The National Council of Museums Australia have announced that Ms Alexandra Marsden, a Board Member of AusHeritage, is to be the organisation’s new National Director from March 2015. This follows Bernice Murphy’s nine years leadership of the organisation.
Please note that the mail address for AusHeritage has recently changed to:
AusHeritage Ltd
PO Box 6079
Griffith
ACT 2603
Australia
The seven member senior heritage delegation from AusHeritage were in India as part of the Australia Business Week in India, in partnership with AusTrade, interacting with Indian heritage peak bodies and participating in a workshop.
Cultural collaboration an important component of Australia India business linkages
A seven member senior heritage delegation from AusHeritage is in India as part of the Australia Business Week in India. In partnership with AusTrade, AusHeritage members are interacting with Indian heritage peak bodies in Delhi, Mumbai and Jaipur from January 12-16, 2015.
AusHeritage member SHP (Sue Hodges Productions Pty Ltd) has been working on a number of projects in Malaysia since 2012. This followed a successful visit to SHP’s Melbourne offices in 2011 by Agnes James of Think City, the investment arm of the Malaysian Federal Government. This meeting was at the initiative of AusHeritage and has since led to a number of high-profile jobs in Malaysia and India.
A delegation of AusHeritage members will be participating in Australia Business Week in India (ABWI) from the 12 to 15 January, 2015. The Hon. Mr Andrew Robb AO MP, Minister for Trade and Investment is expected to lead the Australian Government trade and investment mission.
Roger Beeston, deputy chair of AusHeritage, recently attended a workshop at Jadavpur University for the restoration of the 230-year-old Writers’ Buildings, the permanent seat of the West Bengal government in India.
On August 4, Southeast Asian Art and Culture was launched in the ACT Legislative Assembly Building in Canberra. The event was attended by representatives from the ten ASEAN diplomatic missions in Canberra as well as from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the ACT Government and AusHeritage Ltd. Various Canberra based diplomats, scholars and people with connections to ASEAN were at the opening.
Under new legislation, about 16,000 Indian companies will be required to contribute 2 per cent of net profit to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities which includes cultural and heritage conservation
On the evening of June 19, 2014 over fifty people came to the Institute for Historical Resources Management Centre in the historic DaDaocheng District of Taipei City to hear from two AusHeritage members, Helen Lochhead and Bruce Pettman from the NSW Government Architect’s Office who presented lectures on Australian experiences related to development control plans (DCPs) and heritage impact assessments (HIAs).