The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
1999 (the Act) requires the Australian Heritage Council to
prepare and provide to the Minister a proposed list of places
that it recommends as a priority for assessment for both the
National and Commonwealth Heritage Lists. In order to develop
these priority assessment lists, the Council commissions studies
by independent experts on key themes relating to Australia's
national heritage. These thematic studies are designed to assist
in raising public awareness of Australia's special heritage
places and to help Council in identifying places for possible
future consideration for inclusion in the National and
Commonwealth Heritage Lists. Thematic studies that are underway
or nearing completion include: |Thematic Study||Overview of
Study| |Australia’s Urban Planning By Professor Robert Freestone
|Little of Australia has not been planned. Its numerous cultural
landscapes are products of a range of rational intentions, even
if blinkered on occasion. This ma