Please note: the information below was current at the time at the time of the Making Tracks conference.
Ghafar Ahmad was born in Johore, Malaysia. He has a BSc in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a Master of Architecture from Kent State University, Ohio and a PhD in Building Conservation from the University of Sheffield. He is currently a lecturer at the School of Housing, Building and Planning at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. He has written various articles and carried out much research in the fields of building conservation, urban conservation and heritage tourism. He is actively involved in a number of conservation activities and consultancies in Malaysia. His work includes the conservation of Fort Cornwallis, where he was the consultant conservator for the Malaysia Museum and Antiquity Department, and the restoration of Acheen Street Mosque, both in Georgetown, Penang. He has written a book on British colonial buildings in Malaysia and produced a couple of videos on the issues of building and urban conservation. In January 1999 Associate Professor Dr A. Ghafar Ahmed won the Historic Mosques Preservation Award in the Building Restoration Category from the Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia.
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Tracey Andrews is a Barkindji artist. Since 1998 she has been developing the concept of physical and metaphorical palimpsests in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage region of south-western New South Wales, in collaboration with Lyn Moore.
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Badaruddin Mohamed was born in Pahang, Malaysia. He has a BSc from the University of Northern Iowa and a Master’s and PhD in Town Planning & Development from Rikkyo (St Pauls) University, Tokyo. He is currently the Chairman of the Regional & Town Planning Program and a planning lecturer at the School of Housing, Building and Planning at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, focusing on tourism planning and development. He has written various articles and carried out much research in the fields of planning and tourism. He is currently active in a number of research and consultancy projects such as the nomination of Penang-Malacca as a World Heritage site, the Electronic Planning Approval System, the Study of Strategic Positioning of Tourism Products and many more. Among his latest publications are ‘Japanese Tourist Behaviour and Needs’ and ‘Selected Issues in Tourism Planning’.
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Sandy Blair is manager of the Heritage Unit, Australian Capital Territory Government, Canberra. She is former president of Australia ICOMOS and Australia’s representative on the CIIC. Sandy has a doctorate in Australian history and 15 years’ experience in heritage conservation.
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Lee Brady is the Aboriginal Manager of Desert Tracks Pitjantjatjara Tours and a director of the Spirit of the Land Foundation. He has been the Community Adviser of Amata Community for 10 years, a member of the ATSIC Regional Council and is an elected representative on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Council of South Australia.
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Penny Cook at the time of the Tracks conference was on secondment to the Queensland Department of the Arts as Principal Project Officer on the Queensland Heritage Trails Network, her substantive position being Manager, Community Heritage, Cultural Heritage Branch Environment Protection Agency. Her current position is as Manager, the National Trust of Australia (Queensland).
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Alan Croker, director of Design 5 Architects, Sydney, has worked in the conservation field since 1980, has been involved with a large range of conservation projects and regularly teaches on the subject. He is interested in the conservation and adaptation of structures, using modern design in a way which retains and respects the qualities and integrity of the earlier structure. Alan sees this as an opportunity to reconcile the many-layered values of a place and provide it with a viable future. He has been studying the Indian teaching of Advaita Vedanta (non-duality) for the last 15 years and regularly travels to India to further this study.
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Hilary du Cros is a cultural heritage analyst and academic now living in Hong Kong SAR, China. Hilary is a member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Tourism. Between 1997 and 199 she was also an executive Committee Member of Australia ICOMOS. Publications include Cultural Tourism: the Partnership between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management, with Bob McKercher for Haworth Press, Binghamton New York. This book addresses many issues associated with planning and managing cultural heritage assets for tourism.
Dr du Cros is currently assisting UNESCO as one of its cultural heritage experts advising on projects in the Asia region. Her paper for this conference was inspired in part by viting Kathmandu in Nepal for the UNESCO LEAP workshop in April 2000.
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Ros Derrett OAM, is on the academic staff of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University. She delivers programmes in Special Interest Tourism, Tourism Planning and the Environment and Event Management. Prior to taking up this position she worked extensively in education, community development and arts administration in Australia and overseas.Her research activity reflects her interest in regional cultural tourism development, heritage tourism, event management, effective cultural management strategies and community consultation. She has published on these topics. She is a doctoral student investigating the role of festivals in regional community cultural development and cultural tourism.
