Heritage South Australia E-News
No. 2 March 2007
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of the South Australian Department for Environment and Heritage
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DEH Heritage Branch News
South Australian Heritage Council vacancy
An advertisement appeared in the Advertiser on 5 March (page
27). The vacancy was created by former National Trust CEO Alan Graham's
resignation in late 2006. Email the Heritage
Branch for a nomination form if you wish to nominate someone.
SA Heritage Fund Grants Program
Heritage Advisors are reminded to check on the progress of successful
grant projects in their local areas and alert the Heritage Branch
if any grant is not on track for completion this financial year.
Applications for the next round of grants are due to be called in
April 2007. Check the Grants & Awards
page on the DEH Heritage website in the
coming weeks for information.
Outback Heritage
Professional heritage conservation advice is available to Outback
communities as the result of a joint initiative between the DEH
Heritage Branch
and Outback Areas Community Development Trust (OACDT). The service
aims to help preserve places of heritage significance in the remote
communities of the Unincorporated Areas of the State.
Some funding assistance is also available for conservation works,
with priority given to places with recognised historical significance
or that play a considerable role in a community's function or identity.
If you are aware of any such projects in 2007/08 and beyond, please
contact DEH
Heritage Branch
on (61 8)
8124 4960.
Oodnadatta Heritage Survey now online
Completed in 2001 with a very limited printed run, this heritage
survey can now be viewed or downloaded here
or browse to it from the Publications and Resources page of the
DEH Heritage website. The survey area includes the Oodnadatta Track
and a corridor fifty kilometres wide on either side starting around
50km west of Marree and ending where the former Ghan Railway Line
crosses the South Australia - Northern Territory border.
188 Gilles Street Restoration - the former
Beresford Arms Inn
Support from DEH
is helping Adelaide City Council to conserve the former Beresford
Arms Inn, built in 1839. Read all about it and see photos and video
of the work being done to conserve South Adelaide's earliest remaining
hotel-related building at the Council's web page 188
Gilles Street Restoration. [South Adelaide's oldest hotel building
still in use as a hotel appears to be the Rob Roy in Halifax St,
a portion of which dates from 1842. The oldest hotel licence in
South Australia (31 March 1837) is held by the Edinburgh Castle
Hotel (originally known as 'Guthrie's') in Currie Street.]
State News
Heritage Surveys/PARs
The following Councils are undertaking or about to undertake Heritage
Reviews/Surveys, prior to preparing Heritage Plan Amendment Reports
(PARs):
- Adelaide Hills Council (Onkaparinga & Torrens Valleys only)
- Flinders Ranges Council & the District Councils of Mount
Remarkable, Orroroo/Carrieton & Peterborough (Joint Heritage
Review)
- City of Holdfast Bay (1930s Heritage)
- Kangaroo Island (excluding American River, Kingscote, Parndana
& Penneshaw)
- District Council of Kingston
- City of Mount Gambier
- District Council of Naracoorte Lucindale (Township of Naracoorte
only)
- District Council of Wattle Range (Township of Penola only)
- City of Whyalla
The following Councils have recently had Heritage PARs approved
by the Minister for Urban Development & Planning:
- Alexandra Council (Strathalbyn Township only)
- City of Burnside (Historic (Conservation) Zones No. 2)
- City of Campbelltown (Local Heritage Places)
- City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters (2 PARs - Payneham
and St Peters, Kensington & Norwood)
- Town of Walkerville (Heritage Places & Areas)
The following Councils currently have Heritage PARs under Interim
Authorisation:
- Light Regional Council (Heritage)
- District council of Mount Barker (District Wide Heritage)
- District Council of Tatiara (Heritage) Town of Walkerville
(Local Heritage - Supplementary)
National News
Amendments to the Environment Protection
and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act
The Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1)
2006 - 414 pages of amendments to the Environment Protection and
Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act - was introduced to the Australian
Parliament 12.10.06 and came into effect on 19 February 2007.
The principal purpose of the amendments as regards historic heritage
is to streamline assessment procedures for the National and Commonwealth
Heritage Lists and establish a more orderly approach for assessing
nominations. Initiatives include:
- calling for nominations for National places within one or more
themes that are set for approximately 12 month periods by the
Minister on the advice of the Australian Heritage Council (AHC)
and establishing an annual call for nominations within those themes;
- requiring the creation of priority lists for assessing nominations
for the National and Commonwealth Lists and allowing the AHC to
exclude places it believes unlikely to possess National or Commonwealth
heritage values;
- allowing Commonwealth staff to consult with others regarding
their draft assessment reports;
- streamlining emergency listing processes; and
- removing the ability to include overseas places in the National
Heritage List and creating a new List of Overseas Places of
Historic Significance to Australia.
The 118 page explanatory memorandum is available at http://parlinfoweb.aph.gov.au/piweb//Repository/Legis/ems/Linked/12100603.pdf.
