Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 26
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Gallipoli – Heritage Listing
Hansard Page ECITA:	91

Senator Mark Bishop asked:
When did the discussions commence after the Prime Minister’s first public statement?  Perhaps you might take me through the discussions, to the extent that you can, prior to, with the times involved, the people involved, the locations involved, the Prime Minister’s statement and subsequent similar activity.

Answer/s:
See answer to Question on Notice 27.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 27
Sub Outcome:	
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Gallipoli – Heritage Listing
Hansard Page ECITA:	92, 93

Senator Mark Bishop asked:
Could you provide to this committee prior to the date of that Senate committee hearing a chronology of the events both prior to and after the Prime Minister’s announcement on 18 December concerning the heritage listing. You are telling me that now necessarily involves a range of other departments that have to be consulted with. Is that question clear, Mr Young?

Could you also in that answer advise us who was involved in the negotiations and the time and place of those negotiations and which officers were involved as well. Could you also tell us which departmental officials and on how many occasions they have visited Turkey to process the negotiations or the consultation in that time period as well across all of the relevant agencies. 

Answer/s:
See attached document: 
Proposal for National Heritage Listing of the Anzac Area.  Chronology of Key Dates.  Department of the Environment and Heritage.

Qon27, attachment

Proposal for National Heritage Listing of the Anzac Area

Chronology of Key Dates

Department of the Environment and Heritage

12 September 2002:  Lunch hosted by Defence Minister for visit by Turkish Minister for Defence, attended by Turkish Ambassador, Attorney-General, Chief of the Defence Forces and Chair, Australian Heritage Commission. 

17 September 2002:  Formal meeting at Turkish Embassy, Canberra, between Australian Government officials and Turkish Ambassador, including First Assistant Secretary, Heritage Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Director, Office of Australian War Graves, and officers of Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Department of the Environment and Heritage.  

14 October 2002:  Letter to Turkish Ambassador from First Assistant Secretary, Heritage Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage.

17 October 2002:  Visit by Turkish Ambassador to Minister for the Environment and Heritage.  

29 October - 5 November 2002:  Visit to Turkey by First Assistant Secretary, Heritage Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage for meetings with Turkish officials, accompanied by officers at post.

29 November 2002:  Letter to Turkish Embassy from First Assistant Secretary, Heritage Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage.

20 May 2003:  Meeting between First Assistant Secretary, Heritage Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage and Turkish Ambassador.

30 June – 5 July 2003:  Meeting between First Assistant Secretary, Heritage Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage and Turkish officials in the margins of World Heritage Committee meeting.

15 July 2003:  Letter from Turkish Embassy to Department of the Environment and Heritage.

16 July 2003:  Letter from Department of the Environment and Heritage to Turkish Embassy.

22 July 2003:  Visit by Australian Embassy officials to Turkish official.

25 September 2003:  Diplomatic note sent to Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs providing details of National Heritage legislation and seeking commencement of formal discussions.

9 October 2003:  Letter from Minister for Environment and Heritage to Turkish Minister for the Environment and Forestry. 

19 November 2003:  Meeting between First Assistant Secretary, Heritage Division, Department of the Environment and Heritage and Turkish Ambassador.

November 2003:  Meetings between Australian Embassy and Turkish officials.

December 2003:  Meetings between Australian Embassy and Turkish officials.

20 December 2003:  Meeting between Australian Ambassador and Turkish Minister for the Environment and Forestry.

December 2003:  Discussions between Australian Embassy and Turkish officials.

January 2004:  Discussions between Australian Embassy and Turkish officials.

February 2004:  Discussions between Australian Embassy and Turkish officials.

2 March 2004:  Letter from Minister for the Environment and Heritage to the Australian Heritage Council.

2 March 2004:  Letters from Minister for the Environment and Heritage to the Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Veterans’ Affairs.

16 April 2004:  Letter from Minister for Foreign Affairs to Minister for the Environment and Heritage.

22 April 2004:  Meeting in Ankara between Australian and Turkish Government Ministers.

July-August 2004:  Discussions between Australian Ambassador and Turkish officials as part of farewell calls.

December 2004:  Discussions between new Australian Ambassador and Turkish officials as part of introductory calls.

14 February 2005:  Visit to Australia by Governor of Cannakale Province under Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Special Visits Programme. 