Ros serves on numerous boards in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, committed to raising the profile of the service sector within the region, attracting visitors to share the landscape and lifestyle choices of locals, advocacy for regional needs and aspirations and appropriate, sustainable community development.
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Rachel Faggetter established Australia’s first graduate course in natural and cultural heritage interpretation, in 1991 at Deakin University. She currently lectures at Deakin’s Institute for Koorie Education, Geelong. As an independent curator and heritage interpretation consultant, she recently curated ‘China: Stamping the Revolution’, an exhibition for Australia Post on the design of Chinese postage stamps.
A long time resident of Airey’s Inlet on the Victorian southwest coast and active in the heritage conservation movement, she is a member of the Western Coastal Board which sets guidelines for integrated and sustainable planning along the Victorian coast. She is a member of ICOMOS, ICOM and a Life Member of Interpretation Australia.
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Brett Galt-Smith is Research Director of the Strehlow Research Centre (SRC) in Alice Springs. The SRC is a fascinating archive of cultural/historical material accumulated by the late Professor TGH Strehlow, relating to Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Central Australia. Brett has an Honours Degree in Archaeology from the University of New England, and has lived in the Northern Territory on and off since 1984. He has extensive experience in cultural and heritage matters, and has a particular interest in managing and dealing with issues relating to culturally-sensitive collections of Indigenous material.
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Diana Garder is the Volunteer Coordinator of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW, having held that position for 14 years. She is very interested in conservation and is active in a number of resident action groups. She has holidaying at Era since she was a child and is keen to share this place with others.
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Malcolm Garder is a self-employed valuer, town planner and heritage consultant practising in the inner western suburbs of Sydney. He is particularly concerned with inner city issues of medium density development and heritage conservation. In recent years he has become involved in the listing and management of cabins in the Royal National Park, and the broader issues of landscape conservation. He is a member of the National Trust Landscape Conservation Committee.
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Andrew Hall is Director of Special Projects in South Africa’s Northern Cape Provincial Department of Sports, Arts and Culture.
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Laina Hall is a PhD student at the University of Sydney researching the history of overland travel as a leisure activity in Australia from 1920 to 2000.
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Nicholas Hall has qualifications in archaeology, rock art conservation and heritage interpretation. He specialises in the management of tourism at heritage sites and community based management planning. He is particularly interested in the processes of developing public access, interpretation and management programs with Indigenous groups in Australia and the Pacific.
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Colin Harris is Acting Director of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide in South Australia’s Department for Environment and Heritage. His work on the conservation and management of the mound springs of northern South Australia has extended over the past three decades.
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Rosemary Hollow joined the Australian Heritage Commission in Canberra as Assistant Director, Tourism and Sustainable Heritage in February 2002. She was previously based in Tasmania working for the Parks and Wildlife Service. From 1997-99 she worked in the Conservation Section at Port Arthur Historic Site on a number of interpretation projects both on the site and on the Tasman Peninsula. She received first-class honours in 2002 for her thesis undertaken at Charles Sturt University in Albury NSW on Managing Heritage Sites of Human Atrocity: Ethics and Politics.
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Ian Jack is a historian with a Master’s degree from the University of Glasgow and a PhD from the University of London. He has been for many years Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney and archivist of St Andrews College. A former member of the NSW Heritage Council, he has written several commissioned local and regional histories.
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Diana James, qualified in anthropology and bilingual education, has spent 25 years working with the Pitjantjatjara people. Manager of Desert Tracks Pitjantjatjara Tours for 12 years, she is now the executive director of the Spirit of the Land Foundation established with the Pitjantjatjara elders to further cross-cultural exchanges between Indigenous and non-indigenous people and their knowledge systems.
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Chris Johnston is a heritage consultant with Context Pty Ltd. She is passionate about people and their connection to place, and what this means for heritage practice. Much of her work focuses on involving communities in identifying and conserving heritage places and in understanding the concept of social significance for particular places.
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Ursula de Jong is Senior Lecturer in medieval, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and architectural history in the School of Architecture and Building at Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria. Research interests are diverse, but she has specialised in nineteenth century architectural history, particularly the work of William Wardell [1823-1899]; the Gothic Revival; St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne; nineteenth-century Melbourne; and early twentieth-century work, especially Art Deco, in Melbourne. She is also exploring contemporary church design as it relates to modern liturgy, with a view to reclaiming the sacred, and continuing work on a guidebook for St Patrick’s Cathedral, and a biography of Wardell.
