Australian Detailed Report 2006–07 i

Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006/2007

www.australianmuseum.net.au Detailed Report 2006–07 1

Australian Museum Annual Report 2006–07 Detailed Report 2 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

The Hon. Frank Ernest Sartor, MP Minister for Planning, Minister for Redfern Waterloo, and Minister for the Arts

Sir, In accordance with the provisions of the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984 and the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 we have pleasure in submitting this report of the activities of the Australian Museum Trust for the financial year ended 30 June 2007, for presentation to Parliament. On behalf of the Australian Museum Trust,

Brian Sherman AM Mr President of the Trust Secretary of the Trust Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 3

Contents

The Australian Museum 4 Corporate performance 8 Directorate 14 Research and collections 16 Public programs 22 Operations 28 Appendices 33 Index 65

This annual report is published in three parts: a summary report, a detailed report and the financial statements. All of the Museum’s annual reports since 1998–99 are available online at www.australianmuseum.net.au/about/report/. 4 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

The Australian Museum

Charter The Australian Museum is a leader in The Australian Museum is a statutory body established under the Australian Museum Trust Act natural history and cultural research, 1975 and operates under the Australian Museum collection management and public Trust Regulation 2003. The Museum is principally funded by the NSW Government operating within programs. the Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation. The objectives of the Australian Museum Trust Founded in 1827, the Australian Act are to propagate knowledge about the natural environment of and to increase that Museum is the oldest museum and knowledge, particularly in the natural sciences of second-oldest scientific research biology, anthropology and geology. institution in Australia. It moved to its Services present home at College and William The Museum delivers services to customers and streets in 1846, and opened to the stakeholders in three main fields: public in May 1857. • collection management – the Museum maintains and develops the largest natural history and cultural collection in Australia with over 16 million registered items or lots • scientific research – the Museum undertakes scientific research on its collection of objects and in the field to expand our understanding of the biota and indigenous cultures of Australia and the Pacific region • public programs – the Museum presents a wide array of exhibitions, programs and events to raise community awareness of the biota and indigenous cultures of Australia and the Pacific region. The outcomes of the Museum’s service delivery are set out under Performance Indicators (page 10). Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 5

Customers and stakeholders Corporate Strategic Plan The Australian Museum’s main customers are: The Museum’s Corporate Strategic Plan 2005–08 sets out our purpose, vision and goals. The plan is • the community of NSW, which benefits from our available from the Museum’s website at public programs and research, and seeks knowledge www.australianmuseum.net.au. and understanding of our cultural and natural worlds Purpose • NSW Government agencies which rely on our To inspire the exploration of nature and cultures. knowledge of the cultural and natural worlds. In collaboration with other , the Museum Vision reaches audiences across Australia and New Zealand A beautiful and sustainable natural world with vibrant with touring exhibitions. In collaboration with and diverse cultures. other scientific research institutions in Australia and internationally, the Museum contributes to our Goals knowledge of the natural and cultural worlds. The Museum’s website reaches an international audience. The Museum’s goals are defined in the Corporate Strategic Plan 2005–08 as: Our key stakeholders are the NSW Government and organisations engaged in natural resources 1 to build a ‘time series’ of objects defining our management or working with Indigenous cultures. natural and cultural world Our other important stakeholders include: 2 to unlock and share the knowledge in our natural and cultural collections • visitors from Australia and overseas 3 to ignite enthusiasm for the skills that explorers • donors, sponsors and partners, and Australian and collectors use Museum Members 4 to find new connections across nature, culture and • our volunteers and our staff. our lives 5 to capture the imagination of the young, the old and all those in between. For a progress report on the plan, see Corporate Performance (page 8). 6 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Minister Management The Hon. Frank Ernest Sartor, MP The Museum is managed by an Executive which is Minister for Planning, Minister for Redfern Waterloo, composed of the directors, branch heads and key and Minister for the Arts managers. The Executive’s members are set out below. Appendix C presents profiles of the Executive. Governance Frank Howarth, Director The Museum is governed by a Trust established Janet Carding, Assistant Director, Public Programs under the Australian Museum Trust Act 1975. The & Operations Trust has nine members, one of whom must have knowledge of, or experience in, science and one of Dr Les Christidis, Assistant Director, Research whom must have knowledge of, or experience in, & Collections education. Trustees are appointed by the Governor on Jan Barnett, Head, Exhibitions & Creative Services the recommendation of the Minister for a term of up to three years. Trustees may hold no more than three Dr Penny Berents, Head, Collections terms. Vacancies may be filled by the Governor on Vinod Daniel, Head, Collections & Research the recommendation of the Minister. The President Resources of the Trust is appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the Minister. The Director of Julie Garradd, Head, Visitor Programs & Services the Australian Museum is Secretary to the Trust and Brian Lassig, Head, Research is responsible for the common seal. Trustees do not receive remuneration but may be reimbursed for Noella Lopez, Head, Commercial Services expenses. Ken Pope, Head, Corporate & Knowledge Services Catherine Brown, A/Manager, Development Trustees Christine Callen, Manager, Marketing & Publicity Mr Brian Sherman AM (President) Dr Lynda Kelly, Manager, Audience Research Mr Brian Schwartz AM (Deputy President) Roger Muller, Manager, Eureka Prizes and Secretary, Ms Cate Blanchett (from May 2007) Executive Mr David Handley Appendix D sets out the Museum’s significant Dr Ronnie Harding committees and their members. Ms Sam Mostyn Dr Cindy Pan Mr Michael Seyffer Assoc Prof Stephen Schnierer (to December 2006) Ms Julie Walton OAM Appendix A presents profiles of the Trustees. Appendix B shows the Trust’s activities and committees during the year. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 7

Organisation chart Minister for the Arts

Dept of the Arts, Sport & Recreation Australian Museum Trust

Director

Capital Works Development Australian Museum Members Eureka Prizes Marketing & Publicity

Public Programs & Operations Research & Collections

Audience Research Planning, Policy & Grants Coordination Planning, Policy & Coordination

Collections Corporate & Knowledge Services

Anthropology Archives & Records Arachnology Facilities Management Entomology Finance Herpetology Information Technology Human Resources Malacology Library Mammalogy Marine Invertebrates Commercial Services Mineralogy Ornithology

Business Services: Palaeontology Archaeology & Heritage Exhibition Research Ecology Venues & Catering Head, Research Retail

Anthropology Visitor Programs & Services Geoscience Marine Research House Services & Security Terrestrial Research Interpretation Exhibition Research Learning Services

Science Communication Collection & Research Resources

Exhibitions & Creative Services Cultural Access & Intangible Heritage Collection Integrity Design DNA Laboratory Exhibitions EMu Database Exhibition Production Geographic Information Systems Photography Scanning Electron Microscope Web Scientific Publications

Lizard Island Research Station 8 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Corporate performance

Management activities Risk management The Museum’s Executive met at least monthly The Museum’s Executive actively monitors its in 2006–07 to review and direct strategic and programs to identify and manage risks consistent with operational matters which included: Government guidelines and policy. Risk management aims to safeguard the public, staff, collections, • contributing to the review of the proposed buildings and related assets. Risk control entails: amalgamation of the Australian Museum and the trusts. In June 2007, • surveying financial record-keeping (undertaken by the Minister announced that the proposed the Treasury Managed Fund) amalgamation would not proceed • assessing corporate risk and conducting • contributing to the implementation of the State management audits (undertaken by the Internal Plan with other agencies in the NSW Department Audit Bureau) of the Arts, Sport and Recreation • managing ongoing risk, including maintaining • reporting to the NSW Government on key matters asset registers for various classes of assets, and including total asset management, and results and conducting fire and safety audits services planning • valuing the collections and building assets, • updating the Museum’s actions and strategies developing risk strategies for public exhibitions and under the Corporate Strategic Plan (see Strategic spaces, and conducting fire drills Achievements, page 9) • monitoring the Museum’s buildings and site by • improving occupational health and safety (OHS) full-time security staff and security-support systems management systems • maintaining appropriate insurance cover with the • continuing the review of internal policies and Treasury Managed Fund that covers all classes of adopted a new intellectual property policy risk. • managing the Museum’s finances within budget The Museum Executive provides administrative and, in the process, achieving efficiency dividends support to the Australian Museum Trust and its sub- as required committees. • implementing a substantial training program. Management held regular meetings with all staff, and with the Public Service Association through the Joint The Museum and the NSW Government’s Internal Consultative Committee. Audit Bureau completed management audits in five areas of the Museum. The Museum is taking Other activities steps to implement the agreed recommendations for improving management systems and controls in Details of other management activities and reporting these areas: responsibilities can be found in the following appendices: • public programs development Appendix E Ethnic Affairs Priority Statement • corporate governance and organisational performance management Appendix F Guarantee of service • intellectual property management Appendix G Use of consultants • personnel and payroll Appendix H Privacy and personal information • information and communications technology Appendix I Freedom of information operations. Appendix J Overseas travel Appendix K Code of conduct Appendix L Credit card certification. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 9

Strategic achievements In other significant achievements: In its third year, Stage 1 of the Revitalisation Project • the 17th Australian Museum Eureka Prizes saw achieved several milestones: 20 winners receive over $200,000 in prizes, • construction of the Collections and Research with media coverage reaching an audience of building reached the halfway stage around 16 million • refurbishment of the level 2 gallery in the Vernon • Australian Museum Members presented a program Wing was completed of over 100 revenue-generating events for its 6000 Members and the general public, with the program • refurbishment of the level 2 gallery in the Barnet attracting over 5000 people Wing was commenced • the Museum was supported by 150 community • designs were finalised for two exhibitions for these volunteers working front-of-house and behind the galleries – Surviving Australia and Dinosaurs. scenes Under the Corporate Strategic Plan 2005–08, the • the Museum launched a new quarterly magazine, following strategies and actions were achieved: Explore, for Members and other stakeholders. • site use was articulated and plans developed for Research and collections exhibitions, public spaces and staff accommodation for Stage 1 of the Master Plan The Museum attracted over $2 million in funding from external sources for projects based on research • a Science Research Strategy for the Museum was and collections. Of national significance was the endorsed by the Trust Museum’s involvement in a project funded by the • the Museum’s research fellowship and award federal Department of Environment and Water schemes were consolidated and an annual round of Resources that will: applications finalised • assist in developing marine regional plans • new facilities (including a new office, aquarium, • assess and manage sites that are of ecological library and seminar room) were opened at the significance Museum’s Research Station • assist in detecting introduced marine pests. • a memorandum of understanding was signed with the Pacific Islands Museum Association The Museum was the first in Australia to initiate a program for collecting intangible heritable • the collections management policy for the Research information by directly engaging creator communities Library was approved by the Executive in the Pacific region. The Museum also launched a • a five-year financial plan was developed for the major initiative through the Pacific Island Museums’ period commencing April 2006 Association to assist emerging Pacific cultural centres. • a policy and set of guidelines on the strategic use A five-year Science Research Strategy was developed of digital stories was developed, as was the capacity to guide and prioritise research activity. to include these in new galleries, public areas and websites • the role of the Museum in the climate change debate was articulated • existing outreach programs and services were reviewed • a new personal performance program was developed and trialled. 10 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Public programs Performance indicators Visitation to the Museum in 2006–07 of over Figure 1 shows how our services (collection 315,000 was slightly higher than last year’s and the management, public programs and scientific research) five-year average – a satisfactory result given two produce results for our customers and stakeholders major galleries were closed all year for refurbishment. in the short term and contribute to community In addition to the Museum’s six long-term outcomes over the long term and in collaboration exhibitions, the public program included eight with other agencies. The Museum is accountable to temporary exhibitions and numerous smaller displays. the NSW Government each year for delivering its services and achieving results. Community outcomes Offsite, the Museum served over 278,000 people can only be measured over time and at a whole-of- through the following services: government level. • Museum in a Box Table 1 lists the Museum’s service measures and • touring exhibitions in NSW Table 2 shows the results indicators, with their respective targets and budgets. Subsequent sections • touring exhibitions interstate and overseas. report our services and results for the year in The Museum’s website served over 23 million virtual more detail. visitors. Staff answered around 2100 online enquiries. The Museum’s venues attracted over 15,000 people to 188 private functions. The Museum substantially revised its OHS Policy and introduced new procedures for risk assessment and improved reporting arrangements along with staff training. Notes to Table 1 (right) 1 The actual cost of services in 2007 is The Museum Shop had a profitable year with turnover subject to financial audit. reaching $884,600 and the average income per visitor 2 Some services and results will be affected by the Museum’s Revitalisation rising to $2.92. Project from 2006–07 to 2008–09.

Figure 1 Chart showing how the Museum’s services produce results and outcomes Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 11

Table 1 The Museum’s service measures for 2006–07

Service Service Measure Target Actual

Collections Management Service group costings $6.065 million NA

Collections integrity Collections integrity index 71 72

Databasing Records on electronic database 1.43 million 1.43 million

Repatriation Collections identified for repatriation 53% 76%

Scientific Research Service group costings $11.063 million NA

Knowledge generation Research expenditure $7.5 million $8.5 million

Average value of grants $40,000 $44,192

Knowledge communication Number of publications 130 160

Public Programs Service group costings $18.470 million NA

Exhibitions and programs exhibitions 17 17

Learning programs Students served 30,000 43,231

Other programs 5 5

Online services User sessions 24.5 million 23.3 million

Eureka Prizes Audience reach of media coverage 16 million 16 million

Outreach programs:

• Museum in a Box Students served 60,000 59,865

• Indigenous community outreach Communities assisted 10 17 12 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Table 2 The Museum’s results indicators for 2006–07

Result Results Indicator Target Actual

Communities are key stakeholders in Indigenous communities satisfied with access to 25% 68% collections management collections

Collections and data are accessed Users of online collection information 684,000 732,830

External researchers accessing collections and data 1,200 1,476

Research knowledge influences policy Government stakeholders satisfied with Museum 60% 90% and decision making input and advice on policy and decision making

Research knowledge about nature and cultures is accessed

People take action to explore nature Australian Museum Members 6,000 6,000 and cultures

People demonstrate increased Visitors who understood themes and messages in 60% 76% awareness of nature and cultures exhibitions

Real and virtual programs are accessed Visitors In person 250,000 317,677 by the community Virtually 24.5 million 23.3 million

Visitors satisfied with their experience 80% 85%

Visitation by international visitors 15% 41% Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 13

