What If?
Government blueprint for demolishing local heritage protection
The State Government has released a discussion paper on local heritage protection without so much as a news release to explain its intention or the process for public consultation on the radical and damaging ‘reforms’ to our State’s heritage protection system it proposes. As reported in the media, the Government’s paper and rushed approach to public consultation, has already raised great concern. The National Trust is calling for an open […]
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What if the planning system looked after everyone’s interests?
Heritage advocates have cause for concern in new proposals for planning regulation put forward by the State Government. The Expert Panel on Planning Reform established by Planning Minister John Rau released its draft report Our Ideas for Reform in August. The report outlines 27 ‘ideas for reform’ across the planning system. A number of those have direct implications for the protection of heritage. Throughout the review process, the National Trust […]
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What if we treasured our forts rather than selling them off?
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.
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