Tonkin, RayBlair, Sandy2022-03-290726-6715http://hdl.handle.net/1885/262752This issue of Historic Environment has been a long time in coming. It is based on papers presented at the Australia ICOMOS conference held in Broken Hill in April 2010, Outback and Beyond: the future of historic towns, industrial heritage and pastoralism. That conference was a resounding success with approximately 165 registrants and 53 papers presented on the conference’s three themes of Historic Towns, Industrial Heritage and Remote Pastoralism. At the time, the proposal that Broken Hill be included on the National Heritage list was a subject of considerable discussion and interest. Whilst it had been hoped that this listing would be completed by the time of the conference, this was not to be the case and did not occur until January 2015application/pdfen-AU© 2016 The authors20162020-12-20