Australia’s cultural heritage. The awards are now open and are accepting registrations up until 24 March 2014.

There are 11 categories.

Major Award Categories

1. Conservation – built heritage
A) Government/Corporate
B) Community/Individuals

2. Conservation- landscape

3. Conservation- interiors and objects

4. Adaptive re-use

5. Advocacy campaigns

6. Research and investigation / analysis

7. Education and interpretation

Individual Awards include

1. Lifetime Achievement Award

2. Cathy Donnelly Memorial Award (for female heritage professionals)

3. Trade / Skills Award – trades person/group of the year

To enter the awards click here.

The National Trust 2014 Heritage Festival Awards will be presented on Wednesday 14 May 2014 at Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont.

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10. Australia ICOMOS / Docomomo Sydney Talk Series, 27 March

DOUGLAS SNELLING: AUSTRALASIA’S MISSING LINK TO CALIFORNIA MODERNISM

Snelling

Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916-1985) was one of Asia-Pacific’s most significant interpreters of California modern design and architecture innovations from the 1930s to the 1970s – particularly luxury lifestyle themes popular in Beverley Hills and Palm Springs and ‘Polynesian pop’ aspects of the tiki style. Inspired by a stream of apprentices from Frank Lloyd Wright – notably Richard Neutra, Harwell Hamilton Harris and Gordon Drake – he was briefly employed by Beverley Hills architect Douglas Honnold and received technical instructions from John Lautner on how to build the southern hemisphere’s first ‘infinity’ (spill-edge) swimming pool.

Snelling was a fore-runner (from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s) of the ‘indigenous modern’ (pseudo thatched roofs) thrust in luxury Asia-Pacific resorts and residences. This movement peaked with Peter Muller and Kerry Hill’s hotels in Bali and Amanresorts from the 1970s to the 1990s and included Sydney residences with tribal-style roofs in corrugated steel by Richard Leplastrier and Peter Stutchbury during the 1980s and 1990s. Snelling can be regarded as ‘the missing link’ practising architecture and multi-disciplinary design in Sydney between the departure of Wright’s former students Walter and Marion Griffin in 1935 and the 1950s career beginnings of a new generation of organic modernist architects and designers who later became known as ‘The Sydney School’.

This talk will cover Douglas Snelling’s pan-Pacific career from birth in England to adulthood in NZ, his two working stints in Hollywood, his successful professional life in design and architecture in Sydney, schemes for resorts and houses across the South Pacific, retirement to Hawaii and role as a diplomat for the King of Cambodia. Snelling’s eldest son Christopher will show and explain key family memories from the late 1960s to Douglas’ death in 1985.

SPEAKERS

Davina Jackson M.Arch (history and theory) is a visiting research fellow with Goldsmiths College of Art at the University of London and an associate editor Arts Music Architecture with Berlin science publishers De Gruyter Open. She is the Sydney author of an RMIT PhD thesis on Douglas Snelling and author of the Australia-Pacific architecture summary in the forthcoming Routledge World of Modernism anthology.

Christopher Snelling is the eldest of Douglas Snelling’s three sons and Manager of the Powerhouse Discovery Centre at Casula. He is a former marketing director for the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Members of the public are welcome!

Time & Date: Thursday 27 March 2014, 5.30 for 6.00pm start
Cost: Members $7, non-members $12 payable at the door. Wine and nibbles will be provided.
Venue: GML Heritage, 78 George Street, Redfern
RSVP: email Jane Vernon or call (02) 9319 4811. RSVP is essential as places are limited.

Download the DOCOMOMO – AUSTRALIA ICOMOS TALK_27 March 2014 flyer.

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11. The Resilience of Vernacular Heritage in Asian Cities, Singapore, November 2014 – call for papers

The Resilience of Vernacular Heritage in Asian Cities
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
6-7 November 2014

This conference focuses on the interplay between cultural practices and the production of urban space and place-making that creates the living vernacular heritages of neighborhoods and communities of the city. Emphasis is given to community efforts and collective empowerment through heritage preservation practices that are found to enhance sustenance of the natural environment as well as resilience towards environmental threats. The attention given to the vitality of vernacular heritage for its own sake and in creating foundations for disaster resilience is an as yet understudied dimension of research on such contemporary issues as the right to the city and spatial justice. Papers on disaster risk reduction for monumental heritage preservation would also be welcomed as long as they discuss the role of ordinary people and communities in constructing their everyday lives in and around these monuments, through which the monuments become meaningful spaces for their everyday life-spaces.

CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: 31 JULY 2014

For further information, visit the conference website.

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12. AIA NSW Chapter coach tour, 5 April

The Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) NSW Chapter presents a Hunter Region coach tour of two iconic early Blacket award winners.

  • Tocal College by Ian McKay and Phillip Cox, Architects in Association
  • The Rothbury Estate Winery by Allen. Jack & Cottier. Architects (Partner in Charge Keith Cottier)

Russell Lee from Cox Architecture and Keith Cottier from AJ+C will be our special guests on the tour. Registrants will receive a resource booklet prepared by NSW Heritage Officer Noni Boyd and Heritage Expert Margaret Desgrand.

Date & Time: Saturday 5 April, 8.00am to 6.00pm 

Meeting Point: Corner of Macleay and Manning Streets, Potts Point. The coach will also pick up at Hornsby and Morisett. Pick up location is requested at time of booking.

Cost: Non-Members $150,  Members $130; includes morning tea, lunch with a glass of Hunter Valley wine, afternoon snack; resource booklet, expert guides and luxury coach.

Click here to register online.

NB: Please advise your pickup location, email address and mobile number to Eleni Ragogo by email. 

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13. Course Announcement: International Protection of Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century: Threats & Challenges (Switzerland) – applications open

International Protection of Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century: Threats & Challenges
16 – 17 June 2014, Geneva, Switzerland

Application deadline: 15 April 2014 (early bird), 15 May 2014 (regular)

Tuition fees: CHF 1700 (early bird) / CHF 2000 (regular)

  • An intensive course on cultural heritage law, directed by the UNESCO Chair in the International Law of the Protection of Cultural Heritage and Faculty at the Art-Law Centre at the University of Geneva
  • Study cultural heritage law in a worldwide centre for art trade and diplomacy with a very dense network of key international institutions
  • Visits to WIPO and the UN, among other institutions
  • Teaching by the University of Geneva faculty and renowned experts from international universities
  • An enriching academic experience in a top-ranked university
  • 3 ECTS credits
  • Discovery of an international and culturally vibrant city at the heart of Europe and close to the Alps

Course Directors

Professor Marc-André Renold
Faculty of Law
Director, Art-Law Center
University of Geneva

Dr. Alessandro Chechi
Post-Doctoral Researcher
University of Geneva

For further information, visit the course website.

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14. Port Arthur Talks, Thursday 27 March 2014

Jane Franklin at Port Arthur
presented by Dr Alison Alexander

In a period when most ladies sat at home with their embroidery, Jane Franklin achieved fame throughout the western world, and was probably the best travelled woman of her day. Born in late eighteenth century London and married at the age of 36 years to Sir John Franklin, she travelled widely, and with an original ambition to live life to the full she was equally desirous of making her kind and mild husband a success. Arriving in Tasmania in 1837 when Sir John became governor, she swept like a whirlwind through the colony: attempting to rid the island of snakes; establishing a scientific society and the Hobart regatta; and adopting an Aboriginal girl to name a few of her many activities.

In 1837 the Franklins visited Port Arthur. In her diary and letters, Jane Franklin, an acute observer, gave a full and frank description of her visit. This paper analyses this description.

Alison Alexander has written 24 books about Tasmanian history, ranging from commissioned histories of a variety of institutions and areas, to biographies. Her most important books are: The ambitions of Jane Franklin (2013), and Tasmania’s Convicts (2010).

ALL WELCOME!

When: Thursday 27 March 2014 at 5.30pm

Where: Junior Medical Officer’s Conference Room

Download the ‘Jane Franklin at Port Arthur’ flier.

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15. Book launch for Jane Lydon (ed.) Calling the shots, Brisbane, 2 April

Calling the shots

Museum of Brisbane and Aboriginal Studies Press invites you to the launch of Calling the shots, edited by Professor Jane Lydon (UWA).

To be launched by art historian and curator Djon Mundine.

The launch will be followed by a panel discussion with Jane Lydon, Michael Aird, Shauna Bostock-Smith and Djon Mundine (facilitator)

Date & Time: 6:00pm, Wednesday 2 April 2014

Venue: Museum of Brisbane, Level 3, City Hall, Brisbane

Bookings: click here

Calling the shots is published by Aboriginal Studies Press.