Future directions Implementing a Museum-wide approach to engaging regional NSW The Museum’s Executive is developing a range of initiatives to improve its financial performance • adopt a new regional services strategy for outreach by boosting income, improving cost-recovery and programs and services. reducing operating expenses. Developing corporate skills and capabilities During 2007–08, the Museum will continue to progress its strategic direction for core service delivery • meet target dates for the NSW Government’s and the Revitalisation Project, Stage 1. Under the Working Together: Public Sector OHS & Injury Corporate Strategic Plan, the major milestones for the Management Strategy 2005–08 year are shown below. • trial and then implement the Museum’s personal performance program Revitalising the Museum • develop an environmental policy to minimise our • develop the scope of and concepts for Stage 2 of environmental footprint the Master Plan for the College Street site • prepare a staff professional development plan. • develop two new exhibitions – Surviving Australia and Dinosaurs Ensuring financial stability • secure sponsorship and donations to enhance • prepare an annual update of the five-year financial Stage 1 outcomes. plan Enhancing visitor experiences • develop a fundraising strategy targeting philanthropic and corporate sponsorship • facilitate a major debate annually on a controversial opportunities topic • adopt a revenue-development strategy. • establish policy guidelines on the strategic use of digital stories and develop the capacity to include Increasing our use of partnerships these in new galleries, public areas and websites • develop a revised strategy for the Museum’s • develop and enhance the Museum’s website to repatriation and Aboriginal heritage program improve user experience and interaction. • develop a strategy to work with Pacific Island Raising our profile as an authoritative source of countries and territories on cultural heritage scientific advice • assess the effectiveness of the current volunteers • review implementation of the Museum’s Science program from the perspectives of both volunteers Research Strategy and staff • develop a communication strategy to better • develop a proposal to Executive and Members promote the relevance and excellence of the Council outlining new forms of volunteerism, Museum’s research and collections including internships, to engage new and existing volunteers. • develop a strategic policy for use of the Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station. Promoting the value of the Museum Improving access and adding value to our collections • complete the roll-out of new branding for the Museum. • adopt a collection development strategy for natural history collections • assess the applicability of the biological collections to national initiatives such as the Atlas of Living Australia. 14 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Directorate

Revitalisation Project Community and corporate support In 2004, the NSW Government allocated $40.9 Community and corporate support for the Australian million over five years for Stage 1 of the Australian Museum and the Australian Museum Foundation Museum Revitalisation Project. Stage 1 involves through philanthropic donations, sponsorships, the construction of a new Collections and Research bequests and gifts-in-kind, are vital in achieving our building, the refurbishment of two heritage galleries purpose ‘to inspire the exploration of nature and and the development of two new exhibitions for cultures’. those galleries. The Australian Museum Foundation was established When completed, the Collections and Research in 2005 to further encourage major gifts and building will alleviate chronically overcrowded bequests. The foundation has developed steadily since workspaces, provide modern laboratory facilities its inception and is now focused on increasing the and provide storage for zoological specimens. The growth of the President’s Circle, the Museum’s key refurbished galleries will house two new exhibitions donor and bequests group. One of our most generous entitled Surviving Australia and Dinosaurs to replace bequests received this year was from the estate of exhibitions that were up to 20 years old. the late Clarence E Chadwick which will establish the annual Chadwick Fellowship. This In its third year, Stage 1 of the Revitalisation Project fellowship will assist recent PhD graduates to establish achieved several milestones: a career in biodiversity research. • construction of the Collections and Research During the year the Australian Museum continued building reached the halfway stage to actively nurture and foster relationships with key • refurbishment of the level 2 gallery in the Vernon philanthropic trusts and foundations. The Museum Wing was completed successfully achieved corporate sponsorship for its major temporary exhibitions and further developed its • refurbishment of the level 2 gallery in the Barnet long-term partnerships with the National Geographic Wing was commenced Channel and the National Opal Collection. • designs were finalised for two exhibitions for these The Museum also received a number of gifts to its galleries – Surviving Australia and Dinosaurs. collection under the Australian Government Cultural Total expenditure on the Revitalisation Project to Gifts Program. 30 June 2007 has been $11,633,936. The project In 2007–08 the fundraising priority for the Australian is on schedule and the dates for completion of the Museum continues towards securing support for components are: key education elements of the Revitalisation Project.

Dinosaurs exhibition 29 February 2008 We warmly invite other people and organisations to become engaged in the rewards of supporting one Surviving Australia exhibition 30 June 2008 of Australia’s leading cultural and natural history Collections and Research building 27 July 2008 institutions.

There has been very little negative feedback about the Revitalisation Project, despite the closure of two major exhibition spaces. A communication campaign, including media releases, regular revitalisation updates in Explore magazine, and signage have helped to inform Members and other customers about the works. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 15

Raising the Museum’s profile Australian Museum Members The Museum pursues marketing strategies which Established in 1972, Australian Museum Members utilise integrated publicity, promotions and paid exists to support and promote the work of the advertising. The marketing and publicity team also Australian Museum. helps to determine product and prices, and publishes There are around 6000 Members who enjoy a range four editions of the Museum’s quarterly magazine for of benefits including free entry to the Museum, the Members and other key stakeholders, Explore, and opportunity to attend events such as Night Talks, a quarterly What’s On calendar (see Appendix M, urban walks, bush walks, workshops, kids’ activities, Publications). behind-the-scenes tours and overseas trips. Members Ongoing marketing and media coverage of Museum also receive the Museum’s magazine, Explore, and exhibitions, activities and scientific research continued special offers. to drive visitation and increase public interest in the During the year, Australian Museum Members Museum, as well as expanding the Museum’s profile developed and ran a successful program of events that during the Revitalisation Project. attracted over 5000 people: Our increased profile also continued to help the • Over 1600 people attended Night Talks that Dinosaur Unearthed exhibition in particular attract covered subjects such as climate change, forensics, significant coverage across all media with highlights water, pollution, , archaeology, dementia, including: astronomy, ethics and oil. • a large colour photograph on page 3 of • More than 150 people participated in bush and The Sydney Morning Herald urban walks to explore Annandale, Haberfield, • a series of live weather crosses with the Channel 9 Narrabeen, Darlinghurst, Balmain, Marrickville, Today Show the and Mosman. • an interview with palaeontologist Dr Robert Jones • Members had the opportunity to tour behind on Radio National’s The Science Show. the scenes and view Museum collections, with a combined special night exhibition viewing and The growth in online news sites has created new tour of the Museum’s Indigenous collection, and publicity opportunities for the Museum but, unlike day and night tours of the Collections Integrity print and other electronic media, it also presents Unit and Pacific collection. new challenges for tracking any online coverage of Museum event and news. • Kids’ events, including a sold-out dinosaur sleepover and young scientist workshops, attracted Continuing sponsorship from National Geographic a total of nearly 500 children. Channel and JCDecaux for our major exhibitions remains a key element of our marketing campaigns. • Members participated in social events such as day The Museum also undertook a successful sponsorship tours to the Southern Highlands to see a cheese deal with News Limited (The Daily Telegraph) for factory and mushroom producer and to Mt Wilson the temporary Eaten Alive: the World of Predators to see the changing colours of autumn. exhibition, and partnered with Twentieth-Century • Members participated in a program of tours Fox for promoting the film A Night at the Museum. that included a 10-day coach trip to visit many This year also saw the initiation of the Museum’s Indigenous archaeological sites of Outback NSW new logo and rebranding. The staged roll-out of the and a tour and cruise to Antarctica and South rebranding program aims to ensure that the Museum’s America. Members also had the opportunity to resources are utilised efficiently. The brand will take part in archaeological field work at the World- continue to roll out in stages leading up to the public Heritage-listed Mungo National Park in south- launch of the two new long-term exhibitions in 2008. western .

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Research and collections

Highlights The Research & Collections Division Science Research Strategy is responsible for generating new The Museum has developed a Science Research Strategy to guide and prioritise research activities over scientific knowledge, communicating the next five years, with eight programs designed to that knowledge, and managing the address the problems, issues, knowledge gaps and major challenges facing the natural environment. Museum’s collections. Knowledge The strategy identifies our strengths in research and is generated by research both in the collections for engaging with emerging issues and priorities, not only in New South Wales and Australia, field and on the Museum’s natural but in the wider Asia–Pacific region. The strategy history and cultural collections. is available from the Museum’s website at www.australianmuseum.net.au. This knowledge is disseminated via scientific publications, government Laboratory upgrades policy development processes, The DNA laboratory received a major upgrade of equipment thanks to funds provided by the President’s environmental planning processes and Circle. The Mineralogy section and scanning electron public programs. microscope (SEM) laboratory purchased a new X-ray diffractometer for mineral specimen identification.

Australian Museum Lizard Island Research Station More than 90 research projects were conducted at the Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station during the year by scientists from around the world, resulting in over 50 scientific publications. The second stage of the 30th anniversary development of the station was opened in October 2006 with a major upgrade of laboratories, the library, seminar room and equipment. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 17

Scientific research Forensic identification of airstrikes Achievements for the year are reported below against The Australian Museum, with Museum Victoria, the Museum’s services (see Performance Indicators, recently completed a project entitled ‘Forensic page 10). Identification of Aviation Bird Strikes in Australia’, funded by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau Knowledge creation (ATS). This pilot project assisted in identifying many The Museum’s research strengths are in the areas of the that strike aircraft. of , palaeontology, geology, materials conservation, archaeology, anthropology, , Engaging with the Pacific region systematics, molecular genetics, biodiversity mapping The Australian Museum has sought to engage and measurement, and ecology. Several areas of the with nascent museums and cultural centres in Museum’s research are world-leading. the Pacific through its Emerging Pacific Cultural The Museum is the first in Australia to initiate Centres: Australian Museum Partnership Program. a program for collecting intangible heritable In this program the Australian Museum provided information by directly engaging with creator representatives from museums and cultural centres communities in the Pacific region. This process in five Pacific countries (Yap, Palau, Fiji, Tonga seeks to develop relationships which will enable the and Samoa) with opportunities for professional Museum to gain additional intangible knowledge development and networking. It was funded by the for its own collection holdings and, in the longer International Council of Museums (ICOM) Australia term, to inform new dynamic exhibitions and better through the Pacific Island Museums’ Association. community access to its cultural collections. Marine pests Research & Collections staff continued to be successful in attracting funding for research from a The final report of the Australian Port Survey Data variety of state, national and international sources. Integration Project was accepted by the Natural Over $2 million in funding was attracted from Heritage Trust. The Australian Museum prepared the external sources and nearly one half of this was report on behalf of the Australian Marine Invertebrate awarded through competitive grants processes Taxonomists Network. The project has ensured that a (for details of grants, see Appendix N). representative collection of introduced marine species material collected from Australia’s international A selection of projects illustrates the contemporary ports is deposited and databased in the relevant State relevance and range of the Museum’s research work. museums. These projects, described in more detail in the following paragraphs, are: Marine protected areas • Forensic identification of airstrikes Staff participated in field work aboard the research • Engaging with the Pacific region vessel Southern Surveyor to survey and monitor South East Marine Protected Areas. The specimens and data • Marine pests collected for mapping invertebrate taxa will be used to characterise the benthic ecosystems of Tasmanian • Marine protected areas seamounts and marine protected areas for future • Coral reef research at Lizard Island. management. This collaborative project also involved CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Museum Victoria, Geoscience Australia, the University of Tasmania, the Museum and the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. Also of national significance was the Museum’s involvement in a marine research project for the federal Department of Environment and Water Resources. The project documents knowledge about the key marine species groups in the East Marine 18 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Region, an area of 2.4 million square kilometres off The Museum published two issues of the Records the east coast of Queensland and New South Wales. of the Australian Museum during the year which Contributors to the project included the Queensland described 51 new species and five new genera. Museum, Sydney University, University of NSW and All papers published in the Records from 1999 the South Australian Museum. The project will: onwards are freely available from the Museum’s website at www.australianmuseum.net.au. • assist in developing marine regional plans Research & Collections staff presented 48 papers and • assess and manage sites that are of ecological chaired seven sessions at national and international significance conferences, symposia and workshops during the year. • assist in detecting introduced marine pests. Staff were also interviewed on almost 40 occasions for television, radio and print media. Coral reef research at Lizard Island In sharing their expertise in a number of other ways, The Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station staff supported public programs and educational submitted one of eight projects worldwide that won activities including behind-the-scenes tours, support from UK-based Friends of Conservation wrote numerous stories for Explore magazine and under its Climate Change Challenge. This group participated in Members activities. A number of pledged initial funds towards the station’s aquarium staff supported university educational programs by upgrade in recognition of the vulnerability of coral lecturing and supervising student projects. reefs to global warming and the importance of the research being conducted at Lizard Island into the effects of elevated temperatures.

Knowledge communication Once created, knowledge needs to be communicated to scientific peers, to end users of the research and to the general public through peer-reviewed journals, books, conference proceedings and public programs such as exhibitions and the Museum’s website. Research at the Australian Museum resulted in the publication of 187 items during the year (see Table 3), including two articles in each of the prestigious journals Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Appendix M provides a detailed list of publications.

