Broken Hill Heritage Festival
Broken Hill was declared Australia’s first nationally listed Heritage city on January 20th, 2015.Over 130 years, the rights of tens of thousands of workers have given birth to many laws and provisions that we take for granted today. Broken Hill was not only the birthplace of Occupational Health & Safety and the 35-hour work week, but – thanks to the spread of nationwide worker support resulting from strikes in 1908 and 1909 - it has also been recognised as being the catalyst that put a fire under the trade union movement. In the 70s and 80s, the dominant workers’ culture gave way to a local passion for the arts. The city is home to more art galleries per capita than anywhere else in Australia and is home to artists such as Pro Hart and Jack Absalom. It has also become a mecca for the film industry, with movies such as Last Cab to Darwin, Mad Max II and Priscilla Queen of the Desert and television productions such as The Code and Outback ER, flaunting the city and surrounds as their backdrop. Its tourism industry is now entering its fourth decade, with new sites, such as the Miners Memorial, sitting alongside a landscape of streets that represent some of the key periods in Australian architecture – from Victorian and Federation eras, through to art deco and beyond.Keep Up To Date
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