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16. Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) seminar, Melbourne

Welcome to another year of seminars by from the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University. To all our presenters last year, a big thank you!! We hope you will continue to participate in CHCAP seminars and keep us posted on your research progress.

We launch 2014 with a presentation by Dr. Denis Byrne (Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney) titled “Reclamation: Making landscape in Pearl River Delta/reflections on the culture-nature binary”.

Abstract

Since at least the Song Dynasty (960-1279) people in the Pearl River Delta have been ‘reclaiming’ the delta seascape to create new farmland. More recently reclamation in the Delta and up and down the China coast has been undertaken for port and airport construction, urban expansion, fish farm and theme park construction. The English term ‘reclamation’, implying a recovery of something already ours, is reflective of the modernity’s vision of a subservient nature. But activity in the reclamation zone also speaks to the permeability of the land-sea border and the tension between human projects and natural processes, especially when we think of 21st century climate change and its promise of inundation. Reclamation seems like a good fact and metaphor for thinking about ICS’s research theme ‘Heritage and Environment’ which, rather than just a combination of two research areas, is vitally interested in the culture-nature binary that haunts them and ways of transcending it.

The specific history of reclamation in the Pearl River Delta is entwined with the history of work-travel and immigration between there to California, Australia and other destinations and the transnational flow of environmental knowledge that accompanied it.

Biography

Denis Byrne joined the Institute in 2014 as a Senior Research Fellow specialising in heritage studies. He is an archaeologist whose work has been in Indigenous heritage conservation in Australia and in the cultural politics of heritage in Southeast Asia. His books Surface Collection (Rowman & Littlefield 2007) and Counterheritage (Routledge in press 2014) challenge Western-derived heritage practices in Asia and explore new approaches to the writing of archaeology and heritage. He is currently researching the transnational heritage of migration in the Australia-Asia sphere.

Date: Monday 7 April 2014

Time: 5.30pm

Venue: Meeting Room 3, Deakin Prime, City Campus, 3/550 Bourke Street, Melbourne

DINNER: The seminar will be followed by dinner around 7 p.m. at a nearby restaurant. Please RSVP to Yamini Narayanan by email for dinner booking.

Email list: To be included in the CHCAP email newsletter distribution list, email Yamini Narayanan

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17. Call for Entries: 2014 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation

Entries are now being accepted for the 2014 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation. The Awards were established in 2000 to recognize the achievement of individuals and organizations within the private sector, and public-private initiatives, in successfully conserving structures of heritage value in the region. In 2013 the award cycle received entries from the widest geographic spread to date, with a total of 47 projects submitted from 16 countries across Asia and the Pacific.

With support from the Sino-Ocean Charity Foundation the programme will continue this year to expand and explore new and exciting issues related to exemplary heritage conservation practice.

Entries for the 2014 Award programme must be submitted with an official entry form, project description using the official format, occupant comment form(s), owner consent form, rights authorization form, including drawings and photos in hard copy and on CD before 31 March 2014.

Click here to visit the official heritage awards website and to download the e-brochure and entry forms.

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18. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available

To read the latest Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin, click on the following link.

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19. Heritage Victoria’s latest Inherit e-newsletter available online

To download the latest  issue of Inherit, click here.

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20. News from World Monuments Fund

To read the latest news from the World Monuments Fund, click here.

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21. SITUATION VACANT Manager Conservation, NSW Heritage Division, Office of Environment and Heritage

Manager Conservation

Office of Environment and Heritage, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Location: Hurstville or Parramatta
Job Classification: Environment Officer Class 14
Employment Status: Permanent Full Time
Vacancy Ref: OEH 056-14

Lead multidisciplinary teams including architects, landscape architects, archaeologists and planners in the assessment and development of proposals and the appropriate management of heritage items working in partnership with all levels of government to achieve best practice in heritage conservation.

For further information, click here. Applications close Sunday 16 March.

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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in the Australia ICOMOS Email News are not necessarily those of Australia ICOMOS Inc. or its Executive Committee. The text of Australia ICOMOS Email news is drawn from various sources including organizations other than Australia ICOMOS Inc. The Australia ICOMOS Email news serves solely as an information source and aims to present a wide range of opinions which may be of interest to readers. Articles submitted for inclusion may be edited.

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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood VIC 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
Facsimile: (03) 9251 7158
Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
http://www.icomos.org/australia

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