ANNUAL REPORT 2016–2017

Historic Houses Trust of ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 CONTENTS

CONTENTS

Acknowledgment of Country 2 APPENDICES 110 The Hon Don Harwin MLC From the Chairman 4

Minister for Resources, Minister for Energy and Utilities, From the Executive Director 5 Minister for the Arts, Vice-President of the Executive Council HHT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 133 Level 15, 52 Highlights 2016–17 6 NSW 2000 Performance overview 8 Program supporters & partners 198

Our vision, mission, values and approach 10 Admission fees & contacts 200

Index 202

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 12 Corporate partners 204

Dear Minister Our museums 13 Picture credits 205

On behalf of the Board of Trustees and in accordance with the provisions of the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Endangered Houses Fund 21 Act 1984, the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2015, we submit for presentation to Parliament the Annual Report of under the statutory authority of the Historic Board of Trustees 23 Houses Trust of New South Wales for the year ending 30 June 2017. Senior management structure 28

SLM divisions 30 Yours sincerely Organisational chart 31

Volunteers 32

Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of NSW 32

Strategic Plan development 33

Michael Rose am Mark Goggin Chairman Executive Director FIVE PILLARS 34 Increasing visitation 34

Deepening engagement 52

Investing in our assets 72

Growing revenue streams 92

The Historic Houses Trust of NSW, SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS T 02 8239 2288 Investing in people and culture 100 incorporating Sydney Living Head Office F 02 8239 2299 Museums, cares for significant historic The Mint E [email protected] places, buildings, landscapes and 10 Macquarie Street TTY 02 8239 2377 collections. It is a statutory authority Sydney NSW 2000 (telephone for people of, and principally funded by, with hearing disabilities) the NSW Government. This report and all our programs are published on our website sydneylivingmuseums.com.au 1 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY

Our museums and places are on Aboriginal land. We acknowledge the First Nations Peoples, the traditional custodians, and we pay respect to the Elders, past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Islander peoples. We understand and appreciate that Aboriginal peoples have deep and continuing cultural attachment to Country and are the rightful interpreters of their history and heritage. In this spirit, SLM values the diversity of Aboriginal connections to the places and landscapes we care for and is informed by the Aboriginal cultural heritage and identity that underpin SLM’s museums and places. This recognition guides the ways in which we create contemporary conversations and experiences at each of our sites.

 culture rock painting by Muru Mittigar artist Rhiannon Wright displayed at the Eel Festival. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums 2 3 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INTRODUCTION

FROM THE FROM THE CHAIRMAN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Michael Rose am Mark Goggin

The past year has been characterised by deepening tourists; the most popular cultural heritage activity is ‘to A focus of the past 12 months have been initiatives to position Key sites included Two International Towers, the EY Centre at engagement with our audiences and stronger connections visit history/heritage buildings, sites or monuments’. As SLM as a contemporary institution that offers unique, 200 George Street, Macquarie Bank’s offices at No 1 Martin with the precincts and communities in which our properties the Director-General of UNESCO remarked in a recent considered perspectives on the layers of our shared history. Place, the Calyx structure in the Royal Botanic Garden and an are located. Culture urban future summary, ‘tangible and intangible architect’s studio in the heritage-listed former woolstore on Two examples exemplify this. The Demolished Sydney heritage are integral parts of a city’s identity, creating a pier 8/9 at Walsh Bay. To mark the bicentenary of the NSW I am particularly proud of two of our activities highlighted exhibition at the invited reflection on the sense of belonging and cohesion’. We are keen to work with Government Architect’s Office and the Rum Hospital at The in this Annual Report. way in which building development and urban change have government and our cultural sector partners to enhance Mint, the program featured over 20 buildings designed and had regard for preserving buildings that document the city’s The first is the ongoing implementation of an Aboriginal Sydney’s identity and reputation. built by the Government Architect, from ’s mix of Georgian, Victorian, Art Deco, industrial and modernist Action Plan. This calls for our organisation to emphasise the St James’ Church of 1822 to the MCA’s Mordant Wing, The past year has seen the repositioning of SLM within the architecture. The ways in which we navigate the tension historic values of our properties and speak directly of the completed in 2012. NSW Government structure. In late January, coinciding with between renewal and the need to preserve heritage and , Darug and Dharawal cultures and the landscapes the appointment of The Hon Don Harwin MLC as Minister character were brought to light through the revealing SLM has enhanced its reputation for diverse and high-quality in which they are built. At the core of the Plan are the for the Arts, SLM joined the State Cultural Institutions within content of this exhibition. learning programs. Of note is the completion of the two-year calendar of Aboriginal cultural events and an Aboriginal the Arts portfolio. Minister Harwin has shown a keen interest Unlocking Heritage pilot project, which assisted over 22,000 Advisory Committee, which helps us connect with Aboriginal The first event of SLM’s series Aboriginal Sydney Speaks in our activities and has been a visitor to a number of our primary school students to participate in a heritage learning people and communities in ways that are respectful of both reflected on Governor Bourke’s 1835 Proclamation, made properties and events. On behalf of the Trustees, I would program at our sites, either through a Travel Subsidy for those Aboriginal history and contemporary Aboriginal culture at the first Government House, now the site of the Museum like to express our appreciation to Minister Harwin and also from identified socioeconomically disadvantaged schools (see pages 66–7). The objective is to develop a deeper of Sydney. This was the first official document to assert the thank the Minister for Heritage and Environment, The Hon or a unique Convict Sleepover for schools from remote and understanding of the country in which our 12 properties are concept of terra nullius, which sat at the heart of British SC MP, for his support and guidance while regional NSW. situated. In its second year, the cultural calendar of events occupation of . SLM was part of his portfolio responsibilities. has seen new audiences engage with SLM and provided Intergenerational experiences designed to support shared A panel of leading Aboriginal academic and cultural leaders new opportunities for existing audiences to ‘experience a During the year we said farewell to two Trustees, Alastair learning were a feature of programs developed for children explored the legacy of Governor Bourke’s proclamation whole other life’. In the process, we have deepened our Baxter, who had brought great energy and expertise to the and families at the Justice & Police Museum. In the historic in engaging, moving and at times provocative ways, and own understanding of our sites and their significance. boards of both the Trust and our Foundation, and Professor courtroom, participants role-play the legal process to contributed to a larger interpretation project about the site Grace Karskens, who, as one of Australia’s leading historians, determine a person’s guilt or innocence, based on colourful The second aspect is the enhanced positioning of our of first Government House at the Museum of Sydney. added so much to the scholarship, intellectual integrity and cases from our criminal history. properties in the precincts in which they are located. Whether historical focus of our organisation. I would like to thank both Museums are uniquely placed to draw on collections, it be The Mint and the Hyde Park Barracks as part of convict- A particularly impressive outcome has been the quality of Al and Grace for their outstanding contributions and I look archives and libraries, exhibitions and programs to contribute era Macquarie Street; the Museum of Sydney on the site of staff engagement in workshops to develop the Strategic forward to their ongoing connections to SLM. fresh perspectives on contemporary issues. Our repositioning Sydney’s first Government House and a neighbour of the Plan for 2017–22. The extent to which staff from across the as Sydney Living Museums, which commenced in 2013, is now sandstone edifices of Bridge Street; or Rouse Hill estate, Finally, I express my appreciation for the work of the museums identify with the values and objectives outlined in realising the ambition to position us as a unique institution, capturing our early agricultural history in one of Sydney’s Executive Director, his Executive Team and the staff and the repositioning of SLM four years ago was notable. The Plan with multiple venues linked by the narrative of place that urban growth areas, each property is defined by a sense volunteers who have contributed to the many achievements provides the framework for effective collaboration across the informs each. of place. This sense of place is central to the narrative and of the past year. Their knowledge, passion and genuine organisation to conceive and deliver programs, and to foster experiences we offer at each site. welcome to all our visitors are a most important part of the This approach is evident in the five ‘pillars’ that provide creative partnerships with other organisations aligned to a way in which our properties, and their stories, are shared. structure for portfolio and team business plans, and the mission and purpose. Key to the understanding of Sydney is the layering of built reporting structure for this Annual Report. They commit us and natural heritage cutting across time, and the layering of I pay tribute to the Board of Trustees for their wisdom and to become a leader in culturally activated heritage assets, stories, from the ancient story of Country to that of a dynamic guidance over the past 12 months, and to the Executive Team, to be an outwardly engaged organisation that nurtures contemporary city made up of over 200 nationalities. staff and volunteers who have worked with great commitment partnerships and collaborations, and to build diverse to deliver the achievements recorded in this report. We are also conscious of the contribution museums and audiences that are local, regional and international. heritage make to the NSW economy. Cultural and heritage The Sydney Open program exemplifies these ambitions. tourism generates over $11 billion annually, and culture and In its 12th year, the program attracted a record attendance heritage travellers represent close to 60% of all international Michael Rose am, Chairman of over 7700 ticketholders across the weekend, representing a 7% increase on 2015, and 20% on 2014.

 Above and opposite Michael Rose am; Mark Goggin. Photos © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums Mark Goggin, Executive Director 4 5 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INTRODUCTION

HIGHLIGHTS 2016–17

JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC

Bicentenary of the The Artist & the Botanical Spring Harvest Festival at Whale Festival at Vaucluse Demolished Sydney opens at Christmas Fare at the Rum Hospital Collector: The Lost Works of Elizabeth Farm House the Museum of Sydney Hyde Park Barracks Museum Lovegrove and Bäuerlen opens at the Museum of Sydney JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE

A new suite of activities Unlocking Heritage Sound Heritage at Refurbishment of Vaucluse Aboriginal Sydney Speaks at Winter Solstice at Elizabeth implemented at the Justice recommences for 2017 House drawing and the Museum of Sydney Bay House & Police Museum orientation rooms unveiled

Top, left to right Panoramic views of (detail), Major James Taylor, 1820. Reprinted by Tim McCormick, 1988, from original copper plates held by Top, left to right Djaadjawan Dancers and Ngaran Ngaran Culture Awareness at the Whale Festival. Photo © Stuart Miller for Sydney Living the State Library of NSW; 1. Cassia australis [Senna barronfieldii] and 2. unidentified grass (detail), Gertrude Lovegrove, c1888, watercolour. Caroline Simpson Museums; Museum of Sydney. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Christmas Fare. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums; Spring Harvest Festival. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Above, left to right Justice & Above, left to right drawing room. Photo © Jamie North for Sydney Living Museums; Samuel Wagan Watson (left) and Bruce Pascoe. Police Museum. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Students from Athelstane Public School participating in education program Life at the Barracks: Film still © Sydney Living Museums; Winter Solstice. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums Convicts and Migrants, Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Theo Small (flute), Professor Neal Peres da Costa, Esther Kim (piano) and Jemma Thrussell (cello) from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, at Elizabeth Bay House. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums 6 7 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INTRODUCTION

PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW

VISITATION EXPENDITURE 2016–17 SELF-GENERATED REVENUE 2016–17 TOTAL ASSETS AS AT 30 JUNE 2017*

July 2012 – June 2017 $26.579 million $7.544 million $281.442 million 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

592,518 647,051 700,667 1,010,894 1,107,471

Outreach and touring exhibition visitation Property visitation

Personnel services Commercial services* Land and buildings SELF-GENERATED REVENUE 67.3% 31.51% 83.4% 24.6% Other operating costs 17.22% Donations and sponsorships 11.2% Collection assets 4.2% Maintenance 31.76% Admissions 3.8% Cash and cash equivalents July 2012 – June 2017 † † 3.1% Depreciation 7.41% Programs and exhibitions 1.5% Other assets 0.2% Contract staff 5.24% Retail * The total assets include $13.795m in restricted 0.7% Insurance 3.22% Investments assets which represent bequests and donations held by the Trust to be used in 3.65% Other income accordance with the deed of trusts, caveats * Commercial services include venue hire, and other documents governing these funds. catering, and rental income from commercial leases. † Other assets include intangible assets ($1.641m), trade and other receivables † Programs and exhibitions include public ($1.634m), inventories ($163,000), and plant programs such as Sydney Open, exhibitions and and equipment ($855,000). touring exhibitions. 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17

$6.474m $9.102m $7.751m $8.798m $7.544m 8 9 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INTRODUCTION

OUR VISION OUR VALUES OUR APPROACH A future for the past. • Integrity – We speak and act honestly, • Fun – We wear our professionalism Our commitment to our audience is to recognise mistakes and learn from lightly. We are serious about what maintain the museums, landscapes and OUR MISSION them. We do things that are right for we do and stand for but aim to collections with integrity while presenting To care for significant places, buildings, SLM, and we consistently do what we have fun on the journey. the narrative of each in contemporary, collections and landscapes with integrity, say we will do. • Teamwork – We trust and respect compelling and relevant ways. We bring and enable people to enjoy and learn • Passion – We care about SLM and what each other, we listen, and we are a considered and thoughtful approach about them. the organisation stands for and want to fair, constructive and supportive. to revealing the contemporary currency share that with others. We actively contribute to improving in places and things, and providing pleasure and enthusiasm for learning. • Accountability – We take personal the way we do business and value the contributions of others. responsibility for and ownership of Our museums are held ‘in trust’ for future problems and act conscientiously. generations. Each has an individual plan We respond to the needs of our for its conservation and management customers and others. that embraces the specific qualities, significance and histories of that place and guides the approach to activities there. Our role is to give our properties and places a future as valuable as their past.

 Rouse Hill House & Farm. Photo © Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums 10 11 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

CORPORATE OUR CITY PORTFOLIO MUSEUMS JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM GOVERNANCE The Justice & Police Museum occupies three of Sydney’s most important mid-19th-century public buildings, constructed over 30 years by three successive NSW colonial architects. The buildings feature fine sandstone masonry, extensive red-cedar joinery, pressed metal and decorative ceilings, and important surviving features of the site’s history and function (up until the 1980s) as a courthouse and police watchhouse. They are some of the finest intact surviving examples of civic architecture of Sydney Living Museums (SLM) is a SLM cares for portfolio assets valued at more than $267 ‘SLM is the only organisation in Australia the colonial period. Colonial architects and James Barnet designed and built dozens of similar courthouse million, including buildings, land and museum collections. doing such a vast range of important leading government agency with Its built assets comprise a number of historic buildings complexes across NSW based on this early form established heritage work to a high standard. Our responsibility for conserving, managing, dating from between 1793 and 1950, and include several in Sydney. The Scottish architect Alexander Dawson was of the earliest surviving colonial buildings in Australia, cultural institutions are our societies’ responsible for the austere Water Police Station (1858) fronting interpreting and activating places as well as major public buildings of the Macquarie era. collective memory banks, and supporting Phillip Street. and sites of local, national and SLM collects, catalogues and conserves material relating them in this era of rapid change is more The museum houses a unique collection of objects relating to international significance. to the organisation’s core themes of domestic material important than ever before.’ crime, policing and legal history in NSW, including weapons, culture; the history of art, architecture and design; and bushranging artefacts, physical evidence from notable crimes, Edward Simpson, SLM Foundation Chair SLM was established in 1980 under the Historic Houses Act aspects of Sydney’s social history related to our sites and and a significant forensic photography archive of more than (NSW). From 1980 to 2013 it was known by its corporate the people who lived there. The collections include furniture, 130,000 cellulose and glass-plate negatives. name, the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT). ceramics, silverware, soft furnishings, household and Following a significant review of structure and operations in personal accessories, costumes, artworks, photographs 2013, it has been known as Sydney Living Museums. As the and archaeological artefacts. Most objects are on display Act has not been amended to reflect the name change, the to the public. financial statements included in this report retain the name The collections held are valued at more than $31 million. Historic Houses Trust, while all other references adopt the All are of cultural and heritage significance to the history publicly recognised name, Sydney Living Museums. of NSW. The public can access the collections electronically Following changes to ministerial responsibilities announced through a suite of online catalogues, including the Library by the Premier of NSW in late January 2017, SLM was Catalogue, the Pictures Catalogue, the Colonial Plants transferred to the Department of Planning and Environment. Database and the Museums Collections Catalogue. As part of the transfer it joined the State Cultural Institutions SLM’s sites and collections are promoted both as a – the Art Gallery of NSW, the , Sydney collective of culturally activated heritage sites and as Opera House, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, single destinations. and the State Library of New South Wales – reporting to the Minister for the Arts, The Hon Don Harwin MLC. SLM SLM’s exhibitions, public programs and online offer had previously formed part of the Office of Environment bring history to life by exploring various themes, such as and Heritage, reporting to the then Minister for the architecture, botanic art, convicts, crime and policing, Environment, The Hon Mark Speakman SC MP. Aboriginal history, and Sydney’s places and people, past and present. Each exhibition and program is addressed SLM maintains and opens to the public 12 museums: in a unique way to create an engaging experience for Elizabeth Bay House, Elizabeth Farm, Hyde Park Barracks visitors. SLM audiences are local, regional, national and Museum, Justice & Police Museum, Meroogal, Museum of international. Sydney on the site of first Government House, , Rouse Hill House & Farm, Museum, At 30 June 2017 SLM employed 133 ongoing staff, The Mint and the Caroline Simpson Library & Research 55 temporary staff and 63 casual staff. It was supported Collection, and Vaucluse House. by 537 volunteers in 2016–17. All the museums are listed on the NSW State Heritage SLM’s direction in 2016–17 was guided by the priorities of Register. The site of first Government House at the Museum the 2010–15 Corporate Plan. During the reporting period, of Sydney and the Hyde Park Barracks are also on the work commenced on the development of a Strategic Plan National Heritage List, and the Hyde Park Barracks is on for 2017–22 (see page 33). the UNESCO World Heritage List. (See also pages 13–19.)

Justice & Police Museum. Photo © Douglas Riley for Sydney 12 Living Museums 13 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

CITY PORTFOLIO CONT. HOUSE MUSEUMS PORTFOLIO

MUSEUM OF SYDNEY ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE The Museum of Sydney on the site of Designed by architect John Verge, Elizabeth first Government House sits above the Bay House was built in 1835–39 for Colonial archaeological remains of Australia’s first Secretary and his family. Government House, begun in 1788, which have A superb example of a Greek Revival villa, been preserved below the forecourt. The site it enjoys a magnificent setting overlooking is of national significance as the location of Sydney Harbour and was originally the many early encounters between the British centrepiece of a renowned landscape garden developed by Macleay. The elliptical saloon, colonists and the local Gadigal, whose with its elegant cantilevered staircase and traditional land they had occupied. Opened high , is regarded as the finest interior to the public in 1995, the museum was in Australian colonial architecture. The house’s designed by architect Richard Johnson am, interiors are notable for their detailing, and incorporates many references to aspects particularly the quality of the joinery, plaster of the early colonial – such and stonework. as the archaeologist’s grid represented in the paving pattern, the plan of the house The house was restored by the state government and transferred from the outlined in white granite on the forecourt, Elizabeth Bay House Trust to the newly formed and cut-away trenches looking down onto HHT in 1980. Elizabeth Bay House presents the preserved archaeological remains an evocative picture of early-19th-century life below. Sydney’s signature building material, before the economic depression of the early yellowblock sandstone, is featured extensively. 1840s, when Macleay was forced to leave the The museum’s permanent and temporary house. With its extensive collection of early- displays introduce visitors to Sydney’s people, 19th-century furniture, fittings and domestic places and culture, then and now. goods, as well as scientific instruments and specimens, the house reflects the life of a distinguished gentleman collector.

SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM ELIZABETH FARM Susannah Place Museum is a terrace of Elizabeth Farm is Australia’s oldest surviving four houses incorporating a re-created 1915 colonial homestead, incorporating the corner grocer’s shop. Located in The Rocks, original cottage built in 1793 for John and it was built in 1844 by Irish immigrants Elizabeth Macarthur. It once stood within a and continuously occupied until 1990. 1000-acre (405-hectare) rural property with The terrace survived largely unchanged river frontage on two sides. By the late 1820s through the slum clearances of the 1900s the prosperous Macarthurs had transformed and the area’s redevelopment in the 1970s. the farmhouse into a spacious bungalow It is a rare surviving example of workers’ surrounded by extensive ‘pleasure grounds’. housing from the mid-19th century, once In the late 19th century, urban development ubiquitous but now almost vanished. In 1993 greatly diminished the estate. In 1904 the the then HHT worked with the then Sydney homestead, now on less than 5 acres Cove Authority to develop and open (2 hectares), was bought by William Swann Susannah Place as a museum. Today the for his large family, who lived at and cared museum tells the stories, often overlooked, for the property until 1968. of the lives of ordinary people. Susannah Following restoration carried out by the NSW Place was home to more than 100 different Government Architect, management of the families. Their occupancy is evident in property was passed in June 1984 to the then the many layers of paint, wallpapers, HHT. This marked a new approach to the linoleums, modifications and repairs that presentation of house museum experiences, have survived, as well as the documents encouraging visitors to wander freely, sit on and oral histories assembled from families the furniture, handle the displays and play and descendants of former residents. the piano.

From top Museum of Sydney; aerial view of Susannah Place Museum, showing the From top Saloon and staircase at Elizabeth Bay House (detail). Photo Gloucester Street facade. Photos © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums 14 RayJoycePhotography.com; Elizabeth Farm. Photo © Douglas Riley for 15 Sydney Living Museums ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

ROSE SEIDLER HOUSE Émigré architect was just 24 years old when he designed a new house for his parents, Max and Rose, on a bushland site at Wahroonga. Built between 1948 and 1950, Rose Seidler House is one of the earliest examples of Bauhaus-inspired modernist domestic architecture in Australia, reflecting the influence of Seidler’s mentors Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. Its original furniture brought by Seidler from New York forms one of the most important post-World War II design collections in the country. Seidler won the 1951 Sulman Medal for his design, and the house was influential, stimulating social comment and intellectual debate as a manifestation of the modernist principles of space, the unity of arts and architecture coupled with structural engineering, and industrial design. It embodied new design and style ideals that gave impetus to the direction of architecture in Australia. The house is presented in its original 1950s scheme.

ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM Sited midway between and Windsor beside the newly constructed Windsor Road, Rouse Hill House & Farm was built by colonial settler Richard Rouse HOUSE MUSEUMS PORTFOLIO CONT. between 1813 and 1819. The fine Georgian homestead is set in one of Australia’s earliest MEROOGAL surviving gardens. Its significance lies in Meroogal, in the NSW South Coast town of Nowra, is the survival of its interiors, furnishings and a fascinating Gothic Revival timber house, designed by domestic objects from six generations of Kenneth McKenzie and built for his older sister Jessie the Rouse and Terry families. Thorburn in 1885. The timber-framed and -clad building The estate was bought by the state is possibly based on American pattern-book designs government in 1978, and in 1987 was popular in the late 19th century. Home to four generations transferred to the then HHT. It opened to of women from the Thorburn/Macgregor family, who the public in 1999. In 2003 it was expanded to lived there until 1985, Meroogal has a rich collection of incorporate a section of the original Windsor personal objects that provide insights into the family’s daily Road turnpike and the presumed site of the routines and social lives. Ownership of Meroogal and the failed ‘Battle of Vinegar Hill’ convict rebellion support of family enabled the Thorburn and Macgregor of 1804. The former Rouse Hill Public School women to live independent lives of modest gentility without was also transferred to the HHT. undertaking paid employment. The house was both a home and an economic resource, with produce from the garden In April 2016, Muru Mittigar, an Aboriginal and orchard, and rent from occasional paying guests and cultural organisation, established a cultural tenants. The house with its collection was acquired by the education centre in an existing contemporary then HHT in 1985 and opened as a museum in 1988. building on the site.

Above Meroogal. Photo © Douglas Riley for Sydney Living Museums From top Rose Seidler House. Photo © Nicholas Watt for Sydney Living Museums; 16 Rouse Hill House & Farm. Photo © Douglas Riley for Sydney Living Museums 17 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

HOUSE MUSEUMS PORTFOLIO CONT.

VAUCLUSE HOUSE Vaucluse House was the country estate of colonial statesman, explorer, lawyer, publisher and politician William Charles Wentworth, his wife, Sarah, and their ten children. At its core a Georgian farmhouse, it was expanded and embellished by Wentworth with fashionable Gothic Revival turrets and crenellations. One of only a few remaining harbourside estates from the early years of the colony, Vaucluse House retains its ornamental and kitchen gardens and various outbuildings. The estate was purchased in 1827 by Wentworth, who took a leading role in achieving responsible self-government for NSW in 1856. Acquired in 1910 to provide public access to the Sydney Harbour foreshores, the house was opened to the public in 1912 and, since that time, has been an important place for the presentation of Australian history. Restored and furnished to reflect the Wentworth family’s occupation during the years 1827–53 and 1861–62, its grandly appointed rooms contain many items typically owned by a wealthy upper-middle- class family of the time.

MACQUARIE STREET PORTFOLIO

HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM The Hyde Park Barracks was built by convicts between 1817 and 1819 to the design of the first civil architect (and former convict), Francis THE MINT CAROLINE SIMPSON LIBRARY & RESEARCH COLLECTION Greenway, and is considered one of the finest colonial Georgian buildings in Australia. Built between 1811 and 1816 as the south wing of Governor The Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, located Between 1819 and 1848, an estimated 50,000 ’s General ‘Rum’ Hospital, the elegant at The Mint, was established as the Lyndhurst Conservation male convicts passed through the barracks colonnaded building at the front of the site is one of the oldest Resource Centre in 1984. In 2004 it was renamed in honour and were employed by the government surviving buildings in central Sydney. of the late Caroline Simpson oam (1930–2003), whose to carry out public works. The Hyde Park outstanding collection of Australian colonial furniture, After the discovery of gold in NSW, the site became the Barracks was inscribed on the UNESCO pictures and objets d’art was gifted to SLM by her children. first overseas branch of the British in 1855, World Heritage List in 2010, as one of the The collection is a specialised research resource available with a coining factory constructed at the rear. The Sydney 11 Australian Convict Sites considered to have to anyone – staff, scholars, tertiary students, heritage and branch became a centre for colonial science, industry and outstanding universal value for their role in conservation practitioners and museum professionals – invention, and processed colonial gold into sovereigns and history’s largest and longest-running penal with an interest in the history of house and garden design half sovereigns – the principal currency used throughout transportation system. and interior furnishing in NSW from the 19th century to the British Empire. After 1927 the site housed a succession of the present day, and the social and cultural history of the From 1848 the site served as Sydney’s female government departments. In 2003 the HHT carried out major Australian home. It includes architectural pattern books and Immigration Depot, and then as an asylum for conservation work, including the construction of award- fragments, wall and floor coverings, manufacturers’ trade aged and destitute women, providing shelter winning contemporary additions to the coining factory which catalogues and sample books, garden ornaments, fittings, for an estimated 50,000 women and their house the SLM head office, the Caroline Simpson Library & soft furnishings, personal papers and manuscripts, pictures, children until 1887. It then housed numerous Research Collection, food and beverage services, and venue photographs, sheet music, books and periodicals. courts and government offices. Today the hire spaces. In 2016 SLM celebrated the bicentenary of the fabric and spaces of the building, and its Rum Hospital and the Mint site, which has been in continuous collection of archaeological artefacts, are public use since 1816. interpreted to present the stories of its past occupants. From top Vaucluse House; Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photos © Douglas Riley Above The Mint. Photo © Douglas Riley for Sydney Living Museums for Sydney Living Museums 18 19 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

ENDANGERED HOUSES FUND

OUR SITES The HHT began its work of conserving endangered houses Other properties managed and divested under in 1993, when it acquired the then threatened GSDA No 1 the EHF include: ACQUIRED SITE OPENED STATUS Dwelling, a display house in Castlecrag designed by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. The HHT restored LYNDHURST, DARGHAM STREET, GLEBE 1980 Vaucluse House 1980 Museum the house and financed the construction of a new house Built in 1837 for surgeon James Bowman and his wife, Mary 1980 Elizabeth Bay House 1980 Museum adjacent to the property. Both properties were sold, saving (nee Macarthur), Lyndhurst was designed by the fashionable 1985* Elizabeth Farm 1984 Museum a key work of two important 20th-century architects. architect John Verge and is an exceptional example of a ‘marine villa’. 1984 Lyndhurst (sold 2005) Offices and library Due to the success of this conservation project, the HHT established the Endangered Houses Fund (EHF) in 2005, Lyndhurst was sold in 2005, returning to its original use as 1985 Meroogal 1988 Museum supported by the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of a private residence. 1987 Rouse Hill House & Farm 1999 Museum New South Wales. The EHF is a conservation program that identifies significant ‘at risk’ properties and saves them from WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN ‘GSDA NO 1 DWELLING’, 1988 Rose Seidler House 1991 Museum demolition or unsympathetic development. CASTLECRAG 1989 Justice & Police Museum 1991 Museum SLM applies its expertise in order to conserve and protect This house was built in 1920 as a display home to attract 1990 Hyde Park Barracks Museum 1991 Museum the identified properties, which are then offered back to the buyers to build in a 94-acre (38-hectare) suburban development being led by the American architect Walter 1990 Museum of Sydney 1995 Museum marketplace for the enjoyment of future generations. on the site of first Government House Burley Griffin and his wife, Marion Mahony Griffin. NISSEN HUT, BELMONT NORTH In 1993 the house was threatened with demolition. The HHT 1990 Young Street terraces – Offices Nissen Hut is one of more than 50 such huts erected at purchased the property and oversaw its restoration and the 1990 Susannah Place Museum 1993 Museum Belmont North in 1951 to provide temporary migrant construction of a new house adjacent to the property. The housing. Designed during by British engineer 1993 Walter Burley Griffin House (sold 1995) Conservation project sale of both properties offset the conservation cost. Peter Nissen, these demountable buildings were widely State house and garden 1996 Government House 1996 used in the 1940s and 1950s for temporary accommodation GLENFIELD, CASULA, 1817 (transferred to DPC† in Dec 2013) at various locations in NSW. Surviving Nissen huts are Glenfield was built for pioneer settler Dr Charles Throsby and 1998 The Mint 1998 & 2004 Offices and library often unsympathetically altered or demolished. The HHT is regarded as one of the most complete small rural estates 2003 Former Rouse Hill Public School 2010 Museum and education facilities purchased this mostly intact example in 2008 to demonstrate of the Macquarie era. the conservation options for modern industrial buildings. 2007 Tusculum – Leased until May 2086‡ The property was transferred to the HHT in 2007 in a 2007 Exeter Farm (sold 2012) Endangered Houses Fund project BEULAH, APPIN ROAD, GILEAD dilapidated condition, and underwent extensive repairs and refurbishment before it was sold to a new owner in 2013. 2007 Glenfield (sold 2013) Endangered Houses Fund project Beulah is a highly significant early-colonial rural property granted by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1817. The site TUSCULUM, ORWELL STREET, POTTS POINT 2008 Nissen hut – Endangered Houses Fund project covers more than 90 hectares over four titles, and includes 2009 Moruya Presbyterian manse (sold 2013) Endangered Houses Fund project over 50 hectares of Cumberland Plain Woodland vegetation, Tusculum, built for businessman Alexander Brodie Spark, in addition to an 1830s farmhouse in dilapidated condition is one of only three surviving colonial villas of the 1830s 2010 Throsby Park (leased 2015) Endangered Houses Fund project§ and a colonial-era bridge with sandstone abutments. The designed by John Verge in Potts Point (originally known as 2010 Beulah – Endangered Houses Fund project early history of Beulah is closely associated with colonial Woolloomooloo Hill). explorer Hamilton Hume and the Hume family. The villa was compulsorily acquired by the Heritage Council * Although the house museum opened in 1984, the property was not formally transferred to the HHT until the following year. † Department of Premier and Cabinet. SLM’s approach to conserving the property includes in 1985 and restored by the Australian Institute of Architects ‡ Leased to the Australian Institute of Architects. assessing potential development options for a future owner as its headquarters under the terms of a 99-year lease § Leased to Mr Tim Throsby. to offset the capital cost of restoration and preservation. agreement. Tusculum was transferred to the HHT in 2007. There is significant urban development pressure in the area south of Campbelltown that makes sites such as Beulah vulnerable to unsympathetic redevelopment. (See also page 78.) 20 21 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

EXETER FARM, MEURANTS LANE, GLENWOOD The Historic Houses Act 1980 (NSW) provides that the HHT Trustees are appointed for a term of up to three years Board of Trustees shall be the governing body of SLM. The and may be appointed for a maximum three consecutive Exeter Farm is a rare surviving example of a timber-slab Board of Trustees is constituted under section 6 of the Act. terms of office. Trustees do not receive remuneration for settler’s hut built in the 1830s and continuously occupied Its nine members are nominated by the Minister for the their Board activities. until the 1980s. Arts and appointed by the Governor of New South Wales. The Board met six times in 2016–17 to consider and give The cottage was transferred to the HHT in 2006. After The Trustees are subject to the direction and control of the formal approval to major procedural and policy matters undergoing extensive repairs and refitting, it was sold to Minister. The Act stipulates that members of the Board of on advice from management. new owners in 2013, and in 2014 was the recipient of an Trustees must include: Asia-Pacific UNESCO Award for conservation. Consistent with good governance practice, Trustees • at least one person who ‘has knowledge or experience completed a survey to review the structure and conduct in history’; and PRESBYTERIAN MANSE, MORUYA of Trust meetings in late 2016. The results of this review This simple weatherboard home was built in 1885 and • at least one person who ‘has knowledge or experience were considered by the Board of Trustees at its meeting extended in the early 20th century. When acquired by in architecture’. held in March 2017. the HHT it was a rare intact cottage retaining much of The appointment of Sharon Veale satisfies the requirement Trustees are required to complete a Declaration of its original fabric. for knowledge or experience in history. The appointment of Pecuniary Interest at the commencement of each It was sold to a new owner in 2013. Roderick Simpson satisfies the requirement for knowledge financial year. or experience in architecture. Trustees attended Board meetings as per the table below. THROSBY PARK ESTATE, MOSS VALE The Trustees represent a diversity of expertise and Throsby Park was the second home of pioneer settler experience in business, law, architecture, urban design, Dr Charles Throsby, and is an exceptional colonial-era history, heritage conservation and management, homestead set in 74 hectares of farmland. information technology, retail and online commerce, media and marketing, sustainability and management. Transferred to the HHT in 2010, the house underwent repairs and conservation. A long-term lease was signed in 2015, which included a commitment to significant further capital investment by the lessee to ensure Throsby Park’s long-term preservation. TABLE OF TRUSTEE ATTENDANCE

NAME ELIGIBLE TO ATTEND ATTENDED LEAVE OF ABSENCE OBSERVER

Michael Rose AM (Chairman) 6 6 Alastair Baxter 5 4 1 1 Paddy Carney 6 6 Professor Grace Karskens 4 3 1 Louise McElvogue 6 6 Roderick Simpson 6 5 1

Naseema Sparks AM 5 4 1 1 Siobhan Toohill 5 5 1 Sharon Veale 6 6

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TRUSTEES

Photos © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

Michael Rose Paddy Carney Louise McElvogue Roderick Simpson Sharon Veale BA, LLB, AM (Chairman) CA, BSc (Hons) BA, MA, GAICD BSc (Architecture) BA (Hons), MA Public History, Grad Dip Urban and Michael is a lawyer by background, Paddy is Deputy Chair of PwC Australia’s Louise is a principal of Macleod Media, Rod is the inaugural Environment Regional Planning formerly the Chief Executive Partner Board of Partners and a member which advises on strategy, technology Commissioner of the Greater Sydney of Allens and currently the chairman of the Global Board overseeing the and media. She works with boards, Commission and an Adjunct Professor Sharon is a partner and the Chief of a number of government, arts PwC network. She has over 25 years’ government and executives to set in the Faculty of Architecture, Design Executive at GML Heritage. With a and not-for-profit organisations, financial experience with PwC in the business strategy and policy, and to and Planning at the University of background in urban planning and including the Committee for Sydney, UK and Australia advising a broad develop e-business, partnerships Technology Sydney. Prior to that he public history, she has extensive ChildFund Alliance and the Institute range of clients with a focus on retail, and digital efficiencies. She has was Director of the Urban Design and experience in community engagement, for Global Development at the consumer, hospitality and agribusiness. worked in the United States, Europe Master of Urbanism programs at the and Aboriginal and historic cultural University of New South Wales. She is also a governor of the Sir David and Australia for clients including and principal of heritage assessment, management He is active in Indigenous affairs, Martin Foundation. Paddy is the Chair of McDonald’s, Invensys, the ABC, News simpson+wilson, whose work ranges and conservation for public and private being a member of the Referendum SLM’s Audit & Risk Committee. She was Limited, Channel 4, the BBC and Société across architecture, urban design and sector clients. She is a member of Council on Constitutional Recognition appointed as a trustee in March 2013 Générale. Louise was a member of the strategic planning, including winning the NSW National Parks and Wildlife and a Board member of various and her current term expires on federal government’s Convergence entries in national and international Advisory Council, on the Editorial organisations focused on welfare 5 March 2019. Review in 2012. This landmark review competitions. He has worked for the Board of the Australia ICOMOS reform, economic development and of Australia’s media and internet Commonwealth, state and territory refereed journal Historic Environment, education in Indigenous communities. regulatory framework recommended a governments on metropolitan and and is a member of the ICOMOS He is a Special Advisor at KPMG and new approach to regulation. She has a regional planning, and was Manager of International Scientific Committee on also a Fellow of the Australian Institute background in journalism and her work Urban Design for the Sydney Harbour the Interpretation and Presentation of Company Directors. Michael was has appeared in , Federation Trust. He also has an interest of Cultural Heritage Sites. Sharon is a appointed as a trustee in June 2010 The Guardian, Financial Times Media, in cultural planning and has previously sessional lecturer in Heritage Planning and his current term expires on The Wall Street Journal TV, the BBC and been a Board member of the HHT. Rod at the University of New South Wales. 31 December 2018. CNN. She was appointed as a trustee is a member of the UrbanGrowth NSW Sharon was appointed as a trustee in March 2013 and her current term Design Directorate. Rod was appointed on 29 June 2016 and her current term expires on 5 March 2019. as a trustee on 29 June 2016 and his expires on 28 June 2019. current term expires on 28 June 2019.

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Photos © James Horan COMMITTEES for Sydney Living Museums Four Board advisory committees provided advice to Trustees: Aboriginal Advisory Committee, Audit & Risk Committee, Curatorial & Public Engagement Advisory Committee, and Heritage & Collections Advisory Committee. All four committees are convened under section 9 of the Historic Houses Act 1980 (NSW). Three standing committees provide advice to management and involve staff representation: the Collections Valuation Committee; the Joint Consultative Alastair Baxter Professor Grace Karskens Naseema Sparks Siobhan Toohill Committee, which facilitates discussions between BScArch, BArch, RAIA, GAICD BA, MA, PhD, FAHA AM, FAICD BScArch, BArch, Grad Dip Urban Design the union and management; and the Work Health & Alastair is a practising architect, board Grace teaches Australian history at the Naseema is an experienced company Safety Committee. Committees operating are listed in member, sustainability engagement University of New South Wales. She director and serves on a number of Siobhan is the Head of Group Appendices 1 and 2 (pages 110–12). consultant, TV sports commentator, has published extensively, including ASX-listed advisory boards as well Sustainability and Community at and former Australian and NSW Inside The Rocks: the archaeology of as government regulatory bodies. Westpac. She is responsible for the professional rugby union player. a neighbourhood, the multi-award- Naseema is a ‘top-line growth’ director: organisation’s sustainability strategy, Alastair is an associate principal at winning The Rocks: life in early Sydney she has a deep understanding of responding to pressing social issues Populous with extensive experience in and The colony: a history of early consumers, as well as hands-on including demographic change, master-planning major sports, leisure, Sydney, which won the 2010 Prime management and operational economic solutions to environmental convention and exhibition facilities in Minister’s Literary Award for Non- experience in organisations where challenges and helping customers to Australia and internationally. Outside fiction. She is a Fellow of the Australian the main drivers of growth and achieve sustainable financial futures. of architecture, he is a principal of the Academy of the Humanities, and is on differentiation are innovation and Her role also encompasses community Sustainable Forward Consulting Group, the boards of the Dictionary of Sydney, human capital. Her expertise includes partnerships, the Westpac Foundation, which addresses environmental, social the National Museum of Australia’s retail, online commerce, media and the Westpac Bicentennial Foundation and economic sustainability issues in reCollections journal and a number marketing, technology services and and Indigenous engagement. Previously Australia and the South Pacific. He of international scholarly journals. manufacturing. Naseema’s executive she established the sustainability is a director on the NSW Waratahs Grace was appointed as a trustee career was as the managing director of function at Stockland and has held Rugby Board and the Foundation for on 1 January 2008. global communications company M&C senior design roles with Stockland, Lend the Historic Houses Trust of New South Saatchi, and she holds an MBA from the Lease and the NSW Government’s Urban Final term expired 21 January 2017. Wales Board, and has a number of Business School. She was Design Advisory Service. Siobhan is also roles as a TV sports commentator. appointed as a trustee on 2 April 2014. the Deputy Chair of the Green Building Alastair played for the Wallabies and Council of Australia, Director of the Current term expired 1 April 2017. Waratahs from 1999 to 2011 and finished Australian Building Codes Board and his rugby career as Australia’s most co-founder of the podcast Out the Front. capped test prop. He was appointed She was appointed as a trustee on as a trustee on 2 April 2014. 2 April 2014. Resigned 8 May 2017. Current term expired 1 April 2017.

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SENIOR MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE

THE EXECUTIVE TEAM The Executive Director is responsible to the SLM Trustees and the Minister for the Arts, through the Department of Planning and Environment, for the overall management and control of SLM places, collections and activities.

REVIEW MECHANISMS SLM engages in several levels of performance review practice. The Executive Director has a performance agreement with the Chairman of the Mark Goggin Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon Ian Innes Lisa Walters Board of Trustees and the Deputy Secretary, Arts, BA (Hons), EMPA BA (Hons), MA, PhD BScArch, BLArch BCom, CA, GAICD Screen & Culture Division, Department of Planning Mark has been Executive Director Caroline was Director, Curatorial & Ian is Director, Heritage & Collections. Lisa is Director, Corporate & and Environment, which is reviewed annually. There since 6 August 2013. He has 20 years’ Public Engagement until February 2017, He has more than 25 years’ experience Commercial, with responsibility are also performance agreements between the experience in leadership across the when she was appointed to the new role in place management across both for Finance, Human Resources, Executive Director and the Divisional Directors. museum, cultural and health sectors of Director, Strategy & Engagement. cultural landscapes and the built ICT, Commercial Services, Retail, Internal review mechanisms include weekly meetings as a CEO, festival producer, educator (Pending recruitment for the role of environment, with a focus on heritage Logistics and Reception. Prior of the Executive Team (Executive Director and and researcher. Before joining SLM he Director, Curatorial & Museums, conservation. Ian previously held to this role, Lisa was the Chief Divisional Directors) and monthly meetings of the spent ten years as General Manager of Caroline continued oversight of this senior management roles at the Operating Officer at Greenpeace Leadership Team (department heads). Marketing, Programs and Commercial division for the period February to June.) Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, where Australia Pacific, following 15 years Services at the Museum of Applied Arts he was responsible for the curation in the financial services sector, Spanning 20 years, her career has been and Sciences (MAAS). of living scientific collections, and locally and internationally, dedicated to cultural leadership that , where he managing transformation change. Mark built MAAS’s brand profile and connects diverse audiences to history, provided leadership in strategic asset audiences, and was responsible for arts and heritage through a broad management. He studied architecture leading entrepreneurial exhibitions and range of public engagement programs, and landscape architecture, and his creating innovative programs, such including festivals, exhibitions, education ongoing professional interests relate to as the annual citywide festival Sydney programs and books. conservation of the built environment, Design. He oversaw the renewal of Caroline has won multiple awards for cultural landscape management, the heritage Sydney site the projects she has led, including books heritage theory and practice, and and successfully launched the publicly and curatorial and creative history curation of cultural collections. accessible Powerhouse Discovery projects that share the stories of urban Centre: Collection Stores at Castle Hill. life, architecture and design across the Originally trained as a psychologist, centuries. She completed the Museum he has an Executive Masters of Public Leadership Institute Program in 2012 at Administration from the Australian and the Getty Leadership Institute at New Zealand School of Government. Claremont Graduate University, California, and is undertaking the NSW Leadership Academy Executives Program in 2016–17.

