ABSTRACT
In the 1970s, the field of Australian conservation was remade with the emergence of the values-based model. Chapter 7 turns to the development of professional institutions and best-practice guidelines: Australia ICOMOS (1976) and the Burra Charter (1979). The latter conservation doctrine reflected the field’s aspiration for uniform national principles for managing nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century buildings and structures. At this moment of Australian cultural assertiveness, and in response to Eurocentric international heritage bodies, the proposed guidelines became a loftier charter. Its assumptions and its emphasis, nevertheless, paralleled conservation in European and North American contexts. The emerging values-based model to conservation conceptually engaged with a greater diversity of places, while adopting traditional approaches in implementation.
