it will soon deteriorate and Launceston will lose a unique beauty spot which attracts thousands of people each year’. The Scenery Preservation Board at the time was prepared to donate old machinery for exhibits. The Director of the Queen Victoria Museum was asked by the council to report on the matter. The Director of the museum recommended to council to decline the offer saying that ‘somehow I can’t help but feel that it is a little unfair to suggest that the council would be to blame if these buildings and bridge were demolished. After all the Hydro owns them and has used them and surely it is the responsibility of the Hydro Electric Commission or the Scenery Preservation Board to preserve these government assets’. It seems he was very unenthusiastic. Some twenty years later the ‘Launceston National Conservation Study’ suggested that the building could be used as a museum of industrial archaeology related to its history. In the study ‘Conservation in Practice’ by Lionel Morrell 1979, it is suggested that the building be used as a tourist attraction or restaurant. In the ‘Riveredge Study’ by Donald Goldsworthy 1980, it is suggested that: a) the power station be rehabilitated b) the suspension bridge be reconstructed c) the stone cottages be re-evaluated d) the site be developed and that the Trevallyn State Recreational Area be improved. In 1982, in the study 'Duck Reach and the Electric Light, Launceston' by Mark Kozakiewicz 1982, the following suggestions were investigated: 1) The reuse of the Duck Reach Power Station as a museum of early Tasmanian hydro electric power development. 2) The rehabilitation of the old suspension bridge to link the two sides of the South Esk River. 3) The reuse of the engineers' cottages for support services. 4) The establishment of walks from the power station. 5) Examine the possibilities for relating the activities of the Trevallyn State Recreational Reserve to activities at the power station. In the ‘Cliff Grounds Reserve Interim Management Plan’ 1982 by the Launceston City Council Parks and Recreation Department, recommendations were made similar to those made in the ‘Riveredge Study’. In 1995 on the centenary of its first opening, the power station was made weatherproof, the suspension bridge restored and the building re-opened as a museum. The Tasmanian Legislative Council Hansard of April 2011 records a lengthy debate in which Kerry Finch MLC for Rosevears suggests’ the resurrection of the