Best-selling author, actor, and historian Michael Veitch delivers the Heritage Council of Victoria’s annual Heritage Address to close the Open House Melbourne July Weekend 2023.
Through his own research and experience as a passionate, long-time resident, Michael will recount some of the more bizarre proposals that nearly befell our city – from the near demolition of Flinders Street Station and Town Hall to city planners’ past obsessions with underground tunnel networks.
Join Michael as he reflects on fascinating tales of the city’s heritage – the battles lost and won and the many near misses along the way.
Research & Projects
- The State of Heritage Review: Local Heritage
- Mortars: materials, mixes and methods
- At home with heritage: a considered approach to renovating your house
- Assessing and Managing Social Significance
- Heritage Technical Codes – Pilot
- Valuing Victoria’s Heritage
- Heritage in Ruins: an investigation into Melbourne’s ‘buried blocks’
- Industrial Heritage Adaptive Reuse Case Studies
- Past Projects
- Responses to Government Enquiries and Reports