Above, left to right, and opposite Mark Goggin; Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon; Ian Innes. Photos © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Lisa Walters. Photo © Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums 28 29 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

SLM ORGANISATIONAL DIVISIONS CHART AS AT 30 JUNE 2017

Minister for the Arts

SLM is structured around four divisions – Corporate STRATEGY & ENGAGEMENT DIVISION & Commercial, Curatorial & Museums, Heritage & The Strategy & Engagement Division’s functions include Collections, and Strategy & Engagement – supported Deputy Secretary, managing SLM’s external relations, stakeholder Department by the Directorate Team. Trustees Arts, Screen & of Planning & engagement, donors and corporate partners; delivering Culture Environment CORPORATE & COMMERCIAL DIVISION strategic projects designed to renew SLM’s facilities, visitor and customer experience, and interpretation at The Corporate & Commercial Division supports the business the sites; developing business cases that consider new Executive of SLM and its position as a leading history and cultural ‘at risk’ heritage sites; and creating educational and Foundation Director heritage organisation in NSW. This division is responsible public programs. It comprises four teams: Development for the provision of corporate services support and advice, & Fundraising, Experience & Learning, Strategic Projects including corporate governance, across the agency. The and Web & Screen Media. division contains six teams: Commercial Services, Finance, Human Resources, Information and Communications THE DIRECTORATE TEAM Technology (ICT), Retail, and Logistics and Reception. The Directorate Team includes the Marketing & Audience Executive Head, Marketing Assistant & Audience Insight CURATORIAL & MUSEUMS DIVISION Insight Team and the Administrative Assistant Team, who support the Executive Director and the other SLM directors. The Curatorial & Museums Division provides visitor and operational management of SLM’s 12 museum sites, which The Marketing & Audience Insight Team, reporting to the are structured into three portfolios: City Portfolio, House Executive Director, provides strategic direction on and Museums Portfolio and Macquarie Street Portfolio. The implementation of marketing, design and communications division also includes the Curatorial & Exhibitions Team. activities to support our properties, exhibitions, public programs and events. The team is responsible for the Director, Heritage Director, Curatorial Director, Corporate Director, Strategy HERITAGE & COLLECTIONS DIVISION development and management of audience and research & Collections & Museums & Commercial & Engagement strategies, manages the box office, and works to increase The Heritage & Collections Division manages the member awareness and engagement. conservation and care of SLM’s houses, museums and Administrative Administrative Head, Administrative landscapes, as well as the Endangered Houses Fund Assistant Assistant Commercial Services Assistant program, through conservation management planning, place management, asset maintenance and delivery Head, Collections Head, Head, Principal Adviser, of capital works, collections care, conservation and & Access City Portfolio Finance Strategic Relations landscaping. It contains four teams: Capital Works, Head, Head, Head, Head, Collections & Access, Heritage and Horticulture. House Museums Heritage HR Strategic Projects Portfolio

Head, Head, Head, Head, Macquarie Street Development Horticulture ICT Portfolio & Fundraising

Principal Project Officer Head, Curatorial & Manager, Head, - Capital Works Exhibitions Retail Services Experience & Learning

Head, Logistics & Reception Web & Screen Media

Head, Indigenous Relations

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VOLUNTEERS FOUNDATION FOR STRATEGIC PLAN THE HISTORIC HOUSES DEVELOPMENT TRUST OF NSW

The Volunteer program enables individuals to support The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South In late 2015, the 2010–15 Corporate Plan was extended A striking feature of each staff consultation was the extent SLM through a variety of means. Museum volunteers are Wales (the Sydney Living Museums Foundation) is a tax to cover 2016. During 2015–16, significant strategic to which the language and intent of the brand strategy has located at each site, where they work to engage visitors by concession charity (DGR 1 – deductible gift recipient) that opportunities were investigated, which resulted in a been incorporated into the values and operations of the sharing the museums’ rich stories. The volunteer gardener exists to support the agency’s important work. It is governed deferment of the development of a new Plan. organisation. There was consistency in suggestions for new team at Vaucluse House works in all seasons to enhance the by a non-executive Board of Directors, which met four times Vision, Mission and Values statements. These elements were Initial consideration of a new Strategic Plan to guide SLM’s presentation of the kitchen garden and nurture a variety in 2016–17. The Board actively engages with those who wish complemented by draft Performance Indicators, proposed activities for the next five years was undertaken by the of vegetables for public display. Throughout the year, soft to support SLM’s work by sharing their networks, educating, Strategic Commitments, reference to alignment with wider Board and Executive at a half-day strategy session held in furnishings volunteers create original and replica furnishings encouraging donations and acting as leaders in philanthropy government priorities and an Acknowledgment of Country. October. A follow-up session held in November proposed for a number of SLM museums, fashioning items such as across the organisation. The wording of the acknowledgment was approved by that the new Plan give greater emphasis to placemaking cushions, tassels and blinds. SLM’s Aboriginal Advisory Committee. The Board continues to thrive under the leadership of and collaboration, while developing a stronger external SLM’s public programs, including Spring Harvest Festival Edward Simpson, a passionate advocate for heritage and focus and a deepening connection with the Indigenous The draft will be considered by the Board of Trustees at its and the Christmas Fare market, are keenly supported by conservation, with the support of the other Board directors, cultural landscape. first meeting for 2017–18. event volunteers who provide quality customer service and who bring specific skills and expertise. Two directors stepped Commencing in early May, an intensive process of staff play a key role in ensuring efficient event logistics. Behind down in 2017, Alastair Baxter and Curtis Smith. They brought consultation was undertaken to prepare a draft Plan for the scenes, SLM benefits from the specialised skills of project experience and enthusiasm to the Foundation and their review and approval by the Board at the July 2017 meeting. volunteers who undertake research into the collections and contribution is greatly appreciated. provide invaluable support with records management. An initial workshop was held with the Leadership Team Hundreds of volunteers help make Sydney Open a reality in mid-May. The 2010–15 Plan was briefly reviewed, and every year, bringing their energy and commitment to provide there was consensus that aspects of the Plan remained great visitor experiences. relevant. The 2017–22 Plan should be seen as an evolution rather than a remaking of the earlier work. The outcome The twice-yearly volunteer forum provides an opportunity of this productive workshop was a range of options for for all volunteers to hear an expert SLM speaker present new Vision, Mission and Values statements. The Leadership on a topic of interest. Museum volunteers enjoy bi-monthly Team was invited to share these with staff, and to provide meetings where they interact with curators and receive feedback and refinement as well as consider the strategic guidance and direction on new interpretive information. commitments. Over two weeks, 13 additional workshops were conducted, attended by 73 staff. The strength of recognition and support for the existing Vision was a feature of every workshop. In contrast, there was less recall of the current Mission. There was a high level of consistency in the organisational values that staff felt should be incorporated in the Plan. Two of the 13 workshops were held at the house museums – Vaucluse House and Rouse Hill House. Noting that the museums’ diverse locations would make workshop participation difficult for some staff, an online survey was developed, incorporating options for the Mission, Vision and Values statements scoped by the Leadership Team, with an invitation to staff to rank options and suggest others, as well as provide general feedback. The survey closed on 9 June. 108 responses were received.

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SLM prioritised strategies to increase public awareness and enjoyment of and access to its state heritage sites and to provide educational, cultural, historical, social and architectural interpretation. The goal was to broaden the spectrum of visitors at the physical sites and online. SLM supports the NSW Government’s State Plan ambition to achieve a 15% increase in cultural participation by 2019.

The pleasure garden at Vaucluse House. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums 34 35 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17

INCREASING VISITATION

2016–17 VISITATION

During 2016–17 more than 1,100,000 visitors enjoyed SLM has continued to develop and strengthen The Mint. Photo SLM’s museums and historic house properties along community connections. More than 76,000 © Nicholas Watt for Sydney with its programs, exhibitions, outreach activities participants attended large-scale free events such Living Museums and touring exhibitions, an increase of 9.5% on as the Autumn and Spring Harvest festivals, with last year. more than half attending from local areas. Visitation to Aboriginal events, such as the Eel Festival, For the first time, SLM has invested in new Whale Festival and NAIDOC Week event Songlines: methodologies to measure visitation to free Shared Stories of Our Landscape, has seen an visitor spaces, landscapes and grounds at five increase of 12% year on year, reaffirming SLM’s of its key properties – Elizabeth Farm, the Hyde commitment to increasing Aboriginal participation Park Barracks Museum, The Mint, the Museum of across all aspects of the organisation and to Sydney and Vaucluse House. A range of foot traffic fostering relationships with appropriate Aboriginal methodologies have been implemented, including communities to accurately showcase this living thermal sensors, beam gate sensors, vehicle traffic cultural landscape. counters, and mobile phone wi-fi trackers. Together, these methodologies enable robust visitation data SLM’s relevance to and engagement with family collection and analysis that is consistent with foot audiences also remains a key focus, with more traffic methodologies employed by other local and than 43,000 visitors to the interactive Sand in the domestic cultural institutions and public spaces. City exhibition at the Museum of Sydney and record Collectively, the people counters have confirmed admissions to the Convict Escapades immersive almost 435,000 visitors to SLM retail spaces, free theatre production at the Hyde Park Barracks interpretation areas at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Together with school holiday programs Museum and the Museum of Sydney, the grounds at and the popular Toy Festival family weekend, the Hyde Park Barracks Museum and The Mint, and SLM reached more than 173,000 family and the expansive grounds at Vaucluse House. children visitors. SLM education admissions have continued SLM’s reach among tourist audiences continues to to grow, with more than 66,000 students and thrive, with 55% of on-site visitors travelling from teachers participating in a range of curriculum- intrastate, interstate or overseas, representing based education programs and self-guided visits, 105,000 general admissions to SLM museums and representing a 7.7% increase compared to the historic house properties. In addition, more than previous financial year. The Unlocking Heritage 93,000 visitors experienced SLM exhibitions through travel subsidy and Convict Sleepover subsidy the touring exhibition program throughout the year. continued for a second year, providing access to more than 13,600 regional students and students from low-socioeconomic-status schools.

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PROPERTY VISITATION

HYDE PARK JUSTICE ROSE ROUSE HILL SUSANNAH ELIZABETH ELIZABETH BARRACKS & POLICE MUSEUM SEIDLER HOUSE & PLACE VAUCLUSE BAY HOUSE FARM MUSEUM MUSEUM MEROOGAL THE MINT OF SYDNEY HOUSE FARM MUSEUM HOUSE OUTREACH¶ 2016–17 SUMMARY 2017 TOTAL 2016–17 SUMMARY General admissions* 5,311 8,090 58,555 13,221 1,385 1,687 100,235 2,322 4,673 8,027 14,394 26,636 244,536 General admissions* Paid admissions 3,840 5,579 41,606 9,724 873 111 66,052 1,818 3,182 5,595 11,758 12,712 162,850 Paid admissions Prepaid admissions 999 672 4,914 3,248 111 – 7,158 448 445 2,371 1,459 – 21,825 Prepaid admissions Free admissions 472 1,839 12,035 249 401 – 27,025 56 1,046 61 1,177 13,924 58,285 Free admissions Library non-education visits† – – – – – 1,576 – – – – – – 1,576 Library non-education visits†

Education 171 9,941 22,790 5,100 246 782 6,979 306 9,451 1,965 8,286 505 66,522 Education Education visits 171 9,941 22,790 5,100 246 – 6,979 306 9,451 1,965 8,286 505 65,740 Education visits Library education visits† – – – – – 782 – – – – – – 782 Library education visits†

Public programs‡ 303 2,996 6,101 264 256 1,993 1,068 1,590 7,357 862 1,266 43,336 67,392 Public programs‡ Paid public programs§ 249 339 5,774 264 96 1,978 908 1,590 1,579 862 575 43,286 57,500 Paid public programs§ Free public programs 54 2,657 327 – 160 15 160 – 5,778 – 691 50 9,892 Free public programs

Hospitality admissions 706 4,690 20,760 2,875 – 62,398 69,045 21 201 – 40,218 – 200,914 Hospitality admissions Venue hire 706 431 2,852 2,875 – 21,843 10,447 21 201 – 4,183 – 43,559 Venue hire Dining admissions – 4,259 17,908 – – 40,555 58,598 – – – 36,035 – 157,355 Dining admissions TOTAL ADMISSIONS 6,491 25,717 108,206 21,460 1,887 66,860 177,327 4,239 21,682 10,854 64,164 70,477 579,364 TOTAL ADMISSIONS Grounds|| – – 110,926 – – 155,891 71,069 – – – 97,071 – 434,957 Grounds||

TOTAL AUDIENCE REACH 6,491 25,717 219,132 21,460 1,887 222,751 248,396 4,239 21,682 10,854 161,235 70,477 1,014,321 TOTAL AUDIENCE REACH

TOTAL VISITATION

PROPERTY VISITATION OUTREACH VISITATION TOTAL VISITATION WHERE VISITORS CAME FROM* WHERE SYDNEY VISITORS CAME FROM* 2017 2016 2015 2017 2016 2015 2017 2016 2015 General admissions* 217,900 208,593 202,382 26,636 – 800 244,536 208,593 203,182

Education 66,017 60,277 50,629 505 1,517 1,548 66,522 61,794 52,177 45% Sydney 25% Northern Sydney 36% Overseas 20% Inner city Public programs including 24,056 36,696 28,152 43,336 48,039 63,186 67,392 84,735 91,338 7% Regional NSW 18% Western Sydney ‡ Sydney Open 4% Qld 16% Eastern Suburbs Hospitality admissions 200,914 226,192 184,624 – – – 200,914 226,192 184,624 4% Vic 11% South Sydney 4% Other states‡ 10% Inner West TOTAL ADMISSIONS 508,887 531,758 465,787 70,477 49,556 65,534 579,364 581,314 531,321 * Includes general admissions and Grounds|| 434,957 148,599 79,873 – – – 434,957 148,599 79,873 complimentary tickets. ‡ Other states includes ACT, NT, SA, Tas and WA. Touring exhibitions – – – 93,150 280,981 89,473 93,150 280,981 89,473

TOTAL AUDIENCE REACH 943,844 680,357 545,660 163,627 330,537 155,007 1,107,471 1,010,894 700,667 Note: Prior to 2016, EDUCATION¶ 2017 2016 2015 teacher admissions were * General admissions include paid and free general entry including shop-only visits at Elizabeth Bay House, Elizabeth Farm, Rouse Hill House & Farm and Vaucluse not separately recorded. House, shop and orientation room visits at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, and shop and foyer visits at the Museum of Sydney. Primary total 48,811 44,999 36,894 † The total number of Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection visits is 2358. This comprises 1576 general admission visits and 782 tertiary student and teacher visits. Secondary total 8,489 8,283 10,083 ‡ Public programs include paid and free public program admissions and include house tours of Government House in 2014–15. Outreach (Connected Classrooms) 492 1,517 1,548 § Sydney Open visits and tours at each participating SLM property are included in paid public programs for each property. Sydney Open visits and tours of all participating non-SLM properties are included in Outreach paid public programs. Sydney Open visitation is reported as total property and tour visits to all Sydney Tertiary 2,264 2,427 3,124 Open participating properties. || Grounds visitation includes the Edge of the trees and forecourt programs such as Vivid at the Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House, and visitation Adult 278 406 528 counts at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, The Mint and Vaucluse House. ¶ Outreach includes partner visitation at Muru Mittigar on the site of Rouse Hill House & Farm, and Museums Discovery Centre. Museums Discovery Centre is a venue Teachers 6,188 4,162 N/A run in collaboration with Australian Museum and Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and visitation to this site is attributed to all three collaborating agencies. TOTAL 66,522 61,794 52,177 38 39 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INCREASING VISITATION

‘Extraordinarily beautiful – among the most peaceful and beautiful exhibitions I have ever seen.’

Visitor from Melbourne to the Florilegium exhibition

EXHIBITIONS 2016–17 TOURING EXHIBITION PROGRAM The exhibition program at the Museum of Sydney Bäuerlen showcased a rare collection of original Touring exhibitions enable SLM to reach audiences new partnerships, with Rockhampton Art Gallery delivered on SLM’s objective to provide a range of wildflower paintings from the 1890s held in the across Australia, stimulating public interest in and Ipswich Regional Art Gallery. intellectually engaging, highly visual and interactive Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection history, architecture and design with a diverse New touring partnerships were also established experiences, and attracted diverse audiences and highlighted the partnership of amateur artist mix of exhibitions, from photographic shows to with Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, across a range of demographics. This year, the Gertrude Lovegrove and botanical collector interactive experiences. They provide a major NSW, and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, program included many highlights, from exploring William Bäuerlen. connection to regional audiences through SLM’s . the art of botanic illustration to a giant sandcastle network of partnering regional museums, galleries Over summer, the Demolished Sydney exhibition that interpreted Sydney’s unique beach culture and libraries. and the accompanying series of public programs (see table below). explored the buildings that once shaped the city’s In 2016–17 SLM toured four exhibitions to nine ‘Beautifully captured in words, images, In winter 2016, the Museum of Sydney presented skyline (see pages 48–9). venues in regional centres and major cities across models and interviews – a delight!’ two exhibitions as part of the 200th-anniversary NSW, Queensland, Victoria and the Australian Sand in the City was an interactive exhibition that celebrations of the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Capital Territory. The exhibitions were seen by Visitor to Iconic Australian Houses touring exhibition featured a giant sandcastle model of Sydney’s The award-winning Florilegium: Sydney’s Painted 93,150 people. northern beaches and an imaginative LEGO® Garden featured 87 contemporary botanic re-creation of our southern seashores, along with Built for the Bush, our longest-running touring ‘The [Iconic Australian Houses] illustrations by more than 60 local and international a pair of digital sandboxes with projected scenery exhibition, completed its seven-year tour of regional exhibition … was extremely well artists. The accompanying film, The art of botanical that changed as busy hands shifted and sculpted NSW and Victoria during the year, concluding at the received by visitors. [It] gave us an illustration: a Norfolk Island pine by Angela Lober, a sandy landscape. National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria. became one of our most popular videos online, opportunity to reach new audiences, with nearly 40,000 views, and was widely The popular interactive children’s exhibition Towers with some visitors reporting their first shared. The exhibition The Artist & the Botanical of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks continued the visit to the National Archives galleries.’ Collector: The Lost Works of Lovegrove and Queensland leg of its national tour, including two National Archives of Australia, ACT

TOURING EXHIBITION STATISTICS BY VENUE 2016–17 TITLE LOCATION EXHIBITION DATES VISITORS

Sydney Harbour Icons with LEGO® Bricks Museum of Sydney, Gallery 1 7 Nov 2015 – 31 Jul 2016 34,714 TITLE VENUE EXHIBITION DATES VISITORS

Florilegium: Sydney’s Painted Garden Museum of Sydney, Gallery 2 30 Jul – 30 Oct 2016 13,237 A Convict in the Family? Yarra Ranges Regional Museum, Victoria 4 Feb – 30 Apr 2017 2,169

The Artist & the Botanical Collector: Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, Katoomba, NSW 13 May – 25 Jun 2017 2,359 Museum of Sydney, Gallery 1 13 Aug – 20 Nov 2016 12,435 The Lost Works of Lovegrove and Bäuerlen Built for the Bush: the Green National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria 27 Jul – 30 Oct 2016 7,848 Demolished Sydney Museum of Sydney, Gallery 2 19 Nov 2016 – 17 Apr 2017 36,485 Architecture of Rural Australia

Sand in the City Museum of Sydney, Gallery 1 3 Dec 2016 – 23 Jul 2017 43,490 Iconic Australian Houses: Museum of the Riverina, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2 Sept – 6 Nov 2016 6,549 An Exhibition by Karen McCartney Head On Photo Awards 2017 Museum of Sydney, Gallery 2 6 May – 2 Jul 2017 10,027 National Archives of Australia, ACT 25 Nov 2016 – 13 Mar 2017 14,517

Vaucluse House orientation room Vaucluse House 7 Apr 2017 – ongoing 5576 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria 12 May – 9 Jul 2017 7,070

Rouse Hill House & Farm in LEGO® Bricks Rouse Hill House & Farm Visitor Centre 24 Jun 2017 – ongoing 350 Towers of Tomorrow with Museum of Tropical Queensland, 7 May – 13 Nov 2016 32,335 LEGO® Bricks Townsville, Queensland Female Immigration Depot 1848–1886 Hyde Park Barracks Museum 28 Jun 2014 – ongoing 46,850 Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland 8 Dec 2016 – 5 Mar 2017 10,807 Notorious Criminals: A Snapshot of Sinister Sydney Justice & Police Museum 18 Oct 2014 – ongoing 13,221 Ipswich Regional Art Gallery, Queensland 25 Mar – 9 Jul 2017 9,496 Breakers: The Dying Art of Safebreaking Justice & Police Museum 18 Oct 2014 – ongoing 13,221 TOTAL 93,150 City of Shadows Revisited Justice & Police Museum 29 Jun 2013 – ongoing 13,221

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‘Fantastically skilled and engaging tour guide; a brilliant and accessible way to learn the history.’

Visitor from UK to the Hyde Park Barracks Museum

The Hyde Park VISITOR EXPERIENCE AT OUR MUSEUMS ‘[Susannah Place Museum] was Barracks Museum. Photo © Haley Every day, visitors experience SLM places through excellent. It is so rare to see the history Richardson and the eyes of the people who once lived there. During Stuart Miller for of ordinary people presented at all, Sydney Living 2016–17 SLM offered visitors: much less in such an accessible way. Museums • three new programs at Susannah Place Several years ago I was lucky enough Museum that explore the lives of the people to visit the tenement museum in New who once lived in the houses and the local York, and while Susannah Place is on neighbourhood – Over the Back Fence, Eat Your History: Common Sense Cookery, a smaller scale I thought it was every and Meet the Family; bit as impressive.’ • extended tours of the Vaucluse House estate Visitor from Sydney and mausoleum; • tours of the upstairs bedrooms and outbuildings at Rouse Hill House & Farm; ‘... my family and I received amazing • a program of nightlight tours at Elizabeth Bay customer care at Vaucluse House last House, Elizabeth Farm, Rouse Hill House & week during the school holidays … It Farm and Vaucluse House, including as part of was such a great day and we all loved the National Trust Australian Heritage Festival (April–May); seeing and learning about the history of the house and the family. Thank • Winter Solstice morning events at Elizabeth Bay House on 21 and 22 June; you so much for keeping the house open and employing such great and • Stargazing event at Rouse Hill House & Farm, passionate staff.’ part of the Sydney Science Festival in August; Family visitor • twice-daily focus tours, and tours for booked groups including ESL colleges, seniors and community organisations, tourists and tertiary students, at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum; • also at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, high-quality audio tours, available in multiple languages, provided free with museum admission for international visitors; Auslan tour and large scrolling captioned text on iPod for hearing-impaired visitors; and a hands-on model that segments the building floor by floor, and a ‘touch table’ of artefacts and objects, which, along with the audio guide, offer those with limited mobility insights into the stories told in the upper exhibition spaces.

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CHILDREN & FAMILIES NEW DEVELOPMENTS AT THE JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM Families are a diverse and growing audience Convict Escapades, an immersive theatre group for SLM, unique in that they often visit as production for families, was held at the Hyde Park The Justice & Police Museum is usually open to intergenerational groups, where engagement with Barracks Museum on 21–24 April; 1532 people the public only on weekends, but during January the sites and learning is socially constructed. It is participated in this event, exploring the lives of the museum was opened daily. This resulted in not just about individuals, but rather an inter- and convicts at the barracks. Presented to engage a growth in admissions of more than 90%. The intra-generational social group of parents, carers, young people and their families in the stories of demographic also shifted, with a noticeable siblings, grandparents and friends. This provides the site, the performance was written by Jessica increase in visitation by families. rich opportunities for families to connect with Bellamy and directed by Danielle O’Keefe. A The offer was significantly revitalised with new each other and learn from the diverse insights and week-long theatre workshop created an ensemble activities for key identified audiences (families, interests that each brings to the cultural experience, cast of 22 young actors aged from ten to 18 who adults, tourists): embodying in many ways SLM’s vision of ‘a living complemented the six-member adult cast. This future for the past’. This embodiment of history intensive workshop included sessions with Curator • Murder in the Museum tour – adults only allows families to connect and empathise with each Dr Fiona Starr on the importance of the Hyde Park • Bushrangers Behind Bars – families other across multiple generations and has profound Barracks as a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site. impacts on families who visit. SLM’s programming • Mugshot dress-ups – families, adults, tourists The popular Toy Festival, aimed specifically at has been focused on fostering confidence among families, was again held at Rouse Hill House & • Activity cards (fingerprinting; safebreaking; and families to learn together, connecting them with Farm, in July, with visitation of 2958 over two days. Tess, the first member of the NSW Police dog one another and, importantly, with Sydney’s squad) – families. cultural heritage. The family audience continued to grow, with a The new offer was supported with a visitor map, range of specific programming on offer across branded signage, life-size cutouts of suspects the museums. Throughout the school holidays, from the NSW Police Forensic Photography children had the opportunity to be a shopkeeper Archive located outside the museum, a trial at Susannah Place or a servant at Vaucluse House. coffee cart, a strong online campaign, and As part of the Demolished Sydney program, visitors targeted media reviews. joined author Hilary Bell and illustrator Matthew Martin, the creative duo behind the book The marvellous funambulist of Middle Harbour, to explore some of Sydney’s stranger stories. At Rouse Hill House & Farm, Earn Your Tucker and Muru Mittigar’s Bush Tucker and Boomerang Art and Throw Aboriginal cultural programs (see page 68) were booked at 80% capacity. The Kids in the Kitchen and Kids in the Garden holiday programs were delivered at Elizabeth Farm, Meroogal and Vaucluse House.

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‘Stunningly beautiful exhibition! Thank you for sharing these botanical drawings, prints with the public.’

Visitor to Florilegium exhibition

MEDIA AND PUBLICITY HIGHLIGHTS AWARDS Media coverage of SLM’s properties, events and The Aboriginal cultural programs the Whale Festival SLM’s work was recognised with numerous Demonstrating the scholarship and quality of SLM exhibitions was solid and consistent throughout at Vaucluse House (October) and the Eel Festival at awards in 2016–17. projects, the organisation received six awards – 2016–17 across broadcast, print and digital media Elizabeth Farm (March) achieved national media four wins and two highly commended – at the At the Interpretation Australia Conference in outlets. coverage for the first time, with feature stories on National Trust Heritage Awards held on 28 April, October, SLM received the prestigious Judges’ the ABC Radio National Blueprint for living program for a range of education, interpretation and Sydney Open 2016 contributed greatly to the strong Award for the popular Female Immigration Depot: and on SBS Radio’s Living black and National heritage conservation projects: media results, with earned media value growing 1848–1886 display at the Hyde Park Barracks Indigenous Television, along with picture feature from $4.3 million in 2015 to $5.6 million in 2016 Museum. • The Dowling Songbook (in collaboration with articles in local suburban papers. through 362 media items. The print media coverage the Sydney Conservatorium of Music) – Winner, The following month, SLM was a winner in the NSW was consistent across September to November, and Other media coverage highlights included a Education and Interpretation Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) Awards for covered metropolitan, suburban, regional and rural Channel Nine live cross (five segments) from Convict Marketing Excellence in the Integrated Marketing • Vaucluse House Battlements and Turrets – NSW, including three feature articles in The Sydney Escapades at the Hyde Park Barracks; the front Communications category for Sydney Open 2015. Winner, Conservation Built Heritage Morning Herald and a history feature in the Daily cover of the Sunday Telegraph ‘School Holidays Telegraph. Online and broadcast media highlights Guide’ (circulation over 406,000) shot at Rouse Hill • Florilegium: Sydney’s Painted Garden (in included a picture feature article in The Guardian House & Farm; a feature in New Land Magazine collaboration with The Florilegium Society online, news features on ABC TV, Channel Nine (a bilingual Chinese/Australian publication with ‘This exhibition makes walking at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney Inc) – Winner, Events and Exhibitions and Sky News, multiple interviews on ABC Radio readership of 80,000); Channel Seven’s Weekend the streets of Sydney a much 702 Sydney, and on-air mentions on community sunrise live cross from Elizabeth Farm for the Spring • Vaucluse House drawing room – Winner, and commercial radio stations. Online coverage Harvest Festival; a review of the two botanic art greater and richer experience.’ Continuing Tradition reached 179 outlets in ‘what’s on’ listings and across exhibitions by art critic Christopher Allen in The Family visitor to Demolished Sydney exhibition architecture, lifestyle, tourist and design websites. Australian; an interview with Florilegium curator • Irish Orphan Trunk Project – Highly Colleen Morris on Radio National’s Books and arts Commended, Education and Interpretation The Demolished Sydney exhibition at the Museum daily program; feature stories across local South of Sydney achieved substantial media attention • Demolished Sydney exhibition and talks series – Coast media for the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize during its opening month of November, with seven Highly Commended, Events and Exhibitions. 2016, including WIN TV News, Illawarra Mercury news features across Channel Nine and ABC TV, and South Coast Register; and feature stories on In May, the Florilegium exhibition also won an six interview stories with ABC Radio 702 Sydney the opening of the Museums Discovery Centre on award at the Museums Australasia Multimedia and Radio 2GB, and picture features in The Sydney Channel Nine, Channel Seven and ABC TV news. and Publication Design Awards (MAPDA), in the Morning Herald, Daily Telegraph, The Sun-Herald category of Best Exhibition Label. and Sunday Telegraph, along with extensive coverage in all suburban papers. Also in May, SLM was highly commended for its Aboriginal Cultural Calendar at the Museums and Galleries National Awards (MAGNA) in the Indigenous Project category.

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Opposite Demolished Sydney exhibition. DEMOLISHED Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums Below, top to bottom Aerial view of the State Office Block, photographer unknown, c1967. SYDNEY Archives: SRC1033; Demolished Sydney exhibition. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

The project’s aim was to encourage conversation about the heritage of our city and to consider how and why a city changes. An exhibition film featured interviews with architects, planners, heritage consultants and artists to further explore the place of heritage in 21st-century Sydney. A thought-provoking talks series and panel discussions extended the themes and ideas explored in the exhibition. Speakers included artists Jonathan Jones and Peter Kingston, historians Dr Ian Hoskins and Dr Lisa Murray, architects Alec Tzannes am, Dr Peter Tonkin, Peter Phillips and Giorgio Marfella, collector Bryan Fitzgerald, and curators Dr Nicola Teffer and Dr Charles Pickett. Demolished Sydney received extensive print media coverage (see page 46). The response to the exhibition and programs was overwhelmingly positive. The subject matter resonated deeply with audiences, and visitor feedback indicated that the key objectives of the exhibition were met, with the majority of visitors confirming that the exhibition highlighted how ideas of heritage, and the understanding of what should be preserved for future generations, change over time.

Demolished Sydney, on display at the Museum of Sydney Based on an initial concept developed by SLM directors from 19 November 2016 to 17 April 2017, continued a long Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon and Ian Innes in collaboration with ‘I was blown over by the exhibition! It was tradition at SLM of exhibitions that have explored the city’s Megan Martin, Head of Collections & Access, and curated like walking down Sydney alleyways architecture, urbanism and heritage. The exhibition examined by Dr Nicola Teffer, the exhibition was presented as a series the process of change over time at key sites in Sydney, from of 13 site case studies that were arranged geographically – 50 years and more ago. The depth and the convict-built Commissariat Stores to the city’s last island visitors ‘walked the city’ from Bennelong Point in 1788 to the breadth was remarkable … I deeply of industry, the Kent Brewery. It investigated how built identity Central Park redevelopment of today. The sites covered a appreciate the love and expertise that defines a city and how each generation differently values and diverse cross-section of building types – a church, an office has created this wonderful panorama.’ preserves the heritage of the city they inherit. The exhibition block, a hotel, a bank, a retail street, government buildings examined how demolition has been a constant part of the and industrial sites. Key architectural elements of a selection of Visitor to Demolished Sydney exhibition city’s evolution – sometimes welcomed as a sign of progress, buildings were re-created in the gallery to provide a sense of and at other times reviled as a short-sighted obliteration of the buildings that were demolished: visitors could walk under cultural heritage. But behind every demolition is a fascinating the dome or stroll down Rowe Street and peer story of a changing city and its people. in the shop windows.

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‘Meroogal has long been known as a women’s MEROOGAL place – a women’s house and a place for women’s history … The Meroogal Women’s Art Prize is a wonderful opportunity to turn a contemporary focus onto these stories and people through the talents and intellect of women artists.’

Naseema Sparks am, SLM Trustee

The interpretation of Meroogal, a late-19th-century The prize money was generously provided by the SLM Opposite Vita house in Nowra, focuses on the stories of women, past and Foundation. The winner of the first prize of $6000 and an Cochran with her work Meroogal sampler, present. The biennial Meroogal Women’s Art Prize and artist residency at the Bundanon Trust was Linda Dening hand-embroidered the annual Shoalhaven International Women’s Day Awards from Tomboye, NSW, for the work Hairbrush. Second prize wool on linen. Photo reach regional stakeholders and attract visitors and the of $3000 was awarded to Vita Cochran from Sydney for © Anna Kucera/James Horan for Sydney media, deepening engagement with the local community Meroogal sampler, and third prize of $1000 was awarded Living Museums and visitors. to Lisa Maris McDonell from Wollongong for Women’s work. Artists Amaya Lang, Judy Panucci and Kathleen Ciclovan were MEROOGAL WOMEN’S ART PRIZE highly commended. Left Shoalhaven International Women’s The Meroogal Women’s Art Prize (23 September 2016 – The winners were announced at the exhibition’s opening, Day Choir. Photo Dr Toner Stevenson © 28 January 2017) encouraged Australian women artists to held at Meroogal on 23 September. Naseema Sparks am, SLM Sydney Living Museums interpret the historic house and its stories. This year’s judges Trustee, and Mark Goggin, Executive Director, presented the were am, Director of Harry Seidler & prizes, with 164 people attending. The 40 works short-listed Associates; Deborah Ely, CEO, Bundanon Trust; Lisa Havilah, and selected for the exhibition were displayed throughout the Director of Carriageworks; Bronwyn Coulston, Arts & Culture house. In the lead-up to the prize and during the exhibition Manager, Shoalhaven City Art Centre; and Dr Caroline period, more than 1100 visitors toured Meroogal. A further 63 Butler-Bowdon, Director, Strategy & Engagement at SLM. visitors attended the ceramic art and artist focus programs.

SHOALHAVEN INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY AWARDS

On 18 March, 22 women living in the Shoalhaven Historian Robyn Florance oam spoke about two area were acknowledged at Meroogal for their significant late-19th-century Shoalhaven artists, contribution to community through culture, Maggie Fleming and Gertrude Lovegrove, and sporting groups, health, wellbeing, and heritage the IWD choir, led by Christine Rigg, performed. knowledge and preservation. The Shoalhaven Making the ceremony even more moving and International Women’s Day (IWD) awards, now meaningful, each of the award recipients made in their 20th year, are organised, funded and a short presentation and gave insights into why presented by SLM and were attended by 120 they were nominated and, more broadly, some people from the local area. of the important issues in their community.

Aunty Ruth Simms oam, a previous IWD award recipient who has been working in education for over 40 years, provided a welcome to country. Shoalhaven Mayor Amanda Findley presented the 2017 IWD awards to the recipients.

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SLM delivered interpretive experiences, in-depth engagement, discovery and enjoyment through a wide range of initiatives, including meaningful and participatory public programs, high- quality immersive and interactive education programs for schoolchildren, and an increased range of digital storytelling content.

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DEEPENING ENGAGEMENT

EDUCATION Teacher professional development DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT the story of convictism as it relates to the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney and beyond. The website will be SLM’s education programs are underpinned In 2017, SLM launched Teaching History in SLM continued to invest in its digital output, launched in September 2017. (See page 60.) by the desire for students, regardless of age or the Primary Classroom, a series of immersive focusing on delivering several major web projects. professional development days for primary school background, to be active participants in historical Its YouTube following grew strongly, dramatically Social media highlights and cultural investigation, fostering a greater teachers delivering the new History curriculum. outpacing previous years’ figures. While there was ongoing growth across all sense of agency and civic engagement. The 12 sites Four sessions spread across the school year related social media channels, SLM’s YouTube following provide a rich and immersive learning environment to teaching history through objects, place, role- Website experienced a substantial boost in views and where students discover past lives, events and play and museums. The sessions were developed SLM’s story, blog and news content was responsible watch time with more than 4.3 million minutes stories in the places where they actually unfolded. in conjunction with education consultant Kate for 24% of overall web visitation. This was aided by of content watched, up from 200,000 last year. SLM’s learning experiences bring together Cameron. Each course drew on the knowledge of staff publishing an additional 231 stories, blog posts Much of this was due to the popularity of one of Indigenous perspectives alongside the four Cs in-house experts and the rich resources of the sites and news items. Interest in convict and Hyde Park SLM’s educational videos, documenting a cooper of 21st-century learning – critical thinking skills, and collections. Barracks material continued to grow, with sessions making a wooden bucket. This had 226,000 plays communication, collaboration and creativity – to up 7% on last year, now accounting for more than SLM is endorsed by the NSW Education Standards and a watch time of 3.8 million minutes. Other engage students with the sites, giving them greater 12% of all page views. Authority (NESA, formerly BOSTES NSW) as a widely watched videos were The art of botanical confidence to investigate the past, so that they may provider (at Proficient Teacher career level) A shift in how SLM markets through social media illustration, Artisan cheese making at Elizabeth more critically shape Sydney’s cultural future. of Quality Teacher Council (QTC) registered channels such as Facebook, now focusing on House and Towers of Tomorrow with LEGO® Bricks. The SLM education offer for schools has had a professional development. This recognises that keeping the conversation on the platform rather highly productive year, building strength in visitation SLM’s teacher professional development program than attempting to direct SLM audiences to its and engagement for children and schools. The 23 is aligned to the Australian Professional Standards website, saw a drop in overall visits to SLM’s site, high-quality curriculum-based programs – offered for Teachers, thereby increasing the value of the and a reduction in page views for events and at eight of the sites and via video conference courses for participating teachers and enhancing exhibition content. – support curriculum outcomes and classroom SLM’s status as a provider of high-quality learning for students from Stage 1 to Stage 6 and in education programs. Teaching History in the New initiatives subjects as diverse as History, Creative Arts, Science Primary Classroom extends and further strengthens Plant Your History blog (slm.is/gardens) existing partnerships with other teacher-related & Technology, Legal Studies and Food Technology. In May, SLM launched Plant Your History, a blog organisations, including the History Teachers’ written by SLM horticulturist Steven Halliday that In 2016–17, schools visitation exceeded 66,000 Association of NSW. students and teachers. The audience profile showcases the diverse gardens and plants as well remained steady at 70% primary school visitation as the organisation’s depth of expertise in this area. and 30% high school. ‘It is refreshing to attend a professional development day that inspires and World War I microsite (slm.is/ww1) Changes to the curriculum resulted in three new The SLM microsite WWI: Stories from Our programs being launched in 2016 for Stage 3 motivates you to get back into the classroom and implement some of Museums was launched in June to coincide with the students – a new audience for SLM. Life at the centenary of the death in battle of Oliver Whiting, Barracks: Convicts and Migrants, based at the Hyde the great ideas presented by the a workman at the Sydney Branch of the Royal Mint Park Barracks, proved popular and has attracted SLM [professional development] team. in Macquarie Street. The site, comprising 43 stories, over 4000 students since its launch. The other two I enjoyed the creative and engaging is the culmination of a project begun in 2014. (See programs – Expanding the Colony and A Colonial page 59.) Eye – are based at Rouse Hill House & Farm. activities presented and found them highly effective and easy to implement Convict Sydney (slm.is/convict-sydney) Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural & Education within my classroom.’ Centre offered two curriculum-based programs In 2016 SLM received an $80,000 federal at Rouse Hill House & Farm for students from Teacher attendee, Teaching Primary History through Role-Play, government grant to expand the Hyde Park Kindergarten through to Year 12 (see page 68). September Barracks and convict section of its website, increasing the amount of content and enhancing

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

The Rum Hospital bicentenary 21st Fifties Fair Sydney’s first General Hospital, known as the Rum The annual Fifties Fair celebrated its 21st year Hospital, was completed in 1816. The central wing at mid-century modern architectural icon Rose was demolished in 1879, while the surviving north Seidler House on Sunday 21 August, attended and south wings are today the NSW Parliament by 1590 visitors. The program included vintage House and The Mint. stalls and hairstyling, dancing, fashion, food and collectables, and headline act The Hi-Boys The first event to mark the Rum Hospital bringing Brisbane rockabilly to Sydney in an bicentenary was a one-day symposium held at exclusive performance. Guest judge Tara Moss The Mint on Saturday 30 July. This explored the joined Curator Joanna Nicholas and costume site’s history, heritage, architecture and politics. historian Lorraine Foster to adjudicate the best- Speakers included Ian Innes, Director, Heritage dressed competition. Film and photos shared & Collections, on the architectural history of the by visitors and SLM staff through social media original building; Curator Dr Fiona Starr on the channels captured memories of the day. ‘Sidney slaughter house’ in the convict period; and medical historian Dr Peter Hobbins on the transition from convict hospital to the colony’s first public dispensary. Megan Martin, Head of Collections & Access, and ‘[SLM] understands the dynamic City of Sydney Historian Dr Lisa Murray shared nature of house museums and new findings and reflected on Macquarie Street’s presents them to the public in use as a public and civic thoroughfare, and the an enticing way.’ day concluded with an insightful reflection from architect Richard Francis-Jones on his award- Penelope Seidler AM winning adaptive re-use of The Mint building and a panel discussion with Executive Director Mark Goggin and newly appointed Trustee and heritage expert Sharon Veale. The sessions were chaired by Government Architect Peter Poulet and Tim Horton, Registrar, NSW Architects Registration Board, who partnered with SLM to support this important day presenting research and scholarship. The Sydney Open programming on 5–6 November also had a focus on the importance of the Rum Hospital as well as several heritage buildings designed by the Government Architect, also Ehran Edwards celebrating its bicentenary. in vintage dress outside the front door of Rose Seidler House. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

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‘I had intended just to dip in briefly to the site but found myself there for much of the afternoon … There is so much about this site to admire – its scope, the evocation of personal stories, the tangible sense of the artifacts that underpin the stories and its visually stunning quality.’

Professor Bruce Scates on the WWI microsite

The Great Irish Famine Commemoration Sydney Writers’ Festival RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP World War I microsite On Sunday 28 August the Hyde Park Barracks SLM’s longstanding partnership with the History SLM’s development and presentation of new In June, SLM marked the centenary of World hosted the 17th Annual Gathering to commemorate Council of NSW is evident in our participation in the content in exhibitions, public programs and War I with the launch of a special website (see the Irish Famine, at the Australian Monument to the Sydney Writers’ Festival. The History Council of NSW publications is always underpinned by scholarly also page 55). The stories on the site provide a Great Irish Famine. Ian Innes, Director, Heritage & hosts a panel session featuring winners of the NSW research and analysis across a broad range of panoramic view of how the war was experienced Collections, welcomed the gathering of more than Premier’s History Awards. This year, as in previous subjects related to the properties and collections. by people associated with the historic houses and 300 guests. The keynote address was delivered by years, Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Director, Major narrative themes are always directly linked places managed by SLM. the Reverend Tim Costello ao, CEO of World Vision Strategy & Engagement, moderated the panel, on to actual places, collection objects and people The site is the culmination of a project begun in Australia, with a vote of thanks from Susan Ryan ao. Thursday 25 May, which addressed ‘Documenting through the forensic examination of firsthand 2014, led by Megan Martin, Head of Collections Dr Patricia Strong, Chair of the Great Irish Famine Hardship’ – the challenges historians face when historical sources such as paintings, drawings & Access, and starting from the material culture Commemoration Committee, provided a welcome exploring sensitive topics and reconstructing and photographs, diaries, letters, newspaper traces of World War I found in SLM’s collections and closing remarks. contentious narratives. 2016 NSW Premier’s History articles, sales receipts, oral histories and personal – photographs, printed ephemera and objects – Awards winners Ann McGrath, Stuart Macintyre This annual event plays an integral role in accounts. The conservation processes SLM as the framework for the stories. Staff teased out and Tanya Evans revealed how they explored maintaining SLM’s relationship with the Irish employs in preserving its heritage assets are meanings from the items that were particular to difficult subject matter – whether interracial community of NSW, an important Hyde Park based on analysis and diagnosis of past design, the people connected to the places, and used relationships, war or poverty – in their award- Barracks stakeholder connected to the early construction and materials practices, which this evidence to create an overarching narrative. winning works. Immigration Depot phase of the site’s history. are used to inform the degree of intervention These new stories add an extra layer to the appropriate in each situation. existing interpretation of SLM places, a layer Research in one particular subject area, such as that connects these places with Gallipoli and the 19th-century sheet music, of which SLM holds battlefields of France. KEY EVENTS a large collection, can cross over into many The World War I traces in SLM collections were related fields, including the evolution of musical the starting point; however, as staff delved deeper TITLE LOCATION DATE TOTAL VISITORS instruments; conservation requirements for wood, into the history of people and families associated paper and metal; the social history of music and Songlines: Shared Stories of Our Landscape Rouse Hill House & Farm 9 July 2016 645 with SLM places, they found other people who performance in the home; migration; and nostalgia (NAIDOC Week event) were important to one or other of the places but for home. SLM’s curatorial and collections staff whose ‘traces’ were in other public collections or Toy Festival Rouse Hill House & Farm 23–24 July 2016 2,958 are experienced in drawing together historical only in private collections. The project’s scope was The Rum Hospital bicentenary The Mint 30 July 2016 91 information from diverse sources to develop new extended to encompass those strays, to give a story insights into each subject. SLM has won numerous Fifties Fair Rose Seidler House 21 August 2016 1,590 back to those individuals. built heritage and museum interpretation awards The Great Irish Famine Commemoration Hyde Park Barracks Museum 28 August 2016 327 for its achievements in these endeavours. The site comprises 43 stories, with more to come, grouped into four themes: War Service, Home Front, Spring Harvest Festival Elizabeth Farm 25 September 2016 1,559 This structured approach to research informs the Enemy Within? and Commemoration. The stories Whale Festival Vaucluse House 23 October 2016 691 following projects and programs. are often poignant and sometimes heartbreaking. Sydney Open* Various 4–6 November 2016 7,766 Most are of individuals: combatants, pacifists, patriotic fundraisers and anti-war activists. Other, Christmas Fare Hyde Park Barracks Museum 15 December 2016 1,824 larger, stories speak to broader national narratives Eel Festival Elizabeth Farm 12 March 2017 1,098 relating to ideas of patriotism and expressions of Convict Escapades Hyde Park Barracks Museum 21–24 April 2017 1,532 jingoism. Still others touch on the aftermath of war and the memorialisation of those who had enlisted Vivid Sydney – Sirius and Unsui installations Museum of Sydney 26 May – 17 June 2017 65,143 for active service, including those who made the Autumn Harvest Festival Rouse Hill House & Farm 28 May 2017 2,820 supreme sacrifice.

