Victoria announces new National Parks
After well over a decade of advocacy by conservation groups, the Victorian Government has announced the creation of three new national parks in Cen…
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National Trust supports Executive Director’s recommendation to include Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement in the VHR
Feature image Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement, via Heritage Victoria
We have written to the Heritage Council of Victoria in strong support of the Exe…
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UPDATE: Community win fight to save iconic “Rocket Ship”
Original post 16 March 2021
Plans to remove the iconic “Rocket Ship” from Hawthorn’s Central Gardens has been met with strong community oppositi…
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National Trust supports Executive Director’s recommendation to include Seccull House in the VHR
Feature image Seccull House, 2016 via Modernist Australia.
We have written to the Heritage Council of Victoria in strong support of the Executiv…
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National Trust provide feedback on the draft five-year strategy for Queen Victoria Market
Feature image by Jessica Hood
In May, we provided feedback on the Queen Victoria Market draft five-year Future Market Strategy, which will guide…
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National Trust supports In-Depth Heritage Review of Fishermans Bend
Feature image by Jamie Davies via Flickr
On 20 April, City of Melbourne Councillors voted unanimously to is progress a planning scheme amendmen…
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National Trust strongly objects to plans for 33-storey tower at Harry Seidler’s “Shell House”
Feature image: Shell House, 2018, courtesy of Damien Kook.
In March, we strongly objected to a Heritage Victoria permit application to construc…
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Yarra River Protections Made Permanent
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The Victorian Government has announced the Yarra River Planning Controls are now permanent.
Amendment VC197 delivers permanent…
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National Trust of Australia (Victoria) statement on alleged partial destruction of Kooyang Stone Arrangement, Lake Bolac
Image: Stones in the volcanic plains of western Victoria. Images of sites of Aboriginal cultural heritage significance should not be published with…
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ADVOCACY WIN: Victorian Parliament votes to strengthen local heritage protections to combat illegal demolition and demolition by neglect
Featured image: Donaldytong
Following debate in both houses of Parliament, MPs have given the green light to changes to the Planning & Environme…
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