Table 3 Publications produced by researchers at the Australian Museum in 2006–07

Medium Number

Refereed journals 138

Books and book chapters 14

Non refereed/other 5

Abstracts 23

Published conference papers 4

Web publications 1

CD-ROMS 2

Total 187 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 19

Collections management • an Aboriginal artwork from Ray Kirby to the Collections development Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station depicting marine animals The Australian Museum houses vast collections – more than 16 million specimens and objects in total • a bequest of the GR Annabell and H Prouse with particular strengths in Indigenous archaeology; collection of Australian and New Zealand land Australian and Pacific ethnographic artefacts; rocks, snails minerals and fossils; birds, fish, reptiles and mammals; • a large collection of freshwater fishes (including and terrestrial and marine invertebrates, including threatened species) from different NSW localities molluscs, insects, spiders, crustaceans, echinoderms from the NSW Department of Primary Industries and annelids. • numerous specimens from the NSW National These collections form a valuable source of material Parks and Wildlife Service, including rare NSW and information not only for research, display and species such as Southern Brown Bandicoots, Parma education, but also for managing the biodiversity Wallabies and Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies; and and geodiversity of Australia, and understanding numerous bird species. Indigenous cultural diversity and heritage in the Australasian region. They provide a reference base and Collections access historical archive of the diversity of species (both past and present) and the geological diversity The Museum continued to ensure that its collections in Australia and other parts of the world, as well are accessible to all interested parties, with: as representing the significant cultural heritage of • 33,500 records added to the collection database contemporary Indigenous people of greater Australia and the Pacific region. As such, the Museum plays an • 785 loans, comprising over 20,000 specimens and important role in maintaining, managing, developing objects, sent to institutions around the world and enabling access to its collections, not only for • 320 researchers visiting the Museum collections for its own researchers, but also for researchers from onsite study. organisations all over the world. The Museum is continuously working to develop its Repatriation collections. This year, it acquired more than 254,000 The Museum worked with Indigenous communities new specimens and objects. A number of these to repatriate six sets of ancestral remains to Kimberley additions were received as donations, including: communities and three sets of Aboriginal ancestral • a 31-kilogram iron meteorite from Henbury, NT, remains to the La Perouse Aboriginal Land Council through the Cultural Gifts Program for reburial. • a piece of clothing, depicting a traditional tapa design, from the Director of Culture and Heritage, Ministry of Fijian Affairs, Fiji • a shell necklace from the Pacific Island of Niue • a collection of more than 6000 ground beetles, jewel beetles and Christmas beetles from Museum research associate Mark Hanlon • a large glass case of around 30 birds from , Solomon Islands and Fiji collected by Reverend George Brown during the second half of the 1800s, from the Uniting Church • 50 lizard specimens from far northern New Caledonia from Tony Whitaker 20 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Recognising achievements The Museum’s BioMaps and Bugwise projects The following staff were recognised for their received NSW Premier’s Public Sector Awards for achievements in their fields of research: providing innovative tools for accessing and analysing biodiversity data. Rio Tinto and Conservation • Dr Val Attenbrow was appointed to the editorial Volunteers Australia were partners in these projects. board of Australian Archaeology, the journal of The project teams were: the Australian Archaeological Association. Val was also elected the 2007 NSW representative for the • BioMaps – Paul Flemons, Ajay Ranipeta, Gareth association Carter, Michael Elliott, Andrew Donnelly, Gerry Cassis, Dan Faith, Brooke Carson-Ewart, Russ • Dr Penny Berents was elected Chair of the Council Weakley and Lisa Miller of Heads of Australia’s Faunal Collections • Bugwise – Andrew Donnelly, Matthew Bulbert, • Dr Gerry Cassis was voted President-Elect of the John Gollan, Helen Smith, Lance Wilkie, Chris International Heteropterist Society Reid, Brooke Carson-Ewart, Russ Weakley, Lisa Miller, Kylie Piper and Martyn Robinson. • Dr Les Christidis was appointed Chair of the newly formed Steering Committee for the Barcode The Museum’s partnership with the University of New of Life in Australia. Dr Dan Faith is a member of England and the Royal Botanical Gardens received the Committee a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning by the Carrick Institute for Learning and • Dr Greg Edgecombe was elected Vice-President of Teaching in Higher Education in recognition of the the International Palaeontological Association only Australian degree program in Biosystematics. • Dr Dan Faith’s publication on biodiversity assessment was selected as a ‘ScienceDirect TOP25 Fellowships and awards Hottest Article’ The Museum awarded a total of 16 Research • Mr Paul Flemons was awarded the Ebbie Nielsen & Collections fellowships and postgraduate awards. Prize for research into biosystematics and biological The fellowships and the successful applicants are diversity shown below. • Dr Jeff Leis joined the editorial board of the US-based journal Fishery Bulletin Visiting Collection Fellowships • Ms Sue Lindsay had three micrographs selected • Martin Thomas (University of Sydney) – for the FEI 2007 Australian and New Zealand Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948 Microscopy and Microanalysis Calendar • Manuel Malaquias (Natural History Museum, • Dr Chris Reid was elected to the committee of the London) – Systematics and biogeography of the Coleopterist’s Society, the first person based outside family Haminoeidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) the Americas in its 55-year history • Thomas Munroe (National Museum of Natural • Ms Barrina South was appointed to the Arts History, Washington) – Systematic studies on NSW Museums Committee and Indigenous Arts Australian flatfishes (Pisces, Pleuronectiformes). Reference Group and reappointed to the Museums and Galleries NSW Standards Review Committee Visiting Research Fellowships for another term • Huw Barton (University of Leicester) – The origins • Ms Gayle Webb became the first woman in of taro agriculture in lowland Papua New Guinea Australia to be awarded a Research Diploma in • Anthony Gill (Arizona State University) – Gemmology by the Gemmological Association of Do the tripletails, tiger perches and velvetchins Australia, for her study of NSW rubies. form a monophyletic group? Evidence from larvae, osteology and cheek mycology. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 21

Postgraduate Awards Future directions • Knud Jonsson (University of Copenhagen) This year the Museum developed a Science Research – Determining biogeographic patterns of dispersal Strategy with significant input from research and and diversification in the ‘Crown Corvida’ in collections staff and guidance from the Museum’s Australia, the Western Pacific and South East Asia Research and Collections Advisory Committee (RACAC). The strategy will guide the development of • John Martin (Wollongong University) – Australian the Museum’s research activity from 2007 to 2012. In White Ibis movements and control methods in the the coming years, the Museum will use the strategy to urban environment. further define its research direction and in particular guide the appointment of new staff. Leo Fleischmann Visiting Fellowship in Pacific Islands Arts and Material Culture In 2006–07, the Museum began a review of anthropology and cultural research and collections, • Susan Davies (Honorary Research Fellow, consulting extensively with communities, staff and Queensland Museum) – Beads, cloth and curios: researchers at the Museum and elsewhere. RACAC the material culture of exchange between Papuans is considering the outcomes of this consultation and Europeans, 1845–88. process for incorporation into the Science Research Strategy in 2007–08. Also in the coming year, the Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowships for 2007 Museum plans to reactivate an acquisition program • Adel Heenan (University of Edinburgh) – for the ethnographic collection to ensure it continues Developing a reef fisheries management tool using to develop into the future. The Museum will also environmental acoustic, light and biochemosensory continue to develop its plans for providing online cues content and a searchable database of the ethnographic collections for the public. • Andrew Hoey ( University), Ian Potter Fellow – Algal-herbivore interactions: the role of Much of the coming year will involve staff working herbivory in structuring benthic algal communities towards relocating collections and laboratories into across an exposure gradient the new Collections and Research building due for completion in 2008. • Michael Holcomb (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) – Diurnal growth cycles in coral The 30th Anniversary Development of the Lizard Island Research Station, a project supported by • Tom Holmes (James Cook University) – Selectivity donors, the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation of predation on newly settled tropical reef fish. and the Queensland Government Smart State Research Facility Fund, will continue in 2007–08. Peter Rankin Trust Fund for Herpetology Fellowships The Thyne Reid Wing will be refurbished as for 2006 laboratories funded by the Thyne Reid Foundation, • James Booth (Charles Sturt University) – A survey and the Purves Laboratory will be extended with a of the Eastern Small-eyed Snake in the Plently large, air-conditioned microscope room funded by the Gorge Parklands, Melbourne Raymond E Purves Foundation. • Simon Clulow (Newcastle University) – Phenotypic plasticity in the Sandpaper Frog, Lechriodus fletcheri • Beth Symonds (Queensland University) – Ultrastructure of hindlimb muscles of aestivating frogs • Tegan Whittard (Flinders University) – Effect of different grazing regimes on the Pygmy Bluetongue. 22 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Public programs

During the year, work continued on updating the The Public Programs Division older public areas of the Museum: • an electronics upgrade was carried out in the is responsible for planning and exhibition delivering a wide range of services • the small exhibitions space in the College Street to the public at College Street, to foyer was refurbished regional museums and to students • the Chapman Mineral Collection was upgraded and in regional NSW. Public Programs new interpretive sections introduced aims to enhance the visitor experience • a main wall of the Birds & Insects exhibition was refurbished for future photographic displays while facilitating customer-centred • a new Evolution display was built for search & research, learning and knowledge. discover. The rest of this section looks at: • visitation and customer feedback • exhibitions and visitor programs • learning programs • outreach programs, including touring exhibitions, Museum in a Box and the Eureka Prizes.

Figure 2 Monthly visitation to the Australian Museum in 2006–07 compared to the five-year average

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Visitation Program evaluation Onsite attendance to public programs in 2006–07 The Museum’s Audience Research Centre conducted was 4.2% higher than the average attendance for the a range of evaluation studies during 2005–06. preceding five-year period. This was a good outcome A series of monthly exit surveys (see above) obtained given the challenges of developing and installing a profile of visitors before and during the Museum’s exhibitions and delivering programs during the Revitalisation Project. As well, the centre arranged Museum’s Revitalisation Project, which ran all year. for evaluation of Dinosaur Unearthed and the two new long-term exhibitions, Dinosaurs and Surviving During the year 317,667 people visited the Museum Australia. The centre also evaluated Science in the City at College Street. Of these: and Science in the Suburbs, with completed forms • 242,056 visited the standing exhibitions providing useful feedback about the programs from the students’ perspectives. • 60,311 visited a temporary or touring exhibition In other evaluations, the centre assessed: • 129,735 attended holiday programs • the early childhood program for the development • 30,302 were students and teaching staff of the new Kidspace exhibition • 7643 attended Science in the City. • future exhibition topics to inform the choice and (Note that these collectively exceed the number of development of exhibition programs over the next visitors given above because people visit more than five years. one exhibition or event.) As part of the New Literacies New Audiences ARC grant, the centre evaluated a trial series of digital Customer response stories and the Biomaps website. The centre has also begun a joint study of culturally diverse audiences Visitor feedback with the National Museum of Australia. Monthly surveys undertaken throughout the year (n=1300) have found that 42% of visitors to College Exhibitions and programs Street were Australian born, with 59% living in Australia. Thirty-six per cent of visitors were families, Sydney exhibitions with 29% visiting alone. The majority were educated The Museum offered onsite visitors a wide range of at graduate/postgraduate levels, with a slightly educational and entertaining experiences. Standing younger demographic, in particular 20–29 years (long-term) exhibitions were Skeletons, Indigenous (28%) and 30–39 years (26%). Forty-one per cent Australians, Planet of Minerals, Chapman Mineral were international tourists. Visitors most liked the Collection and Birds & Insects. All of these were Indigenous Australians and Wildlife Photographer of the accessible with the payment of the general Year exhibitions. Visitors wanted to see improvements admission fee. to finding their way around the Museum. The monthly surveys show that visitors were satisfied/very Three exhibitions were closed in January 2006 for satisfied with the overall visit (85%), value for money refurbishment: More than Dinosaurs, Tracks Through (78%) and the general exhibitions (78%), with 93% Time and Biodiversity. These will be replaced by two stating that they would recommend the Museum to new exciting exhibitions in 2008 entitled Surviving others. Australia and Dinosaurs. The Museum hosted eight major temporary or touring exhibitions and the Science in the City exposition as well as more than a dozen other new displays and smaller exhibits. Pearls, Eaten Alive and Science in the City required the payment of an additional fee. Table 4 shows visitation to each of the major temporary or touring exhibitions held at the Museum. 24 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Table 4 Visitors to onsite temporary exhibitions

Exhibition Dates Visitation

Pacific Patterns (a photographic exhibition from 1 Apr – 23 Jul 2006 28,104 Auckland NZ)

Pearls (American Museum of Natural History, NY) 8 Apr – 6 Aug 2006 10,961

Science in the City (in partnership with the 1–10 Aug 2006 7,643 University of Sydney)

Dinosaur Unearthed (fossil materials provided by 2 Sep – 19 Nov 2006 64,052 the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Canada)

Ko Tawa (Auckland Museum, NZ) 16 Sep – 26 Nov 2006 54,673

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2006 (Natural 9 Dec 2006 – 109,205 History Museum, London) 18 Mar 2007

Eaten Alive (Questacon: the National Science 16 Dec 2006 – 49,350 & Technology Centre, Canberra) 22 Apr 2007

Colliding Worlds (Museum Victoria and 6 Apr – 19 Aug 2007 61,839 Note to Table 4 Tandanya) The display period for several exhibitions overlap. As visitors may Australia Through the National Geographic Lens 12 May – 22 Jul 2007 27,787 visit more than one exhibition or (NGS, Washington DC) event, the total for these events exceeds the total onsite visitation for Total 413,614 the year quoted elsewhere.

The Museum also presented an interesting and diverse Fees apply for educator-led sessions in Indigenous program of smaller displays about: Australians, Animals Past and Present and Kids’ Island (Kidspace). • the Dent Bequest Other programs offered include: • Lizard Island • holiday programs • the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography 2006 • guided tours (including after-hours Torchlight Tours) • the Wollemi pine • displays by community groups • Stromatolites • environmental science displays • the Thylacine • workshops • Papunya art • competitions, including the Up Close & Spineless • Images from the scanning electron microscope photography competition (SEM). • Science Made Easy workshops The Museum offers several activity centres for hands- on experiences and for educator-led sessions. They are: • Changing Ways displays in the Indigenous Australians exhibition • Indigenous Australians • special events coinciding with relevant calendar • Animals Past and Present events. • search & discover Holiday programs and guided tours were accessible • Science Studio with the payment of an additional fee. • Education Foyer creative arts space • Kids’ Island (now Kidspace). Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 25

Visitor services Highlights this year included: The Visitor Services Unit has implemented and • Evolution of Australian Biota Study Days, a popular developed programs for a range of audiences, from joint venture with Taronga Zoo and the Royal the under-fives to groups with special needs, families Botanical Gardens, which catered for 2721 senior and the elderly. The programs offered include Biology students workshops for adults and children, special tours such as Torchlight Tours, an annual photographic • a total of 1935 visitors from USA high schools competition (Up Close & Spineless), temporary who visited with the Contiki – People to People exhibition programs, and a number of special events program to observe Aboriginal dance and learn and displays throughout the year. about Australia’s first peoples Achievements for the year included: • the Human Evolution program, an offsite activity for senior Biology students held in collaboration • four holiday programs that involved 129,735 with Taronga Zoo, which attracted 434 students visitors in events and workshops from 17 schools over 10 days • a total of 1959 visitors in guided tours, with the • Dinosaur Unearthed, with more than 700 students after-hours Torchlight Tours returning a profit for participating in ‘fossil-making’ workshops the Museum • the Ko Tawa exhibition, a culturally based program • hosting of seven displays by community groups and workshop for primary and secondary schools, and three environmental science displays especially those with Maori student populations • an Indigenous illustration workshop and 30 • other activities linked to the Eaten Alive, Australia Science Made Easy workshops which attracted 340 Through the National Geographic Lens and Colliding attendees Worlds temporary exhibitions. • the search & discover centre, which attracted 91,920 In revitalising its programs, Learning Services has: visitors and answered a total of 3320 enquiries • reviewed and rewritten most of its Teachers Packs • the Early Childhood program, which served and their activity sheets, comprising over 43 2272 children and their carers in the Family Day programs program, 1604 children and their carers in the Time to Play program and 30 group bookings • completed a new Historic Site Study and a Junior Evolution Trail program for years 7–10 students • the closure and relocation of Kids’ Island to a newly designed and constructed area called Kidspace • updated the Learning Services website section content • 1621 overseas students in groups. • produced three new brochures about its services Student programs • coordinated the Museum’s work experience In 2006–07, Learning Services maintained its levels program placing 20 students across the Museum of service to school, TAFE and tertiary clients, serving approximately 37,945 students, of which 7643 • held information evenings for teachers to promote attended Science in the City and 11,127 attended history and cultural programs. educator-led sessions. Feedback from teachers continues to emphasise the value of combining exhibition visits with workshop sessions, and of having separate designated teaching spaces such as the Science Studio. Educator-led sessions for students of all ages continue to be heavily booked. 26 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Indigenous learning programs Online services The Changing Ways space in the Indigenous Australians The Museum’s website is made up of the main site exhibition has featured artworks from: (www.australianmuseum.net.au) and 16 specific sites with their own domain names. Total user sessions • members of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist for all sites and domains in 2006–07 exceeded Cooperative 23 million, a significant increase (36%) over the • the artists Julie Freeman and Geoffrey Ferguson previous year (Table 5). from Illawarra South Coast • the Western Desert from the private collection of Eureka Prizes Museum entomologist Chris Reid. The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are Australia’s Indigenous staff from Learning Services were invited premier and most comprehensive awards celebrating to take part in a special reconciliation ceremony for outstanding science and science communication. They NSW schools held at Parliament House in August are also the largest national award scheme for research 2006 and attended several Indigenous forums and into the critical environmental sustainability issues conferences throughout the year. facing Australia. The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes raise the profile of science in the community by acknowledging and rewarding outstanding science-related achievements across research, leadership, innovation, school science, science communication and journalism. The 17th Australian Museum Eureka Prizes award dinner held in August 2006 saw 20 winners receive over $200,000 in prizes. Media coverage reached an audience estimated at 16 million.