* 7766 participants with 48,645 visits to Sydney Open participating properties.

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Convict Sydney website a conservation management plan for the Chifley Food heritage research Regional food programs The Convict Sydney website (see also page 55) Home in Bathurst. A PhD history candidate at Latrobe SLM’s food programming celebrates food heritage Jacqui Newling worked with Orange City Council takes a new look at the colony’s early decades, University worked with archival and printed sources with a variety of bespoke programs and events at to develop and deliver two new food programs using the changing experience and contribution of for her thesis on domestic knitting and crochet SLM properties, including the Food & Words writers’ in Central NSW during the Australian Heritage convicts to tell the story of an ever-growing town, in Australia, 1840–1940. An early-career music festival, Eat Your History and Colonial Gastronomy Festival 2017. from a motley convict colony to a thriving coastal academic from the University of Glasgow spent a programs, Spring and Autumn Harvest festivals, and On 29 April, a Picnic at Wentworth was held at the city. Convict Sydney is an inspiring, engaging and month examining 18th- and 19th-century Scottish the Hyde Park Barracks’ Christmas Fare. Wentworth Main Mine heritage site in Lucknow. comprehensive online resource using the latest in sheet music in the Stewart Symonds collection (see On 9 and 10 September The Mint played host, for Over 200 people attended the picnic, which offered web-friendly architecture and design (conceived by page 88), while film set designers researched 1930s the fifth time, to the Food & Words writers’ festival live entertainment from local musical groups, industry leaders Pollen Design, authored by SLM seaside shacks for the remake of the film Storm Boy. with Barbara Sweeney and a line-up of food afternoon-tea treats and old-fashioned games. curators and built by SLM’s Web & Screen Media Conservation professionals and the public engaged writers, chefs and producers. The event was inspired by a picnic in 1887 that was Team). The content combines archival research and in research that included information about hosted by the mine manager for workers and their curatorship with a broad range of contemporary Colonial Gastronomy and Eat Your History conserving wattle and daub construction in the families. On 1 May, Molong Historical Museum, perspectives, bringing together historians, scholars, programming continued to be popular, with Blue Mountains, verandah tile designs for a late- built as a pub in 1856, celebrated the opening of cultural observers and writers, as well as modern- consistently sold-out ‘talk, tour, taste’ and hands-on 1930s home in Vaucluse, paint finishes for an 1820s its original kitchen as an interpretive space with day artisans and practitioners of convict-era skills workshops led by resident Colonial Gastronomer property at Dawes Point, and the design history The Colonial Kitchen Luncheon. Jacqui provided (prison baker, shoemaker, blacksmith, ship captain, Jacqui Newling, at Elizabeth Farm, Susannah Place of a housing commission property in Matraville. advice on program content and activities, and gave etc). Importantly, it introduces several Aboriginal and Vaucluse House. These experiences provided In May, a paint colour scheme re-created by the presentations at both events. spokespeople and specialists whose insights and Antarctic Heritage Trust for Hillary’s Hut, Antarctica, participants with the opportunity to explore a personal experiences cast new light on Australia’s won the international category in the 2017 Dulux variety of food-related topics, such as honey and These programs continue SLM’s involvement in convict beginnings, including its pivotal role in Colour Awards. The colour scheme was based on a backyard beekeeping, traditional summer cordials the Villages of the Heart project, which helps rural the systematic devastation and dispossession of Bergermaster paint colour chart that had been used and Christmas puddings, colonial teas and spices, communities to tell their stories. Aboriginal society and its ongoing impact today. during construction of the hut in 1957 and discovered and a culinary history of Susannah Place. by a New Zealand researcher in the CSL&RC. Research activity at the Caroline Simpson With a focus on sustainability and traditional Library & Research Collection practices, the Spring Harvest Festival at Elizabeth Farm in September, Christmas Fare at the Hyde The Caroline Simpson Library & Research Park Barracks in December and Autumn Harvest Collection (CSL&RC) engages with a rich community Festival at Rouse Hill House & Farm in May of researchers, both SLM staff and external attracted a total of over 6000 people. Each event stakeholders. Inquirers range from the general featured a market of carefully selected artisan public, tertiary students, scholars, textile and interior producers selling foodstuffs reflective of colonial designers, garden and architecture historians, music ingredients, recipes, preparation methods and performers and musicologists to film set designers, eating habits. The events also featured talks artists, heritage and conservation practitioners, programs, tours, hands-on activities and food and museum professionals. The accessibility of the demonstrations. CSL&RC’s holdings online enables library users from around the world to engage with a unique range of formats and to seek expert advice about these specialised collections. Over the past year, researchers maintained their focus on accessing both primary and secondary source material. A postgraduate student from the University of Melbourne examined the CSL&RC linoleum collection to assist in the development of

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New music research The Dowling Songbook Project, MEMBERSHIP Elizabeth Bay House In 2016–17 SLM consolidated its leading role in Membership grew to 3317 in 2016–17, and Front-of-house teams play an important role music interpretation in historic houses both in The discovery of a locally formed early collection generated $153,000 in revenue, contributing to in promoting membership. Through improved Australia and internationally. This activity has been of domestic sheet music at Rouse Hill House & Farm SLM’s role in preserving 12 of the state’s most support material and procedures, front-of-house communicated to audiences through concerts, the inspired a new collaboration between SLM and the significant heritage properties. membership sales have increased from 11% of Autumn 2017 issue of our Unlocked magazine, SLM Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Between June overall membership income in 2015–16 to 19% in The membership program extends, highlights online stories, the British Sound Heritage website, and October, 23 students, led by the CSL&RC and 2016–17. An online gift membership was launched in and leverages the wider program of activities social media and YouTube links. Professor Neal Peres Da Costa of the Historical December 2016 as an additional revenue stream. run by SLM. To achieve this, the organisation Performance Division, Sydney Conservatorium of Sound Heritage Network focused on an integrated approach across its Developing meaningful and authentic connections Music, were guided through the music resources physical sites, exhibition and events calendar, between SLM members and the organisation The Sound Heritage Network is a British-based at the CSL&RC and attended rehearsal workshops and digital channels. is critical to the success and growth of the group established to discuss music making in at the Conservatorium and in the drawing room membership program. Member events provide historic houses in the 18th and 19th centuries. The at Elizabeth Bay House. SLM provided rare sheet ‘Simply loved last night. Could have a unique opportunity to deepen audience network was launched in 2015 with a grant from music from its collections and the Conservatorium listened to the stories all night. Thanks connection with the organisation through behind- the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), installed an 1840s square piano in the drawing the-scenes experiences that highlight SLM’s which also funded representation by SLM from room for three concerts, held on 7–9 October. to all involved. The generosity of their significant collections. Improvements to the Australia. This recognises SLM’s contribution to the The concerts were attended by 80 people, and time and the passion and enthusiasm structure of member events have strengthened understanding of domestic music making in colonial a further 91 visitors to the house experienced the they all spoke with brought both the program and resulted in a sustainable model NSW and has been led by staff from the CSL&RC. rehearsals. The project received the Education and places to life.’ that is resource-conscious and offers greater Interpretation award at the 2017 National Trust On 28 March, SLM hosted the first Sound opportunities to highlight staff expertise and Heritage Awards. Email received from a member who attended a member tour at Heritage meeting in Australia, at Elizabeth Bay Susannah Place Museum and The Big Dig in February 2017 develop collaborative partnerships across the House. Sound Heritage Sydney was convened by organisation. The introduction of a standard price In 2016–17, SLM launched an integrated campaign Dr Matthew Stephens, Research Librarian, CSL&RC, ‘Seeing the music brought to life by model has grown revenue, which is invested back offering a ‘membership for all seasons’ across in partnership with the Sydney Conservatorium into the program. Twelve member-exclusive events students who had carefully studied experiential, print and digital channels. This of Music. Forty-five participants from a range were held in 2016–17 across seven of our properties. the material and who play original campaign has facilitated a sustainable and of sectors, including musicology, historical and Member visitation has increased 40% year on year. conceptual performance, place-based museums instruments gave a unique insight into repeatable model to showcase the properties, and musical instrument conservation, met to the music in the research collection, in communicate year-long value and increase monthly SLM’s award-winning member publication, explore ways in which the history of Australian a way that simply looking at a printed member engagement and visitation through events, Unlocked, continues to showcase compelling activities and special promotions. To increase stories and fascinating heritage, horticulture and domestic music can be used to enhance historic page could never do.’ sites. Speakers included the co-founder of the overall awareness and engagement, SLM amplified conservation work across the museums and historic Sound Heritage Network, Professor Jeanice Brooks, Dowling Songbook Project concert attendee membership across digital platforms, including houses. University of Southampton. Participants came from Google AdWords, social media and a targeted across Australia, New Zealand and the UK. monthly eNews for members. SLM’s strongest social media campaign was the promotion of a Mother’s Also in March, Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland was Day gift membership offer, which received over funded by the University of Glasgow’s Ross Fund 86,000 impressions. Overall, the digital campaign to visit Sydney and to examine early Scottish sheet has delivered 35,603 impressions and 2101 (1.22%) music held in the Stewart Symonds Sheet Music click-throughs to the membership page, including Collection (see page 88). Dr Robertson-Kirkland 498 (0.04%) goal completions (reaching sign-up identified rare pieces unknown or not held in Britain page). and presented her preliminary findings at Sound Heritage Sydney.

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Opposite Students from Below, top to bottom Students from Athelstane Public School, Athelstane Public School, assisted UNLOCKING assisted by the Unlocking by the Unlocking Heritage Travel Heritage Travel Subsidy, Subsidy, participating in Life at the participating in Life at Barracks: Convicts and Migrants at HERITAGE the Barracks: Convicts the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. and Migrants, Hyde Park Photo © James Horan for Sydney Barracks Museum. Photo Living Museums; Sleeping in the © James Horan for Sydney hammock room during the Unlocking Living Museums Heritage Convict Sleepover – illustration by Year 5 student, Mittagong Public School, 2016

The program was offered in two streams: a travel subsidy of up to $20 per student for eligible schools to attend one of 48 curriculum-linked programs at 21 sites across NSW, and the Convict Sleepover program at the World Heritage-listed Hyde Park Barracks Museum for schools from regional and rural NSW. Following the first Convict Sleepover in September 2015, over 3000 students and teachers from 100 NSW regional and rural schools participated in the overnight experience, which included a free education program, food and overnight accommodation as well as a travel subsidy. The smallest school to participate was Glen Alice Public School located in the Capertee Valley, which sent the entire school of nine students to Sydney. More than 18,000 primary students from 209 eligible schools benefited from the Unlocking Heritage travel subsidy. Of these, 40% were from NSW rural schools visiting both Sydney and regional heritage sites. The remaining 60% were from metropolitan schools predominantly located in the western and south-western suburbs of Sydney, all with high populations of students from refugee, multicultural and Aboriginal backgrounds. Very few of the children had previously engaged with heritage experiences, and the travel subsidy provided the opportunity to engage in education programs that not only offered equity in education but also a sense of belonging. Convict Sleepover and the travel subsidy were supported by an audience research program designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Over 90% of the 280 Launched in June 2015, Unlocking Heritage was a two-year ‘We see it as an imperative to include all teachers surveyed indicated that the travel subsidy trial program initiated by SLM in partnership with the NSW in our shared history and provide our offered the opportunity for their students to be involved National Parks and Wildlife Service and funded by the Office in high-quality experiences that linked strongly with of Environment and Heritage. The program’s key goal was to students with the opportunity to gain their classroom teaching and ensured a high level of ensure that 20,000 eligible students from socioeconomically a diversity of lived experiences so that engagement. disadvantaged schools and remote areas could participate they are better equipped to function Unlocking Heritage exceeded its objectives of increasing in learning programs managed by SLM and the NSW effectively in our society.’ access to and participation in heritage experiences for National Parks and Wildlife Service. At the end of the two- Teacher, Marayong Public School audiences who would not normally have the financial year trial period, this goal was exceeded by more than 2000 resources to experience these types of immersive students, indicating the importance of the financial support learning programs. In addition to the education offered and the viability of the program. programs, Unlocking Heritage provided the opportunity for these NSW primary students to more deeply engage with a shared Australian history.

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Opposite Songlines: Shared Below, top to bottom Whale Stories of Our Landscape Festival at Vaucluse House. ABORIGINAL at Rouse Hill House & Farm. Photo © Stuart Miller for Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Sydney Living Museums Djaadjawan Dancers at ACTION PLAN Songlines: Shared Stories of Our Landscape at Rouse Hill House & Farm. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums

SLM continued its implementation of the Aboriginal The Museum of Sydney introduced a new event series, Action Plan 2016–18 to identify and expand on Aboriginal Aboriginal Sydney Speaks, designed to engage and enhance relationships, opportunities and involvement. The Plan is a a distinctive Aboriginal narrative. The first event, 1835: significant priority for SLM and works to increase Aboriginal A Conversation for No-man, held on 26 May and produced interpretation and community participation across the in partnership with the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, organisation and create a strong framework on which to examined the ongoing impacts of Governor Bourke’s 1835 build knowledge, awareness and public engagement with proclamation declaring that ‘vacant land’ could the Aboriginal stories of the sites. not be acquired through treaty, bargain, contract or other transaction with Aboriginal inhabitants but only through deed The Aboriginal Advisory Committee met twice to support of the Crown. A performance by the Stiff Gins and a reading the delivery of culturally appropriate programming and of the proclamation by Aboriginal actor Jeremy Ambrum business and employment opportunities. Internally, a working was followed by a panel discussion, facilitated by Robynne group made up of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal staff, Quiggin with academic and cultural leader Professor including representatives from the Executive, met regularly Michael McDaniel, award-winning literary activist Samuel to implement and report on progress, focusing on key areas Wagan Watson, author and cultural thinker Professor Bruce of programming, business and partnership opportunities, Pascoe, and Gail Mabo, the daughter of the Torres Strait employment and procurement. warrior who ultimately challenged Bourke’s proclamation The Aboriginal concept of country is central to the Plan and and the concept of terra nullius. resonates with SLM’s place-based approach to interpreting museums and heritage sites. Work continued to increase Aboriginal interpretation at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum and the site of first Government House, with the significant involvement of Aboriginal staff and consultants contributing to the Protecting National Historic Sites projects on both sites (see page 77). The Aboriginal Cultural Events Calendar reflected the history of SLM sites and the cultural values of Aboriginal people today, building on the pilot programs run in 2015–16. The program comprised the following events: • Songlines: Shared Stories of Our Landscape, held at Rouse Hill House & Farm (9 July) with the local community as part of SLM’s NAIDOC Week celebration, attracted 645 participants. ‘[The Museum of Sydney] is a loaded site, • The Whale Festival at Vaucluse House (23 October) probably more so than any other museum site. celebrated rebirth and connection to country as whales Part of a political landscape that is not located and their calves migrate south along the east coast of in the past but that is lively and uncomfortable Australia. There were 691 attendees. and very relevant today. This site has an • The Eel Festival (12 March) at Elizabeth Farm recognised obligation to tell its stories as a living political Parramatta’s namesake, the eel, and its importance place symbolising an unresolved relationship.’ to the local Burramattagal people. This program was co-produced with Muru Mittigar, and attracted Professor Michael McDaniel, Chair of SLM’s Aboriginal Advisory Committee 1098 attendees.

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‘Muru Mittigar’s vision is to make a MURU MITTIGAR significant, measurable and sustainable difference in advancing culture, PARTNERSHIP community and country of all Aboriginal people and in particular Darug people.’

Peter Chia, Chief Executive Officer, Muru Mittigar

SLM and Muru Mittigar have extended their original of Aboriginal culture in the wider community as visitors one-year agreement for a further three years to deliver learn Darug traditional ways and participate in experiences cultural education tours, public events and programming such as boomerang throwing, art, and the bush tucker at Rouse Hill House & Farm. The aim is to increase cultural investigation and cooking workshops. opportunities for all people to participate in through an Muru Mittigar has substantially grown education and family Indigenous presence and interpretation of the site. This visitation at Rouse Hill House & Farm, with 2292 students partnership is important to delivering SLM’s Aboriginal and teachers participating in education programs, and Action Plan and Aboriginal Cultural Calendar (see 379 school holiday workshop participants. In addition, Muru pages 66–7). Mittigar were active partners in presenting the NAIDOC Established in 1998, Muru Mittigar is a not-for-profit Week event Songlines: Shared Stories of Our Landscape and organisation. In 2016 Muru Mittigar established a Cultural the Rouse Hill House & Farm Autumn Harvest Festival, which Centre at Rouse Hill House & Farm to deliver curriculum- attracted a combined audience of 3465 program attendees. based Aboriginal cultural education programs, teacher training, visitor-oriented cultural programming and curated experiences. This initiative is creating a better understanding

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 Below, top to bottom Visitors at EY Centre. Photo SYDNEY OPEN © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums; Lands Department Building. Photo © Brett Boardman for Sydney Living Museums

The 12th Sydney Open was presented on Sydney Open also celebrated some of the city’s 5 and 6 November. Attracting its highest ever much-loved heritage buildings. The 200th visitation, the program enabled more than 7700 anniversary of Governor Macquarie’s General ‘Rum’ people to engage with the city’s architectural Hospital was marked with the opening of the three heritage by exploring more than 70 buildings buildings currently occupying the Macquarie Street and sites across the Sydney CBD, Barangaroo, site – Parliament House, and The Walsh Bay and The Rocks through open Mint. The program also marked the bicentenary of access and exclusive Focus Tours. Program the NSW Government Architect’s Office, featuring highlights included the Rogers Stirk Harbour + over 20 buildings designed and built by the Partners–designed Two International Towers, Government Architect, from Francis Greenway’s Barangaroo. Sydney Open ticketholders had St James’ Church (1820–22) to Peter Mould’s work exclusive access to three levels of the building, with Sam Marshall on the Museum of Contemporary covering the offices of Gilbert + Tobin and Swiss Art’s Mordant Wing (2012). Re and the level 41 top floor. Focus Tours were Sydney Open once again integrated ticket also led across Westpac’s new offices. sales, membership acquisition and partnership Sydney Open partnered with Two International management, which yielded the highest paid Towers to present an exclusive VIP evening. visitation since the program was first offered in 1997, Ticketholders enjoyed talks by architects Andrew a 7.2% growth on the 2015 event. The Sydney Open Andersons, Richard Francis-Jones (Principal, membership bundle secured 537 memberships. Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp), Avtar Lotay The total number of event participants was 7766, (Director, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) generating more than 48,000 individual building and Dr Peter Tonkin (Principal of Tonkin visits. As always, the event demonstrated strong Zulaikha Greer). social media engagement, with over 2000 photographs shared on Instagram alone using Some of the other latest architecture on the #sydneyisopen. program included Macquarie Group’s offices at No 1 Martin Place, the Francis-Jones Morehen Over 50 partner and stakeholder groups contributed Thorp–designed EY Centre, PTW Architects’ to the program, including regular partners AMP Calyx structure in the Royal Botanic Garden Capital, Dexus, Macquarie Group and Sydney Trains. Sydney, and HASSELL’s Sydney studio in the Ambassadors for the program included architectural, heritage-listed former woolstore on pier 8/9 heritage and cultural experts and commentators at Walsh Bay. such as architect Penelope Seidler am, performer Tim Ross, influencer Demas Rusli, heritage expert Sharon Veale and photographer Brett Boardman. Sponsors included Architecture Media, GML Heritage, BVN, Two International Towers and the City of Sydney. Audience research revealed that 52% of Sydney Open attendees were new audiences, with 48% repeat visitors – an increase for repeat visitation EY Centre. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums of 11% on 2015. Customer satisfaction with the event remained high, with the overwhelming majority (96%) of visitors recommending Sydney Open to others and almost nine in ten indicating they would be likely to attend again in 2017.

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SLM continued to invest in managing, maintaining and conserving its buildings, places and objects to hold ‘in trust’ for future generations’ education and enjoyment.

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‘The work performed by SLM is vital SLM aims to preserve and enhance the cultural CAPITALISED MAINTENANCE PROGRAM significance of the exceptional historic buildings for the protection of many iconic This year maintenance projects valued at • Meroogal – regrading of external asphalt and landscapes it manages through ongoing $5.5 million were completed. This was the third paths, external repairs to the main house buildings in and around Sydney. This maintenance and housekeeping so that major year of a three-year maintenance program, timberwork, repainting, and repairs to can only be achieved through the restoration does not become necessary. This is based supplemented by additional capital funding downpipes and external lighting; dedication, hard work and expertise on the principle of conserving and retaining as much from the second year of a ten-year program of original and early built fabric at each of the places as • The Mint – extensive repainting and surface of many people who share a common maintenance and conservation works. The focus is possible, avoiding replacement or reconstruction of renewal; new lighting in auditorium, foyer goal – to preserve our history for on improving the public safety and accessibility of material wherever possible. and library; services upgrades to assist Rum our sites; ensuring ongoing statutory compliance, future generations. It is a privilege Hospital ground floor food and beverage Over time all assets require major cyclical such as with fire safety and electrical code to be a part of that team.’ service; and replacement of the chiller in the maintenance and upgrades to ensure their ongoing requirements; replacing ageing infrastructure and Coining Factory’s air-conditioning system; Simon White, SLM Foundation Board working life, and in the case of heritage assets to obsolete or unsupported plant and equipment; and preserve often fragile materials. These activities undertaking works to protect our revenue, including • Museum of Sydney – lighting upgrades in require the application of expert knowledge and improvements to venue facilities and equipment. ‘back of house’ areas, renewal of zinc roofs understanding of traditional building materials such The ongoing preservation of the historic fabric on glazed rooms on facade, repairs to the as stone, timber, iron, lime, fibrous plaster, milk- and of the buildings also features prominently in this Edge of the trees artwork on the forecourt and chalk-based paints, glues and mortars. Traditional program. associated drainage, removal of asbestos in crafts and techniques are employed to prevent the boilers and replacement with efficient new In 2016–17, 38 separate projects were completed, damage to or loss of original materials. Over many boilers, cleaning of air-conditioning ducts to ranging from lime-washing and mortar repairs years the application of these principles to SLM’s remove mould, and a Building Management to installing state-of-the-art LED lighting. The properties has given them an identifiable aesthetic System upgrade to monitor humidity and program required the coordination of diverse appearance different from many other ‘restored’ temperature data logs and automate alerts to trades and specialist consultancy services for historic buildings. staff if prescribed humidity and temperature works including: conditions for museum collections preservation In the city museums, controlled environmental • Elizabeth Bay House – desalination and repair are not met; conditions are required for the storage and display of of cellar stonework and metalwork; collection objects to prevent them from deteriorating • Rouse Hill House & Farm – conservation or becoming damaged. Providing these conditions • Elizabeth Farm – repair of external plasters and works on the bathhouse and main house roof, within narrowly defined ranges of temperature and lime washes; and works on the garden services new potable water supply to the historic and humidity control requires efficient air-conditioning area to improve drainage; schoolhouse precincts, repairs to historic fences, and building management control systems, all regraded surfaces and refreshed gravel on the • Hyde Park Barracks Museum – stonework of which have been undergoing upgrades in the main carriage loop and garden pathways, and conservation on gatehouses and gate piers, and reporting period. dam dredging; preparation of design for a new passenger lift; Consistent with general heritage management • Vaucluse House – remediation of damp • Justice & Police Museum – conservation of practice, SLM uses Conservation Management Plans deterioration and timber shingle roofing, external stonework and new leadwork to the as a way of confirming what is important about re-gravelling of the main drive and pathways, pediments; conservation of French-polished each place, in what ways it may be vulnerable, and and stabilisation of seven timber bridges and finishes; internal repainting; new lighting in what actions are required to fix that vulnerability. replacement of handrails to meet current safety public areas; refurbished bathrooms above SLM’s Conservation Management Plans follow standards. collection display areas; and replacement the principles of The Burra Charter, a widely used of air-conditioning chiller to achieve energy framework for the assessment and management of efficiency, acoustic improvement, temperature historic places, and reference The conservation plan and humidity control for collections by James Semple Kerr, which provides a structured preservation and to extend the useful life approach to research and planning. and operational reliability of the asset; 74 75 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INVESTING IN OUR ASSETS

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLANS PROTECTING NATIONAL Interpretation Masterplans HISTORIC SITES PROGRAM SLM commissioned new or updated Conservation favoured in historic building conservation. The CMP Interpretation Masterplans have been developed Management Plans (CMPs) for the Hyde Park also evaluated the significance of the Sulman Award- A three-year Commonwealth Government grant of for both sites. Barracks, The Mint, the first Government House winning FJMT Studio 2004 additions to the Coining $1.82 million under the Protecting National Historic HAY|HEBBLETHWAITE was engaged to develop an and the Justice & Police Museum, and worked Factory, still regarded as a benchmark in historic Sites program enabled a range of projects at the Interpretation Masterplan for the UNESCO World with specialist heritage consultants to ensure that building adaptation. UNESCO World Heritage-listed Hyde Park Barracks Heritage-listed Hyde Park Barracks to create a management policies for each property aligned and the nationally listed site of first Government The new CMP for the site of first Government House cohesive, active and connected experience across conservation objectives with operational requirements House, with $637,000 received in 2016–17. at the Museum of Sydney summarises the significance the entire site, replacing the 1990 Museum Plan. and contemporary museum interpretation practice. of the below-ground remains of the house, the The grant delivered significant outcomes across An Interpretation Review was carried out and The new CMP for the Hyde Park Barracks draws known and potential archaeological remains, the both sites, enabling audience research, new outlined a number of key objectives for renewal. together for the first time multiple threads of historical contemporary overlay of the Museum of Sydney interpretation master planning, detailed design Consultation with key stakeholders was undertaken, research carried out over many years into one and First Government House Place, and the value and renewed site interpretation works at both the including briefings with the architect responsible comprehensive document covering all aspects of the of interpretive features such as the Edge of the trees Hyde Park Barracks Museum and the site of first for design of the original interpretive elements, built form and fabric, archaeology, social history and commissioned artwork created by Janet Laurence and Government House at the Museum of Sydney. Dr Peter Tonkin. This was in line with best practice museology. The CMP aligns the four levels of statutory Fiona Foley in 1995. In a companion volume, the Young and ensures transparency across the project. Key achievements listings of the site in a hierarchy of significance, and Street terrace houses were evaluated separately as This Masterplan will guide the design development will be used for all levels of statutory approvals for one of only a handful of mid-19th-century terrace Audience Research Stage 2 phase, which will be undertaken in 2017. The future work. The research phase highlighted the houses remaining within the Sydney CBD, as well as in The Protecting National Historic Sites program renewal of the Hyde Park Barracks Museum importance of archaeological excavations carried out relation to the site of first Government House itself and audience research was undertaken with consultants will enhance its global context and highlight its at the Hyde Park Barracks in the late 1970s and early the Museum of Sydney. The CMP was key to enabling Morris Hargreaves McIntyre. This provided valuable contemporary significance. The completion of the 1980s, as these were the largest and most extensive the development of a revised museum concept audience insights, enabling better understanding Hyde Park Barracks Museum renewal will coincide ever carried out in Australia at that time. The work for the forecourt with new interpretive elements in of visitor engagement across the sites, and the with the June 2019 bicentenary of convicts moving in. at the site established a benchmark in historical development funded through a federal Protecting effectiveness of interpretation and programming. archaeology which is still referenced today. National Historic Sites grant. The research will inform reinterpretation plans for Johnson Pilton Walker Architects and Art of Fact have developed the Interpretation and Design The Hyde Park Barracks underwent extensive The Justice & Police Museum was established in the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Masterplan for the site of first Government House, restoration by the NSW Government Architect in the late 1980s. The site was transferred to the HHT In June, Morris Hargreaves McIntyre undertook which will expand the experience of the nationally the late 1970s, involving substantial demolition of in 1989, but despite a number of heritage studies further research allowing SLM to better understand significant site and guide renewal within a changing later additions and reconstruction of large areas of and conservation analyses being undertaken, a the impact of the master planning on its ability urban environment. brickwork, sandstone masonry and timber joinery. comprehensive CMP for the three buildings was never to provide relevant and engaging education These practices are no longer carried out in building carried out. A key challenge in developing the CMP programs. This included a focus on the integration conservation. The CMP includes a detailed fabric was analysing the evidence of original construction of Indigenous content into Museum of Sydney analysis that enables original and altered fabric to be and separating this from later interventions, as well as education programs. understood and evaluated. assessing the significance of the 1987–88 restoration practices. This CMP provides for the first time a The updated CMP for The Mint for the first time comprehensive history of the development and use of includes and evaluates all built elements on the site the site right up to the formation of the museum. The and draws out the history and significance of the Rum significance of the historical collections housed in the Hospital building facing Macquarie Street as well as museum and their relationship to specific people and the 1854 Mint Coining Factory buildings at the rear. incidents in the history of the buildings have also been SLM also documented the evidence of the extensive explored and form the basis of a renewed interpretive restoration of the Rum Hospital building carried out concept for the museum. in the early 1980s, which saw the removal of much original and early fabric and the reconstruction and restoration of many features, practices no longer 76 77 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INVESTING IN OUR ASSETS

‘The preview of the drawing room and orientation space last night at Vaucluse House was a delight. The passion, skill and knowledge of SLM staff radiated, and the care and attentiveness they displayed towards the invited guests was truly commendable.’

Sharon Veale, SLM Trustee

HERITAGE FLOOR SPACE The development application was referred to VAUCLUSE HOUSE the NSW Heritage Council for comment. These In July, consultant Studio Colin Polwarth was On 6 April the Vaucluse House drawing and Essential to any historical furnishings project are comments have been received and further engaged to assist with the development of a orientation rooms were officially opened after the passementeries, or trimmings. Some of the information is being provided in relation to the Heritage Floor Space (HFS) application to support an extensive period of research, design and trimmings for this project were imported from archaeology in the area below the new addition. claims for the award of HFS for three eligible SLM installation. The projects were funded through the France, while many others were custom-made by properties: the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, The Beulah Story Spheres project SLM Foundation, individual donations and SLM’s artisan Morrison Polkinghorne in Cambodia. The Mint and the Justice & Police Museum. Treasury-funded capitalised maintenance program. tassels for the box ottomans were copied from The Beulah Story Spheres project, developed in Many of the donors attended the launch event an example in the Caroline Simpson Library & SLM is the first public institution to apply to partnership with Google’s Creative Lab and Grumpy opened by Edward Simpson, Chair of the SLM Research Collection. The soft furnishings volunteers the City of Sydney for the award of HFS. The Sailor Sydney, a creative laboratory experimenting Foundation. group painstakingly hand-stitched silk hangers into application process requires the City to endorse with digital technology and storytelling, provides the wool bullion fringe for the window furnishings. the Conservation Management Plans that have an immersive way for visitors to experience the The two rooms are highlights of any visit to the been completed for the three sites. The application house as it was before serious conservation work house. The drawing room refurbishment won the was submitted to the City of Sydney on 2 May and began. Through the use of 360-degree virtual prestigious National Trust Award 2017 for Continuing registered for public comment, with a closing date reality technologies such as a Google Cardboard Tradition. The drawing room, now considered one ‘Our architectural history acts as of 27 June. headset, users will be able to visit rooms and of the finest surviving colonial interiors in Australia, witness to the passage of time. locations across the property while viewing images was built and furnished by William Charles and It is anticipated that the Council’s Planning Preserving the memories of place of the original condition and listening to experts Sarah Wentworth in the 1840s. The refurbishment Assessment Committee will review the application creates a narrative for Sydney’s past discuss the history and challenges of this project. drew on authentic sources and traditional trades to early in the next financial year, and make the that allows us to imagine who we once Once work on the house is completed, the property re-create a room that the Wentworths might have recommendation of the Council of the City of will be documented again, allowing visitors to known. No pictorial evidence of the original drawing were and whom we may become.’ Sydney. experience the site before and after, giving them room survives, and the only available information Susannah Sweeney, SLM Foundation Board ENDANGERED HOUSES FUND an opportunity to better understand the incredible came from an auction advertisement from 1853, amount of work and effort that goes into protecting when the family was preparing to leave Australia SLM submitted a development application to such a significant homestead. for England. It listed a variety of furniture for sale, The orientation room reinterprets the history of Campbelltown Council in December for an addition comprising ottomans, sofas and easy chairs in the Vaucluse estate from its enduring Aboriginal to the 1830s stone farmhouse at Beulah, Appin ‘elaborately carved rosewood’ and upholstered in connections to its ownership by Sir Henry Browne (see page 21). The addition will include a kitchen, crimson silk damask. Hayes, its occupation by the Wentworth family, and additional wet areas, and living areas, and reflects finally the creation of a museum. Treasures from Without a fragment of this original upholstery, SLM the group of weatherboard and corrugated-steel the collection, interpretive panels and immersive staff worked with Humphries Weaving in Suffolk, outbuildings that used to stand in the same area audiovisual components take visitors through the England, to source damask of an appropriate at the rear of Beulah and housed the kitchen, estate’s diverse and fascinating history. dining room, laundry and farm office. These design, colour and quality. The furniture – including buildings burnt down in the 1980s. The proposed two single-ended sofas, stools, a pair of ottomans A new self-guided audio tour was also developed addition is in a contemporary style, and does not and five Wentworth-provenanced chairs – was and is available free with entry. Through many seek to ‘upstage’ the original building. It is modest reupholstered by Carlos Rodrigues. Conservator voices it unlocks intimate family tales and sheds in size and uses a low-key material palette of Ben Stoner treated much of the furniture, and the fresh light on what it felt like to live and work at weatherboard and timber framing. The addition window furnishings were created by Chrissie Jeffery, Vaucluse House in the first half of the 19th century. is divided into two linked buildings in a similar way creative director of Stitches Soft Furnishings, and as the earlier outbuildings and reflects the long her team, using 19th-century sources and with input tradition of Australian rural homesteads. The new from architecture and interiors specialist Dr James wing is connected to the original house by a glazed Broadbent am. link in the same location as the original covered way between the house and the kitchen.

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CARING FOR OUR COLLECTIONS LOANS OF SLM COLLECTIONS MUSEUMS DISCOVERY CENTRE Preventive conservation activities were undertaken Fifty objects were on long-term outward loan to In 2016–17 the Museums Discovery Centre (MDC) in The new store provides greatly improved facilities, with 14 conservation specialists on the conservation museums, galleries and other institutions in NSW, Castle Hill moved from planning to an operational including new oversized plan cabinets (allowing of 94 objects, including 45 bags of archaeological and the national capital. A number of site. The MDC is a collaboration between the better access to items such as ceiling panels textiles from the Hyde Park Barracks, Sarah these loans enhance the visitor experience and Australian Museum, the Museum of Applied currently stored in crates), an improved large rolled Wentworth’s fan from Vaucluse House, the stone support interpretation at Lanyon Homestead in the Arts and Sciences (MAAS) and SLM. Building E, textile storage system, a purpose-built storage plinth supporting a bust of Governor Australian Capital Territory; Old Government House, which houses visitor facilities including collections system for collection doors and a flexible racking at the Museum of Sydney, and a photo album of Parramatta (National Trust of Australia); Lindesay, displays, meeting rooms and facilities for school system for framed works and smaller rolled textiles. Darlinghurst Gaol from the Justice & Police Museum. Darling Point (National Trust of Australia); and programs, was officially launched on 14 September Two compactus units accommodate material Narryna Heritage Museum, Hobart. Other loans by then Deputy Premier and Minister for the Arts, ranging from archaeology to sensitive police- Support was provided to the capital infrastructure are on display in the NSW Police Commissioner’s The Hon MP, and then Minister for related material, uniforms and artworks. projects undertaken across the properties. Many of Office; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; the the Environment and Heritage, The Hon Mark the projects required the movement of collections Since the initial move, work has continued to National Portrait Gallery, ; and Macquarie Speakman SC MP. This was followed by an open to enable access for work on walls, ceilings, air- improve the storage and documentation, with Bank in Martin Place, Sydney. weekend on 17–18 September that saw 6000 visitors conditioning ducts and inside showcases. This a focus on documenting and rehousing first to the site. has provided an opportunity to assess and clean Government House archaeological material. This collections and showcases. The collection on display features architectural provides the capacity to undertake more effective elements from demolished Sydney properties. These analysis of the material for ongoing research. Musical instrument conservator Bronwen Griffin elements are displayed alongside similar material and early piano and organ specialist Colin van der from the MAAS collection. Serendipitously, the MAAS Lecq were engaged to examine a 19th-century display included a mould used in the fabrication of a guitar, Litchfield Binckes square piano and ceiling rose from the SLM collection hanging on the Broadwood upright piano at Elizabeth Bay House. adjacent wall. As well as enhancing the exhibition, Through this process, the two pianos were cleaned, this discovery has provided new information about assessed and documented. Visiting UK-based the manufacturers of the ceiling rose. square piano conservator Lucy Coad undertook a further examination of the piano. Relocation of the SLM collection to the new facility commenced in September and was completed in March. Collection material was cleaned, assessed for rehousing, documented and shelved, with new locations documented in SLM’s collection database.

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ENTERPRISE INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE ENTERPRISE ASSET MANAGEMENT (EAM) STABLE TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE GARDENS (EIA) PROJECT – UNGERBOECK, ROLLER, VEND SYSTEM In 2016–17 the following activities improved system The SLM Horticulture Team presents and maintains The Enterprise Information Architecture program To more effectively implement the Total Asset stability and reliability: each property to a very high horticultural standard. has continued with the delivery of a new event- Management Plan for SLM’s built assets, an In early November, SLM undertook a large • A change management process was introduced management system to cater for education, group Asset Management System was procured and restoration project in the gardens at Meroogal, to control changes, and their attendant risks, to and venue-hire bookings, and a new front-of-house commissioned in the form of a software tool renovating the tired and overgrown garden beds ICT systems. system to cater for general admissions and SLM’s that records detailed information about assets that lie just behind the front white picket fence. The retail offer. These have streamlined processes for in a database and which is able to interface with • Benchmarking of stability was performed to team dug out, split and replanted the overgrown visitors and customers as well as for staff. the SUN Finance system. SLM established an measure the current levels of disruption to assist groupings of plants, and removed weeds and asset hierarchy with three levels of listing that The new event-management system was focus improvements and measure results. unwanted plants. This process also involved heavy will enable it to record and track maintenance pruning on selected trees and shrubs, and has had introduced in September. It has enabled booking • Post-incident reviews were performed to expenditure, capital upgrades, maintenance fantastic results. processes to be standardised across all sites and understand the root cause of disruption and history, documentation and contractor/service provides an integrated experience for customers, minimise recurrence. provider details for each asset. The software In May a large spiral fracture in the highly with all correspondence and details managed and significant Chinese elm tree (Ulmus parvifolia) at tool was designed to be used in the field, using • A refresh schedule was established to ensure tracked through the one system. The system and Elizabeth Farm caused a substantial branch to portable devices to allow asset records to be all systems are maintained and under full the processes it supports have been continually come to rest on the ground during heavy wind updated and work requests to be generated on vendor support. enhanced and improved since going live. the spot. Commissioned in January, the inforBI and rain. With consultation, staff decided to try to • Proactive maintenance of all systems was The front-of-house system was introduced to EAM tool is in the process of being fully activated save the branch rather than removing it, to reduce introduced. all sites over May. This simplifies the process of across the properties, with troubleshooting of further irreparable damage to the tree. SLM is admitting visitors and allows visitor information minor operational issues resolved through a client/ currently working with a specialist tree safety officers to focus less on technology and internal provider interface. company who are designing and engineering processes, and more on the visitor. The system new support props which, along with the already is intuitive, and integrates with SLM’s financial completed selective pruning and end-weight systems, reducing the need for paper records. reduction, should prolong the tree’s life for many The system is run from iPads and is portable, more years to come. so it can be used to support pop-up stores and Ten new plant containers were installed at the stalls at events. Hyde Park Barracks Bakehouse to create a visual boundary to show where the licensed premises ends. The containers were filled with bay trees, oleander and a variety of citrus species.

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KEY CAPITAL WORKS PROJECTS

Below Vaucluse House colonnade following plaster repairs and new tallow lime wash. Photo © Nicholas Watt for Sydney Living Museums

ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM VAUCLUSE HOUSE DAMP REMEDIATION

Bathhouse Worn paving at the rear of Vaucluse House allowed water to flow back into the courtyard arcade, affecting The late-1850s brick bathhouse at Rouse Hill was the plasters and lime washes in the arcade. The existing designed as an ornamental garden building porch, a relatively recent addition, was demolished with decorative arched trellises. Responding to and a larger but still simple porch built to reduce water concerns about structural movement and the flowing into the arcade, and the plasters and lime effect of tree roots on this fragile little building, a washes were then replaced. When the existing porch was structural engineer recommended root barriers demolished the opportunity was also taken to put up a be installed in the soil around the building. All scaffold and repair a large area of timber shingle roof the original paving and stonework was lifted, on the adjacent kitchen wing. the roots cut and barriers installed to a depth of 1 metre, then the paving relaid. Conservation of the brickwork, timber verandahs and trellises was carried out at the same time.

THE MINT STONEWORK The 1850s stonework of the Mint Dam dredging Coining Factory buildings has been The dam at Rouse Hill (dating from protected in places with sacrificial 1968) is an important resource for plasters over the past 12 years. farm operations, providing water for These plasters encourage salt from the growing herd of farm animals. rising damp to dry out in the outer Over time, it had silted up, reducing layer rather than within the stone capacity to about 30% less than it itself and thus protect the stone should have been. The dam was from losing surface layers as the dredged and the soil dried out and salts dry and expand. The plasters distributed elsewhere. The dam wall had been doing their job by received an important structural preferentially deteriorating, and the inspection and has been reinforced time had come to replace them. At with more soil. the same time, the opportunity was taken to provide a traditional lead flashing between the new 2003–05 structure and the 1850s stonework, which was suffering from too much water running onto it. Unless otherwise stated, all images © Sydney Living Museums 84 85 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 SPECIAL PROJECT

JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM STONEWORK As with many stone buildings in Sydney, the stonework joints at the Justice & Police Museum were repaired during the 20th century with asbestos reinforcing in the mortar. This mortar needed to be removed and replaced in the courtyard and other areas where people might be exposed to it. All work was monitored by asbestos removal hygienists. The opportunity was also taken to protect the stonework of the two court triangular pediments with lead flashings.

HYDE PARK BARRACKS WALL The original 1816–18 stone perimeter wall at the Hyde Park Barracks is an important and rare remnant of early colonial stonework. It was finished to a high level of workmanship, and the original surface with its rich orange patina remains on most of the gatehouses, gate piers and corner pavilions. Experienced UK-based stone conservator Deborah Carthy worked closely with Sydney-based stone consultant Nicola Ashurst to confirm a level of appropriate conservation. No stone was replaced. The aim to retain all original stone surfaces was achieved by retaining the edges of stone loss with mortar. Larger areas of loss on the underside of cornices and mouldings were made up with mortar infills coloured to blend with adjacent stone. Detached layers of stone were pinned back in place to slow down further losses. Local stonemasons were trained to carry out these repairs and in the delicate technique of grouting cavities behind the outer detaching layers of stone.

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 Below Kone chair, designed by Roger McLay, late 1940s. Caroline Simpson Library & Research KEY ACQUISITIONS Collection. Gift of Chee Soon & Fitzgerald. Photo © Jamie North for Sydney Living Museums; Right Thai silk curtain, made by Marion Best Pty Ltd from fabric manufactured by the Thai Silk Co Ltd, mid-1960s. Presented in memory of Barbara Lorraine Hill. ‘Jonquil’ chair, manufactured by Laverne International, c1965. Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection. Photo © Jamie North for Sydney Living Museums

This year items were acquired Stewart Symonds Sheet Music Collection through cultural gifts, donations In August the CSL&RC acquired, through the federal government Cultural Gifts Program, a rare collection of and purchases for the Caroline 19th-century sheet music of which much is provenanced to Simpson Library & Research NSW families. The Stewart Symonds Sheet Music Collection consists of 1563 pieces of music bound into 46 volumes, Collection (CSL&RC), Hyde Park including 55 leaves of manuscript transcriptions. Collected Barracks Museum, The Mint, Rose over five decades by private collector Stewart Symonds, the publications date from between the late 1780s and the Seidler House, Susannah Place 1890s. Among many highlights is ‘Currency lasses’ by ‘a Lady Museum and Vaucluse House. at Sydney’ (c1830), the earliest surviving printed copy of Australian settler music.

