My heritage place
Tyrconnell gold mine, part of the Hodgkinson goldfield in far north Queensland, was once home to 10,000 gold miners and their families...
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The Queensland Heritage Council is the state’s peak body on heritage matters. It works to identify and protect places that have special cultural value to the community and future generations.
The council is established by the Queensland Heritage Act 1992 which requires the council to act independently, impartially and in the public interest. See What we do. The council receives professional advice and administrative support from the Department of Environment and Resource Management’s Heritage Branch.
The Heritage Council is the key decision-maker on places of cultural heritage significance to Queensland, deciding what is entered in the Queensland Heritage Register.
What’s the digital future of heritage?
Can a heritage collection afford to be a ‘digital have-not’ in a world that increasingly favours the ‘digital haves’? What role can the Queensland Heritage Council play in managing the ‘digital deluge’ of information and data? These were topics of lively debate at the Queensland Heritage Council’s e-heritage seminar, The Digital Future of Heritage, held at the University of Queensland’s Ipswich campus on 5 November 2009.
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