Table 5 Growth in online services as user sessions and page views on the Australian Museum website

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

User sessions (million) 5.13 8.31 12.21 17.15 23.34

Page views (million) 16.76 24.27 37.98 50.72 61.54

Table 6 Visitors to Australian Museum touring exhibitions

Exhibition Location Dates Visitation

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2005 Newcastle Regional Library 30 Jun – 6 Aug 2006 12,406

Queensland Museum, Southbank 19 Aug – 15 Oct 2006 48,917

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2006 South Australian Museum 27 Mar – 20 May 2007 6,693

Life Beyond the Tomb Museum of New Zealand: Te 9 Dec 2006 – 29 Apr 2007 >150,000 Papa Tongarewa (to date)

Auckland War Memorial 25 May – 12 Aug 2007 Museum: Te Papa Whakahiku

Up Close & Spineless 2005 photographic Australian Fossil and Mineral 1 Jun – 18 Jul 2006 994 competition Museum, Bathurst

Total >219,010 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 27

Outreach programs Future directions Offsite, the Museum reached a total audience of over The coming year will see two new long-term 276,000 across NSW, interstate and overseas through exhibitions come to fruition, Dinosaurs and Surviving touring exhibitions and Museum in a Box: Australia. These major undertakings aside, the Museum aims to maintain a balanced, diverse and • 59,865 students around NSW used Museum in a interesting program of exhibitions and displays Box representing world cultures – especially Indigenous • around 13,400 saw Museum exhibitions visiting and Pacific cultures – natural history, contemporary regional museums in NSW Australia and controversial or challenging topics, supported by relevant visitor programs. The larger • 55,610 visited exhibitions touring interstate exhibitions planned for 2007–08 include African • in New Zealand, more than 150,000 have visited Impressions, Face to Face and the evergreen Wildlife the Life Beyond the Tomb exhibition up to 30 June. Photographer of the Year. Future directions for the Exhibitions & Creative Touring exhibitions Services branch aim to: The Museum managed the 2006–07 tours of the • deliver a suite of projects that update some of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2005 and 2006 older public areas of the Museum exhibitions. Life Beyond the Tomb, the Australian Museum’s exhibition in collaboration with • implement the Australian Museum Exhibition the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden Strategy 2006–16 during 2007–08 (The Netherlands), was presented at Museum of • develop and deliver a program of temporary New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa. Table 6 shows exhibitions that address the needs of visitors the number of visitors at of each location. • define and develop a strategy for the Australian Museum in a Box Museum’s web presence The Museum in a Box program reached 59,865 • develop and implement the new Museum website students in NSW preschools, primary schools and and hosting arrangements in 2007–08. secondary schools during the year. In 2007–08, Learning Services plans to maintain Museum in a Box is an outreach program serving its service levels while implementing several priority pre-school, primary and secondary students in rural programs including: and regional New South Wales. There are over 20 • a mini exhibition for International Polar Year different boxes containing a treasure trove of Museum specimens, dioramas, photos, video and audio tapes, • environmental education related to climate change games, books and software. Boxes are hired by teachers to support the educational curriculum. • online links to the Bugwise program The program continues to grow and exceeds expected • a focus on the Museum’s strength in primary targets in outreach. source material as a stimulus for Visual Arts Highlights this year have included: students. • a new Evolution of Australian Biota box for Stage 6 Biology students produced with the Royal Botanical Gardens and launched in October 2006 • planning and development of four new preschool boxes for release in early 2008 • workshops for nearly 200 student teachers at the University of New England at Armidale • promotions at Science in the City/Suburbs/Bush, Hawkesbury Museum and international visitors. 28 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Operations

Corporate services The Museum’s Operations Division Corporate Services consists of the Facilities Management, Finance, Human Resources and delivers knowledge services to internal Information Technology units. The services of these and external customers and corporate units are delivered solely to internal customers. support to the Museum’s other Facilities management divisions. The Operations Division The Australian Museum strives to be an consists of two branches: Corporate environmentally responsible community partner, aiming to minimise its environmental footprint by: and Knowledge Services, and • reviewing and managing its energy needs Commercial Services. • participating in recycling programs • pursuing sustainable procurement policies • contributing to the development of NSW environmental policies. The Museum has begun work with representatives of the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change to develop an action plan for delivering further sustainability benefits. The plan will be fully developed and implemented during 2007–08. During 2006–07, staff implemented Stage 2 of the Museum’s Fire Safety Strategy. This project minimises smoke hazards in the event of a fire in the public areas of the Museum by providing an operational integrated smoke-exhaust system. The strategy has resulted in new mechanical, fire and electrical services throughout the Museum’s main building complex. In addition, the unit undertook many smaller projects to implement health and safety measures, building maintenance and plant upgrades. Facilities Management staff have worked closely with engineers from Reed Constructions in planning for the new Collections and Research building, especially in resolving issues about the relocation of essential services on the site. The unit has begun a major project to maintain Museum roofs over several years. The first stage has seen the repair and sealing of the Atrium’s glass roof. Further works will assess and repair significant heritage roofing structures, requiring specialist tradespeople in copper and lead work. Further information on energy management, heritage management and waste reduction is provided in appendices O, P and Q, respectively. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 29

Human resources team management, project management, time The 2006–07 financial year saw increased activity in management, OHS, change management, first aid the areas of recruitment, policy review and training and computer software and development of staff, following the completion • Human Resources worked with and assisted the of the Museum’s restructure in the previous financial Internal Audit Bureau to conduct an audit of year. The Museum continued to pursue the objectives the Museum’s HR policies and practices and will of its EEO Plan, the main objectives being to implement the agreed recommendations in the improve: next financial year. • the Museum’s people management capabilities and The Joint Consultative Committee (JCC) between practice the Museum and the Public Service Association met • its commitment to a diverse and skilled workforce regularly to provide an effective means for resolving and gender equity. employee-related issues. The JCC also endorsed the Dignity and Respect in the Workplace Charter and The third instalment of the 2004 Public Sector Pay Anti-bullying Policy. Sub-committees of the JCC were Award was paid to all staff in the first full pay period formed to: in July 2006. • review and update the Museum’s Employee-Related The Museum’s Occupational Health and Safety Concerns and Grievance Policy for endorsement Committee continued to work with Museum and implementation in 2007–08 management in identifying, assessing and managing workplace hazards to ensure that the Museum • develop a personal performance program (PPP) complies with its legislative responsibilities under the for matching organisational goals with the NSW Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000. performance and development of staff. The Museum made significant advances on safety Appendix R provides details about Senior Executive issues including: Service officers, staffing and EEO trends and the Museum’s OHS performance. • an updated and improved Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Policy made available to staff Information Technology and visitors alike The Information Technology Unit (ITU) has • comprehensive training for management and continued to support the Museum’s technology staff in OHS responsibilities, risk assessment and requirements. management The Museum has increased both its hardware and • implementation of an improved OHS management system capacity as part of a longer term Information system, which included updating of information Technology Strategic Plan. Specifically, the ITU has: and management tools • implemented a new admissions system which • completion of a comprehensive risk/hazard integrates bookings, contacts management and assessment of Museum sites and the establishment point-of-sale systems of a Museum risk register with identified priorities • implemented a new image management system to • improved reporting and analysis mechanisms to manage the large volume of photographic images assist in health and safety management. stored by staff Other achievements for the year included: • purchased a new collection management server and backup system • a significant increase in offers of, and extensions to, temporary appointments following the assessment • purchased a new and improved firewall system of a proposed integration of the Australian and Powerhouse Museums trusts • continued to replace desktop PCs and laptops with newer equipment to maintain a modern fleet. • a continued commitment to the delivery of targeted skills training and development of staff, with employees across all salary ranges and occupation types attending courses in 30 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Knowledge services The Archives contributed research and images to a Knowledge Services consists of the Archives & range of Museum programs including: Records Unit and the Research Library. These • Learning Services heritage history school program units deliver services to both external and internal customers. Some services attract fees for cost recovery, • Birds in Backyards website but the bulk of services to external customers are free. • Digital Storytelling workshops

Archives & Records • Explore magazine The Archives & Records Unit manages the Museums • exhibition updates including Skeletons, Indigenous records, archives and photographic archives programs. Australia and Surviving Australia This year, the unit continued to renew its records • the proposed Icons publication. management program, with a focus on decentralising Staff provided advice about capturing digital images records registration to identified coordinators of the for projects that document building heritage and Museum’s file management software, TRIM, in each for implementing the Museum’s image management branch. The records management and TRIM training software. Archives staff also coordinated a survey with program has been rolled out to an additional 50 staff architects Clive Lucas Stapleton which resulted in the throughout the Museum. identification of an ‘archival set’ of heritage furniture. Over 1600 records were registered during the year. As a result of the Museum’s Revitalisation Project, The TRIM Users Procedures Manual was revised and Archives & Records received over 250 boxes released on the Museum intranet. Staff undertook of material from Museum sections which were a review of the system’s operating efficiency with temporarily relocating, necessitating a fitout of new assistance from an external consultant and revised storage areas. implemented vital security classifications and caveats. A test version of the software package TRIM Context The Archives conservation program embarked on was installed for review in preparation for an essential projects aiming to: upgrade to this system. • preserve audio–visual materials The Museum’s archives date from the 1830s and • conserve fragile paper-based records are regularly accessed by Museum staff and external researchers. Archives staff handled over 370 reference • commit vital records to microfiche. enquiries during the year. Significant enquiries related to: Research Library • repatriating Fijian and Indigenous cultural material Staff began reorganising the library during the year, held by the Museum installing a new compactus for housing the rare book collection. The new compactus stores approximately • tracking archival documentary material for the 10,000 volumes of books. A further 9000 volumes Museum’s ICAC investigation of journals, some fragile, are now stored in the old • using the ethnographic photograph collections of compactus. Work also began on returning divisional Frank Hurley, Thomas Dick and George Brown for library collections to the Research Library, with the various publications and exhibitions Ornithology library and most of the Mineralogy library now relocated. • undertaking grant research for Wanjuk Marika and the 1948 Arnhem Land expedition material of The Research Library provided images from rare F McCarthy. books to the for its exhibition Rational Order: Carl von Linné 1707–1778, and The Archives Unit purchased a collection of contributed to a number of exhibition projects within significant 19th century images and received several the Australian Museum. donations of papers and photographs, including an important set of ornithological papers. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 31

Service delivery Commercial services The Research Library provided the following services In 2006–07, the Commercial Services branch this year: delivered the following services to external customers on a for-profit basis: • acquired interlibrary loans for 228 staff members and filled 246 external interlibrary loan requests • Australian Museum Business Services (AMBS) • accessed 3502 serials • Retail Services • catalogued 516 items • Museum as a Venue.

• acquired 118 new books Australian Museum Business Services (AMBS) • responded to 273 queries on rare books AMBS performs a valuable function in providing • met 35 requests for images other government departments and commercial organisations with access to the Museum’s expertise • responded to a total of 369 in-depth reference and knowledge services. This need is met through queries – 149 from staff, 139 from researchers, two operational units offering services in ecology and students or teachers, and 81 from the general archaeology and heritage management, underpinned public, authors, commercial companies, by a third-party audited quality assurance program. government agencies and other libraries. Quality Assurance Certification Student and volunteer program Australian Museum Business Services is a quality- The library hosted the following tours and related assured organisation complying with the requirements activities: of quality system standard AS/ISO 9001. Certification • tour by New Librarian’s Symposium students has been retained following the November 2006 (November 2006) audit. The next external audit is scheduled for August 2007. • tour by Librarian students from Broken Bay College (June 2007) AMBS Ecology Unit • work placement for two students from TAFE NSW AMBS Ecology specialises in the assessment and for Library Technician course. management of the natural environment, including The Research Library has three volunteers. specialist knowledge in the fields of flora, fauna and their habitats. Australian Museum Business Services Donations Ecology works closely with Research & Collections Division staff to maximise use of Museum expertise. An annual donation of $350 was received from the A selection of key projects undertaken during the Mary and Michael Whelan Trust. financial year included: • development of a fauna management plan for the proposed Emirates Luxury Resort in the Wolgan Valley for United Emirates • ecological surveys to verify the pilot ‘BioBank’ predictive modeling tool for the Department of Environment and Climate Change • additional impact assessments for the Eastern Neighbourhood Park, Second Ponds Creek land release in Western Sydney for Landcom • monitoring and management of Green and Golden Bell Frog populations in metropolitan Sydney for a range of clients 32 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

• ongoing investigation of the impact of roads on Museum as a Venue in northern New South Wales for the NSW Museum as a Venue manages the hiring of galleries, Roads and Traffic Authority public spaces for events and other activities, as well • ecological assessments for upgrades of the Great as the retail food outlets. In 2006–07 over 15,000 Western Highway in the Blue Mountains for the people used the Museum’s galleries and public spaces NSW Roads and Traffic Authority. for events, further enhancing the Museum’s reputation as one of the premier function venues in Sydney. AMBS Archaeology & Heritage Unit A net profit of $136,380 was achieved. AMBS Archaeology & Heritage specialises in all The Museum has worked closely with our preferred aspects of Aboriginal archaeological assessment and caterer, Laissez-faire, over the last year with an average management, and it works closely with the Museum’s spend per visitor in the retail food outlets increasing anthropology staff. AMBS Archaeology is extending by 75% to $2.14. A business plan was presented its area of expertise in 2007 to provide consultant which outlined the development and growth of the services in: business over the next three years. • historic heritage Future directions • built and industrial heritage In the coming year, Commercial Services will • historical archaeology. consolidate potential synergies within the Museum A selection of key projects undertaken during the and develop commercial opportunities for the financial year included: Research & Collections Division. Australian Museum Business Services will be moved to the Collections • Illawarra Escarpment Aboriginal Heritage & Research Resources branch (CARR) from Management Plan for Wollongong City Council August 2007. • Renwick Sustainable Village Aboriginal Excavation, Museum as a Venue will focus on increasing revenue Mittagong for Landcom and profit through ongoing targeted marketing • Archaeological Salvage of Aboriginal Sites, Tebutt’s activities and on maximising opportunities following Farm, Schofields Road, Rouse Hill for J Wyndham the re-opening of the two new exhibition spaces Prince in 2008. • Historical Archaeological Assessment and Heritage The Musuem Shop will focus on increasing revenue Management Strategy: Oakdale Concept Plan, and profit through: Kemps Creek NSW for Goodman International • sourcing and developing product for the new Limited Dinosaurs exhibition • new historic heritage projects and ongoing heritage • ongoing marketing activities advice arising from the Bonnie Vale Day Use and Camping Area, Royal National Park, Test • developing a new branded product range. Excavation (Aboriginal). Other commercial activities will grow with the creation of a range of publications for the Museum Retail Services and licensed products for distribution through The Museum Shop was refitted in early 2007 traditional and non-traditional retail channels. delivering 15% more space and bringing the shop into line with the updated College Street entry and diner. The Museum Shop had a profitable year, with turnover reaching $884,600 and the average income per visitor rising to $2.92. The shop has an ambitious business plan for the development and growth of the business over the next three years. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 33

