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Built heritage and the visitor economy: the case for adaptive re-use of heritage assets
No full textIconic heritage buildings play an important role in attracting visitors to tourism destinations with a number of Australia’s visitor precincts home to heritage assets such as The Rocks in Sydney, Salamanca Wharf in Hobart and the Old Treasury Building in Melbourne. While heritage assets can be significant demand drivers in the visitor economy, it is also important to recognise the role that tourism can play in supporting the conservation of our nation’s heritage buildings and sites.
Conservation is an integral part of the management of places of cultural significance and should be an ongoing responsibility. This paper seeks to build the case to better leverage value from heritage assets through their adaptive re-use for tourism purposes and the recommended principles for effectively doing so. The paper is guided by the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter 2013 and the Australian Heritage Strategy 2015, and specifically considers historic places with cultural values as opposed to natural or Indigenous places of cultural significance.
Visiting sites of historical importance – or better yet, getting to spend the night in them in some cases – can play a key role in the choice of travel destination. These sites are a critical element of the visitor economy. They attract visitors, create reasons to stay longer and add depth to the visitor experience. Visitors to cultural and heritage sites are a high yielding segment as they are known to spend more and stay longer than the average traveller .
In the year ending December 2015, over 2 million international visitors visited an historic/heritage building, site or monument, representing 33.3 per cent of all visitors to Australia. In addition, domestic tourists made 4.9 million overnight trips and 4.1 million day trips to a historic/heritage building, site or monument during 2015. Trips which include heritage tourism elements enable visitors to incorporate authentic, cultural experiences into their itineraries, likely to improve their overall visitor experience.
Aside from benefitting the visitor economy, the adaptive re-use of heritage assets can achieve a number of economic, environmental and social objectives for the public and government. These benefits include conservation outcomes, greater return on public and private investment, environmental sustainability, reduced expenditure, place revitalisation, community engagement and in some cases additional accommodation supply.
The value of heritage assets often lies not only in their preservation, but also through adaptation and ongoing use by local communities and visitors. The adaptive re-use of heritage assets in a tourism context has been a key area of interest for the Tourism & Transport Forum Australia (TTF) for many years. TTF believes that the true value of heritage buildings to the visitor economy has, in many cases, not been fully leveraged by governments to date. Consideration of the best use of heritage buildings should be undertaken, with any evaluation processes focusing on the context of visitor engagement, and the cultural and historic value of these sites. Heritage buildings that are not accessible to the public are a missed opportunity in better celebrating their cultural significance and further enhancing the visitor economy of a destination
Statement in support of freedom of the press
No full textThe National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the American Society of News Editors (ASNE), along with more than eighty other organizations committed to the First Amendment right of freedom of speech and the press, are condemning efforts by the Trump administration to demonize the media and undermine its ability to inform the public about official actions and policies.
In this joint statement, the groups stress that the administration’s attacks on the press pose a threat to American democracy
Policy skills framework: map your policy skills profile
No full textThis tool has been designed to help policy practitioners articulate their policy skills profile. It can be used:
When applying for jobs
To support conversations with your manager (or others) about your development and training needs and your policy career progression
Templates are provided to assess your current skills and to think about how you want to progress as a policy professional.
This resource is one of the Policy Project resources
Mental health and addiction workforce action plan 2017–2021
No full textThe Mental Health and Addiction Workforce Action Plan is part of an outcomes approach. It contributes to achieving the vision of the New Zealand Health Strategy. For mental health and addiction, this means enabling people to thrive and experience wellbeing wherever they live and whatever their circumstances.
Together with the Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcome Framework and the Commissioning Framework, it will help us reshape our system to centre on people and what matters to them.
Our workforce is our most valuable resource, and achieving our vision depends on a capable and motivated workforce that works with people and their families and whānau to get the best outcomes.
This Action Plan recognises the importance of a combined effort to address the social determinants of health by working across health, justice and social sectors to ensure equitable positive outcomes for all New Zealanders.
It includes actions to develop a workforce with the right skills, knowledge, competencies and attitudes needed to design and deliver integrated and innovative responses.
