OUR HERITAGE AT RISK

              - DEVELOPING THE NATIONAL TOP 10 LIST FOR 2008

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 greater 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 2008, those assessed as being most at risk were submitted to a national judging panel. This short list was then assessed against the criteria by  to compile the Our Heritage At Risk - National Top 10 list. This selection was coordinated by the Australian Council of National Trusts.

As in any selection process there was a wide variety of opinion on the types and immediacy of the risks faced by sites. From the beginning it was 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 remained at risk and was worthy of community attention and concern until the risk factors were ameliorated or removed. The choice of the final Top 10 was 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. This year, the announcement was made on  18 October 2008 at Currumbin Sancturary in Queensland.

Our Heritage At Risk - National Top 10 - 2008

Our Heritage At Risk - National Top 10 - 2007