Appendices

A Profiles of Trustees 34 B Trust activities and committees 36 C Executive profiles 37 D Museum committees 40 E Ethnic Affairs Priority Statement 41 F Guarantee of service 42 G Use of consultants 42 H Privacy and personal information 43 I Freedom of information 43 J Overseas travel 46 K Code of conduct 48 L Credit card certification 48 M Publications 49 N Grants 57 O Energy management 60 P Heritage management 60 Q Waste reduction and recycling 61 R Staff, EEO and OHS statistics 61 34 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Appendix A Profiles of Trustees

Mr Brian Sherman AM (President) Ms Cate Blanchett the Institute of Environmental B Comm, CTA, SIA(Aff) Studies at UNSW and an Honorary Cate Blanchett is an internationally Associate Professor in the School Brian Sherman is Chairman of renowned actor and a graduate of of Geography and Environmental Sonic Communications Pty Ltd and the National Institute of Dramatic Sciences in the Faculty of Arts Pulse International Pty Ltd. He is Art. As of 2008, Cate will take up at Monash University. She was a Director of Channel Ten and a the position of co-Artistic Director appointed to the Trust in January Director of the Sherman Galleries. and co-CEO of the Sydney Theatre 2003. He is also a Director of a number Company. Cate is also Ambassador of investment companies listed on for the Australian Film Institute Ms Sam Mostyn the American and Canadian stock and the Australian Conservation BA, LLB exchanges and is Chairman of Foundation, and is a Patron of Aberdeen Leaders Limited, listed the Sydney Film Festival and of Sam Mostyn has an extensive on the Australian Stock Exchange. SolarAid. Cate was appointed to the background in law, corporate Brian is the former Chairman Trust in May 2007. affairs, human resources and and Joint Managing Director of politics. She is Group Executive, the EquitiLink Group, and was a Mr David Handley Culture and Reputation for the Director of the Sydney Organising BA, LLB (University of Sydney), Insurance Australia Group (IAG), Committee for the Olympic Games LLM (Kings College, University of where she is primarily responsible (SOCOG) and Chairman of SOCOG’s London) for the embodiment of sustainable Finance Committee. He is also management practices within the David Handley is an arts and sports involved in numerous charitable business. Sam also serves on the producer. He is the founding projects. He is Director of Voiceless, Academic Advisory Board of the director of Sculpture by the Sea, the fund for animals. Brian was Australian Institute of Management a director of Sculpture by the appointed to the Trust as President (AIM) and is on the Board of the Sea Incorporated, and Managing in January 2001. Sydney Festival and the Centenary Director of Bathtub Productions Pty Institute. Previously, she was the Ltd, an arts and sports production Mr Brian Schwartz AM (Deputy Director of Corporate Development company. David was appointed to President) and Acting Human Resources the Trust in January 2002. Director at Cable & Wireless Optus. Brian Schwartz is Chief Executive Before joining Cable & Wireless of Investec Bank (Australia) Dr Ronnie Harding Optus, she was a senior adviser Limited and a Director of Insurance BA (Sydney), BSc (Hons)(UNSW), (communications) to the Prime Australia Group Limited (IAG). PhD (Zoology)(UNSW) Minister, The Hon. PJ Keating. He is Deputy Chairman of the Board Ronnie Harding has had a lengthy Sam was appointed to the Trust in of Football Federation Australia. career as an academic in the January 2003. He is also a Fellow of the Institute field of environmental studies. of Chartered Accountants and She retired in late 2004 from her Dr Cindy Pan Member of the Institute of role as Director of the Institute MBBS, FRACGP Company Directors. Brian was of Environmental Studies at appointed to the Trust in Cindy Pan is a doctor who works the University of NSW (UNSW). March 2001. in the media. She is the author Ronnie is currently an Assistant of the best-selling Pandora’s Commissioner of the NSW Box (HarperCollins), a funny but Natural Resources Commission, information-packed book on Chair of the NSW Council on health, relationships, drugs and Environmental Education, a sex. She writes regular columns on member of the Board of the health and relationships in Body World Wildlife Fund Australia, and Soul (The Sunday Telegraph, a member of the NSW National Sunday Herald Sun and Sunday Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council Times) and Good Medicine and Chair of the Orica Botany magazines. She also writes regular Environmental Survey (Community columns for The Women’s Weekly Liaison Committee). Ronnie is a magazines in Singapore and Visiting Associate Professor in Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 35

Malaysia. She is best known for Mr Michael Seyffer Ms Julie Walton OAM her appearances on television’s B Town Planning (UNSW), AMP153 BA, LLB (Sydney), MT&CP (Sydney) The Panel, Beauty and the Beast, (Harvard) Julie Walton is a qualified lawyer Sunrise, The Super Debates, Michael Seyffer is Managing and urban planner, and a non- Sex/Life, Big Brother Uncut, Test Director of Victory Consulting practising solicitor of the Supreme Australia: National IQ Test 2002, Pty Ltd, a company that provides Court of NSW. Julie began her The Einstein Factor and the travel advice on urban development career as a policy officer with documentary The Ties that Bind. issues. Mike worked as a town the NSW Local Government and She has been Official Ambassador planner with a number of local Shires Associations before moving for Chinese New Year for the City councils before moving into the into government as a ministerial of Sydney since 2000 and AusAID development industry as a senior adviser and a consultant to Ambassador in 2003 and 2004. executive with Westfield, where government on legislation review, Cindy was appointed to the Trust in he was the director responsible for planning policy, public policy and January 2002. development for 10 years before regulatory systems. From 1991 moving into the international to 1999, Julie was a Sydney City Associate Professor Stephan role overseeing the company’s Councillor. From 1997 to 2000 she Schnierer businesses in New Zealand, Britain served as Chairman of the Fair MSc in Zoology (UQ) and South East Asia. He currently Trading Advisory Council and of Associate Professor Stephan advises QIC on its shopping centre the Property Services Advisory Schnierer is Head of the Centre assets across Australia. Mike has Council. Julie is currently Harbour for Indigenous Fisheries in the a number of rural interests and is Projects Manager at the Sydney School of Environmental Sciences very interested in rural and regional Harbour Foreshores Authority and and Management at Southern affairs. Mike was appointed to the was a Director of the State Transit Cross University, Lismore. Stephan Trust in May 2004. Authority until January 2004. Julie teaches in the areas of biology, was appointed to the Trust in ecology, and indigenous peoples January 2000. and natural resources. His research interests include traditional fishing knowledge and Indigenous rights. Stephan is currently a member of a number of advisory committees at the international, national and state level where he is an advocate on a wide range of Indigenous and environmental issues. He has worked with Indigenous communities in the area of the environment and resource management and is currently the chairperson of the NSW Indigenous Fisheries Working Group. Stephan was appointed to the Trust in January 1998 and he retired in December 2006. 36 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Appendix B Trust activities and committees

Trust meetings • Dr Hal Cogger (John Evans Australian Museum Members Memorial Fellow, Australian Council The Trust met on five occasions Museum) during the year. The attendance The Australian Museum Members record of Trustees was: Brian • Associate Professor Leslie Council is a committee of the Sherman (President) 4, Brian Head (School of Geosciences, Australian Museum Trust and was Schwartz (Deputy President) 4, University of Wollongong) established in 1972 to support and David Handley 4, Dr Ronnie Harding promote the work of the Australian • Frank Howarth (Director, 4, Samantha Mostyn 4, Dr Cindy Museum. The Members Council Australian Museum) Pan 5, Associate Professor Stephan consists of nine elected Members, Schnierer (retired December 2006) • Dr Klaus Koop (Director, four appointed representatives of 1, Michael Seyffer 5 and Julie Environmental and Conservation the Australian Museum, and the Walton 4. Sciences, NSW Department Executive Officer of Members. At of Environment and Climate 30 June, the Council of Australian Trust committees Change) Museum Members consisted of:

Finance and Audit Committee • Professor Margaret Derril Greenway (President) Rose (Director, Research This committee ensures the sound Matthew Wilson (Vice President) Management, South East & financial position of the Museum Illawara Area Health Service, Barry Wilson (Treasurer) through regular reviews of its University of New South Wales) financial position, budget, finance Karen Adams and business decisions and policies • Associate Professor Stephan Jim Boyce which have an impact on these Schnierer (Director, College of areas. The committee also has an Indigenous Australian Peoples, Bettina Dalton important role in risk management Southern Cross University) Peter Feeley and audit through endorsement • Brian Sherman (President, of internal and external audit James Gillespie Australian Museum Trust) plans, review of audit reports and Robert McLennan, the review of risk assessment and • Dr Brett Summerell (Director, management. Trustees on the Science and Public Programs, and from the Australian Museum: Finance and Audit Committee at 30 Botanic Gardens Trust) Frank Howarth (Museum Director) June 2007 were Brian Schwartz AM • Professor John Talent (Chair), Brian Sherman AM and Dr Penny Berents (Department of Planetary Cindy Pan. Sciences, ) Glenn Ferguson Research and Collections Advisory • Ms Natalie Snow, Secretary Shane McEvey Committee (Executive Officer, Research & Kate Murray (Executive Officer, This committee advises on the Collections, Australian Museum). Members). direction of research and collections Associate Professor Leslie Head management in the Museum. The and Associate Professor Stephan Trust Representation committee’s members are: Schnierer resigned from RACAC Lizard Island Reef Research • Dr Ronnie Harding, Chair during 2006-07 due to other Foundation (Museum Trustee and Visiting commitments. Associate Professor, Institute of The Trust has two members on Environmental Studies, UNSW) the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation: Dr Ronnie Harding • Professor Maria Byrne (School of and Michael Seyffer (from Biological Sciences, University of February 2007). Associate Professor Sydney) Stephan Schnierer retired from the • Dr Les Christidis (Assistant Foundation in December 2006. Director, Research & Collections,

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Appendix C Executive profiles

Mr Frank Howarth BA, MScSoc three years prior to joining the Community Relations Division Director Australian Museum, Janet held 1993–2000, which encompassed the post of Head of Planning and marketing, public relations, Frank Howarth trained as a Development and led the strategic special events and functions, geologist, completing a Geology planning, major projects and publishing and merchandising. degree at Macquarie University, forward program for NMSI’s three Jan is a member of the Council of followed by a Master of Science museums. Janet took up her current the Australian Museum Society, a and Society from the University position in August 2004. previous member of the executive of NSW, focusing on science of the Australian Museum Shops and biotechnology policy. Frank Dr Les Christidis BSc (Hons) Association and a member of the joined the NSW Government in (Melbourne), PhD (ANU) Italian Institute of Culture. 1981 and has held positions with Assistant Director, Research the Department of Industrial & Collections Catherine Brown Development and Decentralisation, A/Manager, Development NSW Science and Technology Les Christidis has established an Council, the Public Service internationally recognised research Catherine Brown has been Board, and the Roads and Traffic career aimed at investigating A/Manager of the Museum’s Authority. In 1996 he became the origins and evolution of Development Unit since January Director and Chief Executive of the Australian bird fauna using 2007. This unit is responsible the Royal Botanic Gardens and genetic-based techniques. It has for raising funds from the non- Domain Trust. In September 2003 included postings at the CSIRO and government sector and increasing Frank spent six months as Executive as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow at awareness of the Australian Director, Policy and Science at the the Australian National University Museum’s need for funds in NSW Department of Environment before joining Museum Victoria order to expand its collections and Conservation, before taking up as Curator of Birds. Subsequently and offer quality exhibitions. his current role in February 2004 as Les became Head Curator and Catherine’s background is in arts Director of the Australian Museum. later Head of Sciences. During management and she was most this time he was responsible for recently employed at the Royal Janet Carding MA (Cantab), MSc leading teams that developed Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, as (London) four of the opening exhibitions head of development. Her academic Assistant Director, Public Programs for the Melbourne Museum qualifications include a Master & Operations including those on dinosaurs and of Arts in Museum Studies and the Children’s Gallery. Dr Christidis Material Culture from the National Janet Carding is a graduate of also led the team developing shows Centre for Australian Studies at Cambridge and London universities for the new digital planetarium Monash University. Catherine majoring in History and Philosophy at Scienceworks. Les took up his sits on the board of the National of Science, and History of Science position in June 2004. Performing Youth Company, and Medicine, respectively. Janet the Flying Fruit Fly Circus, and is worked at the Science Museum (UK) Jan Barnett Dip Spec Ed, Grad Dip a mentor with the Fundraising from 1987 to 2004 and was initially Env Educ Institute of Australia. engaged in collection management Head, Exhibitions & Creative and then exhibition development Services Dr Penny Berents BSc (UNSW), MSc as project team member and (Sydney), PhD (ANU) then team leader. For five years, Jan Barnett was appointed Head, Collections Janet fulfilled several roles in the to the new position of Head, development of the Wellcome Exhibitions & Creative Services Penny Berents was appointed Wing, culminating in leading many in 2005 and is responsible for Head, Collections, in 2005 and has of the exhibition development exhibitions, publishing and website extensive experience in collections teams. Janet was subsequently development at the Australian management and research at responsible for a major review of Museum. From 2001 to 2004, the Australian Museum. Penny’s the National Museum of Science Jan was Head, Public Programs, museum career of more than and Industry (NMSI) which resulted which encompassed exhibitions, 30 years has included all aspects in a new strategic direction and education and house services. of collections management organisational changes. For the Before that, Jan was Head, including database development, 38 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

