Indicator: NCH-10 Funding provided to heritage and other agencies for historic heritage places
Data
| Government | Expenditure on conservation of government-owned property | Direct assistance for private conservation | Other private assistance a | Total expenditure and private assistance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian | 2.50 b | 14.50 c | 0.80 | 17.80 |
| NSW | 2.55 d | 1.70 | 0.70 | 4.95 |
| Vic | 1.70 | 1.02 | 0.57 | 3.29 |
| Qld | na | 0.12 | - | >0.12 |
| WA | 8.50 | 5.36 e | 0.37 | 14.23 |
| SA | 1.50 | 0.30 | 0.44 | 2.24 |
| Tas | 2.02 f | 0.30 | - | 2.32 |
| NT | 1.00 | 0.35 | 0.10 | 1.45 |
| ACT | na | 0.10 | - | >0.10 |
| Totals | >19.75 | >23.45 | >2.98 | >46.50 |
a Principally assistance for heritage advisory services
b The figure is DEH assistance to the Department of Defence for the conservation of its heritage properties. It does not include spending by other Departments on their historic heritage places
c Includes expenditure on the National Heritage Initiative and one-off assistance to individual places
d Maintenance expenditure only by the Historic Houses Trust
e The WA figure includes $1 million of the Heritage Grants Program, $1 million for Lotteries Commission’s grant scheme, $0.06 million for concessional loans scheme, a $1.45 million grant to the National Trust of WA and a one-off grant of $1.85 million for conservation works on St George’s Cathedral
f Figure includes annual funding of $2 million for conservation works on the Port Arthur Historic Site
na – not available
- nil
Source: Productivity Commission 2005, Conservation of Australias Historic Heritage Places, Draft Report, Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne, viewed 31 Aug 2006, http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiry/heritage/draftreport/heritage.pdf, p. 33.
| State / Territory | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACT A | na | na | na | na | na | 0.239 | |
| NSW B | 1 636 [for 2000-01] |
3.228 [for 2002-04] | 0.798 [for 2002-03] | 3.771 [for 2004-06] | |||
| NT | na | na | na | na | na | na | |
| Qld | 1 204 [note historic and Indigenous] |
0. 410 [note historic and Indigenous] |
0.115 [historic only] |
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| SA | 0.93 | 0.431 | 0.485 | 0.184 | |||
| Tas | |||||||
| Vic D | 4.8619 | 2.5871 | 3.0962 | 3.0408 | 2.4300 (57) [5.00] [2003-2005] |
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| WA C | 0.435 | 0.435 | 0.435 | 0.435 | 0.435 | 0.435 | |
A - ACT Heritage Grants Program including natural, Indigenous and historic places and heritage objects; this went up to $262,000 for 2005-06
B - Figures shown include funds to community, local government, private and religious agencies for conservation work, heritage studies and Local Heritage funds. Figures are for approved projects, except for Local Heritage Funds which is actual expenditure.
C - average funding for each year is given for the period 2000-2005
D - Public Heritage Program 1999-2003, now called Victorian Heritage Program
Blanks indicate the absence of information, not the absence of funding
Sources: State / Territory heritage agencies, 2005.
| State / Territory | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACT | na | na | na | na | na | na |
| NSW | na | na | na | na | na | na |
| NT | na | na | na | na | na | na |
| Qld | 4.618 Hist and Indig |
3.653 Hist and Indig |
3.507 Hist and Indig |
3.583 Hist and Indig |
3.682 | [Budget- 2.111 1.299 at 27/1/05] |
| SA | 1.799 | 2.227 | 2.180 | 1.968 | na | |
| Tas A | 0.987 | 0.969 | 0.983 | 0.954 | 1.388 | |
| Vic | na | na | na | na | na | na |
| WA | av0.32 | av0.32 | av0.32 | av0.32 | av0.32 |
Notes:
na - Not available
B - see hard / e-copy 2004 Annual reports
C -First figure for Cultural Heritage Branch, second for Tasmanian Heritage Council Secretariat
Sources: State / Territory heritage agencies
| Applicant | Total for 1995-2000 A | 2000/01 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | Total for 2000/01 – 2004/05 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIMA B | 66 850 | 21 300 | 20 500 | 21 000 | 18 600 | 18 000 | 99 400 |
| Norfolk Is. | 16 200 | 29 558 | 8 295 | No bid | 10 000 | 11 500 | 59 353 |
| NSW | 305 753 | 43 050 | 55 650 | 60 000 | 63 000 | 64 000 | 285 700 |
| NT | 218 329 | 27 339 | 51 173 | 51 453 | 28 542 | 23 347 | 181 854 |
| QLD | 270 003 | 41 979 | 46 410 | 43 806 | 38 685 | 37 782 | 208 662 |
| SA | 245 480 | 41 874 | 51 645 | 56 726 | 60 211 | 58 228 | 268 684 |
| TAS | 246 800 | 39 900 | 37 800 | 30 450 | 44 000 | 48 000 | 200 150 |
| VIC | 323 971 | 41 956 | 53 927 | 56 491 | 62 344 | 62 746 | 277 464 |
| WA | 293 710 | 45 098 | 55 241 | 70 778 | 62 234 | 65 640 | 298 991 |
| Commonwealth | 51 436 | ||||||
| Total | 2038532 | 332054 | 380641 | 390440 | 390616 | 389243 | 1882994 |
A Data from 2001 State of the Environment Report
B Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology - funding to assist with publishing of peer reviewed articles on historic shipwrecks
Source: Department of the Environment and Heritage 2005, Canberra
What the data mean
In 2004-05 more than $19.75 million was spent on the conservation of government-owned historic heritage properties. More than $23 million was provided for private conservation of historic heritage. Around $3 million was provided as private assistance to conservation.
Data on funding for the conservation of historic heritage available from the States and Territories is incomplete. No trends can be drawn from the data.
Funding for the conservation of shipwrecks has been steady over the period 2000/01 to 2004/05. The total for this period is slightly lower than the total for the previous five year period.
Data Limitations
The level of funding gives no indication of whether the funding is adequate or if it is being spent effectively and efficiently
States / Territories have in some cases a range of funding programs for the conservation of heritage places, and it is difficult to compare them, or arrive at the full picture, even from annual reports.
Data on funding for shipwrecks does not include funding by states / Northern Territory to shipwrecks in their own waters. In some states, shipwrecks are included in their heritage legislation and historic heritage funding figures, while in others there is separate heritage legislation and possibly separate administrative budgets.
Issues for which this is an indicator and why
Natural and Cultural Heritage — Responses to conserve heritage - Funding for heritage
This indicator provides a measure of the extent of response to protecting and maintaining heritage values in a range of historic heritage places.
Other indicators for this issue:
- NCH-09 Funding provided to heritage and other agencies for natural heritage places
- NCH-11 Funds provided to heritage and other agencies for Indigenous heritage places
- NCH-12 Funding provided to heritage and other agencies for heritage collections
Australian Antarctic Territory — Cultural heritage aspects - Responses for conserving heritage sites and collections
This indicator provides a measure of the extent of response to protecting and maintaining heritage values in a range of places, including Antarctic heritage places.
Other indicators for this issue:
- AATH-16 Development and implementation of management plans
- AATH-17 Sites protection through listing
- AATH-18 On-site surveys
- AATH-19 Listings in the Antarctic Heritage Register
- NCH-12 Funding provided to heritage and other agencies for heritage collections
- NCH-13 Changes in heritage legislation
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