Marion Best Pty Ltd The CSL&RC has added significantly to its already strong kept in storage since 1967. Thai silks were a characteristic of collection of furniture, furnishings and archival material Marion Best Pty Ltd design, sold in her shops in Rowe Street, related to Marion Hall Best, one of Sydney’s leading Sydney, and Queen Street, Woollahra, and used extensively modernist interior designers of the mid-20th century, for decades for soft furnishings (curtains, cushion covers, acquiring material by donation and at auction. Items bedcovers, upholstery) in her interior design schemes. Best of furniture include modernist chairs designed by both began importing them in the 1950s and had Thompson Australian and international designers and retailed by produce colourways to her requirements. Marion Best; a late-1940s ‘Kone’ chair, designed by Roger Also related to Marion Best Pty Ltd is a collection of archival McLay; an early-1950s ‘Cord’ chair, designed by Clement and other material donated by Mardi McElvenny, a former Meadmore; a c1968 ‘Rondo’ chair, designed by Gordon employee of Marion Best Pty Ltd, relating to her training and Andrews; and a pair of c1965 ‘Jonquil’ clear acrylic chairs, practice as an interior designer, including McElvenny’s own designed by Erwin & Estelle Laverne of New York. Furnishing work books, notes and design exercises from her interior items include a pair of vibrantly coloured floor-length design training at the Shillito Design School, Sydney, 1966–68. plaid silk curtains, made in the early to mid-1960s from fabric manufactured by the Thai Silk Co Ltd (proprietor Jim Thompson), Thailand, for a house in Bondi Junction but  Above, left to right Cover, ‘Currency lasses, an admir’d Australian quadrille’, composed by a Lady at Sydney, c1830; Cover, ‘The City of Sydney polka’, composed by Charles Packer, Sydney, c1854. Stewart Symonds Sheet Music Collection, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums 88 89 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17

‘The sheet music collections … offer a fascinating insight into the domestic music culture of colonial NSW … Together they form an archive of enormous value to  Below, top to bottom [Gentleman with a piano], watercolour by Thomas Wingate, musical, historical and cultural scholarship 1853. Caroline Simpson Library & Research both here and internationally.’ Collection, Sydney Living Museums. Purchased with the assistance of the SLM Dr Graeme Skinner, musicologist Foundation; Carte-de-visite photograph of Major Thomas Wingate, c1862. A Ken Photographe, Paris. Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums. Gift of Miriam and Ian Hamilton

Thomas Wingate watercolour In April the CSL&RC acquired, with support from the SLM Foundation, a watercolour painted by Major Thomas Wingate (1807–1869) in March 1853. Wingate was a sketcher, amateur photographer and army officer with direct associations with two SLM properties, Rouse Hill House & Farm and the Justice & Police Museum, and an indirect association with another, The Mint. He entered the British army as an ensign in May 1826 and served in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and India before retiring with the rank of captain and arriving in Sydney around 1850. In 1854 he was commissioned as a major commanding the 1st New South Wales Rifle Volunteers, the first local unit raised by an Act of the Legislative Council. He also served as a magistrate on the bench of Sydney’s Water Police Court and Central Police Court, from 1855 to 1861. In 1858 he married Eleanor Terry (nee Rouse), seventh child of Richard Rouse, builder of Rouse Hill House. Wingate was a member of the Sydney Sketching Club, formed in 1856 with Conrad Martens as president. Captain Edward Wolstenholme Ward, Deputy Master of the , was also a member. This large watercolour, as a dated Sydney picture by a known amateur artist, is a rare pictorial reference to domestic music making in colonial NSW. It shows an elegantly dressed gentleman, elbow resting on an upright cottage piano, standing near the door of an Italianate villa with a view across Sydney Harbour to North Head. The man’s identity is not known, although we can be certain that it is not the artist himself. Wingate was a slightly scruffy, portly man, as can be seen in another recent acquisition, a carte-de-visite photograph of Wingate himself. He has partially coloured the photograph for possible use in a locket.

Other acquisitions Other pictorial acquisitions include, for Vaucluse House, a small mid-19th-century oil painting of The Cumaean Sybil, after the 17th-century original in the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples. This painting was one of several oil paintings known to have originally hung in the dining room at Vaucluse House, part of a collection of Grand Tour souvenirs purchased by William Charles Wentworth in Europe in the late 1850s. A Lionel Lindsay etching of the Hyde Park Barracks from 1917 was acquired for the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, and a 1912 Lionel Lindsay etching titled ‘The steps of the Sailors Return Hotel, The Rocks, Sydney’ was acquired for Susannah Place Museum. 90 Vaucluse House. Photo © Jamie North for Sydney Living Museums 91 F I V E PILLARS GROWING REVENUE STREAMS

SLM implemented a range of strategies to grow and diversify revenue streams and to provide a sustainable approach to investing in the collections, buildings and places to provide public access and engagement. SLM manages its cost base, prioritising the use of funds in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives.

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‘SLM deserves support for the great GROWING job it does in presenting important aspects of the New South Wales past REVENUE STREAMS to the wider community while always maintaining the highest professional standards. I am pleased to support SLM through the Governors’ Circle program.’

Emeritus Professor David Carment AM

FINANCIAL OVERVIEW Hospitality Retail PHILANTHROPY The 30 June result was a surplus of $5.218 million, SLM continued its successful hospitality partnership Retail continues to support Experience and The SLM Foundation met on four occasions to an increase of 11% on the revised budget of $4.715 with Fresh Catering, making available five food Learning events and initiatives, such as the provide leadership and direction to support million. This year the NSW Government provided and beverage outlets for its visitors to experience, Autumn and Spring Harvest festivals, to enhance fundraising from individual and corporate donors. a capital grant of $6.436 million, an increase of and providing private event catering to venue-hire visitor engagement and to increase revenue at In May, an annual appeal was successful in $1.894 million, as part of SLM’s capital maintenance clients. SLM properties. engaging with the core constituent base of SLM program. This was part of a ten-year capital works Located in the original 1819 convict bakehouse and The merchandise offering reflects SLM’s stories members and donors who identify with SLM’s program, investing in SLM’s assets. store, Bakehouse, a contemporary interpretation of and exhibitions, with particular success in sales commitment to conserve and refurbish the the Australian colonial experience, opened at the during exhibitions such as Florilegium: Sydney’s GENERATING INCOME/ properties, acquire items of national significance, UNESCO World Heritage-listed Hyde Park Barracks Painted Garden and Sydney Harbour Icons with COMMERCIAL SERVICES develop education programs, and support ® Museum in November. Bakehouse hosted 17,908 LEGO Bricks. exhibitions and publications. Governors’ Circle In 2016–17 SLM generated 27% of total income visitors. members (donors who make an annual contribution through commercial activities, paid admissions and The publications offer has expanded, and SLM’s At The Mint, No.10 Store and No.10 Bistro engaged of $5000 or more) access an additional suite of non-recurrent allocation such as grants, corporate continued distribution relationship with NewSouth successfully with local business audiences from stewardship benefits, including invitations to partnerships and donations from individuals, Publishing has increased its reach. the legal, financial and health sectors. No.10 Store special events. companies or government. Retail and ICT have implemented a new point- received 31,409 visitors, and No.10 Bistro received of-sale and inventory system across all locations, Major individual donors are listed on page 113. Venue hire 9146 visitors. which delivered improved performance for The SLM Foundation supported acquisitions Income from commercial venue hire was in line Vaucluse House Tearooms, located on the historic stocktaking procedures and provided a more for the Caroline Simpson Library & Research with the previous year, with 590 bookings. The Mint estate, experienced its most successful Mother’s efficient transactional and receipting experience Collection, enabling the purchase of important continued to lead SLM properties, with venue-hire Day weekend offer ever, with over 700 visitors. for front of house and visitors. objects, including trade catalogues for encaustic revenue increasing 1% due to stronger government- A project to provide a major renewal of the interiors tiles and architectural ironwork, wallpaper sample sector bookings. Justice & Police Museum venue- was completed with the installation of new carpet, books, furniture and architectural pattern books, hire revenue increased 11% due to stronger tables, ceiling lights and ceiling fans. architectural plans and architectural photography. corporate workshop bookings and high occupancy The Governors Table, adjacent to the Museum The material ranged in date from 1793 to 2003. levels at The Mint. Museum of Sydney venue- of Sydney, continued to trade strongly with its (See pages 88–90.) hire revenue decreased 8% due to the impact of corporate dining offer. This was complemented by the extensive capital works program, which will Two key projects were realised with the support of specific offers for the museum’s audiences, such enhance business opportunities in the future. The donor funds and the SLM Foundation. The first was as a ‘kids eat free’ offer during the Sand in the City Hyde Park Barracks Museum’s venue-hire revenue the refurbishment of the drawing and orientation exhibition, and the Vivid Sydney 2017 dining offer, decreased 43% due to the loss of a popular annual rooms at Vaucluse House (see page 79). An event which attracted 1424 visitors. booking. Elizabeth Farm venue-hire revenue on 6 April provided more than 120 donors with an increased by 123% as a result of stronger wedding exclusive preview of the refurbishment. bookings and film and photography shoots, and The second project made possible through Elizabeth Bay House experienced a 9% increase. philanthropic support was the publication of the SLM experienced its largest Christmas event season book Darling mother, darling son: the letters of in eight years, delivering 64 bookings and a 31% Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929–1972 (see increase in revenue. pages 98–99). An event on 30 April provided more New event furniture was purchased for The Mint, than 50 guests and donors with the opportunity to and major audiovisual upgrades were completed at meet the author and preview the publication. The Mint, the Museum of Sydney and the Justice & The Foundation also supported the Meroogal Police Museum. Women’s Art Prize (see page 50).

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CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS REDUCING OUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT – MURU MITTIGAR AT ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM Sirius by Thi Nguyen, installed in the museum’s viewing cube, GOVERNMENT RESOURCE EFFICIENCY was an LED light representation of the brightest star in the The Development & Fundraising Team’s priorities The importance of developing partnerships to provide night sky, and a fitting work to be exhibited on the site of the have been to sustain multi-year partnerships and SLM utilises the NSW Government Resource visitors with long-term sustainable offers was evidenced in first Government House, as HMS Sirius was the flagship of to establish new relationships with institutions Efficiency Policy (GREP) tool to improve the groundbreaking program partnership between SLM Captain Arthur Phillip’s . aligned to SLM activities, with a focus on heritage, sustainability. GREP provides targets and and Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural & Education Centre Indigenous, education, digital, and local and minimum standards for resource efficiency in NSW at Rouse Hill House & Farm. (See page 68.) On First Government House Place, the installation Unsui, regional agencies. Government operations. A consolidated GREP created by JHA Consulting Engineers, explored the elusive report is available on the Office of Environment VIVID SYDNEY AT THE MUSEUM OF SYDNEY and ethereal qualities of cloud and water in a sensory The annual Sydney Open event was once again a and Heritage website and includes resource SLM’s partnership with Vivid Sydney, the annual festival of journey incorporating sound and lighting effects. The term key partnership initiative, with over 50 public and consumption, progress towards the energy light, music and ideas, returned to the Museum of Sydney unsui comes from the practices of Zen Buddhism; literally private agencies contributing. efficiency targets and a statement of compliance. from 26 May to 17 June, attracting more than 65,000 translating as ‘cloud water’, it represents a meditative state. The Museum of Sydney is supported by major SLM aims to reduce its ecological – including visitors. This was the third year the Museum of Sydney partner AMP Capital and supporting partner carbon – footprint by managing its properties has participated in the festival. The museum featured Grosvenor Place. Major exhibitions such as sustainably. Measures undertaken during 2016–17 collaborations with artists presenting two site-specific Demolished Sydney and Florilegium: Sydney’s included: lighting installations. Painted Garden were an opportunity for SLM to partner with a range of organisations, including • the standard use of E10 fuel in the small fleet of Botanic Gardens & Centennial Parklands, the motor vehicles Maple-Brown Foundation and Porter’s Paints. • assessment and management of fleet vehicles Cultural collaborations with the City of Sydney to align usage to ensure efficiency and Vivid Sydney enhanced SLM’s position • utilising the TRIM records management system as a leading cultural and heritage institution to reduce the need for and storage of paper interpreting Australian history and heritage files at its sites. • moving towards a greater use of electronic New opportunities were established with a communications to facilitate mobility and to range of new partnerships, including New Land reduce the amount of office printing Magazine, a bilingual Chinese/English publication, with a series of feature articles encouraging • replacement of halogen and fluorescent lamps readers to experience Australian history at SLM with low-voltage energy-efficient LED fittings. sites; and Australian House & Garden magazine The table below illustrates the total electricity (Bauer Media), reflecting the increasing consumption and greenhouse gas emissions over community interest in Australian modernist the past two years. architecture and design. SLM’s membership of the NSW Business Chamber provides opportunities to engage with community leaders across TOTAL CONSUMPTION GREENHOUSE GAS government, industry and the private sector. PERIOD (kWh) EMISSIONS (tonnes) 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016 2,771,726.96 2532

1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 2,792,317.25 2340

Data obtained from Environmental Resources Management.

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DARLING MOTHER, DARLING SON

In 2012 a substantial archive of personal and business papers relating to the late Leslie Nicholl Walford am (1927–2012) was acquired by the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection (CSL&RC). Leslie Walford was one of the most influential interior designers in Australia, especially in society circles in Sydney. He was also widely known to the general public of NSW through his weekly newspaper for The Sun-Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald and the Sunday Telegraph, running from 1967 to 1984. The archive was a perfect match for the collecting focus of the CSL&RC: the history of house and garden design and interior furnishing in Australia, with special reference to NSW.

The task of arranging the material for cataloguing, which included papers, diaries, ledgers, trophies and other relics, and an unwieldy collection of framed and unframed photographs and certificates, was monumental. It was accomplished with the assistance of long-term SLM volunteer Dr Edith Ziegler and revealed that the archive also contained an extensive collection of personal correspondence between Leslie Walford and his mother, Dora Byrne, herself a prominent figure in Sydney society in the first half of the 20th century. Dr Ziegler’s transcription of the letters paved the way for a partnership with NewSouth Publishing to produce an edition of the letters between mother and son. The publication was made possible through the support of donors and the SLM Foundation. Many donors were personal friends of Leslie Walford and Dr Ziegler.

The resulting book, Darling mother, darling son: the letters of Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne, 1929–1972, was launched at the end of April. This first major publication to be drawn from the Walford archive is a carefully edited selection of personal correspondence, linked by a connecting narrative that draws on the archive as a whole to provide context, and illustrated by a rich selection of rare pictorial material from the archive.

 Dora Byrne and Leslie Walford at the An event was held at Elizabeth Bay House on 30 April to annual Eton v Winchester cricket match launch the publication and acknowledge donors. ‘I thank [the SLM Board and the Executive played at Winchester, 30 June 1945, Sport & General Press Agency Limited, . Team] as well as the accomplished and Walford archive, Caroline Simpson Library & consummately professional SLM and Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums Foundation staff. What a great pleasure it  From top Leslie Walford in the sitting room of his Darling Point apartment in Banff, 54b Darling Point Road, March 1964, Mirror has been working with people for whom Newspapers Limited; Dora Walford at home at 42 Mona Road, Darling Point (detail), , 1926. Walford archive, Caroline excellence is merely a starting point.’ Simpson Library & Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums Dr Edith Ziegler, author

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SLM continued to invest in its people and culture to uphold and promote the principal objectives of the Historic Houses Act 1980.

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SLM’s investment in people and culture focused on implementation of a number of new systems, STAFF FORUMS SECONDMENTS three areas: 114 staff undertook training in their use. Experience and Engagement Forum Fifteen secondments were supported for a 1. Meeting compliance and NSW Government Professional development training focused on variety of reasons, such as providing personal With the Enterprise Information Architecture Policy initiatives, working internally and across improving the leadership skills of team leaders development opportunities. Five temporary project bringing new customer systems online, the cluster. and providing them with development sessions roles were filled through secondments, bringing and a greater focus on strategies to engage and coaching. Change management training was expertise from other government agencies. 2. Providing support and opportunities for staff to audiences, the Experience and Engagement delivered to facilitate system and process changes Four staff members were seconded to another continue their development and to foster their Forum was developed by the Director, Strategy with the introduction of a new front-of-house NSW Government agency to further develop engagement in SLM’s activities. & Engagement, and the Director, Corporate & management program. their skills, and six internal candidates were Commercial. The forum aims to support the best 3. Addressing opportunities identified in the NSW provided with the opportunity to build new skills SLM also supports staff by offering flexible daily, cyclical and special experiences across People Matter Employee Survey, engaging staff through secondments to different roles within the work practices such as flex days, rostered days the sites; present on various aspects of SLM’s to improve their workplace and its culture. organisation. off, parental leave, and family and community ‘experience design’ through its business systems ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSIVITY service leave. Opportunities for development are interface; embed audience research findings; CAMD MENTORING provided through expressions of interest (EOIs) expose colleagues to business best practice in SLM participated in the Department of Planning and higher duties allowances for temporary relevant fields; and map new visitor strategies, Three senior leaders, Rebecca Bushby, Beth Hise and Environment steering committees for appointments. SLM also continues to support staff including supporting shared projects and and Lisa Walters, participated in the Council the Disability Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP), the affected by organisational change through the innovative initiatives. of Australasian Museum Directors (CAMD) Multicultural Plan (MCP), and the Aboriginal Employee Assistance Program. mentoring program. CAMD offers an Executive Employment Strategy. For further information on Curatorial Forum Mentoring Program for talented women leaders in SLM ensures diversity of representation on the DIAP and the MCP, see pages 123–4. This initiative, convened by the Director, Strategy museums. It is a unique professional development recruitment panels and internal bodies, such & Engagement, and the Director, Heritage & opportunity to work with an experienced executive DEVELOPING SKILLS, AND TRAINING AND as the Work Health & Safety Committee, and Collections, brings curatorial staff together six outside of the organisation. Mentors draw on their SUPPORTING STAFF engages with the Public Service Association of times a year to share knowledge and learning experience as trustees and leaders in the cultural NSW through the Joint Consultative Committee. In 2016–17 priority was given to professional in a collegiate environment. Regular field trips sector to provide confidential advice and support. development training to support Performance Outcomes for participants include enhanced NSW PEOPLE MATTER EMPLOYEE SURVEY as part of the forum expose staff to different Development Plans. WORKING GROUP curatorial and interpretive practices across Sydney leadership skills, clarity of career goals and path, institutions and in behind-the-scenes tours. This improved productivity, expanded networks and Training was split almost evenly between SLM received the NSW People Matter Employee year staff had the opportunity to undertake better management of workplace challenges. professional development (2167.5 hours) and Survey feedback for 2016. A working group was various heritage and cultural experiences, compliance (1899.5 hours) training for a total of established to develop an action plan to address including at the , the NSW LEADERSHIP ACADEMY 4067 hours of training provided to staff during the key areas of improvement. Led by the Director, Museums Discovery Centre, Barangaroo, and The Public Service Commission NSW Leadership financial year. Corporate & Commercial, the group meets every The Calyx exhibition and Library Academy promotes excellence in the NSW public six weeks, and includes staff members from Compliance training included 19 staff undertaking at Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. sector by enhancing the skills and capabilities of across the organisation. The working group will partial completion of a Certificate IV in Work existing and emerging leaders through a unique communicate the action plan as it is developed. Health and Safety and 49 staff undertaking suite of development programs. Incorporating training in identifying and responding to best practice from public and private sectors children/young people at risk. SLM focused on around the world, each program targets the improving the safety of employees both at work specific capabilities required to succeed at the and at home, with anti-bullying and domestic next level of sector leadership, while providing violence awareness workshops. Other areas of bespoke support to maximise an individual’s compliance training included applying first aid professional development. Dr Caroline Butler- and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and asbestos Bowdon participated in the Executive Leaders awareness and management. To support the program and Dr Toner Stevenson participated in the Leading Managers program. 102 103 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INVESTING IN PEOPLE AND CULTURE

LEADERSHIP GROUP participation in heritage’ shared the learning WHS Policy & Procedures Incident reporting and injury management and research from the Office of Environment and The newly formed Leadership Group consists The WHS Coordinator, in consultation with the WHS Claims costs remained low. While nine claims were Heritage–funded Unlocking Heritage travel subsidy of all heads of teams reporting directly to a Committee, developed the following policy-related lodged, only three were lost-time claims, which is in (see pages 64–5). Sophie then attended events member of the SLM Executive. The group provides documents: line with SLM’s five-year average. and meetings in New York City and Chicago with management and coordination of SLM operations, organisations delivering world’s best practice • WHS Policy Statement An ongoing focus on incident reporting and safety input into strategic priorities, and mutual support. cultural, heritage and place-making activities. In culture has seen an increase in the number of The group engenders a cohesive, active leadership • WHS Return to Work Program total, Sophie visited 17 institutions and attended nine incidents reported. cohort and assists in the ongoing development and meetings, ten events and three days of conference • Outdoor Workers’ Uniform Policy improvement of operations across SLM. Key statistics for the year included: presentations. • Property Inspection Guide and forms The group’s mission is: • 128 incidents were reported, an increase of 25% WORK HEALTH AND SAFETY • Plant & Equipment Operation Procedure on the previous year. • to provide a vehicle for SLM heads of teams to and forms oversee SLM operations and strategic priorities The Work Health and Safety (WHS) focuses were: • 45% of reported incidents were visitor-related, • Horticulture WHS Induction. compared to 43% in the previous year. with the aim of monitoring and managing KPIs • embedding a culture of WHS • The final net claim cost for 2016–17 was • to facilitate communications between the • WHS consultation First Aid Policy $20,286.55, or $2254.06 per claim. This was an Executive and the teams In December, the updated First Aid Policy together increase on the record low 2015–16 figure of • defining risk management with a suite of supporting documents was approved • to influence and encourage the development of $266.32, and was a result of SLM’s improved • enhancing WHS compliance practices. and implemented across all SLM properties. a culture supporting SLM values and behaviours reporting culture and several complex claims • to support the development of the Strategic Plan These priorities were in line with the 2015 Deloitte Rouse Hill House & Farm Site Induction requiring longer term treatment. for 2017–22. WHS Internal Audit and SLM’s WHS Action Plan. The WHS Coordinator and Building & Facilities WHS training Officer developed a site-specific contractor WHS consultation To improve the level of WHS awareness and RUTH POPE BEQUEST TRAVELLING induction for Rouse Hill House & Farm which SCHOLARSHIP – DR SOPHIE LIEBERMAN The WHS Committee (see page 112) continued to knowledge across SLM, 19 staff from across the was integrated into SLM’s existing contractor assess and implement WHS risk management organisation, including members of the WHS From late 2013, SLM has received payments from management procedure and is being used as systems across the sites, review the organisation’s Committee, completed five units of Certificate IV a bequest of $648,918.75 from the estate of Ruth a template across all properties. in WHS. Caroline Pope. As the estate did not specify that the policies and procedures, and actively consult with bequest be used for a particular purpose, a five- staff. Asbestos Management Plan year program for the bequest has been developed In August, risk-management consultants Hibbs & Property inspections to align with SLM business needs as well as with Associates finalised asbestos registers for all SLM The WHS Committee undertook inspections of the Ruth Pope’s interests in life – programs related to properties and the Asbestos Management Plan following properties: history, education, reading and travel. was implemented. • Elizabeth Farm The Ruth Pope Bequest Travelling Scholarship is Lead surveys awarded annually to staff members to develop • Justice & Police Museum In October, Hibbs & Associates completed lead their professional skills and expertise through study, • Rouse Hill House & Farm surveys and risk assessments for Rouse Hill House & research and travel within their field of interest at Farm and Susannah Place Museum which included museums and other cultural institutions. • Susannah Place Museum. recommendations for remediation of deteriorating The recipient of the 2016–17 scholarship was The committee also participated in various risk lead paint systems and clean-up of lead dust at Dr Sophie Lieberman, Head of Programs. Sophie management activities, including risk assessments for both properties. travelled to the United States to attend and present specific events, exhibitions and activities. at the International Conference on the Inclusive Museum in Cincinnati. Her paper ‘Unlocking Heritage: a case study in shifting the politics of 104 105 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INVESTING IN PEOPLE AND CULTURE

VOLUNTEERS INTERNS AND WORK EXPERIENCE EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES AND ENGAGEMENT • Dr Toner Stevenson, ‘Precious, shared and contested: cultural landscapes at Sydney Living The volunteer program has continued to strengthen The SLM internship program continued. Interns Publications Museums’, ICOM CAMOC Museums of Cities and embed more deeply across SLM. Twenty-three were engaged across SLM teams in projects • Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, ‘Favourite room, Review, issue 3, 2016, pp1–3 new museum volunteers were recruited across the including Sydney Open marketing, event logistics, Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection’, Museum of Sydney and Justice & Police Museum audience research, interpretation, development • Dr Toner Stevenson, ‘The power of darkness: the Architecture Bulletin, Autumn 2017, p20 and played a key role in establishing new visitor of the upcoming Underworld: Mugshots from the night as a cultural landscape’, ICOM CAMOC experiences. Volunteers were involved in a series Roaring Twenties exhibition, and collections care. • Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon and Ian Innes, Museums of Cities Review, issue 1, 2017, pp29–32 of orientation days and working bees, helping to Under guidance from experienced staff, each ‘Heritage in the city’s future’, The Sydney Culture care for the historic sites and gaining knowledge intern had the opportunity to apply their academic Essays, Committee for Sydney, 2017, pp54–7 Presentations to become strong ambassadors for SLM. learning to practical industry projects and gain • Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, ‘Reimagining • Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon and Dr Charles valuable skills. Heritage presentation – Welcome and overview The soft furnishings volunteers contributed hand- Pickett, ‘A brave new world of cities’, Brave of SLM Heritage advocacy’, Committee for stitched window furnishings as part of the drawing During 2016–17 SLM hosted 17 Year 10 students New World, National Gallery of Victoria, 2017, Sydney Liveability/Loveability, 20 July 2016 room refurbishment at Vaucluse House, and also through its work experience program. The program pp27–45 created a bespoke cover for the Collard and Collard attracted students from a range of schools across • Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, presentation on • Rebecca Jones and John Petersen, ‘Significantly piano for the Sound Heritage program at Elizabeth Sydney, Griffiths in the NSW Riverina, and one how heritage is essential to culturally healthy digital: GLAM peak digital access to collections’, Bay House. A team of musicology students from the student from Traralgon in Victoria. The students ‘Living Cities’, Australian Institute of Landscape Museums Galleries Australia Magazine, vol 25, Sydney Conservatorium of Music was recruited to divided their week-long placements between two Architects (NSW) Living Cities Summit, 16 August no 2, Autumn–Winter 2017, pp16–19 assist with examining and establishing the contents or three sites, working with the Visitor Services 2016 of the Stewart Symonds Sheet Music Collection for Team, Head of Collections Care and the Macquarie • Naomi Manning and Edward Washington, • Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, presentation on the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection. Street Portfolio Curator. ‘Crime and punishment: the murder trial of panel ‘The Forever Now: contemporary art Antonio Agostini’, Journal of the History Teachers’ A new information management database, collections in the 21st century’, Museum of ORIENTATION DAYS AND WORKING BEES Association of NSW, June 2017, pp23–6 Volgistics, was acquired and implemented, and this Contemporary Art, 2 September 2016 saw significant efficiencies and an improvement Orientation and working bee days provide a • Naomi Manning and Edward Washington, • Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Chair of panel in the experience for volunteers, particularly for way for staff and volunteers to connect with SLM ‘Using art to teach history’, Journal of the History ‘Documenting Hardship’, Sydney Writers’ Sydney Open volunteers. A total of 396 volunteers properties. Organised and managed by the Head Teachers’ Association of NSW, March 2017, Festival, 25 May 2017 participated in the Sydney Open program in of House Museums, the Head, City Portfolio, the pp4–6 Head, Macquarie Street Portfolio, and the Audience • Mark Goggin, co-chaired Communicating the November and were essential to providing quality • Dr Matthew Stephens, ‘From lost property to & Development Officer – Volunteers and Interns, the Museum, Berlin, 12–15 July 2016 experiences for ticketholders. explorer’s relics: the rediscovery of the personal days provide opportunities to go behind the scenes library of Ludwig Leichhardt’, Australian book • Mark Goggin, Council of Australasian Museum SLM is proud to celebrate the involvement of both (to see places not always accessible by visitors) collectors, Charles Stitz (ed), Third Series, Directors (CAMD) Annual General Meeting, new and long-serving volunteers, all of whom bring and to participate in activities that allow staff Woollahra: Green Olive Press and Melbourne: Museum of Australian Democracy, Canberra, their skills and knowledge to keep the museums and and volunteers to gain a greater understanding Books of Kells, 2016 (originally published in 2007; 10 November 2016 historic places relevant to the people of NSW. Over of the work and care required to maintain the republished in 2016 with additional illustrations) the past year a total of 185 people participated in 12 properties. • Mark Goggin, ‘Reinterpreting audiences at the volunteer program. During National Volunteer • Dr Matthew Stephens and Tracey Gibbons, the Hyde Park Barracks Museum’, with Ginny Planning for the days usually aligns with the Week in May, the annual volunteers’ morning ‘The fate of the library of Alexander Macleay’, Cartmel from Morris Hargreaves McIntyre, programs happening at the properties. On tea recognised the outstanding achievements of Australian book collectors, Charles Stitz (ed), Visitor Research Forum 2017, Melbourne, 7 September, staff and volunteers went to Meroogal volunteers. Eight were presented with length-of- Third Series, Woollahra: Green Olive Press and 14 February 2017 for an orientation day that was combined with service awards to acknowledge their exceptional Melbourne: Books of Kells, 2016 contribution over 10, 15 or 20 years. a working bee in preparation for the Meroogal • Mark Goggin, MuseumNext Conference, Women’s Art Prize exhibition. Participating staff and • Dr Toner Stevenson, ‘Chasing the shadows, a trip Australian Centre for the Moving Image, volunteers enjoyed tours of the house and garden, to spice island’, Journal of Physics: Conference Melbourne, 15–17 February 2017 and assisted with maintenance activities such as Series, vol 771, no 1, 2016, pp1–4 fence and window cleaning, and gardening.

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• Mark Goggin, Council of Australasian Museum • Elisha Long, ‘Trials of biocide cleaning agents on • Jacqui Newling, ‘Dining in the colony: art or • Rebecca Jones, peer Reviewer for Museums & Directors (CAMD) General Meeting, Queensland argillaceous sandstone in a temperate region’, artifice’, Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Galleries NSW Museum, Brisbane, 18 May 2017 13th International Congress on the Deterioration Society (ADFAS), Dubbo, 10 April 2017; Orange, • David Key, member of the Parramatta Heritage and Conservation of Stone, Glasgow, UK, 11 April 2017 • Mark Goggin, co-chaired Communicating the Partners 6–10 September 2016; co-authored with David Museum, Paris, 19–22 June 2017 • Jacqui Newling, ‘What shall we have for dinner?’, Young oam • David Key, participated in a community NSW Dickens Society talks series, Sydney, 10 June • Dr Scott Hill and Joanna Nicholas, ‘Three consultation workshop for City of Parramatta’s • Elisha Long, ‘Conservation philosophy of William 2017 landscapes: three approaches’, Museums draft Reconciliation Action Plan, March 2017 Morris and the Society for the Protection of Galleries Australia Conference, Brisbane, • Jacqui Newling, ‘Eat your History, or, confessions Ancient Buildings’, Masters in Cultural Heritage • Dr Sophie Lieberman, Board Director, Australian 14–17 May 2017 of a food fraud’, Why Study Food? conference, Management, University of Sydney, 27 March Theatre for Young People (ATYP) British Sociology Association, Westminster • Beth Hise, ‘Exhibition Design: Storytelling 2017 University, London, 26–27 June 2017 • Dr Sophie Lieberman, Chair, Sydney Arts in Practice’, session chair and member of • Naomi Manning and Edward Washington, ‘Use Management Advisory Group (SAMAG) responding panel, Museums Galleries Australia • Dr Fiona Starr, ‘Convicts at the General “Rum” of art in the teaching of history’, History Teachers Conference, Brisbane, 15 May 2017 Hospital, Sydney, 1811–1848’, at the seminar • Dr Sophie Lieberman, Mentor, Social Leadership Association of Australia Annual Conference, ‘Our healthy heritage: health, ailing and dying Australia • Beth Hise, ‘Travelling Exhibition Marketplace’, 29 September 2016 in colonial Sydney’, Australian Society for the session chair and presenter, Museums Galleries • Joanna Nicholas, member of the Collections • Jacqui Newling, ‘What we eat’ panel discussion History of Medicine, State Library of NSW, Australia Conference, Brisbane, 17 May 2017 Committee for the National Trust of Australia (with John Newton), St Albans Writers Festival, 26 November 2016 (NSW) • Beth Hise, ‘Narrative, connection and 16–18 September 2016 • Dr Toner Stevenson, ‘Museums as a challenged experience: making interpretation master • Joanna Nicholas, reviewer for the Standards • Jacqui Newling, ‘The food and flavours of the regional symbol’, Yeongwol International planning work’, external expert presentation, Program for Museums & Galleries NSW Garden Palace’, Kaldor Public Art Project 32: Museum Forum 2016, ICOM Korea, National Archives of Australia’s interpretation barrangal dyara (skin and bones) by Jonathan 30 September 2016 • Georgina Pearce, Planning & Environment master-planning workshop facilitated by Gibson Jones, lunchtime talks series, Royal Botanic Portfolio’s Steering Committees for Aboriginal Group NZ, 22 June 2017 • Fabienne Virago and Susan Bee, ‘More than Garden Sydney, 2 October 2016 Employment Strategy, Multicultural Plan, and content: Teaching history in the primary • Beth Hise, ‘British Columbia: First Nations art’ Disability Inclusion Action Plan • Jacqui Newling, ‘Eat your history’, Slow Food classroom’, History Teachers Association of and ‘The “Wild West” downunder’, Australian Sydney General Meeting, 24 October 2016 Australia Annual Conference, 28 September 2016 • Susan Sedgwick, member of the Editorial Board, Museum, 29 June 2017 CAMOC Museums of Cities Review (International • Jacqui Newling, ‘A recipe for success: adding • Matthew Holle, ‘Flying boats, Sydney’s golden Boards, committees and panels Committee for the Collections and Activities of flavour to history and heritage’ presentation age of aviation’, Hornsby Probus, 14 June 2017 • Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Sydney Night-Time Museums of Cities) (with Alison Russell from Orange Regional Commission, Committee for Sydney, 2017 • Rebecca Jones, ‘Significantly digital – digital Council) and hands-on workshop to support the • Michael Van Tiel, President, International access to collections across regional Australia’, Villages of the Heart partnership, Interpretation • Danielle Earp, Board Director, Biennale of Museum Theatre Alliance – Asia Pacific Museums Galleries Australia Conference, Australia ‘Rules of engagement’ National Sydney Brisbane, 14–17 May 2017 Conference, Canberra, 18–20 November 2016 • Dr Scott Hill, Trust member, Belgenny Farm Trust • Dr Sophie Lieberman, ‘Unlocking Heritage: a • Jacqui Newling, ‘Paradise or purgatory? Fate, • Beth Hise, Chair, Exhibitions National Network, case study in shifting the politics of participation famine and food security on Norfolk Island 1788– Museums Galleries Australia in heritage’, Ninth International Conference on 90’, 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, the Inclusive Museum, Cincinnati, 18 September Melbourne University and William Angliss • Beth Hise, SLM representative, NAME (Network 2016 Institute, 2–5 December 2016 of Australasian Museum Exhibitors, a subgroup of CAMD) • Jacqui Newling, ‘Eat your history: gastronomy at work’, lecture and tour of Susannah Place • Rebecca Jones, Standards Reviewer for Museum for William Blue School of Hospitality Museums & Galleries NSW (Business), The Rocks, 24 March 2017 108 109 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 APPENDICES

Members 2. SLM STANDING COMMITTEES Naseema Sparks am, Trustee (Chair from April 2017) APPENDICES Collections Valuation Committee Professor Grace Karskens, Trustee The committee meets annually to monitor SLM’s rolling (Chair to November 2016) five-year collection valuation process, review formal Siobhan Toohill, Trustee independent valuations, note the value of new acquisitions and determine appropriate global revaluations. Sharon Veale, Trustee Megan Martin, Head of Collections & Access (Chair) Dr Jane Connors, historian, and Manager, ABC Radio National Dr Scott Hill, Portfolio Curator, House Museums Portfolio

Elizabeth Ellis oam, inaugural Emeritus Curator, Mitchell Joanna Nicholas, Portfolio Curator, House Museums 1. BOARD STANDING COMMITTEES Audit & Risk Committee Library, and Honorary Associate, Department of History, Portfolio The Audit & Risk Committee is an integral component The Board standing committees are advisory bodies to the University of Sydney Jennifer Olman, Registrar, Documentation SLM Board of Trustees. of SLM’s corporate governance arrangements. Its Professor Susan Groundwater-Smith, Honorary Professor, responsibilities cover the review and oversight of internal Joint Consultative Committee controls, risk management, prevention of corruption and Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney Aboriginal Advisory Committee This committee, comprising Public Service Association fraud, external accountability (including for the financial The Aboriginal Advisory Committee was formed in 2015–16 Tim Ross, comedian, radio host, author and (PSA) representatives and an SLM employee who is a PSA statements), applicable laws and regulations, and internal and comprises one trustee, senior staff and external television presenter member, meets as required and provides a forum that Indigenous members. Its role is to provide advice on and external audits. Liane Rossler, designer and artist, co-founder of allows consensus to be reached on employee matters. strategic issues that relate to SLM’s Aboriginal Action Plan In September the committee met with representatives Dinosaur Designs In 2016–17 the committee did not meet, as there were no strategies, and Aboriginal participation and presence in from the Audit Office of NSW to discuss their review of industrial relations matters. core areas of the organisation. SLM’s financial statements for 2015–16. Staff Lisa Walters, Director, Corporate & Commercial (Chair) Mark Goggin, Executive Director In February the committee met with representatives of Members Georgina Pearce, Head of Human Resources Michael McDaniel, Professor of Indigenous Education and SLM’s internal auditors, Deloitte, to discuss the Financial Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Director, Strategy & Director of Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, Controls audit. The findings were presented at the May Engagement Nick Player, Acting Senior Industrial Advocate University of Technology Sydney (Chair) meeting. Dr Matthew Stephens, Research Librarian (workplace Heritage & Collections Advisory Committee The members of this committee in 2016–17 were as follows: representative) Hetti Perkins, freelance curator and Curatorial Advisor to The Heritage & Collections Advisory Committee comprises Eora Journey, City of Sydney Fabienne Virago, Coordinator, Learning, Programs Members Trustees, senior staff and external experts. It met in 2016–17 to provide advice on strategic issues relating to the care and (PSA workplace delegate, on leave) Robynne Quiggin, Senior Advisor, Aboriginal and Torres Paddy Carney, Trustee (Chair) Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Australian conservation of collections, buildings and sites, including the Human Rights Commission Louise McElvogue, Trustee Endangered Houses Fund program.

Michael Rose am, SLM Chairman Michael Rose am, SLM Chairman Members Leanne Watson, Managing Director, Darug Custodians Staff Alastair Baxter, Trustee (Chair) Aboriginal Corporation, and Project Manager, Muru Mark Goggin, Executive Director Tanya Koeneman, Indigenous community representative Mittigar Yaseen Dean, Head of Finance Colleen Morris, heritage consultant Peter White, First Peoples Cultural and Creative Development Advisor Lisa Walters, Director, Corporate & Commercial Peter Root, Managing Director, Root Projects Roderick Simpson, Environment Commissioner, Greater Staff Commercial & Marketing Advisory Committee Sydney Commission Mark Goggin, Executive Director The Commercial & Marketing Advisory Committee was disbanded in 2016. No meetings were held. Howard Tanner, Chair, Tanner Architects, and Senior Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Director, Strategy & Consultant, Tanner Kibble Denton Architects Engagement Curatorial & Public Engagement Advisory Committee The Curatorial & Public Engagement Advisory Committee Staff comprises Trustees, senior staff and external experts. It met Mark Goggin, Executive Director three times in 2016–17 to provide advice on strategic issues Nerida Campbell, Curator, City Portfolio including audience development, programming, exhibitions, publications, education, web and social media, collections Ian Innes, Director, Heritage & Collections and research, and interpretation. Elisha Long, Head of Heritage

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Work Health & Safety Committee 4. SELF-GENERATED REVENUE 6. PRIVATE GIVING Stephen Cartland Alison McIntyre The committee comprises both management and staff Corporate partners The SLM Foundation acknowledges Julie Chipperfield Edward Mills representing sites and classifications, and meets every the following generous donations Julianne Cleland Hugh Montgomery two months to consider and advise on work health and Cash and in-kind (received since 1 July 2016, as per safety (WHS) matters. The committee continued to assess • AMP Capital: major partner of the Museum of Sydney our Gift Management Policy). The Mary Clements Yvonne Morton and implement WHS risk-management systems across the on the site of first Government House Foundation also acknowledges the Mary Clemesha Jonathan Persse sites. This included WHS policies and procedures as well as many donors who gave anonymously. • Angove Family Winemakers: beverage partner for SLM undertaking site inspections. The committee also provided Rodney Climo Greeba Pritchard advice on WHS-related training, including Working from • Apple Inc: partner of SLM Governors’ Circle Ken Coles Elly Puckeridge Heights training and Certificate IV in WHS. Nanette Ainsworth • Architecture Media: media partner of Sydney Open 2016 Rodney Collins Catherine Remond Nick Corbett, WHS Coordinator (Chair) Robert Albert AO & Libby Albert • Australian House & Garden: media partner on the Kevin Colombu Revesby Ladies Group John Aquilina, Building & Facilities Assistant, House Museums Modernist Season Bill & Kate Anderson Portfolio Rae & Russ Cottle Brian Reynolds • BVN: practice partner of Sydney Open 2016 Emeritus Professor David Carment AM Michael Bennett, Building & Facilities Assistant, Macquarie Debbie Dickson Matthew Ritchard Street Portfolio • Fairfax Media – The Sydney Morning Herald: Margot Chinneck media partner Helen Dickson Anita Rogers Jason Boceski, Building & Facilities Assistant, City Portfolio Louise Cox AO AM • GML Heritage: practice partner of Sydney Open 2016 Elizabeth Evatt AC Michael Ruffio Steve Halliday, Horticulturist, Heritage & Collections Chum Darvall AM • Grosvenor Place: supporting partner of the Museum James Fairfax AC Professor Bruce Scates Colin Davies Kieran Larkin, Senior 3D Designer, Curatorial & Exhibitions of Sydney on the site of first Government House John B Fairfax AO Margaret Sedgwick Terry & Dianne Finnegan Renell Lope, Museum Assistant, House Museums Portfolio • Habitus: media partner on the Home & Architecture Giuliana Fenato Judith Shelley David Mindel, Audio Visual Services Coordinator, Venues program Ron & Rhonda Langley Lindy Francis Evan Siegel Georgina Pearce, Head of Human Resources (management • Modern House: supporting partner on the Home Susan Maple-Brown AM & Architecture program Lylian Francis Jennifer Smith representative) Guy & Marian Paynter • New Land Magazine: media partner Ilse Franklin Margaret Smith Lisa Walters, Director, Corporate & Commercial Penelope Seidler AM (management representative) • NSW Business Chamber: partner Bruce Garton Rosalind Strong Edward & Annie Simpson • Porter’s Paints: supporting partner for the exhibition Lord Glendonbrook, through the Neil Stuart 3. ASSOCIATED GROUPS Ian & Maisy Stapleton Glendonbrook Foundation Demolished Sydney at the Museum of Sydney Sumiati Sumiati Susannah Sweeney SLM Foundation Board of Directors Sharon Greene • Seidler Architectural Foundation: supporting partner John Symon Edward Simpson (Chair) Stewart Symonds on the Modernist Season Pauline Griffin Cathy Tait Alastair Baxter (resigned May 2017) Jonathan & Liz Trollip Alison Hale 5. GRANTS Howard & Mary Tanner Mark Goggin (Executive Director) Jill Wran AM Libby Higgin Grants of $17.635 million for recurrent allocation and Lesley N Taylor Sian Nagle $6.436 million for capital grant allocation, including a Supporters Geoffrey Hogbin capital maintenance program grant, were received from Caroline Thornton Michael Rose am (SLM Chairman) Lenore Adamson Virginia Howard the NSW Government. Stephen Troha Curtis Smith (resigned February 2017) Antoinette Albert Pat Jessop Additional grants were received for restricted purposes. Rosie Wagstaff Susannah Sweeney Alison Allmark These included: second-year funding of $637,000 from the Eugenia Langley Jayne Wasmuth Simon White federal government for the Protecting National Historic Sites Anna-Rosa Baker Michael Lawrence program, and $106,575 from the Museum of Applied Arts Wyoming Public School Melonie Bayl-Smith Staff and Sciences for the relocation cost for a shared storage Mollie Lenthall Dr Edith Ziegler Lisa Walters (Company Secretary) facility for collections at the Museums Discovery Centre, Richard Beattie Castle Hill. Kenneth Leonhardt Stephanie Berry Bequests Foundation Emeritus Council Maria Lo John Davis Beat Knoblauch Annette & Bill Blinco Macquarie Group Foundation Sheila Finlayson Clive Lucas OBE Brigitte Braun Gail Macqueen Howard Tanner Georgina Brett Debra Magi Jill Wran AM Fay Briggs Chrystal Marshall Neil Burley Mary McGuirk 112 113 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 APPENDICES

7. PRIVACY MANAGEMENT PLAN 9. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION (PUBLIC ACCESS) 2. Number of access applications received – clause 7(b) Clause 6 of the Annual Reports (Departments) Regulation Under section 7 of the Government Information (Public During the reporting period, SLM received a total of nil 2015 requires a statement of the action taken by SLM in Access) Act 2009 (GIPA Act), public sector agencies must (0) valid formal access applications. It did not receive any complying with the requirements of the Privacy and Personal review their programs for the release of government applications for review. No applications were transferred to Information Protection Act 1998 (the PPIP Act) and statistical information to identify the kinds of information that can be another agency. details of any review conducted by or on behalf of SLM under made publicly available. This review must be undertaken at 3. Number of refused applications for Schedule 1 Part 5 of that Act. least once every 12 months. information – clause 7(c) SLM’s Privacy Management Plan outlines how the SLM’s program for the proactive release of information During the reporting period, SLM refused a total of nil organisation complies with the principles of the PPIP Act and involves reviewing the information sought and released (0) formal access applications because the information the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. The pursuant to GIPA applications received over the financial requested was information referred to in Schedule 1 to plan is published on the website at sydneylivingmuseums. year and considering the kinds of government information it the GIPA Act. com.au/privacy. holds that may be suitable for proactive release. 4. Statistical information about access applications – SLM received no complaints regarding non-compliance with 1. Review of proactive release program – clause 7(a) clause 7(d) and Schedule 2 of the Act (see tables below and this plan during 2016–17. During the reporting period, SLM undertook a review to overleaf) SLM received no applications under section 14 of the PPIP Act identify information that has been proactively released on its during 2016–17. website. • Policies & Procedures: As part of the ongoing review 8. PUBLIC INTEREST DISCLOSURES process, policies and procedures are assessed as to their Under section 31 of the Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994, suitability for external release to encourage proactive each public authority is required to prepare an annual report release. No new policies and procedures have been on their obligations under the Act. Information for SLM on released during the reporting period. public interest disclosures for 2016–17 is in accordance with • Annual Reports: All annual reports from 2000 to clause 4 of the Public Interest Disclosures Regulation 2011. the present continue to be available on the website: sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/about-us/reports- 1. Public interest disclosures made by public plans#annual-reports officials in performing their day-to-day functions Nil 2. Public interest disclosures not covered by (1) that are made under a statutory or other legal obligation Nil Schedule 2: Statistical information about access applications All other public interest disclosures Nil TABLE A: NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS BY TYPE OF APPLICANT AND OUTCOME* Number of public interest disclosures relating to Access Access Access Information Information Refuse to Refuse to Application possible or alleged: granted granted refused not held already deal with confirm/ withdrawn • corrupt conduct Nil in full in part in full available application deny whether information • maladministration Nil is held • serious and substantial waste of public money Nil Media – – – – – – – – Total number of public interest disclosures received Nil Members of Parliament – – – – – – – – Total number of public interest disclosures finalised Nil Private-sector business – – – – – – – –

Not-for-profit organisations SLM has developed an internal reporting policy that is – – – – – – – – or community groups consistent with the NSW Ombudsman’s Model Policy. It takes action to meet the requirements under section 6E(1)(b) of the Members of the public – – – – – – – – Public Interest Disclosures Act that staff are aware of the (application by legal representative) policy and of protections under the Act by providing links on Members of the public (other) – – – – – – – – the intranet and including messages in staff circulars. * More than one decision can be made in respect of a particular access application. If so, a recording must be made in relation to each such decision. This also applies to Table B.

