{"id":16799,"date":"2017-07-31T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T06:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/news-media\/?p=16799"},"modified":"2019-07-24T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T06:23:42","slug":"from-the-nsw-chapter-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.architecture.com.au\/news-media\/from-the-nsw-chapter-7\/","title":{"rendered":"From the NSW Chapter President"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NSW Chapter President, Andrew Nimmo<\/p>\n

July 2017<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure you will join me in congratulating Shaun Carter (Immediate Past NSW Chapter President and Chairman of Save Our Sirius) and Millers Point Community Assoc. Incorporated on the successful legal action against the former Minister for Heritage over his failure to respond to the Heritage Council\u2019s recommendation to list the Sirius building on the State Heritage Register.<\/p>\n

This was the first time the Heritage Act has been the subject of an action in the Land & Environment Court. The judgment found that the Minister had failed to address the State heritage significance of the brutalist social housing building and that the loss of revenue to the NSW Government from the sale of its site was not a valid reason to refuse the listing.<\/p>\n

It was a wonderful example of crowd funded community activism which the Australian Institute of Architects was proud to support.  It has raised the profile of architecture, architects and the Institute and that can only be good for our profession.<\/p>\n

This decision is a testament to Shaun\u2019s leadership of the strong campaign to save a major building, but the fight is not over yet. Sirius is still vulnerable because the government is determined to get rid of it.<\/p>\n

Better Procurement \u2013 but how?
\n<\/strong>NSW procurement processes are in a parlous state. It\u2019s a subject that features in just about every conversation I have with members, with a common litany of complaints:<\/p>\n