Some information is available on the Australian Government Department
of the Environment and Water Resources (formerly the Department
of the Environment and Heritage) web site http://www.environment.gov.au
Conferences & Events
9 March (call for papers deadline)
Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and Urban
History and Theory
24th International Conference of The Society of Architectural Historians
Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Adelaide, South Australia 21
- 24th September, 2007
SAHANZ calls for papers for its 2007 conference addressing the
theme 'Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and
Urban History and Theory'. Deadline 9 March 2007.
Details: http://www.unisa.edu.au/arc/SAHANZ/
17 March
Poverty and pageants, propaganda and progress . . .
tracing the 1930s in South Australia through archival records.
A National Archives, State Library and State Records seminar will
be held at the Institute Building, State Library of SA, North Terrace,
Adelaide on Saturday 17 March 2007 from 2.00 to 4.30 pm. There is
no charge, but please book online at
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?area_id=15&nav_id=2354
or browse to the What's On section of the State Library's website.
Phone enquiries: (61 8)
8207 7334.
18 March
Prospect Hill Museum
An Historical Society of South Australia field trip, to be held
Sunday 18 March. Bookings required. A donation of $4.00 is suggested
and where applicable, bus fares and entrance fees are additional.
For bookings contact Avis Huckel on (61 8)
8277 2953.
24 March
National Archives of Australia - Saturday research facilities
To provide visitors with extra access to research facilities the
National Archives Adelaide office is opening its reading room at
78 Angas Street in the city on the following Saturdays: 24 March,
12 May, 14 July, 22 September and 17 November. Reference services
and facilities will be available from 9am to 1pm. Records required
for Saturday research should be ordered a day or two before as the
lending service does not operate on Saturdays. For further information
and to order records for Saturday research please phone (61 8)
8409 8400.
25 March
Cape Willoughby Open Day
Cape Willoughby will be holding an Open Day on Sunday 25 March
2007. For details contact Alison Buck on (61 8)
8559 7220 or by email
. The Cape Willoughby Lighthouse was the first lighthouse to be
built in South Australia and is a State Heritage Place. It was named
the Sturt Light after the noted explorer Captain Charles Sturt and
first exhibited on 10 January 1852. For more information about the
Cape Willoughby Lighthouse see http://www.parks.sa.gov.au/cape_willoughby/sturt/index.htm
until 25 March
The National Treasures exhibition now open at the State Library
of SA
Initiated by the Council of Australian State Libraries (CASL)
and managed by the National Library of Australia, National
Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries is a free travelling
exhibition from Australia's National, State and Territory Libraries
that tells a rich and remarkable story about our history, our nation,
our treasures and our libraries. It brings together, for the first
time, more than 170 extraordinary items that have shaped our nation.
Come and see iconic items such as Ned Kelly's helmet, James Cook's
Endeavour Journal, and a complete convict uniform. This landmark
exhibition also includes South Australian treasures of national
significance from the State Library's own collections.
Doors open daily 10 am to 5pm until 25th March 2007. Free entry.
Venue: The
State Library of South Australia; Flinders University City Gallery,
ground floor, North Terrace. For more information or to make a group
booking please phone (61 8)
8207 7533 or 1800 182 013 from country SA.
13 April
General Stores and Draperies in rural South Australia - by Margaret
Ford
An Historical Society of South Australia event, this talk will
be held on Friday 13 April, 7.30pm, in the Burnside Community Centre.
Enquiries: Terry Saunderson on (61 8)
8354 2736 or by email.
16 - 20 April
Sydney event - Heritage Master Classes in Traditional Plastering
For those with existing skills in plastering and rendering who
are looking to increase their proficiency. Presented by the Master
Builders Association (NSW) in conjunction with the National Trust
of Australia , this five day practical workshop will run from 16-20
April at the Building Industry Skill Centre, Showground Rd, Castle
Hill. Cost $950. Contact the Training Department, MBA NSW, on (61
2) 8586 3514
22 May
Russell S Ellis: Adelaide Architect and Pioneer Modernist
Russell S Ellis was one of South Australia's first Modernist architects.
Louise Bird, Department of Environment and Heritage Research Fellow
at the Architecture Museum, Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture
and Design, University of South Australia, will present an illustrated
talk about the residential work of Ellis on Tuesday 22 May from
12.30 to 1.30pm - Room 15, Level 5, George Kingston Building (enter
from George St) City West Campus, University of South Australia.
Enquiries and bookings: Contact Julie Collins on (61 8)
8302 9235 or by email.
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Heritage Branch
The Heritage Branch of the South Australian Department for Environment
and Heritage aims to identify, protect, conserve and promote State
Heritage Places and Maritime Heritage within the context of relevant
legislation - the Heritage Places Act 1993, the State Historic Shipwrecks
Act 1981 and the Australian Government Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976.
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