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TABLE B: NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS BY TYPE OF APPLICATION AND OUTCOME TABLE E: OTHER PUBLIC INTEREST CONSIDERATIONS AGAINST DISCLOSURE: MATTERS LISTED IN TABLE TO SECTION 14 OF THE ACT Access Access Access Information Information Refuse to Refuse to Application granted granted refused not held already deal with confirm/deny withdrawn Number of occasions when application not successful in full in part in full available application whether Responsible and effective government – information Law enforcement and security – is held Individual rights, judicial processes and natural justice – Personal information applications* – – – – – – – – Business interests of agencies and other persons – Access applications (other than – – – – – – – – Environment, culture, economy and general matters – personal information applications) Secrecy provisions – Access applications that are partly personal information applications – – – – – – – – Exempt documents under interstate Freedom of Information legislation – and partly other

* A personal information application is an access application for personal information (as defined in clause 4 of Schedule 4 to the Act) about the applicant TABLE F: TIMELINESS (the applicant being an individual). Number of applications TABLE C: INVALID APPLICATIONS Decided within the statutory timeframe (20 days plus any extensions) – Reason for invalidity Number of applications Decided after 35 days (by agreement with applicant) – Application does not comply with formal requirements (section 41 of the Act) – Not decided within time (deemed refusal) –

Application is for excluded information of the agency (section 43 of the Act) – Total –

Application contravenes restraint order (section 110 of the Act) –

Total number of invalid applications received – TABLE G: NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS REVIEWED UNDER PART 5 OF THE ACT (BY TYPE OF REVIEW AND OUTCOME) Invalid applications that subsequently became valid applications – Decision varied Decision upheld Total Internal review – – – TABLE D: CONCLUSIVE PRESUMPTION OF OVERRIDING PUBLIC INTEREST AGAINST DISCLOSURE: Review by Information Commissioner* – – – MATTERS LISTED IN SCHEDULE 1 OF THE ACT Internal review following recommendation under section 93 of the Act – – – Number of times consideration used* Review by ADT – – – Overriding secrecy laws – Total – – – Cabinet information – * The Information Commissioner does not have the authority to vary decisions, but can make recommendations to the original decision-maker. Executive Council information –

Contempt – TABLE H: APPLICATIONS FOR REVIEW UNDER PART 5 OF THE ACT (BY TYPE OF APPLICANT)

Legal professional privilege – Number of applications for review

Excluded information – Applications by access applicants –

Documents affecting law enforcement and public safety – Applications by persons to whom information the subject of access application relates (see section 54 of the Act) –

Transport safety –

Adoption – TABLE I: APPLICATIONS TRANSFERRED TO OTHER AGENCIES

Care and protection of children – Number of applications for review Agency-initiated transfers Ministerial code of conduct – – Applicant-initiated transfers – Aboriginal and environmental heritage –

* More than one public interest consideration may apply in relation to a particular access application and, if so, each such consideration is to Requests for access to information not already available on SLM’s website will be dealt with Lisa Walters be recorded (but only once per application). This also applies in relation to Table E. formally. The public can make a formal request to access information under the GIPA Act by Director, Corporate & Commercial contacting the following officer by email or letter in the first instance. Sydney Living Museums, Head Office The Mint CHARGES 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Where a formal application is made to access information held by SLM, an application fee of T 02 8239 2360 F 02 8239 2299 $30 applies. Where requests are complex and/or require the commitment of significant resources Email: [email protected] in order to make the information available, a processing fee of $30 per hour may apply.

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10. CUSTOMER RESPONSE 12. HUMAN RESOURCES Workforce diversity Principal officers SLM’s self-assessed outcomes for the year include: Executive Director As a service-based organisation, SLM closely monitors Exceptional movements in employee wages, Mark Goggin BA (Hons), EMPA customer feedback. The organisation employs a range of salaries and allowances • diversity of representation on recruitment panels and the evaluation measures, including visitor books and evaluation A 2.5% salary increase granted by the NSW Government for provision of Workforce Diversity information to applicants Director, Strategy & Engagement forms at each property, traditional and digital visitor books the NSW public sector came into effect on 1 July 2016 for the Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon BA (Hons), MA, PhD and other interactive devices in exhibitions, customer surveys • diversity of representation on internal bodies such as 2016–17 financial year. following public programs, teacher evaluations following the Work Health & Safety Committee and the Joint Director, Heritage & Collections Consultative Committee Ian Innes BScArch, BLArch education programs and feedback forms for venue-hire Personnel policies and practices clients. In addition, a general file is maintained for written • SLM continued to implement its Work Health & Safety • flexible work practices, including flex days and rostered Director, Corporate & Commercial compliments and complaints. Each complaint is dealt with Management Plan to develop a proactive, risk-based days off, maternity leave, and family and community- Lisa Walters BCom, CA, GAICD in writing, minor complaints by the property or team where safety culture that balances the need to conserve service leave the complaint was received, and major complaints by the Director, Marketing & Commercial Services heritage properties with meeting the social and legal • provision of development opportunities through (until 1 February 2017) Executive Director or a member of the executive. duty to provide a safe and accessible workplace. expressions of interest and above-level temporary Julie Turpie BA (Hons) A total of 91 compliments were received: Caroline Simpson • A comprehensive program of staff training was allowance Library & Research Collection (4); executive/lecture/talk (1); Senior Executive undertaken addressing compliance requirements. • participating in the Department of Planning and miscellaneous (2); museums, houses and exhibitions (38); During 2016–17 the following were members of the Public There was a strong focus on employee development, Environment steering committees to discuss, develop programs (37); retail (1); SLM staff (2); publishing/multimedia Service Senior Executive: individually and in teams. and implement the Disability Inclusion Action Plan, (1); and venues (5). A total of 11 complaints were received: the Multicultural Plan and the Aboriginal Employment Executive Director, Mark Goggin miscellaneous (1); museums, houses and exhibitions (1); Future directions Strategy. publishing/multimedia (1); and programs (8). Key issues for the year ahead will be continuous Director, Strategy & Engagement, Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon improvement in inducting new staff, streamlining processes Future directions Director, Heritage & Collections, Ian Innes 11. OTHER STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS through to automation, developing the skills and capabilities SLM will work with the Department of Planning and Director, Corporate & Commercial, Lisa Walters Digital delivery of existing staff and continuing to improve work health and Environment to explore externally funded grants with the aim safety. Other projects include the following: Director, Marketing & Commercial Services, Julie Turpie The following services are available via the of promoting diversity, innovation and service responsiveness (to 1 February 2017) corporate website and associated sub-domains, • The Human Resources Team, including the WHS in the NSW workforce by reducing barriers to employment sydneylivingmuseums.com.au and hht.net.au: Coordinator, will work with staff to implement the and improving promotional opportunities for people with Disability Inclusion Action Plan and the Multicultural Plan. a disability, and people from a culturally and linguistically • online resources, including articles, research, videos, diverse background. blogs, collection databases and links to SLM content on • A Learning & Development software module will be other platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter implemented to better identify and plan the future training Number of senior executives as at 30 June 2017 and skill requirements of staff. • all appropriate government publications (for reference 2016–17 2015–16 only, not for sale) • A Dashboard module will be implemented to provide managers and the Executive Team with critical business BAND FEMALE MALE FEMALE MALE • annual reports from 2000 to the present analytics. 4 0 0 0 0 • e-commerce facilities for purchasing merchandise, tickets and membership, and making donations. 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 Land disposal SLM had no land disposals in 2016–17. 1 2 1 3 1 TOTAL 4 5 Credit card certification SLM has a policy for the use of credit cards by staff that is in accordance with the NSW Premier’s Memoranda and NSW Average remuneration Treasurer’s Directions. AVERAGE AVERAGE REMUNERATION REMUNERATION REMUNERATION REMUNERATION BAND RANGE 2016–17 2016–17 RANGE 2015–16 2015–16

Band 2 (Executive Director) $255,051 to $320,900 $267,755 $248,851 to $313,050 $261,225

Band 1 (Director) $178,850 to $255,05 $204,066 $174,500 to $248,850 $196,815

In 2016–17, 4.47% of SLM’s employee-related expenditure was related to senior executives compared to 5.19% in 2015–16.

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Workforce profile data – Workforce Diversity report

CURRENT SELECTIONS 4 WORKFORCE DIVERSITY ACTUAL & ESTIMATED STAFF NUMBERS (NON-CASUAL HEADCOUNT AT CENSUS DATE) 2017

Cluster Reporting entity ACTUAL ESTIMATED

Planning & Environment Sydney Living Museums People People from racial, whose People with ethnic, language a disability 1 SIZE OF AGENCY (HEADCOUNT) 2015 2016 2017 % CHANGE 2016 TO 2017 Aboriginal ethno- first spoken requiring Headcount at Census Date 243 261 251 -3.8% Remuneration Total staff & Torres religious as a child People work- level of substantive (men, women Unspecified Strait minority was not with a related Non-casual Headcount at Census Date 181 200 188 -6.0% position & unspecified) Respondents Men Women gender Islanders groups English disability adjustment

$0 - $45,800 2 2 – 2 – – – – – – 2 WORKFORCE DIVERSITY SURVEY RESPONSE RATE $45,800 - $60,154 40 40 13 27 – 1 6 5 2 1 (NON-CASUAL HEADCOUNT AT CENSUS DATE) 2015 2016 2017 $60,154 - $67,248 16 16 5 11 – – 4 4 – – Non-casual headcount at census date 181 200 188 $67,248 - $85,098 42 42 8 34 – – 5 5 1 – Non-casual Workforce Diversity Survey respondents at census date 181 200 188 $85,098 - $110,046 67 67 28 39 – – 9 6 3 1 Response rate 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% $110,046 - $137,557 17 17 5 12 – – 3 3 – –

Note: Survey Respondents are employees who have provided an answer for any of the Workforce Diversity questions, whether they have chosen to withdraw their $137,557 > (Non SES) – – – – – – – – – – response or not. In other words, a respondent is an employee with at least one non-missing value for the set of Workforce Diversity questions. $137,557 > (SES) 4 4 2 2 – – – – – –

TOTAL 188 188 31 127 –

Note 1: Estimated figures are only provided for agencies with a response rate greater than 65%. For agencies with a response rate less than 65%, actual figures are reported in all instances. 3 WORKFORCE DIVERSITY ACTUAL STAFF NUMBERS (NON-CASUAL HEADCOUNT AT CENSUS DATE) 2017 Note 2: Estimated figures are calculated for each salary band by taking the number of employees who have responded “yes” to the Workforce Diversity question as a proportion of the total number of employees who have responded to the Workforce Diversity survey, multiplied by the total number of staff. E.g., Estimated number of People People with a Disability in Salary Band 1 = (Actual number of People with a Disability in Salary Band 1 / Total number of Survey Respondents in Salary Band 1) * Total number of Staff in Salary Band 1. People from whose People with racial, ethnic, language a disability Aboriginal ethno- first spoken requiring 4A WORKFORCE DIVERSITY ACTUAL AND ESTIMATED STAFF NUMBERS 2017 Total staff & Torres religious as a child People work- (NON-CASUAL HEADCOUNT AT CENSUS DATE) AS PERCENTAGE Remuneration level of (men, women Unspecified Strait minority was not with a related substantive position & unspecified) Respondents Men Women gender Islanders groups English disability adjustment ACTUAL ESTIMATED

$0 - $45,800 2 2 – 2 – – – – – – People People from racial, whose People with $45,800 - $60,154 40 40 13 27 – 1 6 5 2 1 ethnic, language a disability $60,154 - $67,248 16 16 5 11 – – 4 4 – – Aboriginal ethno- first spoken requiring Remuneration Total staff & Torres religious as a child People work- $67,248 - $85,098 42 42 8 34 – – 5 5 1 – level of substantive (men, women Unspecified Strait minority was not with a related $85,098 - $110,046 67 67 28 39 – – 9 6 3 1 position & unspecified) Respondents Men Women gender Islanders groups English disability adjustment

$110,046 - $137,557 17 17 5 12 – – 3 3 – – $0 - $45,800 2 100.0% 0.0% 100.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

$137,557 > (Non SES) – – – – – – – – – – $45,800 - $60,154 40 100.0% 32.5% 67.5% 0.0% 2.5% 15.0% 12.5% 5.0% 2.5%

$137,557 > (SES) 4 4 2 2 – – – – – – $60,154 - $67,248 16 100.0% 31.3% 68.8% 0.0% 0.0% 25.0% 25.0% 0.0% 0.0%

TOTAL 188 188 61 127 – 1 27 23 6 2 $67,248 - $85,098 42 100.0% 19.0% 81.0% 0.0% 0.0% 11.9% 11.9% 2.4% 0.0% $85,098 - $110,046 67 100.0% 41.8% 58.2% 0.0% 0.0% 13.4% 9.0% 4.5% 1.5% Note: ‘Unspecified Gender’ incorporates unknown, withdrawn, and indeterminate/intersex values. $110,046 - $137,557 17 100.0% 29.4% 70.6% 0.0% 0.0% 17.6% 17.6% 0.0% 0.0%

$137,557 > (Non SES) – 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

$137,557 > (SES) 4 100.0% 50.0% 50.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%

TOTAL 188 100.0% 32.4% 67.6% 0.0%

Note: Table 4a presents the figures in Table 4 as percentages. E.g., Estimated % of People with a Disability in Salary Band 1 = (Estimated number of People with a Disability in Salary Band 1 / Total number of Staff in Salary Band 1) * 100. Estimated figures are only provided for agencies with a response rate greater than 65%. For agencies with a response rate less than 65%, actual figures are reported in all instances.

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Disability Inclusion Action Plan During the reporting period, SLM: 5 PARLIAMENTARY ANNUAL REPORT TABLES As part of the cluster shared-services model, the WORKFORCE DIVERSITY GROUP BENCHMARK/TARGET 2015 2016 2017 • consulted with visually impaired audiences, those Environment and Heritage Portfolio Disability Inclusion with mobility impairment, and those with hearing 5a. Trends in the representation of Workforce Diversity groups Action Plan 2015–2019 was superseded by the Planning impairments in relation to the development of the Women 50% 68.0% 68.0% 67.6% and Environment Portfolio Disability Inclusion Action Plan Protecting National Historic Sites projects at the site of 2015–2019 (DIAP). The DIAP is aligned to the principles Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders 3.3% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5% first Government House and at the Hyde Park Barracks; underpinning the United Nations Convention on the Rights of during these sessions a range of content was tested, People whose first language spoken as a child was not English 23.2% 8.8% 13.5% 12.2% Persons with Disabilities, which acknowledges that people including the future program and interpretation plans People with a disability N/A 2.2% 3.5% 3.2% with disability have the same human rights as those without for both properties, in order to gauge its suitability for disability. The scope of this plan covers services, facilities audiences with disabilities People with a disability requiring work-related adjustment N/A 0.0% 0.5% 1.1% and employment. 5b. Trends in the distribution of Workforce Diversity groups • improved sensory experiences by introducing touch The structure of the plan includes four outcome areas: tables for visually impaired visitors at several sites Women 100 92 96 95 1. Liveable communities • removed physical barriers and improved accessibility Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders 100 N/A N/A N/A Identifying and removing barriers to Department of by improving doorway access and providing additional People whose first language spoken as a child was not English 100 N/A 101 96 Planning and Environment services and facilities for safety features for vision-impaired visitors. people with disability. People with a disability 100 N/A N/A N/A Future directions People with a disability requiring work-related adjustment 100 N/A N/A N/A 2. Employment Increasing employment and inclusion in the workplace Capital works projects scheduled for 2017–18 will focus on accessibility and dignity of access, with the installation of Note 1: A Distribution Index score of 100 indicates that the distribution of members of the Workforce Diversity group across salary bands is equivalent to that of the rest of for people with disability. the workforce. A score less than 100 means that members of the Workforce Diversity group tend to be more concentrated at lower salary bands than is the case for other lifts, handrails and ramps at The Mint and at the Hyde Park staff. The more pronounced this tendency is, the lower the score will be. In some cases, the index may be more than 100, indicating that members of the Workforce Diversity 3. Attitudes and behaviours group tend to be more concentrated at higher salary bands than is the case for other staff. Barracks Museum. Developing positive attitudes by increasing awareness Note 2: The Distribution Index is not calculated when the number of employees in the Workforce Diversity group is less than 20 or when the number of other employees is less than 20. and inclusion practices. 4. Systems and processes Identifying and removing barriers caused by SLM systems and processes. 6 REPRESENTATION OF WORKFORCE DIVERSITY GROUPS

WORKFORCE DIVERSITY GROUP BENCHMARK 2015 2016 2017

Women 50% 68.0% 68.0% 67.6%

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people 3.3% 0.6% 0.5% 0.5%

People whose first language spoken as a child was not English 23.2% 8.8% 13.5% 12.2%

People with a disability N/A 2.2% 3.5% 3.2%

People with a disability requiring work-related adjustment N/A 0.0% 0.5% 1.1%

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Multicultural Plan The plan also states that all institutions of NSW should Overseas visits by employees The NSW Department of Planning and Environment recognise the linguistic and cultural assets in the population Business-related visits by staff between 1 July 2016 and 30 June 2017: Multicultural Plan 2015–2018 outlines how the Planning of NSW as a valuable resource and promote this resource to and Environment Cluster will conduct its business within maximise the development of the state. NAME OF DATES OF PURPOSE OF VISIT (SUMMARY) DESTINATION(S) STAFF MEMBER TRAVEL a culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse society. It During the reporting period, SLM completed the following meets the requirements under the Multicultural NSW Act actions to increase access to its properties, programs and Yaseen Dean Attended a one-week residential course at the National University of Singapore 9–15 July 2000 and the Multicultural Policies and Services Program services: Singapore as part of his Executive Masters in Public Administration overseen by Multicultural NSW. Program. • Established the Aboriginal Action Plan working group The Multicultural Plan identifies strategic priorities, assigns to support the development of the Plan across the Mark Goggin Co-chaired the 16th International Communicating the Museum Germany, the 9–23 July corporate responsibilities and specifies timeframes for its institution. conference and visited leading museums and heritage precincts to Netherlands, England, implementation. It consists of actions against seven outcome guide SLM’s strategic projects. Denmark • Established a three-year partnership with Muru Mittigar areas as set by the Multicultural Planning Framework: Dr Sophie Lieberman Presented a paper at the International Conference on the Inclusive United States 14 September – Aboriginal Cultural & Education Centre on site at Rouse Museum and undertook research into business and engagement 1 October 1. planning Hill House & Farm (see page 68). models used by leading heritage and cultural institutions. The trip was 2. consultation and feedback • Developed culturally sensitive and inclusive exhibitions funded by the Ruth Pope Bequest Travelling Scholarship. 3. leadership and programs. Dr Toner Stevenson Attended the Yeongwal International Museum Forum and Expo held in Korea 27 September – the World Heritage district of Yeongwal. The trip was funded by ICOM 3 October 4. human resources • Continued its support for Sydney’s Irish community, in reference to the significant Irish convict and Irish Korea. 5. access and equity orphan girl populations that passed through the Hyde Dr Matthew Stephens Attended the third study day hosted by the Sound Heritage Network and England 5–11 November 6. communication Park Barracks in the 19th century. On St Patrick’s Day, attended ‘Impact: New Audiences for Historic Collections’. The trip was 17 March, Patrick O’Donovan, Irish Minister of State partially funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK. 7. social and economic development. for Tourism and Sport, visited the Great Irish Famine Mark Goggin Co-chaired the 18th International Communicating the Museum France, Germany, 16–30 June The Multicultural Policies and Services Program is the Monument at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Monthly conference in Paris. Attended several leading international museums England practical way NSW Government agencies implement the meetings of the Great Irish Famine Commemoration and heritage projects, establishing further international benchmarks for following multicultural principles, which stipulate that all Committee continued to be held at the Hyde Park SLM and its future strategic projects. people of NSW: Barracks Museum. a) irrespective of their linguistic, religious and ancestral • A strategic review has been undertaken at each of the backgrounds, should demonstrate a unified City Portfolio museums. An Improvement Plan has been commitment to Australia, its interests and future; created with recommendations to reduce accessibility barriers for people of culturally, linguistically and b) should recognise the importance of shared values religiously diverse backgrounds. Audience research governed by the rule of law within a democratic was undertaken to seek the views of multicultural client framework; groups in relation to the site of first Government House c) are of different linguistic, religious and ancestral and will assist in planning for the Protecting National backgrounds and are free to profess, practise and Historic Sites program. maintain their own linguistic, religious and ancestral heritage; d) and institutions, should respect and make provision for the culture, language and religion of others within an Australian legal and institutional framework where English is the common language; e) should have the greatest possible opportunity to contribute to, and participate in, all aspects of public life in which they may legally participate, and make use of, and participate in, relevant activities and programs provided or administered by the NSW Government.

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13. 2017–18 BUDGET ESTIMATES 14. RISK MANAGEMENT Insurance Records management Budgets for the year under review and for the next SLM is committed to good corporate governance, including As a NSW statutory authority, SLM’s insurable risks are The records management program continued to progress financial year are set out hereunder in accordance with taking a robust approach to risk-management planning that covered under the Treasury Managed Fund (TMF), the NSW and develop. The draft functional retention and disposal section 7(1)(a)(iii) of the Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) identifies and addresses both external and internal risks to Government’s self-insurance scheme. authority that was submitted to the State Records Authority of NSW in June 2015 has not yet been approved by the Act 1984. its operations. Internal risks are also managed through the This year five claims were lodged with TMF, including Authority. Once approved, the sentencing and disposal development of new and revised policies and procedures, claims relating to storm damage at the Museum of Sydney The budgets have been prepared on an accrual basis. program – which, to date, has been focused on the and identification of appropriate risk-mitigation controls. and Elizabeth Bay House. All claims have been approved, authorised destruction of hard-copy administrative records In 2016 the enterprise-wide Risk Management Framework with the funds for Elizabeth Bay House not remitted in the Revised was approved by the Trust. The Framework builds on the – will be expanded. Budget Budget 2016–17 financial year. budget guidance provided to agencies by the NSW Government Work health & safety (WHS) 2016–17 2016–17 2017–18 specifically around the Australian and New Zealand Risk Eight workers compensation claims were lodged, with three $000 $000 $000 Management Standard AS/NZS ISO 310000: 2009 and in lost-time payments received during 2016–17. SLM’s Work Health & Safety Committee continued to meet regularly, review incidents at SLM properties and undertake Expenditure the NSW Treasury Policy Paper TPP09-5. SLM’s mandatory Five motor vehicle claims were lodged. To date all claims site inspections. Operating expenses 27,752 28,532 26,789 annual attestation is included on page 128. have been accepted by TMF and, where relevant, repairs Depreciation and amortisation 853 853 875 SLM’s Audit & Risk Committee (see page 110) is an advisory have been undertaken or are scheduled to be completed in SLM proactively case-manages return-to-work plans for TOTAL EXPENDITURE 28,605 29,385 27,664 committee of the Board of Trustees and an integral due course. any injured employees. Recommendations made by the component of SLM’s corporate governance arrangements. committee to management are considered by the Executive. Revenue Legal change Its responsibilities cover the review of internal controls, risk The committee was a key consultation point for the WHS Recurrent grant 17,635 17,635 16,295 No changes were made to the Historic Houses Act 1980 management, the annual financial statements, and both policies developed and refreshed during the year. Capital grant 7,436 6,436 5,247 (NSW) during the reporting period. internal and external audits. The committee meets annually Sale of goods and services 6,102 6,349 6,425 with an external audit manager from the Audit Office of Policies & Procedures Investment income 149 235 153 NSW to discuss findings from the Audit Office’s review of The following policies and procedures were developed Grants and contributions 3,280 3,177 3,398 SLM’s financial statements and those of its related entities, and approved: Risk Management Framework, Disposal Other revenue 16 267 16 which have all been issued with an unmodified audit of Accountable Goods, Related Parties Disclosure, Fleet Gain on disposal of non- opinion. – 1 – current assets Management Policy, Outdoor Workers Uniform Policy, Capital Maintenance Framework, and Contractor Site TOTAL REVENUE 34,618 34,100 31,534 Ethical standards Induction – Rouse Hill House & Farm. NET RESULT 6,013 4,715 3,870 SLM’s Code of Ethics and Conduct: Staff and Volunteers policy was reviewed in 2015 and remains current. The following policies and procedures were reviewed and revised: Curatorial & Public Engagement Advisory ICT management Committee Charter, Heritage & Collections Advisory The ICT Team has developed policies and procedures Committee Charter, Internal Audit Charter, Audit and Risk critical for compliance with the NSW Government’s Committee Charter, Trust Charter, Policy & Procedures Digital Information Security Policy, including ICT Change Framework, Membership Policy, Cash Management Management, and Mobile Phone Usage Policy. The Digital Procedures, Gifts and Benefits Policy & Procedure, WHS Information Security mandatory annual attestation is Policy Statement, and First Aid Policy. included on page 129. In addition, the following policies and procedures were Internal audit drafted or revised in 2016–17 and are in the consultation phase prior to approval: Training and Development Policy, Financial Controls Review and Mobile Phone Usage Policy. As part of the three-year internal audit plan, Deloitte conducted an audit to assess the design adequacy and operating effectiveness of SLM’s controls to mitigate specific risks in relation to financial management. The report identified that satisfactory controls were in place. Based on a comparison with the outcome from a similar engagement in 2013, the review documented an improvement in the control environment. The report identified one medium-level risk, and two low- priority issues. All recommendations were accepted and acted on with no outstanding issues. SLM’s Audit and Risk Committee monitors the implementation of internal and external audit recommendations.

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INTERNAL AUDIT AND DIGITAL INFORMATION SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT ANNUAL ATTESTATION STATEMENT ATTESTATION FOR THE 2016–17 FINANCIAL YEAR FOR THE 2016–17 FINANCIAL YEAR FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES OF NEW SOUTH WALES

I, Mark Goggin, am of the opinion that the Historic Houses Trust of NSW (HHT) has internal audit and risk management I, Mark Goggin, am of the opinion that the Historic Houses Trust of NSW (HHT) had in place an Information Security processes in operation that are, excluding the exceptions or transitional arrangements described below, compliant Management System that is consistent with the Core Requirements set out in the NSW Government Digital Information with the eight (8) core requirements set out in the Internal Audit and Risk Management Policy for the NSW Public Sector, Security Policy for all of the 2016/17 financial year. specifically: I, Mark Goggin, am of the opinion that the security controls currently in place and those planned for completion in For each requirement, please 2017/18 to mitigate identified risks to the digital information systems of the HHT are adequate for the foreseeable specify whether compliant, non- ­ future. CORE REQUIREMENTS compliant, or in transition I, Mark Goggin, am of the opinion that the HHT risk profile, in accordance with the NSW Government Digital Risk Management Framework Information Security Policy, does not warrant certified compliance with AS/NZS ISO/IEC 27001 Information - Security 1.1 The agency head is ultimately responsible and accountable for risk Compliant Techniques - Information security management systems - Requirements. management in the agency 1.2 A risk management framework that is appropriate to the agency has been Compliant established and maintained and the framework is consistent with AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009 Internal Audit Function 2.1 An internal audit function has been established and maintained Compliant 2.2 The operation of the internal audit function is consistent with the Compliant International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing 2.3 The agency has an Internal Audit Charter that is consistent with the content Compliant of the ‘model charter’ Audit and Risk Committee Mark Goggin Executive Director 3.1 An independent Audit and Risk Committee with appropriate expertise has Compliant been established 28 July 2017 3.2 The Audit and Risk Committee is an advisory committee providing Compliant assistance to the agency head on the agency’s governance processes, risk management and control frameworks, and its external accountability obligations 3.3 The Audit and Risk Committee has a Charter that is consistent with the Compliant content of the ‘model charter’

The Chair and Members of the Audit and Risk Committee are:

• Paddy Carney, Independent Chair and HHT Trustee (Term 2: March 2016 – current),

• Michael Rose, Independent Member and Chairman HHT Trust (Term 3: August 2010-current)

• Louise McElvogue, Independent Member and HHT Trustee (Term 2: March 2016 – current)

I, Mark Goggin, declare that this Internal Audit and Risk Management Attestation Statement is made on behalf of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW (parent entity) and the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales controlled entity.

Mark Goggin Executive Director

10 August 2017

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15. PAYMENT PERFORMANCE 17. OUR VOLUNTEERS As well as those who contributed to Dwyer, Jacob Dwyer, John Ebner, Judy Julie Law, Ellen Lawson, Hong Khanh PAYMENTS SLM’s ongoing volunteers program, Ebner, Ashleigh Edinburg, Jenny Phuong Le, Dominic Lea, Sandra Lee, Aged analysis at the end of each quarter the following includes those who Edwards, Surianingsih Effendy, Kevin Leedow, Leone Lemmer, Susan volunteered for Sydney Open 2016. Stephanie El Tahche, John Ellis, Noha Lenne, Mollie Lenthall, Agnes Levine, More than Elsamman, Mark England, Tiina Mildred Leyson, Angela Li, Bing Li, Less than 30 days 31–60 days overdue 61–90 days overdue 90 days overdue Total Olga Aamidor, Sylvia Abu-Sultan, Eriksson, Julie Evans, Les Evans, James Cheng (Kevin) Li, Ruoheng Li, Sarah Li, Quarter $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Allana Afshar, Patricia Ah-Chong, Ruya Evans, Lindsay Everingham, Terry Fahy, Daryl Lidman, Huey Liew, Kim Ligers, Ahmed, Prue Anthony, Rose Arkin, September 2016 376 2 6 -3 381 Maria Fallah, Chris Farquharson, Adam Sofia Liguori, Yenn Yinn Lim, Shihua Lin, Robyn Armstrong, Abigail Armstrong- Feigl, Dianne Finnegan, Ronald Fisher, Nina Lis Coughlan, Rui Liu, Vivian Liu, December 2016 83 0 11 17 111 Mensah, Rosina Armstrong-Mensah, Diann Ford, Nastaran Forouzesh, Julian Athena Wing Lo, Josephine Lo, Iina Lohi, Jessica Asmith, Susan Astor-Smith, March 2017 316 0 0 -3 313 Foster, Shannon Fraley, Joan Francis, Dennis Lovely, Rosanna Luca, Kate Akhtar Azhar, Mary Bagtas, Lalitha June 2017 651 1 12 22 686 Silvia Daniela Franza, Helen Freame, Lyons-Dawson, Kaitlyn Rebecca Balasubramanian, Teresa Baldassarre, Alexander Freitag, Fay Frischer, Jing Fu, MacDonnell, Victoria Maclellan, Jennifer Amy Barley, John Bartholomaeus, Total accounts paid on time Total amount paid Steve Fu, Valerie Gaidarly, Martin Gao, Macleod, Shirley Maguire, Judith Maddie Barton, Sally Bates, Bonny Yun Gao, Vanessa Garland, Allan Manion, Helen Manu, Claudia Mao, Quarter Target % Actual % $’000 $’000 Bayne, Anika Beaton, Andrew Bell, Garrick, Terry Gatward, Claire Geary, Jane Marks, Jovan Marovic, Avril Kathryn Bendall, Margery Bennett, September 2016 100 100 4,527 4,531 Karrie Gensler, Caroline Geoghegan, Marshall, Judy Marshall, Keith Marshall, Morris Bete, Raelene Beuermann, Shahroud Ghahani, Gillian Gibbons, Lynette Martel, Sandra Martin, Stephen December 2016 100 99 3,527 3,555 Zhouxi Bi, Neil Bird, Colin Bishop, Colin Monique Gingell, Caroline Gleeson, Liz Martin, Laura Martinez Gomez, Molly Blake, Shirley Blake, Jehan Blazey, March 2017 100 100 2,618 2,615 Gleeson, Diana Glenn, Ellie Godworth, Masiello, Joina Mathew, Becky Catherine Borchok, Erika Bostelmann, Joycelyn Goh, Kathryn Goldie, Llywelyn Matthews, Kay Matthews, Vicki June 2017 100 100 7,203 7,237 Courtney Bowd, John Boyd, Noni Boyd, Golesworthy, Igor Golubev, Fernando Mavrofora, Malcolm Mawhinney, Peter Katie Brassell, Ron Bray, Warren Gomez, Rocio Goncalves Borrega, Maxwell, Siobhan McCarthy, Jonathan Bressler, Hilary Bretag, Elizabeth 16. CONSULTANTS Georgina Gordon, Linda Gosling, Elaine McCray, Brook McDonald, Linda Brooking, Marnie Brown, Rodney Graham, Neil Graham, Howard McFadden, Emma McGirr, Lynette Brown, Martine Bruce, Nick Bucci, Joan PAYMENTS Graham, Victoria Green, Paul Grezoux, McHale, Craig McIlveen, Helen Buckley, John Bulbert, Wendy Bull, David James Griffith, Sarah-Jane Grove, Xin McKelleher, Marie McKenzie, Rae Amount Buncel, Linda Burgess, Alyssa Byrne, (Excl. GST) Gu, Mirsada Gudelj, Robin Guthrie, McLintock, Wendy McMichael, Loretta Andie Caballes, Ada Cable, Marta Type of consultant Name of consultant Title of project Service $ Regina Haertsch, Zhao Haizhou, Bonnie McPherson, Lynette McShane, Thomas Cacabelos Martinez, Lynette Cantrill, Hale, Dimitria Hamlyn-Harris, Gordon McShane, Sonia Mehrmand, Susan General > $50,000 GML Heritage Mint Conservation Management Plan Management Services 176,010.5 Nadia Ruth Carino, Barbara Carnie, Hannam, Samantha Harding, Aileen Melrose, Sulan Mendis, Stany Menezes, Hayley Carra, Steve Cartland, Katherine Studio Colin Polwarth Pty Ltd Heritage Floor Space Management Services 103,990 Harland, Tracey Harper, Sarah Amelia-Anne Merz, Megan Mitchell, Champ, Jessica Chandra, Duyi Chang, Hawkins, Jan Heffernan, Amanda Yajie Mo, Daniel Mok, Frances Moors, Lucas Stapleton Johnson & Hyde Park Barracks Conservation Management Services 65,790.99 Estella Cheer, Benita Chen, Junwen Henry, Kerri Hietbrink, Margaret Hill, Casey Moraitis, Marc Morelli, Christine Partners Pty Ltd Management Plan Chen, Yanran Chen, Virginia Chenney, Hsin-Ying Ho, Robert Holden, Virginia Morony, Miriam Morton, Margaret Henrietta Cheshire, Amy Chou, Betty Amount Hoskins, Shuni Hou, Lesley Hume, Murphy, Bruce Myles, Elham Najafian, Chow, Mariana Cidade, Guilherme (Excl. GST) Denise Inch, Linda Irawan, Chris Isgro, Aleesha Nathan, Bronwyne Newbold, Cipullo, Natasha Civijovski, Helen Clark, Type of consultant Number of engagements Service $ Michael Jacke, Anne-Marie Jackson, Duc Hoang Duy Nguyen, Fiona Ni, Lin Terry Clarke, Alana Clifton- Kate Jackson, Carol Jacobson, Kenneth Ni, Marko Niketic, Violeta Nikolovska, General < $50,000 5 Management Services 84,162.50 Cunningham, Yaier Cohen, Courtney Jacobson, Peter James, Sally James, Michael Noone, Sophie Norsa, Alison Coleman, Alan Coligado, Gary Cook, 1 Organisational Review 8,140.00 David James, Sophie Jennings, Esben Nowland, Aurora Nowosad, Con Ingrid Cook, Glynis Coombe, Patricia Jensen, Ouija Ji, Elektra/Xueqing Jiang, O’Donnell, Heather Oliver, Rosemary The majority of the consultation costs relate to preparing strategic business cases in response to the then Minister for Heritage and OEH and the strategic planning and Cooper, Katherine Courtney, Maddison Linlu Jiang, Shan Jiang, Marisa Johnston, O’Neill, Joanna Ong, Stephen Paget, further activation of our properties. The costs were jointly funded from Treasury’s seed pool funding, OEH, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service and our own reserves. Cox, Annette Crawford, David Critchley, Michael Jones, Isabella Joughin, Kiran Rosemary Palmer, Michael Xinhui Cui, Sonia Cunningham, Evonna Kamath, Dess Kammason Kelley, Harini Papaeleftheriou, Carol Paterson, Nicole Dai, Paige Davis, Marion De Courcay, Kannangara, Lalithaya Katha, Tamiru Paterson, Julianne Patterson, Anna Alexandra Debeljakovic, Shaleha Deen, Kawashima, Christine Kazub, Mel Pavincich, Margo Pavincich, Marc Pim Den Dekker, Lynn Dent, Graham Keenan, Sarah Kelly, Stephanie Kemp, Pearce, John Pearson, Caroline Peart, Desailly, Maureen Devereaux, Sanskriit Joanne Kennett, Graham Kerr, Susan Lanyun Peng, Yingqi Peng, Brooke Dhanker, Phillip Dickie, Adam Dickson, Khor, Emily Kilgannon, Katja Klikauer, Pepper, Ronda Phillips, Susan Phillips, Laurence Dillon, Yi Ding, Chantelle Lada Kolonkova, Milica Kostic, Maree Ellen Piasentin, Glenys Pike, Peter Poole, Dollimore, Mal Donaldson, Georgia Kovac, Djordje Krajcic, Auranuj Ming Jacqui Porter, Carolina Portugal, Douglas, Qinyi Du, Sophie Dumont Kwan Muang, Wing Kwan Kwong, Samantha Power, Krystal Prasad, Saint Priest, Ashleigh Dunn, Indigo Marita Lacota, Sophie Lamaletie, Gemma Purves, Jenny Qiu, Amy Dunphy-Smith, Dominic Dwyer, Thomas Leonardo Lamanuzzi, Richard Lambert, Ramires, Natasha Ramrakha, Yvette 130 131 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17

Ramsay, Mark Ransom, Elle Rasink, Wood, Robert Wood, Jennifer Stewart Reed, Nathan Rees, Anna Wordsworth, Constance Wright, Denis Renzenbrink, Deanna Richardson, Wu, Emma Wu, Liang Wu, Nathan Wu, Romina Richardson, Holly Ritson, Jill Xue Xia, Anne Xie, Jingwen Xu, William FINANCIAL Robert, Sharyn Roberts, Kimberley Xu, Hanzhi Xue, Jing Yang, Ruijie Yang, Robinson, Steve Robson, Danielle Xi Yang, Xiaohan Yang, Catriona Yates, Roderick, Gregory Rogan, John Jill Yates, Shuangyue Yin, Loretta Yuen, Romanous, Alison Rose, Huzaimi Rosli, Mary (Marivic) Zarate, Yan Zen, Rachel STATEMENTS Dianne Ross, Apolline Rousseau, Zeng, Jennifer Zerial, Alan Zhang, Jiayue Kathleen Routh, Hannah Roux, Bianca Zhang, Ranxu Zhang, Suxin Zhang, Rowley, Chris Rutter, Margot Ryan, Xinjing Zhang, Yanwen Zhang, Yuelian Peter Ryan, Siobhan Ryan, Kristy (Jessie) Zhang, Xinny Zhao, Changxiao Sabharwal, Claudia Sagripanti, Ian Zheng, Siyun Zheng, Yutong Zhou, Sakurovs, Mark Schagerl, Maria Wenjun Zhu, Dr Edith Ziegler. Schattiger, Natalie Seeto, Sandalie Seneviratne, Katherine Sessions, Diane Sexton, Bernard Sharah, Mingdun Shi, Louise Short, Keryn Smart, Anthea Smith, Carol Smith, Kerryn Smith, Annette Smith-Bridges, Marie Smithson, Alisan Smotlak, Terry Snijder, Beryl Soller, Philip Soller, Paula Southcombe, Luke Spickler, Robert Squires, Sarah St George, Jean Steele, Peter Stepek, Lynette Steptoe-Smith, Sophie (Fang) Stewart (Xie), Madeleine Stocker, Doreen Sully, Alice Sun, Amanda Sun, Zhangjing (Kaitlyn) Sun, Segar Suppiah, Jade Tainturier, Sik Wai Tam, Ayako Tamura, Tany Tan, Willars Tan, Ying Xin Tan, Alice Taylor, Matilda Teernstra, Jessica Telford, Nicole Tena, Susannah Tennant, Leigha Tew, Michael Thomson, Xiaojing Tian, Patricia Tilley, Janet Timberg, Dylan Tirtabudi, Emily Tischner, Baoying Tong, Yan Tong, Kim Townsend, Jack Townsend, Velda-Jane Townsend, Josephine Tran, Lisa Tran, Mei Jun Tran, Queenie Tran, Rosemarie Travers, Brendan Trinh, Konlawij Trongtrakul, Nicola Tuck, Caitlin Tullis, Neridah Tyler-Perry, Agnes Tyson, Edward Upjohn, Harriet Upjohn, Leah Varvaressos, Julian Venczel, Pamela Ventura, Meta Vintila, John Visser, Ngoc Yen Nhi Vo, Prakash Wadhwa, Jeffrey Wai-Yee, Geraldeen Walker, Robert Wallis, Ho To Wan, Jess (Yue) Wang, Lidan Wang, Lin Wang, Lu Wang, Ting Wang, Ying Wang, Yingxue Wang, Yuliang Wang, Xinyu Weng, Leonard Werman, Robert Wheeler, Peter Whelan, Elaine White, Tina Whitehead, Clarice Wilkins, Angelique Williams, Ruth Williams, Amy Willing, Laraine Wilson, Megan Wilson, Catherine Wong, Rex 132 133 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONTENTS

This information is to assist readers to understand our financial an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for more than Independent auditor’s report statements, which are made up of four reports 12 months after the reporting date. 136 and accompanying notes: Non-current assets/liabilities are those assets and liabilities that are not current and are generally unlikely to be settled within the next 139 Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales statutory financial statements • statement of comprehensive income 12 months. The difference between total assets and total liabilities is • statement of financial position expressed as net assets, which equals total equity – that is, the Trust’s 140 Statement of comprehensive income • statement of changes in equity net worth at the end of the financial year. • statement of cash flows. 141 Statement of financial position 3 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY The statements disclose separately the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT), which is known as the Parent Entity, and the group This statement recognises income and expenses, 142 Statement of changes in equity of organisations under the control of the HHT, which is known as the and describes the movement in equity and the source Consolidated Entity. The Consolidated Entity includes all of the entities of those movements during the reporting period. 143 Statement of cash flows that fall under our control: All contributions or distributions are adjusted against the equity account. • Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust 144 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements of New South Wales 4 STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS • Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust Note 1: Summary of significant accounting policies of New South Wales Limited. This statement shows the nature and amount of cash inflows/ Note 2: Expenses excluding losses outflows. The statement reflects a recording of The NSW Audit Office audits the Trust and its controlled entities. The Note 3: Revenue cash (as opposed to accruals as in the statement of comprehensive audit certificate is included with the financial statements and it states income) when it is received or paid. Note 4: Gain/(loss) on disposal the Auditor-General’s opinion of the HHT’s financial statements. Note 5: Other gains/(losses) The statement of cash flows has only two sections: 1 STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME Note 6: Conditions on contributions • The cash flows from operating activities summarises those Note 7: Service groups of entity This statement looks at our performance over the financial year (1 July cash flows that relate to the provision of goods and services. 2016 to 30 June 2017) and is reported as a surplus/deficit in delivering The statement includes cash flows from government. Note 8: Current assets – cash and cash equivalents our services. The statement enables readers to identify the costs of • The cash flows from investing activities summarises those activities Note 9: Current/non-current assets – receivables goods and services provided and the extent to which these costs that relate to the acquisition and disposal of non-current assets Note 10: Current assets – inventories were recovered, as well as the source of the funding. It also allows the and other productive assets, and investments not falling under the Note 11: Restricted assets reader to compare the result against the previous financial year to definition of cash, for example, the sale of plant and equipment. see the change in resources as a result of operations. The statement Note 12: Non-current assets – property, plant and equipment A resulting net increase or decrease in cash results from is prepared on an accruals basis, which means that it accounts for Note 13: Intangible assets the total of the cash flows from operating and investing activities. income and expenditure when it is earned/incurred and not when This is then added to or subtracted from the opening cash position to Note 14: Fair value measure of non-financial assets money is received or paid. Accrual accounting also recognises non- arrive at the closing cash position for the year. Note 15: Current liabilities – payables cash items such as depreciation of assets. Other comprehensive income includes changes in revaluation reserve, gains and losses. Note 16: Current/non-current liabilities – provisions 5 NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF Note 17: Commitments for expenditure THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION Note 18: Contingent assets and liabilities The notes provide further information in relation to the rules Note 19: Budget review This statement sets out the net accumulated financial value at a and assumptions used to prepare the financial statements, and point in time, in this case, the end of the financial year. It shows the give more specific information and detail about items within the Note 20: Reconciliation of cash flows from operating activities to net result assets held as well as the liabilities or claims against these assets. The financial statements. Any changes to accounting standards, policy Note 21: Non-cash financing and investing activities statement is also prepared on an accruals basis. Assets and liabilities or legislation will be disclosed in the notes. The ‘note’ Note 22: Financial instruments are expressed as current or non-current. Current assets are those indicates which note the reader can refer to for further information. that are expected to be realised within 12 months after the reporting Note 23: Property leases date or assets that are cash or cash equivalent. Current liabilities are Note 24: Related party disclosures obligations that are expected to be settled within the Trust’s normal Note 25: Events after the reporting period operating cycle and for which the Trust does not have

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Other Information The Trustees are responsible for the Other Information, which comprises the information in the annual report for the Trust and the consolidated entity for the year ended 30 June 2017, other than the financial report and my Independent Auditor’s Report thereon.

