Australian Committee for the World Heritage Convention, 1976-1996

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Series 15

Content Summary:

The World Heritage Convention was adopted by the UNESCO General Conference in Paris, November 1972, and Australia become one of the first countries to ratify the Convention in August 1974. The Convention aims to promote cooperation among nations to protect heritage places considered to be of universal significance. At the 1972 General Conference a World Heritage Committee was established to administer the Convention, and maintain the World Heritage List.

Mulvaney was a member of the Australian Committee for the World Heritage Convention. He was the Australian representative at the 1977 UNESCO General Conference, and was also a delegate to the fifth session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Sydney in 1981. At this session, Australia's Kakadu National Park (Stage 1) and the Willandra Lakes region were inscribed on the World Heritage List.

This series includes correspondence, minutes, reports and other papers. These papers primarily concern the nomination of Australian sites to the World Heritage List, as well as nominations of overseas sites, and the development of frameworks for managing listed sites.

Among the correspondents are Max Bourke, Jim Bowler, A.D. Campbell, D.C. Griffiths and Vincent Serventy.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original instalment of this collection (MS 9615) was donated by Professor Mulvaney under the Cultural Gifts Program in September 1999. Further instalments were received in 2013 and 2017.

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