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HistoricHousesTrust

of New South Wales

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Michael RoseChairman

Kate ClarkDirector

Dear Minister

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and in accordance with the provisions of the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984, the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 (the PF&A Act) and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2010, we submit for presentation to Parliament the Annual Report of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales for the year ending 30 June 2011.

Yours sincerely

The Hon Robyn Parker MPMinister for the EnvironmentMinister for HeritageParliament HouseMacquarie StreetSydney NSW 2000

Historic Houses Trust Head Office The Mint 10 Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 T 02 8239 2288 F 02 8239 2299 E [email protected] TTY 02 8239 2377 (telephone for people with hearing disabilities) This report and all our programs are published on our website www.hht.net.au

cover: Side plate, Spode, England, c1830–40, Elizabeth Bay House, photograph Scott Hill © HHT | Garden ornament, c1920s, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, photograph © Paolo Busato | Sugar basin, c1860, Vaucluse House, photograph Scott Hill © HHT | Holey dollar, 1813, Caroline Simpson Collection, photograph © Brenton McGeachie | Green tassels, c1890, Rouse Hill House & Farm, photograph © Jenni Carter | Pistol, Justice & Police Museum, photograph © Jenni Carter | Vase, c1880, Rouse Hill House & Farm, photograph © Peter Murphy | Candlestick, 1880, The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust Collection, photograph © HHT | Bangala – water carrier, Phyllis Stewart, 2009, Museum of Sydney, photograph © Jenni Carter | Violoncello, 1814, Museum of Sydney, photograph © Jenni Carter | Pocket watch, c1816, Vaucluse House, photograph Scott Hill © HHT | Hill’s Alphabet Blocks, c1875, Rouse Hill House & Farm, photograph © Jenni Carter | Wax doll, 1853, Vaucluse House, photograph © Jenni Carter | Pin cushion, c1880, Vaucluse House, photograph © Rob Little | Fan, c1900, Meroogal, photograph © Alex Kershaw | Clock tin, late 19th century, Rouse Hill House & Farm, photograph © Jenni Carter | Chess piece (knight), c1850, Elizabeth Bay House, photograph Scott Hill © HHT | Heirloom pears from the Vaucluse House kitchen garden cast in coloured resin, Janet Tavener, 2010, photograph © Janet Tavener

inside front cover: Three young visitors enjoy the Historic Houses Trust’s Garden music festival in the grounds of Government House, photograph © Daniel Boud, 2009

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Appendices

52 Trustees

53 Management Group

54 Committees

56 Associated groups

56 Admission fees

57 Self-generated income

58 Disability Action Plan

58 Multicultural Policies

& Services Program

58 Ethical standards

58 Privacy Management Plan

59 Records

59 Government information

59 Consumer response

59 Electronic service delivery

59 Legal change

59 Cost of the Annual Report

60 Human resources

62 Financial information

64 Staff

67 Volunteers

Financial statements

Foundation financial statements

126 Index

127 Contacts

128 Production credits

Our year in brief

8 From the Chairman

10 From the Director

Our achievements

14 Involvement

16 Access & enjoyment

24 Conservation & curatorship

27 Stability

29 Wellbeing

30 Knowledge

About the HHT

34 Who we are

35 Our properties

42 Our collections

42 Endangered Houses Fund

45 How we are managed

45 Board of Trustees

45 Management Group

46 Organisational chart

47 Heritage & Portfolio Group

47 Creative Services Group

48 Commercial & Marketing

Services Group

48 Operations Group

48 Committees

48 The Foundation

49 Members

49 Volunteers

Contents

Our yearin brief

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It is 200 years since Lachlan Macquarie became Governor of New South Wales. We celebrated by reinstating the guardhouse domes at Hyde Park Barracks.

Hyde Park Barracks is now a uNESCO World Heritage site, part of the Australian Convict Sites serial nomination.

The number of people who enjoyed HHT properties, exhibitions and other activities. An additional 1.2 million people visited our public open spaces.

Reinstatement of Hyde Park Barracks domes, photograph © HHT | Redcoats and convicts, Hyde Park Barracks Museum, photograph © James Alcock Bangala – water carrier, Phyllis Stewart, 2009, Museum of Sydney, photograph © Jenni Carter | Beulah (detail), photograph © Paolo Busato

930,379Buildings at risk

Our Endangered Houses Fund is saving six properties: Beulah, Exeter Farm, Glenfield, Moruya manse, Nissen hut and Throsby Park.

Darug and Dharawal communities helped us to better interpret Aboriginal history at Rouse Hill House & Farm, Vaucluse House and Elizabeth Bay House.

Aboriginal communities

200years

World Heritage listing

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Femme fatale: the female criminal exhibition graphic (detail), photograph © Jenni Carter | Heirloom pears from the Vaucluse House kitchen garden cast in coloured resin, Janet Tavener, 2010, photograph © Janet Tavener | Tony Robinson, right, with Jacqui Newling in the Vaucluse House kitchen (detail), photograph © Alice Ford

We entertained our visitors with walks, talks, tours, Sydney Open, the fabulous Fifties Fair and much, much more.

The number of people across Australia who enjoyed our three touring exhibitions: Femme fatale, Built for the bush and Smalltown.

77,145

383events

Students from Menindee Central School and 22 other rural schools enjoyed our new Connected Classrooms program, A convict story.

The number of hours our 237 volunteers donated to the HHT across our museums, events, public programs and projects.

33,900hours

Sydney to Menindee850km

HHT properties were used as locations for filming and photography including MasterChef, Tony Robinson explores Australia and Vogue Living.

Location LocationLocation!


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From the Chairman

This is my first review since joining the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT) Board as Chairman in August 2010. When I joined the board, I was conscious of the HHT’s well-deserved reputation for boldness in its scholarship, exhibitions and education programs. I am very pleased that the HHT has continued to build on this reputation.

This past year has been an exceptional year for visitor numbers. In 2010–11 the HHT welcomed more than 930,000 people to its museums, public and commercial events, exhibitions and other activities. This number includes 358,229 paid admissions – a 5% increase over last year – around 29,000 people who attended our public programs and more than 77,000 people who visited our three travelling exhibitions touring regional New South Wales and other parts of Australia. All these visitors had the opportunity to experience the HHT’s beautiful and unique properties and collections, view remarkable and thought-provoking exhibitions, and absorb the stories and knowledge that come from the HHT’s dynamic presentation of history and places.

Of all the HHT’s activities in the last year, it is perhaps its educational work that will have the most lasting impact. This year more than 63,000 students took part in HHT education programs – a record achievement and one that we are particularly proud of. We also pioneered a new online Connected Classrooms initiative, supported by the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, which reached around 2300 pupils from urban and regional schools. Half of those schools had never participated in an HHT program before, and the majority of schools were located more than 200 kilometres from Sydney, including schools in Gilgandra and Menindee.

With more students visiting our properties and participating in our Connected Classrooms program, the HHT is bringing history and a sense of place, culture and continuity to a new generation, helping children put modern Australian life into a wider and richer context. Our staff are justifiably proud of our education programs and of the relationships we have with schools throughout New South Wales.

One-third of primary-school-aged children in New South Wales live in the state’s fastest growing area, Western Sydney. Last year we opened the restored schoolhouse and covered outdoor learning area at Rouse Hill House & Farm. This year we moved the car park and visitor facilities to the main entrance on Windsor Road to make better use of the new buildings and concentrate our visitor facilities in one place. The HHT’s long-term ambition is to create a proper cultural centre at Rouse Hill that will provide exhibition and community spaces, a cafe and other amenities for both the Rouse Hill Regional Park and the HHT site.

The last 12 months also saw the Hyde Park Barracks inscribed as a World Heritage site. To coincide with this important recognition of one of Sydney’s most significant buildings, the HHT launched a new exhibition, Convict Sydney, at the barracks. Also with the support of the Foundation, we began work on reconstructing the barracks’ guardhouse domes as a fitting tribute to Lachlan

Michael Rose, photograph Scott Hill © HHT

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Macquarie, whose 200th anniversary of swearing-in as Governor of New South Wales was celebrated in 2010. With the Opera House on Bennelong Point, Macquarie Street now has a World Heritage site at each end, adding to its significance as a major cultural and historical destination.

The HHT knows better than anyone that not every historic building can or should be a museum. Supported by the Foundation, our Endangered Houses Fund is unique within Australia in taking on historic buildings at risk and finding new uses for them. This year we acquired Throsby Park (built 1834) and we now have six very different projects across the state. We were honoured that the quality of our restoration work at Exeter Farm earned the project an Energy Australia Award for the Conservation Built Heritage at the National Trust Heritage Awards this year.

This year’s Annual Report particularly celebrates the HHT’s collections. As one of Australia’s largest state museums, we hold significant collections, including objects, photographs, archives and archaeological artefacts, which are distributed across our eight house museums and four public buildings. Our acquisitions this year included a new collection of material related to Rouse Hill gifted by Ann, Angus and Jamie Lidstone, direct descendants of Richard Rouse. One of our priorities is to improve public access to our collections and our new digital library project, supported by HHT Members, will make available a selection of highly significant trade catalogues (1849–1900) relating to brass beds, furniture, hardware, ironwork, joinery, lighting, linoleum, plaster, stained glass, terracotta, tiles and wallpaper. Most of these items are held in no other public collection in Australia and, in some cases, in no other public international collection. Our project will make this very rare material accessible to all Australians and to researchers around the world.

The work of the HHT is carried forward with great energy and enthusiasm by many people including permanent staff and volunteers. That energy and enthusiasm is evident to our many visitors, members and supporters. On behalf of my fellow Trustees, I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of the HHT in the last year.

Michael Rose, Chairman

30 June 2011


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From the Director

The highlight of 2010–11 for me was the listing of the Hyde Park Barracks as a World Heritage site, one of 11 inscribed as part of the Australian Convict Sites nomination.

It has also been an exceptional year for HHT visitation, with an overall increase in paid visitation of 5%, driven largely by our stunning exhibitions program, including: a new convict exhibition at Hyde Park Barracks Museum; two very different views of Sydney in the Edwardian period, Painting The Rocks: the loss of Old Sydney and An Edwardian Summer, both at the Museum of Sydney (MOS); and, also at MOS, The enemy at home: the story of German internees in World War I Australia. I would also like to highlight our new partnerships with Darug and Dharawal Aboriginal communities, which will enable us to better tell the stories of Rouse Hill House & Farm, Vaucluse House and Elizabeth Bay House.

Our regional presence has been very strong with around 77,000 people attending our travelling exhibitions at 14 different regional museums and galleries. With the support of the Foundation, our Endangered Houses Fund is able to deliver conservation outcomes throughout the state with six current projects at Moruya, Belmont North, Appin, Casula, Glenwood and the Southern Highlands.

Almost 6000 people attended our biennial Sydney Open program, which runs over two days and includes 18 popular focus tours and another 65 buildings open as part of the general pass. I particularly want to thank the 420 volunteers and the many building owners who enabled us to make this event a success.

We are delighted that our commercial operations bounced back this year, with an increase in commercial venue hire revenue of 11% over last year. Our properties have been very popular as locations for television productions such as MasterChef Australia as well as photo shoots for Vogue Living magazine.

I would also like to thank our many partner organisations over the year including the State Library of New South Wales, the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and the NSW Migration Centre, who all supported exhibitions; the university of Sydney, Sydney Architecture Festival and Sydney Writers’ Festival, who worked with us on events; and the Department of Education and Training’s Centre for Learning Innovation.

It has been a year of change in terms of our operating environment. With the election of a new state government and in keeping with the Premier’s commitment to heritage, the HHT has moved from Communities NSW to the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), as part of the Department of Premier and Cabinet (DPC). Our new Minister is the Hon Robyn Parker MP, who was appointed Minister for Heritage as well as Minister for the Environment.

This change is an opportunity to enhance our role as an advocate for history and the historic buildings and gardens of New South Wales, while maintaining our position as one of the largest state museums in Australia. We will continue to work closely with other state cultural institutions including the Powerhouse Museum, the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Museum, and build on existing links with organisations such as the Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust.

Kate Clark, photograph Scott Hill © HHT

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Kate Clark, Director

30 June 2011

Our new Chairman, Michael Rose, chaired his first Trustees meeting in August 2010. Architects Craig Allchin and Roderick Simpson also joined the board this year, bringing strategic expertise in urban planning and design.

Trustee Penny Pike concluded her final term in December. Penny has been a consistent advocate for high standards of heritage conservation within the HHT. She devoted a huge amount of time to us, and was tireless in attending events and other activities. Penny worked particularly closely with our members organisation, and I know that we will all miss her critical eye and genuine passion for our work. Trustee John Montgomery also resigned this year. John brought to the HHT the wisdom of many years experience in urban planning and we thank him also for his support.

Two new people joined the senior management team: Brent Sennitt as Acting Assistant Director, Operations, and Julie Turpie as Assistant Director, Commercial Services & Marketing. I would like to thank Mike Field, former Assistant Director, Marketing & Business Development, who presided over a growth in our commercial income, the development of our new shop at The Mint and our website, and we wish him well in his new role.

We completed the first phase of a major restructure of the HHT, designed to better use our resources, rethink how our properties operate and improve our ability to respond to online, digital and interpretation issues. Twelve new managers were appointed, of whom almost all were existing HHT staff. They have had a busy year dealing with new roles and helping us with the next phase of the process, and I want to thank each of them for their hard work and dedication.

All of this has meant a year of change for many staff. I particularly want to thank Chairman Michael Rose and all of the Trustees for their support this year, as well as the senior management team of Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Ian Innes, Damian Poole, Julie Turpie and Brent Sennitt. I want to thank all staff, acknowledging that continuing to deliver the results and quality of the work highlighted throughout this annual report at the same time as managing organisational change has been a big achievement. I would also like to thank our Foundation and our Members for their support.

Finally, in 2010 the HHT gained a new colleague. It is 200 years since Lachlan Macquarie was sworn in as Governor of New South Wales. We took part in many events over the year, working closely with the Macquarie 2010 Bicentenary Committee and lending what is purported to have been Elizabeth Macquarie’s violoncello to the celebrations. The statue of Governor Macquarie designed by John Dowie in 1973 has been moved from the front of Parliament House to the forecourt of The Mint, next to Macquarie’s barracks and facing down Macquarie Street. I hope he would be proud of his legacy.


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Ourachievements

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1 | Involvement A wider range of people are involved in understanding, interpreting and caring for the past.

We recognise that understanding, interpreting and caring for the past is not something we can do in isolation. We need to find more opportunities for people to make an active contribution to what we do through developing partnerships with other cultural institutions, strengthening community involvement with our properties, and encouraging and supporting volunteers.

Working with Aboriginal communitiesA key priority for the HHT is to work in partnership with Aboriginal people and communities to better understand, interpret and share the Aboriginal stories associated with our properties and collections.

At Rouse Hill House & Farm, Leanne Watson, a Darug woman from Western Sydney, helped us to develop a Darug showcase for the new Visitor Centre, facilitated participation of Elders and artists in the new interpretation, and gave us feedback on our education programs and guided tours. She provided Aboriginal interpretation and cultural training sessions for our staff, which will assist us to present the Darug story to visitors and school groups. Leanne will also help us to develop ideas for future Aboriginal-focused programs.

At Vaucluse House and Elizabeth Bay House, Dharawhal man Michael Ingrey from the La Perouse Aboriginal Community and Aboriginal history and heritage consultant Paul Irish enabled us to explore Aboriginal connections to both properties as a basis for new interpretation. As part of NAIDOC Week (3–10 July 2011) we offered a day tour of the Aboriginal sites at Vaucluse House, and Elders and members of the La Perouse Aboriginal Community provided traditional boomerang and shell-work workshops.

The exhibition From Little Things Big Things Grow at the Museum of Sydney (MOS) charted the story of the fight for Indigenous civil rights from the 1920s to the 1970s through the stories of some courageous individuals. As part of the project, the HHT organised tours to the museum for the National Native Tribunal and the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the university of Technology Sydney, and, in association with ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation), launched the DVD Freedom Ride: 40 years on. We also held a seminar at MOS that

debated the current proposal for a new referendum for constitutional change to recognise Indigenous Australians.

Where relevant, we endeavour to include Aboriginal stories in each of our exhibitions. For example, the new Convict Sydney exhibition at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum includes stories about Aboriginal people who lived in Sydney during the convict era.

Working with partnersOver the year we have developed a number of important partnerships with other organisations. These have included:

> working with the State Library of New South Wales to deliver the exhibition An Edwardian Summer and with the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority to create the exhibition and book, Painting The Rocks: the loss of Old Sydney;

> working collaboratively with the NSW Migration Heritage Centre, who provided curatorial and financial support for The enemy at home exhibition and publication;

> teaching a course on exhibition development for the Museum Studies Course at the university of Sydney, drawing on our sites and exhibitions; and developing a six-month lecture program on museum audiences for an HHT staff member to deliver in Sydney and Hong Kong;

> collaborating with the Sydney Architecture Festival and ABC Radio National to develop and broadcast an opening event for the festival at Government House, at which Richard Leplastrier, architect, David Clark, editor of Vogue Living, and Ruth Ritchie, journalist and author, joined other well-known Australians to discuss house, home and shelter;

> delivering a series of events for Trustwords, part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival;

> working with the New South Wales Department of Education and Training’s Centre for Learning Innovation to improve the online components of our exhibitions and with Distance and Rural Technology (DART) on the Connected Classrooms Program;

> developing forums for school groups at Liverpool Regional Gallery and in Wagga Wagga with the Architects’ Registration Board;

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Phyllis Stewart, Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal Art and Culture Studio artist, photograph © Paolo Busato | Soft Furnishing Volunteer Group at Elizabeth Bay House, photograph Scott Hill © HHT

> partnering with New South Wales Police prosecutors, who assisted us in training guides at the Justice & Police Museum and helped to develop a mock trial education program;

> working closely with the History Council of New South Wales.

