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This photograph in today's Examiner is rather revealing in so much it demonstrates the way the evidence of Launceston's heritage is being incrimentally removed. The Port that was Launceston is hardly in evidence. It is almost as if Launceston is ashamed of its industrial heritage and the city's new and recent arrivals who know nothing, or very little, of it hardly care it seems – why would they.
"Heritage values" whilst they're spoken of, and its even something you might speak of, but do not stand up to be counted on. Need you? Here we appear to be more concerned to rush headlong into a future that is careless of its past. This is somewhat surprising in Tasmania as one of its cultural assets is its layered histories. Its these histories that increasingly people from elsewhere will come to see compared to the unrelenting encroachment of expedient development at home. This is now so evident in China.
'Adaptive Resuse' is an idea in architecture and design is not new but there seems to be an allergy to it in Launceston in favour of some kind of Gold Coast aesthetic. Which is curious as there are increasing numbers of south east Queenslanders moving to Tasmania for its more temperate climate and the increasing all in a rush lifestyle back in Queensland.
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