If we can all agree about what heritage is, that seems straightforward. But do we?
Another way of discovering what heritage legislation does is to ask what problems it sought to fix in the first place. This requires some historical context. We should also consider what the future role of heritage could be.
War on the demolishers
In 1825, French writer and politician Victor Hugo launched his public career with a powerful essay, War on The Demolishers. It was arguably the first major political broadside launched on behalf of architectural and urban conservation. Notre Dame Cathedral was one of the inspirations for Victor Hugo’s essay.
Howard government alumni appear on Tony Nuttâs phone logs during AusPost inquiry
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John Howardâs office â where he served as principal private secretary and chief of staff â itâs great to see the ties that still bind.
Tony Nutt
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Phone logs released by the Senate inquiry into Australia Post have provided an intriguing glimpse into AusPost director Nuttâs inner circle when he was confronted by the political storms unleashed by the Cartier watch revelations.
In short, they read like a phone directory from the glory days of the Howard government.
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The Federal Government has finally understood the value of investing in video games, but Australia’s largest state New South Wales is still well behind the 8-ball. However, some new comments from the state’s Arts minister indicate that might be about to change.
In a transcript posted online by IGEA, the lobbyists representing the video game industry in Australia, NSW’s Arts Minister was asked in Parliament yesterday why NSW was lagging so far behind Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and now the Federal Government when it came to video game support.
It’s a fair question: NSW has a huge cache of STEM students that could or would be captured by video game development or adjacent industries, and a lot of the tech used by the film industry (which gets a lot of support in NSW) is now directly related to, or directly from, video games.
Gladys Berejiklian has described revelations of her secret relationship with a fellow parliamentarian as “humiliating and embarrassing”.
She then proceeded to discuss the details at length in a media blitz in which she was asked if she had engaged in same-sex encounters; confessed she had given up on love ; and said she wanted to marry the man she was having a relationship with but who was not her boyfriend.
After a week of damaging revelations at the corruption commission raising questions about her judgment over a secret relationship with disgraced MP Daryl Maguire that threaten her grip on the top job, the Premier conducted interviews with Sunday Telegraph gossip columnist Annette Sharp, radio s Ben Fordham and FM radio duo Kyle and Jackie O.