Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 250
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
(13 October, 2006)
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challenge and change: in ports, their towns and cities
Australia ICOMOS national conference
FREMANTLE western australia
______november 9-11 2006______
1) Executive Committee elections: Australia ICOMOS Inc.
2)Heritage Amendments to the EPBC Act
3) BURSARIES now available for Western Australian volunteers
4) Additional Dry Stone Wall workshop
5) Report on TICCIH Congress, Italy, 14-18 September 2006
6) Help Shape the Future of Heritage Conservation!
7)3rd Annual Ename International Colloquium: First Call For Papers:
8) Government Media Releases
9) Situation Vacant: Heritage Project Leader
10) Situation Vacant: Conservation Architect/ Project Officer
11) Positions with Environmental Protection Agency Queensland
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1) Executive Committee elections
Australia ICOMOS Inc.
We are delighted that for the first time in a few years we have received more nominations for the Committee than there are places to be filled.
Accordingly, we will be holding an election, and all Australia ICOMOS full members should receive their ballot papers in the mail shortly.
If you wish to vote and have not yet paid your annual subscription for the current financial year, please ensure that you do so by the time the ballot closes (1st November, 2006) so that your vote will be counted.
To keep the cost of the ballot down we have not included a return envelope with the voting papers.
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2)Heritage Amendments to the EPBC Act
The Australian Government has introduced a Bill to amend the EPBC Act. The Bill is over 400 pages long, and deals with a wide range of matters including heritage. The Bill proposes a number of changes especially with regard to heritage listing activities.
The Bill has been referred to the Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee for inquiry and report by 17 November this year. It is expected to be passed shortly after this date. Details about the inquiry and Bill can be found at...
Australia ICOMOS plans to review the amendments and make a submission. The deadline for submissions is Friday 27 October.
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3)BURSARIES now available for Western Australian volunteers
challenge and change: in ports, their towns and cities
Australia ICOMOS national conference
FREMANTLE western australia
november 9-11 2006
BURSARIES now available for Western Australian volunteers
Applications close Wednesday 25 October
A lotterywest grant of $12, 855 has been awarded to Australia ICOMOS to help Western Australians currently volunteering in a range of roles at heritage places or within the heritage industry to attend the 2006 national conference in Fremantle. We expect this to assist up to 15 attendees.
Australia ICOMOS is keen to include delegates with a wide variety of skills and experience to both contribute to and learn from their participation in the conference program. The grant will be used to contribute to the costs associated with attendance at the conference (travel, accommodation, registration) of people from across Western Australia. It is anticipated that delegates will return to their organizations and not only share the specifics of the conference but to make a more confident and significant contribution to a range of projects they and their organisation are involved in. The delegates will also have had the opportunity to network with a range of people that they will be able to contact in the future for advice and council.
The bursaries will be targeted at volunteers who are disadvantaged either by resources or location, to enable them to participate in the conference.
The conference will bring together heritage workers from a range of disciplines from across Australia and overseas for the purpose of professional development and networking. The bursaries will allow those who may not have normally been able to attend to participate at a national level in a range of discussions and debates.
The conference will give delegates
· exposure to internationally and nationally recognised experts in heritage management and related fields
· an opportunity to meet others working in the heritage industry in Western Australia and Australia and develop a sense of collegiality. Australia ICOMOS has only a small number of members in Western Australia and its hoped that the conference will build membership numbers and a more active group long term.
· a better understanding of current issues being debated in the heritage industry
· information on recent changes in federal legislation and related programs and procedures
· more confidence, knowledge and experience to participate in heritage related activities in their own communities with a better chance of having a positive outcome
· the chance to visit significant heritage projects to see and hear first hand how various issues are addressed by participating in the conference tours and social program
· a broader network of support and information for their work
· inspiration and enthusiasm to tackle difficult and challenging projects in a more constructive way as well as more straightforward issues
· the chance to question their own practice and adopt new ideas and approaches
For further information regarding applications for bursary funding, please contact Michelle Ainsworth at Promaco Conventions on 9332 2900 or .
