OUR HERITAGE AT RISK

              - DEVELOPING THE NATIONAL TOP 10 LIST FOR 2009

Our Heritage at Risk  was developed from the National Trust Endangered Places program and remains focused as a community education program. Its objective is to create g reater community awareness of heritage issues and engagement resulting in better heritage conservation and better knowledge of government and non-government heritage organisations.

After the public announcement of State and Territory Our Heritage At Risk lists on 1 July 2009, those assessed as being most at risk will be submitted to a national judging panel. This short list will then be assessed against the criteria by  to compile the Our Heritage At Risk - National Top 10 list. This selection will be coordinated by the Australian Council of National Trusts with our national stakeholder partners..

As in any selection process there will be a wide variety of opinion on the types and immediacy of the risks faced by sites. From the beginning it has been acknowledged that whether or not a site was eventuallyt selected for a Top 10 listing, every site on a State Our Heritage At Risk list remains at risk and is worthy of community attention and concern until the risk factors are ameliorated or removed. The choice of the final Top 10 is always a challenge given the dynamic nature of potential threats, planned but not implemented remedial action and changing development timetables.

The Our Heritage At Risk - National Top 10 is announced annually in late October.