Register of the National Estate

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Register of the National Estate
TypeNatural and cultural heritage register
Country Australia
StatusClosed
Years1976 –February 2007 (2007-02);
(Phased out from 2003; Register continued until 2012, but no new places added after 2007)
Replaced by
Compiled by Commonwealth of Australia via the:

The Register of the National Estate was a heritage register that listed natural and cultural heritage places in Australia that was closed in 2007. Phasing out began in 2003, when the Australian National Heritage List and the Commonwealth Heritage List were created [1] and by 2007 the Register had been replaced by these and various state and territory heritage registers.

Contents

Places listed on the Register remain in a non-statutory archive and are still able to be viewed via the National Heritage Database. [2]

History

The register was initially compiled between 1976 and 2003 by the Australian Heritage Commission, [3] after which the register was maintained by the Australian Heritage Council. 13,000 places were listed.

The expression "national estate" was first used by the British architect Clough Williams-Ellis, and reached Australia in the 1970s. [4] It was incorporated into the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975 [4] and was used to describe a collection of buildings and sites that were worthy of preservation for a variety of reasons. It covered natural environments as well as European history and Aboriginal culture.

Process of listing

Anyone could suggest that a certain site should be listed on the Register of the National Estate. A nomination form was provided and was then submitted to an expert group for evaluation. If a place was accepted for listing, the nomination was declared in the Commonwealth Gazette and newspapers. The Heritage Council eventually made a decision after the public has had time to comment and raise possible objections. The listing, if it took place, was based on an assessment of the values of the nominated place, whether "aesthetic, historic, scientific, or social significance, or other special value". [4]

A listing on the Register required that a Commonwealth Minister or authority should not take any course of action that would adversely affect the listed subjects unless there was no alternative; in the latter case, the Minister was obliged to take steps to minimise any effect on the listed subject. [4] The listing did not impose any legal obligations on private owners, companies, State governments or local governments. The Australian Heritage Council had to be consulted if any government wanted to take a course of action that might have an adverse effect on a listed subject. The Council itself could not make decisions on a proposed course of action; such decisions were made by the Federal Minister or the relevant authority contemplating the course of action. [4]

Criteria

Evaluation of nominated places was based on the following criteria: [5]

Criterion A

Its importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history

Criterion B

Its possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Australia's natural or cultural history

Criterion C

Its potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia's natural or cultural history

Criterion D

Its importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of: (i) a class of Australia's natural or cultural places; or (ii) a class of Australia's natural or cultural environments

Criterion E

Its importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics valued by a community or cultural group

Criterion F

Its importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period

Criterion G

Its strong or special associations with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons

Criterion H

Its special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in Australia's natural or cultural history

End of the register

The Register of the National Estate was frozen in February 2007. In 2003 the Australian Heritage Commission Act 1975 , which had established the RNE, was repealed. In its place the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and the Australian Heritage Council Act 2003 provided for a new system of heritage protection for nationally significant places. In 2006 the EPBC Act and the Australian Heritage Council Act 2003 were amended to freeze the RNE, and to allow five years to phase out statutory references to the RNE. As a result of these changes: [1]

In February 2012, the Register was replaced by the Australian National Heritage List for places of outstanding heritage value for Australia and the Commonwealth Heritage List for heritage places that are owned or controlled by the Commonwealth of Australia, [1] [6] together with a collection of state and territory heritage registers that most were in existence for many years. [7] The RNE is maintained on a non-statutory basis as a publicly available archive and educational resource. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Register of the National Estate". Australian Government. Retrieved 5 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "National Heritage Database". Australian Government. Dept of Environment and Energy. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  3. ↑ The Heritage of Australia, Macmillan Company, 1981, pp. 9–13
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Heritage of Australia, pp. 9–13
  5. ↑ "Criteria for the Register of the National Estate". Department of Energy and Environment. Commonwealth of Australia. 2018. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Heritage places and lists". Australian Government. Dept. of Energy and the Environment. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "Register of the National Estate - archive". Australian Government. Dept of Environment and Energy. Retrieved 15 November 2019.

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This article incorporates text from Criteria for the Register of the National Estate published by the Commonwealth of Australia 2018 under CC-BY-4.0 licence, accessed on 3 September 2018.

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