History
Conference paper
‘The ruins caused a catch in the throat as memories came flooding in’
The origins of a conservation ethos in the urban Australia of the late 1960s and early 1970s is commonly assumed to stem from international influences. Yet there is also a local cultural element to this urban conservationism, the recognition, celebration and preservation of historic environments, which pre-dates the 1970s popular heritage movement.
Book
Indigenous mobilities: across and beyond the Antipodes
This edited collection examines Aboriginal and Māori travel in colonial contexts.
Journal article
Towards zero-emission refurbishment of historic buildings: a literature review
This article presents a systematic review—at the intersection between environmental sustainability and conservation—of the state of the art of current methodological approaches applied in the sustainable refurbishment of historic buildings.
Report
The history wars matter
Understanding the true meaning of Australian history, and debunking the perennial claims routinely made about the role our supposedly perpetual history of ‘racism’ allegedly continues to play in Australian society, is increasingly in the national interest today.
Draft report
Our people, culture and place: a plan to sustain Ballarat's heritage
This plan brings together social and economic development goals with conservation goals, guided by international best practice – UNESCO’s Historic Urban Landscape approach (HUL).