Each of these partnerships has enabled us to reach new audiences, access new resources and undertake projects that we would not have been able to do alone. We would like to express our gratitude to each of the organisations involved.

VolunteersThis year nearly 240 volunteers donated 33,900 hours to the HHT, the equivalent of almost 5000 working days.

In March 2011 Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, Governor of New South Wales, attended a morning tea to celebrate 15 years of volunteering at Government House. She acknowledged the volunteers’ dedicated service, their extraordinary ability to communicate the HHT’s philosophies and work through

tours, outreach programs, and their informal role of networking with the wider community.

Volunteers played a critical role in delivering the biennial Sydney Open event in November, with around 420 volunteers conducting guided tours and helping to manage the many visitors at all 65 buildings.

The Soft Furnishings Volunteer Group worked on a range of textile-related projects at Elizabeth Bay House, and also helped to make the mob-caps and aprons for our Childsplay program at Elizabeth Farm.

A working group including volunteers, enthusiasts and local descendants of Charles Throsby joined us for six days prior to the opening of Throsby Park to ‘deep clean’ a dozen rooms. Tasks included cleaning floors, joinery, furniture, glass, silver and brass; washing textiles; and removing adhesive tape residue from a variety of surfaces.

Eleven students undertook internships with the HHT, assisting with activities in teams as diverse as Marketing and the Endangered Houses Fund.

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We aim to find new and different ways for people to enjoy our properties, collections, programs and knowledge. We work to ensure people feel welcome by engaging with a wider range of audiences, using digital and other media to improve access to our work, and improving access for people with disabilities.

One of our biggest success stories in 2010–11 was that overall general paid visitation increased by 5%, much of which was driven by the immensely successful exhibitions at our city museums.

Exhibitions & publicationsThis year the HHT delivered four major exhibitions, as well as a wide range of other exhibitions and displays.

At the Hyde Park Barracks Museum we installed a new semipermanent exhibition, Convict Sydney, which tells the story of convicts and their role in building Sydney. Visitors can wander the streets of 1820s Sydney on our giant map, try on a set of leg-irons, and learn more about the forced transportation of convicts, their daily lives and how they helped to build the colony.

The exhibition Painting The Rocks: the loss of Old Sydney at the Museum of Sydney (MOS) revisited an exhibition of artworks from 1902 that showed ‘Old Sydney’ at a time when it faced demolition in its transformation from colonial city to urban metropolis.

An Edwardian Summer, also at MOS, presented the beautiful photographs of Arthur Wigram Allen taken in Sydney between 1890 and 1934. The exhibition was curated by Howard Tanner, Caroline Mackaness and Judith Ainge.

The enemy at home: the story of German internees in World War I Australia presented a hitherto unknown collection of photographs taken in German internment camps in New South Wales during the first world war. Guest Curator Nadine Helmi discovered the collection in Germany and worked with the HHT to bring this extraordinary story to light.

We published three new books to coincide with the MOS exhibitions, with Painting The Rocks jointly published with the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and The enemy at home co-published with uNSW Press. We also presented a wide range of public programs related to those exhibitions including talks and walks.

Regional presence Around 77,000 visitors attended the three HHT regional touring exhibitions: Built for the bush: the green architecture of rural Australia, which highlights the influence of bush architecture on modern designers; Smalltown, which brings together Martin Mischkulnig’s unromanticised photographs of remote settlements in Australia with words from Tim Winton; and Femme fatale: the female criminal, an exhibition that contrasts the romanticised image of women criminals in mythology and popular culture with the stories of real offenders. These exhibitions travelled to 14 different regional museums and galleries in 2010–11.

We also reached regional audiences through a wide range of other projects including our Endangered Houses Fund program, our new Connected Classrooms program and the Justice & Police Museum outreach education project. Our staff also provided professional expertise to regional museums. Around 150 items from our collections were loaned to regional museums, either through our touring exhibitions or our Museum in a box program. Our work was profiled in more than 15 regional newspapers.

Improving digital & online accessOur biggest innovation this year was the launch of our first Connected Classrooms program, A convict story, based on the well-attended Rats and Convict life programs at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. A convict story transports students back in time to explore what life was like for convicts. Through hearing the stories of the convict presenter, students gain insights into everyday life for convicts, how and why they were transported to Australia, and the importance of convict labour to the development of the new colony. Schools connect with the HHT via a monitor and video- conferencing equipment, creating an interactive classroom. Students are active participants in the lesson and are able to examine artefacts and primary sources. The target audience for this program is Stage 2 (Years 3–4), ages 8–10.

Around 2300 children from 23 schools took part in A convict story in 2010–2011. More than 50% of those schools were new to the HHT and several have a high percentage of Aboriginal students (for example,

2 | Access & enjoyment

We provide more people and a wider range of people access to our properties, collections, programs and knowledge.

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Miss Fox (Belinda Mitrovich) teaching a class in the old schoolhouse, Rouse Hill House & Farm Open Day, photograph © HHT

Gilgandra with 33%) or are schools with a high percentage of non-English-speaking-background (NESB) children (Greenway Park with 60%). The majority of schools that participated are located more than 200 kilometres from Sydney including schools from Gilgandra, Khancoban, Byron Bay, Kempsey West, Goulburn North and Menindee.

In 2010–11 the HHT established the Web and Screen Media Team, which is responsible for improving all aspects of our digital operations across the web and throughout our interpretive programs.

Website visitation:

> visits to website: 545,000 (an increase of 25% from the previous year);

> page views: 1.8 million (an increase of 30% from the previous year);

> 5% of visitation was from a mobile device (an increase of 1% from the previous year).

EducationIt has been a record year for education with more than 63,000 students attending education programs across all of our properties – our highest number ever. This reflects increased visitation at Elizabeth Farm, MOS, Rouse Hill House & Farm and Vaucluse House, as well as the success of our new Connected Classrooms program. The majority of students attended primary programs (44,724), and more than 16% of all students were from rural areas. This year marked the first full year of operation for the new schoolhouse at Rouse Hill House & Farm.

Commendation

National Trust Awards 2011, highly commended in Education – Corporate/Government for Lessons from the past: changes and continuity in schooling at Rouse Hill House & Farm

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Celebrating diverse culturesCultural diversity is an important part of the history and distinctiveness of Sydney. Several exhibitions at MOS showcased cultural diversity including the photographic exhibition 52 suburbs and Mirror: Jeannie Baker, which made a strong connection between the everyday lives of a Sydney boy and a boy living in a remote Berber village in Morocco. North African culture was celebrated through events associated with Mirror, such as performances of Moroccan music, and in the development of a new flexible education program for K–6, Mirror: two stories, and a school holiday program, Cut and paste.

The bungalow form of the homestead at Elizabeth Farm inspired artist Vandana Ram to develop a site-specific exhibition, Verandah, as part of Parramasala, the Australian Festival of South Asian Arts. The event featured a Rajasthani dance troupe organised and funded by Parramasala and was opened by the Consul General of India.

Improving access for people with disabilitiesThe HHT constantly works to improve access to our sites and programs for people with disabilities. This year we welcomed 211 education bookings from groups with special needs. At Rouse Hill House & Farm we trialled Earn your keep, a new farm activity for groups with intellectual disabilities. Many students with learning difficulties have benefited from programs that we have targeted to their needs.

The partnership with Studio ARTES gathered strength this year. Adult artists with disabilities from this groundbreaking studio undertook a project at three HHT sites: Rose Seidler House, Hyde Park Barracks Museum and Rouse Hill House & Farm. The project built on the HHT’s longstanding tradition of working with contemporary artists and, in the process, proved inspirational. The artists produced a body of work that reflects both their fresh vision and the relationships they developed with the HHT sites. The result of this collaboration will be displayed at The Mint in late 2011.

Public programsAround 29,000 visitors attended 383 HHT events including tours, talks, walking tours and collaborative projects with external partners.

The annual Fifties Fair was once again a huge success with numbers reaching close to 5000 people on a fine and sunny day. The Bohemian ball at Elizabeth Bay House celebrated the property’s bohemian past with life drawing, burlesque entertainment and other activities.

Our major biennial event, Sydney Open, which took place on 6 and 7 November, was one of the signature events of the Sydney Architecture Festival. Nearly 6000 people – a record number – enjoyed the chance to view 65 buildings across the CBD and at Pyrmont and ultimo. The weekend was a huge collaboration between HHT staff and more than 400 volunteers.

Access to collectionsThe Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection developed a digital library project that provides access to a selection of highly significant trade catalogues relating to brass beds, furniture, hardware, ironwork, joinery, lighting, linoleum, plaster, stained glass, terracotta, tiles and wallpaper from 1849 to 1900. Most of the items are held in no other public collection in Australia and, in some cases, in no other public collection internationally, thus making this very rare material accessible to all Australians and to researchers around the world. (See also page 42.)

Broadening our audiencesThe HHT welcomes seniors groups to our sites through Probus tours and special interest groups, and celebrates Seniors’ Week with free entry to all our properties. With its focus on wider issues surrounding policing, equity and justice, the Justice & Police Museum has proved popular with a wide range of organisations including Christian Community Aid, who arranged two visits for groups of Chinese immigrants, the Youth Drug and Alcohol Court, youth groups from the Ted Knoffs Foundation, Taldumande Youth Services for young homeless people and Job Centre Australia. Eight Indigenous students from Maitland TAFE attended an education program at the museum.

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Paid visitation numbers

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Australia/overseas

Australia 69.9% Overseas 25.7% Not collected 4.4%

Australia

New South Wales 87.0% Victoria 5.1% Queensland 4.4% South Australia 1.5% Western Australia 1.5% Tasmania 0.5%

New South Wales

Northern Sydney 21.03% Western Sydney 19.03% Rural 17.03% Inner city 16.97% Eastern Suburbs 10.38% South Sydney 9.11% Inner west 6.45%

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Title Location Total visitors Date

Fifties Fair Rose Seidler House 4,762 Sunday 29 Aug 2010

Sydney Open Outreach 1,589 Saturday 6 Nov 2010

Sydney Open Outreach 4,398 Sunday 7 Nov 2010

Carols by candlelight Vaucluse House 2,200 Friday 12 Nov 2010

Jazz in the garden Vaucluse House 941 Sunday 21 Nov 2010

Open house Rose Seidler House 731 Sunday 6 Mar 2011

Garden music Government House 1,700 Sunday 13 Mar 2011

House music Government House 1,386 Various dates

Redcoats and convicts Hyde Park Barracks Museum 910 Sunday 26 June 2011

Major events

Convict hulks: life on the prison ships

Hyde Park Barracks Museum 4 Aug 07 – 22 Aug 10 206,243 1,106 186 10,135 53 191

Convict Sydney Hyde Park Barracks Museum 11 Sept 10 – 31 Dec 12 59,647 291 205 59,647 291 205

Sin city: crime and corruption in 20th-century Sydney

Justice & Police Museum 1 May 10 – 5 June 11 42,460 399 106 33,875 338 100

Persons of interest: the ASIO files

Justice & Police Museum 18 June 11 – 29 Apr 12 2,154 13 166 2,154 13 166

Up the Cross: Rennie Ellis & Wesley Stacey Museum of Sydney 20 Feb – 8 Aug 10 40,164 169 238 9,792 39 251

Skint! Making do in the Great Depression Museum of Sydney 27 Mar – 25 July 10 29,577 120 246 7,020 25 281

Painting The Rocks: the loss of Old Sydney Museum of Sydney 7 Aug – 28 Nov 10 25,030 114 220 25,030 114 220

Mirror: Jeannie Baker Museum of Sydney 14 Aug – 10 Oct 10 14,537 58 251 14,537 58 251

Boomburbs: Andrew Merry Museum of Sydney 16 Oct 10 – 13 Feb 11 25,528 120 213 25,528 120 213

An Edwardian Summer Museum of Sydney 11 Dec 10 – 26 Apr 11 32,819 135 243 32,819 135 243

The enemy at home: the story of German internees in World War I Australia

Museum of Sydney 7 May – 11 Sept 11 12,881 55 234 12,881 55 234

52 suburbs Museum of Sydney 14 May – 9 Oct 11 11,984 48 250 11,984 48 250

Title Location Exhibiton dates Visitors days av Visitors days av

Visitation since opening of exhibition

(until 30 June 2011)

Exhibition visitation

(1 July 2010 – 30 June 2011)

Exhibitions

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Museum of the Riverina – Wagga Wagga 10 Apr – 18 July 10 6,030 97 62 1,119 18 62

Temora Rural Museum 24 July – 14 Sept 10 730 53 14 730 53 14

Pioneer Park Museum – Griffith 24 Sept – 28 Nov 10 1,664 66 25 1,664 66 25

Lady Denman Heritage Complex – Huskisson 11 Dec 10 – 27 Mar 11 2,884 106 27 2,884 106 27

Liverpool Regional Museum – Liverpool 2 Apr 11 – 12 May 11 156 29 5 156 29 5

National Archives of Australia – Canberra 3 June 11 – 11 Sept 11 2,016 19 106 2,016 19 106

Femme fatale: the female criminal

National Archives of Australia – Canberra 14 June – 12 Sept 10 10,310 91 113 8,384 74 113

Western Australian Museum – Kalgoorlie-Boulder

24 Sept – 21 Nov 10 15,565 59 264 15,565 59 264

Western Australian Museum – Geraldton 3 Dec 10 – 23 Jan 11 6,513 50 130 6,513 50 130

Western Australian Museum – Perth 4 Feb – 20 Mar 11 8,356 44 190 8,356 44 190

National Wool Museum – Geelong 4 Apr – 13 June 11 5,732 48 119 5,732 48 119

Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery – Launceston

25 June – 4 Sept 11 12,616 6 2,103 12,616 6 2103

Smalltown Western Australian Museum – Geraldton 15 Oct – 3 Dec 10 895 50 18 895 50 18

Western Australian Museum – Maritime, Fremantle

10 Dec 10 – 11 Feb 11 9,568 62 154 9,568 62 154

The Painted Tree Gallery – Northcliffe 25 Mar – 8 May 11 550 72 8 550 72 8

The Vancouver Arts Centre – Albany 14 May – 4 June 11 397 21 19 397 21 19

Total 83,982 77,145

Title Location Exhibiton dates Visitors days av Visitors days av

Visitation since opening of exhibition

(until 30 June 2011)

Tour visitation

(1 July 2010 – 30 June 2011)

Travelling exhibitions

Built for the bush: the green architecture of rural Australia


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Paid admissions

General public 172,096 12 154,232 151,390

Education 59,682 2 58,775 54,384

Public programs 15,058 -34 22,659 18,652

Venue hire 97,279 -2 98,931 100,032

Outreach 11,571 133 4,966 8,246

Outreach (education)1 2,543 – – –

Paid admission total 358,229 5 339,563 332,704

Free entry

Complimentary tickets 58,918 -12 66,967 52,670

Free public programs 6,608 -19 8,118 10,842

Government House2 147,966 -4 153,861 152,697

Government House education3 1,418 – – –

Other4 280,095 8 260,524 364,458

Free entry total 495,005 1 489,470 580,667

travelling exhibitions

Built for the bush: the green architecture of rural Australia

8,569 – 9,824 –

Cook’s sites – – – 13,530

Drugs: a social history – – – 225,719

Law and order: regional police and court buildings 1850–1920

– – – 7,820

Meroogal Women’s Arts Prize 2008–2009: celebrating the everyday things women do

– – – 4,062

Meroogal Women’s Arts Prize 2009–2010: books and the world of ideas

– – 5,353 –

Nissen hut student design competition – – – 2,671

Femme fatale: the female criminal 57,166 – 1,950

Smalltown 11,410 – –

Subtotal 77,145 – 17,127 253,802

Total (properties, exhibitions and activities) 930,379 – 846,160 1,167,173

grounds (through traffic)

Hyde Park Barracks Museum forecourt 309,358 -1 312,406 239,793

First Government House Place – Museum of Sydney 829,294 5 789,081 601,127

Vaucluse House – parklands and beach paddock 68,935 13 61,075 6,099

Grounds total 1,207,587

Grand total 2,137,966 6 2,008,722 2,014,192

2011 % difference 2010 2009

Visitor breakdown

1 In previous years outreach education was included in outreach. 2 Includes house tours, vice-regal and grounds. 3 In previous years Government House Education was included in Government House. 4 Includes site visits, internal bookings and events, cafes, shops, public sculptures etc.

