National Trust of Australia

Australian Council of National Trusts

Type	National peak body for National Trusts; public company, limited by guarantee
Tax ID No.	ABN: 54 008 444 684
Registration No.	ACN: 008 444 684
Founded	5 February 1965 (1965-02-05)
Location	Canberra, Australia
Area served	Australia
Website	www.nationaltrust.org.au

The Australian Council of National Trusts (ACNT) is the peak body for community-based, non-government organisations committed to promoting and conserving Australia's indigenous, natural and historic heritage.^[1] Incorporated in 1965, it federates the eight autonomous National Trusts in each Australian state and internal self-governing territory, providing them with a national secretariat and a national and international presence.^[2][3]

Collectively, the constituent National Trusts own or manage over 300 heritage places (the majority held in perpetuity), and manage a volunteer workforce of 7000 while also employing about 350 people nation-wide. Around 1,000,000 visitors experience the properties and their collections in Australia each year.^{[citation needed]}

Member organisations

The constituent organisations are:

Organisation	Jurisdiction	Founded	Actual members	Properties Managed	Properties Owned	Official website	Notes
National Trust of Australia (NSW)	New South Wales	1947[4]	30,000	18	38	http://www.nationaltrust.com.au
National Trust of Australia (Victoria)	Victoria	1956[4]	13,000[5]	40	32	http://www.nattrust.com.au
National Trust of Australia (Tasmania)	Tasmania	1960	?	9	9	http://www.nationaltrusttas.org.au
National Trust of Queensland	Queensland	1963	?	?	?	http://www.nationaltrustqld.org
National Trust of South Australia	South Australia	1955[4]	?	120	120	http://www.nationaltrustsa.org.au
National Trust of Western Australia	Western Australia	1959	?	?	?	http://www.ntwa.com.au
National Trust of Australia (ACT)	Australian Capital Territory	?	?	?	?	http://www.act.nationaltrust.org.au
National Trust NT	Northern Territory	1976	?	?	?	http://www.nationaltrustnt.org.au

History

Modelled on the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty and inspired by local campaigns to conserve native bushland and preserve old buildings, the first Australian national trusts were formed in New South Wales in 1947, South Australia in 1955 and Victoria in 1956; followed later in Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland.^[4]

See also

• List of National Trust properties in Australia
• List of Australian Living Treasures
• SAHANZ, the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

References

1. ^ Cathy Pryor, "A force for the regions", The Australian 4 December 2003 p 15 (Features section); via Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre, EBSCO (database online) accessed 19 August 2011.
2. ^ "National Trust of Australia" in Trischa Mann (ed), Australian Law Dictionary accessed 30 September 2011 via Oxford Reference Online, Oxford University Press.
3. ^ "National Trust" in Bruce Moore (ed), The Australian Oxford Dictionary (2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2004) via Oxford Reference Online, Oxford University Press accessed 30 September 2011.
4. ^ ^{a b c d} Graeme Davison, "National trusts" in Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian History, Oxford University Press, 2001 via Oxford Reference Online, Oxford University Press accessed 30 September 2011.
5. ^ National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Submission to the Productivity Commission Inquiry into the Conservation of Australia’s Historic Heritage Places

Further reading

• Ian Wyatt, Ours in Trust (1987), covers the founding years of the NSW National Trust
• Mary Rhyllis Clark, In Trust (1996), recollections of the Victorian Trust pioneers
• Hill, Robert (1997). ""Heritage: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow": Address to the Natural Trust Conference". Speeches of the Federal Minister for the Environment. Department of the Environment and Heritage (Australia). Archived from the original on 2006-09-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20060911014300/http://www.deh.gov.au/minister/env/97/sp31may97.html. Retrieved 2007-01-30. 
• Carol Cosgrove and Susan Marsden, Challenging times: the National Trust of South Australia 1955–2005, National Trust of South Australia, Adelaide 2005 ISBN 0-909378-60-6

External links

• Australian Living Treasures