commercial projects, public is currently responsible for seven Recreation, Tourism, Education, programs, field work, teaching strategic resource units including and Minerals and Energy. She has and collections development DNA, Scanning Electron Microscopy, a degree in Applied Social Science and maintenance. Penny was Geographical Information and a diploma in Leisure Studies. responsible for collections and Systems, EMu database, Julie commenced her position with database enhancement as a part of Scientific Publications, Materials the Australian Museum in January the NSW State Biodiversity Strategy, Conservation and Intangible 2006. the implementation of the EMu Heritage and Outreach. Vinod database and science input to the is the Chairman of AusHeritage Lynda Kelly Biodiversity gallery. Penny has a (Australia’s international heritage Manager, Audience Research research interest in crustacean network established by the federal Lynda Kelly has been working in the systematics and is working on government). He is also a Board audience research and evaluation the systematics of cerapodine Member of the Australia India field since 1994. Lynda has amphipods. Council (Department for Foreign extensive experience in planning Affairs and Trade) and Board and conducting quantitative and Christine Callen Member of the International qualitative research for a variety Manager, Marketing Council of Museums Committee for of programs and clients – both Conservation. Before joining the Christine Callen was appointed inside and outside the Australian Australian Museum, he worked for Museum. Lynda has written widely, as the Marketing Manager in the J Paul Getty Trust (USA). presented many conference papers October 2004 and is responsible He has managed a number of major and facilitated workshops in for the Museum’s media, tourism projects in the Australasia–Pacific evaluation and visitor research. She and marketing activities. Christine Region and has published over is particularly interested in visitor has over 16 years experience 40 technical papers. in cultural and academic experiences and learning outcomes and how these can be measured. environments, including work Julie Garradd with publications, graphic design Head, Visitor Programs & Services and marketing. Before joining the Dr Brian Lassig BSc, MSc (University Australian Museum, Christine was Julie Garradd has an extensive of Qld), PhD (Macquarie) Marketing Manager at the Historic background in visitor programs and Head, Research services in a number of settings Houses Trust of NSW. Academic Brian Lassig has worked in a including sport and recreation, qualifications include a Bachelor variety of private and public tourism, local government and of Graphic Design, and a Graduate sector research management the arts sector. Before joining the Diploma in Art History and positions over the past 20 years. Museum, Julie had been Head of Curatorship from the Australian He joined the Museum in January Visitor Programs and Services at National University. Christine is 2005 and was appointed to his the Powerhouse Museum since currently a board member of the current position in August 2005. 1988, where she was responsible for Tourist Attractions Association He previously managed research introducing their highly successful and a member of the Australian programs for the Great Barrier and innovative public programs for Marketing Institute and the Reef Marine Park Authority in children, families and adults. Her Marketing Association of Australia Townsville and the Department of other positions at the Powerhouse and New Zealand. the Environment and Heritage in included Manager, Regional Canberra. Programs, Manager, Student and Vinod Daniel MSc Chemical Volunteer Programs, and Olympics Engineering (India), MSc Chemistry Noella Lopez Dip Mgt, MBA Coordinator. Julie has worked (Texas) Head, Commercial Services on special projects, such as the Head, Collections & Research new exhibition commissioning Noella Lopez has a background in Resources process. Her background includes the commercial sector in Europe Vinod Daniel is internationally staff training and development, and Australia with extensive recognised as a materials recreation facilities planning, experience in the management conservation professional and was and community development of small and large teams and appointed as Head, Collections & at a number of government in growing businesses, both in Research Resources, in 2005. He departments including Sport and hospitality and retail. Noella trained Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 39

as a manager specialising in the Between 1997 and 2000, Ken held hospitality industry, completing a the position of Director, Corporate Diploma of Management at the Services with the Department of Lycée Hotelier de Bordeaux in Ageing and Disability where he France. She recently completed a was responsible for a number Master of Business Administration of corporate reforms including majoring in Arts Management implementing the department’s at the University of Technology data rationalisation project, Sydney and the College of Fine Arts. implementing a new finance Before joining the Museum, Noella system and departmental structural was Marketing & Development change. From 1986 to 1992, Ken Manager for eight years with the was Administration Manager with largest Australian retail chain the Civil Aviation Authority. Ken dedicated to art, graphic and craft took up his current position in supplies. She was responsible for October 2001. all marketing and development aspects of the company including supplier negotiations, product management, sourcing and development, store merchandising, store openings and the creation of a retail concept. Noella joined the Museum in November 2005.

Roger Muller BCom (Hon) (Melbourne) Executive Officer, Director’s Office

Roger Muller is the Minutes Secretary to the Museum Trust. Before joining the Museum in 1996, Roger was a Diplomatic Officer in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Roger’s diplomatic career of more than 20 years included postings to the United Kingdom, the United Nations in New York, Nigeria, the Netherlands and Nauru.

Ken Pope Head, Corporate and Knowledge Services

Ken Pope has a background in senior administration with both the state and federal governments. Before joining the Museum, Ken spent six months with the Olympic Co-ordination Authority delivering sponsor-related showcasing, media, retailing and general services at during the Sydney Olympics and Paralympics. 40 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Appendix D Museum committees

This appendix lists significant representatives), Walter Boles, Marketing & Publicity), Janet committees of the Australian Fara Pelarek and Liz Romer Carding (Assistant Director, Public Museum and their membership at (research representatives), Daniel Programs & Operations), Mark 30 June 2007. Large and Storm Stanford (welfare Eldridge (Research Scientist), Glenn representatives), and Val Hutt Ferguson (Manager, Exhibitions), Project Control Group and Surrey Jacobs (community Julie Garradd (Head, Visitor & representatives). Learning Services), Jenny Horder The Project Control Group is (Manager, Learning Services), responsible for overseeing the Editorial Committee, Records of the Lynda Kelly (Manager, Audience management of the capital works Australian Museum Research), Noella Lopez (Manager, program under the Museum’s Commercial Services) and Shelley Revitalisation Project. The group Members of the Editorial Truskett (minutes secretary). reports to the Museum Trust on Committee are experts in their progress and important issues. fields. They offer the editor advice Its members are Michael Seyffer on the scientific quality and (Trustee), Frank Howarth (Museum suitability of manuscripts submitted Director), Janet Carding (Assistant for publication in the Records of the Director, Public Programs & Australian Museum. Its members Operations), Dr Les Christidis are Dr Shane McEvey (editor, (Assistant Director, Research ex officio), Dr Val Attenbrow & Collections), Dr Penny Berents (associate editor, Anthropology), (Head, Collections), John Gale Dr Dan Bickel (associate editor, (Gale Planning Group), Phill Invertebrate Zoology), Dr Don Andrew (Savills Australia) and Colgan (associate editor, Zoology/ Trish McDonald and Jacquie Recsei Genetics), Dr Mark Eldridge (Project Officers). (associate editor, Zoology/Genetics), Dr Sandy Ingleby (associate editor, Animal Care and Ethics Committee Vertebrate Zoology), Dr Jeff Leis (associate editor, Vertebrate As a registered user of animals for Zoology), Dr Chris Reid (associate scientific purposes, the Australian editor, Invertebrate Zoology) and Museum must comply with the Dr George Wilson (associate editor, requirements of the Animal Invertebrate Zoology). Research Act 1985 and the current Australian code of practice for Program Review Committee the care and use of animals for scientific purposes. In accord with The Program Review Committee the requirements of the Act and the is responsible for developing and Code, the Museum has established initiating the Museum’s forward the Australian Museum Animal strategic program of exhibitions Care and Ethics Committee to apply and public programs in alignment principles that govern the ethical with the Museum’s Corporate conduct of persons whose work Strategic Plan. This work includes on behalf of the Museum involves identifying and evaluating the use of animals for scientific concepts and proposals, setting the purposes. The committee must program schedule and developing ensure that the use of animals is briefs for exhibition and program justified, provides for the welfare of development. those animals and incorporates the Its members are Jan Barnett principles of replacement, reduction (Chair and Head, Exhibitions & and refinement. Creative Services), Penny Berents Its members are Richard Major (Head, Collections), Cate Brown (Chair), Glenn Shea, Damien (A/Manager, Development), Higgins and David Vella (veterinary Christine Callen (Manager, Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 41

Appendix E Ethnic Affairs Priority Statement

Over the last financial year, our The Museum offers a number of • the Museum granted a Visiting exhibitions and public programs programs which seek to unlock Collections Fellowship to Dr have continued to focus on the collections through promoting Martin Thomas (University of incorporating multicultural content access by Indigenous researchers Sydney) to obtain important into the Museum’s initiatives. The and communities both in Australia contextual information from implementation of programs for and in the Pacific. This year, for Indigenous Arnhem Land the Life Beyond the Tomb: Death in example: communities relating to objects, Ancient Egypt exhibition involved including significant bark • cultural leader Esiteri liaison with members of the paintings, gathered during the Kamikamica, of Fiji, spent two Australian Egyptian community in American Australian Scientific weeks at the Museum studying the development of the exhibition Expedition to Arnhem Land in more than 200 objects in the content and programs designed to 1948 Pacific collections accompany the exhibition. • The Intangible Cultural Heritage • Director of the Vanuatu Cultural Other initiatives have included Program began, establishing Centre, Ralph Regenvanu, programs and displays on a smaller links with Arnhem Land visited the Museum to view the scale. One of these was a visit communities (especially Yirrkala) development of the Intangible from a group of tamariki (Maori to explore ways of increasing Heritage Access Database and children) and Maori elders from remote access to digital objects the input of information from the Newcastle Poi Turaki Club. This held at the Museum. Chief Jerry Taki’s visit in 2006. group came for a private tour of A number of outreach programs the Maori collection. This visit was The Museum has continued to have been undertaken with to become part of a journey which initiate and build on relationships countries in the Pacific, including: has showcased and will continue with a number of Australian to showcase Maori heritage to Indigenous communities through • working with the museums hundreds of people. its repatriation and outreach and cultural centres of Yap, programs. This year: Palau, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa to The Australian Museum also build professional capabilities exhibited a small display • six sets of ancestral remains in the management of cultural commemorating Waitangi Day, were returned to representatives collections as part of a project the signing of a treaty at Waitangi of the Kimberley Aboriginal funded by the International on 6 February 1840 by a group Law and Culture Centre who Council of Museums, ‘Emerging of Maori chiefs and the British received the remains on behalf Pacific Cultural Centres: Government. The display exhibited of Kimberley communities, and Australian Museum Partnership Maori artefacts of significant three ancestral remains were Program’ cultural importance, a display returned for reburial to La panel describing the relevance of Perouse Aboriginal Land Council • a collaboration with the Pacific the artefacts to Waitangi Day and Islands Museums Association • representatives of the Batabah including a facsimile of the Maori (PIMA) to preserve and manage Local Aboriginal Land Council version of the treaty. Pacific natural and cultural visited the collections and made heritage. a selection of objects that will be loaned to their new cultural centre 42 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Appendix F Appendix G Guarantee of service Use of consultants

The Australian Museum is There were no consultants engaged committed to: during the year where the fee was over $30,000. • gathering and communicating accurate information and The Museum engaged two providing high quality activities consultants where the fee was and services supportive of our less than $30,000 and the total mission and relevant to the expenditure on these services was community $31,342. The services provided were: • ensuring that the Museum’s public environment is • security documentation comfortable and our staff are • research into best practice of friendly, reliable and respectful security processes. of the interests and needs of visitors and other Museum customers

• providing visitors with a fair and reasonable opportunity to be heard regarding any aspect of the running of the Museum

• providing innovative public programs using a variety of media to give entertaining, stimulating and educational experiences

• maintaining and improving our scientific collections including their documentation, conservation and accessibility

• conducting excellent and significant research and making the results available to the scientific community through publication in scientific journals and books, and to the public through public programs, print and electronic media.

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Appendix H Appendix I Privacy and personal information Freedom of information

The Australian Museum’s Privacy Statement of Affairs Management Plan outlines The following Statement of how the Museum complies with Affairs for the Australian Museum the NSW Privacy and Personal is presented in accordance with Information Protection Act 1998 the Freedom of Information Act and the standards outlined in its 1989, Section 14 (1) (b) and 3. The Information Protection Principles. Museum’s Statement (FOI Agency The Museum’s privacy plan outlines No 377) is correct as at 30 June the personal information held 2007. by the Museum and strategies to ensure the Museum effectively The Australian Museum had its meets its responsibilities under inception as the Colonial Museum the Act. in 1827 and was subsequently incorporated by Act of Parliament The plan is available to staff on the as the Australian Museum in 1853. Museum’s intranet. Copies may be The Australian Museum Trust Act, obtained by contacting the Privacy 1975, No.95 and the Australian Contact Officer, Archives & Records Museum Trust Regulation, 2003 Unit, Australian Museum, 6 College define the powers, authorities, Street, Sydney NSW 2010, phone: duties and functions of the 02 9320 6148 or fax: 02 9320 6050. Australian Museum Trust. All The Museum’s website privacy officers and employees of the statement is published on the Museum are appointed or website: employed under the Public Sector www.australianmuseum.net.au. Management Act 2002. There were no applications for The organisation chart (see internal review during the year. page 7) outlines the formal structure and responsibilities of the various divisions of the Museum.

The purpose of the Museum is ‘to inspire the exploration of nature and cultures’. Its vision is ‘a beautiful and sustainable natural world with vibrant and diverse cultures’.

The Museum will provide visitors and the wider audience with a fair and reasonable opportunity to be heard regarding any aspect of the running of this Museum. The Museum regularly surveys and monitors community opinions and involves itself in a wide range of public discussion and liaison with various groups. 44 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

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Appendix J Overseas travel

Staff of the Australian Museum are required to travel overseas for the purposes of presenting papers at international symposia and curating travelling exhibitions to meet contractual obligations. Table A1 presents details of overseas travel approved for staff in 2006–07.

Table A1 Overseas travel by Australian Museum staff in 2006–07

Name Purpose Country Dates

Dan Bickel • attend the 6th International Congress of Dipterolog Japan 22–29 Sep 2006

• present two oral papers

• chair a systematics symposium and a symposium on taxonomic publishing.

Penny Berents • participate in a workshop on ‘Overcoming the Digitisation USA 5–16 Sep 2006 Bottleneck in Natural History Collections’ at Harvard University.

Louise Berg • hold exhibition planning meetings for Vatican Treasures with New Zealand 12–14 Mar 2007 senior staff at Auckland Museum.

Janet Carding • attend ICOM NATHIST (International Committee for Museums New Zealand 26 Nov – 2 Dec 2006 and Collections of Natural History)

• present abstract on ‘Revitalisation at The Australian Museum’

Gerry Cassis • attend the International Heteropterists Society congress in the Singapore, 14 Jul – 6 Aug 2006 Netherlands Netherland, Switzerland, UK • present project results to the scientific community

• attend the third team meeting and workshop for the PBI team in Switzerland.

• undertake planning with co-principal investigator, Dr Randall USA 7–25 Mar 2007 Shah of the American Museum of Natural History (New York)

• attend a meeting funded by the NSF for principal investigators

• present progress report and lead a workshop on online taxonomy and web-mapping technologies

• consult with scientists from Canada and students from Cornell University.

