Jane Lennon is a Brisbane-based heritage consultant. She has over 30 years experience in heritage conservation in national parks and natural areas, mining sites, inner urban areas and in museums. She is currently a member of the Australian Heritage Council and the governing council of Old Parliament House, Canberra.
Skills and Services Offered:
Multidisciplinary input into heritage conservation, primarily
of place
Historical research, writing and editing
Policy formulation and analysis
Public speaking
Museum and site intrepretation
Professional Interests:
Environmental history -transformation of the landscape
Land use and forest history
Historic place management
Movement of younger sons of Victorian squatters into Queensland
Coastal history - settlement, trade and shipping
Post World War II history of Australian involvement in Papua New
Guinea
Qualifications: BA (Hons), MA (Hons), PhD
Publications and experience:
Hidden heritage: A development plan for community museums in
Queensland 1995-2000
'The Dalrymple track', National Trust of Queensland Journal,
April 1995
A presence for the past: A report by the Committee of Review:
Commonwealth owned heritage properites, Canberra, 1996.
Australian Historic Themes, a framework for use in heritage
assessment and management, Australian Heritage Commission,
2001, 13p.
With National Centre for Tourism and EcOz, Successful tourism
at heritage places: A guide for tourism operators, heritage managers
and communities, Australian Heritage Commission and CRC for
Sustainable Tourism, 2001, 62p.
'Victorian Gold -World Heritage Status?' in Bendigo: Nothing
But Gold, 150 years of gold mining conference papers, October
2001, pp.39-55.
Lennon, J, M Pearson, D Marshall, S Sullivan, P McConvell, W Nicholls
and D Johnston, 2001. Natural and cultural heritage, Australia
state of the environment report 2001 Theme Report, CSIRO publishing
for Department of the Environment and Heritage, Environment Australia,
Canberra, 177p.
'Long Creek: From logging to World Heritage', in Australia's
Ever-Changing Forests V, proceedings of the Fifth National
Conference on Australian Forest History, edited by John Dargavel,
Denise Gaughwin and Brenda Libbis, 2002, ANU Canberra, pp. 274-288.
'The Broad Arrow Café, Port Arthur, Tasmania - using social
values methodology to resolve the commemoration issues', in Historic
Environment, vol. 16, no. 3, 2002, pp 38-47.
Point Nepean: assessment of its sense of place, September
2002, http://www.pb.com.au/portsea/tech.htm
'The cultural significance of Australian Alpine Areas, in Celebrating
Mountains - An International Year of Mountains Conference proceedings,
Jindabyne, in Historic Environment, vol. 17, no.2, 2003,
pp.14-18.
Rural heritage places issues, A discussion paper for the
Queensland Heritage Council, June 2003, 48 pp.
'Binna Burra and O'Reilly's: Gardens in the scenic rim', in Tropical
Pleasures, proceedings of the 24th Australian Garden History
Society Conference July 2003, Queensland Review, vol 10, no. 2,
November, 2003, pp. 117-124
'The evolution of landscape conservation in Australia: Reflections
on the relationships of nature and culture', in The protected
landscape approach: Linking nature, culture and community,
Mitchell, Nora, Jessica Brown, and Michael Beresford (eds), 2005.UK
Countryside Commission, pp.195-207.
'National heritage places', in Trust News, National Trust
of Queensland, vol.13, Dec. 2005, pp.4-5.
'Paris down under -World heritage impacts in Australia', in Barbara
Hoffman (ed), 2006, Art and cultural heritage: Law, policy
and practice, Cambridge University Press, NY and London, pp.
210-215.
Address: Ms Jane Lennon
11 Joynt Street
Hamilton Qld 4007
Phone: 07 3862 4284
Fax: 07 3262 7470
E-mail: jlennon@petrie.hotkey.net.au
Updated 24 June 2006
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