More recently Dr de Jong has been working on landscape and the meaning of place in urban and non-urban contexts. Her research focuses on Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula respectively, and is reflected in recent writings.
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Lyn Leader-Elliott is Director of Studies in Cultural Tourism at the Flinders University of South Australia. His work has been recognised by the 2001 SA Tourism Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Individual and by the 2000 South Australian State Tourism Award for Industry Education.
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Bruce Leaver is the First Assistant Secretary, Australian and World Heritage Division and Executive Director of the Australian Heritage Commission. He joined Environment Australia and the Australian Heritage Commission in 1999 from the position of Executive Commissioner of the Tasmanian Resource Planning and Development Commission.
Bruce has 25 years of State government experience in natural resource management and local government planning at senior and agency head positions in NSW, SA and Tasmania. He has worked with the World Bank in Asia and Africa advising on conservation policy and has considerable experience in developing and applying conservation management policies and programs.
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William Logan is Director of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, where he holds the UNESCO Chair on Heritage and Urbanism. His PhD at Monash University dealt with the process of gentrification in inner Melbourne and its intersection with local environmental politics and heritage protection. His research and publications focus on heritage and development in Asian cities, especially in Southeast Asia. His most recent publication is Hanoi: Biography of a City (UNSW Press/University of Washington Press, 2000). He has been a consultant to UNESCO, the Australian Heritage Commission and AusAID, and is currently President of Australia ICOMOS and a member of ICOM and Planning Institute Australia.
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Guy Masson began his career with Heritage Canada Foundation in 1980 under the supervision of Jacques Dalibard, Director. In 1982 he joined Parks Canada in the regional office of Winnipeg, Manitoba where he has involved in site investigations, conservation design and maintenance for a variety of National historic Sites and National Parks in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Yukon. He has Bachelor and Master degrees in Architecture from Laval University in Quebec City. He is also a graduate of the Centre for the Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings in Bruges, Belgium under the direction of Raymond Lemaire. He undertook Advanced European Studies in wood and stone pathology complemented by diverse training in Europe, particularly in Athens and Venice.
Guy joined the Heritage Conservation Program of Public Works and Government Services Canada, Real Property Services for Parks Canada, in Ottawa, six years ago as Senior Conservation Architect Advisor including advisory services on Federal Heritage Buildings policy, Heritage Railways Act and National Cost-Sharing Program. Guy has occupied the position of Program Manager of National Historic Sites for the past two and half years.
Guy has been a long-time member of ICOMOS Canada. He is one of the original members of ICOMOS Canada Francophone Committee, a founding member of the Council of Monuments and Sites of Quebec. Guy has been President of ICOMOS Canada since 1997 and was re-elected in 2000 for another three-year mandate.
He is also the Assistant to the Vice-President for Americas of International Committee on Cultural Routes. Guy has published many articles dealing with conservation issues, most recently on the Pointe-à-Carcy in Quebec City World Heritage Site, and contributed to Heritage @ Risk in Canada.
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Lyn Moore is a Canberra-based artist, whose work is represented in major collections, including the National Library of Australia and Mildura Regional Gallery. She is currently working on the Mildura Palimpsest series with Tracey Andrews.
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Emeritus Professor John Mulvaney AO, CMG, was Professor of Prehistory at the Australian National University from 1971 to 1985. He served as an Australian Heritage Commissioner 1976-1982 and attended the UNESCO meeting in Paris in 1977 when the criteria were established for World Heritage listing. He served a total of 18 years on the executive of the (then) Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, including a term as Chair. He has written or edited 17 books.
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Heather Nicholls grew up in the New England District of NSW. She attended the University of New England with a slender thought of studying geology, but in fact graduated with Town Planning qualifications. She worked for the Wollongong City Council and the Newcastle City Council before taking a planning position in country NSW at Cowra Shire Council. Another move took her to Orange City Council as Environmental Planner. Five years ago she was set the challenge of developing the Council’s Heritage Conservation program and is now Council’s Heritage Planner. With the job came a variety of regional opportunities, one of which was to represent the Council on the Bathurst to Bourke Cobb & Co Heritage Trail Working Party. Heather is still the Council representative on the Committee, but is now also the project coordinator. In her spare time Heather has gone back to the University of New England to undertake a Postgraduate Diploma in Local and Applied History. Somewhere in all that there is also a household to consider with three small children, a farm and a menagerie of animals.