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Print and online articles 1,596 1,285 1,120 426

Radio interviews 29 235 212 163

Television stories 32 19 14 24

Media coverage 2011 2010 2009 2008

Media coverage

Paid admissions

Public programs 7,239 626 5,736 1,930

Education 2,543 552 257 513

Properties 4,332 3,788 2,253 4,083

Total 14,114 4,966 8,246 6,526

Outreach 2011 2010 2009 2008

Outreach

Visitors enjoying the Convict Sydney exhibition, Hyde Park Barracks Museum, photograph © Paolo Busato

Award

Interpretation Australia National Awards for Excellence 2010 – bronze award for Built for the bush: green architecture of rural Australia

Commendation

National Trust Awards 2011, highly commended in Interpretation and Presentation, Corporate and Government for Painting The Rocks: the loss of Old Sydney – book, exhibition and iPhone application with the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority

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We aim to put research at the heart of all of our work, make good use of our curatorial expertise, make informed decisions and properly maintain our properties and collections. In 2010–11 we also set out to make our conservation process more visible.

World Heritage listing In July 2010 the Hyde Park Barracks became a uNESCO World Heritage site along with ten other places in Australia associated with our convict history. From 1817 to 1848, almost 50,000 convicts passed through the barracks, which today stands as a tangible reminder of the global system of transportation that existed in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Other Sydney sites in the group listing include Cockatoo Island, Old Government House and Domain in Parramatta, and the Old Great North Road in Dharug National Park. Our exhibition Convict Sydney was timed to coincide with the uNESCO listing, and shows the harsh reality of life under the convict system.

Conservation projectsFrancis Greenway, Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s favourite architect, designed the Hyde Park Barracks in 1815, complete with domed corner pavilions and domed guardhouses fronting Macquarie Street; only the north corner pavilion dome at the barracks has survived. Funded by the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales and the New South Wales Government, our reinstatement of the timber-shingled guardhouse domes (which had disappeared by 1850) has been prompted by the removal of fibreglass capping installed in 1981. This had caused deterioration of the surviving original sandstone parapet, and reinstating the domes is the best way of preserving the integrity of the roof. The project also allows us to re-create an important element of Greenway’s original design.

Our new Visitor Centre at Rouse Hill House & Farm, completed this year with the support of HHT Members, brings the focus of the property back to Windsor Road – its historic anchor – and has allowed us to expand our interpretation of the site to include the culture of the Darug people who occupied the place before and after the Rouses arrived, early land settlement and forest

clearing, the turnpike road and its surviving archaeology, Rouse Hill House and 19th-century farming, and 20th-century urbanisation and demographic change.

In February 1954, 8000 people attended the Queen’s Garden Reception held on the eastern terrace of Government House, where fashionable sandstone crazy paving had been laid on all the main paths as part of the refurbishments for Her Majesty’s visit. After 60 years of service, the paving has been replaced with new sandstone flagging and upgraded lighting to ensure the terrace meets current standards for safety and amenity. We carried out the project without restricting public access to the superb harbourside gardens and, with assistance from Royal Botanic Garden Sydney & The Domain staff and the HHT Gardening Team, much of the terrace was opened for the investitures in late August 2010. The results are outstanding and the paving is complimentary in colour, finish and design to the existing central pathway.

Collections acquisitionsA very important collection of Rouse family papers has provided detailed insight into the early enterprises of Richard Rouse between 1792 and 1849 (see page 30). The collection is the gift of Ann, Angus and Jamie Lidstone, direct descendants of Richard Rouse, and will be held at The Mint in the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection.

This year we added depth to our diverse collections with the acquisition of:

> a rare volume on English encaustic tiles and a trade catalogue of tile patterns from 1844. These designs were used in 19th-century Gothic Revival architecture and can be directly related to tiles found in colonial houses across New South Wales;

> a collection of books donated by leading Sydney architect Howard Tanner (well known for his work in the heritage field) that spans the history of Australian architecture and design, landscapes and gardening;

> a Luna Park chess set made by renowned Sydney artist Peter Kingston in 2001. A playful evocation of the historic and much-loved fun park, the set

Our properties and collections are handed on to future generations in good heart.

3 | Conservation & curatorship

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Reinstating the Hyde Park Barracks domes, photograph © HHT

consists of 32 colourful enamel-painted cast resin chess pieces and a chequered board. It was given to the HHT through the Commonwealth Cultural Gifts Program;

> a magnificent early 19th-century bronze statuette, gift of the Copland Foundation and a private donor. This equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius – similar to one bought by William Charles Wentworth during an Italian trip in the 1850s and described in the Vaucluse House auction inventory of 1900 – was acquired from an antiques dealer in Rome.

We continue to conserve our collections to a high standard. For example, we undertook a major restoration of the Augustus Earle portrait of Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane (painted 1826) at Government House, and the recording and assessment of an important collection of colonial furniture and books at Throsby Park, an Endangered Houses Fund property.

Endangered Houses FundSupported by the Foundation, our Endangered Houses Fund (EHF) enables us to acquire historic buildings at risk, and repair and then market them with conservation covenants to ensure their long-term protection.

We took possession of Throsby Park, an important colonial-period house and estate, at a ceremony held in September 2010 that was attended by several hundred people including Throsby family members and supporters. The EHF plans to return the house to residential use via a long-term lease. Our curatorial staff created an inventory and condition assessment of the property’s contents and collections.

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the National Trust of Australia (NSW) 2011 Heritage Awards. Conservation of Exeter Farm has been completed, and we are currently finalising details of the subdivision that will allow the property to be put onthe market.

This year we acquired Beulah, a superb 80-hectare rural property on Sydney’s south-western fringe that comprises an early colonial house, farmland and 60 hectares of rare Cumberland Plain Woodland. We worked closely with the Office of Environment and Heritage on a joint biobanking agreement for its long-term preservation.

Meanwhile, progress on other projects has been excellent:

> Glenfield has been actively marketed.

> A development application (DA) has been lodged for repairs to the manse at Moruya.

> A revised DA for the Nissen hut has been submitted.

Maintaining our propertiesWith 12 properties open to the public, we have a considerable maintenance obligation. Programmed maintenance has been carried out in accordance with the 2010–11 Action Plan forecasts, and this year included external painting of the lower levels of the Young Street terraces, cleaning the models of First Fleet ships at the Museum of Sydney (MOS) and work on the Edge of the trees sculpture on First Government House Place.

A 150-year-old Bunya Pine at Elizabeth Farm collapsed in October, causing serious damage to the popular tearooms. The building has since been totally rebuilt, incorporating structural improvements that will provide future flexibility in its use and configuration.

In order to improve our approach to maintenance we undertook a snapshot report of the current state of all of our properties. The report found that all major buildings are generally well maintained and in good to fair condition, and that there is no major maintenance required. Non-essential maintenance is needed across a number of properties, and areas requiring major periodic maintenance were the subjects of capital bids to Treasury.

Making conservation more visibleIn November 2010 we hosted a seminar entitled ‘Is heritage a dirty word in the 21st century?’ in which leading speakers including Professor Richard Mackay, the Hon Dr Meredith Burgmann MLC and Dr Wayne Johnson debated the future of heritage protection.

The explicit aim of the aforementioned Hyde Park Barracks domes project was to provide opportunities for people to learn about traditional building techniques. During our annual Redcoats and convicts event, visitors were able to climb the domes scaffolding, speak to the builder and learn about the manufacture of traditional shingles, or ‘shakes’. We also hosted a series of talks in which project architects and artisans discussed traditional building methods and materials used in early 19th-century construction.

In 2010–11 we provided many opportunities for people to explore Sydney’s historic buildings and suburbs through our program of architectural walks and talks, including a presentation by New South Wales Government Architect Peter Mould on the figurative carvings that adorn many of Sydney’s 19th-century public buildings. In April 2011 a tour of the Centenary Stonework Program stoneyard enabled visitors to learn more about the use of sandstone in Sydney and to see how blocks of quarried sandstone are turned into finely carved architectural details. Our regular guided tours explore archaeological sites in The Rocks and Millers Point, including the Big Dig site at Sydney Harbour YHA, where the foundations of 40 buildings have been incorporated into a modern development, and Parbury Ruins, the underground remains of an 1820s cottage.

Award

Energy Australia Awards 2010 (The National Trust of Australia – NSW),jointly shared with Design 5 Architects, won for Conservation Built Heritage for the restoration of the Endangered Houses Fund property Exeter Farm

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Our aims include improving public awareness of the HHT, investing in and developing our properties, increasing self-generated revenue, better controlling our costs and reducing our carbon footprint.

Investing in new facilitiesOur major capital project for the year has been the creation of a new car park and visitor facilities at Rouse Hill House & Farm, supported by HHT Members. With one-third of New South Wales primary school children now living in Western Sydney, we need to attract new audiences and create new facilities in the area. The opening of the restored schoolhouse last year and the completion of the new schools facilities and covered outdoor learning area (COLA) was the first stage of our development. The second stage was moving the car park and visitor facilities from Guntawong Road to the main entrance on Windsor Road. Our long-term ambition is to create a proper cultural centre and interactive farm experience at Rouse Hill that will provide a cafe, toilets, and exhibition and community spaces for the Rouse Hill Regional Park and our site.

Generating incomeIn 2010–11 the HHT’s income from paid admissions rose by 5% and is at its highest level in five years. Income from education groups equalled its highest return on record. Commercial venue hire income increased 11% from last year; The Mint in particular experienced strong venue hire from the business sector with an increase in revenue of 19%. It was also a strong year for commercial filming and photography with Vaucluse House increasing its revenue by 46% and Elizabeth Bay House reporting its highest recorded level. Film and photography shoots at HHT properties included the television series MasterChef Australia and The Block, a Samsung Galaxy television commercial and multiple feature film shoots.

Despite being a poor year for the retail sector generally, our retail income improved towards the end of the year, reporting its highest level overall for four years.

A major event was the annual Becks Festival Bar, in partnership with the Sydney Festival, which attracted around 17,000 people to the Hyde Park Barracks to hear some of the world’s best bands and DJs.

Raising awareness of the HHTThe HHT secured strong media coverage this year with more than 1600 media stories, including HHT properties featured in the Tony Robinson explores Australia television series; the Channel 7 Sunrise program broadcasting live weather reports from Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Vaucluse House and the Justice & Police Museum; and an article about the Boomburbs exhibition at the Museum of Sydney (MOS) on the front page of The Sydney Morning Herald.

Controlling our costs This year we balanced the budget despite unfunded salary increases, general price rises and the need to meet the global efficiency dividend and ICT savings. All staff made a huge contribution to this result through holding down salaries and operational costs and through an improved commercial performance at a time of organisational restructure.

Reducing our carbon footprintThe HHT is committed to environmental sustainability and is actively working to reduce its carbon footprint. Initiatives aimed at reducing our carbon footprint during 2010–11 included:

> installing energy-efficient LED exhibition lighting in the Focus Gallery at MOS;

> introducing recycled cardboard as a substitute for non-recyclable materials in the construction of exhibition structures for the Persons of interest: the ASIO files exhibition at the Justice & Police Museum;

> recycling glass, plastic, aluminium, cardboard and paper at our head office, and donating leftover exhibition material to Reverse Garbage;

> commissioning a Level 2 energy audit of our Macquarie Street properties to identify opportunities for reduced energy consumption and carbon emission, and reducing electricity consumption at our Macquarie Street sites for the second year in succession;

4 | Stability The HHT becomes a more resilient organisation with a secure future.

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Recycled materials were used in the Persons of interest: the ASIO files exhibition, Justice & Police Museum, photograph © Jenni Carter

> participating in environmentally sustainable management practices training provided by the Building Institute of Training and Development in cooperation with the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage Sustainability Advantage program;

> reducing the HHT vehicle fleet and using vehicles with higher Environmental Protection Agency ratings;

> using the New South Wales Government electricity contracts, which include a provision for 6% green power;

> partnering with AGL Energy to continue to offer commercial event clients at MOS and The Mint the option of powering their events with 100% green energy.

Award

Greater Sydney Tourism Award 2010 – bronze for Heritage & Cultural Tourism at Elizabeth Farm

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In 2010-11 the HHT embarked on a major restructure. The aim was to focus the organisation around four key areas of work: caring for properties, reaching audiences, generating income and corporate responsibility. Our properties have been brought together into portfolios, reducing staff isolation and enabling people to work across properties. We are also clarifying roles and responsibilities, especially where there are currently a variety of position descriptions and grades for similar roles. We have reviewed the service teams that support our properties and have created new teams to improve our web presence, the interpretation of our properties and our heritage expertise.

During the year 12 new team leaders were recruited to head each of the new teams, the majority of whom were existing HHT staff.

Skills and trainingThe HHT maintains an exchange program with the National Trust in England that gives staff an opportunity to broaden their experience and better understand international trends. This year’s exchange scholarship was awarded jointly to Ruth Bath, Media Relations Manager, and David Wilson, Building Trades and Maintenance Manager. Ruth looked at how media and public affairs issues are handled at the National Trust, which now has more than three million members, while David examined how National Trust properties manage their maintenance and conservation work. Every year the HHT Members support the Phillip Kent Staff Development scholarship, which this year was awarded to Jane Kelso. Jane will be studying records related to HHT buildings held in united Kingdom repositories.

In 2010–11 we undertook a survey of staff training needs and established a calendar with a series of courses, giving priority to Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) for supervisors, customer service and basic software applications. We also supported staff affected by organisational change with career development advice, assistance with applying for new roles and stress management workshops.

We support staff by offering flexible work practices including flex days and rostered days off, maternity leave, and family and community service leave.

We provide opportunities for development through expressions of interest and higher duties allowances.

The HHT ensures diversity of representation on recruitment panels and internal bodies such as the OH&S Committee, SAMPAC, Joint Consultative Committee and job evaluation panels.

Improving Occupational Health & SafetyWe continued to implement the Occupational Health & Safety and Injury Management Plan 2009–11 as recommended by the auditors.

This year our OH&S Committee implemented new policies and procedures with the assistance of a specialist OH&S consultant. We replaced the existing constitution with an updated Terms of Reference and Consultation Statement to better reflect changes in the structure of the organisation. We drafted new workers compensation and rehabilitation policies and also conducted chemical and substance audits on every property. All sites now have a risk register, created through site visits and consultation with managers and staff.

In comparison to last year there has been a significant improvement in OH&S performance. For example, as at June 2011 there were only three ongoing incidents, compared with 12 in the previous October. The number of significant incidents subject to workers compensation claims has been reduced by half and we have no potential public liability claims (see page 61).

Better managing riskIn September 2010 we reviewed our risk register and put in place a new Internal Audit Function Charter, a new Audit and Risk Charter and Risk Management Framework in order to comply with the six core requirements of the Internal Audit and Risk Management Policy for the NSW Public Sector.

Two new audits were undertaken by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in 2010–11: Collections Management and Collections Physical Security (see page 62). Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu issued a draft report in May 2011 with no significant findings.

5 | Wellbeing The wellbeing of our staff improves.

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accompanied by a film that discusses some of the controversies around the development of the site.

This year was also the 30th anniversary of the eradication of small pox. We marked the event with a seminar discussing Sydney’s fight against the disease throughout the 19th century. The event was hosted by the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, which had held vaccine material between 1857 and 1887.

Researching the past We enable more people to research their own history through the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection (CSL&RC) and our online databases and resources. This year, almost 3000 people visited the CSL&RC, while more than 45,000 people accessed our online material. We also managed more than 4600 telephone requests for information about history and our collections. The CSL&RC has continued its active outreach program, hosting group visits from Lidcombe TAFE Interior Design, uNSW Architecture, Sydney university Heritage Conservation, Enmore Design, Newcastle TAFE library technicians and Meadowbank TAFE Museum Studies.

Perhaps the most significant addition to the collection this year was the donation of a very important collection of Rouse family papers spanning the years 1792–1849. The material includes: receipts relating to Richard Rouse as an auctioneer; correspondence, deposit slips, chequebook stubs and bankbooks (1830–48); victualling notebooks for convicts assigned to Richard Rouse (1821–38); a fragment of a notebook containing details of a trip to Guntawang (1827); invoices and receipts relating to building work; miscellaneous items of legal correspondence (1832–45); rent and mortgage documentation for properties in Parramatta and Richmond (1838–48); deeds, receipts and conveyances relating to property in Parramatta and elsewhere (1811); Rouse family accounts (1844–49); documents relating to Richard Rouse’s position as Superintendent of Public Works and Convicts at Parramatta; and correspondence and accounts relating to the shipment and sale of wool to England (1835). The donation of the material was brokered by staff from Rouse Hill House & Farm.

6 | Knowledge We use our knowledge and expertise and work with others to change the way people think about heritage and the past.

We promote the value of conservation, challenge assumptions about the past, work to maintain our creative edge and encourage more people to discover their own past.

Macquarie celebrations In 2010 the HHT was delighted to support many of the events associated with the 200th anniversary of the swearing in of Lachlan Macquarie as Governor of New South Wales, including taking part in the Bicentenary Commemorations Committee. The statue of Lachlan Macquarie designed by John Dowie, which had been moved from Parliament House, was re-erected in the forecourt of The Mint, close to Hyde Park Barracks and looking down Macquarie Street. We also loaned what is purported to have been Elizabeth Macquarie’s violoncello to the celebrations, and hosted a discussion of Macquarie’s green legacy between Dr Tim Entwistle, then Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Trust, and historian Colleen Morris, which was held at the Museum of Sydney (MOS).

Challenging views of the past Our exhibitions have an excellent reputation for challenging views of the past. This year The enemy at home at MOS presented the story of German internment camps in Australia during World War I, while Sin city at the Justice & Police Museum shone a light on crime and corruption in 20th-century Sydney.