8 March 2005:  Meeting between Australian Embassy and Turkish officials.

24 March 2005:  Meeting between Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Turkish Embassy officials.

24 March 2005:  Meetings between Australian Embassy and Turkish officials.

12 April 2005:  Meeting between Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Turkish Ambassador.

10-17 April 2005:  Visit to Turkey by senior Australian Government officials - Deputy Secretary, Prime Minister and Cabinet, First Assistant Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, First Assistant Secretary, Department of the Environment and Heritage.

26 April 2005: Meeting between Prime Minister and Turkish Prime Minister during visit to Turkey for 90th Anniversary of landings at Gallipoli.

5-11 May 2005:  Meeting between Australian Embassy and Turkish officials.

10 June 2005:  Letter from Minister for the Environment and Heritage to Turkish Government.

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Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 28
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Gallipoli – Heritage Listing
Hansard Page ECITA:	93

Senator Mark Bishop asked:
Do we know why the Prime Minister of Turkey made that decision?
Senator Ian Campbell—He explained his reasons. That is a fair question. We should get a transcript of that press conference and then just have it tabled. 

Answer/s:
The Secretary, Department of the Environment and Heritage, wrote to the Chairman of the Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Legislation Committee on 8 June 2005 to clarify evidence given at the hearing of 26 May 2005.

In part, the letter explained:

“At page 93 of the Proof Hansard, there was some discussion about a statement apparently made by the Turkish Prime Minister in relation to listing Anzac Cove as a heritage site. Minister Campbell and I undertook to track down a copy of the statement and provide it to the Committee. After checking the details I now wish to advise that the correct answer is:
The Turkish Prime Minister did not make any statement following his meeting with the Prime Minister. However Prime Minister Howard released a statement following the meeting which outlines the key outcomes of the meeting. I have attached a copy of the Prime Minister’s statement.”

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 29
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	National Heritage Listings
Hansard Page ECITA:	98

Senator Wong asked:
Mr Young, on notice, I wonder if you could provide the actual places that comprise the various figures you have just given me—the 84, the 26 etcetera. And if you can indicate the basis of why others are not provided as well in the answer, I would appreciate that. Of those, how many sites were nominated more than 12 months ago? Of those which have not been placed on the list—let us exclude the eight, if we can do that—how any of the nominations were nominated more than 12 months ago? When you do your list, can you give us the dates of the nominations as well?

Answer/s:
To 26 May 2005, there had been a total of 85 nominations made by the public under the standard provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 for the inclusion of places in the National Heritage List. Table 1 includes all but eleven of those places. The reasons for the exclusions are: four nominations are for places in foreign countries; six nominations have not been referred to the Australian Heritage Council because the nominator has not provided sufficient location and boundary data, and one place was in the process of being referred to the Council (Kyneton Mechanics Institute, Victoria, since referred to the Council).

To 26 May 2005, there had been requests from the public for a total of 25 places to be included in the National Heritage List under the emergency provisions of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Table 2 includes all these places.