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Michael Pearson has had 25 years’ experience in the heritage field, working for NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Australian Heritage Commission before establishing ‘Heritage Management Consultants’, a firm specialising in research, management advice and planning for heritage places, in 1993. Michael is a past Chairman of Australia ICOMOS and is currently a member of the ICOMOS International Polar Heritage Committee.
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Thomas Perrigo is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the National Trust of Australia (WA) having held that position since August 1990. Thomas has tertiary degrees in science and education and post-tertiary qualifications in science and management. He has served on a number of Boards, Committees and Community bodies and is committed to the conservation and interpretation of Western Australia’s heritage.
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Juliet Ramsay has qualifications in landscape architecture. She worked with the Environment Australia Forest Taskforce on the Victoria Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs) for four years and was involved with project design and management of all aspects of the cultural heritage programme. She has worked in cultural heritage for over a decade and has been employed by the Australian Heritage Commission since 1993. Her heritage interests are historic gardens and cultural landscapes and she is the Australia ICOMOS nominee to the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes.
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Jean Rice is an architect from Sydney. She has worked in heritage conservation for over 20 years, mostly in the NSW department of Public works. She has worked on gaols, mental hospitals, railway workshops, courthouses and Sydney Town Hall. In recent years she has been the Conservation Services Co-ordinator for the Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area on Norfolk Island and has been appointed as the ICOMOS nominee on the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Advisory Council. She has recently joined Otto Cserhalmi Partners PL, an architectural practice in Glebe.
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Myra Shackley is Professor of Culture Resource Management and Head of the Centre for Tourism and Visitor Management at Nottingham Trent University (UK). She has a particular interest in the management of visitors to World Heritage sites, and in issues relating to tourism and cultural heritage. Her most recent books include Wildlife Tourism (1996), Visitor Management: Case Studies from World Heritage Sites (1998) and Managing Sacred Sites: Service provision and visitor experience (2001).
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Jim Smith works as a heritage and environmental consultant in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales. He has a particular interest in the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal cultural landscapes of the area.
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Marilyn Truscott has postgraduate qualifications in archaeology and materials conservation. She worked with the Environment Australia Forest Taskforce for three years, initially on the Queensland RFA and later as Director for both natural and cultural heritage for all RFAs. She has worked in heritage for some 30 years as a State or Commonwealth heritage official or museum curator, and as consultant in both indigenous and non-indigenous heritage throughout Australia and in the Middle East, Europe and Africa. At the Australian Heritage Commission she developed assessment criteria, indigenous consultation mechanisms and management guidelines, fostered explorations of social/community heritage values and worked on World Heritage. Later, at the then Department of Communications and the Arts she also worked on movable heritage and repatriation. She is the recent Past President of Australia ICOMOS and a corresponding member of the ICOMOS International Committee of Archaeological Heritage Management.
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Meredith Walker is a heritage consultant with a background in local government town planning. She has worked on staff of National Trusts in New South Wales and Queensland. As a consultant she has worked throughout Australia on a wide variety of heritage projects including heritage studies for local government, place museums, and professional standards for heritage practice. She has actively encouraged community involvement in heritage management and regularly works as a volunteer. Meredith has been involved in the development and review of The Burra Charter, the standard for good practice for cultural heritage places in Australia, prepared by Australia ICOMOS, and is co-author (with Peter Marquis-Kyle) of The Illustrated Burra Charter: making good decisions about the care of important places.
Meredith is a past president of Australia ICOMOS, past member of the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council, and various Heritage Council and National Trust committees. She is a member of the Museums Advisory Committee of the NSW Ministry for the Arts and a trustee of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW.
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Anne Warr is an architect with a master’s degree from the University of York, where her thesis topic was ‘Corrugated Iron’. In 1993, Anne used a Federal-government Asia Fellowship to travel round south-east Asia studying traditional communities and their use of corrugated iron. Anne spent ten years as manager of the Heritage Group within the NSW Department of Public Works and Services and is now a private consultant.
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Justin St Vincent Welch has been awarded a Bachelor of Business in Tourism from the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management and a Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) from the School of Resource Science and Management at Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.