My opinion on the financial report does not cover the Other Information. Accordingly, I do not express INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT any form of assurance conclusion on the Other Information. However, I must read the Other Information and consider whether it is materially inconsistent with the financial report, the knowledge I Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales obtained during the audit, or appears to be materially misstated.

If, based on the work I have performed, I conclude there is a material misstatement of the Other Information, I must report that fact. To Members of the New South Wales Parliament I have nothing to report in this regard. Opinion I have audited the accompanying financial statements of Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales The Trustees’ Responsibility for the Financial Statements (the Trust), which comprise the statements of financial position as at 30 June 2017, the statements of The Trustees are responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in comprehensive income, the statements of changes in equity and the statements of cash flows, for the accordance with Australian Accounting Standards and the PF&A Act, and for such internal control as year then ended, notes comprising a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory the Trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation and fair presentation of financial information, the Trust and the consolidated entity. The consolidated entity comprises the Trust and the statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. entities it controlled at the year’s end or from time to time during the financial year. In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees must assess the ability of the Trust and the In my opinion, the financial statements: consolidated entity to continue as a going concern except where operations will be dissolved by an Act of Parliament or otherwise cease. The assessment must, disclose, as applicable, matters related to • give a true and fair view of the financial position of the Trust and the consolidated entity as at going concern and the appropriateness of using the going concern basis of accounting. 30 June 2017, and of their financial performance and cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards Auditor’s Responsibility for the Audit of the Financial Statements • are in accordance with section 41B of Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 (PF&A Act) and the My objectives are to: Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2015. • obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from My opinion should be read in conjunction with the rest of this report. material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and Basis for Opinion • issue an Independent Auditor’s Report including my opinion.

I conducted my audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. My responsibilities under the Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but does not guarantee an audit conducted in standards are described in the ‘Auditor’s Responsibilities for the Audit of the Financial Statements’ accordance with Australian Auditing Standards will always detect material misstatements. section of my report. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error. Misstatements are considered material if, individually or in aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions users take I am independent of the Trust and the consolidated entity in accordance with the requirements of the: based on the financial statements.

• Australian Auditing Standards A description of my responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located at the Auditing • Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board’s APES 110 ‘Code of Ethics for and Assurance Standards Board website at: Professional Accountants’ (APES 110). http://www.auasb.gov.au/auditors_responsibilities/ar3.pdf. The description forms part of my auditor’s report. I have also fulfilled my other ethical responsibilities in accordance with APES 110.

Parliament further promotes independence by ensuring the Auditor-General and the Audit Office of New South Wales are not compromised in their roles by:

• providing that only Parliament, and not the executive government, can remove an Auditor– General • mandating the Auditor-General as auditor of public sector agencies • precluding the Auditor-General from providing non-audit services.

I believe the audit evidence I have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for my audit opinion.

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STATUTORY HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017

My opinion does not provide assurance:

• that the Trust or the consolidated entity carried out their activities effectively, efficiently and economically • about the assumptions used in formulating the budget figures disclosed in the financial STATEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 41C OF THE PUBLIC FINANCE AND AUDIT ACT 1983 statements Pursuant to Section 41C(1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and in accordance with a resolution of the Board of • about the security and controls over the electronic publication of the audited financial Trustees of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, we state that: statements on any website where they may be presented a) The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Public • about any other information which may have been hyperlinked to/from the financial statements. Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2015, applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which include Australian Accounting Interpretations), the Treasurer’s Directions and TPP 17-05: Financial Reporting Code for NSW General Government Sector Entities;

b) The financial statements and notes thereto exhibit a true and fair view of the financial position as at 30 June 2017, and the results of their operations for the year ended on that date;

c) At the date of signing we are not aware of any circumstances which would render the financial statements misleading or inaccurate.

Reiky Jiang Director, Financial Audit Services

27 September 2017 SYDNEY Michael Rose Mark Goggin Chairman Executive Director

Dated 21 September 2017

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STATEMENT OF BEGINNING OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FINANCIAL POSITION FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 AS AT 30 JUNE 2017

NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY Actual Budget* Actual Actual Actual Actual Budget Actual Actual Actual 2017 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 2017 2016 2017 2016 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 ASSETS EXPENSES EXCLUDING LOSSES Current assets Operating expenses Cash and cash equivalents 8 10,751 9,970 11,914 8,611 9,470 Personnel services expenses 2(a) 17,891 19,116 19,131 17,891 19,033 Receivables 9 1,019 755 784 1,001 752 Other operating expenses 2(b) 7,870 8,636 9,597 7,857 9,529 Inventories 10 163 184 143 163 143 Depreciation and amortisation expenses 2(c) 818 853 842 818 842 Total current assets 11,933 10,909 12,841 9,775 10,365 TOTAL EXPENSES EXCLUDING LOSSES 26,579 28,605 29,570 26,566 29,404 Non-current assets REVENUE Property, plant and equipment Sale of goods and services 3(a) 5,727 6,102 5,807 5,727 5,806 > Land and buildings 234,790 236,059 229,347 234,790 229,347 Investment revenue 3(b) 243 149 307 181 238 > Plant and equipment 855 642 652 855 652 Grants and contributions 3(c) 25,564 28,351 26,105 25,923 26,103 > Collection assets 31,608 31,029 30,994 31,608 30,994 Other revenue 3(d) 275 16 288 275 288 Total property, plant and equipment 12 267,253 267,730 260,993 267,253 260,993 TOTAL REVENUE 31,809 34,618 32,507 32,106 32,435 Intangible assets 13 1,641 2,584 1,044 1,641 1,044 Gain/(loss) on disposal 4 (4) – (2) (4) (2) Receivables 9 615 614 647 615 647 Other gains/(losses) 5 (8) – (20) (8) (20) Total non-current assets 269,509 270,928 262,684 269,509 262,684 NET RESULT 5,218 6,013 2,915 5,528 3,009 TOTAL ASSETS 281,442 281,837 275,525 279,284 273,049 OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME Items that will not be reclassified to net result LIABILITIES Net increase/(decrease) in property, Current liabilities plant and equipment asset 12 526 – 10,515 526 10,515 Payables 15 2,697 2,895 2,412 2,689 2,400 revaluation surplus Provisions 16 1,755 1,793 1,832 1,755 1,828 Total other comprehensive income 526 – 10,515 526 10,515 Total current liabilities 4,452 4,688 4,244 4,444 4,228 TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME 5,744 6,013† 13,430 6,054 13,524

* Refer to Note 19. Non-current liabilities † The initial budget of $6,013k was revised to $4,715k due to carry forwards applied Provisions 16 651 734 686 651 686 Total non-current liabilities 651 734 686 651 686

TOTAL LIABILITIES 5,103 5,422 4,930 5,095 4,914

NET ASSETS 276,339 276,415 270,595 274,189 268,135

EQUITY Reserves 151,175 150,754 150,649 151,175 150,649 Accumulated funds 125,164 125,661 119,946 123,014 117,486 TOTAL EQUITY 276,339 276,415 270,595 274,189 268,135

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements. The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements. 140 141 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

STATEMENT OF STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017

CONSOLIDATED ENTITY NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY Accumulated Asset Total Actual Budget Actual Actual Actual funds revaluation 2017 2017 2016 2017 2016 reserve $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES BALANCE AT 1 JULY 2016 119,946 150,649 270,595 Payments Net result for the year 5,218 – 5,218 Personnel services (17,933) (19,116) (19,185) (17,968) (19,080) Other comprehensive income Other (8,953) (10,254) (11,132) (8,938) (11,311) Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant and equipment – 526 526 Total payments (26,886) (29,370) (30,317) (26,906) (30,391) Total other comprehensive income – 526 526 Receipts Total comprehensive income for the year 5,218 526 5,744 Sale of goods and services 5,946 6,268 6,034 5,987 6,263 Transactions with owners in their capacity as owners Interest received 243 154 248 180 180 Increase/(decrease) in net assets from equity transfers – – Grants and contributions 25,443 26,158 26,078 25,802 26,076 BALANCE AT 30 JUNE 2017 125,164 151,175 276,339 Other 1,219 3,616 1,394 1,206 1,402 Total receipts 32,851 36,196 33,754 33,175 33,921 BALANCE AT 1 JULY 2015 117,031 140,134 257,165 NET CASH FLOWS FROM 20 5,965 6,826 3,437 6,269 3,530 Net result for the year 2,915 – 2,915 OPERATING ACTIVITIES Other comprehensive income

Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant and equipment – 10,515 10,515 CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Total other comprehensive income – 10,515 10,515 Proceeds from sale of land and Total comprehensive income for the year 2,915 10,515 13,430 building, plant and equipment, 1 – 7 1 7 and collection assets Transactions with owners in their capacity as owners Purchases of land and buildings, plant Increase/(decrease) in net assets from equity transfers – – – (7,129) (6,550) (4,805) (7,129) (4,805) and equipment, and collection assets BALANCE AT 30 JUNE 2016 119,946 150,649 270,595 Other – (1,914) – – – PARENT ENTITY NET CASH FLOWS FROM Accumulated Asset Total (7,128) (8,464) (4,798) (7,128) (4,798) INVESTING ACTIVITIES funds revaluation equity reserve CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES $’000 $’000 $’000 NET CASH FLOWS FROM BALANCE AT 1 JULY 2016 117,486 150,649 268,135 – – – – – FINANCING ACTIVITIES Net result for the year 5,528 – 5,528 Other comprehensive income NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH (1,163) (1,638) (1,361) (859) (1,268) Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant and equipment – 526 526 Opening cash and cash equivalents 11,914 11,608 13,275 9,470 10,738 – Total other comprehensive income 526 526 CLOSING CASH AND 8 10,751 9,970 11,914 8,611 9,470 Total comprehensive income for the year 5,528 526 6,054 CASH EQUIVALENTS Transactions with owners in their capacity as owners Increase/(decrease) in net assets from equity transfers – – – BALANCE AT 30 JUNE 2017 123,014 151,175 274,189

BALANCE AT 1 JULY 2015 114,477 140,134 254,611 Net result for the year 3,009 – 3,009 Other comprehensive income Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant and equipment – 10,515 10,515 Total other comprehensive income – 10,515 10,515 Total comprehensive income for the year 3,009 10,515 13,524 Transactions with owners in their capacity as owners Increase/(decrease) in net assets from equity transfers – – – BALANCE AT 30 JUNE 2016 117,486 150,649 268,135 The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements. The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements. 142 143 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES The financial statements have been prepared on an accruals G) INCOME RECOGNITION iii) Revaluation of property, plant and equipment basis and are based on historical costs modified by the Income is measured at the fair value of the consideration or Physical non-current assets are valued in accordance with the A) REPORTING ENTITY revaluation of selected non-current assets, financial assets and contribution received or receivable in accordance with AASB 118: policy and guidelines paper TPP 14-01: Valuation of Physical The Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT) financial liabilities for which the fair value basis of accounting has Revenue and AASB 1004: Contributions. Additional comments Non-Current Assets at Fair Value. This policy adopts fair value is a NSW Government entity. The Trust is a non-profit entity been applied. regarding the accounting policies for the recognition of income in accordance with AASB 13: Fair Value Measurement and (as profit is not its principal objective). The HHT is endorsed as Judgments, key assumptions and estimations made by are discussed below: AASB 116: Property, Plant and Equipment. Property, plant a Deductible Gift Recipient under items 1 and 4 of the table management are disclosed in the relevant notes to the and equipment is measured on an existing-use basis, where in Section 30-15, and Subdivision 30-D of the Income Tax i) Sale of goods financial statements. there are no feasible alternative uses in the existing natural, Assessment Act 1997 (the Act). The HHT is registered as a public Revenue from the sale of goods is recognised as revenue legal, financial and sociopolitical environment. However, in museum under the Act and is registered for GST. The financial All amounts are rounded to the nearest one thousand dollars and when the Trust transfers the significant risks and rewards of the limited circumstances where there are feasible alternative statements cover the Consolidated Entity (the Trust) and the HHT are in Australian currency. ownership of the assets. uses, assets are valued at their highest as an individual Parent Entity. and best use. C) PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION ii) Rendering of services The Trust as a reporting entity comprises all the A controlled entity is any entity over which the Trust has the power Revenue is recognised when the service is provided or by Fair value of property, plant and equipment is determined entities under its control, namely: to control the financial and operating policies, so as to obtain reference to the stage of completion. based on the best available market evidence, including current market selling prices for the same or similar assets. i) Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust benefits from its activities. iii) Investment revenue of New South Wales Where there is no available market evidence, the asset’s All controlled entities have a 30 June financial year end. Interest income is recognised using the effective interest fair value is measured at its market-buying price, the best The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South All intercompany balances and transactions between entities in method as set out in AASB 139: Financial Instruments: indicator of which is depreciated replacement cost. Wales was established for the promotion, advancement and the Consolidated Entity, including any unrealised profits or losses, Recognition and Measurement. development of the museums under the care, custody and have been eliminated on consolidation. The Trust revalues each class of property, plant and iv) Grants and contributions control of the HHT. equipment at least every five years or with sufficient regularity Accounting policies of controlled entities are consistent with the Grants and contributions include donations and grants to ensure that the carrying amount of each asset in the class In the process of preparing the consolidated financial Parent Entity. from the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), under does not differ materially from its fair value at reporting date. statements for the economic entity, consisting of the the Planning and Environment cluster. They are generally Details of the last revaluations are shown at Note 12. D) STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE controlling and controlled entities, all inter-entity transactions recognised as income when the Trust obtains control over Non-specialised assets with short useful lives are measured and balances have been eliminated. The Consolidated and Parent entities’ financial statements and the assets comprising the grants and contributions. Control at depreciated historical cost, as a surrogate for fair value. notes comply with Australian Accounting Standards, which include over grants and contributions is normally obtained when the  ii) Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of When revaluing non‑current assets using the cost approach, Australian Accounting Interpretations. obligations relating to the receipt have been met and, in the New South Wales Limited the gross amount and the related accumulated depreciation case of donations, on receipt of cash. The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of E) INSURANCE are separately restated. New South Wales Limited was established for the sole The Trust’s insurance activities are conducted through the H) ASSETS For other assets, any balances of accumulated depreciation purpose of acting as Trustee of the Foundation for the Historic Treasury Managed Fund, a self-insurance scheme for NSW i) Acquisition of assets at the revaluation date in respect of those assets are credited Houses Trust of New South Wales and has never traded in its government agencies. The expense (premium) is determined by to the asset accounts to which they relate. The net asset The cost method of accounting is used for the initial recording own right. There were no financial transactions for the year. the fund manager based on past claim experience as well as the accounts are then increased or decreased by the revaluation of all acquisitions of assets controlled by the Trust. Cost is the value insured. increments or decrements. B) BASIS OF PREPARATION amount of cash or cash equivalents paid or the fair value of the other consideration given to acquire the asset at the time Revaluation increments are credited directly to the asset The Trust’s financial statements are general purpose financial F) ACCOUNTING FOR THE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (GST) statements, which were prepared in accordance with: of its acquisition or construction or, where applicable, the revaluation surplus, except that, to the extent that an Income, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of amount attributed to that asset when initially recognised in increment reverses a revaluation decrement in respect of that • Australian Accounting Standards (which include GST, except where: accordance with the specific requirements of other Australian class of asset previously recognised as an expense in the net Australian Accounting Interpretations); result, the increment is recognised immediately as revenue in • the amount of GST incurred by the Trust as a purchaser that Accounting Standards. • the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 the net result. is not recoverable from the Australian Taxation Office is Gifts, artworks or works acquired at no cost, or for nominal and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2015; and recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of an asset or as consideration, are initially recognised at their fair value at the Revaluation decrements are recognised immediately as • Financial Reporting Directions mandated by the Treasurer. part of an item of expense; and date of acquisition. expenses in the net result, except that, to the extent that Property, plant and equipment, collection assets and financial • receivables and payables are stated with the amount of GST a credit balance exists in the asset revaluation reserve in Fair value is the price that would be received to sell an asset assets are measured at fair value. Non-current assets held included. respect of the same class of assets, they are debited directly in an orderly transaction between market participants at for resale are measured at the lower of carrying amount and to the asset revaluation surplus. As the Trust is a non-profit Cash flows are included in the Statement of Cash Flows on measurement date. Where payment for an asset is deferred fair value less costs to sell. Other financial statement items are entity, revaluation increments and decrements are offset a gross basis. However, the GST component of the cash beyond normal credit terms, its cost is the cash price prepared in accordance with the historical cost convention. against one another within a class of non-current assets, flows arising from investing and financing activities which is equivalent, that is, the deferred payment amount is effectively but not otherwise. Where an asset that has previously been recoverable or payable to the Australian Taxation Office is discounted. revalued is disposed of, any balance remaining in the asset classified as operating cash flows. ii) Capitalisation thresholds revaluation surplus in respect of that asset is transferred to Property, plant and equipment, and intangible assets costing accumulated funds. $5000 and above individually (or forming part of a network valued at more than $5000) are capitalised.

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iv) Impairment of property, plant and equipment vii) Maintenance xi) Financial instruments I) LIABILITIES As a non-profit entity with no cash-generating units, Day-to-day servicing costs or maintenance are charged The financial instruments arise directly from the Trust’s i) Payables impairment under AASB 136: Impairment of Assets and as expenses as incurred, except where they relate to the operations and are required to finance its operations. The These amounts represent liabilities for goods and services impairment testing is unlikely to arise. This is because AASB replacement of a part or component of an asset, in which Trust does not enter into or trade financial instruments for provided to the Trust and other amounts. Payables are 136 modifies the recoverable amount test to the higher of case the costs are capitalised and depreciated. speculative purposes and does not recognised initially at fair value, usually based on the fair value less costs to sell and depreciated replacement use financial derivatives. viii) Leased assets transaction cost or face value. Short-term payables with cost where depreciated replacement cost is also fair value. no stated interest rate are measured at the original invoice A distinction is made between finance leases that effectively xii) Cash and cash equivalents This means that, for an asset already measured at fair amount where the effect of discounting is immaterial. value, impairment can only arise if selling costs are material. transfer from the lessor to the lessee substantially all the Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances. Interest ii) Personnel services and other provisions Selling costs are regarded risks and benefits incidental to ownership of the leased is earned on daily bank balances and paid monthly at the as immaterial. assets, and operating leases under which the lessor does normal commercial rate. A. Salaries and wages, annual leave, sick leave not transfer substantially all the risks and benefits. Where and on-costs v) Assets not able to be reliably measured xiii) Loans and receivables a non-current asset is acquired by means of a finance Liabilities for personnel services are stated as liabilities Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial assets The Trust does not hold any assets other than those lease, at the commencement of the lease term, the asset to the service provider, the Office of Environment and with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted recognised in the statement of financial position. is recognised at its fair value or, if lower, the present value Heritage (OEH). The liabilities for salaries and wages in an active market. These financial assets are recognised All assets are able to be reliably measured. of the minimum lease payments, at the inception of the (including non-monetary benefits), annual leave initially at fair value, usually based on the transaction cost or lease. The corresponding liability is established at the same and paid sick leave that are expected to be settled vi) Depreciation of property, plant and equipment face value. Subsequent measurement is at amortised cost amount. Lease payments are allocated between the principal wholly within 12 months of the reporting date are Except for heritage assets, depreciation is provided for on a using the effective interest method less an allowance for any component and the interest expense. recognised and measured in respect of employees’ straight-line basis for all depreciable assets so as to write off impairment of receivables. Collectability of trade debtors is service up to the reporting date at undiscounted the depreciable amount of each asset as it is consumed over Operating lease payments are charged to the income reviewed on an ongoing basis. Debts that are known to be amounts based on the amounts expected to be paid its useful life to the Trust. All material separately identifiable statement in the periods in which they are incurred. uncollectable are written off. Any changes are recognised in when the liabilities are settled. Long-term annual component assets are depreciated over their shorter useful the net result when impaired, derecognised or through the Long-term leases are deemed to be finance leases in leave that is not expected to be settled within 12 lives. amortisation process. Short-term receivables with no stated accordance with TPP 11-01: Lessor Classification of Long‑term months is measured at present value in accordance interest rate are measured at the original invoice amount Land is not a depreciable asset. Certain heritage assets, Land Leases and AASB 117: Leases. with AASB 119: Employee Benefits and NSWTC 15-09: where the effect of discounting is immaterial. The credit risk including original artworks and collections and heritage Accounting for Long Service Leave and Annual Leave. ix) Intangible assets is the carrying amount (net of any allowance for impairment). buildings, may not have a limited useful life because The Trust recognises intangible assets only if it is probable No interest is earned on trade debtors. The carrying amount Unused non-vesting sick leave does not give rise to a appropriate curatorial and preservation policies are that future economic benefits will flow to the Trust and the approximates fair value. liability, as it is not considered probable that sick leave adopted. Such assets are not subject to depreciation. The cost of the asset can be reliably measured. Intangible assets taken in the future will be greater than the benefits decision not to recognise depreciation for these assets is xiv) Investments are measured initially at cost. Where an asset is acquired at accrued in the future. reviewed annually. no or nominal cost, the cost is its fair value as at the date of Investments are initially recognised at fair value plus, in the The outstanding amounts of payroll tax, workers The estimated useful lives of items under ten major categories acquisition. case of investments not at fair value through profit or loss, compensation, insurance premiums and fringe transaction costs. The Trust determines the classification of are: All research costs are expensed. Development costs benefits tax, which are consequential to employment, its financial assets after initial recognition and, when allowed are only capitalised in accordance with AASB 138: Intangible are recognised as liabilities and expenses where the Major category Estimated useful life and appropriate, re‑evaluates this at each financial year end. Assets. employee benefits to which they relate have been Non-heritage buildings 40–50 years recognised. The useful lives of intangible assets are assessed to be finite. xv) Derecognition of financial assets and Computer equipment 4 years Intangible assets are subsequently measured at fair value financial liabilities B. Long service leave and superannuation and major software only if there is an active market. As there is no active market A financial asset is derecognised when the contractual rights In the financial statements of the OEH, the liabilities for Mechanical and electronic 7 years for the Trust’s intangible assets, the assets are carried at cost to the cash flows from the financial assets expire, or if the long service leave and defined benefit superannuation are office equipment less any accumulated amortisation. Trust transfers the financial asset: assumed by the Crown. Consequently, the Trust accounts Electronic equipment 7 years The Trust’s intangible assets (software) are amortised •  where substantially all the risks and rewards have been for the liability as having been extinguished, resulting in Radiocommunications equipment 7 years using the straight-line method over a period of four years. transferred; or the amount assumed being shown as part of the non- Intangible assets are tested for impairment where an monetary revenue item described as ‘personnel service Telephone installations 5 years • where the entity has not transferred substantially all the risks indicator of impairment exists. If the recoverable amount is and rewards, if the Trust has not retained control. benefits and liabilities provided free of charge by the OEH’. Office fittings 10 years less than its carrying amount, the carrying amount is reduced Where the entity has neither transferred nor retained Long service leave is measured at present value Miscellaneous tools and equipment 7 years to the recoverable amount and the reduction is recognised substantially all the risks and rewards nor transferred in accordance with AASB 119. This is based on the as an impairment loss. As at balance date, there were no Mobile plant 10 years control, the asset is recognised to the extent of the application of certain factors (specified in NSWTC 15-09) indicators of impairment. Permanent displays 5–20 years Trust’s continuing involvement in the asset. to employees with five or more years of service, using current rates of pay. These factors were determined x) Inventories A financial liability is derecognised when the obligation The estimated useful lives are reviewed annually to ensure based on an actuarial review to approximate present Inventories are held for sale and are stated at the lower of specified in the contract is discharged or cancelled they reflect the assets’ current useful lives and residual values. value. cost and net realisable value. Cost is calculated using the or expires. weighted average cost. Net realisable value is the estimated No assets were derecognised in 2016–17. selling price in the ordinary course of business less the estimated costs of completion and the estimated costs necessary to make the sale.

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The superannuation expense for the financial year is L) EQUITY TRANSFER O) CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING POLICY, INCLUDING NEW • AASB 2015-5: Amendments to Australian Accounting determined by using the formulae specified in the Treasurer’s The transfer of net assets between entities as a result OR REVISED AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS Standards – Investment Entities: Applying the Directions. The expense for certain superannuation schemes of an administrative restructure, transfers of programs/functions i) Effective for the first time in 2016–17 Consolidation Exception. (that is, Basic Benefit and First State Super) is calculated and parts thereof between NSW public sector entities and The accounting policies applied in 2016–17 are consistent with • AASB 2015-6: Amendments to Australian Accounting as a percentage of the employees’ salary. For other ‘equity appropriations’ are designated or required by Australian those of the previous financial year except as a result of the Standards – Extending Related Party Disclosures to superannuation schemes (that is, State Superannuation Accounting Standards to be treated as contributions by owners following new or revised Australian Accounting Standards Not-for-Profit Public Sector Entities. Agencies will need Scheme and State Authorities Superannuation Scheme), and recognised as an adjustment to ‘Accumulated Funds’. that have been applied for the first time in 2016–17: to identify individuals and entities that are related parties the expense is calculated as a multiple of the employees’ This treatment is consistent with AASB 1004: Contributions and and should refer to Australian implementation guidance superannuation contributions. Australian Interpretation 1038: Contributions by Owners Made to • AASB 14: Regulatory Deferral Accounts, which will not for not-for-profit public sector entities in AASB 124. have a significant impact on entities not adopting AASB Wholly-Owned Public Sector Entities. • AASB 2015-7: Amendments to Australian Accounting J) FAIR VALUE HIERARCHY for the first time. Transfers arising from an administrative restructure involving Standards – Fair Value Disclosures of Not-for-Profit A number of the Trust’s accounting policies and disclosures • AASB 1056: Superannuation Entities, resulting in minor non-profit and for-profit government entities are recognised at Public Sector Entities. Not-for-profit entities are exempt require the measurement of fair values, for both financial and changes to disclosures for defined benefit plan schemes. the amount at which the assets and liabilities were recognised from making disclosures for recurring and non-recurring non-financial assets and liabilities. When measuring fair value, by the transferor immediately prior to the restructure. Subject to • AASB 1057: Application of Australian Accounting level 3 fair values. the valuation technique used maximises the use of relevant the paragraph below, in most instances this will approximate fair Standards. • AASB 2015-9: Amendments to Australian Accounting observable inputs and minimises the use of unobservable inputs. value. • AASB 2014-1: Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Scope and Application Paragraphs. Under AASB 13: Fair Value Measurement, the Trust categorises, for Standards (Part D Regulatory Deferral Accounts), making disclosure purposes, the valuation techniques based on the inputs All other equity transfers are recognised at fair value, except • AASB 2015-10: Amendments to Australian Accounting consequential amendments arising from the issuance of used in the valuation techniques as follows: for intangibles. Where an intangible has been recognised at Standards – Effective Date of Amendments to AASB 10 (amortised) cost by the transferor because there is no active AASB 14. and AASB 128 defers the effective date from 1 January • Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical assets/ market, the entity recognises the asset at the transferor’s carrying • AASB 2014-4: Amendments to Australian Accounting 2016 to 1 January 2018. liabilities that the Trust can access at the measurement date Standards – Clarification of Acceptable Methods of amount. Where the transferor is prohibited from recognising ii) Issued but not yet effective • Level 2 – inputs other than quoted prices included within Level internally generated intangibles, the Trust does not recognise that Depreciation and Amortisation (AASB 116 & AASB 138). NSW public sector entities are not permitted to early adopt 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly asset. The amendments to AASB 116 prohibit the use of a new Australian Accounting Standards, unless Treasury revenue-based depreciation method for property, • Level 3 – inputs that are not based on observable market data determines otherwise. (unobservable inputs). M) BUDGETED AMOUNTS plant and equipment. Additionally, the amendments provide guidance in the application of the diminishing The following new Australian Accounting Standards have not The Trust recognises transfers between levels of the fair value The budgeted amounts are drawn from the original budgeted balance method for property, plant and equipment. been applied and are not yet effective: hierarchy at the end of the reporting period during which the financial statements presented to the NSW Parliament in respect The amendments to AASB 138 present a rebuttable • AASB 9 and AASB 2014-7 regarding financial change has occurred. of the reporting period. Subsequent adjustments to the original budget, for instance, adjustment as per section 24 of the Public presumption that a revenue-based amortisation method instruments. Refer to Notes 14 and 22(f) for further disclosures regarding fair value Finance and Audit Act 1983 where there has been a transfer for intangible assets is inappropriate. However, this • AASB 15, AASB 2014-5 and AASB 2015-8 regarding measurements of financial and non-financial assets. of functions between departments, are not reflected in the presumption can be rebutted in limited circumstances for revenue from contracts with customers. budgeted amounts. The published budget shows a consolidated intangible assets. K) EQUITY AND RESERVES • AASB 16: Leases replaces current lease standard AASB figure for operating expenses; however, for comparative • AASB 2014-9: Amendments to Australian Accounting 117 for annual reporting periods beginning on or after i) Revaluation surplus purposes the Trust reports a split between personnel services Standards – Equity Method in Separate Financial 1 January 2019. The new standard introduces a single The revaluation surplus is used to record increments expenses and other expenses. Additionally, the published budget Statements, which allows entities to use the equity lessee accounting model and requires a lessee to and decrements on the revaluation of non-current assets. This shows a consolidated figure for plant and equipment and method of accounting for investments in subsidiaries, recognise assets and liabilities for all leases with a term accords with the Trust’s policy on the ‘revaluation of property, collection assets as plant and equipment. joint venture and associates in their separate financial of more than 12 months, unless the underlying asset is of plant and equipment’ as discussed in Note 1(H)(iii). The Trust has shown these two components separately in the statements. low value. Lessors continue to classify leases as finance ii) Accumulated funds Statement of Financial Position for comparative and clarity • AASB 2015-1: Amendments to Australian Accounting and operating leases. As at 31 March 2016, it is expected The category ‘accumulated funds’ includes all current and reasons. Other amendments made to the budget are not Standards – Annual Improvements to Australian that peppercorn leases for not-for-profit entities will prior-period retained funds. reflected in the budgeted amounts. Major variances between the Accounting Standards 2012–2014 Cycle, which clarifies be considered a consequential amendment under original budgeted amounts and the actual amounts disclosed in AASB 5 – changes in the method of disposal, AASB 7 AASB 1058: Income of Not-for-Profit Entities rather than iii) Reserves the primary financial statements – disclosures – service contracts, AASB 119 – discount guidance from AASB 16: Leases. The Consolidated Entity Separate reserve accounts are recognised in the financial are explained in Note 19. rate (regional markets) and AASB 134 – disclosure of has not yet assessed the full impact of AASB 16. statements only if such accounts are required by specific information elsewhere in the interim financial statements • AASB 1058: Income of Not-for-Profit Entities. legislation or Australian Accounting Standards. N) COMPARATIVE INFORMATION • AASB 2015-2: Amendments to Australian Accounting There are no significant impacts of these standards in the Except when an Australian Accounting Standard permits or Standards – Disclosure Initiative: Amendments to period of initial application. requires otherwise, comparative information is disclosed in AASB 101. respect of the previous period for all amounts reported in the financial statements.

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P) TAXATION STATUS NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY The activities of the Trust are exempt from income tax. 2017 2016 2017 2016 The Trust is registered for GST purposes and has gift deductible $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 recipient status. 2 EXPENSES EXCLUDING LOSSES Q) SERVICES PROVIDED AT NO COST a) Personnel services expenses Where material contributions are made to the Trust Salaries and wages (including annual leave) 15,143 15,162 15,143 15,078 at no charge, an expense is recorded in the accounts Superannuation – defined benefit plans 1 48 1 48 to reflect activities at the Trust and is offset by an equivalent Superannuation – defined contribution plans 1,401 1,418 1,401 1,410 revenue entry. Long service leave 193 753 193 753 R) BIOBANKING TRUST FUND – RECEIVABLE Workers compensation insurance 132 122 132 121 The Biobanking Agreement requires that the proceeds from the Payroll tax on superannuation – defined benefit plan – 3 – 3 sale of biobank credits are transferred into the Biobanking Trust Payroll tax and fringe benefits tax 865 918 865 913 Fund administered by the OEH. The balance of the Biobanking Redundancy termination payments 156 707 156 707 Trust Fund receivable represents amounts that will be made 17,891 19,131 17,891 19,033 available to the Trust in order to fund the environmental works b) Other operating expenses required under the Biobanking Agreement. Advertising and publicity 745 680 745 679 S) BIOBANKING RESTORATION PROVISION Auditors’ remuneration – internal 19 50 19 50 The biobanking restoration provision is the environmental Auditors’ remuneration – external 101 94 90 83 obligation to maintain the biodiversity of the land in accordance Books, publications and subscriptions 21 37 21 37 with the terms and conditions of the Biobanking Agreement. It will Contract cleaning 577 585 577 585 be funded by the amounts receivable from the Biobanking Trust Contract staff 48 183 48 183 Fund. Cost of sales 198 202 198 202 Entertainment and catering expenses 29 53 29 49 Exhibition fees and related costs 627 653 627 653 Professional fees 620 2,443 619 2,442 Function expense 86 124 86 117 Gas and electricity 472 439 472 439 Insurance 174 182 174 182 Maintenance 1,111 1,034 1,111 1,034 Office printing contracts 242 188 242 188 Marketing and promotion 246 429 246 414 Motor vehicle running costs 123 119 123 119 Operating lease rental expenses 237 240 237 240 Other expenses 662 441 661 421 Postage 24 38 24 38 Printing 1 12 1 4 Public programs 320 262 320 262 Rates 78 75 78 75 Stores and IT maintenance 542 512 542 512 Telecommunications 391 405 391 405 Travel and accommodation 77 117 77 116 Services provided free of charge 99 – 99 – 7,870 9,597 7,857 9,529 c) Depreciation and amortisation expenses Buildings 290 274 290 274 Plant and equipment 268 268 268 268 Intangibles 260 300 260 300 818 842 818 842

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NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 2016 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 3 REVENUE 4 GAIN/(LOSS) ON DISPOSAL a) Sale of goods and services Property, plant and equipment (4) (2) (4) (2) Sale of goods (4) (2) (4) (2) Merchandise, book and publication sales 395 416 395 416 5 OTHER GAINS/(LOSSES) 395 416 395 416 Other gains/losses (8) (20) (8) (20) Rendering of services (8) (20) (8) (20) Admission fees 2,396 2,331 2,396 2,331 6 CONDITIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS Special activities and openings 559 532 559 532 The Trust receives monies and gifts of property subject to restrictions. The aggregate of these contributions Venue hire and catering 1,312 1,361 1,312 1,360 received for the year has been stated as revenue. This revenue is provided for expenditure in the current year Rental – commercial activities 1,021 1,117 1,021 1,117 and future years. Where the gift is a property, it is recognised as a restricted asset as reflected in Note 11. Filming and photography 44 50 44 50 7 SERVICE GROUPS OF ENTITY 5,332 5,391 5,332 5,390 The Trust cares for the State’s historically and culturally significant heritage properties, and operates as a single service group. 5,727 5,807 5,727 5,806 b) Investment revenue endowment 8 CURRENT ASSETS – CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS Interest income – endowment 42 79 36 68 Cash at bank and on hand 3,551 4,714 3,411 4,270 Interest income – term deposit 201 228 145 170 Other investments – term deposits 7,200 7,200 5,200 5,200 243 307 181 238 Closing cash and cash equivalents 10,751 11,914 8,611 9,470 c) Grants and contributions For the purpose of the Statement of Cash Flows, cash and cash equivalents include cash at bank, cash on hand From Department of Planning and Environment and short-term deposits. Cash and cash equivalent assets recognised in the Statement of Financial Position are reconciled at the end of the financial year to the Statement of Cash Flows as above. Recurrent grants 17,635 17,656 17,635 17,656 Capital grants 6,436 4,542 6,436 4,542 Details regarding credit risk, liquidity risk and market risk, including financial assets that are either past due or impaired, are disclosed in Note 22. Personnel service benefits and liabilities provided free of charge by the OEH 9 CURRENT/NON-CURRENT ASSETS – RECEIVABLES > Superannuation (defined benefit) 1 48 1 48 Current > Long service leave 193 753 193 753 Sale of goods and services 374 258 374 258 > Payroll tax – 3 – 3 Accrued income 139 158 122 122 Voluntary redundancy recoupment – 707 – 707 Prepayments 167 114 167 114 24,265 23,709 24,265 23,709 Other receivables 324 228 323 232 From other institutions and individuals Biobanking funds receivable 15 26 15 26 Donations – cash 115 225 474 223 1,019 784 1,001 752 Sponsorship – cash 267 356 267 356 Non-current Grants – other 797 1,788 797 1,788 Biobanking funds receivable 615 647 615 647 Sponsorship - in kind 21 99 – 99 – 615 647 615 647 Donations – in kind 21 21 27 21 27 Details regarding credit risk, liquidity risk and market risk, including financial assets that are either past due or 1,299 2,396 1,658 2,394 impaired, are disclosed in Note 22. 25,564 26,105 25,923 26,103 d) Other revenue Other revenue 275 288 275 288 275 288 275 288

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NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY RECONCILIATION 2017 2016 2017 2016 A reconciliation of the carrying amount of each class of property and equipment at the beginning and end $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 of each reporting period is shown below: 10 CURRENT ASSETS – INVENTORIES Land and Plant and Collection buildings equipment assets Total Held for resale 163 143 163 143 CONSOLIDATED AND PARENT ENTITY $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 163 143 163 143 Year ended 30 June 2017 11 RESTRICTED ASSETS Net carrying amount at start of year 229,347 652 30,994 260,993 Cash and cash equivalents 8,984 10,722 6,844 8,278 Additions 5,732 471 67 6,270 Land & Building 5,144 5,093 5,145 5,093 Contributed assets (donations) – – 21 21 Collections 927 924 927 924 Disposals – – – – 15,055 16,739 12,916 14,295 Depreciation expense (289) (268) – (557) Cash and fixed assets are restricted assets to the extent that they represent bequests, grants and donations held by Net revaluation increments less revaluation decrements – – 526 526 the Trust to be used in accordance with the deed of trust, caveats or other documents governing these funds. NET CARRYING AMOUNT AT END OF YEAR 234,790 855 31,608 267,253

12 NON-CURRENT ASSETS – PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT Year ended 30 June 2016 Land and buildings Net carrying amount at start of year 218,479 587 30,686 249,752 Gross carrying amount – fair value 237,865 232,132 237,865 232,132 Additions 387 339 40 766 Accumulated depreciation and impairment (3,075) (2,785) (3,075) (2,785) Contributed assets (donations) – – 27 27 Land and buildings at fair value 234,790 229,347 234,790 229,347 Disposals – (6) (3) (9) Plant and equipment Transfer between asset class 484 – – 484 Gross carrying amount – fair value 2,573 2,515 2,573 2,515 Depreciation expense (274) (268) – (542) Accumulated depreciation and impairment (1,718) (1,863) (1,718) (1,863) Net revaluation increments less revaluation decrements 10,271 – 244 10,515 Plant and equipment at fair value 855 652 855 652 NET CARRYING AMOUNT AT END OF YEAR 229,347 652 30,994 260,993 Collection assets Gross carrying amount – fair value 31,608 30,994 31,608 30,994 Collection assets at fair value 31,608 30,994 31,608 30,994 TOTAL PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT AT FAIR VALUE 267,253 260,993 267,253 260,993

Collection assets are not depreciated. Refer to Note 1(H)(vi).

The presentation of Capital Work in Progress (CWIP) was amended in the current financial year. CWIP is now reflected under Land and Buildings. The CWIP amount in the prior year was $4.076 million.