TABLE 1. LIST OF ALL AUSTRALIAN NOMINATED PLACES REFERRED TO AHC FOR ASSESSMENT AS AT 26 MAY 2005

Name	Street	Nearest Town	Status	Date of receipt	
NSW					
Yooroona Tank Barrier	Waterfall Way	Ebor	Being assessed	16/12/2004	
Dundullimal	Obley Rd	Dubbo	Being assessed	29/07/2004	
Brewarrina Aboriginal Fish Traps (Baiames Ngunnhu)	Doyle St	Brewarrina	Assessment transmitted to Minister	9/11/2004	
Brandy Marys Bago State Forest Crown Leases	East Bago Powerline Rd	Talbingo	Assessment transmitted to Minister	26/10/2004	
Bradmans Birthplace	Adams St	Cootamundra	Not included in NHL	22/04/2004	
Barlings Beach Area	Red Hill Pde	Tomakin	Assessment transmitted to Minister	9/06/2004	
Wara-n'hayara Plateau Area	Mount Kiera Rd	Wollongong	Being assessed	11/01/2005	
BMA House	Macquarie St	Sydney	Being assessed	17/08/2004	
Sydney Opera House	Circular Quay East	Sydney	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	15/06/2004	
First Government House Site	Bridge St	Sydney	Being assessed	17/08/2004	
Australia Square	George St	Sydney	Being assessed	15/06/2004	
Bondi Surf Pavilion	Queen Elizabeth Dr	Bondi Beach	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	17/06/2004	
Charing Cross Commercial Centre	Bronte Rd	Waverley	Being assessed	28/01/2005	
North Head Manly	North Head Scenic Dr	Manly	Being assessed	6/08/2004	
Graythwaite	Edward St	North Sydney	Being assessed	14/03/2005	
Luna Park	Olympic Dr	Milsons Point	Being assessed	14/03/2005	
Lavender Bay, Milsons Point Foreshore	Alfred St South	Sydney	Being assessed	1/10/2004	
Lidcombe Hospital (former)	Joseph St	Lidcombe	Assessment transmitted to Minister	15/07/2004	
Eurama	Sir Henrys Pde	Faulconbridge	Not included in NHL	5/04/2004	
Pitt Town District Cultural Precinct	Pitt Town Rd	Pitt Town	Being assessed	4/01/2005	
Kurnell Peninsula	Captain Cook Dr	Kurnell	Part included in NHL	18/05/2004	
Haberfield Conservation Area	Parramatta Rd	Haberfield	Being assessed	29/03/2004	
Church Hill	Hay St	Port Macquarie	Being assessed	29/09/2004	
Vic					
Barwon Sewer Aqueduct	Leather St	Breakwater	Being assessed	19/11/2004	
Lady Julia Percy Island - Tyrendarra Area		Yambuk	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	17/02/2004	
Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape - Tyrendarra Area		Tyrendarra	Included in NHL	17/02/2004	
Budj Bim National Heritage Landscape - Mt Eccles Lake Condah Area	Mt Eccles Rd	Macarthur	Included in NHL	17/02/2004	
Eureka Stockade Gardens	Eureka St	Eureka	Included in NHL	16/07/2004	
Arch of Victory and Avenue of Honour	Remembrance Drive	Ballarat	Being assessed	16/04/2004	
War Graves, Mildura Public Cemetery	Cemetery Road	Mildura	Not included in NHL	12/02/2004	
Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park	Chewton Rd	Castlemaine	Included in NHL	11/03/2004	
Bendigo Town Hall	Hargreaves St	Bendigo	Not included in NHL	16/07/2004	
Historic Wharf - Port of Echuca	Murray Esplanade	Echuca	Being assessed	8/11/2004	
Alpine Grazing Licensed Areas in the Alpine National Park	Bogong High Plains Rd	Falls Creek	Being assessed	16/12/2004	
Glenrowan Heritage Precinct	Old Hume Hwy	Glenrowan	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	3/06/2004	
Newman College	Swanston St	Parkville	Being assessed	15/06/2004	
Old Melbourne Gaol	Russell St	Melbourne	Being assessed	5/10/2004	
Orica House	Nicholson St	East Melbourne	Being assessed	15/06/2004	
Sidney Myer Music Bowl	Kings Domain	Melbourne	Being assessed	15/06/2004	
Portable Iron Houses	Coventry St	South Melbourne	Being assessed	18/03/2005	
Point Cook Air Base	Aviation Rd	Point Cook	Being assessed	13/02/2004	
Rippon Lea House and Garden	Hotham St	Elsternwick	Being assessed	30/08/2004	
HMVS Cerberus		Black Rock	Being assessed	3/09/2004	
Point Nepean Area	Defence Rd	Portsea	Being assessed	25/02/2004	
Quarantine Station and Surrounds, Portsea	Defence Rd	Portsea	Being assessed	23/07/2004	
SA					
Golden Grove House, Shearing Sheds and Quarters	Golden Grove Rd	Golden Grove	Not included in NHL	5/03/2004	
South Australian Old and New Parliament Houses	North Tce	Adelaide	Assessment completed and transmitted to Minister. Open for public comment on proposed listing	18/03/2004	
City of Adelaide Historic Layout and Park Lands	South Terrace	Adelaide	Being assessed	10/03/2005	
The Adelaide Park Lands	South Tce	Adelaide	Being assessed	27/09/2004	
Qld					
Palma Rosa	Queens Rd	Hamilton	Assessment transmitted to Minister	25/06/2004	
New Farm Park	Sydney St	New Farm	Assessment transmitted to Minister	6/07/2004	
Glass House Mountains	Beerburrum Woodford Rd	Beerburrum	Being assessed	31/01/2005	
Middle Percy Island and Pine Islet		Carmila	Being assessed	27/01/2005	
Cairns Yacht Club	Wharf St	Cairns	Assessment transmitted to Minister	29/09/2004	
Tree of Knowledge	Oak St	Barcaldine	Being assessed	30/04/2004	
Dinosaur Stampede National Monument	Winton-Jundah Rd	Winton	Included in NHL	12/01/2004	
WA					
Burrup Peninsula, Islands of the Dampier Archipelago and Dampier Coast	Karratha Dampier Rd	Dampier	Being assessed	24/05/2004	
Dampier Archipelago Art Site Area	Karratha Dampier Rd	Dampier	Being assessed	25/03/2004	
Fremantle Prison (former)	The Terrace	Fremantle	Being assessed	24/08/2004	
Cape Inscription Area		Dirk Hartog Island	Being assessed	4/01/2005	
Tas					
Hydro Electric Commission Building (former)	Elizabeth St	Hobart	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	15/06/2004	
Richmond Bridge and Setting	Bridge St	Richmond	Assessment transmitted to Minister	11/05/2004	
Recherche Bay Area		Southport	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	2/02/2004	
Port Arthur Historic Site	Arthur Hwy	Port Arthur	Assessment transmitted to Minister	20/04/2004	
Tarkine Wilderness Area	Waratah Rd	Savage River	Being assessed	8/07/2004	
Great Western Tiers		Meander	Being assessed	15/10/2004	
NT					
Hermannsburg Historic Precinct	Larapinta Dr	Alice Springs	Being assessed	20/09/2004	
ACT					
Old Parliament House and Curtilage	King George Tce	Canberra	Being assessed	22/10/2004	
Parliament House and Surrounds	Parliament Dr	Capital Hill	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	15/06/2004	
Australian Academy of Science Building	Gordon St	Canberra City	Being assessed	15/06/2004	
Cameron Offices	Chandler St	Belconnen	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	15/06/2004	
High Court - National Gallery Precinct	Parkes Pl	Parkes	Being assessed	15/06/2004	
External					
Mawsons Huts and Mawsons Huts Historic Site		Dumont D'Urville Station	Included in NHL	2/04/2004	
Tasmanian Seamounts		Hobart	Assessment completed. To be transmitted to Minister.	21/06/2004	

