	Document Index 1999-2000 Ministerial Statements Investing in our Natural and Cultural Heritage Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Australian Heritage and Antarctica

Key Points:

The Government is providing $70.4 million to fund the Federation Cultural and Heritage Projects programme for the two-year period 1999-2001 of which a total of $18 million will go toward heritage conservation and restoration work throughout Australia in 1999-2000.
The Government is providing approximately $4 million per annum over the next three years to fund a Cultural Heritage Projects Programme. This includes new funding of $6.7 million in 1999-2000 to 2001-02, and conversion of the Taxation Incentives for Heritage programme to a grants programme.
The Commonwealth Government will establish a Sydney Harbour Federation Trust to manage and rehabilitate five Sydney Harbour foreshore properties when the Department of Defence relocates.
An Australian Heritage Places Inventory is being developed to act as a `one-stop-shop' for Australian Heritage Registers.
A draft National Heritage Places Strategy is being developed to rationalise existing Commonwealth and State arrangements for the identification, protection and management of places of heritage significance.
In June 1998 the Greater Blue Mountains Area was nominated for inclusion on the World Heritage List.
The Commonwealth will continue its work to improve the management of World Heritage properties through the cooperative development of consistent and best practice management arrangements for all properties.
The Commonwealth will provide $15 million for the protection and management of State-managed World Heritage properties in 1999-2000.
The Commonwealth Government continues to place emphasis on understanding global climate change and protection of the Antarctic environment and will provide $92.8 million to the Australian Antarctic Programme in 1999-2000.
As a New Measure, shipping support will be provided for Australia's Antarctic Programme.

Under its Australian and World Heritage programmes, the Commonwealth seeks to protect those elements of Australia's natural and cultural heritage which are of value for this and future generations, on national and global scales respectively. Funding for these programmes is set out in Table 10.1.

Table 10.1: Australian Heritage and Antarctica --New Measures, Programme and Tax Expenditure Estimates

Description	1998-99 $m	1999-00 $m	2000-01 $m	2001-02 $m	2002-03 $m
NEW MEASURES
Shipping Transport support for Australian Antarctic Programme	-	na	na	na	na
Cultural Heritage Projects Programme	-	2.2	2.2	2.3	-
Incentives for Heritage Programme	-	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.1
PROGRAMME AND TAX EXPENDITURE ESTIMATES
National Heritage
National Heritage Funding	6.5	6.3	6.2	6.2	6.6
National Estate Grants Programme (a)	1.7	-	-	-	-
Federation Funding:
Federation Cultural and Heritage Projects (b)	-	70.4	na	na	na
Major Federation Fund Projects (c)	-	22.8	na	na	na
Cultural Heritage Projects Programme (d)	-	4.1	4.1	4.2	na
Grants in Aid to National Trusts	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
Heritage Protection and Environment Programme	2.5	4.2	na	na	na
Historic Shipwrecks Programme	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Norfolk Island penal settlement	0.4	0.4	-	-	-
World Heritage
World Heritage Area management and upkeep (e)	15.5	15.0	15.0	14.6	na
Antarctica
Australian Antarctic Programme (f)	93.6	95.3	95.3	94.7	95.1
CRC for Antarctica and the Southern Ocean	3.2	3.0	2.0	2.0	na
Grant to Mawson's Hut Foundation	0.3	-	-	-	-

New measures are expressed in outturn prices and other expenditure and revenue figures are expressed in 1999-2000 prices.
Programme and tax expenditure estimates include the effect of new measures.
- denotes nil; na denotes not available.

The National Estate Grants Programme has been subsumed into the Cultural Heritage Project Programme.

& c. These figures cover the 1999-2001 period.

This programme subsumes the Taxation Incentives for Heritage Conservation Scheme and the previous National Estate Grants Programme ($800,000).

These figures include monies allocated by the Natural Heritage Trust. For the funding for Uluru-Kata Tjuta and Kakadu National Parks see Commonwealth Protected Areas in Table 4.1, and for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage property see Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority in Table 9.1.

Covers the total cost of operating the Antarctic Programme, which has a major, but not exclusive, focus on environmental programmes.