National Trust of Australia

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The administration building of the Australian National Trust in Sydney

The National Trust of Australia , officially called the Australian Council of National Trusts , could be translated as the Australian National Trust Company . It is a non-governmental umbrella organization that is committed to the protection of monuments, nature and culture, in particular the indigenous heritage of Australia.

The national organization looks after around 300 historical buildings worthy of protection and employs around 7000 volunteers there and another 350 people across Australia. In addition to this national umbrella organization, there are independent, regional National Trusts in every Australian state and territory . According to its own information, it has 80,000 members.

Emergence

In the early 1940s, the idea of conservation and conservation was not widespread in Sydney . The citizens who were committed at the time wanted to preserve historically significant buildings from the Victorian and Australian colonial times, for example to give way to parking spaces or to prevent suburban settlements from being torn down to build roads. Street protests were initiated for this purpose. The organization emerged in 1945 from a movement in the Australian state of New South Wales led by Annie Wyatt . This civil movement was made up of citizens who opposed the rampant demolition of historical buildings and the destruction of valuable natural spaces in the Sydney area. In 1965 the umbrella organization Autralian Council of National Trust was founded. Today it is called the National Trust of Australia and has around 80,000 members.

After the establishment of the national organization, such National Trusts were established in all Australian states in the 1950s and 1960s , in the Northern Territory and Capital Territory in 1976.

In 1977 it was possible to politically enforce the interests of nature and cultural protection and to anchor them nationally in a law, the Heritage Act 1977

List of Significant Trustees in Australia

In 1997, the National Trust issued a list of the 100 Greatest Living Personalities in Australia, called the National Living Treasers . These include Kylie Minogue , singer and actress, Galarrwuy Yunupingu ( Elder of the Aborigines ), Bob Brown , Australian Greens politician , John Howard (former Prime Minister of the Liberal Party of Australia ), Peter Doherty , Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine, Evonne Goolagong Cawley , ( Sportswoman). This list was renewed in 2004 and 2012.

Protected objects (selection)

financing

The national and decentralized organizations are financed by membership fees, donations, entrance fees and sales of items related to the above tasks. They also issue numerous publications.

State Organizations

Plaque from the National Trust of Victoria in Melbourne

Each state and each territory regulates its regional monument, nature and cultural protection on its own responsibility. It is this

Web links

Commons : National Trust of Australia  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b National Trust. Strategy Plan 2015-2018 , on National Trust of Australia. Retrieved June 8, 2019
  2. ^ Advocacy NSW , on Australian National Trust. Retrieved June 5, 2019
  3. ^ National Trust Ethical Principles for Heritage and Conservation , on Australian National Trust. Retrieved June 5, 2019
  4. ^ National Living Treasures , on Australian National Trust. Retrieved June 5, 2019
  5. ↑ About us , on Australian National Trust. Retrieved June 4, 2019
  6. ^ National Trust ACT , on National Trust. Retrieved June 4, 2019