On 5 March 2011 curator Fergus Clunie marked the anniversary of the Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1804 with a talk about his own groundbreaking research into the location of the battle and its connections to the site of Rouse Hill House & Farm. using maps and historical sources, Fergus has shown that the most likely site for the battle was Rouse Hill.

First Government House was demolished in 1845–46, and its archaeological remains lie under First Government House Place and MOS. As many visitors struggle to understand the location of the original building and in order to better interpret its story, curator Jane Kelso worked with model maker Lesley Osborne to create a new model of the original building based on meticulous historical research. The model is

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TAFE design students examine objects from the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection at The Mint, photograph Nicole Davis © HHT

Maintaining a creative edge Our Colonial Gastronomy series of hands-on events and practical demonstrations continues to excite audiences. In The lost art of potting, visitors learned about the traditional method used to preserve meat and shellfish. The four-course Waterloo dinner at Vaucluse House re-created the celebratory spirit in the New South Wales colony following Wellington’s 1815 victory at Waterloo with a banquet featuring a selection of dishes from the Regency period, served with matching wines and complemented by curator talks.

The HHT has a long tradition of working with artists at our properties. At Government House the New ideas exhibition used digital media to interpret the history and significance of the house. The exhibition was a collaboration between the HHT, the School of Media Arts at the College of Fine Arts, the university of New South Wales, and d/Lux/MediaArts, one of Australia’s

key screen and media arts organisations. A group of artists presented ten site-specific works using video, mobile phone, digital software, and touch- and motion-sensitive techniques. At Vaucluse House, artist Janet Tavener developed an installation of colourful cast-resin sculptures, Out of the mould, which brought together the heirloom fruit and vegetable varieties still grown in the kitchen garden today and the property’s collection of copper jelly moulds.

About theHHT

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Who we are

The Historic Houses Trust (HHT) was established under the Historic Houses Act 1980 to manage, conserve and interpret the properties vested in it for the education and enjoyment of the public. We are a statutory authority of the state government of New South Wales, funded this year through Communities NSW up until the transition to the Office of Environment and Heritage in April 2011. We are one of Australia’s largest state museum bodies. Over the last 30 years we have grown from a small organisation into one of the state’s major heritage and cultural institutions, managing and conserving sites of historical and cultural importance that tell a story about the history and development of New South Wales.

We care for portfolio assets valued at more than $318 million (excluding works in progress) including buildings, land and museum collections. Our built assets comprise 20 historic buildings dating between 1793 and 1950, and include several of the earliest surviving colonial buildings in Australia, as well as major public buildings of the Macquarie era.

We maintain and open 12 properties to the public: Elizabeth Bay House, Elizabeth Farm, Government House, the World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks, Justice & Police Museum, Meroogal, Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, Rose Seidler House, Rouse Hill House & Farm, Susannah Place Museum, The Mint and Vaucluse House. All but Government House are on the New South Wales State Heritage Register, and the Museum of Sydney and the Hyde Park Barracks are also on the National Heritage list. (See also pages 36–9.)

The HHT also maintains 38 hectares of land including public spaces, farmland and gardens, as well as infrastructure such as roads, farm dams, 8 kilometres of fences and gates. Our principal landscapes include the formal historical colonial gardens, public park and beach at Vaucluse House and 18 hectares of farm and open land at Rouse Hill House & Farm. Our gardens include some of the oldest and best surviving historical plant collections in Australia found outside botanical collections.

We collect, catalogue and conserve material relating to our core themes of domestic material culture, the history of art, architecture and design, and aspects of Sydney’s social history related to our sites. The collections held at our museums are valued at more than $37 million and comprise 250,000 archaeological artefacts, more than 47,500 objects, more than 130,000 glass-plate negatives, a library collection and a growing digital collection – all of cultural significance to the history of New South Wales. (See also page 42.)

We raise 29% of our budget through commercial operations and paid activities. We have a thriving venue hire business, several retail outlets, four commercial cafe/restaurants, and our properties are in demand as locations for both film and photography shoots. We have an innovative program of public events and activities, and a busy program of education activities. Every year more than 60,000 school children, across all stages K–12, attend education programs at our properties that are linked closely to the school curriculum. A new Connected Classrooms program allows children throughout the state to enjoy our programs via new technology. We stage more than 350 public programs and events each year ranging from large outdoor festivals to small specialist tours.

Our innovative exhibitions bring history to life through exploration of various themes such as architecture, Indigenous history, convicts, orphans, criminals and Sydney’s suburbs. Each exhibition is addressed in a unique way to create an engaging experience for our visitors. We also write, edit and design books on true crime, history, architecture, home furnishings, gardens and photography. (See also page 16.)

We work with and are supported by a members organisation, a Foundation, numerous sponsors and hundreds of volunteers. We form partnerships with other cultural institutions, artists, community groups, universities and voluntary organisations.

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HISTORIC HOuSES TRuST Annual Report 10 > 11 | About the HHT

Acquired/ assumed management Property Opened Status

1980 Vaucluse House 1980 Museum

1980 Elizabeth Bay House 1980 Museum

1984 Elizabeth Farm 1984 Museum

1984 Lyndhurst (sold 2005) Offices and library

1985 Meroogal 1988 Museum

1987 Rouse Hill House & Farm 1999 Museum

1988 Rose Seidler House 1991 Museum

1990 Hyde Park Barracks Museum 1991 Museum

1990 Justice & Police Museum 1991 Museum

1990 Museum of Sydney 1995 Museum on the site of first Government House

1990 Young Street terraces – Offices

1990 Susannah Place Museum 1993 Museum

1993 Walter Burley Griffin House (sold 1995) Conservation project

1996 Government House 1996 State house and garden

1998 The Mint 1998 & 2004 Offices and library

2003 former Rouse Hill Public School 2010 Museum and education facilities

2007 Tusculum – Leased

2007 Exeter Farm – Endangered Houses Fund project

2007 Glenfield – Endangered Houses Fund project

2008 Nissen hut – Endangered Houses Fund project

2009 Moruya Presbyterian manse – Endangered Houses Fund project

2010 Throsby Park – Endangered Houses Fund project

2010 Beulah – Endangered Houses Fund project

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Elizabeth FarmElizabeth Farm is Australia’s oldest surviving colonial homestead, built in 1793 for the family of John and Elizabeth Macarthur, who lived there until 1850. It once stood on a 1000-acre (405-hectare) property stretching east from Parramatta, with a river frontage on three sides. This was Darug country, sustained by the Burramattagal, Wangal and Wategora people. By the late 1820s the prosperous Macarthurs had transformed their farmhouse into a smart bungalow surrounded by ‘pleasure grounds’ rich in exotic plants and fruit trees. urban and industrial development chipped away at the estate in the late 19th century. In 1904 the homestead, now on less than 5 acres (2 hectares), was sold to the Swanns, a large household of resourceful women who occupied and protected the property until 1968. Elizabeth Farm has been managed by the HHT since 1983; the unique hands-on, experience-based house museum opened in 1984.

Elizabeth Bay House Elizabeth Bay House was built in 1835–39 by the architect John Verge for the Colonial Secretary, Alexander Macleay, and his family. A superb example of a Greek Revival villa, it enjoys a magnificent setting overlooking Sydney Harbour. The saloon, with its elegant cantilevered staircase, is regarded as the finest interior in Australian colonial architecture. The house’s interiors are notable for their detailing, particularly the quality of the joinery, plaster and stonework. The fine collection of Australian cedar furniture (including pieces from the Caroline Simpson Collection) reflects the neoclassical tastes of the early 19th century. The house was restored by the state government and transferred from the Elizabeth Bay House Trust to the newly formed HHT in 1980. A favourite of students of design and social history, Elizabeth Bay House presents an evocative picture of early 19th-century life before the economic depression of the early 1840s forced Macleay to leave the house.

The Mint (detail), photograph © Paolo Busato | Elizabeth Bay House (detail), photograph Scott Carlin © HHT | Elizabeth Farm (detail), photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall

The Mint One of the oldest buildings in central Sydney, The Mint consists of two structures: the south wing of Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s General Hospital (constructed 1811–16) and the Coining Factory (built 1854–55). The site became the first overseas branch of the Royal Mint when the Coining Factory was constructed at the rear. The Mint operated until 1926; the site then housed a succession of government departments until 1997, with the Macquarie Street building converted into a museum in 1982. In 1997 the building was transferred to the HHT, which undertook extensive conservation and redevelopment of the site. The Coining Factory buildings were converted to office accommodation in 2004. As well as being the HHT’s head office, The Mint also houses the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection (see page 42), The Mint Shop, the Sydney Mint Cafe, the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, the HHT Members and function spaces.

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Government House Government House, built between 1837 and 1845, was designed by Edward Blore, Special Architect to William IV. Set within extensive landscaped grounds, Government House is the finest example of a castellated Gothic Revival house in Australia. As the centre of state ceremonial functions since 1845, the house occupies a special place in the public consciousness of Sydney and the history of New South Wales. Almost two million people have visited the property since the house was opened to the public in 1996. The HHT coordinates a diverse program of vice-regal, Commonwealth and state government functions, cultural and community events, public tours, and education and public programs at the property. The conservation and refurbishment of Government House continues to be guided by the principle of uniting best practice conservation with contemporary design innovation.

Government House (detail), photograph © Leo Rocker | Hyde Park Barracks Museum (detail), photograph © Bruce usher | Justice & Police Museum (detail), photograph © Jenni Carter

Justice & Police Museum The Justice & Police Museum houses a unique collection of objects relating to crime, policing and legal history, including a significant forensic photography archive of more than 130,000 glass-plate negatives. Designed by the NSW Colonial Architects Edmund Blacket and James Barnet, the building complex was originally the Water Police Court (1856), Water Police Station (1858) and Police Court (1886). The Justice & Police Museum now features a variety of displays including spinechilling weapons, bushranging artefacts and physical evidence from notable crimes. A dynamic exhibition program explores both historical and contemporary issues relating to crime and its consequences, and daily education activities reveal the worlds of justice and policing to school students.

Hyde Park Barracks Museum The Hyde Park Barracks was built between 1817 and 1819 by convict workers under the direction of architect (and former convict) Francis Greenway, and functioned as the colony’s principal convict establishment. Designed for 600 men, the building sometimes slept 1400. From 1848 to 1886 the barracks housed government-assisted female immigrants and an employment office. Wards for destitute women operated on the upper floor after 1862. In 1887 the site was remodelled as a legal complex, with courts, judges’ chambers and government agencies crowded together until 1979, when work on the museum began. Today, the barracks uses the fabric and spaces of the building as well as its rich archaeology collection to unravel stories of its occupants and uses over the past 190 years. The Hyde Park Barracks was placed on the uNESCO World Heritage List in 2010 as part of the Australian Convict Sites listing.


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Meroogal (detail), photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall | Museum of Sydney (detail), photograph © Paolo Busato | Rose Seidler House (detail), photograph © Justin Mackintosh

Meroogal Meroogal is located in the South Coast town of Nowra. This fascinating Gothic Revival timber house, designed by Kenneth MacKenzie and built in 1885, was home to four generations of women from the same family. Meroogal’s rich collection of personal objects provides insights into the daily routines, domestic chores and social lives of the house’s former occupants. Meroogal and the support of family enabled the Thorburn and Macgregor women to live independently without undertaking paid employment. It was both a home and an economic resource, providing food and fuel from the garden and rent from occasional paying guests and tenants. Without Meroogal, the lifestyles of the women who lived there might not have been possible.

Museum of Sydney The modern Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House was opened to the public in 1995. Designed by one of Sydney’s best known architects, Richard Johnson, it occupies the site of Australia’s first Government House, built in 1788 as home and office for the colony’s first governor, Arthur Phillip. The museum forecourt, known as First Government House Place, preserves the remaining foundations of the house below, while above ground the art installation Edge of the trees marks the site of first contact between the British colonisers and the Gadigal people. The museum’s evocative displays take visitors on a journey exploring Sydney’s people, places and culture – then and now. Visitors can learn about our city’s first people, inspect models of the First Fleet ships and peer into the archaeological remains of first Government House. An exciting program of changing exhibitions reveals this great city’s distinctiveness.

Rose Seidler House Built between 1948 and 1950, Rose Seidler House was designed by internationally renowned architect Harry Seidler AC, OBE for his parents, Max and Rose. It is one of the finest examples of mid-20th-century modern domestic architecture and its original furniture forms one of the most important postwar design collections in the country. Seidler was awarded the Sulman Medal in 1952 for his design of Rose Seidler House, and the house has been highly influential, stimulating much social comment and intellectual debate as a manifestation of the modern principles of space, the unity of arts and architecture coupled with structural engineering, and industrial design. It is presented in its original 1950 scheme. Nestled in natural bushland at Wahroonga with panoramic views of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Rose Seidler House embodies the postwar wave of design and style ideals that so strongly influenced Australia’s built environment.

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Susannah Place Museum Susannah Place Museum is a terrace of four houses incorporating a re-created 1915 corner grocer shop. Located in the heart of The Rocks, it was built in 1844 by Irish immigrants and was continually occupied until 1990. The terrace survived largely unchanged through the slum clearances of the 1900s and the area’s redevelopment in the 1970s. In 1993 the HHT worked with the (then) Sydney Cove Authority to develop and open Susannah Place as a museum. Today, the museum tells the often overlooked stories of the lives of ordinary people. Susannah Place was home to more than 100 different families; their occupancy is still evident in the many layers of paint, wallpapers, linoleums, modifications and repairs that have survived.

Rouse Hill House & Farm Rouse Hill House & Farm was built between 1813 and 1819 and is surrounded by one of Australia’s earliest surviving gardens. Originally set in a much larger estate, the house is one of the oldest continually occupied homes in Australia, and its significance lies in the survival of its almost unchanged interiors and furnishings, and the collection of objects from six generations of the Rouse family. The site contains a section of the original Windsor Road turnpike laid down by Governor Macquarie in 1812–13 and an associated stretch of the Hawkesbury Road laid down in 1794, along which the 1804 Battle of Vinegar Hill took place. The estate was bought by the state government in 1978 and in 1987 was transferred to the HHT, who opened it to the public in 1999. In 2003 the Department of Education transferred the Rouse Hill Public School (built 1888) to the HHT, who restored it back to its original appearance in 2010.

Vaucluse House Vaucluse House was built between 1805 and the early 1860s.Constructed in the Gothic Revival style, it is Sydney’s most romantic 19th-century harbourside villa, retaining ornamental and kitchen gardens, and outbuildings. The estate was purchased in 1827 by William Charles Wentworth, lawyer, explorer and statesman, who took a leading role in the achievement of responsible government for New South Wales in 1856. The New South Wales Government purchased part of the Vaucluse estate in 1910 to provide public access to the Sydney Harbour foreshores. The house was opened to the public in 1912 and, since that time, has been an important place for the presentation of Australian history. The HHT has restored the property to reflect the Wentworth family’s occupation in 1827–53 and 1861–62.