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4) Additional Dry Stone Wall workshop
Dry Stone Wall Workshop at Hanson
Sorry to those who missed out on a place at the 14th October workshop - it filled within a matter of days.
I have spoken to David Long and Hanson about running it again.
.... so Registrations are open for 14th November 2006.
We look forward to seeing you there
Jeanette McWhinney
Program Manager
Fellowships, Events and Training
ISS Institute
101/685 Burke Road
Camberwell 3124
AUSTRALIA
Phone 61 3 9882 0055
Fax 61 3 9882 9866
Email
Web
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5) Report on TICCIH Congress, Italy, 14-18 September 2006
The 13th Congress of the International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) was held in the township of Terni, the surrounding Umbrian region and Rome last month. Australian ICOMITES Sue Jackson-Stepowski and myself set off for our first experience of a TICCIH Congress, encouraged by the comments of past Australian attendees. Fellow Australian ICOMITE, Sarah Jane Brazil attended part of the Congress.
TICCIH is the world heritage organisation promoting conservation, research and interpretation of industrial society. It has a broad focus including industrial places, (architecture, plant, machinery and equipment) as well as housing, industrial settlements, industrial landscapes, products and processes, and documentation and understanding of industrial society. TICCIH is a partnership organisation of ICOMOS, providing advice on industrial world heritage.
About 450 TICCIH members attended with a broad range of backgrounds and interests. Many TICCIH members are also ICOMOS members but compared to the Xi’an General Assembly, there was a greater representation of age groups and lots of women. We received a warm welcome with great interest in Australian industrial heritage but perhaps too great a focus on the contemporary Australian wine industry and the then recent death of Steve Irwin.
The Congress is an opportunity to compare world practice in industrial heritage with members providing reports and perspectives about their experiences in their own countries. It is both stimulating and terrifying to find that most of our heritage battles are universal. The key themes were urban transformation, particularly development pressures on inner city industrial sites; and changes to industrial townships and cultural landscapes brought on by economic changes. A key attraction of the Congress was the inclusion of many site visits. On the first theme, a visit to the Ostiense industrial area in Rome was great, including the former general markets and a strange museum conversion of the former Montemartini Power Station. On the brief post Congress tour, the Bagnoli area, near Naples, with the former Ilva steel plant and the internationally acclaimed Citta’Della Scienza was inspiring.
The cultural landscapes and industrial townships theme was explored in many site visits, including around Terni and Umbria with visits to hydroelectric power stations and steel works. On the tour, Gragnano pasta factory and town was very enjoyable with typical Italian hospitality for sampling the local wares. The San Leucio silk factory at Belvedere with its intact workers houses was another highlight. A number of our international colleagues presented papers about workers housing and managing changes through community involvement and planning controls.
Visit the TICCIH website or the TICCIH Congress website for further information.
Feel free to email me on about the Congress. Sue, Sarah Jane and I are still holding on to the inspired feeling and are seeking to revive TICCIH Australia. Initially we want to set up an email network so email me if you are interested. Also look out for a TICCIH report in the Australia ICOMOS Annual Report.
Helen Lardner
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6) Help Shape The Future Of Heritage Conservation!
The following correspondence has been received from US ICOMOS:
US/ICOMOS MEMBERS AND FRIENDS: YOUR INPUT IS BEING SOUGHT TO HELP SHAPE THE FUTURE OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION!
In preparation for the Preserve America Summit in New Orleans, October 18-20, 2006, the organizers we are requesting input from the public related to the 11 issue areas that are under discussion by a series of expert panels. US/ICOMOS and ICOMOS members and friends are particularly being asked to look at issue area 11, which is focused on U.S. participation in the international heritage community. US/ICOMOS is the co-chair of the expert panel for this issue area.
