ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the frameworks of Authorised Heritage Discourse and Heritage from Below to consider the largely peaceful and consensual evolution and expansion of Kings Park’s heritage role(s) and will contrast this with the more antagonistic environmental, Indigenous and labour heritage contestations that have taken place on the park’s boundaries in decades. Kings Park has therefore long possessed considerable, if initially somewhat selective and focused heritage significance within both Perth and Western Australia. Interestingly, and perhaps presaging some of the later heritage developments in the park, the first non-arboreal memorial to World War One service personnel was the Jewish War Memorial unveiled in December 1919. Insofar as bottom-up Heritage from Below influences can be seen as counter-hegemonic, then the increasing acknowledgement of the heritages of minority and subaltern groups within the park since 1929 makes a significant contribution in the regard.
