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Writings

2025

| Encountering Social Value and Place Attachment: Old Pathways and New Directions
2024

| New International Charter on Intangible Cultural Heritage.
2023

| Social value: identifying, documenting and assessing community connections
2023

| A pathway to intangible cultural heritage protection? Examining the Victorian legislation in the context of Australian heritage practice
2023

| Belonging: Body, writing and the everyday place
2023

| Introduction to intangible cultural heritage in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific
2023

| Returning Responsibility, Returning Country: A New Future for Gariwerd
2022

| Applying Intangible Cultural Heritage guidance
2022

| Applying intangible cultural heritage in heritage projects
2022

| Creating a Municipal Heritage Plan
2021

| Budj Bim: understanding heritage values and shaping protection.
2021

| Navigating heritage: past, present, future
2020

| Aesthetic Immigrant Environments
2020

| Hoddle Grid: Contemporary Aboriginal connections
2019

| People place connections
2019

| What is the place of community in heritage today?
2019

| ‘It became the place …’: Atherton Gardens and the making of place
2019

| Indigenous Knowledge and Resource Management as World Heritage Values: Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, Australia
2018

| Connecting people and place: social significance in Australian heritage practice
2018

| Intangible and invisible: appreciating community connections and values
2018

| Intangible heritage and community values
2018

| Remembering where they sat: the making and remaking of an Aboriginal place
2017

| Intangible Heritage and Place Practice Note
2017

| Recognising connection: social significance and heritage practice
2016

| Seeing through others’ eyes: understanding the aesthetics and meanings of place
2016

| Thick History – Making History.
2016

| Ways of seeing Maldon’s heritage
2016

| Lake Condah: Restoring an Indigenous Living Landscape
2016

| Resolving Conflict and Building Consensus in Heritage Place Management: Issues and Challenges
2016

| Resolving conflict and building consensus in World Heritage Cities
2015

| At the heart of our community
2015

| Change, connectedness, the nature of heritage and community cohesion and collaboration
2015

| Defining future heritage practice: Voices from the 2013 Australia ICOMOS Conference
2015

| The necessity of meaning
2014

| Remembering where they sat: the making and remaking of an Aboriginal place
2014

| Beautiful one day: Assessing the World Heritage aesthetic values of the Great Barrier Reef
2014

| Experiencing the sublime: Assessing the aesthetic values of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
2014

| Guests on Our Country: The Challenges of Creating an Indigenous Approach to Tourism
2014

| Inhabiting Place: Social Significance in Practice in Australia
2013

| Where we dwell: Canberra, communities and connections to place
2012

| Ruins: A guide to conservation and management
2012

| Swimming upstream, with crocodiles: Social value and the prevailing heritage discourse
2012

| What are the community expectations for heritage protection?
2012

| What is social value? Reflecting on 20 years of practice
2011

| What are the community expectations for heritage protection?
2011

| Water Country: Sharing the Gunditjmara cultural landscape
2010

| Conservation Management Plans: Managing Heritage Places
2010

| Heritage Management and Community Connections – on The Rocks
2008

| Budj Bim: Caring for the spirit and the people
2006

| An integrated approach to environment and heritage issues
2006

| Through the fog, the hut – retaining the essence of memory in conserving historic places
2005

| Assessing social significance.
2005

| Assessing social significance: Experiences, issues and challenges.
2005

| Community and cultural values: The upper Mersey valley and the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
2005

| Dramatic, mysterious, contemplative and scary: Seeking an understanding of the inspirational value of our mountain landscapes
2005

| Heritage practice & communities
2005

| Responding to loss: Managing Kosciuszko National Park’s mountain huts as part of a living landscape
2004

| Empty spaces full of meaning
2003

| Time, Memory, Place and Land: Social Meaning and Heritage Conservation in Australia
2003

| Is that really a heritage building?
2002

| Is Port Arthur a painful place? Questions arising from the evaluation of social significance of a national heritage icon
2002

| Tourism tracks and sacred places: Pashupatinath and Uluru
2001

| Communities: parochial, passionate, committed and ignored
2001

| Living clay: The challenge of saving Brunswick’s last brickworks
2001

| Shaping Brunswick clay: site tour
2001

| Social significance – what’s happening elsewhere
2001

| Tapping into communities.
2001

| Telling tales: place attachment and government action
1999

| Working with local communities: a planning consultant’s perspective
1999

| Protecting Local Heritage Places: A guide for communities
1999

| Speaking of People’s Places
1998

| Book review – Contested urban heritage: Voices from the periphery
1998

| Valuing communities and their heritage
1996

| Corner shops and well trodden ways
1996

| Cultural Diversity and Living Traditions: Social Value
1995

| At the corner shop
1995

| Heritage studies
1995

| Let’s meet at the Post Office
1995

| Responding to times of change
1994

| Exploring community values in heritage projects
1994

| Keeping our heritage for the future
1994

| Social value: an overview & update
1994

| Corner shops and well-trodden ways
1993

| A Heritage Program for Cities, Towns and Rural Areas: A practical hands-on training and education workshop
1993

| Defining thresholds
1993

| Gaps in the record: finding women’s places
1993

| Social value: identifying, documenting and assessing community connections
1993

| Social values: overview & issues
1993

| The challenge of sustainability: can planners save the world?
1993

| What is social value?
1993

| Where have all the flowers gone?
1992

| Brunswick’s History: an annotated bibliography
1992

| Conserving Our Cemeteries
1992

| Travelling forward to the future
1992

| What is social value? A discussion paper
1991

| Ecologically Sustainable Urban Development: Principles and guidelines
1990

| An overlooked theme.
1989

| Co-operation or Conflict: Local Government and the Community
1989

| Whose views count?: Achieving community support for landscape conservation
1988

| Heritage Handbook and Heritage Readings
1988

| Co-operation between Local Government and community: Problems and Prospects
1988

| Corner shops and well trodden ways
1988

| Cultural identity & place
1984

| Victoria’s Heritage – a future for the past
1983

| Corhanwarrabul revisited: Perspective on cultural landscape.
1983

| Mt Macedon gardens: after the Ash Wednesday bushfires
1982

| Landscape resources: Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges

Places are powerful

I acknowledge the First Nations peoples of the lands and waters on which I live and work, offer my respect to their Elders, give thanks for their cultural knowledge and care for Country over millennia, and express my appreciation for all that they have taught me.

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Budj Bim: fish trapping system, drone image Tyson Lovett-Murray.

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