The actions outlined in this action plan will support the development of the primary health care, community and specialist workforce to be well equipped, integrated, competent and capable to focus on improving health and wellbeing. It will guide decisions about investment and resourcing for the next five years and is relevant to all people working to improve outcomes for those with mental health and addiction issues
Facebook's head of news partnerships Nick Wrenn on fake news, journalism and live video
No full textFacebook dominates any conversation about media in 2017. Whether it\u27s an examination of its role in disseminating journalism, its status as a vector for \u27fake news\u27 or its position as one of the digital advertising duopoly, it\u27s an unmissable feature of the media landscape. In this episode, TheMediaBriefing speaks to Facebook\u27s head of news partnerships EMEA, Nick Wrenn, to discuss those issues and how they affect the publisher-platform relationship
Developing a conceptual framework of living cost to income approach for depicting affordable housing locations: policy implications for housing affordability in Melbourne, Australia
No full textAffordable housing locations in metropolitan cities are usually assessed by rental cost or mortgage payment relative to income. Affordable housing locations are also influenced by locational characteristics such as distance from public transportation, service centres, city centre and employment centres. Once the costs of locational amenities such as public transport and basic services are focused in, rental price or median house price is increased, sometimes making these locations unaffordable. This paper develops a conceptual framework of living cost to income approach to examine relative changes in affordable housing locations in Melbourne. The conceptual framework is a method to identify changes in affordable housing locations but it also identifies as policy implications of living cost to income approach of analysing housing affordability in Melbourne as well as in other large metropolitan cities in Australia
Tony Keenan, Launch Housing. AHURI conference: Homelessness and housing solutions, 31 March 2017
No full textInterview with Tony Keenan, Launch Housing CEO, to discuss the outline of his presentation to the AHURI One-day conference, \u27Homelessness and housing solutions.\u27 To be held on 31 March 2017 in Brisbane. The importance of the conference to those working in the homelessness sector is highlighted
The use of secondments as a tool to increase knowledge translation
No full textThis paper discusses the use of secondments as a tool to increase knowledge translation between academics and policy makers by developing individual capacity.
A case study is presented of a reciprocal secondment between a government department and a university.
Enablers of knowledge translation included flexibility and support, a prior relationship between the two organisations, and a government culture that values use of research in policy making.
Barriers included the lack of a planned approach with agreed outcomes, and a lack of evaluation at the end of the secondment.
Recommendations for future secondments include establishing ongoing secondments between organisations; trialling different types of secondments; and having a detailed plan at the beginning of a secondment, including how the success of the secondment will be measured, and a formal evaluation at the end
Public hospital report card 2017
No full textThe AMA public hospital report card presents key data on public hospitals published by the Commonwealth, year on year. It uses this published data to assess the performance and capacity of our public hospitals to meet the community’s need for hospital services.
The AMA has consistently called for increased funding of the things that work in health care-prevention, general practice, acute care, and a strong private medical care sector. The strategy should be about investing in the parts of the health system that will deliver better health outcomes.
Public hospitals are a critical part of our health system. Yet public hospitals are facing a funding crisis that is rapidly eroding their capacity to provide essential services to the public. We have been waiting almost two years to have the Commonwealth’s unilateral cuts to public hospital funding reversed. Now we have an inadequate short-term fix and a further three years to wait before governments deliver a long-term solution to the ongoing need for sufficient and certain public hospital funding.
The failure of governments to provide sufficient funding for public hospitals is choking their capacity to provide services to the public. Public hospitals provide essential health care services across the community. Funding for public hospitals is an essential investment in the health of the Australian population, and therefore in the capacity of Australians to participate in the workforce and as members of society. Funding public hospitals is not discretionary
Unsettled: life in Australia's private rental market
No full textThe rental market in Australia appears to have become something like a war zone.
According to this report thousands of tenants are being discriminated against and live in a climate of fear.
The research, undertaken by CHOICE, the National Association of Tenants\u27 Organisations and National Shelter, found that 83% of renters in Australia have no fixed-term lease or are on a lease less than 12 months long, and 62% feel they\u27re not in a position to ask for longer term rental security.
Half the tenants who took part in the study said they\u27ve been discriminated against, and an equal percentage said they were worried about being blacklisted on a \u27bad tenant\u27 database.
Such blacklists are supposed to be restricted to tenants whose rent is overdue by more than the amount of the bond or who have violated the terms of the lease. But some rentals agents and landlords have reportedly used the databases to screen out tenants who have lodged a complaint or tried to exercise their rights in other ways.
Cause for complaint is not hard to come by in the rental market. Twenty percent of renters said they had experienced leaking, flooding and issues with mould, and eight percent live in a property in need of urgent repairs.
Meanwhile, 21% of the renters who took part in the research said they had waited over a week to get a response about an urgent request for repair.
Why has renting become the only viable option for so many Australians? Over half the participants said they rent because they can\u27t afford to buy their own property. And that situation is only getting worse.
Australia an outlier
The report, Unsettled: Life in Australia\u27s private rental market, makes the case that rental rights in Australia lag far behind those in many other developed countries, where renters often enjoy secure long-term arrangements with strict limits on rent increases.
By contrast, leases in Australia can be as short as six months, and when the contract ends and renters revert to a month-to-month arrangement they can be evicted at any time on fairly short notice.
Such "no grounds" evictions are not allowed in countries like the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Ireland.
Methodology
Data for this report was collected through an online survey. The data has been weighted to ensure it is representative of the Australian renting population according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 6523.0 – Household Income and Wealth, Australia, 2013–14 and the 2011 Census for gender split. The survey was designed and analysed by CHOICE, National Shelter and the National Association of Tenant Organisations (NATO).
1005 respondents completed the survey in-field from 12–31 October 2016. Fieldwork was conducted by The ORU. The ORU are ISO 20252 and 26362 accredited and are full AMSRO members