Les Christidis • undertake a project with the Pacific Islands Museums Tonga, Palau, 26 Feb – 22 Apr 2007 Association on ‘Emerging Pacific Cultural Centres: Australian Fiji, Samoa Museum Partnership Program’

• Initiate a 5-year international research program linked to a Canada 15–22 Jun 2007 $100 million funding request.

Elliott Cole • manage the installation of the Australian Museum’s exhibition New Zealand 13–22 May 2007 ‘Life Beyond the Tomb’ at Auckland Museum.

Vinod Daniel • undertake a project with the Pacific Islands Museums Tonga, Palau, 26 Feb – 22 Apr 2007 Association on ‘Emerging Pacific Cultural Centres: Australian Fiji, Samoa Museum Partnership Program’

Dan Faith • attend the Evolution 2007 meetings in Christchurch New Zealand 15–21 Jun 2007

• attend the annual meeting of the fellow editors of Systematic Biology Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 47

Name Purpose Country Dates

Glenn Ferguson • acquire major international cultural exhibition for Sydney New Zealand 14–17 Mar 2007

• place NSW exhibition in Auckland

• develop and exchange major exhibitions with other Australian states and New Zealand counterparts.

Ian Graham • examine and describe diamond production site from BDI Indonesia 13–21 Nov 2006 Mining Corp’s Cempaka deposit

• conduct reconnaissance geological studies of the nearby Meratus Mountains of SE Kalimantan.

Frank Howarth • visit museums who are working with indigenous and nearby Vanuatu, 16–31 Jul 2006 cultures as research for a Pacific Cultures Gallery under the Canada, USA, Museum’s exhibition master plan. Sweden, France

• discuss collaboration on a Climate Change exhibition and New Zealand 7–10 Dec 2006 associated programs and a Vatican Museum exhibition

• attend opening of Life Beyond the Tomb exhibition and discuss further collaboration on Egyptian exhibitions with the Director of the RMO Museum.

• discuss and develop potential future exhibitions for the UK, Italy 28 Apr – 13 May Australian Museum with museums in Italy and the UK. 2007

Pat Hutchings • present an invited paper in a special symposium on China 21–27 May 2007 ‘Integrative tools and methods in assessing ecological integrity in estuarine and coastal systems’ as part of Ecosummit 2007, representing Australia

Rebecca Johnson • attend ‘Leading Lab Network’ workshop of the International USA 8–15 Jul 2007 Collaborative Barcode of Life Initiative.

Michael Kelly • travel to the St Louis Art Museum with loaned objects for USA 30 Sep – 15 Oct 2006 exhibition titled New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific.

• travel to St Louis to de-install the material from ‘New Ireland: USA 7–15 Jan 2007 Art of the South Pacific’

• check condition and repack

• oversee transfer of packed objects into a temporary secure off-site storage facility before transport to Paris.

• travel to USA and Paris for exhibition titled New Ireland: Art USA, France 10–19 Mar 2007 of the South Pacific to care for objects in ‘New Ireland: Art of the South Pacific’.

Kate Murray • escort group of Australian Museum Members on tour to South America, 8–25 Feb 2007 support and promote the work of the Australian Museum. Antarctica

Ellen Lloyd- • install the exhibition Life Beyond the Tomb. New Zealand 29 Apr – 4 May 2007 Shepherd

Mike Smith • install the exhibition Life Beyond the Tomb. New Zealand 21–29 Nov 2006

Barrina South • hand over the Ko Tawa Mauri Stone to the local people of New Zealand 1– 5 Feb 2007 Opotiki to signify the opening of the Ko Tawa exhibition.

Robin Torrence • collect essential data for testing a new theory about the Russia 21 Aug – 1 Oct 2006 origin of ancient trade.

George Wilson • undertake collaborative research with National Institute of New Zealand 25 Feb – 10 Mar Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). 2007

• present results of ABRS-funded research on a species flock of New Zealand 16–21 Jun 2007 freshwater isopods at an international conference

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Appendix K Appendix L Code of conduct Credit card certification

The Museum amended its Code The Australian Museum Trust has of Conduct in 2003–04 to comply a policy for the use of corporate with recommendations of the credit cards by staff that is in Independent Commission Against accordance with the Premier’s Corruption’s (ICAC) report on Memorandum 99–05 and the investigation into the theft of Treasurer’s Directions 205.01 to 08. zoological specimens from the No irregularities in the use of Australian Museum between 1997 corporate credit cards have been and 2002 and related matters. recorded during the year. There were no amendments to the Accordingly, I certify to the best Code of Conduct during the year. of my knowledge and belief, that credit card use for the Australian Museum Trust has been in accordance with the Premier’s Memoranda and the Treasurer’s Directions.

Frank Howarth Director Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 49

Appendix M Publications

Research publications Bauer A.M., T. Jackman, R.A. Sadlier Boles, W.E., 2006. Family & A.H. Whitaker, 2006. A New Rhipiduridae (Fantails). Pp. 200–242. Two issues of Records of the and Species of Diplodactylid In del Hoyo, J., Elliot, A. & Christie, Australian Museum: 58(3), 59(1). Gecko (Reptilia: Squamata: D.A. (eds). Handbook of Birds of Museum researcher is shown in Diplodactylidae) from Northwestern the World. Vol. 11. Old World bold type. New Caledonia. Pacific Science 60 Flycatchers to Old World Warblers. (1): 125-135. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. 798 pp. Archer, M., D.A. Arena, M. Bassarova, R.M.D. Beck, K. Black, Bickel, D.J., 2006. Parentia Boles, W.E., 2006. Key to the W.E. Boles, P. Brewer, B.N. Cooke, (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from families of Australasian birds. Pp. K. Crosby, A. Gillespie, H. Godthelp, Fiji: a biogeographic link with New 477–488. In Merrick, J.R., Archer, S.J. Hand, B.P. Kear, J. Louys, A. Caledonia and New Zealand. In: M., Hickey, G. & Lee, M. (ed). Morrell, J. Muirhead, K.K. Roberts, Evenhuis, N.L. and Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Evolution and Biogeography of J.D. Scanlon, K.J. Travouillon, and Fiji Arthropods V. Bishop Museum Australasian Vertebrates. Auscipub S. Wroe, 2006. Current status of Occasional Papers 89: 45–50. Pty Ltd., Sydney. 942 pp. species-level representation in Bickel, D.J., 2006. Papallacta Boles, W.E., 2006. The avian fossil faunas from selected fossil localities (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new record of Australia: an overview. in the Riversleigh World Heritage stenopterous genus from the Pp. 387–411. In Merrick, J.R., Archer, Area, northwestern Queensland. páramo of Ecuador. Tijdschrift voor M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds). Alcheringa Special Issue 1: 1–17. Entomologie 149: 209–213, figs. Evolution and Biogeography of Attenbrow, V., 2006. Aboriginal 1–4. Australasian Vertebrates. Auscipub placenames in Sydney Harbour, Pty Ltd., Sydney. 942 pp. Bickel, D.J., 2006. The New South Wales, Australia – a dual Amblypsilopus pulvillatus species Boles, W.E., 2006. A new songbird naming project. group (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: (Aves: Passeriformes) from the www.ncl.ac.uk/unescolandscapes/ Sciapodinae), a radiation in the mid-Tertiary of Riversleigh, files/ATTENBROWVal.pdf western Pacific. In: Evenhuis, northwestern Queensland. Baldwin, C.C., & J.M. Leis, N.L. and Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Alcheringa Special Issue 1: 31–37. 2007 Rainfordia opercularis, a Arthropods VI. Bishop Museum Botkin, D.B., H. Saxe, M.B. Araújo, liopropomin serranid (Teleostei: Occasional Papers 90: 51–66. R. Betts, R.H.W. Bradshaw, T. : Epinephelinae: Bickel, D.J., 2007. Replacement Cedhagen, P. Chesson, M.B. Davis, ): corroborative name for Alishania Bickel, 2004 T.P. Dawson, J. Etterson, D.P. Faith, evidence from settlement-stage (Diptera Dolichopodidae). Zootaxa S. Ferrier, A. Guisan, A. Skjoldborg larvae. Ichthyological Research 54: 1398: 68. Hansen, D.W. Hilbert, C. Loehle, 193–197. C. Margules, M.New, M.J. Sobel & Bickel, D.J., 2007. The Barraclough, D.A. & D.K. McAlpine, D.R.B. Stockwell, 2007. Forecasting Mesoamerican Mesorhaga (Diptera: 2006. Natalimyzidae, a new African effects of global warming on Dolichopodidae), with a taxonomic family of acalyptrate flies (Diptera, biodiversity. BioScience 57(3): review of the New World fauna. Schizophora, Sciomyzoidea). African 227–236. Zootaxa 1411: 47–67. Invertebrates 47: 117–134. Bottrill, R.S. & I.T. Graham, 2006. Bickel, D.J., 2007. Pharcoura Bauer A.M., T. Jackman, R.A. Sadlier Stichtite from western Tasmania. (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new & A.H. Whitaker, 2006. Australian Journal of Mineralogy genus from Chile. Tijdschrift voor A revision of the Bavayia validiclavis 12(2): 101–107. Entomologie 150: 5–12. group (Sqamata: Gekkota: Burns, E.L., M.D.B. Eldridge, D.M. Diplodactylidae), a clade of New Birch, W.D., L.M. Barron, C. McGee Crayn & B.A. Houlden, 2007. Low Caledonian geckos exhibiting & F.L. Sutherland, 2007. Gold- phylogeographic structure in a microendemism. Proceedings of the and diamond-bearing White Hills wide spread endangered Australian California Academy of Sciences 57: Gravel, ST Arnaud district, Victoria. frog Litoria aurea (Anura: Hylidae). 503–547. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences Conservation Genetics 8: 17–32. 54: 609-628. Capa, M. & P.A. Hutchings, 2006. Terebellidae (Polychaeta) from Coiba National Park, Panamanian 50 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

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2007. An arid-adapted middle Schiffer, M. & S.F. McEvey, 2006. Sutherland, F.L., 2006. Gemstone Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Drosophila bunnanda—a new mining and exploration in Australia. south-central Australia. Nature 445: species from northern Australia The Australian Gemmologist 22(11): 422–425. with notes on other Australian 496–502. members of the montium subgroup Pulvers, J.N. & D.J. Colgan, 2007. Sutherland, F.L. & G.B. Webb, 2007. (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Zootaxa Molecular phylogeography of the Australian sapphires and rubies. 1333: 1–23. fruit bat genus Melonycteris in Rocks and Minerals 82(2): 116–125. northern Melanesia. Journal of Schlacher, T.A., D.S. Schoeman, Sutherland, F.L., I.T. Graham, Biogeography 34: 712–723. M. Lastra, A. Jones, J. Dugan, F. S.M. Forsyth, H. Zwingmann & J.L. Scapini & A. McLachlan, 2006. Reid, C.A.M., 2006. A taxonomic Everard, 2006. The Tamar Trough Neglected ecosystems bear the revision of the Australian revisited: Correlation between brunt of change. Ethology Ecology Chrysomelinae, with a key sedimentary beds, basalts their & Evolution 18(4): 349–351. (Forum to the genera (Coleoptera: ages and valley evolution, North Article). Chrysomelidae). Zootaxa 1292: Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings 1–119. Scholtz, G. & G.D. Edgecombe, of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 2006. The evolution of 140: 49–72. Sadlier R.A., S.A Smith & A.M.Bauer, arthropod heads: reconciling 2006. A new genus for the New Symonds, M.R.E., L. Christidis & N. morphological, developmental Caledonian Scincid Lizard Lygosoma Johnson, 2006. Latitudinal gradients and palaeontological evidence. euryotis Werner 1909, and the in abundance, and the causes of Development, Genes and Evolution description of a new species. rarity in the tropics: a test using 216: 395-415. Records of the Australian Museum Australian honeyeaters (Aves: 58: 19–28. Schug, M.D., S.G. Smith, A. Tozier- Meliphagidae). Oecologia 149: Pearce & S.F. McEvey, 2007. The 406–417. Sadlier R.A., A.M Bauer & genetic structure of Drosophila S.A.Smith, 2006. A new species of Takeuchi, I. & J.K. Lowry, 2007. ananassae populations from Asia, Nannoscincus Günther (Squamata: Description of Metaprotella Australia, and the South Pacific. Scincidae) from high elevation haswelliana (Mayer, 1882) Genetics 175(3): 1429–1440. forest in southern New Caledonia. (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Records of the Australian Museum Slatyer, C., W.F. Ponder, D. Rosauer Caprellidae) from Western Australia 58: 29–36. & L. Davis, 2007. Between a rock with designation of a neotype. and a dry place – land snails in arid Zootaxa 1466: 11–18. San Martín, G. M.T. Aguado & Australia. In: Dickman, C., Lunney, A. Murray, 2007. A new genus Torrence, R., 2006. Celebrating D & Burgin, S. (eds) Animals of and species of Syllidae (Annelida: differences. Archaeologies 2: 80–84. arid Australia. Out on their own? Polychaeta) from Australia with Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Vaccari, N.E., B.G. Waisfeld, B.D.E. unusual morphological characters Mosman. Chatterton & G.D. Edgecombe, and uncertain systematic position. 2006. New raphiophorid trilobites Proceedings of the Biological Smith, S.A., R.A. Sadlier, A.M. from the Ordovician of Argentina Society of Washington 120(1): Bauer, C.C. Austin & T. Jackman, and their biogeographic 39–48. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of the implications. Memoirs of the scincid lizards of New Caledonia San Martín, G. & P.A. Hutchings, Association of Australasian and adjacent areas: Evidence for 2006 Eusyllinae (Polychaeta, Palaeontologists 32: 353–374. a single origin of the endemic Syllidae) from Australia with the skinks of Tasmantis. Molecular Wagele, H., V. Vonnemann & description of a new genus and Phylogenetics and Evolution 43: W.B. Rudman, 2006. Umbraculum fifteen new species. Records of the 1151–1166. umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786) Australian Museum 58(3): 257–370. (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Smithers, C.N., 2007. Lord Howe Sarkar, S., R.L. Pressey, D.P. Faith, et Tylodinoidea) and the synonymy of Island Psocoptera (Insecta). Records al. 2006. Biodiversity Conservation U. mediterraneum (Lamarck, 1812). of the Australian Museum 59(1): Planning Tools: Present Status and Records of the Western Australian 9–26. Challenges for the Future. Annual Museum, Supplement 69: 69–82. Review of Environmental Resources 31: 123–59. 56 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

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Appendix N Grants

Tables A2 and A3 set out the Total funding for these projects details of grant-funded projects for 2006–07 was $1,039,271. Due administered by the Museum to actual payment dates, the total and by other institutions where funding shown in the financial a Museum research scientist was statements may differ from this nominated as principal investigator. figure.