TABLE 2. PLACES SUBMITTED FOR EMERGENCY NATIONAL HERITAGE LISTING (EL) AS AT 26 MAY 2005

Name	Street	Nearest Town	Status	Date of Receipt	

NSW					
Cod Hole - Julian Rocks Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Byron Bay	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Tollgate Islands Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Lilli Pilli	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Montague Island Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Narooma	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Pinnacle Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Forster	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Big and Little Seal Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Seal Rocks	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Little Broughton Island Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Shoal Bay	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Bass Point - Shell Harbour Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Shell Harbour	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Lower Crown Street Precinct	Crown St	Wollongong	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	26/05/2004	
Mine Sites along Illawarra Escarpment		Wollongong	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	30/03/2005	
Nepean River Corridor	South Western Fwy	Douglas Park	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	30/03/2005	
Dendrobium Long Wall Area		Wollongong	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	30/03/2005	
Magic Point - Maroubra Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Maroubra	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
North Head Manly	North Head Scenic Dr	Manly	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	08/12/2004	
ADI Site Western Precinct	The Northern Rd	Llandilo	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	25/11/2004	
Kurnell Peninsula	Captain Cook Dr	Kurnell	Part included in NHL after EL provisions	07/09/2004	
Manta Arch - South Solitary Island Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Woolgoolga	Rejected for EL	10/11/2004	
Anemone Bay - North Solitary Island Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Woolgoolga	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Cod Grounds Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		Laurieton	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Green Island Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		South West Rocks	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Fish Rock Grey Nurse Shark Habitat		South West Rocks	Not included in NHL under EL provisions	10/11/2004	
Vic					
Alpine National Park		Hotham Heights	Rejected once. Under reconsideration at 26 May 2005. Subsequently listed.	12/01/2005, 26/05/2005	
SA					
The Adelaide Park Lands	South Tce	Adelaide	Application withdrawn	29/07/2004	
WA					
Dampier Rock Art Precinct	Karratha Dampier Rd	Dampier	Application withdrawn	20/05/2004	
Tas					
Recherche Bay Area		Southport	Not included in NHL under EL provisions three times	14/12/2004, 04/01/2005, 01/04/2005	
ACT					
Black Mountain, Aranda Bushland, OConnor and Bruce Ridges and Gossan Hill		Bruce	Not included in NHL under EL provisions twice.	30/03/2004, 27/04/2004	