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LAND AND BUILDING VALUATION SCHEDULE Date Valuation Accredited Property name Property location valued method adopted Current use valuer Date Valuation Current use Accredited Property name Property location valued method adopted 30 June 2017 valuer 12 The Mint building 10 Macquarie St, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI Sydney 1 Throsby Park Throsby Park Rd, Jun 2016 Fair value Endangered Land & Moss Vale Houses Fund Property 13 The Mint, Head Office 10 Macquarie St, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum/ LPI (EHF) (Leased) Information (Coining Factory) Sydney office space (LPI)

14 Museum of Sydney 37 Phillip St, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI 2 Beulah 767 Appin Rd, Jun 2016 Fair value EHF LPI Sydney Gilead

15 Young Street terraces 36–42 Young St, Jun 2015 Fair value Commercial LPI 3 Tusculum 1–3 Manning St, Jun 2016 Fair value Leased LPI Sydney office space Potts Point

16 Nissen hut 4 Somerset St, Jun 2015 Fair value EHF LPI 4 Hyde Park Macquarie St, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI Belmont Barracks Museum Sydney

17 Justice & Police Museum 8 Phillip St, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI 5 Elizabeth Farm 70 Alice St, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI Rosehill

6 Vaucluse House Wentworth Rd, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI Vaucluse ENDANGERED HOUSES FUND (EHF) PROPERTIES COLLECTIONS VALUATION 7 Wentworth Mausoleum Chapel Rd, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI Land and buildings include properties and attached i) The major collection items at each property have Vaucluse assets (2017: $5.1m; 2016: $5.0m) and collections assets been valued by accredited valuers at their fair value. (2017: $0.927m; 2016: $0.924m) acquired under the EHF The remaining collection items were valued internally 356 Annangrove Rd, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI 8 Rouse Hill House & Farm program. Through the EHF program the HHT identifies by expert curatorial staff of the Collections Valuations Rouse Hill significant at-risk properties and saves them from Committee, which was established by the then Trust’s demolition or unsympathetic development. The program Finance and Audit Committee. 9 Rose Seidler House 71 Clissold Rd, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI provides for the selective restoration of these properties ii) The list overleaf identifies individual property Wahroonga and their subsequent sale or lease with heritage collections valued at 30 June 2017 and earlier, valued protection conditions. In 2014–15, the Throsby Park by accredited valuers and expert in-house valuers. 10 Elizabeth Bay House 7 Onslow Ave, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI property was placed on a long-term lease. Elizabeth Bay

11 Meroogal 35 West St, Jun 2015 Fair value Museum LPI Nowra

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COLLECTIONS REVALUED AT 30 JUNE 2017 NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY 2017 2016 2017 2016 Collection Date valued Accredited valuer $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Elizabeth Bay House 30 Jun 2017 Andrew Shapiro / Lorraine Foster 13 INTANGIBLE ASSETS Software Elizabeth Farm 30 Jun 2017 Andrew Simpson Cost (gross carrying amount) 3,312 2,455 3,312 2,455 Accumulated amortisation and impairment (1,671) (1,411) (1,671) (1,411) Andrew Shapiro / Jonathan Alford / Vaucluse House 30 Jun 2017 Lorraine Foster NET CARRYING AMOUNT 1,641 1,044 1,641 1,044 Reconciliation Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection 30 Jun 2017 Andrew Simpson Castle Hill Display Net carrying amount at start of year 1,044 757 1,044 757 Additions 857 530 857 530 These values do not differ materially from their fair values at reporting date. Transfer – 56 0 56 Amortisation (260) (299) (260) (299) COLLECTIONS TO BE REVALUED IN LATER YEARS (PAST 30 JUNE 2017) NET CARRYING AMOUNT AT END OF YEAR 1,641 1,044 1,641 1,044

Collection Date valued Accredited valuer 14 FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENT OF NON-FINANCIAL ASSETS Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection 30 Jun 2016 Adrienne Carlson / Lorraine Foster a) Fair value hierarchy CONSOLIDATED AND PARENT ENTITY Hyde Park Barracks Museum 30 Jun 2016 Adrienne Carlson Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total fair value $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 The Mint 30 Jun 2016 Adrienne Carlson 2017 Rose Seidler House 30 Jun 2015 Andrew Shapiro Property, plant and equipment (Note 12) Land – 90,164 – 90,164 Museum of Sydney 30 Jun 2015 Adrienne Carlson Buildings – – 144,626 144,626 Collection assets – – 31,608 31,608 Justice & Police Museum 30 Jun 2015 Adrienne Carlson – 90,164 176,234 266,398 Throsby Park 30 Jun 2015 Jonathan Alford 2016 Property, plant and equipment (Note 12) Susannah Place Museum 30 Jun 2015 Adrienne Carlson Land – 90,164 – 90,164

Jonathan Alford, Andrew Simpson, Buildings – – 139,184 139,184 Rouse Hill House & Farm 30 Jun 2014 Patricia Bailie Collection assets – – 30,994 30,994 – 90,164 170,178 260,342 Archaeology collections 30 Jun 2014 RHAS (Rodney Hyman Asset Services)

The presentation of Capital Work in Progress (CWIP) was amended in the current financial year. CWIP is now Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection 30 Jun 2014 Jonathan Alford, Andrew Simpson reflected under Land and Buildings. The CWIP amount in the prior year was $4.076 million.

Meroogal 30 Jun 2013 Phillip Morris

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b) Valuation techniques, inputs and processes c) Reconciliation of recurring Level 3 fair value measurements

The land and buildings are valued at fair value consistent with the NSW Treasury Accounting Policy TPP14-01 Collection Total recurring Buildings Valuation of Physical Non-Current Assets at Fair Value and Australian Accounting Standards AASB 13: Fair Value assets Level 3 fair value Measurement and AASB 116: Property, plant and equipment. Fair value is defined as the price that would be CONSOLIDATED AND PARENT ENTITY $’000 $’000 $’000 received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at Fair value as at 1 July 2016 139,184 30,994 170,178 the measurement date (AASB 13). The buildings have been valued using the cost approach. The land has been Additions 5,731 88 5,819 valued using the market approach. Valuers have considered matters such as zoning, location, topography, aspect, Revaluation increments/decrements recognised in Net result – frontage, size, shape, date of valuation and current market sentiment. Replacement costs are based on actual costs – – – provided by the HHT and checked against industry standards. included in the line item ‘Other gains/(losses)’ Revaluation increments/decrements recognised in other comprehensive Collection assets are valued by external and internal experts to reflect the fair value. The collection assets are income – included in the line item ‘Net increase/(decrease) in property, – 526 526 reviewed for external revaluation at least every five years as part of a rolling revaluation schedule across the Trust. plant and equipment revaluation surplus’ The review is undertaken by the Trust’s Collection Valuations Committee – comprising curatorial representatives Disposals – – – from the properties as well as the Registrar, Documentation and the Head of Collections & Access – which is convened annually to identify those collection formats which might have altered since the last valuation, whether or Depreciation (289) – (289) not that valuation was made within the five-year rolling schedule. The Committee contracts one or more external Transfers from capital work in progress – – – valuers with appropriate expertise in the collection formats that have been identified for revaluation. Transfers between asset class – – – Non-specialised assets with short useful lives measured using depreciated historical cost as an approximation of Fair value as at 30 June 2017 144,626 31,608 176,234 fair value do not require fair value hierarchy disclosures under AASB 13. Fair value as at 1 July 2015 132,686 30,687 163,373 Additions 388 66 454 Revaluation increments/decrements recognised in Net result – – – – included in the line item ‘Other gains/(losses)’ Revaluation increments/decrements recognised in other comprehensive income – included in the line item ‘Net increase/(decrease) in property, 5,900 244 6,144 plant and equipment revaluation surplus’ Disposals – (3) (3) Depreciation (274) – (274) Transfers from capital work in progress 484 – 484 Transfers between asset class – – – Fair value as at 30 June 2016 139,184 30,994 170,178

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NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY NOTES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 2016 2017 2016 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 15 CURRENT LIABILITIES – PAYABLES 17 COMMITMENTS FOR EXPENDITURE Payables a) Capital commitments Accrued salaries, wages and on-costs 67 1 67 1 Aggregate of capital expenditure for the Creditors 1,782 1,068 1,774 1,068 acquisition of various property, plant and equipment Unearned revenue 538 558 538 558 contracted for at balance date and not provided for: Accrued expenses 238 672 238 660 • Not later than one year (under one year) 1,346 1,590 1,346 1,590 Sundry payables 72 114 72 114 • Later than one year but not later than five years – – – – 2,697 2,412 2,689 2,400 • Later than five years – – – – TOTAL (INCLUDING GST) 1,346 1,590 1,346 1,590

16 CURRENT/NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES – PROVISIONS b) Operating lease commitments Employee benefits and related on-costs Future non-cancellable operating lease rentals Recreation leave 1,289 1,335 1,289 1,331 not provided for and payable: Long service leave on-costs 425 452 425 452 • Not later than one year (under one year) 291 492 291 492 Other provisions • Later than one year but not later than five years 43 309 43 309 Biodiversity restoration 690 729 690 729 • Later than five years – – – – Sinking fund restoration 2 2 2 2 TOTAL (INCLUDING GST) 334 801 334 801 TOTAL PROVISIONS 2,406 2,518 2,406 2,514 The operating leases are for motor vehicles, office printers and rental lease for the HHT storage facility at Pymble and the recoverable amount from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) for GST is $181,281. Aggregate employee benefits and related on-costs Provisions – current 1,755 1,832 1,755 1,828 18 CONTINGENT ASSETS AND LIABILITIES Provisions – non-current 651 686 651 686 The Treasury Managed Fund normally calculates rolling three-year and five-year hindsight premiums each year. There are no other contingent assets or liabilities. It is not practicable to estimate any potential financial effect. Accrued salaries, wages and on-costs 15 67 1 67 1 2,473 2,519 2,473 2,515 19 BUDGET REVIEW Movements in provisions (other than employee benefits) Net results Movements in each class of provision during the financial year, other than the employee benefits, are set out below: The Trust’s budget was revised down from $6.013 million to $4.715 million due to the carried forward capital grants. Other In comparison with the revised budget, the Trust had a favourable net result of $503,000 due to effective and consistent provisions management of expenses. Furthermore, the Unlocking Heritage program and the Protecting National Historic Sites $’000 Programme have been extended to the first quarter of 2017-18. Carrying amount at 1 July 2016 731 Additional provisions recognised – Assets and liabilities Amounts used (39) There was no significant variance between the assets and liabilities.

Carrying amount at 30 June 2017 692 Cash flows The actual cash flow was greater than the budget due to unspent Protecting National Historic Sites funding due to timing of expenditure. The funds will be carried forward to 2017–18 and will be spent by August 2017.

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CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY 22 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS 2017 2016 2017 2016 The Trust’s financial instruments are outlined below. These financial instruments arise directly from the Trust’s operations or are required to finance the Trust’s operations. The Trust does not enter into or trade financial $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 instruments, including derivative financial instruments, for speculative purposes. The Trust’s main risks arising from 20 RECONCILIATION OF CASH FLOWS FROM financial instruments are outlined below, together with the Trust’s objectives, policies and processes for measuring and OPERATING ACTIVITIES TO NET RESULT managing risk. Further quantitative and qualitative disclosures are included throughout these financial statements. Reconciliation of the net result for the year to net cash flows from operating activities The Executive Director has the overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of risk management and Net cash generated from operating activities 5,965 3,437 6,269 3,530 reviews, and agrees to policies for managing each of these risks. Risk-management policies are established to Net gain/(loss) on property, plant and equipment and identify and analyse the risks faced by the Trust, to set risk limits and controls, and to monitor risks. Compliance with – (2) – (2) intangibles policies is reviewed by the internal auditor on a cyclical basis. Writedown of inventory (8) (20) (8) (20) NOTES CATEGORIES CONSOLIDATED ENTITY PARENT ENTITY Depreciation (818) (842) (818) (842) 2017 2016 2017 2016 Donation of collection/previously unrecognised assets 21 27 21 27 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 (Increase)/decrease in trade and other payables (173) 241 (181) 238 a) Financial instrument categories Increase/(decrease) in trade and other receivables 207 50 217 54 Financial assets class Increase/(decrease) in inventories 24 24 28 24 Cash and cash equivalents 8 N/A 10,751 11,914 8,611 9,470 Net result 5,218 2,915 5,528 3,009 Receivables 9 Loans and receivables 1,019 784 1,001 752 (at amortised cost) Financial liabilities class 21 NON-CASH FINANCING AND INVESTING ACTIVITIES Payables 15 Financial liabilities 2,697 2,412 2,689 2,400 The following items are brought into account as expenses in the statement of comprehensive income and are (at amortised cost) credited as income in the form of non-cash donations, non-cash sponsorship or services provided free of charge. b) Credit risk Donations of collections items 21 27 21 27 21 27 21 27 Credit risk arises when there is the possibility of the Trust’s debtors defaulting on their contractual obligations, resulting in a financial loss to the Trust. The maximum exposure to credit risk is generally represented by the carrying Sponsorship in kind 99 – 99 - amount of the financial assets (net of any allowance for impairment). 99 – 99 - Credit risk arises from the financial assets of the Trust, including cash, receivables and authority deposits. No collateral 120 27 120 27 is held by the Trust. The Trust has not granted any financial guarantees. Credit risk associated with the Trust’s financial assets, other than receivables, is managed through the selection of counterparts and the establishment of minimum The Trust received sponsorship free of charge from Fairfax Media Ltd and Angove Family Winemakers as shown credit rating standards. Authority deposits held with NSW TCorp are guaranteed by the State. above. The Trust’s work was also assisted by volunteers. These services were provided free of charge and it is considered not possible to estimate the value. i) Cash Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances, and bank balances within NSW Treasury’s banking system. Interest is earned on daily bank balances at the daily rate set by the bank on restricted funds only since the introduction of NSWTC 15-01: Cash Management – Expanding the Scope of the Treasury Banking System.

ii) Receivables – trade debtors

All trade debtors are recognised as amounts receivable at balance date. The collectability of trade debtors is reviewed on an ongoing basis. Procedures as established in the Treasurer’s Directions are followed to recover outstanding amounts, including letters of demand. Debts that are known to be uncollectable are written off. An allowance for impairment is raised when there is objective evidence that the entity will not be able to collect all amounts due. This evidence includes past experience, and current and expected changes in economic conditions and debtor credit ratings. No interest is earned on trade debtors. Sales are made on 30-day terms.

The Trust is not materially exposed to concentrations of credit risk from a single trade debtor or group of debtors. Based on past experience, debtors that are not past due (2017: $305,530; 2016: $227,767) and less than six months past due (2017: $259,054; 2016: $136,852) are not considered impaired and together represent 100% of the total trade debtors. There are no debtors that are currently not past due or impaired whose terms have been renegotiated.

The only financial assets that are past due or impaired are ‘sales of goods and services’ in the receivables category of the statement of financial position.

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CONSOLIDATED ENTITY $’000 PARENT ENTITY $’000 CONSOLIDATED ENTITY $’000 Total Past due but Considered Total Past due but Considered -1% 1% not impaired impaired not impaired impaired Carrying amount Profit Equity Profit Equity 2017 2017 < 3 months overdue 259 259 – 259 259 – Financial assets 3 months – 6 months overdue – – – – – – Cash and cash equivalents 10,751 (108) (108) 108 108 > 6 months overdue – – – – – – Receivables 1,019 – – – – Financial liabilities 2016 Payables 2,697 – – – – < 3 months overdue 135 135 – 135 135 – 2016 3 months – 6 months overdue 1 1 – 1 1 – Financial assets > 6 months overdue – – – – – – Cash and cash equivalents 11,914 (119) (119) 119 119

iii) Authority deposits Receivables 784 – – – – Financial liabilities The Trust has placed funds on deposit with TCorp and various Australian incorporated banks. These deposits are similar to money market or bank deposits and can be placed ‘at call’ or for a fixed term. For fixed term Payables 2,412 – – – – deposits, the interest rate payable is negotiated initially and is fixed for the term of the deposit, while the interest PARENT ENTITY rate payable on at call deposits can vary. The deposits at balance date 30 June 2017 were earning an average interest rate of 2017: 2.79% (2016: 2.88%), while over the year the weighted average interest rate was 2017: 2.83% 2017 (2016: 3.00%) on a weighted average balance during the year of 2017: $1.08 million (2016: $0.95 million). None of Financial assets these assets are past due or impaired. Cash and cash equivalents 8,611 (86) (86) 86 86 c) Liquidity risk Receivables 1,001 – – – –

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Trust will be unable to meet its payment obligations when they fall due. The Trust Financial liabilities continually manages risk through monitoring future cash flows and maturities planning to ensure adequate holding Payables 2,689 – – – – of high-quality liquid assets. 2016 During the current and prior years, there were no loans payable. No assets have been pledged as collateral. The Financial assets Trust’s exposure to liquidity risk is deemed insignificant based on prior periods’ data and current assessment of risk. Cash and cash equivalents 9,470 (95) (95) 95 95 The liabilities are recognised as amounts due to be paid in the future for goods or services received, whether or Receivables 752 – – – – not invoiced. Amounts owing to suppliers (which are unsecured) are settled in accordance with the policy set out in NSWTC 11-12: Payments of Accounts. If trade terms are not specified, payment is made no later than the end of the Financial liabilities month following the month in which an invoice or a statement is received. NSWTC 11-12 allows the Minister to award Payables 2,400 – – – – interest for late payment. No interest was paid during the financial year 2016–17 (2015–16: nil).

All of the Trust’s liabilities mature in less than 12 months and are non-interest-bearing. f) Fair value measurement d) Market risk i) Fair value compared to carrying amount Market risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes in market prices. The Trust’s exposure to market risk is primarily through price risks associated with the Financial instruments are generally recognised at cost. movement in the unit price of the TCorp investment facilities. The Trust has no exposure to foreign currency risk and Except where specified overleaf, the amortised cost of financial instruments recognised in the statement does not enter into commodity contracts. of financial position approximates the fair value, because of the short-term nature of many of the e) Interest rate risk financial instruments.

The Trust’s exposure to interest rate risk is set out in the table below. A reasonably possible change of +/- 1% is used, There was no difference between carrying amount and fair value. consistent with current trends in interest rates (based on official RBA interest-rate volatility over the past five years). ii) Fair value recognised in the statement of financial position The basis will be reviewed annually and amended where there is a structural change in the level of interest-rate volatility. The Trust uses the following hierarchy for disclosing the fair value of financial instruments by valuation techniques: • Level 1 – derived from quoted prices in active markets for identical assets/liabilities; • Level 2 – derived from inputs other than quoted prices that are observable directly or indirectly; • Level 3 – derived from valuation techniques that include inputs for the assets/liabilities not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs).

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23 PROPERTY LEASES 24 RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

Properties owned under long-term lease – Tusculum Transactions between related parties are on normal commercial terms and conditions no more favourable than those available The HHT is the registered proprietor of the property Tusculum. This to other parties unless otherwise stated. The Foundation is a property is a Regency mansion built 1831–37 and has considerable controlled entity of the HHT. heritage significance. The property was independently valued at 30 June 2015. The fair value of the property is $7.425 million. The 2017 2016 property is encumbered by a long-term lease with the Australian Institute of Architects. The lease commenced on 22 May 1987 for a $’000 $’000 term of 99 years with provision for an option to renew. The lease a) Transactions with related entities was in place at the time of the transfer of responsibility for this Contribution from the Foundation for property in 2007 from the Minister administering the Heritage Act the Historic Houses Trust of New South 455 160 1977. The terms of the lease are $1 rent per annum over the term Wales of the lease with provision for renewal at the end of the lease. The Current payables – controlled entity – 6 terms of the lease provide for any renewal being at commercial rental rates. The market rental for this property, assessed * independently by the NSW Government Land and Property b) HHT’s key management personnel Valuation Services as at 30 June 2011, was $262,500 per annum. compensation is as follows: The Trust has no responsibility for funding the cost of maintenance Short-term employee benefits: or insurance. Salaries 960 975

The Trust’s responsibilities are limited to ensuring that maintenance Other long-term benefits: and insurance are adequate. In accordance with TPP 11-01: Lessor Post-employment benefits 81 81 Classification of Long-term Land Leases, the property has been TOTAL REMUNERATION 1,041 1,056 valued at $1 in the accounts of the Trust. As the property has restrictions on its use, it is recognised at $1 being the present value *Key management personnel (KMP) are those persons having the authority of future cash flows. and responsibility for planning, directing and controlling the activities of the entity, directly or indirectly, including any director (whether executive or Throsby Park lease otherwise) of the entity. The HHT’s KMP are considered to be the Executive and the Board of Directors. Throsby Park was transferred from the NSW National Parks and During the year, the HHT entered into transactions with other Wildlife Service to the HHT, through an Act of NSW Parliament. entities that are controlled/jointly controlled/significantly The Trust has leased Throsby Park in accordance with its powers influenced by the NSW Government. These transactions in under the Historic Houses Trust Act 1980 for a 40-year lease with aggregate are a significant portion of the entity’s sale of goods/ a yearly rental payment, which will be annually reviewed for rendering of services/receiving of services. CPI adjustment. The Trust received a $500,000 one-off upfront payment which has been amortised over a five-year term to Sharon Veale, trustee of HHT, is employed with GML Heritage align with the benefit derived from the leased asset. The lessee is which has won a contract to work with the Trust. GML Heritage to comply with the conservation management plan and agrees is the consultant assisting with the Protecting National Historic to spend $2.4 million during the first five years of the lease term Sites Programme project at the site of first Government House. on conservation, restoration and maintenance of the property. The transactions were at arm’s length and incurred under normal The lease includes the option for another 40-year lease renewal business operations and terms and conditions. No other Historic after the end of the lease if the lessee complies with the contract Houses Trust trustee has entered into a material contract with the agreement. Trust or Consolidated Entity since the end of the previous financial period. 2017 2016 $’000 $’000 25 EVENTS AFTER THE REPORTING PERIOD Operating lease No significant matter or circumstance has arisen since the end Rent recognised as income in the of the financial year to the date of this report that has or may 36 34 current period significantly affect the activities of the Trust, the results of those Future non-cancellable operating activities, or its state of affairs in the ensuing or any subsequent lease rentals: financial year. • Not later than one year 21 21 (under one year) • Later than one year but not later 87 89 than five years • Later than five years 883 1,197

TOTAL (INCLUDING GST) 1,027 1,341 END OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 168 169

170 171

FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

172 173

Dated 1 September 2017 September 1 Dated

Chair Executive Director Executive

Edward Simpson Edward Goggin Mark

On behalf of the Directors the of behalf On

Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors. the of resolution a with accordance in Signed

received and applied by the Foundation from any of its fundraising appeals. fundraising its of any from Foundation the by applied and received

The internal controls exercised by the Foundation are appropriate and effective in accounting for all income income all for accounting in effective and appropriate are Foundation the by exercised controls internal The g)

Charitable Fundraising Regulation 2015; and 2015; Regulation Fundraising Charitable

(NSW) and the the and (NSW) 1991 Act Fundraising Charitable the with accordance in 2017, June 30 to 2016 July 1 from year the

The financial statements have been properly drawn up and the associated records have been properly kept for for kept properly been have records associated the and up drawn properly been have statements financial The f)

statements to be misleading or inaccurate; or misleading be to statements

The Directors are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars included in the financial financial the in included particulars any render would which circumstances any of aware not are Directors The e)

as and when they become due and payable; and due become they when and as

In the Directors’ opinion, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Foundation will be able to pay its debts debts its pay to able be will Foundation the that believe to grounds reasonable are there opinion, Directors’ the In d)

In the Directors’ opinion, the attached financial statements and notes thereto are in accordance with the Trust Deed; Trust the with accordance in are thereto notes and statements financial attached the opinion, Directors’ the In c)

performance of the Foundation; the of performance

The attached financial statements and notes thereto give a true and fair view of the financial position and and position financial the of view fair and true a give thereto notes and statements financial attached The b)

and Audit Regulation 2015; Regulation Audit and

(which include Australian Accounting Interpretations), the the Interpretations), Accounting Australian include (which and the Public Finance Finance Public the and 1983 Act Audit and Finance Public

The accompanying financial statements and notes thereto comply with applicable Australian Accounting Standards Standards Accounting Australian applicable with comply thereto notes and statements financial accompanying The a)

Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, declare that: declare Wales, South New of Trust Houses Historic the for Foundation

the of Trustee the being Limited, Wales South New of Trust Houses Historic the for Foundation the of Directors The

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 JUNE 30 ENDED YEAR THE FOR

TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES LIMITED WALES SOUTH NEW OF TRUST

THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES HOUSES HISTORIC THE FOR FOUNDATION THE

STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTORS OF OF DIRECTORS THE BY STATEMENT

FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

174 175

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements. financial these of part form notes accompanying The The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements. financial these of part form notes accompanying The

2,444,262 2,140,087 6 EQUIVALENTS CASH AND CASH CLOSING

2,459,051 2,148,577 EQUITY TOTAL

2,536,363 2,444,262 equivalents cash and cash Opening

2,148,577 2,459,051 funds Accumulated

NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH IN INCREASE/(DECREASE) NET (92,101) (304,175)

EQUITY

2,459,051 2,148,577 ASSETS NET

– – ACTIVITIES FINANCING FROM FLOWS CASH NET

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES FINANCING FROM FLOWS CASH

21,617 9,350 LIABILITIES TOTAL

21,617 9,350

Total current liabilities current Total

– – ACTIVITIES INVESTING FROM FLOWS CASH NET

3,460 – 10 provisions Personnel

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES INVESTING FROM FLOWS CASH

18,157 9,350 9 Payables

Current liabilities Current

(92,101) (304,175) 11 ACTIVITIES OPERATING FROM FLOWS CASH NET

LIABILITIES

229,903 175,094 Total receipts Total

2,480,668 2,157,927 ASSETS TOTAL

162,398 95,620 contributions and Grants

2,480,668 2,157,927 Total current assets current Total

67,505 79,474 received Interest

36,406 17,840 7 Receivables

Receipts

2,444,262 2,140,087 6 equivalents cash and Cash

(322,004) (479,269) Total payments Total

Current assets Current

(64,593) (20,809) Other

ASSETS

(160,000) (455,000) subsidies and Grants

$ $

Personnel services Personnel (97,411) (3,460)

2016 2017

Payments

ACTUAL ACTUAL NOTES

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES OPERATING FROM FLOWS CASH

$ $

AS AT 30 JUNE 2017 2017 JUNE 30 AT AS

2016 2017

FINANCIAL POSITION POSITION FINANCIAL

ACTUAL ACTUAL NOTES

OF STATEMENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 JUNE 30 ENDED YEAR THE FOR

CASH FLOWS CASH

TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME COMPREHENSIVE TOTAL (94,060) (310,474)

OF STATEMENT

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME COMPREHENSIVE OTHER – –

Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant and equipment asset revaluation surplus revaluation asset equipment and plant property, in increase/(decrease) Net – –

Items that will not be reclassified to net results net to reclassified be not will that Items

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME COMPREHENSIVE OTHER

BALANCE AT 30 JUNE 2016 JUNE 30 AT BALANCE 2,459,051 2,459,051

NET RESULT NET (94,060) (310,474)

Total comprehensive income for the year the for income comprehensive Total (94,060) (94,060)

TOTAL REVENUE TOTAL 230,845 156,528

Other comprehensive income comprehensive Other – –

Grants and contributions and Grants 162,398 95,620 3(b)

Net result Net (94,060) (94,060)

Investment revenue Investment 68,447 60,908 3(a)

BALANCE AT 1 JULY 2015 JULY 1 AT BALANCE 2,553,111 2,553,111

REVENUE

BALANCE AT 30 JUNE 2017 JUNE 30 AT BALANCE 2,148,577 2,148,577

TOTAL EXPENSES EXCLUDING LOSSES EXCLUDING EXPENSES TOTAL 324,905 467,002

Total comprehensive income for the year the for income comprehensive Total (310,474) (310,474)

Other operating expenses operating Other 228,136 467,002 2(b)

Other comprehensive income comprehensive Other – –

Personnel services expenses services Personnel 96,769 – 2(a)

(310,474) (310,474) Net result Net

Operating expenses Operating

BALANCE AT 1 JULY 2016 JULY 1 AT BALANCE 2,459,051 2,459,051

EXPENSES EXCLUDING LOSSES EXCLUDING EXPENSES

$ $

$ $

equity funds

2016 2017 Total Accumulated

ACTUAL ACTUAL NOTES ACTUAL ACTUAL NOTES

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 JUNE 30 ENDED YEAR THE FOR FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 JUNE 30 ENDED YEAR THE FOR

COMPREHENSIVE INCOME COMPREHENSIVE CHANGES IN EQUITY IN CHANGES

STATEMENT OF OF STATEMENT

STATEMENT OF OF STATEMENT

BEGINNING OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL AUDITED OF BEGINNING

FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

176 177

(unobservable inputs). inputs). (unobservable

Level 3 – inputs that are not based on observable market data data market observable on based not are that inputs – 3 Level •

1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly indirectly or directly either observable, are that 1

Level 2 – inputs other than quoted prices included within Level Level within included prices quoted than other inputs – 2 Level •

liabilities that the Trust can access at the measurement date date measurement the at access can Trust the that liabilities

Level 1 – quoted prices in active markets for identical assets/ identical for markets active in prices quoted – 1 Level •

used in the valuation techniques as follows: follows: as techniques valuation the in used

. . Measurement and Recognition disclosure purposes, the valuation techniques based on the inputs inputs the on based techniques valuation the purposes, disclosure

Financial Instruments: Instruments: Financial 139: AASB in out set as method , the Trust categorises, for for categorises, Trust the , Measurement Value Fair 13: AASB Under

Accounting Interpretations. Accounting

Interest income is recognised using the effective interest interest effective the using recognised is income Interest observable inputs and minimises the use of unobservable inputs. inputs. unobservable of use the minimises and inputs observable

Australian Accounting Standards, which include Australian Australian include which Standards, Accounting Australian

the valuation technique used maximises the use of relevant relevant of use the maximises used technique valuation the

Investment revenue Investment ii) The Foundation’s financial statements and notes comply with with comply notes and statements financial Foundation’s The

non-financial assets and liabilities. When measuring fair value, value, fair measuring When liabilities. and assets non-financial

STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE OF STATEMENT C)

obtained upon the receipt of cash. of receipt the upon obtained require the measurement of fair values, for both financial and and financial both for values, fair of measurement the require

Control over appropriations and contributions is normally normally is contributions and appropriations over Control A number of the Foundation’s accounting policies and disclosures disclosures and policies accounting Foundation’s the of number A

in Australian currency. Australian in

over the assets comprising the appropriations/contributions. appropriations/contributions. the comprising assets the over

FAIR VALUE HIERARCHY HIERARCHY VALUE FAIR K) statements. All amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar and are are and dollar nearest the to rounded are amounts All statements.

recognised as income when the Foundation obtains control control obtains Foundation the when income as recognised

has made are disclosed in the relevant notes to the financial financial the to notes relevant the in disclosed are made has

bodies (including grants and donations) are generally generally are donations) and grants (including bodies

Judgments, key assumptions and estimations management management estimations and assumptions key Judgments,

period retained funds. retained period

Donations and contributions from individuals and other other and individuals from contributions and Donations

value basis of accounting has been applied where applicable. applicable. where applied been has accounting of basis value The category ‘accumulated funds’ includes all current and prior- and current all includes funds’ ‘accumulated category The

Donations and contributions and Donations i) selected financial assets and financial liabilities for which the fair fair the which for liabilities financial and assets financial selected

EQUITY AND RESERVES AND EQUITY J)

and are based on historical costs modified by the revaluation of of revaluation the by modified costs historical on based are and

below:

financial statements have been prepared on an accruals basis, basis, accruals an on prepared been have statements financial

effect of discounting is immaterial. is discounting of effect

AASB 14. AASB the accounting policies for the recognition of income are discussed discussed are income of recognition the for policies accounting the

statements are for the Foundation as an individual entity. The The entity. individual an as Foundation the for are statements

rate are measured at the original invoice amount where the the where amount invoice original the at measured are rate

consequential amendments arising from the issuance of of issuance the from arising amendments consequential contribution received or receivable. Additional comments regarding regarding comments Additional receivable. or received contribution

(which include Australian Accounting Interpretations). The financial financial The Interpretations). Accounting Australian include (which

cost or face value. Short-term payables with no stated interest interest stated no with payables Short-term value. face or cost

(Part D Regulatory Deferral Accounts) making making Accounts) Deferral Regulatory D (Part Standards Income is measured at the fair value of the consideration or or consideration the of value fair the at measured is Income

the Treasurer, and applicable Australian Accounting Standards Standards Accounting Australian applicable and Treasurer, the

recognised initially at fair value, usually based on the transaction transaction the on based usually value, fair at initially recognised

Amendments to Australian Accounting Accounting Australian to Amendments 2014-1: AASB •

INCOME RECOGNITION INCOME G) and the Financial Reporting Directions mandated by by mandated Directions Reporting Financial the and 1991 Act

provided to the Foundation, and other amounts. Payables are are Payables amounts. other and Foundation, the to provided

. Standards Charitable Fundraising Fundraising Charitable the , 2015 Regulation Audit and Finance

These amounts represent liabilities for goods and services services and goods for liabilities represent amounts These

administration services free of charge to the Foundation. Foundation. the to charge of free services administration

Application of Australian Accounting Accounting Australian of Application 1057: AASB • Public Public and 1983 Act Audit and Finance Public the with accordance

Payables i)

personnel services to the HHT, which in turn provided provided turn in which HHT, the to services personnel

These general purpose financial statements are prepared in in prepared are statements financial purpose general  These

to disclosures for defined benefit plan schemes. plan benefit defined for disclosures to

The Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) provides provides (OEH) Heritage and Environment of Office The

LIABILITIES I)

, resulting in minor changes changes minor in resulting , Entities Superannuation 1056: AASB • BASIS OF PREPARATION OF BASIS B)

i) Personnel services Personnel i)

first time. first

financial year end. year financial

of the NSW Total State Sector Accounts. Sector State Total NSW the of

a significant impact on entities not adopting AASB for the the for AASB adopting not entities on impact significant a

PERSONNEL SERVICES AND OTHER PROVISIONS OTHER AND SERVICES PERSONNEL F)

evaluates this at each each at this evaluates ‑ re appropriate, and allowed when

of Directors on 18 September 2017. They are consolidated as part part as consolidated are They 2017. September 18 on Directors of

, which will not have have not will which , Accounts Deferral Regulatory 14: AASB •

classification of its financial assets after initial recognition and, and, recognition initial after assets financial its of classification

year ended 30 June 2017 were authorised for issue by the Board Board the by issue for authorised were 2017 June 30 ended year

the Australian Taxation Office is classified as operating cash flows. cash operating as classified is Office Taxation Australian the

or loss, transaction costs. The Foundation determines the the determines Foundation The costs. transaction loss, or

that have been applied for the first time in 2016–17: 2016–17: in time first the for applied been have that

Trust’s consolidated accounts. The financial statements for the the for statements financial The accounts. consolidated Trust’s

investing and financing activities which is recoverable or payable to to payable or recoverable is which activities financing and investing

the case of investments not at fair value through profit profit through value fair at not investments of case the

following new or revised Australian Accounting Standards Standards Accounting Australian revised or new following

The Foundation is a controlled entity of the HHT and is part of the the of part is and HHT the of entity controlled a is Foundation The

basis. However, the GST component of the cash flows arising from from arising flows cash the of component GST the However, basis.

Investments are initially recognised at fair value plus, in in plus, value fair at recognised initially are Investments

those of the previous financial year except as a result of the the of result a as except year financial previous the of those

Cash flows are included in the statement of cash flows on a gross gross a on flows cash of statement the in included are flows Cash

the Foundation. the

Investments iii) The accounting policies applied in 2016–17 are consistent with with consistent are 2016–17 in applied policies accounting The

included.

and the specific requirements of corporate and private donors to to donors private and corporate of requirements specific the and

Effective for the first time in 2016–17 in time first the for Effective i)

impairment of receivables. of impairment receivables and payables are stated with the amount of GST GST of amount the with stated are payables and receivables • Directors and are consistent with the objectives of the Foundation Foundation the of objectives the with consistent are and Directors

REVISED AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING STANDARDS ACCOUNTING AUSTRALIAN REVISED

the effective interest method, less an allowance for any any for allowance an less method, interest effective the

project funding from the HHT. Funding decisions are made by the the by made are decisions Funding HHT. the from funding project part of an item of expense; and expense; of item an of part

CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING POLICY, INCLUDING NEW OR OR NEW INCLUDING POLICY, ACCOUNTING IN  CHANGES  M)

Subsequent measurement is at amortised cost using using cost amortised at is measurement Subsequent

(Trustee). Directors of the Trustee receive and review submissions for for submissions review and receive Trustee the of Directors (Trustee). recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of an asset or as as or asset an of acquisition of cost the of part as recognised

Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited Limited Wales South New of Trust Houses Historic the for Foundation

that is not recoverable from the Australian Taxation Office is is Office Taxation Australian the from recoverable not is that

face value. face Foundation has adopted to comply with Treasury mandate. mandate. Treasury with comply to adopted has Foundation

NSW Government. The Foundation is administered by a Trustee, the the Trustee, a by administered is Foundation The Government. NSW

the amount of GST incurred by the Foundation as a purchaser purchaser a as Foundation the by incurred GST of amount the •

initially at fair value, usually based on the transaction cost or or cost transaction the on based usually value, fair at initially financial statements. As a controlled entity of the HHT, the the HHT, the of entity controlled a As statements. financial

Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT) that are not funded by the the by funded not are that (HHT) Wales South New of Trust Houses

in an active market. These financial assets are recognised recognised are assets financial These market. active an in respect of the previous period for all amounts reported in the the in reported amounts all for period previous the of respect

where:

private and corporate support for the activities of the Historic Historic the of activities the for support corporate and private

with fixed or determinable payments that are not quoted quoted not are that payments determinable or fixed with requires otherwise, comparative information is disclosed in in disclosed is information comparative otherwise, requires

Income, expenses and assets are recognised net of GST, except except GST, of net recognised are assets and expenses Income,

charitable tax concessions. The Foundation’s role is to encourage encourage to is role Foundation’s The concessions. tax charitable

Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial assets assets financial non-derivative are receivables and Loans Except when an Australian Accounting Standard permits or or permits Standard Accounting Australian an when Except

ancillary fund with deductible gift recipient status (DGR item 2) and and 2) item (DGR status recipient gift deductible with fund ancillary ACCOUNTING FOR THE GOODS AND SERVICES TAX (GST) TAX SERVICES AND GOODS THE FOR ACCOUNTING E)

Loans and receivables and Loans ii) OPRTV INFORMATION COMPARATIVE L)

(as profit is not its principal objective). The Foundation is a public public a is Foundation The objective). principal its not is profit (as

value insured. value

operation in October 2002. The Foundation is a non-profit entity entity non-profit a is Foundation The 2002. October in operation

normal commercial rate. commercial normal

‑ non and financial of measurements financial assets. financial

the fund manager based on past claim experience as well as the the as well as experience claim past on based manager fund the

(Foundation) was formed on 14 November 2001 and commenced commenced and 2001 November 14 on formed was (Foundation)

is earned on daily bank balances and paid monthly at the the at monthly paid and balances bank daily on earned is

Refer to Note 12 for further disclosures regarding fair value value fair regarding disclosures further for 12 Note to Refer

government agencies. The expense (premium) is determined by by determined is (premium) expense The agencies. government

The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Wales South New of Trust Houses Historic the for Foundation The Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances. Interest Interest balances. bank and hand on cash comprises Cash

the NSW Treasury Managed Fund Scheme of self-insurance for for self-insurance of Scheme Fund Managed Treasury NSW the

the change has occurred. occurred. has change the

EOTN ENTITY REPORTING A)

Cash and cash equivalents cash and Cash i)

The Foundation’s insurance arrangements are made through through made are arrangements insurance Foundation’s The

value hierarchy at the end of the reporting period during which which during period reporting the of end the at hierarchy value

SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES ACCOUNTING SIGNIFICANT OF SUMMARY 1 ASSETS H) INSURANCE D) The Foundation recognises transfers between levels of the fair fair the of levels between transfers recognises Foundation The

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0

THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL THE THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL THE

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF OF PART FORMING AND TO NOTES

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF OF PART FORMING AND TO NOTES

FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

178 179

162,398 95,620

162,412 95,620

162,412 95,620 cash – Donations

From other institutions and individuals and institutions other From

(14) –

(14) – OEH by charge of free provided liabilities and benefits service Personnel

From DPE From

Grants and contributions and Grants b)

68,447 60,908

Interest income – other – income Interest 10,816 3,731 1 January 2018. January 1

Interest income – term deposit term – income Interest 57,631 57,177 to 2016 January 1 from date effective the defers 128 AASB

Standards – Effective Date of Amendments to AASB 10 and and 10 AASB to Amendments of Date Effective – Standards Investment revenue Investment a)

Amendments to Australian Accounting Accounting Australian to Amendments 2015-10: AASB • REVENUE 3

Standards – Scope and Application Paragraphs. Application and Scope – Standards 228,136 467,002

Amendments to Australian Accounting Accounting Australian to Amendments 2015-9: AASB • Travel and accommodation and Travel 883 –

not-for-profit public sector entities in AASB 124. AASB in entities sector public not-for-profit Stores and IT maintenance IT and Stores 161 –

should refer to Australian implementation guidance for for guidance implementation Australian to refer should Printing 7,949 –

identify individuals and entities that are related parties and and parties related are that entities and individuals identify

Other expenses Other 19,892 555

. Agencies will need to to need will Agencies . Entities Sector Public for-Profit

Marketing and promotion and Marketing 17,085 –

Standards – Extending Related Party Disclosures to Not- to Disclosures Party Related Extending – Standards

Function expense Function 6,854 –

Amendments to Australian Accounting Accounting Australian to Amendments 2015-6: AASB •

recipient status. recipient Fees for services rendered services for Fees 46 47

Consolidation Exception. Consolidation

Foundation is registered for GST purposes and has deductible gift gift deductible has and purposes GST for registered is Foundation

Entertainment and catering expenses catering and Entertainment 3,866 –

Standards – Investment Entities: Applying the the Applying Entities: Investment – Standards

The activities of the Foundation are exempt from income tax. The The tax. income from exempt are Foundation the of activities The

Donations to the HHT the to Donations 160,000 455,000

Amendments to Australian Accounting Accounting Australian to Amendments 2015-5: AASB •

TAXATION STATUS TAXATION N)

Auditors’ remuneration Auditors’ 11,400 11,400

. 101 AASB to Amendments Initiative: Disclosure – Standards

Other operating expenses operating Other b)

Amendments to Australian Accounting Accounting Australian to Amendments 2015-2: AASB • period of initial application. initial of period

96,769 –

There are no significant impacts of these standards in the the in standards these of impacts significant no are There information elsewhere in the interim financial statements. financial interim the in elsewhere information

Payroll tax and fringe benefits tax benefits fringe and tax Payroll 4,741 –

rate (regional markets) and AASB 134 – disclosure of of disclosure – 134 AASB and markets) (regional rate . . Entities Not-for-Profit of Income 1058: AASB •

Workers’ compensation insurance compensation Workers’ 609 – – disclosures – service contracts, AASB 119 – discount discount – 119 AASB contracts, service – disclosures –

revenue from contracts with customers. with contracts from revenue

AASB 5 – changes in the method of disposal, AASB 7 7 AASB disposal, of method the in changes – 5 AASB Long service leave service Long (14) –

AASB 15, AASB 2014-5 and AASB 2015-8 regarding regarding 2015-8 AASB and 2014-5 AASB 15, AASB •

, which clarifies clarifies which , Cycle 2012–2014 Standards Accounting

Superannuation – defined contribution plans contribution defined – Superannuation 7,786 –

AASB 9 and AASB 2014-7 regarding financial instruments. financial regarding 2014-7 AASB and 9 AASB •

Standards – Annual Improvements to Australian Australian to Improvements Annual – Standards

Salaries and wages (including recreation leave) recreation (including wages and Salaries 83,647 –

been applied and are not yet effective: yet not are and applied been

Amendments to Australian Accounting Accounting Australian to Amendments 2015-1: AASB •

Personnel services expenses services Personnel a)

The following new Australian Accounting Standards have not not have Standards Accounting Australian new following The

and associates in their separate financial statements. financial separate their in associates and

EXPENSES EXCLUDING LOSSES EXCLUDING EXPENSES 2

determines otherwise. otherwise. determines

of accounting for investments in subsidiaries, joint venture venture joint subsidiaries, in investments for accounting of

$ $

new Australian Accounting Standards, unless Treasury Treasury unless Standards, Accounting Australian new , which allows entities to use the equity method method equity the use to entities allows which , Statements

2016 2017

NSW public sector entities are not permitted to early adopt adopt early to permitted not are entities sector public NSW Standards – Equity Method in Separate Financial Financial Separate in Method Equity – Standards

NOTES

Issued but not yet effective yet not but Issued ii) Amendments to Australian Accounting Accounting Australian to Amendments 2014-9: AASB •

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0

THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL THE THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL THE

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF OF PART FORMING AND TO NOTES

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF OF PART FORMING AND TO NOTES

FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

180 181

impaired, are disclosed in Note 12. Note in disclosed are impaired,

Details regarding credit risk, liquidity risk and market risk, including financial assets that are either past due or or due past either are that assets financial including risk, market and risk liquidity risk, credit regarding Details

