A comparison of the different types of federal and centralised aggregates-related heritage management in use around the world highlights how innovative the ALSF is in driving proactive, collaborative research of benefit to all stakeholders. The ALSF is a model of innovative heritage management, involving as it does peremptory public and private sector collaboration in the provision of strategic management of, and guidance upon, resources of benefit to all sectors, rather than relying on reactive management and/or burdensome federal and state controls.