Rouse Hill House & Farm (detail), photograph © Paolo Busato | Rear of Susannah Place Museum (detail), photograph © Leo Rocker | Vaucluse House (detail), photograph Scott Hill © HHT

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Paid admissions 2011 2010 2009

General public 4,801 5,101 4,928

Education 283 256 481

Public programs 488 703 1,734

Venue hire 1,390 692 694

Subtotal 6,962 6,752 7,837

Free entryComplimentary tickets 800 806 959

Free public programs 185 2 75

Other (site visits) 311 179 248

Subtotal 1,296 987 1,282Total 8,258 7,739 9,119


General public 51,727 42,061 45,254

Education 15,037 15,817 16,214

Public programs 1,004 426 163

Venue hire 57,417 64,446 57,973

Subtotal 125,185 122,750 119,604

Free entryComplimentary tickets 4,124 4,928 5,691

Free public programs 398 2,902 2,439

Other (site and shop visits) 28,515 24,634 84,019

Cafe 35,652 30,312 –

Subtotal 68,689 62,776 92,149Total 193,874 185,526 211,753Grounds 309,358 312,406 239,793


Public programs 3,980 4,060 4,754

Venue hire 5,055 4,549 3,789

Subtotal 9,035 10,302 10,490

Free entry Education 1,418 1,693 1,947

Complimentary tickets 314 113 –

Free public programs – 603 1,070

House tours 22,526 21,807 20,542

Vice-regal functions 12,566 11,424 9,636

Other (site visits) 1,418 – –

Subtotal 38,242 33,947 31,248Grounds 112,874 120,630 110,959

TOTAL 160,151 164,879 152,697


General public 887 824 915


Public programs 171 69 634

Subtotal 1,884 1,734 2,407


Free public programs 185 312 –


Subtotal 421 535 321Total 2,305 2,269 2,728



Education 10,783 9,492 8,567

Public programs 217 3,552 148

Venue hire 456 364 1,111

Subtotal 16,399 19,549 15,472

Free entryComplimentary tickets 2,468 446 287

Free public programs 29 114 1,638

Other (site visits) 317 1,926 2,573

Cafe 1,528 4,010 2,261

Subtotal 4,342 6,496 4,715Total 20,741 26,045 20,187


General public 25,659 19,400 17,628

Education 7,913 8,009 7,444


Venue hire 2,807 3,566 4,082

Subtotal 36,497 31,455 29,641


Free public programs 201 – 410


Subtotal 3,830 4,409 3,143Total 40,327 35,864 32,784

Elizabeth Bay House Hyde Park Barracks Museum

Elizabeth Farm

Justice & Police Museum

MeroogalGovernment House

Breakdown of visitor numbers

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General public 63,101 60,196 59,210

Education 7,439 7,357 6,160


Venue hire 9,790 9,387 7,541

Subtotal 82,049 79,238 74,994


Free public programs 1,413 609 397


Cafe 112,594 110,200 –

Subtotal 138,655 136,039 189,563Total 220,704 215,277 264,557Forecourt 829,294 789,081 601,127



Education 2,369 2,835 3,036


Subtotal 9,950 10,293 9,135

Free entryComplimentary tickets 1,306 1,450 871

Free public programs 133 78 4,389


Subtotal 35,488 29,156 24,281Total 45,438 39,449 33,416



Education 6,645 6,263 5,347

Public programs 1,457 2,107 713

Venue hire 4,479 1,475 3,861

Subtotal 22,088 19,617 19,039


Free public programs 2,200 12 1,506

Other (site and shop visits) 488 – –

Cafe 28,302 29,403 –

Subtotal 33,301 31,394 3,510Grounds 68,935 62,192 74,861

Total 124,324 113,203 97,410



Education – 30 –

Public programs – 2,338 1,559

Venue hire 15,162 14,254 19,232

Subtotal 15,875 16,658 20,862

Free entryFree general 28,888 40,863 29,556

Free public programs 798 – 1,085

Other (site and shop visits) 10,757 – –

Cafe 13,079 9,971 6,968

Subtotal 53,522 50,834 37,609Total 69,397 67,492 58,471



Education 8,034 5,880 4,044

Public programs 169 1,274 1,152

Venue hire 555 176 1,387

Subtotal 12,119 10,234 8,804


Free public programs 28 2,302 –

Other (site and shop visits) 1,354 1,139 962

Subtotal 3,057 5,235 2,189TOTAL 15,176 15,469 10,993





Venue hire 168 22 308

Subtotal 6,072 6,015 6,173


Free public programs 1,199 1,184 1,256

Other (site visits) 41 – –

Subtotal 1,288 1,291 1,314Total 7,360 7,306 7,487

Museum of Sydney Susannah Place Museum

The Mint

Vaucluse House

Rose Seidler House

Rouse Hill House & Farm


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Our collections

Each HHT property holds collections of historical and modern material related to the house and site. The collections include furniture, ceramics, silverware, soft furnishings, household and personal accessories, costume, artworks, photographs, archaeological artefacts and forensic materials. Most of the objects from our collections are on show to the public.

Electronic access to the collections is provided to the public through a suite of online catalogues including the HHT Library Catalogue, the HHT Pictures Catalogue, the Colonial Plants Database and the Museums Collections Catalogue. Digital content is added to these catalogues as resources allow. The HHT also contributes to national aggregated data services including TROVE, Picture Australia, Design and Art Australia Online, Australian Dress Register and the Museum Metadata Exchange.

Caroline Simpson Library & Research CollectionThe Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection was established as the Lyndhurst Conservation Resource Centre in 1984. In 2004 it was renamed in honour of the late Caroline Simpson OAM (1930–2003), whose outstanding collection of Australian colonial furniture, pictures and objets d’art was gifted by her children to the HHT. The collection is a specialised research resource available to anyone – staff, scholars, heritage and conservation practitioners, museum professionals

– with an interest in the history of house and garden design and interior furnishing in New South Wales from the 19th century to the present day. It includes architectural pattern books and fragments, wall and floor coverings, manufacturers’ trade catalogues and sample books, garden ornaments, fittings, soft furnishings, personal papers and manuscripts, pictures, photographs, books and periodicals.

Photographic collectionThe HHT cares for a significant collection of photographs including more than 130,000 glass-plate negatives created by the New South Wales Police Force between 1910 and 1964, now housed at the Justice & Police Museum.

Endangered Houses Fund

Established in 2005 and supported by the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, the Endangered Houses Fund (EHF) is a program of the HHT that identifies significant ‘at risk’ properties and saves them from demolition or unsympathetic development. The EHF is not about creating new public museums; instead, properties are conserved, protected and then offered back into the marketplace for the use and enjoyment of future generations. In this way, funds will revolve and more houses can be saved over time.

The inspiration for the EHF came from our own work. In 1993 the HHT acquired the then-threatened house of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney in Castlecrag, restoring the house and financing the construction of a new house adjacent to the property. The HHT then sold both properties (having arranged statutory protection and private covenants), saving the home of two important 20th-century architects and winning widespread praise for this innovative approach to conservation.

Psychedelic circles pattern wallpaper, manufactured by united-DeSoto, uSA, late 1960s. Gift of Chee Soon & Fitzgerald, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection

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Endangered Houses Fund


Beulah (detail), photograph © Paolo Busato | Exeter Farm after restoration (detail), photograph © Paolo Busato | Glenfield (detail), photograph © Nicholas Watt

GlenfieldLocated in Casula, Glenfield was the first property to be saved through the EHF program, with the buildings and their curtilage transferred to the HHT in 2007. The State Heritage listed property is of national significance and is arguably the most intact house surviving in New South Wales from the Macquarie period (1810–21). Dr Charles Throsby, naval surgeon, explorer, magistrate and member of the Legislative Council, built the house c1817. Glenfield remained in the Throsby family until the mid 1920s and was also associated in the 20th century with the Leacock family. It operated as a dairy farm and was later managed as the Goodwill Co-operative Society communal farm. The HHT has undertaken vital conservation work to the buildings and the landscape, and the project was recognised with a Conservation Award by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 2008.

BeulahBeulah, Appin, a 200-acre property still in its original landscape setting, was acquired in September 2010. The State Heritage listed property is an important colonial-era farmhouse with outbuildings, a bridge and a gazebo, and is under threat from encroaching development. The stone homestead was built c1835 by Irish emancipist Connor Boland and the property was later associated with the Hume family (of explorer Hamilton Hume). The former Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (now Office of the Environment and Heritage) contributed to the purchase of the property with a covenant to protect a significant remnant stand of endangered Cumberland Plain Woodland; the state’s second major bioBanking initiative was signed in March 2011. A management plan is currently in development so that beulah will be sold with a Heritage Agreement under the Heritage Act 1977 (NSW) to ensure the property’s long-term security, and with a bioBanking agreement to protect the biodiversity values of the site.

Exeter FarmTransferred to the HHT in 2007, Exeter Farm, Glenwood, consists of two c1860s early colonial timber slab buildings that were situated on a once large farming property on the north-west outskirts of Sydney. When conservation work commenced in 2008 the two buildings were severely dilapidated and had not been inhabited for decades. The painstaking conservation work undertaken by the HHT involved major structural repairs, recladding, replastering, the installation of new floors and services, and extensive landscaping. The excellence of the conservation of Exeter Farm was recognised with a 2011 National Trust Award (see pages 25–6). Redevelopment of the cottages was completed this year and included the consolidation of the four lots that comprise the site into a single lot. Exeter Farm will be offered back to the market as a family home with legal protection to ensure both its maintenance and ongoing public access.


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Moruya manse (detail), photograph © Paolo Busato | Exterior of Nissen hut, No 4 Somerset Street, Belmont North (detail), photograph Nicole Davis © HHT Throsby Park (detail), photograph © Paolo Busato

Nissen hutThe HHT acquired a Nissen Hut in the Lake Macquarie district of Belmont North in 2008. Designed in 1916 by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Nissen, the prefabricated hut was utilised in world wars I and II as a military building. This particular hut was one of 33 constructed to house migrants, mostly British, after World War II; the huts were commonly known as ‘Pommy Town’. The collection of huts is extremely rare in Australia and is highly significant, as it demonstrates aspects of Australia’s post World War II immigration assistance programs. A project to conserve and upgrade the hut to meet modern expectations is currently being tendered. Recently, Lake Macquarie City Council proposed to nominate the group of Nissen huts for heritage listing. The HHT has the opportunity to conserve one part of a highly significant collection of buildings and, by doing so, help to inform debate over the future of other surviving huts.

Moruya manseIn 2009 the HHT acquired a Presbyterian minister’s house (manse) at Moruya on the New South Wales far South Coast. The c1860s timber building, while seemingly modest, contains rare and delicate wallpaper and paint finishes from the 19th and early 20th century. The building is currently in extremely poor condition, which presents the HHT with the challenge of conserving its significant interiors while satisfying the requirements of a modern family home. Work commenced this year, with an initial package of stabilisation and emergency work to the cottage now complete. The conservation of the manse is an opportunity for the HHT to extend its regional outreach and influence.

Throsby ParkThrosby Park, a 75-hectare historic property built for Charles Throsby in 1834, is located near Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. The State Heritage listed property comprises a fine Georgian homestead, a cottage and several outbuildings: dairy, dairyman’s cottage, meat house, piggery and timber-framed hay shed. The homestead retains many of its original furnishings including an extensive and relatively intact 19th-century domestic library, which has been transferred to the HHT’s Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection. Throsby Park was acquired by the New South Wales Government and reserved under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) in 1975. The property was formally transferred to the HHT in 2010 and a business plan is currently being prepared for the site.

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How we are managed

Board of TrusteesThe HHT is governed by nine Trustees, who are appointed to the board by the New South Wales Governor on the recommendation of the Minister for Heritage (from April 2011).

One Trustee must have a background in history and one a background in architecture. The Trustees represent a diversity of expertise and experience in business, law, architecture, social history, conservation, curatorship, education and management. Trustees are appointed for a term of up to three years and may be appointed for more than one term, but for no more than three consecutive terms of office. The annual review of the Board of Trustees membership was undertaken in February 2011. In 2010–11 the Chairman worked to an annual Performance Agreement held with the Director-General, Communities NSW.

Michael Rose was appointed as the Chair of the HHT Board of Trustees in June 2010 and chaired his inaugural meeting in August 2010. John Montgomery resigned in September 2010 and Penelope Pike served her third and final term, which concluded in December 2010. At the beginning of 2011 Grace Karskens and Peter Tonkin were reappointed for another term, and two new Trustees, Craig Allchin and Roderick Simpson, joined the board. (See also pages 52–3.)

In December 2010 the board resolved to meet bimonthly rather than monthly, along with the annual strategic planning day. The board met nine times during this year and endorsed the Corporate Plan 2010–15. Trustees attended board meetings as per the table at right.

Michael Rose (Chairman) 8 1 9

Craig Allchin 2 – 2

Keith Cottier 8 1 9

Bruce Hambrett 7 2 9

Grace Karskens 8 1 9

Carol Liston 6 3 9

Martyn Mitchell 6 3 9

John Montgomery 1 – 1

Penelope Pike 4 1 5

Roderick Simpson 2 – 2

Peter Tonkin 5 4 9

Attended Leave of Eligible to absence attend

Management Group The Director manages the day-to-day business of the organisation and is responsible for implementing the policies of the government and the HHT.

The five-member Management Group, comprised of the Director and four Assistant Directors, meets weekly and leads the strategic direction of the organisation. (See pages 53–4.)

The HHT is structured around four groups: Heritage & Portfolio Group, Creative Services Group, Commercial & Marketing Services Group and Operations Group.


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Minister for Heritage

Organisational chartAs at 30 June 2011

Heritage & Portfolio Group

Heritage Team

Government House & Eastern Sydney

Portfolio

Western Sydney Portfolio

City Portfolio

Macquarie Street Portfolio

Members

Office of Environment and Heritage

Creative Services Group

Programs Team

Special Projects & Exhibitions Team

Design Team

Interpretation Team

Collections & Access Team

Web & Screen Media Team

Director

Board of Trustees

Department of Premier

and Cabinet

Commercial Services Team

Marketing Team

Sponsorship Team

Media Relations Team

Commercial & Marketing Services

Group

Administration Team

Finance Team

Human Resources Team

Information & Technology Team

Operations Group

Foundation Directorate

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Heritage & Portfolio GroupThe Heritage & Portfolio Group manages the HHT’s houses, museums, landscapes and the Endangered Houses Fund program through place management, maintenance, capital works, conservation management planning, collections care, conservation and landscaping.

The Heritage Team provides technical leadership and specialist skills in the care, conservation and maintenance of the HHT’s buildings, interiors, landscapes and movable heritage. It also manages the Endangered Houses Fund program.

The Government House & Eastern Sydney Portfolio includes Government House, Elizabeth Bay House and Vaucluse House, all of which illustrate the evolution of 19th-century architecture and interiors, as well as Rose Seidler House, a significant mid-20th-century house designed by Harry Seidler.

The Western Sydney Portfolio comprises Rouse Hill House & Farm, Elizabeth Farm and Meroogal, including beautiful gardens, a former schoolhouse from the late 1800s, a farm, an education centre and wonderful collections linked to the properties.

The City Portfolio includes the Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, the Justice & Police Museum, and Susannah Place Museum, all of which explore a diverse range of stories from the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Macquarie Street Portfolio includes The Mint (the HHT’s head office and major commercial venue) and the World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks, two of Sydney’s most important early 19th-century buildings on Macquarie Street.

Creative Services GroupThe Creative Services Group enables the HHT to reach the public through exhibitions, programs, websites, interpretation, knowledge and design.

The Programs Team leads the development and delivery of events and programs that engage a broad range of audiences, attract visitors to our sites, encourage involvement with our collections and knowledge, and promote the values of the HHT.

The Special Projects & Exhibitions Team helps to engage audiences by developing major exhibitions, travelling exhibitions, interpretation projects, displays and publications.

The Design Team provides expertise, advice and support in visual communication for all major exhibition projects, publications, web and new media projects, site interpretation, marketing, education and commercial materials.

The Interpretation Team provides expertise on museum and heritage understanding, and is responsible for interpretation strategies and content, ensuring different audiences are engaged across the HHT.

The Collections & Access Team manages a suite of online discovery tools that provide access to knowledge and research about the HHT’s collections, sites and buildings, and is responsible for collections acquisitions and de-accessioning.

The Web & Screen Media Team manages the HHT’s web projects, digital and new media strategy, website and web infrastructure, interactive content, e-commerce systems and social media.

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Commercial & Marketing Services GroupThe Commercial & Marketing Services Group drives self-generating revenue strategies and is responsible for developing marketing and communications plans that support properties, exhibitions and public programs.

The Commercial Services Team manages the commercial hire of nine HHT properties for corporate and private events including filming and photography. It also manages the Museum of Sydney and The Mint shops along with retail outlets at other HHT museums.

The Marketing Team provides strategic branding, communication and promotion for HHT properties, exhibitions, public programs and events, and manages the HHT box office.

The Sponsorship Team manages strategic partnerships, implementing benefits and procuring cash and contra sponsorship for HHT exhibitions, events and properties, thus supporting the development of exhibitions and programs.

The Media Relations Team promotes HHT properties, people, exhibitions, events and collections across a range of media including publicity campaigns, media liaison and corporate affairs.

Operations GroupThe Operations Group supports the business of the HHT and is responsible for finance, records, administration, human resources, employee relations, information and communication technology, policy and compliance, and legal services.

CommitteesFour Board standing committees – the Audit and Risk Committee, the Endangered Houses Fund Committee, the Exhibitions Advisory Committee and the Commercial Leases Committee – are convened per Section 9 of the Historic Houses Act 1980 (NSW).

Membership is drawn from the HHT Board of Trustees, staff and external people including Directors of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. No ad hoc committees were formed by the Board or the Director in 2010–11.

There are also eight HHT standing committees that make decisions on both policy and management. Staff are involved in the management of the organisation through the Staff and Management Participatory and Advisory Committee (SAMPAC) and are also represented through the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC).

Committees operating at year-end are listed in the Appendices on pages 54–6.

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The Volunteers program supports the participation of volunteers and recognises volunteering as a vital component of the HHT’s operations.

All aspects of volunteering are managed by HHT staff, who direct and assist the volunteers. In 2010–11, 237 volunteers provided a valuable link to the wider community by helping to raise public awareness of the cultural heritage of New South Wales and by promoting HHT exhibitions, events, programs and activities.

The Volunteers Forum comprises 11 elected representatives chosen from among the volunteers, and met four times during the year. The forum represents the interests and viewpoints of volunteers throughout the HHT, providing a link between volunteers, properties and the broader HHT organisation. (See page 67 for a list of volunteers.)


Historic Houses Trust Members

Volunteers

Foundation for the Historic Houses Trustof New South Wales

The Historic Houses Trust Members (previously Friends of the Historic Houses Trust Inc) is a volunteer organisation and registered charity that promotes public interest in the HHT’s properties.

An Executive Committee elected by the membership governs the Members; one member of the HHT Board of Trustees and the Director represent the HHT on the committee. The Members employs its own staff, headed by a General Manager. It raises funds through its membership, events, tours and exhibition programs.

In 2010–11 the Members supported the interpretative project at Rouse Hill House & Farm, and hosted engaging events including the following exhibitions: Shelter in the landscape (Greg Preece), Dupain’s Sydney, Sydney Open: places and passages (Paula Gowans), An inside view (Janet Venn-Brown), Vanishing (Daphne Kingston) and Home to farm (printmakers John Crawford and Terese McManus).

The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (the Foundation) is a tax concession charity that exists solely to support the work of the HHT. It is governed by a non-executive Board of Directors, which met five times in 2010–11.