36,406 17,840

1,160 870 receivables Other

35,246 16,970 income Accrued

CURRENT/NON-CURRENT ASSETS – RECEIVABLES – ASSETS CURRENT/NON-CURRENT 7

(94,060) (310,474) RESULT NET

reconciled at the end of the financial year to the cash flow statement as above. as statement flow cash the to year financial the of end the at reconciled Increase/(decrease) in trade and other receivables other and trade in Increase/(decrease) 942 –

and short-term deposits. Cash and cash equivalent assets recognised in the statement of financial position are are position financial of statement the in recognised assets equivalent cash and Cash deposits. short-term and

– (18,566) receivables in Increase/(decrease)

For the purpose of the statement of cash flows, cash and cash equivalents include cash at bank, cash on hand hand on cash bank, at cash include equivalents cash and cash flows, cash of statement the of purpose the For

(2,901) 12,267 payables other and trade in (Increase)/decrease

2,444,262 2,140,087 flows) cash of Statement (per equivalents cash and cash Closing

(92,101) (304,175) activities operating from inflows cash Net

2,444,262 2,140,087 position) financial of Statement (per equivalents cash and Cash

from operating activities operating from

2,000,000 2,000,000 deposits Term Reconciliation of the net result for the year to net cash flows flows cash net to year the for result net the of Reconciliation

444,262 140,087 hand on and bank at Cash OPERATING ACTIVITIES TO NET RESULT NET TO ACTIVITIES OPERATING

RECONCILIATION OF CASH FLOWS FROM FROM FLOWS CASH OF RECONCILIATION 11 CURRENT ASSETS – CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS CASH AND CASH – ASSETS CURRENT 6

$ $ $ $

2016 2017 2016 2017

NOTES NOTES

funded by the NSW Government. NSW the by funded

3,460 – The Foundation’s role is to encourage private and corporate support for the activities of the HHT that are not not are that HHT the of activities the for support corporate and private encourage to is role Foundation’s The

SERVICE GROUPS OF ENTITY OF GROUPS SERVICE 5 Provisions – non-current – Provisions 0 –

Provisions – current – Provisions 3,460 –

Aggregate employee benefits and related on-costs related and benefits employee Aggregate future bequests and donations. and bequests future

Funding for such projects will rely upon use of the unrestricted cash and interest earned on cash and cash equivalents, equivalents, cash and cash on earned interest and cash unrestricted the of use upon rely will projects such for Funding

TOTAL PROVISIONS TOTAL 3,460 –

current balance of cash and investments. and cash of balance current

These funds have not at the current date been allocated to a specific project. The value of projects under consideration is in excess of the the of excess in is consideration under projects of value The project. specific a to allocated been date current the at not have funds These † On-costs 0 –

also includes a contingency fund of $50,000. of fund contingency a includes also

Annual leave Annual 3,460 –

on the projects identified. This allocation is made after a thorough evaluation of available projects put forward by the HHT. The balance balance The HHT. the by forward put projects available of evaluation thorough a after made is allocation This identified. projects the on

These funds have been specifically restricted in accordance with Board resolutions and, where applicable, donor requirements, to be used used be to requirements, donor applicable, where and, resolutions Board with accordance in restricted specifically been have funds These * Employee benefits and related on-costs related and benefits Employee

TOTAL RESTRICTED FUNDS RESTRICTED TOTAL 2,444,262 2,140,087 CURRENT/NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES – PROVISIONS – LIABILITIES CURRENT/NON-CURRENT 10

– – Unallocated funds Unallocated

†

TOTAL ALLOCATED FUNDS ALLOCATED TOTAL 2,444,262 2,140,087

18,157 9,350

Creditor payments – HHT HHT – payments Creditor 21,617 –

Payable to the HHT the to Payable 5,533 –

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection acquisitions Collection Research & Library Simpson Caroline 40,000 40,000

Accrued expenses Accrued 12,540 –

Vaucluse House drawing room upgrade room drawing House Vaucluse 120,000 175,000

Creditors 84 9,350

Digitisation and cataloguing of Miriam & Ian Hamilton collection Hamilton Ian & Miriam of cataloguing and Digitisation – 20,000

Payables

Meroogal Women’s Art Prize Art Women’s Meroogal – 10,000

CURRENT LIABILITIES – PAYABLES – LIABILITIES CURRENT 9

SLM Education Program Education SLM – 210,000

Endangered Houses Fund and other projects (donations) projects other and Fund Houses Endangered 1,816,904 1,239,346

Foundation to be used in accordance with the deed of trust, caveats or other documents governing these funds. these governing documents other or caveats trust, of deed the with accordance in used be to Foundation Museum of Sydney of Museum 395,741 395,741

Cash and fixed assets are restricted assets to the extent that they represent bequests and donations held by the the by held donations and bequests represent they that extent the to assets restricted are assets fixed and Cash

Minimum contingency fund contingency Minimum 50,000 50,000

Allocated funds Allocated

2,444,262 2,140,087 *

Details of restrictions of Details

Cash and cash equivalents cash and Cash 2,444,262 2,140,087

CONDITIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS ON CONDITIONS 4

RESTRICTED ASSETS ASSETS RESTRICTED 8

$ $ $ $

2016 2017 2016 2017

NOTES NOTES

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0

TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES WALES SOUTH NEW OF TRUST TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES WALES SOUTH NEW OF TRUST

FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES HOUSES HISTORIC THE FOR FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES HOUSES HISTORIC THE FOR

FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

182 183

. Disclosures Instruments: Financial 7: AASB of scope the within not are these as excluded, are receivables Statutory

terms have been renegotiated. been have terms

represent 100% of the total trade debtors. There are no debtors that are currently past due or impaired whose whose impaired or due past currently are that debtors no are There debtors. trade total the of 100% represent

of debtors. Based on past experience, debtors that are not past due are not considered impaired and these these and impaired considered not are due past not are that debtors experience, past on Based debtors. of

The Foundation is not materially exposed to concentrations of credit risk from a single trade debtor or group group or debtor trade single a from risk credit of concentrations to exposed materially not is Foundation The

conditions and debtor credit ratings. No interest is earned on trade debtors. Sales are made on 30-day terms. 30-day on made are Sales debtors. trade on earned is interest No ratings. credit debtor and conditions

all amounts due. This evidence includes past experience, and current and expected changes in economic economic in changes expected and current and experience, past includes evidence This due. amounts all

An allowance for impairment is raised when there is objective evidence that the entity will not be able to collect collect to able be not will entity the that evidence objective is there when raised is impairment for allowance An

outstanding amounts, including letters of demand. Debts that are known to be uncollectable are written off. off. written are uncollectable be to known are that Debts demand. of letters including amounts, outstanding

reviewed on an ongoing basis. Procedures as established in the Treasurer’s Directions are followed to recover recover to followed are Directions Treasurer’s the in established as Procedures basis. ongoing an on reviewed

All trade debtors are recognised as amounts receivable at balance date. Collectability of trade debtors is is debtors trade of Collectability date. balance at receivable amounts as recognised are debtors trade All

Receivables – trade debtors trade – Receivables ii)

commodity contracts. commodity

changes in market prices. The Foundation has no exposure to foreign currency risk and does not enter into into enter not does and risk currency foreign to exposure no has Foundation The prices. market in changes set by the bank. bank. the by set

Market risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of because fluctuate will instrument financial a of flows cash future or value fair the that risk the is risk Market Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances. Interest is earned on daily bank balances at the daily rate rate daily the at balances bank daily on earned is Interest balances. bank and hand on cash comprises Cash

Market risk Market c) Cash i)

rating standards. rating

selection of counterparts limiting exposure to any particular counterpart, and the establishment of minimum credit credit minimum of establishment the and counterpart, particular any to exposure limiting counterparts of selection

– – 18,157 18,157 18,157 –

Credit risk associated with the Foundation’s financial assets, other than receivables, is managed through the the through managed is receivables, than other assets, financial Foundation’s the with associated risk Credit

– – 18,157 18,157 18,157 – Payables

2016 No collateral is held by the Foundation. The Foundation has not granted any financial guarantees. guarantees. financial any granted not has Foundation The Foundation. the by held is collateral No

Credit risk arises from the financial assets of the Foundation, including cash, receivables and authority deposits. deposits. authority and receivables cash, including Foundation, the of assets financial the from arises risk Credit – – 9,350 9,350 9,350 –

– – 9,350 9,350 9,350 – Payables

carrying amount of the financial assets (net of any allowance for impairment). for allowance any of (net assets financial the of amount carrying

2017

resulting in a financial loss to the Foundation. The maximum exposure to credit risk is generally represented by the the by represented generally is risk credit to exposure maximum The Foundation. the to loss financial a in resulting

rate bearing rate rate

Credit risk arises when there is the possibility of the Foundation’s debtors defaulting on their contractual obligations, obligations, contractual their on defaulting debtors Foundation’s the of possibility the is there when arises risk Credit

amount (1) amount

effective interest interest effective >5 yrs >5 yrs 1-5 yr <1 interest- interest interest

Nominal Nominal

Credit risk risk Credit a)

Weighted average average Weighted Non- Variable Fixed

Maturity dates Maturity exposure rate Interest $

18,157 9,350 cost amortised at

measured liabilities Financial 9 Payables

All of the Foundation’s liabilities mature in less than 12 months and are non-interest-bearing. are and months 12 than less in mature liabilities Foundation’s the of All

Financial liabilities class liabilities Financial

30 days (or time period agreed by the parties). No interest was paid during the financial year 2016–17 (2015–16: nil). (2015–16: 2016–17 year financial the during paid was interest No parties). the by agreed period time (or days 30

within settled not is balance if interest applies automatically 11-12 NSWTC received. is statement a or invoice an

36,406 17,840 cost) amortised (at

If trade terms are not specified, payment is made no later than the end of the month following the month in which which in month the following month the of end the than later no made is payment specified, not are terms trade If

receivables and Loans 7 Receivables

. . Accounts of Payment 11-12: NSWTC

2,444,262 2,140,087 N/A 6 equivalents cash and Cash

in out set policy the with accordance in settled are unsecured) are (which suppliers to owing Amounts invoiced.

Financial assets class assets Financial

The liabilities are recognised for amounts due to be paid in the future for goods or services received, whether or not not or whether received, services or goods for future the in paid be to due amounts for recognised are liabilities The

Financial instrument categories instrument Financial

 risk. of assessment current

$ $

pledged as collateral. The Trust’s exposure to liquidity risk is deemed insignificant based on prior periods’ data and and data periods’ prior on based insignificant deemed is risk liquidity to exposure Trust’s The collateral. as pledged

2016 2017

During the current and prior years, there were no defaults or breaches on amounts payable. No assets have been been have assets No payable. amounts on breaches or defaults no were there years, prior and current the During

CATEGORIES NOTES

adequate holding of high-quality liquid assets. liquid high-quality of holding adequate

Foundation continually manages risk through monitoring future cash flows and maturities planning to ensure ensure to planning maturities and flows cash future monitoring through risk manages continually Foundation

monitor risks. Compliance with policies is reviewed by the Finance and Legal Committee. Legal and Finance the by reviewed is policies with Compliance risks. monitor

Liquidity risk is the risk that the Foundation will be unable to meet its payment obligations when they fall due. The The due. fall they when obligations payment its meet to unable be will Foundation the that risk the is risk Liquidity

are established to identify and analyse the risks faced by the Foundation, to set risk limits and controls, and to to and controls, and limits risk set to Foundation, the by faced risks the analyse and identify to established are

Liquidity risk Liquidity b) policies management Risk risks. these of each managing for policies on agrees and reviews and management,

The Finance and Legal Committee has overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of risk risk of oversight and establishment the for responsibility overall has Committee Legal and Finance The

$1,000,000 (2016: $1,000,000). $1,000,000). (2016: $1,000,000

qualitative disclosures are included throughout this financial report. financial this throughout included are disclosures qualitative average interest rate over the year was 2.54% (2016 at 2.86%) on a weighted average balance during the year of of year the during balance average weighted a on 2.86%) at (2016 2.54% was year the over rate interest average

the Foundation’s objectives, policies and processes for measuring and managing risk. Further quantitative and and quantitative Further risk. managing and measuring for processes and policies objectives, Foundation’s the The term deposits at balance date were earning an average interest rate of 2.65% (2016 at 2.97%). The weighted weighted The 2.97%). at (2016 2.65% of rate interest average an earning were date balance at deposits term The

The Foundation’s main risks arising from financial instruments are outlined on the following pages, along with with along pages, following the on outlined are instruments financial from arising risks main Foundation’s The

on at-call deposits may vary. vary. may deposits at-call on

into or trade financial instruments, including derivative financial instruments, for speculative purposes. speculative for instruments, financial derivative including instruments, financial trade or into interest rate payable is negotiated initially and is fixed for the term of the deposit, while the interest rate payable payable rate interest the while deposit, the of term the for fixed is and initially negotiated is payable rate interest

the Foundation’s operations or are required to finance the Foundation’s operations. The Foundation does not enter enter not does Foundation The operations. Foundation’s the finance to required are or operations Foundation’s the to money market or bank deposits and can be placed ‘at call’ or for a fixed term. For fixed-term deposits the the deposits fixed-term For term. fixed a for or call’ ‘at placed be can and deposits bank or market money to

The Foundation’s principal financial instruments are outlined below. These financial instruments arise directly from from directly arise instruments financial These below. outlined are instruments financial principal Foundation’s The The Foundation has funds on deposit with various Australian incorporated banks. These deposits are similar similar are deposits These banks. incorporated Australian various with deposit on funds has Foundation The

FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS FINANCIAL 12 Authority deposits Authority iii)

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0

HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES WALES SOUTH NEW OF TRUST HOUSES HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES WALES SOUTH NEW OF TRUST HOUSES

FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HISTORIC THE FOR FOR THE HISTORIC HISTORIC THE FOR

FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

184 185

remuneration for his/her duties as a Director of the Foundation. the of Director a as duties his/her for remuneration

There were no transactions between the Trustee and the Foundation. No Director of the Trustee receives receives Trustee the of Director No Foundation. the and Trustee the between transactions no were There

ensuing or any subsequent financial year. financial subsequent any or ensuing

Transactions with the Trustee the with Transactions b)

or may significantly affect the activities of the Foundation, the results of those activities, or its state of affairs in the the in affairs of state its or activities, those of results the Foundation, the of activities the affect significantly may or

No other matter or circumstance has arisen since the end of the financial year to the date of this report that has has that report this of date the to year financial the of end the since arisen has circumstance or matter other No

– 9 5,533 entity controlling – payables Current

EVENTS AFTER THE REPORTING PERIOD REPORTING THE AFTER EVENTS 16 160,000 455,000 HHT the to Contributions

$ $ entities related with Transactions a)

There are no contingent assets or liabilities existing at the close of this report. this of close the at existing liabilities or assets contingent no are There

2016 2017

CONTINGENT ASSETS OR LIABILITIES OR ASSETS CONTINGENT 15

those available to other parties unless otherwise stated. The Foundation is a controlled entity of the HHT. the of entity controlled a is Foundation The stated. otherwise unless parties other to available those

Transactions between related parties are on normal commercial terms and conditions no more favourable than than favourable more no conditions and terms commercial normal on are parties related between Transactions

may not be completed by the end of the year in which the funds are received. received. are funds the which in year the of end the by completed be not may

Fundraising income includes donations and sponsorships. Where funding is received for specific projects, these projects projects these projects, specific for received is funding Where sponsorships. and donations includes income Fundraising RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS PARTY RELATED 13

There is no information of a material matter or occurrence to report. to occurrence or matter material a of information no is There

– – – – 18,157 Payables

The cost of fundraising services are provided by the HHT free of charge and are immaterial for the current financial year. financial current the for immaterial are and charge of free HHT the by provided are services fundraising of cost The *

Financial liabilities Financial

– – – – 36,406 Receivables Cost of services provided to gross income from fundraising from income gross to provided services of Cost 0% 0% D/A

24,443 24,443 (24,443) (24,443) 2,444,262 equivalents cash and Cash Cost of services provided to total expenditure total to provided services of Cost 0% 0% D/(B+D)

Financial assets Financial Net surplus/(deficit) from fundraising to gross income from fundraising from income gross to fundraising from surplus/(deficit) Net 65% 99% C/A

2016

Cost of fundraising to gross income from fundraising from income gross to fundraising of Cost 35% 1% B/A

*

– – – – 9,350 Payables Comparative figures and ratios and figures Comparative

Financial liabilities Financial Distributions to the HHT the to Distributions 160,000 455,000

– – – – 17,840 Receivables How appeal moneys are applied are moneys appeal How

21,401 21,401 (21,401) (21,401) 2,140,087 equivalents cash and Cash List of all forms of appeals – events and appeals and events – appeals of forms all of List

Financial assets Financial

Transferred to/(from) accumulated funds accumulated to/(from) Transferred 105,726 95,018

2017

Cost of services provided services of Cost – – D

*

Equity Profit Equity Profit amount Carrying

Net surplus/(deficit) from fundraising from surplus/(deficit) Net 105,726 95,018 C

1% -1%

Cost of fundraising (excluding administration expenses) administration (excluding fundraising of Cost (56,686) (602) B

Gross income from fundraising from income Gross 162,412 95,620 A same basis as for 2016. The analysis assumes that all other variables remain constant. constant. remain variables other all that assumes analysis The 2016. for as basis same

on risk exposures in existence at the date of the statement of financial position. The analysis is performed on the the on performed is analysis The position. financial of statement the of date the at existence in exposures risk on Sponsorship – –

frame for the assessment (that is, until the end of the next annual reporting period). The sensitivity analysis is based based is analysis sensitivity The period). reporting annual next the of end the until is, (that assessment the for frame

Donations 162,412 95,620

been determined after taking into account the economic environment in which the entity operates and the time time the and operates entity the which in environment economic the account into taking after determined been

on the following pages for interest rate risk and other price risk. A reasonably possible change in risk variables has has variables risk in change possible reasonably A risk. price other and risk rate interest for pages following the on

$ $

The effect on profit and equity due to a reasonably possible change in risk variables is outlined in the information information the in outlined is variables risk in change possible reasonably a to due equity and profit on effect The

2016 2017

The Foundation’s exposure to interest rate risk is set out in the table below. table the in out set is risk rate interest to exposure Foundation’s The

reviewed annually and amended where there is a structural change in the level of interest rate volatility. rate interest of level the in change structural a is there where amended and annually reviewed

A reasonably possible change of +/- 1% is used, consistent with current trends in interest rates. The basis will be be will basis The rates. interest in trends current with consistent used, is 1% +/- of change possible reasonably A fundraising events were conducted during the year and the results are as follows: as are results the and year the during conducted were events fundraising

sale. Therefore, for these financial instruments, a change in interest rates would not affect profit or loss or equity. equity. or loss or profit affect not would rates interest in change a instruments, financial these for Therefore, sale. The Foundation receives many donations as a result of its day-to-day activities. In addition, other special special other addition, In activities. day-to-day its of result a as donations many receives Foundation The

does not account for any fixed-rate financial instruments at fair value through profit or loss or as available for for available as or loss or profit through value fair at instruments financial fixed-rate any for account not does

activities fundraising of Results

Exposure to interest rate risk arises primarily through the Foundation’s interest-bearing liabilities. The Foundation Foundation The liabilities. interest-bearing Foundation’s the through primarily arises risk rate interest to Exposure

Interest rate risk rate Interest d) CHARITABLE FUNDRAISING ACTIVITIES FUNDRAISING CHARITABLE 14

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 ENDED YEAR THE FOR 017 2 JUNE 0

OF NEW SOUTH WALES WALES SOUTH NEW OF OF NEW SOUTH WALES WALES SOUTH NEW OF

HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST TRUST HOUSES HISTORIC

HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST TRUST HOUSES HISTORIC

FOUNDATION FOUNDATION FOR THE THE FOR

FOR THE THE FOR

FOUNDATION

FOUNDATION

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS FOUNDATION LIMITED OF THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS NEW SOUTH WALES LIMITED FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017

REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES LIMITED, BEING TRUSTEE FOR THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST

FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES NEW SOUTH WALES COMPANY DIRECTORS: The principal activity of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust Edward Simpson Company Director of New South Wales (Foundation) during the financial year was to (Chair) act as the Trustee of the Foundation and to do all things such as are necessary, incidental and conducive to acting as the Trustee of the Alastair Baxter Former international rugby player, and architect Foundation. at Cox Richardson Architects (resigned May 2017) There was no change in the principal activity of the Foundation during the financial year. Mark Goggin Executive Director, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales REVIEW OF OPERATIONS Sian Nagle Director, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Sydney The Foundation Limited doesn’t trade and the results below are for the Foundation. Michael Rose Chief Executive Partner, Allens The net deficit of the Foundation for the financial year ended 30 June Curtis Smith Partner, KPMG 2017 was $310,474. (resigned 3 February 2017) The Foundation is a non-profit organisation and is exempt from the Susannah Sweeney Principal of Fourfold Design payment of income tax under Subdivision 50-5 of the Income Tax Simon White Barrister and Senior Counsel Assessment Act 1997.

CHANGES IN STATE OF AFFAIRS The above-named directors held office during and since One resignation from the Board was accepted during the year. the end of the financial year unless otherwise stated. During the financial year there was no significant change in the state of affairs of the Foundation other than that referred to in the financial statements or notes thereto.

SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

No other matter or circumstance has arisen since the end of the financial year that has significantly affected, or may significantly affect, the activities of the Foundation or its state of affairs in the ensuing or any subsequent financial year.

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

Disclosure of information regarding likely developments in the operations of the Foundation in future financial years and the expected results of those operations is likely to result in unreasonable prejudice to the Foundation. Accordingly, this information has not been disclosed in this report.

DISTRIBUTIONS

A distribution was made to the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT) during the financial year 2016–17 of $455,000.

186 187 FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES LIMITED FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017

INDEMNIFICATION OF OFFICERS DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

The HHT (the controlling entity) has included the The table below sets out the number of Directors’ Foundation within its Treasury Managed Fund meetings held (including meetings of committees of indemnity coverage. The Treasury Managed Fund is a Directors) during the financial year and the number of self‑insurance scheme owned and underwritten by the meetings attended by each Director (while they were a New South Wales Government. Such inclusion of the Director or a committee member). During the financial Foundation confers upon it ‘protected entity’ status within year, three board meetings were held. No separate the Treasury Managed Fund. The contract of coverage meetings were held for the Finance and Legal Committee is an indemnification for any and all actions leading to a as they are now embedded within board meetings. claim against the covered entity subject to the contract of coverage. Each board member, Trustee, officer and employee of the ‘protected entity’ is covered by the contract of coverage for any ‘legal liability’, alleged or actual, as long as the action is not based on an illegal and/or criminal act or outside the scope of their duties.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

DIRECTORS HELD ATTENDED

Edward Simpson (Chair) 3 3

Alastair Baxter 3 2

Mark Goggin 3 2

Sian Nagle 3 2

Michael Rose 3 3

Curtis Smith 2 –

Susannah Sweeney 3 3

Simon White 3 1

188 189 FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES LIMITED FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017

Pursuant to Section 41C(1B) and (1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Corporations Act 2001, the Directors of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited state that:

a) The accompanying financial statements and notes present a true and fair view of the financial position and performance of the company at 30 June 2017, and the results of its operations and transactions for the year on that date ended;

b) The financial statements and notes have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2015, and the Corporations Act 2001 and Regulations 2001;

c) The financial statements and notes have been prepared in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards (which include Australian Accounting Interpretations);

d) We are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars included in the financial reports to be misleading or inaccurate; and

e) There are reasonable grounds to believe that the company will be able to pay its debts as and when they fall due.

Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors made pursuant to Section 295(5) of the Corporations Act 2001.

On behalf of the Directors,

Edward Simpson Mark Goggin Chair Executive Director

Dated 1 September 2017

190 191 FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

STATEMENT OF BEGINNING OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME CHANGES IN EQUITY FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017

NOTES ACTUAL ACTUAL NOTES ACTUAL ACTUAL 2017 2016 Accumulated funds Total $ $ $ $ EXPENSES – – BALANCE AT 1 JULY 2016 – – TOTAL EXPENSES – – Net result for the year – – REVENUE – – BALANCE AT 30 JUNE 2017 – – TOTAL REVENUE – – BALANCE AT 1 JULY 2015 – – Net result for the year – – NET RESULT – – BALANCE AT 30 JUNE 2016 – –

OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME – – Total other comprehensive income – – TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME – – STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION NOTES ACTUAL ACTUAL AS AT 30 JUNE 2017 2017 2016 $ $ CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES – – NOTES ACTUAL ACTUAL NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES – – 2017 2016 $ $ CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES – – ASSETS NET CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES – – Current assets – – Total current assets – – CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES – – Non-current assets – – NET CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES – – Total non-current assets – – TOTAL ASSETS – – NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH – – LIABILITIES Opening cash and cash equivalents – – Current liabilities – – CLOSING CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS – – Total current liabilities – – Non-current liabilities – – Total non-current liabilities – – TOTAL LIABILITIES – –

NET ASSETS – – EQUITY Accumulated funds – – TOTAL EQUITY – –

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements. The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements. 192 193 FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017 FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017

1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES C) CHANGES IN ACCOUNTING POLICY, ii) Issued but not yet effective 2 TRUSTEE INCLUDING NEW OR REVISED AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTING NSW public sector entities are not permitted to early adopt The company acts as Trustee of the Foundation A) REPORTING ENTITY STANDARDS new Australian Accounting Standards, unless Treasury for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales determines otherwise. i) Effective for the first time in 2016–17 (the Foundation). Income and property under the control of the Limited is a company limited by guarantee, incorporated and The accounting policies applied in 2016–17 are consistent with The following new Australian Accounting Standards have not company must be applied to the promotion and achievement of the domiciled in Australia. The company was incorporated on 13 those of the previous financial year except as a result of the been applied and are not yet effective: objectives of the company. No portion shall be paid or transferred, September 2001. The company is a non-profit entity (as profit is following new or revised Australian Accounting Standards • AASB 1058: Income of Not-for-Profit Entities. directly or indirectly, to members or directors of the company. not its principal objective). that have been applied for the first time in 2016–17: The financial statements of the Foundation are prepared from There are no significant impacts of these standards in the The company’s registered office (and principal place of business) books of accounts kept by the HHT. The financial statements of the • AASB 14: Regulatory Deferral Accounts, which will not have period of initial application. is: The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales. The Foundation are presented with the company’s financial statements. a significant impact on entities not adopting AASB for the company is a controlled entity of the Historic Houses Trust of New first time. D) STATEMENT OF COMPLIANCE South Wales (HHT) and is consolidated with the HHT as part of 3 COMPANY AND TRUST EXPENSES • AASB 1056: Superannuation Entities, resulting in minor changes The financial statements and notes comply with Australian the NSW Total State Sector Accounts. to disclosures for defined benefit plan schemes. Accounting Standards, which include Australian Accounting Operating costs of the company have been met by the Foundation. The financial statements were authorised for issue by the Interpretations. • AASB 1057: Application of Australian Accounting All expenses incurred by the company were Directors on 18 September 2017. Standards. in its capacity as Trustee. B) BASIS OF PREPARATION • AASB 2014-1: Amendments to Australian Accounting 4 RIGHT OF INDEMNITY OUT OF TRUST ASSETS Standards (Part D Regulatory Deferral Accounts), making The financial statements are general purpose financial statements consequential amendments arising from the issuance of that have been prepared in accordance with: The assets of the Foundation at 30 June 2017 are sufficient to meet AASB 14. the Trustee’s rights of indemnity out of the Trust assets for liabilities • the Corporations Act 2001; • AASB 2014-9: Amendments to Australian Accounting incurred on behalf of the Trust, as and when they fall due. • applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which include Standards – Equity Method in Separate Financial Australian Accounting Interpretations); Statements, which allows entities to use the equity method 5 AUDIT FEES of accounting for investments in subsidiaries, joint venture • the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit fees for the company accounts are to be paid by the and associates in their separate financial statements. Audit Act 1983 and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation Foundation. 2015; and • AASB 2015-1: Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Annual Improvements to Australian • Treasurer’s Directions. 6 MEMBERS’ LIABILITY Accounting Standards 2012–2014 Cycle, which clarifies The financial statements are for the Foundation for the Historic AASB 5 – changes in the method of disposal, AASB 7 The company is limited by guarantee. Every member of the company Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited as an individual entity. – disclosures – service contracts, AASB 119 – discount and every ex-member within one year of ceasing to be a member The financial statements have been prepared on an accruals basis rate (regional markets) and AASB 134 – disclosure of is liable in the event of winding up for an amount not exceeding $10. and are based on historical costs modified by the revaluation of information elsewhere in the interim financial statements. There were 12 members at the end of the financial year. selected non-current assets, financial assets and financial liabilities • AASB 2015-2: Amendments to Australian Accounting for which the fair value basis of accounting has been applied. Standards – Disclosure Initiative: Amendments to AASB 101. Judgments, key assumptions and estimations made by • AASB 2015-5: Amendments to Australian Accounting management are disclosed in the relevant notes to the financial Standards – Investment Entities: Applying the statements. Consolidation Exception.

All amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar and are in • AASB 2015-6: Amendments to Australian Accounting Australian currency. Standards – Extending Related Party Disclosures to Not- for-Profit Public Sector Entities. Agencies will need to identify individuals and entities that are related parties and should refer to Australian implementation guidance for not-for-profit public sector entities in AASB 124. • AASB 2015-7: Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Fair Value Disclosures of Not-for-Profit Public Sector Entities. Not-for-profit entities are exempt from making disclosures for recurring and non-recurring level 3 fair values. • AASB 2015-9: Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Scope and Application Paragraphs • AASB 2015-10: Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Effective Date of Amendments to AASB 10 and AASB 128 defers the effective date from 1 January 2016 to 1 January 2018.

194 195 FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2017

7 CONTROLLING ENTITY

The HHT is considered to be the controlling entity of the Foundation.

8 ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS TRUSTEE

The Foundation Limited doesn’t trade however the details of the underlying assets and liabilities for the Foundation at 30 June 2017 are as follows:

ACTUAL ACTUAL 2017 2016 $ $ Current assets Cash 2,140,087 2,444,262 Receivables 17,840 36,406 TOTAL ASSETS 2,157,927 2,480,668 Current liabilities Payables 9,350 18,157 Provisions – 3,460 TOTAL LIABILITIES 9,350 21,617 NET ASSETS 2,148,577 2,459,051

9 REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS

No directors of the company during the financial year received income from the company in connection with the management of the affairs of the company whether as executive officer or otherwise.

10 CONTINGENT ASSETS OR LIABILITIES

There are no contingent assets or liabilities existing at the close of this report.

11 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

No significant matter or circumstance has arisen since the end of the financial year to the date of this report that has or may significantly affect the activities of the company, the results of those activities, or its state of affairs in the ensuing or any subsequent financial year.

END OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

196 197 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 PROGRAM SUPPORTERS & PARTNERS THANK YOU TO OUR PROGRAM SUPPORTERS & PARTNERS

SLM thanks the many people and groups who have assisted INTERPRETATION & EXHIBITIONS SUPPORTERS MUSEUM SUPPORTERS Museum of Sydney us this year for their generosity, support and expertise, Architecture Foundation Australia AMP Capital including: Elizabeth Bay House Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney Inc Sound Heritage Friends of the First Government House Site • SLM Volunteers Grosvenor Place • SLM Foundation Board NSW Architects Registration Board Sydney Conservatorium of Music • Governors’ Circle members Porter’s Paints University of Sydney, Macleay Museum Modern House • Supporters. Vivid Sydney The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Elizabeth Farm Seidler Architectural Foundation National Trust of Australia (NSW) (Old Government House & EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAM SUPPORTERS Rose Seidler House Experiment Farm) Harry Seidler & Associates Angove Family Winemakers smow Australia Parramatta City Council BVN Snaploader Rouse Hill House & Farm Parramatta & District Historical Society (Hambledon Stormtech Blacktown Arts Centre (Blacktown City Council) Chinese Heritage Association of Australia Cottage) Susan Maple-Brown am, through the Maple-Brown Darug elders and descendants Food & Words Parramatta Heritage Partners, which includes: Foundation Hills, Hawkesbury and Riverlands Tourism – HHART History Council of NSW Lancer Barracks Museum University of Newcastle Muru Mittigar History Teachers’ Association of NSW Parramatta Heritage Centre Visions of Australia NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Muru Mittigar Parramatta Park Trust MEDIA SUPPORTERS Susannah Place Museum Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Whitlam Institute Architecture Media Property NSW Museums Discovery Centre Hyde Park Barracks Museum Australian House & Garden Sydney Harbour YHA Museums & Galleries of NSW Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Steering Committee Habitus The Mint National Trust of Australia (NSW) The Great Irish Famine Commemoration Committee New Land Magazine Australian & New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine NSW Department of Education Ludlows Legal Regalia & Tailors The Sydney Morning Herald City of Sydney Council NSW Police Prosecutions Command National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) GML Heritage Parramatta City Council University of Sydney, Department of Archaeology Vaucluse House State Library of New South Wales Urban Sketchers Australia La Perouse Aboriginal Community Justice & Police Museum Woollahra Council NSW Police Force

Meroogal Bundanon Trust Carriageworks Shoalhaven City Arts Centre Shoalhaven City Council Shoalhaven International Women’s Day Committee

198 199 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 ADMISSION FEES & CONTACTS ADMISSION FEES & CONTACTS

ADMISSION FEES CONTACTS Hyde Park Barracks Museum Rose Seidler House General entry $12 All properties are closed on Good Friday and Christmas Queens Square, Macquarie Street, 71 Clissold Road, Wahroonga NSW 2076 Day. Visit sydneylivingmuseums.com.au for opening hours Sydney NSW 2000 T 02 9989 8020, F 02 9487 2761 Child/concession $8 T 02 8239 2311, F 02 8239 2322 during NSW school holidays and NSW public holidays. Open Sun, 10am–4pm Family $30 Open daily, 10am–5pm Schools and booked groups by arrangement Sydney Living Museums Entry is free to The Mint and to the Vaucluse House garden, Schools and booked groups by arrangement Head Office Rouse Hill House & Farm parklands and beach paddock. Bakehouse The Mint 356 Annangrove Road (PO Box 3123) Open daily, 10am–4pm No fee is charged for access to a number of significant 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Rouse Hill NSW 2155 T 02 9232 1837 urban spaces, including the Hyde Park Barracks Museum T 02 8239 2288, F 02 8239 2299 T 02 9627 6777, F 02 9627 6776 courtyard and First Government House Place (the forecourt E [email protected] Justice & Police Museum of the Museum of Sydney). Open Wed–Sun, 10am–4pm Open Mon–Fri, 9.30am–5pm Corner Albert and Phillip streets, Access by guided tour only, bookings recommended EDUCATION PROGRAMS Infoline 02 8239 2442 Circular Quay NSW 2000 Schools and booked groups by arrangement TTY 02 8239 2377 T 02 9252 1144, F 02 9251 5966 Fees for education programs are structured as group www.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au Susannah Place Museum prices starting at $120 for up to 30 students for a 60-minute Open Sat & Sun, 10am–5pm No.10 Bistro & Store 58–64 Gloucester Street, The Rocks NSW 2000 program. Schools and booked groups by arrangement Bistro open Mon–Fri, 11.30am–3pm T 02 9241 1893, F 02 9241 2608 Specialist programs for senior students are offered on Store open Mon–Fri, 7.30am–3pm Meroogal Open daily, 2–5pm a per-student basis of $25 per student with a minimum T 02 9232 2293 Corner West and Worrigee streets, Access by guided tour only, bookings recommended booking requirement of ten students. Nowra NSW 2541 Schools and booked groups by arrangement Caroline Simpson Library Supervising teachers are provided with free entry to T 02 4421 8150, F 02 4421 2747 & Research Collection programs, and additional accompanying adults are Vaucluse House Open Sat, 10am–4pm charged general entry. The Mint Wentworth Road, Vaucluse NSW 2030 Access by guided tour only, on the hour 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 T 02 9388 7922, F 02 9337 4963 T 02 8239 2233, F 02 8239 2433 Schools and booked groups by arrangement E [email protected] Open Wed–Sun, 10am–4pm Museum of Sydney Schools and booked groups by arrangement Open Tues–Fri, 10am–4.30pm on the site of first Government House Vaucluse House Tearooms Corner Phillip and Bridge streets, Sydney NSW 2000 Elizabeth Bay House Open Wed–Fri, 10am–4.30pm T 02 9251 5988, F 02 9251 5966 Open Sat & Sun, 8am–4.30pm 7 Onslow Avenue, Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011 Open daily, 10am–5pm T 02 9388 8188 T 02 9356 3022, F 02 9357 7176 Schools and booked groups by arrangement Open Fri–Sun, 10am–4pm The Governors Table Bar & Dining Schools and booked groups by arrangement Open for lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Tues–Sat and weekend brunch Elizabeth Farm T 02 9241 1788 70 Alice Street, Rosehill NSW 2142 T 02 9635 9488, F 02 9891 3740 Open Wed–Sun, 10am–4pm Schools and booked groups by arrangement Elizabeth Farm Tearoom Open Sat & Sun, 10am–4pm T 02 9635 9488

200 201 ANNUAL REPORT 2016–17 INDEX INDEX

A credit card certification 118 F J N strategic direction 30, 33, 124 Aboriginal Action Plan 4, 66–7, 68, 110 Curatorial & Museums Division 30 financial statements 133–96 Joint Consultative Committee NAIDOC Week 36, 66, 68 Strategic Plan 2017–22 5, 12, 33 programming 47, 66–7 Curatorial & Public Engagement First Government House Place 76, 97 27, 102, 111, 119 Nissen hut 20, 21 Strategy & Engagement Division 30 working group 66, 124 Advisory Committee 27, 110 food heritage research and programs 61 Justice & Police Museum 5, 12, 13, 20, NSW Police Forensic Photography Susannah Place Museum 12, 14, 38, 45, 75, 76, 78, 80, 87, 90, 94, 104 Aboriginal Advisory Committee customer response 118 Foundation for the Historic Houses Archive 13, 45 20, 39, 43, 88, 90, 104, 105 4, 27, 33, 66, 110 Trust of NSW (SLM Foundation) Sydney Open 5, 32, 46, 47, access to government information 115–17 21, 32, 50, 79, 90, 95, 98, 112, 113 L 56, 70–1, 96, 106 D O acquisitions 88–91, 95, 111 financial statements of 169–85 land disposal 118 digital organisational chart 31 admission fees 200 Foundation Limited financial legal change 127 T delivery 118 statements 186–96 outreach 36, 38–9 assets 9, 12, 72–91 loans, SLM collections 80 Throsby Park 20, 22 engagement 55 fundraising 95, 96 audience Lyndhurst 20, 21 TRIM, see records management Digital Information Security Annual see also Governors’ Circle P Trustees, Board of 4, 5, 23 family 36, 44, 45 Attestation Statement 129 paid admissions 38–9, 94 Tusculum 20, 21 regional 38–9, 41 Disability Inclusion Action M partnerships 5, 41, 54, 57, 64, 67, 68, tourist 36, 39, 45 Plan 102, 118, 119, 123 G Macquarie Street Portfolio 18–19, 30 78, 94, 96, 97, 98, 124, 198–9, 204 audience research 65, 71, 77, 103, 106, 124 donations 32, 79, 88, 94, 95, 98, 113 gardens 55, 83 U media coverage 46 payment performance 130 Audit & Risk Committee 24, Glenfield 20, 21 UNESCO World Heritage membership 63, 71 People Matter Employee Survey 102 listing 12, 18, 44, 77, 94 27, 110, 126, 128 Governors’ Circle 95, 113 E Meroogal 12, 16, 20, 38, 44, personnel policies and practices 118 auditors’ reports 136–8, 170–2, 189–90 Unlocked magazine 62, 63 grants 55, 77, 94, 112 50–1, 75, 83, 106 ecological footprint, reduction in 96 policies and procedures 115, 126, 127 Unlocking Heritage project awards 47 GSDA no 1 Dwelling 20, 21 education Meroogal Women’s Art Prize 46, 50, 95 Privacy Management Plan 114 5, 36, 64–5, 104 programs 30, 36, 54, 65, 68, 77, 95 Mint, The 4, 5, 12, 19, 20, 36, 38, 56, 61, Protecting National Historic Sites B 71, 75, 76, 78, 85, 88, 90, 94, 123 visitation 36, 38–9, 54, 68 H program 66, 76, 77, 112, 123, 124 Beulah 20, 21, 78 mission statement 10 V Elizabeth Bay House 12, 15, 20, Heritage & Collections public awareness 34, 63, 66 Board standing committees 27, 110–11 Moruya Manse 20, 21 values 10–11 38, 43, 62, 75, 80, 94, 127 Advisory Committee 27, 111 public programs 12, 30, 32, Vaucluse House 12, 18, 20, 36, budget estimates 2017–18 126 Elizabeth Farm 12, 15, 20, 36, 38, 43, Multicultural Plan 102, 118, 124 38–9, 56–8, 59 Division 30 39, 43, 44, 46, 47, 61, 66, 75, 44, 46, 61, 66, 75, 83, 94, 104 Muru Mittigar Heritage Floor Space 78 79, 85, 90, 94, 95, 106 Endangered Houses Fund 20, partnership 17, 66, 68, 97, 124 C hospitality 38–9, 94 R kitchen garden 32 21–2, 30, 78, 111 programs 44, 54, 68 capital maintenance 75, 84–7, 94, 112 House Museums Portfolio 15–18, 30 records management 96, 127 vision 10 see also Beulah, Exeter Farm, Museum of Sydney 4, 5, 12, 14, 20, 36, 39, Caroline Simpson Library & Research human resources 118–25 risk management 104, 105, 126–9 visitation 8, 36–51, 54, 63, 68, 71 Glenfield, GSDA no 1 Dwelling, 40, 48, 67, 75, 76, 77, 80, 94, 96, 97, 127 Collection 12, 19, 40, 60, 79, Lyndhurst, Moruya Manse, Nissen Hyde Park Barracks Museum 12, Rose Seidler House 12, 17, 20, 56, 88 Vivid Sydney 96, 97 88–90, 95, 98, 106, 111, 118 museums hut, Throsby Park, Tusculum 18, 20, 36, 38, 43, 44, 47, 65, 66, Rouse Hill House & Farm 12, 17, 20, volunteers 12, 32, 79, 106, 131–2 contact info 200–1 Chairman’s overview 4 ethical standards 126 75, 77, 78, 88, 94, 123, 124 39, 43, 44, 46, 54, 61, 62, 66, 68, see also Caroline Simpson Library & City Portfolio 13–14, 30, 124 events, see public programs 75, 84, 90, 97, 104, 105, 124 Research Collection, Elizabeth Bay collections 12, 59, 60, 62, 76, 80, 81, 88–90 W Executive Director’s overview 5 I House, Elizabeth Farm, Hyde Park Collections Valuation Committee 27, 111 website 55, 59–60 Executive Team 4, 5, 28–9 ICT management 126 Barracks Museum, Justice & Police S commercial services 94–5 Museum, Meroogal, Mint, Museum workforce diversity 119–22 Exeter Farm 20, 22 income, generation of 9, 94–5 secondments 103 of Sydney, Rose Seidler House, work health and safety (WHS) committees 27, 110–12 exhibitions 12, 36, 40–1, 46, 47, 48–9, insurance 127 Rouse Hill House & Farm, Susannah self-generated revenue 8, 102, 104–5, 118, 127 conservation 11, 21–2, 30, 59, 62, 74–87 59, 94, 95, 96, 110, 118, 124 Internal Audit and Risk 9, 38–9, 94–5, 112 Place Museum, Vaucluse House Work Health & Safety Committee Conservation Management expenditure 9, 82 Management Attestation 128 Museums Discovery Centre skills and training 102 27, 102, 104–5, 112, 119, 127 Plans 74, 76, 78 external activities and interns 106 46, 81, 103, 112 SLM standing committees 27, 111 consultants, payment of 130 engagement 107–9 interpretation 5, 30, 47, 50, social media 55, 71 Corporate & Commercial Division 30 59, 62, 66, 68, 77 sponsors/sponsorship see partnerships corporate planning 12, 33

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Cover Rose Seidler House. Photo © Justin Page 133 Detail view of the bed hanging Page 186 Wool shawl and armchair detail, Mackintosh for Sydney Living Museums in the principal bedroom at Elizabeth Bay morning room, Elizabeth Bay House. House. Photo © Haley Richardson and Photo © Haley Richardson and Stuart Facing contents page Floor map detail Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums Miller for Sydney Living Museums adapted from Plan of the town and suburbs of Sydney, August 1822. Mitchell Library, State Page 169 Dome in the saloon at Elizabeth Page 197 Curtain detail, morning room, Elizabeth Library of New South Wales, M2811.17/1822/7. Bay House. Photo © Haley Richardson and Bay House. Photo © Haley Richardson and Photo © Haley Richardson and Stuart Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums Miller for Sydney Living Museums This page Sunset at Elizabeth Farm. Photo © 204 James Horan for Sydney Living Museums The Historic Houses Trust of NSW, incorporating Sydney Living Museums, cares for significant historic places, buildings, landscapes and collections. It is a statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the New South Wales Government.