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 Posted: Wed 19:31, 07 Aug 2013 Post subject: Why our amazing state is world |
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Why our amazing state is world
SOUTH Australia's idealistic beginning as a settlement that tried to avoid the mistakes made by other colonies may qualify us for a UNESCO World Heritage listing.
Adelaide University professor of agriculture and food policy Randy Stringer said the legislation that founded SA enshrined principles of sustainability and resilience that came directly from great thinkers of the time, namely colonial theorist Edward Gibbon Wakefield and philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill.
"Essentially South Australia was unique among 400 years of modern colonisation," Prof Stringer said.
"Wakefield, Bentham and Mill basically sat down and examined what had gone wrong with British colonies to that point. You had these amazing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], great thinkers who looked at the way to do things right."
The reflection of these ideas in the vineyards and farmlands of the Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale will form the basis of the "living agrarian landscape" heritage claim that Prof Stringer hopes the Federal Government will put to UNESCO some time in the next decade.
Australia has other World Heritage sites such as the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu and Naracoorte Fossil Mammal Site, but a listing as a working agricultural landscape is extremely rare.
Support for the bid grew out of concerns in the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale about protecting farmland from urban encroachment while helping producers to stay prosperous.
"It's difficult," Prof Stringer said. "You're never going to make as much money growing crops as you do growing houses."
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"You can't grow food without farmland and we're sitting a 12hour flight from a billion middleclass consumers whose incomes are going up 7 per cent a year," he said.
"We want to send them the best cherries and eggs and jam and apples that the planet can grow and this will help that effort,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we think."
A new market of highend tourism would also be drawn here, he said.
"Just like when people find a threestar Michelin restaurant and they seek it out and design their holiday around it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so there are highyield tourists who go and visit World Heritage sites," Prof Stringer said.
The process of mounting a bid is slow and could take seven to 10 years. So far, a feasibility report for councils exploring the economic, social and environmental advantages has concluded the heritage listing would bring social and community benefits to the Adelaide region.
"WHS listing could be viewed as a rising tide that lifts all boats'," the report said.
Prof Stringer said obtaining a listing for an agrarian landscape was rare, and even rarer for a working landscape. However, the successful Italian listing of the Val d'Orcia had been built on a similar connection between the aesthetics of its vineyards and its history.
"People are incredulous when you start talking about South Australia in the same (heritage) group as the Lakes District and the Cinque Terre (on the Italian Riviera)," he said. "They think it's just impossible when in fact our history is so special."
With the first stage of community consultation complete, the councils of Mt Barker, Barossa, McLaren Vale and Onkaparinga will be asked to contribute $10,000 a year from July to fund three years of project management, communication, research and documentation by the Mt Lofty Ranges Working Group.
The State Government will be asked for $50,000 a year for three years.
The report to councils said productive land in the Adelaide Hills, Barossa and McLaren Vale was progressively declining and, without a listing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the region's unique character would eventually be lost.
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