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 30
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	National Heritage Listings
Hansard Page ECITA:	100

Senator Wong asked:
Can you provide me with an indication of when the legal advice was sought?  On notice, can you find the date for me, please.

Answer/s:
The advice (concerning the inclusion of World Heritage places in the National Heritage List) was sought on or about 13 January 2005. The advice was received on 13 January 2005.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No: 31
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	National Heritage Listings
Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator  Wong asked:
What proportion of the $5.6 million is for DEH staff?

Answer/s:
Approximately 75% of the total budget for the AHC was spent on DEH staff engaged in supporting the Council functions.

Outcome:	1. Environment				Question No: 32
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic: 	Funding of Daintree Conservation Initiative

Hansard Page ECITA:	123

Senator Wong asked:

Can we go to the $5 million? Is that broken down over the three years that you are talking about, or can you break that down? Is there allocation between those four activities or four purposes? Please could you provide those allocations on notice.

Answer/s:

The $5 million Daintree Conservation Initiative allocations is broken down over three years as:

Financial Year	2004-2005	2005-2006	2006-2007	Total	
Proposed Expenditure	$1 325 000 (GST exclusive)	$2 175 000 (GST exclusive)	$1 500 000 (GST exclusive)	$5 000 000 (GST exclusive)

The amounts allocated to the four major activities for the first two years of operation of the Daintree Conservation Initiative are: 

Activity 	Amount	
Land purchase	$2 500 000	
Land Stewardship	$500 000	
Education/Marketing	$200 000	
Administration / Professional services	$300 000	

Funding for the final year of operation will be negotiated in the preceding year.

Outcome:	1. Environment				Question No: 33
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic: 	Funding of Daintree Conservation Initiative

Hansard Page ECITA:	124

Senator Wong asked:

And all three tiers of government have to sign off on that?

Answer/s:

No.

Outcome:	1. Environment				Question No: 34
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic: 	Funding of Daintree Conservation Initiative

Hansard Page ECITA:	124

Senator Wong asked:

Are these strategic priorities the criteria under which the funding—any funding requests or applications would be assessed? And they are not finalised yet? When do you anticipate that will happen?

Answer/s:
Yes. The strategic priorities will provide information to guide funding decisions. The strategic priorities are expected to be finalised by the end of August 2005.

Outcome:	1. Environment				Question No: 35
Division/Agency:	Heritage  Division
Topic: 	Funding of Daintree Conservation Initiative

Hansard Page ECITA:	125

Senator Wong asked:

Who is the Australian Rainforest Foundation? You say they are a not-for-profit organisation established by the wet tropics management board.

Answer/s:

The Australian Rainforest Foundation is an Australian Public Company established by the Wet Tropics Management Authority in 1996, with the support of the Wet Tropics Ministerial Council. It is listed on the Register of Environmental Organisations as a Tax Deductible Organisation.

Outcome:	1. Environment				Question No: 36
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic: 	Funding of Daintree Conservation Initiative

Hansard Page ECITA:	125

Senator Wong asked:

I think my question still stands: prior to the decision was it a request by the foundation to be the administrator of the funds or did the Commonwealth simply make a decision to seek the foundation’s assistance for the administration of the funds?
Senator Ian Campbell—If there is any discrepancy in what I have said and what happened I will give you a supplementary answer.

Answer/s:

Minister Campbell’s responses are correct.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  37
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic: 	Potential amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Carr asked:
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration, the Member for Murray, Dr Sharman Stone, recently gave an interview on local ABC radio in Bendigo in relation to the proposed Echuca-Moama bridge, in which she discussed proposed amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984. The following is a quote from that interview:

"The point about this particular legislation is that it is under major review and there have been amendments put to it. It is probably months away, waiting until we have control of both houses (of the Senate) and putting finishing touches on the amendments.