Through bequests, special appeals, corporate support and the Governors Program, the Foundation helps the HHT to achieve vital goals and initiatives that cannot be funded from government sources. This year support was given to the construction of the Hyde Park Barracks domes and numerous significant acquisitions.

Previously, funds provided by the Foundation have assisted the HHT’s Endangered Houses Fund program to conserve and upgrade key properties for lease or sale, allied with protective covenants. In addition, the Foundation retains its ongoing commitment to the HHT’s educational programs, including one of the most exciting recent developments in Australian education: the Connected Classrooms program (see pages 16–17), which utilises new technology to reach students across the state.

The Foundation also hosts numerous events in partnership with private sponsors and supporters, including the annual Governors’ Dinner. These exclusive events, held in the HHT’s historical and evocative settings, promote the special work of the HHT andcelebrate the support of donors.

Appendices


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Trustees michael rose (Chairman) is the Chief Executive Partner of law firm Allens Arthur Robinson. He is a board member of ChildFund Australia and the ChildFund International Alliance. ChildFund is an international aid and development organisation that supports children and their communities in 55 developing countries. Michael is also a member of the Education, Skills and Innovation and the Indigenous Engagement task forces of the Business Council of Australia. He lives in Sydney with his wife, Jo D’Antonio, and their three children. Michael was appointed as a Trustee in June 2010 and his current term expires on 31 December 2012.

Craig allchin barch is a director of Six Degrees Architects and is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the university of Technology, Sydney. His experience includes the revitalisation of the Walter Burley Griffin designed Capitol Theatre, with a focus on recycling materials and renewing existing buildings and spaces for new uses, and four years working on more than 40 district and city master plans in China. He has also worked on the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy, the New South Wales Government’s 25-year plan to manage growth and change across metropolitan Sydney, as well as the Adelaide 30-Year Plan. Craig was appointed as a Trustee in March 2011 and his current term expires on 31 December 2013.

Keith Cottier am, aastC, lFraia is a Director of the highly awarded architectural firm Allen Jack+Cottier. In 2001 he was awarded the Gold Medal, the Royal Australian Institute of Architects’ highest honour. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004. Keith has served as a Commissioner of the Australian Heritage Commission, as a Member of the Heritage Council of New South Wales, and as a Member

of the Sydney Cove Authority and the City West Development Corporation. His high-profile projects include Wylie’s Baths, the Argyle Centre, the Submarine Mine Depot at Chowder Bay and Penfold’s Magill Estate in Adelaide. Keith was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2007 and his current term expires 31 December 2012.

bruce hambrett llm is a practising lawyer, the chairman of Baker & McKenzie, Australia, and a former General Counsel of SingTel Optus Pty Limited. He is also a Director of the Pacific Opera Company Limited and a former chair of the Media and Communications Law Committee, Business Law Section, with the Law Council of Australia. He was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2006 and his current term expires on 31 December 2011.

associate Professor grace Karskens ba, ma, Phd Faha teaches Australian history at the university of New South Wales. Grace has published extensively including Inside The Rocks: the archaeology of a neighbourhood, the multi-award-winning The Rocks: life in early Sydney and The colony: a history of early Sydney, which won the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and is on the boards of the Dictionary of Sydney, the National Museum of Australia’s reCollections journal and a number of international scholarly journals. Grace was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2008 and her current term expires on 31 December 2013.

associate Professor Carol liston ba (hons), Phd, Frahs teaches history at the university of Western Sydney (uWS). Her research covers early colonial history in New South Wales, with interests in people (convict – especially women, colonial born and free immigrant), local history, heritage and the built environment. Her particular interest is the colonial

development of the County of Cumberland. Carol’s current projects include researching and writing histories of Liverpool and its heritage places such as Collingwood House. She continues to research the Female Orphan School at Parramatta, now a campus of uWS. Carol was appointed as a Trustee in January 2009 and her current term expires on 31 December 2011.

martyn mitchell bscChemeng, iCaeW,

iCaa has more than 30 years experience as an auditor and business adviser, including more than 20 years as a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Martyn has held a number of senior management positions within PwC and has extensive experience with major public companies in Australia and Asia. Martyn is the Chair of the HHT’s Audit and Risk Committee. He was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2005 and his current term expires on 31 December 2012.

dr John montgomery bsc, Phd, mrtPi,

Frsa is a town planner and urban and regional economist. Much of his experience is drawn from his work in the united Kingdom and Ireland dating from the mid 1980s, and with his London-based firm urban Cultures Ltd since 1991. He emigrated to Australia in 2002. His book The new wealth of cities was published in 2007. John was appointed as a Trustee in January 2009 and he resigned in September 2010.

Penelope Pike ba, dip t&CP is a conservation planner who has specialised in heritage studies for local government areas and in preparing and implementing local environmental plans and detailed control plans for historic towns, precincts and suburbs. She has served on the urban Conservation Committee of the National Trust and was Founding Chairman of its Cemeteries Committee. She was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2002 and her third and final term expired on 31 December 2010.

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associate Professor roderick simpson aaia mPia is a principal of Simpson + Wilson Architecture + urban Design, and Associate Professor of urban Design at the university of Sydney with interests in urban renewal and regeneration, ecologically sustainable design and strategic urban design. He has worked with the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, and contributed to the HHT’s Harbourings exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. He co-authored Greenpeace’s Strategy for a Sustainable Sydney in 1992, applying many of the principles in future planning work. Most recently, he led the urban design of the Sustainable Sydney 2030 Strategy for the City of Sydney. Roderick was appointed as a Trustee in January 2011 and his current term expires on 31 December 2013.

Peter tonkin bscarch (hons), barch

(hons), Fraia is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the university of Canberra and the university of Queensland, and is widely published. He is a partner of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, winner of more than 90 awards. His projects include the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, the National Memorial to the Australian Vietnam Forces, the Tomb of an unknown Australian Soldier and the National Arboretum, Canberra, the refurbishment of Customs House, the multi-award- winning Plaza Lighting Towers for the Sydney Olympics, and the Australian War Memorial in London. Peter was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2005 and his current term expires on 31 December 2013.

Management GroupAt 30 June 2011

Kate Clark ma, Fsa, Frgs, miFa, ihbC commenced as director in 2008. She is an industrial archaeologist with 25 years’ experience in museums and heritage in the united Kingdom, working with the Ironbridge Gorge Museums, the

Council for British Archaeology and English Heritage before joining the Heritage Lottery Fund as Deputy Director of Policy and Research. She has also been a heritage consultant, working with clients including the States of Jersey, Sir John Soane’s Museum and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. She has published widely on industrial archaeology, conservation, heritage management, sustainable development and the social, economic and environmental values of heritage, and has taught in the united Kingdom as well as in Ireland, South Africa, Slovenia, Canada and the united States.

dr Caroline butler-bowdon ba

(hons), ma, Phd is the assistant director, Creative services. Caroline has worked in the cultural/heritage sector for more than 15 years including posts at the Museum of Sydney and the Art Gallery of New South Wales and casual teaching positions at the universities of Sydney and New South Wales. She was most recently Head Curator at the Museum of Sydney where she published widely and curated exhibitions on many aspects of Australian history. In 2009 Caroline completed her PhD at the university of New South Wales on the history of apartment living in Sydney.

ian innes bsc (arCh), blarch began at the HHT in October 2009 and is the assistant director, heritage & Portfolio. Ian has more than 20 years experience in cultural landscape management and conservation, including senior management roles at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney and Centennial Parklands. He studied architecture and, later, landscape architecture, and his ongoing professional interests span a range of aspects of the built environment including architectural and landscape design, heritage conservation, cultural landscape management and strategic asset management.

Julie turpie ba (hons) commenced as assistant director, Commercial & marketing services, in June 2011. Julie has more than 20 years experience in brand development, destination marketing, commercial venue hire and public programming. She worked for the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority for six years, managing their sponsorship, business development program and annual events portfolio at The Rocks and Darling Harbour, including the signature New Year’s Eve and Australia Day events. Julie was most recently with Brisbane Marketing, responsible for city branding strategies, destination marketing campaigns and delivering a major events strategy for Brisbane.

brent sennitt joined the HHT in March 2011 as the acting assistant director, operations, and is a certified practising accountant and a member of the Institute of Management Consultants. He has more than 30 years experience in senior management and consulting in the area of business reform (covering organisational change, efficiency and effectiveness reviews, productivity improvement, etc), financial management, project governance, economic studies and human resource management.

Brent has undertaken management consulting work within the public sector in the transport industry and local government, and in the private sector in the pharmaceutical, wine and construction industries.

nicholas malaxos ba (eCon), aFaim joined the HHT in 1995 and was the assistant director, management services, to March 2011. He worked previously at the Earth Exchange Museum and, prior to that, Film Australia. Nicholas is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and a member of the Institute of Public Administration in Australia. He is Convenor of the Hellenic Historic & Cultural Committee and has assisted with the exchange of major exhibitions


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between Greece and Australia, including 1000 years of Olympic Games at the Powerhouse Museum in 2000; Our place, a contemporary Indigenous exhibition at the Benaki Museum, Athens, in 2004; and the Greek treasures exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum in 2005.

Board standing committeesCommittees endorsed by the HHT Board of Trustees per Section 9 of the Historic Houses Act 1980.

Audit & Risk Committee

A review of the Finance and Audit Committee began in 2010, initiated by requirements of the Internal Audit and Risk Management Policy for the NSW Public Sector 2009 . In September 2010 the HHT Board of Trustees endorsed the committee’s change in name to the Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) and consequent changes to the following: the HHT Internal Audit Function Charter; HHT Audit and Risk Charter; and the HHT Risk Management Framework.

The ARC comprises Trustees and senior staff. It meets quarterly to monitor issues such as finance, audits, risk management, OH&S, insurance and investments.

Martyn Mitchell, Trustee (Chair)

Michael Rose, Trustee

Bruce Hambrett, Trustee

Kate Clark, Director (ex-officio)

Philippa Ardlie, Executive Officer (secretariat support)

Brent Sennitt, Acting Assistant Director, Operations

Commercial Leases Committee

The committee comprises Trustees and senior staff. It meets quarterly to provide advice in relation to the leases of HHT properties for food and beverage services, and commercial tenancy.

Bruce Hambrett, Trustee (Chair)

Keith Cottier, Trustee

Martyn Mitchell, Trustee

Neville Allen, former Trustee


Damian Poole, Head of Commercial Services

Endangered Houses Fund Committee

The committee comprises Trustees and Foundation representatives. It meets quarterly to provide advice on potential acquisitions, financial management and development strategies including conservation options, project management and property disposal.

Peter Tonkin, Trustee (Acting Chair)

Keith Cottier, Trustee

Bruce Hambrett, Trustee

Curtis Smith, Foundation

Howard Tanner, Foundation

Jill Wran, Foundation



Ian Innes, Assistant Director, Heritage & Portfolio

Richard Silink, Head, Heritage Team & Endangered Houses Fund

Exhibitions Advisory Committee

The committee comprises Trustees, senior staff and external experts. It meets quarterly to provide broad-based advice on our exhibitions program.

Kate Clark, Director (Chair)

Paul Berkemeier, architect and former Trustee

Jane Connors, Manager, ABC Radio National

Dinah Dysart, arts writer, former gallery director and former Trustee

Shirley Fitzgerald, historian and former Trustee

Grace Karskens, Trustee and Associate Professor in Australian History, School of History and Philosophy, university of New South Wales

Judith O’Callaghan, Senior Lecturer,

Faculty of the Built Environment, university of New South Wales

Peter Tonkin, architect and Trustee

Jaky Troy, colonial historian, linguist, anthropologist and Assistant Professor in Education, university of Canberra

Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Assistant Director, Creative Services


Louise Tegart, Head of Special Projects & Exhibitions

Bob Whight, Acting Exhibitions Project Manager, Special Projects & Exhibitions

HHT standing committees Collections Valuation Committee

The committee meets annually to monitor the HHT’s rolling five-year collection valuation process, review formal independent valuations, note the value of new acquisitions and determine appropriate global revaluations.

Tamara Lavrencic, Collections Manager (Chair to January 2011)

Megan Martin, Head of Collections & Access (Chair from February 2011)

Scott Carlin, Head of Macquarie Street Portfolio

Education Advisory Committee

The committee comprises staff and meets biannually to give broad-based advice and direction on the HHT’s education activities.



Mike Field, Assistant Director, Marketing & Business Development (to November 2010)


Sophie Lieberman, Head of Programs

Fabienne Virago, Education Officer, Programs

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IT Strategic Planning Committee (ITSPC)

The committee meets quarterly and was established by the HHT Executive to assist with corporate governance in relation to information management and technology. The ITSPC provides advice and guidance to the HHT Executive in relation to the development and implementation of an information management and technology strategy.


Tim Girling-Butcher, Head of Web & Screen Media

John Hoey, Acting Administration Manager, The Mint

Megan Martin, Head of Collections & Access


Julie Turpie, Assistant Director, Commercial & Marketing Services

Manager, Information & Communications Technology

Joint Consultative Committee

The committee meets as required and comprises Public Service Association (PSA) representatives and staff who are PSA members. The committee provides a forum whereby consensus on employee matters can be reached.



Kerrie Butson, PSA Industrial Officer

David Openshaw, Chief Guide, Justice & Police Museum, PSA workplace delegate

Georgina Pearce, Acting Human Resources Manager, Operations


Fabienne Virago, Education Officer, Programs, PSA workplace delegate

Occupational Health & Safety Committee (OH&S)

The committee comprises staff and meets bimonthly. It conducts workplace inspections biannually and advises on OH&S issues. An Occupational Health & Safety and Injury Management Plan 2009–11 continues to be implemented to improve OH&S management systems across the HHT. The plan addresses recommendations of the Deloitte OH&S audit report (2008).

Andrew Mitchell, Manager, Rose Seidler House (Chair)

Susan Bee, Guide, Vaucluse House

Stewart Campbell, Museum Assistant, Government House

Diana Carr, Guide, Hyde Park Barracks Museum

Tabitha Charles, Records Officer, The Mint

Jan Conti, Operations Manager, Venues, Commercial Services

Duncan Harrex, Exhibitions Production Manager, Special Projects and Exhibitions


Victor Johnson, Guide, Justice & Police Museum

Irene Karageorgiou, Assistant Manager, Museum of Sydney

Jacqui Newling, Guide, Elizabeth Bay House

Georgina Pearce, Acting Human Resources Manager, Operations

Alda Scofield, Guide, Susannah Place Museum

Cheryl Scowen, Guide, Meroogal

Mantej Singh, Acting General Manager, Government House

Kerrie Yates, Office Manager, Rouse Hill House & Farm

Publications Committee

The committee comprises staff and external experts. It meets quarterly to give broad-based advice on the HHT’s publishing program.


Peter Barnes, Retail Manager, Commercial Services


Louise Cornwall, Head of Design

Karen Ferris, Better Read Than Dead bookshop

Sarah Fitzherbert, Publications Officer, Special Projects & Exhibitions

Rhiain Hull, Publications Officer, Special Projects & Exhibitions


Rebecca Kaiser, Editorial Director, Allen & unwin


Robert Stapelfeldt, Business Development Manager, McPherson’s Printing Group

Louise Tegart, Head of Special Projects & Exhibitions

Susan Sedgwick, Head of Special Projects & Exhibitions (maternity leave)

Security Committee

The committee comprises staff. It meets as required to identify general property risks and to develop plans and emergency strategies for managing risks for each museum and site.

Nicholas Malaxos, Assistant Director, Management Services (Chair) (to March 2011)

Dayn Cooper, Head of Government House & Eastern Sydney Portfolio


Staff & Management Participatory & Advisory Committee (SAMPAC)

SAMPAC comprises staff including a Public Service Association (PSA)staff representative. Elections are held biennially with the last being August 2009. It meets bimonthly, with reserve meetings held on alternate months as required. SAMPAC participates in the discussion of issues such as flexible working hours and the Code of Conduct, and acts as the Classification and Grading


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Committee in reviewing the grading of staff positions.

Ben Crosby, Office Manager, Special Projects & Exhibitions (Chair)

(Clerks*)

Anna Blunt, Library Technician, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection (Education Officers, Librarians, Library Technicians*)


Anna Cossu, Curator/Manager, Susannah Place Museum (Curators, Registrars, Designers*)

Graeme Lloyd, Gardener and Livestock Manager, Rouse Hill House & Farm (Gardeners & Labourers, Museum & General Assistants, Tradespeople*)

Nicholas Malaxos, Assistant Director, Management Services (to March 2011)

Belinda Mitrovich, Acting Chief Guide, Rouse Hill House & Farm (Guides*)


Psa staff representative (determined per meeting)

Georgina Pearce, Acting Human Resources Manager, Operations (ex-officio)

Fabienne Virago, Education Officer, Programs

reserve:Scott Carlin, Head of Macquarie Street Portfolio (to January 2011)

Jemma Donaldson, Chief Guide, Elizabeth Bay House and Vaucluse House (Guides*)

Anne-Louise Falson, Senior Designer, Design (Curators, Registrars, Designers*)


David Openshaw, Chief Guide, Justice & Police Museum*denotes staff representation of award classification SAMPAC.

