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1.6.1               National Trust of Australia (ACT)
West Block is included in the National Trust of Australia's (ACT) Register of Classified Places.  The citation is included at Appendix A.

1.6.2               Register of the National Estate
West Block and the Dugout were included in the Register of the National Estate in August 1987 (RNE 100476).  Following amendments to the Australian Heritage Council Act 2003, the RNE was frozen on 19 February 2007, which means that no new places can be added, or removed.  Since 2012 the RNE has been maintained on a non-statutory basis as a publicly available archive.  The citation is included at Appendix A.

1.6.3               Register of Significant Twentieth Century Architecture
'West Block Government Offices' is included in the Register of Significant Twentieth Century Architecture (RSTCA), maintained by the Australian Institute of Architects (RSTCA, place no. R067).  It was included in the RSTCA in December 1983 as a place of national significance.  The citation is included at Appendix A.

1.7                    Consultation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
The outcomes of consultation with Representative Aboriginal Organisations (RAO) undertaken in December 2013 have been relied upon for this HMP.  The consultation process followed at that time included a meeting on site attended by: Dr Peter Dowling, a consultant engaged in the preparation of an HMP for West Block on behalf of the Department of Finance; Wally Bell of Buru Ngunawal Aboriginal Corporation; and James Mundy of Ngarigu Currawong Clan.  A site walk was preceded by discussion of traditional land use and the site's history generally.
As recorded in the HMP (2014) for West Block:
The consensus of opinion was that there were no concerns regarding Aboriginal cultural heritage for the area.  But a need was agreed that the use of the area as a pathway from Black Mountain to the site occupied by New Parliament House should be acknowledged.[8]
Had the outcomes of the 2013 consultation process yielded outcomes that were contested or otherwise contentious, Lovell Chen would have initiated report-specific consultation with RAOs.

1.8                    Social values
No formal appraisal of social values, as might be informed by a community consultation process, was undertaken in the course of this HMP.  It is, however, contended that neither West Block nor the Dugout satisfy the CHL threshold for social value.  See further discussion at Chapter 3, Section 3.3.

1.9                    Limitations
The Dugout is in use as an electrical substation by ActewAGL.  During research for this HMP it was not possible to gain access to the building.
As a consequence, it has not been possible to establish the extent to which the building interior has the ability to demonstrate its World War II-era use for coding/decoding messages from key allies.
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