"The amendments are expected to take out all of the special Victorian conditions, because this part of the Act … only applies to Victoria, not to other states. There's a number of special circumstances this Act has … only applicable to Victoria. So the act is in the process of amendment."  

Can you confirm that there is not currently a Bill before Parliament to amend the Act?  

Answer:
There is not currently a Bill before Parliament to amend the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  38
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Potential amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Carr asked:
When was the Act last amended (other than consequential amendments such as those arising from the Act to abolish ATSIC)?

Answer:
The last major amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 were in 1987, to include Part IIA and related provisions for the protection of Aboriginal cultural heritage in Victoria. There have been minor amendments since then, including amendments by regulations in relation to the Victorian provisions.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  39
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Potential amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Carr asked:
Is it the case that this legislation is under major review?

Answer:
Parts of the Act are under review, mainly to allow Victoria to enact its own Indigenous heritage protection legislation.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  40 and 41
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Potential amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Carr asked:
If so, how is this review being conducted?  Who is being consulted?  Is there information available on the Department’s website in relation to the review?

If the Act is not the subject of a public review, is it being reviewed within the Government?

Answer:
There have been discussions with the Victorian Government, which is conducting wider consultations with the community on their proposed replacement legislation.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  42
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Potential amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage   Protection Act 1984

Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Carr asked:
Has the Government considered specific amendments to the Act?

Answer:
The Government is considering specific amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 to enable Victorian to enact its own Indigenous heritage legislation. Consideration is also being given to amending the Act to resolve inconsistencies between it and the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  43
Division/Agency:	Heritage
Topic:	Potential amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Carr asked:
Has the Government taken a decision to amend the Act to take out all of the special Victorian provisions?

Answer:
The Government is currently considering amendments to the Act that would repeal these provisions to allow proposed Victorian Indigenous heritage legislation to come into effect.

Outcome:	1. Environment			Question No:  44
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Potential amendments to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984

Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Carr asked:
Has the Government taken any decisions on other amendments to the Act?  If so, what amendments has it decided to make?

Answer:
The Government is currently considering amending the Act to resolve areas of inconsistency between it and the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986.

Outcome:	1. Environment		Question No: 45
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Heritage Expertise
Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Wong asked:
Do any of the Minister’s advisers have historic environment expertise? What about the DEH Secretary? Any of the Deputy Secretaries? First Assistant Secretaries? Assistant Secretaries? Directors? Assistant Directors? How many genuine experts on the historic environment are there in the Department of Environment and Heritage?

Answer/s:
Currently, the Heritage Division in the Department has sixteen officers who have professional qualifications in history, architecture, landscape architecture, historical archaeology and other fields relevant to historic heritage.

Outcome:	1. Environment		Question No: 46 and 47
Division/Agency:	Heritage Division
Topic:	Heritage Expertise
Hansard Page ECITA:	Written Question on Notice

Senator Wong asked:
What about the Australian Heritage Council, -- who are the historic environment experts? Could you briefly explain their expertise?

Wouldn't the Australian Heritage Council and the Australian community be better served if the Government appointed recognised experts to the Council?

Answer/s:
The two historic experts on the Australian Heritage Council required under s7 of the Australian Heritage Council Act 2003 are Mr Roger Beale AM and Ms Jane Lennon AM.

As well as being a former Secretary of the Department of the Environment and Heritage, Mr Beale was a Commissioner on the Australian Heritage Commission for more than seven years with particular emphasis on historic heritage. As a member of the Commission’s Historic Environment Sub-Committee he participated, over these years, in the assessment of hundreds of historic heritage places.

Ms Lennon is a heritage consultant who is widely acknowledged for her expertise and contributions to heritage, being awarded an AM for her services to heritage. She has a long involvement with heritage conservation through her work in the Victorian public service and as a member of numerous professional and community associations. She has an MA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne.

Ms Lennon is also a former Australian Heritage Commissioner, a former member of the Council of the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property in Rome (ICCROM), and currently an adjunct professor in Cultural Heritage Studies at Deakin University.