Associated groupsAt 30 June 2011

Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

Company Directors:

Howard Tanner (Chair)

Alastair Baxter

Kate Clark

Lynn Fern (to November 2010)

John Gordon

Beat Knoblauch

Clive Lucas OBE (to November 2010)

Edwina Macarthur-Stanham

David O’Donnell

Michael Reid

Michael Rose

Susan Rothwell (to August 2010)

Edward Simpson

Curtis Smith

Judith Whelan

Jill Wran


Patron: Jack Mundey AO

Jennifer Noble (Chair)

Teri McMillan (Deputy Chair) (to January 2011)

Kate Clark, HHT Director

Wolf Krueger

Rosemary MacDonald

Geraldine O’Brien (from March 2011)

Penelope Pike, HHT Trustee (to December 2010)

Elinor Wrobel OAM

Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Ltd

The Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Ltd is a private company formed in October 1994 as Trustee for the Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust. It holds property in and about Rouse Hill House & Farm, which was formerly part-owned by the Hamilton family. The Director and a senior staff member represent the HHT.

Company Directors:

Kate Clark, HHT representative (Chair and Secretary)

Nanette Ainsworth, Hamilton family representative

Miriam Hamilton, Hamilton family representative

Carol Liston, HHT Trustee

Nicholas Malaxos, HHT representative (to March 2011)

Brent Sennitt, HHT representative (from March 2011)

Volunteers Forum

Karen Griffiths, Volunteers Coordinator (Chair)

Lynne Allen, Meroogal (joint)

Steve Cartland, Susannah Place Museum

Gary Cook, Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House

Patricia Cooper, Speakers Program

Nora Etmekdjian, Susannah Place Museum (to March 2011)

Robin Guthrie, The Mint

Shirley Hannam, Elizabeth Farm

Amanda Milles, The Mint (to August 2010)

Joan Rodd, Justice & Police Museum

Maria Schattiger, Hyde Park Barracks Museum (joint)

Annette Smith-Bridges, Meroogal (joint) (to March 2011)

Neridah Tyler, Hyde Park Barracks Museum (joint)

Elaine White, Rouse Hill House & Farm

Marie Wilson, Government House

Admission feesTickets to the Museum of Sydney, the Justice & Police Museum and the Hyde Park Barracks Museum are: general entry $10, child/concession $5 and family $20. Tickets to all other HHT museums are: general entry $8, child/concession $4 and family $17. Entry is free to The Mint, Government House and grounds, and Vaucluse House’s garden, parklands and beach paddock. No fee is charged for access to a number of significant urban spaces including Hyde Park Barracks courtyard and First Government House Place.

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We also charge for our formal education programs: $6–$12 per student, depending on the type and duration of the program. Education programs at Government House are free. No fee is charged to accompanying teachers.

Self-generated incomeSponsors

Cash

> AGL Energy: naming rights sponsor of the AGL Theatre at the Museum of Sydney (MOS) and sponsor of the An Edwardian Summer exhibition at MOS

> Allens Arthur Robinson: sponsor of the An Edwardian Summer exhibition at MOS

> City of Sydney: sponsor of the interactive featured in the Convict Sydney exhibition at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum

> Class Occasion Hire: sponsor of the Fifties Fair at Rose Seidler House, Jazz in the garden at Vaucluse House, Carols by candlelight at Elizabeth Farm and Vaucluse House, Verandah at Elizabeth Farm and Rose Seidler House Open Day

> Commonwealth Bank Rose Bay North branch: sponsor of Carols by candlelight at Vaucluse House

> Percy Marks: sponsor of Jazz in the garden

> Police Association: major sponsor of the 150th anniversary of policing exhibition at the Justice & Police Museum in 2012

in Kind

> 702 ABC Sydney: promotional support for Sydney Open 2010

> Aesop: products for HHT audiences and volunteers for Sydney Open 2010, HHT venues, Foundation Dinner, Members and various HHT events

> Alternate Technology Association/ReNew magazine:

provision of back issues of ReNew to visitors of the touring exhibition Built for the bush: green architecture of rural Australia and subscription prizes for the associated education competition

> Angove Family Winemakers: wine sponsor of HHT events such as the House music concert series at Government House, Jazz in the garden, HHT exhibition launches and events and Members events

> Architecture Media: promotional support in Houses magazine and Selector online for Sydney Open 2010

> Avant Card: in-kind media sponsor for the An Edwardian Summer exhibition and the Persons of interest exhibition at the Justice & Police Museum, as well as the quarterly HHT Events calendar

> Class Occasion Hire: stall and equipment support for Fifties Fair, Jazz in the garden, Carols by candlelight at Elizabeth Farm and Vaucluse House, Verandah and Rose Seidler House Open Day

> Crayola: in-kind products for education and school holiday events associated with the Mirror exhibition at MOS

> Domain Car Park: in-kind promotional support for HHT events

> Erco Lighting: LED lighting support for the lighting upgrade of the Focus gallery at MOS

> Fairfax Photos: in-kind support for the First Government House film at MOS

> Kawai: in-kind support for Jazz in the garden

> Nikon Australia: in-kind support for photographic exhibitions in the Theme Gallery at MOS

> The Parramatta Sun: in-kind media and merchandise for Carols by candlelight at Elizabeth Farm

> Shoalhaven Arts Board: in-kind promotional support for the Meroogal Women’s Arts Prize

> Television Sydney (TVS): in-kind promotional support on air and online for the 52 suburbs exhibition at MOS

> The Sun Herald: in-kind media sponsor of Carols by candlelight at Vaucluse House

> The Sydney Morning Herald: in-kind media sponsor of the HHT and The enemy at home exhibition at MOS and various Herald Benefit promotional support

Special donations

hyde Park barracks domes appeal

Goldman Sachs and Partners Foundation

Maple-Brown Family Charitable Foundation Ltd

Grants

During the year grants totalling $21.5 million were received from Communities NSW for recurrent and capital expenditure.

An additional grant of $97,100 was received from Visions of Australia, enabling the Smalltown exhibition to tour nationally.

No grants were given.

Fundraising

Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales donations received since 1 July 2008, per the HHT Gift Management Policy 2009.

BLIGH GOVERNORS ($75,000)

John Schaeffer AO

KING GOVERNORS ($50,000)Maple-Brown Family Charitable Foundation Ltd

Geoff and Rachel O’Conor

HUNTER GOVERNORS ($25,000)Antoinette Albert

Robert Albert AO and Libby Albert

Julian Beaumont

Zeny Edwards

John Fairfax AO and Libby Fairfax


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Lynn Fern

Penelope Seidler AM

Colin Sullivan AO

Howard Tanner and Mary Tanner

Jill Wran

PHILLIP GOVERNORS ($10,000)Anonymous x 3

Hugh Allen and Judith Ainge

Neville Allen

Bill and Kate Anderson

Terrey Arcus AM and Anne Arcus

Kate Armati

James Beck and Michael Kilkeary

Colin Bell

Mairaed Bilmon

Graham Bradley AM and Charlene Bradley

Diana Brown

Andrew and Kate Buchanan

Neil and Jane Burley

Andrew and Cathy Cameron

Amanda Carter and Randolph Griffiths

Tim Casey

Kate Clark

Greg Crone

Michael Crouch AO and Shanny Crouch

Sue Cummings

Charles Curran AC and Eva Curran

William and Julia Dangar

Michael and Manuela Darling

Terry and Dianne Finnegan

Peter Garling SC and Jane Garling

Jennifer Giles

John and Jenny Gordon

Edward and Deborah Griffin

Garrick and Evelyn Hawkins

Peter and Rosemary Ingle

The Sir Asher and Lady Joel Foundation

Peter Keel

John and Jan Kehoe

Clive Lucas OBE

John and Edwina Macarthur-Stanham

David Maloney and Erin Flaherty

John Matheson and Jeanne Eve

Alan Matthews

Michael Morgan

Terry and Wendy Mullens

David and Edwina O’Donnell

Diana Polkinghorne

Mrs E Ramsden

Ian and Maisy Stapleton

Nola Tegel

Annalise Thomas

David Thomas

Eleonora Triguboff

Sandra and John Trowbridge

Gay Voss

Stephen Wall and Alison Magney Wall

Peter Weir AM and Wendy Weir

Kim Williams AM

Michael and Prue Williams

Tim Wilson and Sophie Wilson

Nicholas and Elise Yates

endangered houses Fund

GOLD ($200,000)Garry Rothwell

SILVER ($100,000)Guy Paynter

St Hilliers Group

BRONZE ($50,000)Sir Ron Brierley

PROTECTORS ($10,000)Robert Albert AO and Libby Albert

Anne Galbraith

Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners

SUPPORTERS ($5000)Morna and Edward Vellacott

hyde Park barracks domes appeal

Antoinette Albert

Neville Grace

Peter James Hall AM

Bill and Allison Hayward

Robert Maple-Brown

Geoff and Rachel O’Conor

Disability Action PlanThe HHT adopted a revised Disability Policy in June 2005 that is implemented through its Disability Action Plan (DAP) 2006–08. The HHT has developed a draft DAP 2010–2013 in line with the New South Wales Government Disability Policy Framework introduced in 2008.

The DAP 2006–08 is in place in the interim and addresses the following priority areas: information about services, physical access to HHT properties, access to complaints procedures, employment and staff training, and promoting positive community attitudes.

The HHT supports the rights of people with disabilities and aims to provide both physical and intellectual access to our properties, programs and services (see also page 18). In 2010–11, ten guides attended ageing and dementia awareness training conducted by FutureAge Care.

Multicultural Policies & Services ProgramWe continue our commitment to cultural and linguistic diversity under the Multicultural Policies and Services Program announced by the New South Wales Government in 2009. (See also page 18.)

Ethical standardsThe HHT Code of Conduct was adopted in 2000. It is included in the package of material given to all new staff, is required reading on our induction list for new staff, and is an integral part of any staff and management training. There were no incidents of staff breaching the code in this reporting year.

The Trustees’ Code of Conduct, which was adopted in 2003, is specific to Board members and is required reading for new Trustees as part of their induction.

Privacy Management Plan

The HHT has a Privacy Management Plan, modelled on other New South Wales museum plans, and our Records Manager is also the Privacy Officer. We have received no complaints regarding non-compliance with this plan during 2010–11.

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Records

The HHT recognises the value of its information, records and knowledge as corporate assets. These assets include records and information about our properties, collections, exhibitions, publications and public programs, and are contained in our corporate files. We have an electronic record-keeping system to capture corporate records at our head office. This system will be progressively upgraded and implemented across the HHT. Our records are protected in accordance with current legislation, personal privacy principals, security and commercial confidentiality standards, principles, obligations and codes of best practice.

Government information

The HHT continues to respond to provision of information requests, legislated under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW) (GIPA). During this reporting period we responded on time to three agency requests.

To increase accountability and transparency and to meet best practice the HHT has taken a proactive decision to disclose information to the public by publishing policy documents on our website at www.hht.net.au, including:

> Acceptance and Disposal of Real Property Policy

> Collections Management Policy

> Disability Action Plan

> Dog Policy

> Exhibitions Policy

> Flags at HHT Properties Policy

> OH&S Policy

> Online Services Terms and Conditions

> Privacy Policy

> Regional Involvement Policy

To access documents under GIPA, please apply in writing to:

Colleen Kremer, Records ManagerHistoric Houses Trust of New South WalesThe Mint10 Macquarie StreetSydney, NSW 2000t 02 8239 2288 F 02 8239 2299 e [email protected]

A fee will be charged for this service. Arrangements can be made to obtain copies or inspect documents by contacting the above officer.

Consumer responseAs a service-based organisation, customer feedback is of prime importance to us and is closely monitored. We keep visitors books and evaluation forms at each property and monitor them regularly. In addition, a general file is maintained for written compliments and complaints. Each complaint is dealt with in writing: minor complaints by the museum or unit where the complaint was received and major complaints by the Director or a member of the Management Group.

During the year we received 79 compliments in total: our museums and properties (40), events (3), venues (30), Collections & Access team (1), Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection (3) and miscellaneous (5). We received 6 complaints in total: our museums and properties (2), events (2) and miscellaneous (2).

Electronic service delivery The following services are available via the HHT corporate website and associated domain: <http://www.hht.net.au>

> online resources, including blogs, collection databases and links to HHT-related social media

> all appropriate government publications (for reference only, not for sale)

> HHT annual reports from 2001–02 to 2010–11

> e-commerce facilities for HHT publications, merchandise, ticketing, membership and donations

Legal changeThis year the Historic Houses Act 1980 (NSW) (the Act) was amended per the Historic Houses Amendment (Throsby Park Historic Site) Act 2010 (NSW), commencing 15 October 2010, and the Minister for Heritage became responsible for the Act in April 2011 per the Allocation of the Administration of Acts 2011 (NSW). There have been no significant judicial decisions affecting the HHT.

Land disposalNo land was disposed of during the reporting year.

Cost of the Annual ReportThis report was written and designed by HHT staff. It was printed at a total cost of $2974. It is available via our website at www.hht.net.au under ‘About us’.


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Salary level Total staff* Women NESB**

< $39,670 2 2 –

$39,670– $52,104 62 38 5

$52,104 – $58,249 29 21 2

$58,249 – $73,709 55 37 6

$73,709 - $95,319 51 32 4

$95,319 – $119,149 15 6 2

> $119,149 (Non SES) 4 2 1

> $119,149 (SES) 1 1 –

TOTAL 219 139 20

* Non-casual headcount ** Non-English speaking background

Staff representation by salary

Exceptional movements in employee wages, salaries and allowances

A 4% salary increase came into effect in the first full pay period in July 2010 for the whole of the financial year.

Personnel policies and practices

> We continued to implement the Occupational Health & Safety and Injury Management Plan 2009–11 as recommended by the auditors.

> Work continued on the development of an organisation-wide corporate training and development plan.

> A staff-training calendar was introduced (see page 29).

> Two staff inductions were held, each of two days duration.

Future directions

> Key issues for the year ahead will be finalising the HHT restructure, improving our service delivery through better technology and interpersonal communication with staff and management, innovatively inducting new staff, further developing the skills of our existing staff and continually trying to improve OH&S.

> We plan to increase training in accessibility skills so the HHT can better reach audiences with disabilities.

Occupational Health & Safety

> We worked with both management and staff to continually improve OH&S within the HHT, as directed by the auditors.

> We compiled a Workers Compensation Procedures Manual and Checklist to assist line managers in fulfilling compliance requirements.

> We proactively case managed Return to Work Plans for injured employees.

Human resources

Liability Taken

Recreation leave as at 30 June 2011 $1,331,527 $749,706

Extended leave as at 30 June 2011 $2,135,954 $254,095

Monetary amount of recreation leave and long service leave entitlements

2011 2010 2009 2008Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3

1 1 1 1 1 1 1

2011 2010 2009 2008

Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0

SES reporting

SES levels

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% of total staff

EEO groups Benchmark or target 2011 2010 2009

Women 100% 95% 91% 92%

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

100% n/a n/a n/a

People whose first language is not English 100% 107 n/a n/a

People with a disability 100% n/a n/a n/a

People with a disability requiring work-related adjustment 100% 0 0 n/a

• Excludes casual staff. • A distribution index of 100 indicates that the centre of the distribution of the EEO group across salary levels is equivalent to that of other staff. Values less than 100 mean that the EEO group tends to be more concentrated at lower salary levels than is the case for other staff. The more pronounced this tendency is, the lower the index will be. In some cases the index may be more than 100, indicating that the EEO group is less concentrated at lower salary levels. • The distribution index is not calculated where EEO group or non-EEO group numbers are less than 20.

TABLE B. Trends in the distribution of EEO groups (as at 30 June 2011)

% of total staff

EEO groups Benchmark or target 2011 2010 2009

Women 50% 63% 64% 65%

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

2.6% 0.5% 1% 1%

People whose first language is not English 19% 9% 9% 8%

People with a disability n/a 1.8% 2% 2%

People with a disability requiring work-related adjustment 1.5% 0% 0% 1%

TABLE A. Trends in representation of EEO groups (as at 30 June 2011)

Number of work-related injuries 21 51 37 29

Number of work-related injuries per employee 0.1 0.26 0.18 0.15

No of work-related illnesses 1 1 1 nil

No of workers compensation claims 13 6 11 10

No of workers compensation claims per employee 0.06 0.03 0.05 0.15

Average cost per workers compensation claim $4,304 $7,868 $1,207 $3,910.80

Average workers compensation claim per employee $338 $245 $66.28 $197.71

Prosecution under the OH&S Act nil nil nil nil

Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) 2011 2010 2009 2008

> We ensured that the recommendations made by OH&S consultant Sonia Faulkner are complete and will be maintained.

(See also page 29.)

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

Our self-assessed outcomes for the year include:

> diversity of representation on recruitment panels and the provision of EEO information to applicants;

> diversity of representation on internal bodies such as the OH&S Committee, SAMPAC, Joint Consultative Committee and job evaluation panels;

> flexible work practices including flex days and RDOs, maternity leave, family and community service leave;

> provision of development opportunities through expressions of interest and higher duties allowance.

Future directions

We will explore externally funded grants such as the Elsa Dixon Aboriginal Employment Program (EDAEP). The aim of the EDAEP is to promote diversity, innovation and service responsiveness in the New South Wales workforce by reducing barriers to employment and improving promotional opportunities for Aboriginal people.

Overseas travel

> Bruce Smythe, Assistant Design Manager, travelled to China from 4 to 11 September 2010 to press check the printing of the book An Edwardian Summer.

