Wedge and Grey Shack Settlements Cultural Heritage Assessment
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Wedge and Grey Shack Settlements Cultural Heritage Assessment Report prepared in collaboration with Context Pty Ltd for National Trust of Australia (WA) April 2012 Report Register The following report register documents the development and issue of the report entitled Wedge and Grey Shack Settlements—Cultural Heritage Assessment, undertaken by Godden Mackay Logan Pty Ltd in accordance with its quality management system. Godden Mackay Logan operates under a quality management system which has been certified as complying with the Australian/New Zealand Standard for quality management systems AS/NZS ISO 9001:2008. Job No. Issue No. Notes/Description Issue Date 11-0005 1 Draft report January 2012 11-0005 2 Final report April 2012 Copyright and Moral Rights Historical sources and reference material used in the preparation of this report are acknowledged and referenced at the end of each section and/or in figure captions. Reasonable effort has been made to identify, contact, acknowledge and obtain permission to use material from the relevant copyright owners. In accordance with the contract terms for this project GML: vests copyright in all material produced by GML (but excluding pre-existing material and material in which copyright is held by a third party) in the client for this project (and the client’s successors in title); retains the right to use all the material produced by GML for this project for GML’s ongoing business and for professional presentations, academic papers or publications; and waives the Moral Rights <of both GML and the project team members> in this work, in accordance with the (Commonwealth) Copyright (Moral Rights) Amendment Act 2000. Contents Page 1.0 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ............................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Site Identification ..................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2.1 Wedge .............................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2.2 Grey .................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2.3 Access .............................................................................................................................................. 2 1.2.4 Heritage Listings .............................................................................................................................. 2 1.3 Site Ownership and Management ......................................................................................................... 2 1.4 Project Method & Results ....................................................................................................................... 3 1.4.1 Documentary Research .................................................................................................................. 3 1.4.2 Community-Based Research ......................................................................................................... 3 1.4.3 Physical Research ........................................................................................................................... 3 1.4.4 Limitations ........................................................................................................................................ 4 1.4.5 Terminology ...................................................................................................................................... 4 1.5 Authorship and Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................... 5 1.6 Endnotes ............................................................................................................................................... 12 2.0 Shacks in Context .................................................................................................................................. 13 2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 13 2.2 Shacks as a Vernacular Building Type .............................................................................................. 13 2.2.1 The Characteristics of Shacks, Huts and Cabins ........................................................................ 13 2.2.2 The Design and Materials of Shacks ........................................................................................... 14 2.2.3 The Psychological Dimension of Shacks .................................................................................... 14 2.3 Shacks in an Australian Context .......................................................................................................... 14 2.3.1 The Place of Gunyahs, Huts and Shacks in Australian History ................................................. 14 2.3.2 The Creation of Recreation ........................................................................................................... 15 2.3.3 The Place of Shacks in Australian Culture................................................................................... 16 2.4 Endnotes ............................................................................................................................................... 19 3.0 Historical Overview ................................................................................................................................ 21 3.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 21 3.2 Western Australian Historical Context ................................................................................................. 21 3.3 Shack Settlements in Western Australia ............................................................................................. 23 3.3.1 Historic Process of Shack Settlement Establishment ................................................................. 23 3.3.2 Historic Locations of Shack Settlements ...................................................................................... 25 3.3.3 The WA Squatter Policy ................................................................................................................ 25 3.3.4 Historic Pathways to Removal or Retention ................................................................................ 26 3.4 Shacks on the Central Coast Region .................................................................................................. 26 3.5 Local Historical Context: Dandaragan Shire ....................................................................................... 28 3.5.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 28 3.5.2 Differing Human Responses to the Landscape ........................................................................... 29 3.6 Historical Overview of Wedge .............................................................................................................. 35 3.6.1 Phases of Historical Development................................................................................................ 35 3.7 Historical Overview of Grey ................................................................................................................. 40 3.7.1 Phases of Historical Development................................................................................................ 40 Wedge and Grey Shack Settlements—Cultural Heritage Assessment, April 2012 3.8 Conclusions .......................................................................................................................................... 45 3.9 Endnotes............................................................................................................................................... 46 4.0 Shack Communities, Culture and Traditions ................................................................................... 49 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 49 4.2 Approach .............................................................................................................................................. 49 4.3 The Wedge and Grey Communities Today ....................................................................................... 50 4.3.1 Grey ............................................................................................................................................... 50 4.3.2 Wedge ............................................................................................................................................ 52 4.4 Culture and Traditions ......................................................................................................................... 53 4.4.1 Life in a Shack Settlement ............................................................................................................ 53 4.4.2 The Shack Experience ................................................................................................................