News on Benalla Migrant Camp's blog from Sabine Smythe ... "Unbelievably good news for all of us. Our success with our State Heritage Application was finally announced Friday last week. Big news - on Win TV News Saturday night, on ABC Local Radio with Gaye Pattinson on Monday, on Page 3 in the Border Mail on Monday and on the Front page of our local paper, today Wednesday.'
Heritage Victoria had previously rejected an application to have Benalla's historic Migrant Camp, which housed more than 60,000 new arrivals to Australia between 1949 to 1967, on the Victorian Heritage Register (Benalla Ensign, July 22 2015). Sabine, who applied to Heritage Victoria 18 months earler for an assessment of the remaining migrant camp huts, was not contacted or consulted; that the assessors did not look inside the migrant huts containing the photographic exhibition and historic memorabilia. Widely supported appeal processes were followed. Eight months later, finally news of positive results.
Heritage Victoria had previously rejected an application to have Benalla's historic Migrant Camp, which housed more than 60,000 new arrivals to Australia between 1949 to 1967, on the Victorian Heritage Register (Benalla Ensign, July 22 2015). Sabine, who applied to Heritage Victoria 18 months earler for an assessment of the remaining migrant camp huts, was not contacted or consulted; that the assessors did not look inside the migrant huts containing the photographic exhibition and historic memorabilia. Widely supported appeal processes were followed. Eight months later, finally news of positive results.
The exhibition located in Hut 11, Benalla Migrant Camp Buildings, in airport precinct, Samaria Road, is usually open on the fourth Sunday of the month from 10 to 3 pm. The cost is $5 per person, children are free. To confirm opening and to find out more about the exhibition, check out Sabine's blog at http://benallamigrantcampexhibition.blogspot.com.au/ .
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