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For that reason, it is not appropriate to include it here.  However, the areas of interest expressed in the vision are:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Community Engagement</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Role of the Commonwealth Government</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Leadership</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Proposed Integrated National Heritage Policy</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Conservation Philosophy and Practice</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">State of the Environment Reporting</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Acceptance of International Obligations</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Holistic Environmental Policy</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Indigenous Heritage</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cultural Heritage Funding</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Education and Interpretation</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Research</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Collections</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Conservation Training and Education</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Urban Development</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Regional Australia</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Underwater Cultural Heritage</div> <bR> <div> <B>Heritage Care</B></div> <div> The Forum has proposed to the Government a scheme that it calls Heritage Care.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Introduction</B></div> <div> Local heritage is the heritage asset least well protected through the existing framework of statutory protection. However, local heritage is highly valued by communities, and is strongly linked to regional distinctiveness and to local community identity. </div> <bR> <div> Conservation of cultural heritage is specifically excluded from the provisions of the Natural Heritage Trust. This not only restricts access to resources for the conservation of cultural heritage, it also artificially divides the more holistic perceptions communities bring to caring for their country and the land. </div> <bR> <div> Understanding and accessing cultural heritage places and collections is fundamental to community well being. </div> <bR> <div> The Australian government has demonstrated leadership in protecting heritage of national significance. There is now an opportunity for the Australian Government to further this national leadership through engagement with communities at a local level to assist them to participate directly in the care of their own local heritage places. This would provide similar benefits to heritage as those being provided to the environment through Natural Heritage Trust programs such as Landcare and similar programs.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Program Proposal</B></div> <div> Establishment of a new community heritage program (Heritage Care), which, through its component parts, would assist community groups in the care of local heritage places.</div> <bR> <div> This `umbrella' Heritage Care Program could incorporate: </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">An expanded CHPP </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new community <I>hands-on-heritage</I> program </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Other specifically targeted initiatives modelled on the recent successful <I>Historic Hotels </I>program</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">National heritage research program </div> <bR> <div> Program Benefits</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Demonstrates Australian government connects people and place at a local and community level</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Encourages and supports community engagement </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Provides substantial cost effective conservation outcomes</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Increases community capacity and sustainability</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Facilitates holistic approach supporting both natural and cultural heritage care</div> <bR> <div> <B>Funding</B></div> <div> <B>$</B>50m - $10m pa over 5 years per annum (in addition to CHPP funding)</div> <bR> <div> National Cultural Heritage Forum</div> <div> August 2004</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>