Table A2 Grant-funded projects administered by the Australian Museum

Australian Museum staff shown in bold type

Principal investigator(s) Title of project Granting body

P Berents (coordinator for HerpNET Global Biodiversity Information Facility Australia Museum)

D Bickel Development of the checklists of Australian Diptera Department of the Environment and for the Australian Biological Resources Study’s online Water Resources Australian Faunal Directory

G Cassis Systematics, biogeography and host associations of Department of the Environment and the lacebugs of Australia Water Resources

R Schuh, G Cassis Planetary Biodiversity Inventory: Phytophagus US National Science Foundation insects as a model group for documenting planetary biodiversity

G Cassis, D Hochuli Hidden Losses: Identifying Co-extinction of Fauna on Department of Environment & Threatened Plants. Conservation, NSW Environmental Trust

G Cassis Identification of hemiptera samples Dept of Primary Industries and Water (Tasmania)

L Christidis, J Norman, Systematics, biogeography, genetic differentiation Department of the Environment and W Boles and conservation of the grasswren Amytornis Water Resources complex (Aves)

D Colgan, J Stanisic Morphological and molecular investigations of Department of the Environment and the systematics and biogeography of the speciose Water Resources landsnail genus Gyrocochlea

G Edgecombe Systematics of Australian scutigeromorph centipedes Department of the Environment and and the phylogeny of the Scutigeromorpha based Water Resources on morphological and molecular data.

P Flemons Australian Biodiversity Information Facility Project Natural Heritage Trust (ABIF)

P Flemons, R Guralnick, GBIF – Map Analysis Portal Application (MAPA) Global Biodiversity Information Facility S Ferrier, D Faith

G Cassis, P Flemons, D Faith BioMaps Rio Tinto

G Cassis, P Flemons, D Faith Pilbara regional case study Rio Tinto

A Donnelly, J Gollan Bugwise Outreach Program NSW Environmental Trust

I Graham (recipient) Fellowship

P Hutchings, C Glasby, Polychaete biodiversity project Department of the Environment and R Wilson Water Resources

P Hutchings Identification of native, exotic and cryptogenic Department of the Environment and species of polychaetes from port surveys Water Resources Natural Heritage Trust 58 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Principal investigator(s) Title of project Granting body

S Keable (coordinator) Description of the broad ecological, economic and Department of the Environment and social characteristics for the development of a Water Resources marine bioregional plan for the DEWR East Marine Region

J Leis, L Mason , GP Jones Resilience and connectivity: development of and test Marine & Tropical Sciences Research (Project leader for Prog 8: of realistic larval-fish dispersal models for the Great Facility T Hughes) Barrier Reef (project within Program 8: Sustainable use and management of marine resources of the GBR)

I Loch Documentation of land snails of the Great Dividing Department of the Environment and Range between Gloucester and Oxley Highway, Water Resources encompassing the Manning River Valley, New South Wales

J Lowry Circum-Australia Amphipods Department of the Environment and Water Resources

J Lowry Australian Benthic marine Amphipoda: Monograph Department of the Environment and and illustrative interactive Identification Systems Water Resources

W Ponder Determination of aquatic invertebrates from spring BHP Billiton samples

W Ponder Editing of Freshwater Key to Freshwater Mollusca Department of the Environment and Water Resources

L Wilkie, J Gollan Riparian habitat rehabilitation (Bugwise) NSW Environmental Trust

G Wilson Arafura Sea Project Department of the Environment and Water Resources Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 59

Table A3 Grant-funded projects administered by another research institution

Australian Museum Research Scientist(s) are shown in bold type

Principal investigator(s) Title of project Granting body

S Ulm, V Attenbrow Marine carbon reservoir variability along the NSW Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Coast Engineering (AINSE)

P Hiscock, V Attenbrow Evolution of technology and tool use in 10,000 years Australian Research Council – Discovery of Aboriginal History Grant

N Evenhuis, D Bickel, Terrestrial Arthropods of Fiji National Science Foundation-BSI D Polhemus, M Irwin

L Christidis; V Daniel; S Valis Emerging Pacific Cultural Centre: Australian Museum International Council of Museums (ICOM) Partnership Program Australia

K Belov, M Eldridge, S Beck Characterisation of the tammar wallaby MHC Australian Research Council – Discovery Grant

D Faith Auction for landscape recovery in Western Australia National Heritage Trust, National Action Plan Salinity & Water

LA Hughes; AJ Beattie; A new phylogenetic framework for estimating local, Australian Research Council – Discovery DP Faith; RL Kitching regional and global biodiversity Grant

SG Dove, Dr WP Leggat, Assessing the risk of ocean acidification for the Australian Research Council – Linkage Prof D Yellowlees, Dr JM Lough, P Hutchings, Dr KG Caldeira.

JN Marshall, SP Collin, Deep Downunder: designing a deep-sea exploration Australian Research Council – Linkage RD McCauley, KA Fritsches, and discovery capability for Australia NS Hart, BM Degnan, SM Degnan, MD Norman, JN Hooper, P Hutchings, et al.

T Dymond, M Edwards, Birds as Indicators (program for schools) NRAC Forging Partnerships. A Freimanis, R Major, K Ravich,

J Christie, K French, Best practice guidelines for enhancing urban bird NSW Environmental Trust R Major, K Ravich, C Taylor diversity.

G Pyke Frogs as bio-indicators for chemical use in irrigation- Australian Government – Land & Water based agriculture Australia

AF Clarke, JP Philp , Producers and Collectors: Uncovering the Role of Australian Research Council – Linkage R Torrence Indigenous agency in the Formation of Museum.

R Torrence, N Klujev, Reconstructing Prehistoric Exchange of Volcanic Australian Research Council – Discovery Doelman Glasses (U Sydney) Grant

R Torrence, N Klujev Pleistocene Origins of Long-Distance Obsidian Wenner Gren Foundation for Exchange in Far Eastern Russia Anthropological Research 60 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Appendix O Appendix P Energy management Heritage management

The aim of the Government Energy The Australian Museum has a Management Policy is to achieve responsibility to identify and sustainable energy and cost manage the items of heritage reductions across the NSW Public which are in its ownership, care or Service. The policy uses 1995–96 as control. Under Section 170A of the a baseline against which savings Heritage Act 1977, the Museum is are assessed. Table A4 shows the required to provide a statement Museum’s energy consumption on the condition of items on its from 2004 to 2007. register in the Annual Report.

Figure A1 shows the Museum’s The entire site bordered by College, energy consumption by fuel type. William and Yurong streets is included on the State Heritage Register (No. 805). In addition, the Table A4 Energy use at the Australian Museum 2004–2007 buildings are listed on the Register of the National Estate, Register 2004 2005 2006 2007 Change from of the National Trust and in the base year Central Sydney Heritage Local Energy use (GJ) 20,085 21,519 22,915 22,500 –10.4% Environmental Plan 2000. Within

Greenhouse gas (tonnes) 3,877 4,037 4,209 4,157 –18.9% this site are a number of buildings that are classified as being of State significance. They are: Note to Table A4 Base year was 1995–96, when energy • Lewis Wing use was 25,107 GJ and greenhouse gas emissions were 5128 tonnes. • Barnet Wing • Vernon Wing (including the Hallstrom Theatre) Figure A1 Energy consumption in the Australian • William Street (Farmer) Wing Museum by fuel type • National School Building.

These buildings are maintained in good condition. The National School Building is considered in fair

Natural gas 30% condition. Items of regional significance include: Electricity 64% • Still Addition Green power 4% • Spirit House Petrol 1% Diesel 1% • Old School Building.

These buildings are in good condition, except for the Old School Building, which is in fair condition.

All other buildings on the site are considered to be of local significance. They are considered to be in fair condition. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 61

Appendix Q Appendix R Waste reduction and recycling Staff, EEO and OHS statistics

The Museum’s Waste Reduction Senior Executive Service and Purchasing Policy was drafted There are currently three Senior in 1998 in liaison with the NSW Executive Service (SES) positions Environment Protection Authority. within the Museum. The Director, The Museum’s recycling and waste Frank Howarth, commenced system was implemented in April duties in February 2004. The 2001. The Museum aims to reduce Assistant Director, Public Programs the level of waste generated in & Operations, Janet Carding, both public and non-public areas of commenced duties in August 2004. the Museum. The Assistant Director, Research From November 2006 the Museum & Collections, Dr Les Christidis, ceased onsite sorting of recyclable commenced duties in June 2004. materials; this is now undertaken by Table A7 shows the number of a waste contractor. SES positions at 30 June for the Tables A5 and A6 show the amount reporting and previous four years. of waste generated by the Museum. Table A8 shows the number of The data from 2006 and 2007 female SES officers at 30 June for have been supplied by the waste the reporting and previous four contractor. years.

Table A5 Waste generated by the Australian Museum Table A7 Number and level of SES positions to 30 June 2006 at the Australian Museum from 2003 to the present Waste type 2003 2004 2005 2006 2004 2005 2006 2007 Paper (tonnes) 22.0 23.7 21.8 20.2 SES 4 1 1 1 1 Cardboard (kg) 9.4 9.4 8.6 9.2 SES 2 0 1 1 1 Plastic (kg) 0.7 0.3 0.2 0.2 SES 1 1 1 1 1 Aluminium (kg) 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.5

Glass (kg) 12.5 12.5 11.0 13.5

Total (kg) 45.4 46.7 42.4 43.6 Table A8 Number and level of female SES positions at the Australian Museum from 2003 General (m3) 936 936 936 1,090 to the present

2004 2005 2006 2007 Table A6 Waste generated by the Australian Museum to 30 June 2007 Female SES 0 1 1 1

Waste Management 2007

Volume collected (m3) 519.2

Weight collected (tonnes) 46.7

Weight to landfill (tonnes) 15.5

Percentage recycled 67%

Note to Table A6 The data for 2007 represents the six months from November 2006 to May 2007 and was the only data available at the time of publication. 62 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Staff statistics Table A9 Non-casual employees at the Australian Museum by salary at 30 June 2007 compared to previous years Table A9 shows the number of non-casual employees by salary at Level* 2004 2005 2006 2007 30 June 2007 compared to previous years. < $33,910 0 3 29 1 $33,910 – $44,537 15 14 28 9 Table A10 shows the number of non-casual employees by salary $44,538 – $49,781 31 25 77 31 level and status at 30 June 2007. $49,792 – $63,006 76 62 52 78

$63,007 – $81,478 79 77 26 91

$81,479 – $101,849 29 27 8 30

> $101,849 (non-SES) 15 15 13 12

> 101,849 SES 2 3 3 3

Total 247 226 236 255

* equivalent salary scale in 2007

Table A10 Non-casual employees at the Australian Museum by salary level and status at 30 June 2007 Men L evel* Women Adjustment Respondents was not E nglish Minority G roups P eople from Racial, Aboriginal P eople & Total Staff ( N umber) Torres Strait I slanders F irst Spoken as a Child E thnic, thno-Religious Requiring Work-related P eople with a Disability P eople with a Disability P eople Whose L anguage

< $33,910 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

$33,910 – $44,537 9 9 6 3 0 0 0 2 0

$44,538 – $49,781 31 31 11 20 0 10 8 0 0

$49,792 – $63,006 78 78 21 57 2 16 9 0 0

$63,007 – $81,478 91 91 43 48 2 14 9 1 0

$81,479 – $101,849 30 30 18 12 0 4 2 1 0

> $101,849 (non-SES) 12 12 8 4 0 2 0 0 0

> $101,849 (SES) 3 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0

Total 255 255 109 146 4 46 28 4 0

* equivalent salary scale in 2007 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 63

Table A11 Employees by employment basis and status at the Australian Museum at 30 June 2007 Men Women Adjustment Respondents was not E nglish Minority G roups E mployment B asis P eople from Racial, Aboriginal P eople & Total Staff ( N umber) Torres Strait I slanders F irst Spoken as a Child E thnic, thno-Religious Requiring Work-related P eople with a Disability P eople with a Disability P eople Whose L anguage

Permanent Full-time 146 146 86 60 2 29 19 3 0

Permanent Part-time 26 26 4 22 1 4 1 1 0

Temporary Full-time 61 61 14 47 1 11 8 0 0

Temporary Part-time 19 19 3 16 0 2 0 0 0

Contract – SES 3 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 0

Contract – non-SES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Training Positions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Retained Staff 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Casual 50 50 21 29 0 10 7 0 0

Total 305 305 130 175 4 56 35 4 0

Note to Table A11 Includes casuals not working at 30 June 2007 but considered part of the agency

Table A11 shows the number of Table A12 Trends in the representation of non-casual employees by EEO employees by employment basis status at 30 June 2007 (as % of total staff) and status at 30 June 2007. EEO Status Benchmark Table A12 shows trends in the or Target 2004 2005 2006 2007 representation of non-casual (%) (%) (%) (%) (%) employees by EEO status at 30 June Women 50 51 50 57 57 2007 (as % of total staff). Aboriginal people and 2 1.6 1.8 1.5 2 Torres Strait Islanders

People whose first language 20 8 29 3 12 was not English

People with a disability 12 15 7 4 2

People with a disability 7 1.2 0 0 0 requiring work-related adjustment 64 Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07

Table A13 shows trends in Occupational health and safety Following necessary workplace the distribution of non-casual investigations, assessments, In 2006–07 there were 10 lost-time employees by EEO status at 30 June modification/adjustments and injuries reported to the Museum’s 2007 (as a distribution index). rehabilitation support, all insurer. Of these claims, 20% employees have successfully were deemed a ‘significant injury’ Disability action plan resumed their pre-injury duties. under section 42 of the Workplace The Museum’s Disability Action Plan Injury Management & Workers was submitted to the Department Compensation Act 1998 – namely of Ageing, Disability and Home that the injured worker was absent Care in June 2000. The Museum from work for a continuous period continues to review physical access of more than seven days. Of the issues with a view to improving remaining workers compensation the level of access for people with claims: a disability. The Museum provides • 40% arose from falls at work/or free parking for groups of people falls while on a journey with disabilities, free admission to carers, and physical ramping where • 30% were the result of appropriate. ergonomics/work practices

• 10% were the result of faulty equipment/mechanics.

Table A13 Trends in the distribution of non-casual employees by EEO status at 30 June 2007 (as a distribution index)

EEO Status Benchmark 2004 2005 2006 2007 or Target

Women 100 90 87 86 92

Aboriginal people and 100 na na na na Torres Strait Islanders

People whose first language 100 na 97 na 97 was not English

People with a disability 100 99 na na na

People with a disability 100 na 0 na 0 requiring work-related adjustment

Notes to Table A13 1 A distribution index of 100 indicates In some cases the index may be more that the centre of the distribution of than 100, indicating that the EEO group the EEO group across salary levels is is less concentrated at lower salary levels. equivalent to that of other staff. Values The distribution index is automatically less than 100 mean that the EEO group calculated by the software provided by tends to be more concentrated at ODEOPE. lower salary levels than is the case for 2 The distribution index is not calculated other staff. The more pronounced this where EEO group or non-EEO group tendency is, the lower the index will be. numbers are less than 20. Australian Museum Detailed Report 2006–07 65

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