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It’s an icon for some and a blot on the landscape to others, but Sydney’s landmark MLC building is safe from demolition after a tangled legal battle.
Photographer Tony Maniaty is striving to display the wonder of life in his latest exhibition in what he hopes can be a step toward reversing Earth instead of contributing to its slow destruction.
57 organisations receive Community Heritage Grants Recipients include Tranby Aboriginal Co-operative Limited, Trafalgar Holden Museum, Queensland Braille Writing Association, Gay And Lesbian Archive of Western Australia, Flinders Palaeontology, Mawson's Huts Foundation, Australian Academy of Science and the Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation and many others. These community-led and people-focused organisations from around Australia will receive small grants to support them in their work of preserving significant local collections.
It seems bizarre to imagine Cremorne as a crucible of radical architecture. But some of the 20th century’s first flat-roofed houses were built around this Sydney harbour district, long before Bauhaus boxes shocked Europe during the 1920s.
Community Heritage Grants Recipients 2018 The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program provides grants of up to $15,000 to community organisations such as libraries, archives, museums, genealogical and historical societies, multicultural and Indigenous groups. The grants are provided to assist with the preservation of locally owned, but nationally significant collections of materials that are publicly accessible including artefacts, letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and audio visual material. In 2018, 60 grants were awarded, totalling $367,470. Australian Capital Territory