Theinformation and electronic form for submitting comments is accessiblethrough both the ACHP ( and Preserve America web sites, and may be found at
The eleven issue areas are:
1. Building a Preservation Ethic and Public Appreciation for History
How can public understanding of U.S. history and the importance of our historic and cultural patrimony be enhanced?
2. Coordinating the Stewardship and Use of Our Cultural Patrimony
How can communities benefit from an integrated program for preserving and using historic properties and conservation of documents, artifacts, collections, artistic works, and other cultural expressions?
3. Determining What’s Important
What needs to be done to identify and recognize the historic places of the U.S.?
4. Protecting Places That Matter
How can historic preservation be better integrated into public planning and the effectiveness of Federal protective mechanisms for historic properties improved?
5. Improving the Preservation Program Infrastructure
What should be done to clarify the roles of key preservation entities and build their capacity to promote preservation?
6.Dealing With the Unexpected
How can the national program more effectively promote the preservation of historic properties after natural and man-made disasters, and ensure that reuse of historic properties contributes to recovery efforts?
7. Addressing Security
How can we more effectively balance security concerns with the preservation and interpretation of historic properties?
8.Using Historic Properties as Economic Assets
How can communities be encouraged to use their historic properties as economic development assets?
9. Involving All Cultures
How can the capacity of all cultures, notably Indian tribes and Native Hawaiians, to understand, protect and enjoy historic properties of concern to them be improved?
10. Fostering Innovation
How can the potential of technology be harnessed and nontraditional solutions to preservation challenges be encouraged?
11. Participating in the Global Preservation Community
How can the United States share its preservation successes with the world and learn from the efforts of other nations?
Please share this with any of your constituents or partners who may be interested.
Thank you.
Ronald D. Anzalone
Preserve America Summit Program Coordinator
Director, Office of Preservation Initiatives
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
(202) 606-8523; FAX (202) 606-0321
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7)3rd Annual Ename International Colloquium
First Call for Papers:
The Future of Heritage
The Province of East-Flanders, the Provincial Archaeological Museum - Ename, the Flemish Heritage Institute, and the Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation are pleased to announce
a first call for papers for the:
3rd Annual Ename International Colloquium
to be held 21-24 March 2007 in Ghent, Belgium
THE FUTURE OF HERITAGE
Changing Visions, Attitudes, and Contexts in the 21st Century
At a time when the field of cultural heritage is undergoing series of far-reaching yet contradictory transformations, this three-day colloquium will present a wide range of perspectives and predictions on the future of heritage policy, funding, interpretive technologies, and public involvement in Europe and throughout the world.
We are therefore seeking innovative contribution from heritage administrators, cultural economists, archaeologists, historians, educators, and cultural policy specialists under the following four themes:
Philosophy and Public Policy: How will governments and heritage administrations view their responsibility toward tangible and intangible heritage in the coming generation? What are the major trends now affecting the development of public policy? What role will universities, NGOs, and international organizations play?
Economics
How will the combination of public and private funding sources and of state and private management of heritage sites and museums evolve? With the continuing reduction of public culture budgets and increasing reliance on independent income generation, what economic strategies can be most effective in preserving the integrity of cultural heritage sites?
Technologies
How can emerging digital technologies contribute to the long-term preservation, documentation and public interpretation of heritage resources? In which contexts are they sustainable and/or affordable? What is their social and intellectual impact on the public perception of heritage itself?
Community Participation
Do heritage sites belong only to a nation, to regional and local administrations, to the communities that produced them, or to the specialists that study and conserve them as "universal" heritage? What is the role of the general public? What kinds of innovative programmes can most effectively enhance education and community identity?
Abstracts for poster presentations, short papers (10 min.) and research papers (20 min.) on these themes will be accepted until 1st December 2006.
They should be a maximum of 300 words, in English, and be sent
by fax to +32-55-303-519
or by email to colloquium program coordinator Claudia Liuzza at .
All authors should include full contact information (name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail address).
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 January 2007.
For questions or requests for additional information, please visit our website or contact Eva Roels at .
