National Trust of Australia (Victoria) National Trust of Australia (Victoria) The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) is a community-based, non-government organisation committed to promoting and conserving Australia's indigenous, natural and historic heritage places of cultural significance in Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1956. The New South Wales National Trust was formed by an Act of Parliament in 1947, and South Australia some time later. in 1955. In Victoria, the value of older buildings, and their diminishing numbers, was slowly being recognised, notably by the publication in 1953 of the popular "Early Melbourne Architecture 1840-1888", by Baroness Maie Casey, artist, writer, public speaker, aviatrix and
History of the Australian Capital Territory capital. Early advocate for Australian federation, John Dunmore Lang, backed Sydney, but Henry Parkes, a prominent New South Wales politician and Premier, proposed the capital be founded on "neutral ground", nominating the town of Albury as a location. (Albury was located in New South Wales, yet its position on the Murray River placed it on the border between New South Wales and Victoria). In 1898, a referendum on a proposed Constitution was held in four of the colonies – New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Although the referendum achieved a majority in all four colonies, the New South