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[Protecting Heritage places]

[Step 1 What is your heritage place?]

[Step 10 Review it!]

[Step 9 Do it!]

[Step 8 What is your plan?]

[Step 7 What do you need to do?]

[Step 2 Who has an interest]

[Step 3 What do you need to know?]

[Step 4 Why is this place important]

[Step 5 What are the issues?]

[Step 6 What do you want to achieve?]

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STEP 3 - Contents

> Where is the boundary?

> What information is available?

> Heritage registers

> Finding out more about heritage

> What additional information is required?

> What goes into a heritage study?

 

> Have a go -Step 3

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Australian Historic Themes Framework

Australian Historic Themes Framework

 

1. Tracing the evolution of the Australian environment

1.1 Tracing climatic and topographical change

1.2 Tracing the emergence of Australian plants and animals

1.3 Assessing scientifically diverse environments

1.4 Appreciating the natural wonders of Australia

 

2. Peopling Australia

2.1 Living as Australia's earliest inhabitants

2.2 Adapting to diverse environments

2.3 Coming to Australia as a punishment

2.4 Migrating

2.5 Promoting settlement

2.6 Fighting for land

 

3. Developing local, regional and national economies

3.1 Exploring the coastline

3.2 Constructing capital city economies

3.3 Surveying the continent

3.4 Utilising natural resources

3.5 Developing primary production

3.6 Recruiting labour

3.7 Establishing communications

3.8 Moving goods and people

3.9 Farming for commercial profit

3.10 Integrating people into the cash economy

3.11 Altering the environment

3.12 Feeding people

3.13 Developing an Australian manufacturing capacity

3.14 Developing an Australian engineering and construction industry

3.15 Developing economic links outside Australia

3.16 Struggling with remoteness, hardship and failure

3.17 Inventing devices

3.18 Financing Australia

3.19 Marketing and retailing

3.20 Informing Australians

3.21 Entertaining for profit

3.22 Lodging people

3.23 Catering for tourists

3.24 Selling companionship and sexual services

3.25 Adorning Australians

3.26 Providing health services

 

4. Building settlements, towns and cities

4.1. Planning urban settlements

4.2 Supplying urban services (power, transport, fire prevention, roads, water,

4.3 Developing institutions

4.4 Living with slums, outcasts and homelessness

4.5 Making settlements to serve rural Australia

4.6 Remembering significant phases in the development of settlements, towns and cities

 

5. Working

5.1 Working in harsh conditions

5.2 Organising workers and work places

5.3 Caring for workers' dependent children

5.4 Working in offices

5.5 Trying to make crime pay

5.6 Working in the home

5.7 Surviving as Indigenous people in a white-dominated economy

5.8 Working on the land

 

6. Educating

6.1 Forming associations, libraries and institutes for self-education

6.2 Establishing schools

6.3 Training people for the workplace

6.4 Building a system of higher education

6.5 Educating people in remote places

6.6 Educating Indigenous people in two cultures

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7. Governing

7.1. Governing Australia as a province of the British Empire

7.2. Developing institutions of self-government and democracy

7.3 Making City-States

7.4 Federating Australia

7.5 Governing Australia's colonial possessions

7.6 Administering Australia

7.7 Defending Australia

7.8 Establishing regional and local identity

 

8. Developing Australia's cultural life

8.1 Organising recreation

8.2 Going to the beach

8.3 Going on holiday

8.4 Eating and drinking

8.5 Forming associations

8.6 Worshipping

8.7 Honouring achievement

8.8 Remembering the fallen

8.9 Commemorating significant events

8.10 Pursuing excellence in the arts and sciences

8.11 Making Australian folklore

8.10Living in and around Australian homes

8.13 Living in cities and suburbs

8.14 Living in the country and rural settlements

8.15 Being homeless

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9. Marking the phases of life

9.1 Bringing babies into the world

9.2 Growing up

9.3 Forming families and partnerships

9.4 Being an adult

9.5 Living outside a family/partnership

9.6 Growing old

9.7 Dying

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