> Holly Schulte, Assistant Curator, travelled to the united Kingdom and Ireland from 8 May to 5 July 2011 as the recipient of the Phillip Kent Scholarship.


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Financial information

Risk management & insurances

The HHT is committed to a risk management approach to planning, which identifies and addresses both external and internal risks to our operations.

We have adopted a risk management framework that conforms to NSW Treasury Guidelines and the Australian/New Zealand Risk Management Standard (AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009).

Our Audit and Risk Committee, chaired by Trustee Martyn Mitchell, oversees our risk management processes and provides advice to the Board of Trustees.

During the year Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu were appointed as internal auditors by Communities NSW to undertake specific risk assessments identified as part of a triennial udit plan.

The internal auditors undertook two reviews during 2010–11:

Physical security of Collection items

The purpose of this audit was to evaluate the design and effectiveness of the internal controls established to mitigate specific potential risks associated with the management of the physical security of collection items, and to make recommendations for improvement where pertinent.

management of Collection items

The purpose of this audit was to assess the design and effectiveness of the business process and internal controls in place to mitigate the key potential risks associated with the management of collection items. Specifically, the audit assessed risks related to the acquisition, disposal, stocktake and loan of collection items.

We use the NSW Treasury Managed Fund’s Risk Management Advisory Service to help inform staff involved in our financial management.

Formal policies and procedures are in place for our collections and properties to address various risk management issues:

> Disaster Preparedness Plans> Occupational Health & Safety

(OH&S)> Total Assets Management

Strategy

In addition, during 2010–11 we completed a comprehensive assessment of OH&S risks at several of our properties. Insurable risks are managed through our participation in the NSW Treasury Managed Fund, which provides insurance cover across lines of business including motor vehicle, property, legal liability and workers compensation, as well as miscellaneous coverage.

Credit card certification

The HHT has a policy for the use of credit cards by staff that is in accordance with Premier’s Memoranda and Treasurer’s Directions.

Delegations

The occupants of key managerial positions are authorised by the Office of Premier and Cabinet under Section 12 of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 to exercise financial delegation to specific limits. The Office of Environment and Heritage has reviewed and issued delegations in relation to personnel and administration activities, and the HHT Director holds delegations from the Director-General, Office of Environment and Heritage.

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Economic and other factors affecting the achievement of operational activities

There were no economic factors that had a significant effect on operational activities.

The HHT’s policy is to endeavour to ensure that all payments to suppliers are made promptly and in line with New South Wales Government guidelines. In some instances, issues relating to claims for payments require further clarification with suppliers, which can cause delay in payments. Capital work in progress would further delay the promptness in payment terms. There were no instances where interest was paid on overdue accounts.

General > $50,000 – –

General < $50,000 – –

Type of consultant Service Amount

Aged analysis at the end of each quarter

Consultants

Payments

Quarter Less than 30 days $’000

31–60 days overdue $’000

61–90 days overdue $’000

More than 90 days $’000

Total $’000

September 2010 72 65 12 (2) 147

December 2010 252 267 194 4 717

March 2011 42 180 (7) 8 223

June 2011 376 56 1 1 434

Target % Actual % $’000

September 2010 100 98.3 12,295 12,654

December 2010 100 89 9,001 9,725

March 2011 100 96.5 7,877 8,475

June 2011 100 96.5 10,268 10,445

Quarter Total accounts paid on time Total amount paid

$’000


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Staff (At 30 June 2011)

Directorate


Philippa Ardlie, Executive Officer

Fiona Bytheway, Executive Assistant

Heritage & Portfolio Group


Richard Taylor, Project Manager, Properties

David Wilson, Building Trades and Maintenance Manager

government house & eastern sydney Portfolio

Dayn Cooper, Head of Government House & Eastern Sydney Portfolio

government house

Mantej Singh, Acting General Manager

Ann Toy, Supervising Curator P/T

Robert Griffin, Curator P/T

Peter Francis, Building Services Manager

John Terzis, Assistant Building Services Manager

Asoka Ekanayake, Functions Manager

Cornelia Gartner, Functions Coordinator P/T

Stewart Campbell, Museum Assistant

Rick Santucci, Museum Assistant

Sharon Howe, Chief Guide

Lincoln Daw, Guide P/T

Linda Drew-Smith, Guide P/T

Douglas Mackay, Guide P/T

Karl Olsen, Guide P/T

Marianne Rhydderch, Guide P/T

David Bruderlin, Casual Guide

Nicole Forsyth, Casual Guide

Mark Yabsely, Casual Guide

elizabeth bay house*

Gillian Redman-Lloyd, Acting Manager

Scott Hill, Assistant Curator, P/T

Sandra Del Buono, Office Assistant

Edward Champion, Chief Guide

Susan Bee, Guide P/T

Pamela Chauvel, Guide P/T

Steven Collyer, Guide P/T

Gordon Fehross, Guide P/T

Jacqui Newling, Guide P/T

Linda Shakiba, Guide P/T

Douglas Snider, Guide P/T

Anthony Springford, Guide P/T

Lisa-Maree Botticelli, Casual Guide

Wendy Goodrick, Casual Guide

Isobel Johnston, Casual Guide

Mary Johnstone, Casual Guide

Taline Kalaidjian, Casual Guide

Maria Morita-Amodeo, Casual Guide

Richard Pool, Casual Guide

Jesse Stein, Casual Guide

Ian Trounson, Casual Guide

*some staff also work at Vaucluse House

rose seidler house

Andrew Mitchell, Manager

Brian Sear, Casual Guide

vaucluse house*

Dave Gray, Head Gardener

Stuart Macpherson, Gardener

Julie Cooper, Garden Labourer

Stephen Goldsworthy, Garden Labourer

Steven Halliday, Garden Labourer

Anita Rayner, Garden Labourer

*refer to Elizabeth Bay House for further staffof this property

Western sydney Portfolio

Head of Western Sydney Portfolio

elizabeth Farm

Bronwyn Alcorn, Manager

Kerrie Yates, Assistant Manager Ann Steng, Gardener P/T

David Key, Chief Guide

Samuel Hodgkinson, Guide

Brad Lancaster, Guide

Louise Brooks, Guide P/T

Jackie Dalton, Guide P/T

Helen Reynolds, Tearoom Manager P/T

Melanie Eagleston, Casual Guide and Tea Rooms Manager P/T

Niomi Agius, Casual Guide

Rebecca Bowman, Casual Guide

Johanna Henwood, Casual Guide

Candice Iyer, Casual Guide

Christy Pidgeon, Casual Guide

Man-Ling Yuen, Casual Guide

meroogal

Barbara Konkolowicz, Curator P/T

Sandra Lee, Manager P/T

Anthony Boland, Gardener P/T

Richard Bates, Casual Garden Labourer

Suzi Krawczyk, Guide P/T

Cheryl Scowen, Guide P/T

Lynne Allen, Casual Guide

Nicole Ison, Casual Guide

Martin Parkinson, Casual Guide

Jen Saunders, Casual Guide

Ruth Sykes, Casual Guide

rouse hill house & Farm

Fergus Clunie, Curator

Monica Leach, Visitor Services Manager

Matthew Scott, Collection/House Curator P/T

Kathy Porter, Casual Museum Assistant

Graeme Lloyd, Gardener & Livestock Manager

Stephen Hanson, Garden Labourer

John Daujotis, Maintenance Officer

Philisity Dryden, Office Manager

Belinda Mitrovich, Acting Chief Guide

Maureen Clack, Guide P/T

Rochelle Derriman, Guide P/T

Margaret Lewis, Guide P/T

Kylie Roberts, Guide P/T

Michel Wilson, Guide P/T

Peter Anderson, Casual Guide

Amanda Cassey, Casual Guide

Nicole Elliott, Casual Guide

Jennifer Hill, Casual Guide

Emily Howard, Casual Guide

David Joy, Casual Guide

Peta Longhurst, Casual Guide

Kylie Mead, Casual Guide

Merilyn Mamone, Casual Guide

Alana Pienkosz, Casual Guide

Shirley Seale, Casual Guide

Tiana Vidler, Casual Guide

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City Portfolio

Larissa Anstee, Head of City Portfolio

Justice & Police museum

Caleb Williams, Curator/Manager

Nerida Campbell, Assistant Curator P/T

Holly Schulte, Assistant Curator

Emma Bjorndahl, Photo/Digital Imaging Assistant P/T

Antonio Valdes, Building Services Manager

Cassandra Morgan, Office Manager

David Openshaw, Chief Guide

Victor Johnson, Guide

Carole Best, Guide P/T

Greg Bond, Guide P/T

Maureen Clack, Guide P/T

Craig Coventry, Guide PT

Grant Dempsey, Guide PT

museum of sydney

Irene Karageorgiou, Assistant Manager

Inara Walden, Curator

Annie Campbell, Assistant Curator

Matthew Holle, Building Manager

Pat Macan, Museum Assistant

Amelia Bowan, Receptionist

Carmen McGreal, Receptionist P/T

Scott Cumming, Chief Guide

Dianne Corry, Guide

Craig Coventry, Guide P/T

Grant Dempsey, Guide P/T

Russell Garbutt, Guide P/T

Mark Sanfilippo, Guide P/T

Toshie Swift, Guide P/T

Sabina Krusevljanin, Casual Guide

Jemima Mowbray, Casual Guide

Andrew Pleffer, Casual Guide

Mark Pullen, Casual Guide

Natham Turner, Casual Guide

susannah Place museum

Anna Cossu, Curator/Manager P/T

Geoff Marsh, Acting Manager

Russell Garbutt, Guide P/T

Helen Johnson, Guide P/T

Alda Scofield, Guide P/T

Margaret Shain, Guide P/T

Annie Eyers, Casual Guide

Wendy Freidman, Casual Guide

Luisa Vasile, Casual Guide

macquarie Portfolio

Scott Carlin, Head of Macquarie Street Portfolio

the mint

Robert Griffin, Curator P/T

hyde Park barracks museum

Gary Crockett, Curator

Alex Bray, Office Manager

Trudie Craig, Acting Chief Guide

Diana Carr, Guide

Clare Fookes, Guide

Jennifer Twemlow, Guide

Carlin de Montfort, Guide P/T

Margot Tidey, Guide P/T

Coralie Augustesen, Casual Guide

Vanessa Barratt, Casual Guide

Kathryn Brown, Casual Guide

Sienna Brown, Casual Guide

Claire Deck, Casual Guide

Mikhaila Dunn, Casual Guide

Aimée Falzon, Casual Guide

Hannah Gordon, Casual Guide

Lucas Hejtmanek, Casual Guide

Sara O’Shea, Casual Guide

Sarah Pianca, Casual Guide

Erin Town, Casual Guide

Anthony Wilkinson, Casual Guide

heritage team

Richard Silink, Head of Heritage Team & Endangered Houses Fund

Creative Services Group


Programs team

Sophie Lieberman, Head of Programs

Rita Bila, Education Officer

Rebecca Guerrero, Education Officer

Kathryn Hanson, Education Officer

Fabienne Virago, Education Officer

Ross Heathcote, Education Officer P/T

John Lamzies, Education Officer P/T

Samantha Hagan, Cultural Programs Officer

Julie Ryan, Cultural Programs Officer

Claire Wilmott, Cultural Programs Officer P/T

Hannah Boaden, Administration Assistant

Mason Dean, Audiovisual Coordinator

Karen Griffiths, Volunteer Coordinator

special Projects & exhibitions team

Louise Tegart, Head of Special Projects & Exhibitions Duncan Harrex, Exhibitions Production Manager

Peter Burne, Acting Exhibitions Project Manager

Bob Whight, Acting Exhibitions Project Manager

Kate Bruxner, Acting Assistant Exhibitions Officer

Rebecca Edmunds, Acting Assistant Exhibitions Officer

Kieran Larkin, Coordinator Exhibition Design and Documentation

Wendy Osmond, Coordinator Exhibition Design and Documentation P/T

Sarah Fitzherbert, Publications Officer P/T

Janine Flew, Publications Officer P/T

Rhiain Hull, Publications Officer P/T

Alice Livingstone, Rights and Permissions Officer P/T

Ben Crosby, Office Manager

Caroline Lorentz, Loans Manager

Bronwyn McKenzie, Loans Officer

Susan Sedgwick, Head of Special Projects & Exhibitions (maternity leave)

design team

Louise Cornwall, Head of Design

Bruce Smythe, Assistant Design Manager

Hana Rocak, Display Planner

Trudi Fletcher, Display Planner P/T

Cathy Osborne, Display Planner P/T

Anne-Louise Falson, Senior Designer P/T

Alex Haddad, Designer

Beau Vandenberg, Designer


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Julie Stinson, Designer (maternity leave)

interpretation team

Beth Hise, Head of Interpretation

Jane Kelso, Project Officer, Research

Collections & access team

Megan Martin, Head of Collections & Access

Joanna Nicholas, Curator P/T*

Michael Lech, Assistant Curator*

Marina Grilanc, Assistant Curator P/T*

Matthew Stephens, Reference Librarian*

Jennifer Rayner, Library Technician*

Anna Blunt, Library Technician P/T*

Jennifer Olman, Database Manager

Tamara Lavrencic, Collections Manager

Allison Campbell, Collections Officer

Jennifer Exton, Collections Officer P/T

Shana Satyanand, Project Officer P/T*Caroline Simpson & Library Research Collection

Web & screen media team

Tim Girling-Butcher, Head of Web & Screen Media

Justin Maynard, Multimedia Coordinator

Ondine Evans, Assistant Online Producer

Commercial & Marketing Services Group

Julie Turpie, Assistant Director, Commercial & Marketing Services

Commercial services team


VenuesJan Conti, Operations Manager

Matt Adamson, Sales & Marketing Manager

Bo Mee Bisnette, Sales & Marketing Coordinator

Ai-Lin Crisford, Event Coordinator

Angela Sanfilippo, Event Coordinator

Rebecca Simeon, Event Coordinator

Joe Binder, Casual Event Supervisor

Chris Burke, Casual Event Supervisor

Brendan O’Connell, Casual Event Supervisor

Marcel Gotch, Audiovisual Coordinator

Richard Boxhall, Casual Audiovisual Technician

Simon Branthwaite, Casual Audiovisual Technician

Michael Hanlon, Casual Audiovisual Technician

Ben Jacobson, Casual Audiovisual Technician

Jay Mouron, Casual, Audiovisual Technician

Ian Shadwell, Casual Audiovisual Technician

Konrad Skirlis, Casual Audiovisual Technician

Zachary Ruokari, Casual Audiovisual Technician

Shawn Morris, Casual Facilities Officer

Jonothan Pye, Casual Facilities Officer

Joanne Oldfield, Casual Administrator

Irene Hunter, Event Coordinator (maternity leave)

RetailPeter Barnes, Retail Manager

Chantal Sneddon, MOS Shop Manager/Merchandise Supervisor

Gemma O’Brien, Merchandise Supervisor

Meg Olds, Merchandise Officer

Kate Finn, Casual Stock & Sales Assistant

Jessica Heneka, Casual Stock & Sales Assistant

Pippa Lyons, Casual Stock & Sales Assistant

Alex Perrett, Casual Stock & Sales Assistant

Deb Renaud, Casual Stock & Sales Assistant

Antonella Schulte, Casual Stock & Sales Assistant

Jack Williams, Casual Stock & Sales Assistant

marketing team

Malcolm Zahra, Acting Marketing Manager

Lyndal Judges, Box Office Administrator

Sara O’Shea, Marketing Assistant

Clare Wilmott, Marketing Assistant P/T

sponsorship team

Tina Koutsogiannis, Sponsorship Manager

Maria Walker, Sponsorship Assistant

media team

Arianne Martin, Acting Media Relations Manager

Claire McGreal, Publicity Assistant Ruth Bath, Media Relations Manager (maternity leave)

Operations Group

Nicholas Malaxos, Assistant Director, Management Services

Brent Sennit, Acting Assistant Director, Operations

John Morgan, Legal Officer

administration team


Katinka Kemp, Assistant Manager

Colleen Kremer, Records Manager

Tabitha Charles, Records Officer

Michael Larkin, Receipt and Dispatch Manager

Troy Fear, Administration Assistant

Neville Adams, Driver/General Assistant

Marisol Bogaz, Reception P/T

Joy Minter, Reception P/T

Vicky Tycho, Reception P/T

Bruce Crowther, Casual

Finance team

Yaseen Dean, Acting Senior Finance Manager

Denise Yousheyah, Assistant Management Accountant

PingPing Chen, Assistant Financial Accountant

Lekha Gurung, Assistant Financial Accountant

Kenneth Webb, Accounts Payable Clerk

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human resources team

Georgina Pearce, Acting Human Resources Manager

Amanda Milles, Human Resources Officer

Ruth Stig, Personnel/Payroll Supervisor P/T

Denis Loos, HR/Payroll Officer

information & Communications technology team

Manager, Information & Communications Technology

Alex Gibson, Infrastructure Services Manager

Azfar Wasim, Infrastructure Support Engineer

John Mackay, Support Services Manager

Atif Ali, Communications Analyst

Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

James Beck, General Manager P/T

Renee Fryer, Events Coordinator P/T

Annette Jee, Events Coordinator P/T

(maternity leave)


Judy Pittaway, General Manager

Andrew Finlay, Program Manager

Erika Honey, Membership Administrator P/T

Aimee Deaves, Event and Box Office Administrator P/T

Anne Wiseman, Accounts Officer P/T

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