Please feel free to distribute this announcement to any interested colleagues. We hope you will find this colloquium to be of interest and look forward to seeing you in Ghent next year!
The Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation
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8) Government Media Releases
TITLE: Historic 707 still calls Australia home - Media Release 9 October 2006
PORTFOLIO: Environment and Heritage
URL:
SNIPPET: Senator the Hon Ian Campbell. Australia's first jet plane - a 1959 Boeing 707 and the oldest in existence - will return home next month to become part of the nation's aviation history, following a grant of one million dollars from the Australian Government, the Minister for the Environment and Heritage, Senator Ian Campbell, and Qantas Chairman Margaret Jackson announced today in Sydney. "I look forward to welcoming this important part of our nation's heritage when the 707 comes home next month."
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9) Situation Vacant
Heritage Project Leader
Woodhead has a reputation for excellence, diversity and creativity in its heritage conservation services spanning more than thirty years.
We work throughout Australia in close co-operation with all levels of Government, community groups, institutional bodies and the private sector in the management, conservation, preservation and adaptation of historic buildings and sites.
Practicing with a well-established heritage team and in collaboration with our wider team of architects and designers the successful candidate will be responsible for leading existing national and state-based commissions involving:
Preparation and presentation of heritage management plans.
Provision of strategic advice on heritage issues.
Documentation and management of heritage works.
Condition assessments and building appraisals.
Heritage value assessments.
Heritage audits and statutory compliance reviews.
Heritage landscape management plans.
Adaptive re-use proposals and design / documentation.
Maintenance plans.
Environmental sustainability advice for heritage buildings and sites.
Candidates with experience in both conservation works and the adaptive re-use of heritage places will find this position attractive and professionally rewarding.
This is a permanent full time role. Our successful candidate will ideally be seeking to be based in either Adelaide or Melbourne.
Enquiries and registrations of interest are regarded as strictly confidential and should be submitted to Mark Murphy via e-mail to or by mail to 26 Chesser Street, Adelaide SA 5000.
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10) Situation Vacant
Conservation Architect/ Project Officer
Organisation: The National Trust of Australia (WA)
Section:Properties and Collections
Closing Date:cob Friday 27 October 2006 (WST)
Job Title:Conservation Architect/ Project Officer
Classification:GOSAC Level 5
Salary Range:$60,638 - $67,017 per annum
Employment:12 month full time contract with possibility of extension
February 2007 - February 2008
Description:
The National Trust of Australia (Western Australia) is the pre-eminent community based heritage organisation in Western Australia. Established in 1959, and with a large and active membership, the National Trust plays a pivotal role in heritage education and advocacy.
The Trust is responsible for the conservation and interpretation of its extensive property portfolio of over 60 places located across the state. The portfolio ranges from publicly accessible house museums to commercial properties, ruins and bushland.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated person to join the Properties and Collections section for a minimum of 12 months full time in the capacity of Conservation Architect or Conservation Project Officer (qualifications and experience dependent). The position is responsible for the management and implementation of conservation and maintenance programs across the portfolio in accordance with policy and budget requirements.
You will report to the Manager, Properties and Collections and oversee the work of the Asset Maintenance Officer. Your role also assists the Conservation Architect (part time). It will focus on reviewing and implementing conservation plan recommendations; preparation of briefs, tendering, selection and appointment of contractors for a range of conservation and planning projects; preparation of applications and submissions to funding organisations; and ensuring grants are acquitted in an efficient and compliant manner.
You will need to be experienced in managing building conservation works projects from inception to completion, have a sound understanding of construction contracts and procurement, and the ability to manage a diverse program of work within defined budgets. A degree in architecture and sound understanding of the conservation industry is desirable.
JDF and enquiries: 08 9321 6088
Sarah Murphy -
Kelly Rippingale -
Attention applications to:
Manager, Human Resources
National Trust of Australia (WA)
PO Box 1162
WEST PERTH WA 6008
email: