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Report of Trustees of the Historic Houses Trust of

Minister, in accordance with the requirement of the Annual Report (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984, we have the honour of submitting to you as Minister for the Arts, this report for the year ending 30 June 2009 for presentation to Parliament.

Jill Wran Kate Clark Chairman Director

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

Cover: Macquarie Lights at The Mint Photograph © Benjamin Townsend Endpapers, top row, l–r, photographs (detail): , photograph © Leo Rocker | Government House, photograph © Leo Rocker | Elizabeth Bay House, photograph © Scott Hill | Rouse Hill House & Farm, photograph © Hana Rocak | Government House, photograph © Jody Pachniuk | middle row, l–r: , photograph © Paolo Busato | Justice & Police Museum, photograph © Leo Rocker | Hyde Park Barracks, photograph © Leo Rocker | Meroogal, photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall | Susannah Place Museum, photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall | bottom row, l–r: The Mint, photograph © John Gollings | Rose Seidler House, photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall | , photograph © Scott Hill | Meroogal, photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall | Elizabeth Bay House, photograph © Scott Hill

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4 At a glance OUR PROPERTIES 81 Foundation 6 Chairman’s review 42 Caroline Simpson Library 82 Members 9 Director’s overview & Research Collection 83 Volunteers program 14 Corporate governance Elizabeth Bay House 44 APPENDICES 46 Elizabeth Farm OUR GOALS Our commitment to women 48 Government House 86 Goal 1: Properties, collections Associated groups 22 50 Hyde Park Barracks Museum 86 and programs Committees 52 Justice & Police Museum 86 Disability Action Plan 24 Goal 2: Audience 54 Meroogal 88 Credit card certification 28 Goal 3: Staff expertise 56 Museum of Sydney 88 Electronic service delivery 28 Goal 4: Endangered Houses 58 Rose Seidler House 88 Ethnic affairs priority statement Fund program 60 Rouse Hill House & Farm 89 89 Human resources 28 Goal 5: Major capital works 62 Susannah Place Museum Overseas travel 64 The Mint 90 29 Goal 6: Commercial activity Printing costs of the Annual Report 66 Vaucluse House 91 29 Goal 7: Finances and public 91 Donors resources OUR PROGRAMS, SERVICES 91 Sponsors & ASSOCIATED GROUPS Fundraising OUR PEOPLE 91 74 Education 92 Staff list 32 Trustees 75 Endangered Houses Fund 96 Volunteers 36 Management group 76 Events 39 Organisational chart FINANCIAL INFORMATION 77 Exhibitions & publications 78 Regional INDEX 79 Retail CONTACTS 80 Venues PRODUCTION CREDITS

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At a glance

OUR MISSION OUR STANDING WHAT WE MANAGE To inspire appreciation of ’s The Historic Houses Trust of New We manage sites of historical and diverse histories and cultural heritage South Wales (HHT) was established cultural importance that tell a story for present and future generations under the Historic Houses Act 1980 about the history and development by conserving, interpreting and to manage, conserve and interpret of New South Wales. Our portfolio managing, with integrity, places the properties vested in it, for the of properties is valued at more than of cultural signifi cance in the care education and enjoyment of the $201m (excluding works in progress). of the Historic Houses Trust. public. We are a statutory authority and has grown from two properties of the state government of New in 1980 to 18 properties to date. South Wales funded through the The collections held at our museums Department of the Arts, Sport and are valued at more than $36m and Recreation. We are one of the largest comprise 250,000 archaeological state museum bodies in Australia artefacts and more than 46,000 and a leader in conservation and objects of cultural signifi cance to management of historic places in the history of New South Wales. this country. We conduct a wide variety of programs including exhibitions and public events and also deliver wide-ranging schools education and publishing programs.

Acquired Property Opened Status 1980 Vaucluse House 1980 Museum 1980 Elizabeth Bay House 1980 Museum 1984 Elizabeth Farm 1984 Museum 1984 Lyndhurst (sold 2005) Offi ces and library 1985 Meroogal 1988 Museum 1987 Rouse Hill House & Farm 1999 Museum 1988 Rose Seidler House 1991 Museum 1990 Hyde Park Barracks Museum 1991 Museum 1990 Justice & Police Museum 1991 Museum 1990 Museum of Sydney 1995 Museum on the site of First Government House 1990 Young Street Terraces – Offi ces 1990 Susannah Place Museum 1993 Museum 1993 Walter Burley Griffi n House (sold 1995) Conservation project 1996 Government House 1996 State house and garden 1998 The Mint 1998 & 2004 Offi ces and library 2003 former Rouse Hill Public School – Being developed 2007 Tusculum – Leased 2007 Exeter Farm – Endangered Houses Fund project 2007 Glenfi eld – Endangered Houses Fund project 2008 Nissen hut – Endangered Houses Fund project

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OUR COMMITMENT RECOGNITION > Australian Business Arts Our goals are infl uenced by our This year HHT projects won six Foundation’s (AbaF) NSW Giving mission, which balances the twin awards and one commendation: Award for the Foundation of the objectives of conservation and Historic Houses Trust of New AWARDS interpretation with public access. South Wales Glenfi eld Appeal > Bates Smart Award for Architecture We are committed to the highest in support of the conservation in the Media for the publication standards of conservation of of Glenfi eld, Casula Homes in the sky: apartment living our sites to preserve them for > The United Kingdom’s Chartered in Australia future generations. We are also Institution of Building Services > Meetings and Events Australia committed to the highest standards Engineers 30 projects around the (MEA) National Award 2009 of interpretation of our sites for the world that have reshaped the built Specialty Venue Category for education and enjoyment of the environment over the past three The Mint public. We aim to educate without decades for The Mint. > Meetings and Events Australia being didactic, embrace cultural (MEA) NSW Award 2009 Specialty diversity and produce relevant and COMMENDATION Venue Category for The Mint contemporary programs that relate > Museums Australia Multimedia > EnergyAustralia National Trust to a wide range of communities. and Publication Design Awards Heritage Award 2009 for Education We welcome everyone and strive Book Category, Level C for – Corporate/Government Category to provide services that will attract Femme fatale: the female criminal for the publication Lost gardens all sectors of the community. of Sydney

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Chairman’s review

In October 2008 Kate Clark became Director of the HHT following the retirement of the organisation’s inaugural Director, Peter Watts AM. Kate is an Australian-born archaeologist with a wealth of experience gleaned while working with some of the leading heritage institutions in the United Kingdom. I was delighted to host a very well attended Women in the Arts luncheon to welcome her. The HHT has a long tradition of partnership and sharing our expertise where this is useful outside of our own portfolio. In the case of Newstead, a highly significant house and garden in the Armidale district, the HHT worked closely with Inverell Shire Council and local community groups on a program of conservation and interpretation work on the homestead. The project received wide community support and was funded by a New South Wales Government grant of $180,000. We were especially pleased that the Hon , MP, Premier of New South Wales, was present at celebrations to mark the completion of the project in March this year. The opening was also attended by the Hon , MP, Member for Northern Tablelands, and the Mayor of Inverell, Councillor Barry Johnston, while the Welcome to Country was given by Elizabeth Connors, a descendant of the Jukumbal people, who had worked there as a young girl. A Newstead Advisory Committee has been formed at the instigation of the HHT to guide the future of the property and manage public access. Government House was again the site of an historic ceremonial event when in July 2009 the federal and

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New South Wales governments the past three decades. In light of CPI increase on all other expenses. hosted the Official Welcome for His this recognition it is entirely fitting As a consequence the HHT has Holiness Pope Benedict XVI on the that Emeritus Director Peter Watts AM focused much energy on increasing parade ground. The ceremony was was awarded the 2008 President’s our earned income particularly attended by Major General Michael Prize by the Royal Australian Institute through venue hire and retail services Jeffery, AC AO(Mil) CVO MC (retd), former of Architects NSW Chapter as an and this financial year we generated Governor-General of Australia; Her outstanding client of architecture $6.8m, which is a 100 per cent Excellency Professor , in New South Wales. increase from 2001–02. AC CVO, Governor of New South My final year as Chairman has seen The HHT has also sought to Wales; the Hon Kevin Rudd, MP, Prime significant changes in the operations revitalise its properties through Minister of Australia; and the then and structure of the HHT as well as in re-engagement with the public. Premier of New South Wales, the the wider arts portfolio of the New Our program of events reaches out Hon . South Wales Government. Key HHT across the community with notable Rouse Hill House & Farm has staff have been outstanding in their successes like Sydney open, the been the focus of a great deal of professionalism and loyalty Fifties fair, Festival of the olive and concentrated effort across the HHT throughout and I would particularly a range of music events now seen by this year including the construction like to compliment Kate Clark on the many as a ‘must do’ on their cultural of a new education facility on the important strategic changes she has calendar. site. This will complement the nearby been able to put in place despite It is often said that from little things and beautifully repaired 1888 Rouse budgetary and other difficulties big things grow and this dear old Hill School House. Following very which could not have been foreseen. cliché probably best describes the complex negotiations with the Roads It is nearly eight years since I became success of the Endangered Houses and Traffic Authority (RTA), Chairman of the HHT and as I look Fund. Established in 2000 as a 21st agreement was reached on a land back several factors stand out: birthday gift to the HHT from the swap involving the transfer of two Cultural buildings have become one Foundation, the EHF now has three blocks of land lying between the old of the means by which cities and properties under its wing: Glenfield Windsor Road and the new highway states project a distinctive profile at Casula, Exeter Farm at Blacktown, bypass. Title for these lands passed when competing for tourists. The and a Nissen hut on the shores of to the HHT in April 2009 with a HHT has broadened its mission Lake Macquarie outside Newcastle. financial return of $568,000 to the progressively from collection and Several other properties are under HHT. I acknowledge the role of conservation to activities that result active consideration and another General Manager Properties, in broader public education and announcement in this regard is Caroline Mackaness, in delivering entertainment. Marketing efforts are imminent. The HHT’s work in this such a positive outcome for the HHT. therefore a much more sophisticated field has pushed the boundaries in Following a recommendation from and noteworthy aspect of the HHT’s finding innovative and sustainable the Finance & Audit Committee, operations. Conservation, however, solutions for properties that are chaired by Trustee Martyn Mitchell, including an adherence to leading- under threat. the Senior Finance Officer joined the edge museological principles, is still At the Trustees Planning Day Collections Valuation Committee and the cornerstone of its business. which took place at The Chalet, has already assisted greatly in the During my tenure as Chair the Government House, in December work of the committee, particularly in government subsidy to the HHT has it was agreed to bring forward the determining global revaluations. increased from $14.3m in 2001–02 to budget planning process for 2009–10 The official journal of the Chartered $18m in 2008–09, which equates to a in order to properly consider options Institution of Building Services 3.6 per cent annual increase. In real for achieving savings. The HHT is Engineers in the UK voted The Mint terms, the HHT has also had to meet close to the final year of reporting one of the 30 projects that have a 4 per cent annual increase in against the current Corporate Plan reshaped the built environment over salaries and an average 5 per cent and the work on the budget was

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coupled with an intensive strategic support by running a varied and vivid planning process towards the program of events, by reaching new development of a new Corporate audiences, and by continuing to Plan for the period 2010–15. interpret its properties with zest and élan – largely by remaining relevant. I wish to thank all my fellow Trustees who have given their time so willingly I thank all the wonderful, exceptionally to good effect. Martyn Mitchell talented staff who have helped me has brought a great deal of valued to do this job and hope that in due expertise as Chairman of the Finance course, my efforts will be judged to & Audit Committee and each of the have been useful. other Trustees does important work on one or more committees, notably the Endangered Houses Fund Committee, the Exhibitions Advisory Committee, the Members and the Commercial Lease Committee. Neville Allen continues to serve the Jill Wran, Chairman HHT on the latter despite having 30 June 2009 retired from both the HHT itself and the Foundation Board. In the last year we farewelled Elaine Lawson and Bruce McWilliam, each of whom has made a significant and lasting contribution to the Board and the work of the HHT. Dr Carol Liston and Dr John Montgomery were appointed as Trustees in 2009. Carol is Associate Professor in History at the University of Western Sydney and is well known to the HHT through the publication Sarah Wentworth: Mistress of Vaucluse which the HHT commissioned in 1988. Carol has already provided us with advice on a range of issues at Rouse Hill. John is a town planner and urban economist and brings an international planning perspective to the Board through his work in the United Kingdom. My HHT years have been happy and satisfying, if at times quite challenging, and I am deeply grateful for the privilege of chairing such a well-managed, uniquely positioned cultural institution. Looking forward, I have every confidence that the HHT will continue to enjoy high levels of

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Director’s overview

I have now been with the HHT for a year – it has been a wonderful time of delight and discovery, of inspiration and challenges. I have loved learning about the complexity of the organisation, with twelve very different properties each with its own distinctive identity, as well as vibrant public programs, challenging exhibitions, gorgeous publications and terrific school programs. The core of the HHT is of course our properties. The Hyde Park Barracks, built between 1817 and 1819, is a highly significant early colonial public building and an important part of Australia’s convict story. Mark Viner and the barracks staff have worked closely with the New South Wales Heritage Office and with the Commonwealth Government to nominate a group of convict sites across Australia for World Heritage status. This has been a long project over many years. We are anticipating an inspection in July and will await the decision of the World Heritage Committee in Paris. The other big property issue has been the new research conducted by the curator of Rouse Hill House & Farm, Fergus Clunie, into the site of the battle of Vinegar Hill, a skirmish that took place in 1804 between soldiers and convicts. Using a combination of place name evidence, historic maps and surveyors’ data, Fergus has established a strong case that the battle did take place at Rouse Hill. The site of the battle has long been controversial, so we were grateful for the assistance of a group of eminent historians chaired by Professor Carol Liston, who came to The Mint to help us explore the evidence. This is a wonderful opportunity to rethink the significance of Rouse Hill House & Farm.

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At the same time, we have been busy and Politics (1809–1828). It now holds presentation. We also welcomed a constructing a new education facility the full 40 volumes. new commercial operator at the on the site, to complement the This year’s program of exhibitions Vaucluse House Tearooms, Fresh beautifully repaired 1888 Rouse Hill included Shooting through: Sydney Catering, which has seen a steady school house. This new resource will by tram at the Museum of Sydney growth in business in the short time help us respond to the growing and Femme fatale: the female that it has been there. From small popularity of this very important site. criminal, an exhibition contrasting beginnings, our web-based An archaeological evaluation helped the lives of women criminals with e-commerce has grown 100 per cent us to make sure that the new facility their image in popular literature, at over the year, and we hope this will would not damage any significant the Justice & Police Museum. We are become an important new revenue remains. We have also been currently developing Built for the stream. investigating biodiversity on the site, bush, a travelling exhibition that will As part of the work of the and have found that there is look at how modern architecture has Endangered Houses Fund, significant been inspired by traditional bush co-ordinated by Richard Silink, woodland remaining in the area. construction and materials, and are students at Newcastle University This year we also reviewed the very pleased that the Department of took part in an architecture changes in property opening times the Arts, Sport and Recreation has competition for the adaptive reuse made in 2008 as a result of reduced agreed to contribute $100,000 to of a 1956 Nissen hut, and that project funding and different patterns of extend the exhibition into a joint has now progressed to a visitation. We found that the changes collaboration between the cultural development application, while the have created new opportunities for institutions and to facilitate objects two slab huts at Exeter Farm have group bookings, commercial events from their collections being seen been beautifully repaired. Clive and other activities at properties across the State. Lucas Stapleton and Partners during the week. However we also Sydney open was again a huge received an Architecture Award for identified an opportunity to slightly success, with some 5000 people the conservation of Glenfield, built extend school holiday opening hours exploring historic buildings and new in 1817 and arguably the most intact at Vaucluse House and Elizabeth architecture over the course of a day. house surviving in New South Wales Farm, which has been successful. Garden music at Government House from the Macquarie period. The opening of the new youth hostel was a great success but unfortunately It has been a busy year for property providing budget accommodation we had to cancel Jazz in the garden management. On 1 July funding for in The Rocks this November will also at Vaucluse House due to high winds. maintenance at Government House create a fantastic opportunity for Our smaller events – including was transferred from the Department Susannah Place, so we have agreed walking tours, family-focused of Commerce budget to the HHT to trial extended opening hours. activities, lectures and talks – and we also received $500,000 for Mike Field and the property team are continued to bring a wide range much-needed works to the paving also working closely with the Youth of people to our properties. of the eastern terrace. At The Mint Hostels Association (YHA) on a joint Our commercial activities continue to head office, the replacement of marketing campaign. grow, and I would like to congratulate the air-conditioning system was Our collections focus on historic Damian Poole and his team in Venues completed on time and on budget; gardens, interiors and architecture for winning the award of Best this was followed by significant in New South Wales, so we are very Specialty Venue for the third year redecoration work, and the pleased that our Foundation enabled running, for the complete venue redevelopment and enlargement of the Caroline Simpson Library & service. This is an extraordinary the Sydney Mint Cafe’s kitchen are Research Collection to acquire accolade, and a testimony not only being planned. further editions of Ackermann’s to the quality of The Mint as a There have been several changes in Repository of Arts, Literature, building, but to the hard work the senior management over the year. Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions team put into customer service and The Department of the Arts, Sport

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and Recreation informed us that the Deputy Director. Sue has made a post of Deputy Director was to be huge contribution to the work of the deleted on 31 January 2009. This HHT, and is behind some of our most resulted in a temporary restructure of innovative ideas such as Sydney open the Executive. Sue Hunt, Mark Viner and Festival of the olive. and Caroline Mackaness joined the Finally we are delighted that long- Executive as General Managers, and term supporters of the HHT have I would like to thank them for their been honoured. William Whitlam commitment, hard work and integrity OAM has been doing specialist during a period of great uncertainty. decorative work at HHT properties The Executive has been renamed since our inception in 1981, including Management Group, and the at Vaucluse House, Elizabeth Bay separate Finance Committee has House and Lyndhurst, as well as been abolished as the new Senior Government House. Graham Bradley Finance Manager, Ann Hicking, has AM and his wife Charlene are active joined Management Group. We have in the Foundation for the Historic reviewed and restructured both the Houses Trust. They are Phillip IT and Finance units; we have also Governors, and Graham was a donor developed an OH&S Action Plan and to the special appeal to raise funds are working on a new Learning and for the publication of the book Development Plan. : convict artist, and helped us to acquire Frank Lloyd In February the Trustees agreed to Wright’s Wasmuth Portfolio. And we create two new positions, Assistant also congratulate Anne McCormick Director Conservation & Asset OAM, antiquarian book dealer Management, and Assistant Director specialising in early Australian Learning & Outreach. The aim is to exploration and a strong long-term provide clearer leadership for two supporter of the HHT. core areas of HHT business and these positions will be recruited in the In conclusion, I would like to thank near future. all of the staff of the HHT and the Trustees for welcoming me and The external environment continues helping me through an exciting to change as the Premier has and challenging year. announced the creation of new larger Agencies. We are also working more closely with the other cultural institutions; I meet regularly with the other Directors, and we are exploring new areas of collaboration.

This year we said goodbye to Sue Kate Clark, Director Hunt, who has taken up the position 30 June 2009 of Executive Director of the Foundation at the State Library of New South Wales. Sue has been with the HHT for 25 years, working across the properties and with the Museum of Sydney and most recently as

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FANTASTIC, MAJESTIC, EYE OPENING. THANKS for KEEPING this, PLACE ALIVE. FANTASTIC, MAJESTIC, EYE. Marisa D’Andrew, 3 January 09

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Corporate governance

Trustees valuations, note the value of new acquisitions and determine appropriate global revaluations. The New South Wales Governor, on the recommendation of the Minister for the Arts, appoints nine Trustees. One COMMERCIAL LEASE COMMITTEE Trustee must have a background in history and one a The Commercial Lease Committee comprises Trustees background in architecture. Trustees are appointed for a and senior staff and meets as required to give advice term of up to three years and may be appointed for more concerning the lease of HHT properties for food services. than one term, but for no more than three consecutive terms of office. The Trustees represent a diversity of EDUCATION COMMITTEE expertise and experience in business, law, architecture, The Education Committee comprises staff and meets social history, conservation, curatorship, education and biannually to give broadbased advice and direction on management. The Trustees met ten times during the year our education activities. and also held a planning day to focus on the senior management restructure and long-term strategic issues. ENDANGERED HOUSES FUND COMMITTEE The Endangered Houses Fund Committee comprises Director and Management Group Trustees and Foundation representatives and meets The Director manages the day-to-day business of the a minimum of three times per year to provide advice organisation and is responsible for implementing the on potential acquisitions, financial management, policies of the government and the HHT. The Chairman development strategies including conservation and Director work to an annual Performance Agreement options, project management and property disposal. held with the Director-General, Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation. A seven-member Management EXHIBITIONS ADVISORY COMMITTEE (EAC) Group steers the direction of the organisation; it The EAC comprises Trustees, senior staff and external comprises the Director, two Assistant Directors, three experts and meets quarterly to give broadbased advice General Managers and the Senior Finance Manager. on our exhibition program. Management Group meets weekly. FINANCE & AUDIT COMMITTEE (FAC) Delegations The Finance & Audit Committee comprises Trustees and The occupants of key managerial positions are authorised senior staff and meets quarterly to monitor issues relating by the Minister for the Arts under Section 12 of the to finance, audit, risk management, OH&S, insurance, Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 to exercise financial investments and other relevant issues. delegation to specific limits. The Director also holds IT STEERING COMMITTEE delegation from the Director-General, Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation, in relation to personnel and The IT Steering Committee has an independent Chair, administration matters. The Department of the Arts, comprises staff and meets monthly to guide Sports and Recreation is in the process of reviewing implementation of the IT Strategic Plan and provide the personnel and administration delegations. advice to Management Group on IT-related matters. The terms of reference and composition of the committee Committees have been reviewed as part of an overall review of IT across We have 12 standing committees that help to make the HHT and a new committee will be convened next year. decisions on both policy and management. The Trustees OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY (OH&S) and the Director form ad-hoc committees from time to COMMITTEE time. Standing committees operating at the close of the year are: The OH&S Committee comprises 16 members of staff and meets every two months to conduct workplace COLLECTIONS VALUATION COMMITTEE inspections and act as the consultant group on OH&S The Collections Valuation Committee comprises staff issues. An OH&S Action Plan has been developed and meets annually to monitor the HHT’s rolling five-year and will be fully implemented next year to improve the collection valuation process, review formal independent management process of OH&S activity across the HHT.

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PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE 120-minute program. As of 1 February 2009 school The Publications Committee comprises staff and external programs at Meroogal increased to $6 per student. experts and meets quarterly to give broadbased advice Ratticus and Reidar, a theatre program for young people on our publishing program. at Hyde Park Barracks Museum, is $10 per student and the education program accompanying Shooting through: PUBLIC PROGRAMS COMMITTEE Sydney by tram at the Museum of Sydney is $8 per The Public Programs Committee comprises staff and student. Programs at Government House are free. meets biannually to give broadbased advice and direction on our events program. Risk management and insurances We are responsible for the conservation and management SECURITY COMMITTEE of 18 historic properties, some of which have limitations The Security Committee comprises staff and meets as on building works due to their heritage status, giving rise required to identify general property risks, develop plans to possible risk exposure when necessary works have to for managing risks and develop emergency strategies to be carried out. manage risks for each museum and site. Formal policies and procedures are in place for our collections and properties to address various risk STAFF AND MANAGEMENT PARTICIPATORY AND management issues: ADVISORY COMMITTEE (SAMPAC) SAMPAC comprises six elected staff from various > Disaster Preparedness Plans employee categories, two management representatives, > Occupational Health & Safety one union representative and an ex-officio member. > Total Assets Management Strategy It meets monthly. SAMPAC participates in the discussion As part of a biennial review process these policies and of issues such as flexible working hours and the Code of procedures were reviewed during the year with the next Conduct, and acts as the Classification and Grading review due in 2009–2010. Committee in reviewing the grading of staff positions. As well as these policies and procedures we use Deloitte (See page 88 for a list of committee members.) Touche Tohmatsu to review our internal controls on an agreed annual cycle. Heritage management We use the Treasury Managed Fund’s Risk Management All HHT properties are on the New South Wales State Advisory Service to help inform staff involved in our Heritage Register. The Hyde Park Barracks and the financial management. Museum of Sydney are also on the National Heritage list. The Finance & Audit Committee, chaired by Trustee All properties are maintained in good condition. Martyn Mitchell, has risk management and insurances Admission fees as a standing agenda item at its meetings and has responsibility for overseeing this area and providing Admission fees remained the same as the previous year. advice to the Board. Tickets to the Museum of Sydney and Hyde Park Barracks Museum are: general entry $10, child/concession $5 and Audit reviews family $20. All other HHT museums are: general entry $8, As part of the ongoing management of the HHT’s child/concession $4 and family ticket $17. operations, a series of audit reviews were undertaken Entry is free to The Mint, Government House and grounds, by the Internal Audit Bureau (IAB): and Vaucluse House’s garden, parklands and beach > Museum of Sydney Property Maintenance and paddock. No fee is charged for access to a number of Management significant urban spaces including Hyde Park Barracks courtyard and First Government House Place. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the fi nancial controls in place at the property. The audit fi ndings Charges to formal education programs run by the HHT are considered that the fi nancial controls in place were $6 per student for a 60-minute program, $8 per student adequate and effective. for a 90-minute program and $10 per student for a

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> Procurement and Expenditure Across the HHT > specifying recycled and tree-free paper and working The purpose of this review was to assess the adequacy with a green or FSC-certifi ed printer and effectiveness of controls on key operations and > creating e-fl yers as an alternative to printed material controls relating to procurement and in accordance > composting materials from gardens and kitchens and with HHT Purchasing Guidelines 2004 and delegations ashes from wood heaters, and using worm farms of expenditure under sections 12 and 13 of the Public > using recycled fertilisers such as fi sh, seaweed and Finance and Audit Act 1983. The review findings pelletised chicken manure throughout our gardens considered the controls adequate and effective and > chipping or composting pruned and dead timber for some opportunities for improvement were identified. use in gardens and as mulch to suppress weeds in > Financial Controls at Vaucluse House and Elizabeth Bay bushland curtilage. House The purpose of this audit was the adequacy of internal ENERGY MANAGEMENT financial controls at Vaucluse House and Elizabeth Bay We continue to utilise the New South Wales Government House. The audit findings considered the financial contract supply of energy through the contracts for large controls adequate and effective and some and small sites for electricity, which include 6 per cent opportunities for improvement were identified. green power, and the contract for the supply of gas. GreenPower was introduced at The Mint through AGL Environmental and waste Energy and is already in place at the Museum of Sydney. reduction management An energy usage plan is being developed in line with the The HHT is committed to environmental management and New South Wales Government’s sustainability targets. during the year a draft Environmental Sustainability Policy This will involve energy audits to assess current usage and Action Plan was developed. and identify areas for improved management.

WASTE REDUCTION MANAGEMENT FLEET MANAGEMENT The HHT continued to recycle as much waste as We comply with the New South Wales Government’s practicable including: Green Fleet Policy and replace working vehicles with > recycling all broken and obsolete IT hardware, toner those with higher EPA ratings. Motor vehicle usage by cartridges, fl uorescent tubes and metal HHT staff is continually monitored to achieve a reduction > reusing building material where possible, including in greenhouse emissions. hardware, showcases and frames from exhibitions WATER MANAGEMENT > increasing the range and quality of recycled materials We abide by the current New South Wales water purchased restrictions, despite the HHT having an exemption issued. > using re-manufactured toner cartridges for printers, photocopiers and fax machines Ethical standards > donating used plinths and showcases to artist-run galleries, leftover exhibition-related material to Our Code of Conduct was adopted in 2000. It is included Reverse Garbage and old AV equipment to charity in the package of material given to all new staff, is required reading on our induction list for new staff and > donating and selling exhibition content, showcases is an integral part of any staff and management training. and graphics to other museums, for example Shooting through: Sydney by tram was donated to Sydney There were two incidents of staff breaching the Code of Tramways Museum, and Cook’s sites was sold to The Conduct in this reporting year. Captain Cook Birthplace Museum, Middlesbrough, The Trustees’ Code of Conduct, which was adopted England in 2003, is specific to Board members and is required > double-sided printing and reusing single-side printed reading for new Trustees as part of their induction. paper

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Records Guarantee of service The HHT recognises the value of its information, records Our guarantee of service pledges: The Historic Houses and knowledge as corporate assets. These assets include Trust of New South Wales serves the community by information and records about our properties, collections conserving and presenting its properties to the highest and non-current files. possible standard by exploring, through its many We have an electronic record-keeping information system programs, the history of people and places of New South at The Mint and full implementation to all properties is Wales. The guarantee of service and general customer scheduled in the coming fi nancial year. All HHT records service information are a topic of discussion at staff are protected in accordance with personal privacy, inductions. sercurity and commercial confi dentiality standards, principles and obligations. Consumer response As we are a service-based organisation, customer Freedom of information feedback is of prime importance to us and is closely During the reporting period 2008–09 there were no monitored. We keep visitors books and evaluation forms FOI applications lodged. at each property and monitor them regularly. In an endeavour to become more accountable and In addition, a general file is maintained for written transparent and to meet best practice the HHT has taken compliments and complaints. Each complaint is dealt with a proactive decision to disclose information to the public in writing: minor complaints by the museum or unit where by publishing policy documents on our website at the complaint was received and major complaints by the www.hht.net.au. These include: Director or a member of Management Group. > Collections Management Policy During the year we received 83 compliments in total: our museums (11), Caroline Simpson Library & Research > Regional Involvement Policy Collection (2), Endangered Houses Fund (1), venues (46), > Disability Access Policy events (2), website (8), exhibitions (4) and miscellaneous Exhibitions Policy > (10). Fifteen complaints were received in total: our > Flags at HHT Properties Policy museums (6), events (1), cafés (1), shops (2), website (2) > Acceptance and Disposal of Real Property Policy and miscellaneous (3). > Occupational Health and Safety Policy > Vaucluse House Dog Management Policy Privacy Management Plan > Dog Policy We have a Privacy Management Plan, modelled on other > Privacy Policy New South Wales museums’ plans, and our Records Manager is the Privacy Officer. We have had no To access documents under the Freedom of Information complaints regarding noncompliance with the plan during Act 1989, please apply in writing to: the reporting period 2008–09. Colleen Kremer, Records Manager Historic Houses Trust Grants given The Mint During the year, grants totalling $22.6m were received 10 Macquarie Street from the Department of the Arts, Sport and Recreation Sydney, NSW 2000 for recurrent, capital and other special expenditure. T 02 8239 2288 | F 02 8239 2299 | [email protected] A fee of $30 (GST included) will be charged for the service. Land disposal Arrangements can be made to obtain copies or inspect No land was disposed of during the reporting year. documents by contacting the above officer. Major works in progress (See page 28 for details.)

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FASCINATING stories, BEAUTIFULLY presented … The work of architectural historians so often Willconcerns keep buildings COMING which BACK.have disappeared or

Dr J areCaska, Gosford, under NSW threat.

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The HHT’s Corporate Plan EXHIBITIONS > Tails of the city: Sydney’s passion 2006–10 drives the organisation. Eight new exhibitions and two new for pets The development of the plan drew displays were developed, attracting > Danny Huynh: rituals and on input from a wide range of staff more than 168,000 visitors to our four traditions of Sydney representing all divisions, properties exhibition venues. A discernible trend > Shooting through: Sydney by tram in exhibitions has been engagement and units across the HHT. > Glenn Murcutt: architecture for with new audiences through creating place diverse learning opportunities. This Femme fatale: the female criminal Goal 1 was evident in the family-friendly > content and hands-on interactivity > Sydney visionaries (semi- Continue to maintain of Tails of the city: Sydney’s passion permanent exhibition) our core properties and for pets and the workable tram collections and continue driver’s cabin in Shooting through: DISPLAYS Sydney by tram. Irish orphan girls to deliver associated > > Lost gardens of Sydney > Exposure programs > David Mist: swinging Sydney

Total Total Avg Dates EXHIBITIONS Location visitors days daily 2009 visitors

Convict hulks: Hyde Park Barracks 67,743 363 187 1 July 08 – 30 June 09 life on the prison ships* Museum

Sydney’s pubs: Justice & Police 15,998 212 75 1 July 08 – 22 February 09 liquor, larrikins and the law** Museum Justice & Police Femme fatale: the female criminal*** 11,502 113 102 7 March – 30 June 09 Museum Sydney views 1788–1888: from Museum of Sydney 5,798 27 215 1 July – 27 July 08 the Beat Knoblauch collection**** Flying boats: Museum of Sydney 2,467 12 206 1 July – 14 September 08 Sydney’s golden age of aviation+ Lost gardens of Sydney Museum of Sydney 22,891 114 201 9 August – 30 November 08

David Mist: swinging Sydney+ Museum of Sydney 1,503 12 125 27 September 08 – 8 February 09 Tails of the city: Museum of Sydney 20,589 99 208 13 December 08 – 22 March 09 Sydney’s passion for pets Danny Huynh: Museum of Sydney 1,423 12 119 14 February – 8 June 09 rituals and traditions of Sydney Shooting through: Sydney by tram++ Museum of Sydney 18,383 87 211 4 April – 30 June 09 Glenn Murcutt: Museum of Sydney – – – 13 June – 30 June 09 architecture for place++

Exhibition fi gures include paid, education, free, and public programs and exclude hirings, other, cafe and grounds, and functions * This exhibition was produced in 2007–08 and will continue into the 2009–10 fi nancial year ** This exhibition was produced in 2007–08 *** This exhibition was produced in 2008–09 and will continue into the 2009–10 fi nancial year **** This exhibition was produced in 2006–07 + These exhibitions ran concurrently with other temporary exhibitions in the Focus Gallery. Visitor fi gures are only for the period when the Focus Gallery was closed for exhibition changeover ++ These exhibitions continue into the 2009–10 fi nancial year. Glenn Murcutt: architecture for place ran concurrently with Shooting through: Sydney by tram.

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EDUCATION The British Settlement theme relating Two staff from the Indonesian More than 54,000 students to convicts and contact with Presidential Palace in Jakarta who participated in education programs indigenous peoples continues to be were awarded Endeavour Executive across the HHT, including 36,000 the most popular program across grants by Government primary school students and more four of our properties – Elizabeth to study English and museology at than 15,000 secondary students. Farm, Rouse Hill House & Farm, Sydney University served a one-month Museum of Sydney and Hyde Park placement at Government House. Hyde Park Barracks Museum Barracks Museum – and attracted received the highest school visitation (See also page 74.) more than 20,000 primary-aged on record with more than 16,000 students. students visiting during the year, representing 30 per cent of the Throughout the year, the HHT hosted overall school visitation to the HHT’s a number of interns from museum 11 properties offering school studies programs at Sydney education programs. University and Macquarie University and marketing programs at the University of Technology Sydney.

TRAVELLING Visitors Daily Location Days Dates EXHIBITIONS 2009 Visitors

Meroogal Women’s Arts Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, 30 August – 24 1,700 26 65 Prize* Nowra September 2008

3 October – 22 October Spiral Gallery, Bega 835 21 40 2008

30 January – 1 March Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 356 32 11 2009

Tuggeranong Arts Centre** 445 22 20 5 March – 29 March 2009

Gunnedah 726 121 6 8 April – 7 May 2009

Drugs: a social history Museum 225,719 97 2,327 1 July – 5 October 2008

1 July 2008 – 30 June Regional police stations Wentworth Gaol*** 7,820 366 21 2009

30 September – 26 Nissen hut exhibition Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery 2,671 27 99 October 2008

Total 253,802

* Meroogal Women’s Arts Prize at Members Lounge, The Mint, 29 October 2008 – 26 January 2009 ** Tuggeranong Arts Centre does not have a formal counting system; this fi gure is an estimate *** Exhibition began in 2006–07 and continues into 2009–10 fi nancial year

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EVENTS COLLECTIONS Goal 2 More than 32,000 visitors attended The Caroline Simpson Library & 367 events across our 12 museums Research Collection, through funding Continue to develop as well as outreach activities. These by the Foundation, acquired further our public profi le and included nine large-scale events, editions of Ackermann’s Repository tours, talks, walking tours and of Arts, Literature, Commerce, audience collaborative projects with external Manufactures, Fashions and Politics partners. Sydney open sold out and (1809–1828) and now is the only public REGIONAL Jazz in the garden at Vaucluse House collection in New South Wales to hold The Hon Nathan Rees, MP, Premier was cancelled due to unsafe weather. a full set. The journal is one of the of New South Wales, was special guest at the official opening of Event revenue substantially increased most important source books on Newstead. The opening marked the during the year as a result of a the furnishing and dress of early-19th- culmination of a joint project between review of the pricing of major events. century England and is notable for its the HHT and Inverell Shire Council Compared with 2006–07, the previous 1491 colour plates. to secure the long-term future of the financial year to include Sydney open, A rare 19th-century watercolour of oldest surviving homestead and revenue was up approximately 48 per an Anglo-Indian colonial domestic garden in the Inverell Shire. A plan of cent. interior and a collection of related management is now in place and will scrapbooks and albums were bought Changes in how visitor numbers are be administered by the Newstead at auction. The watercolour helps allocated across the HHT resulted in Advisory Committee. an overall decrease in public program elucidate 19th-century interior The Department of the Arts, Sport visitor numbers from last financial furnishing in New South Wales by and Recreation contributed $100,000 year primarily through providing relevant information from to the Built for the bush exhibition figures being counted at individual another English colony with close currently being developed by the properties. links to this state and is provenanced to a great-grandson of Cordelia Ellen HHT. The funding will enable objects Thomas (1835–1857), who came to from the HHT and the major state New South Wales in 1852. cultural institutions to be included in the exhibition and travel to selected A large tempera painting of the venues in regional NSW. State drawing room commissioned by the HHT from noted Sydney artist Peter Godwin has been bought for the Government House collection.

Total MAJOR EVENTS Location Date Visitors

Fifties fair Rose Seidler House 4,727 24 August 2008

Garden music Government House 2,702 19 October 2008

Rustic Vaucluse House 449 26 October 2008

Sydney open 2008 HHT + Outreach 5,000 2 November 2008

Meroogal garden fair Meroogal 438 16 November 2008

Open house Rose Seidler House 1,160 7 & 8 March 2009

Governor’s bushfire fundraiser Government House 2,180 8 March 2009

We’re living in the 70s Susannah Place Museum 4,363 29 March 2009

Redcoats and convicts Hyde Park Barracks 2,018 31 May 2009

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PARTNERSHIPS > Sydney Festival PUBLICATIONS A significant partnership was > University of Western Australia The HHT published the following established with the University of Press books during the year: New South Wales to commence > Lost gardens of Sydney by Colleen the undergraduate elective course > Australasian Occupational Morris in association with the Historic Interiors 1790–1950. The Science Centre, University exhibition of the same name held course, offered through the Faculty of Wollongong at the Museum of Sydney of the Built Environment, Interior > International Women’s Day Shooting through: Sydney by tram Architecture program, provides Collective students of architecture, interior by Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Annie > Shoalhaven Museums and Arts Campbell and Howard Clark in architecture, design and history with Trail group an introduction to the study of association with the exhibition of > Fairfi eld City Museum and Gallery historically significant interiors, their the same name held at the Museum Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal conservation and management. > of Sydney Art and Culture Studio The course involves field trips to Femme fatale: the female criminal HHT properties and examines the > Greek Festival of Sydney by Nerida Campbell in association determination of significance and > Sydney Learning Adventures with the exhibition of the same name value of historic interiors, their design > Sydney Harbour Foreshore held at the Justice & Police Museum and decoration and strategies for Authority The Mint project edited by Robert their conservation and sustainable > Millers Point Festival Griffin. management. > Sydney Writers’ Festival Museums & Galleries NSW and the > Sydney Design Week VIRTUAL VISITORS Museum of Sydney held two joint > Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery Our website attracted more than seminars on the theme of Import/ > Sydney University Masters of 503,780 visits during the year. Export Asian–Australian Creative Teaching Exchange. > Technology Educators The HHT continued to work in Association partnership with: > Inverell Shire Council > School of the Built Environment, > Baulkham Hills TAFE University of New South Wales > University of Newcastle > National Trust (NSW) > Museums & Galleries NSW > Bundanon Trust

MEDIA COVERAGE 2009 2008 2007 OUTREACH 2009 2008 2007 2006

Print and online articles 1,120 426 397 Paid admissions

Radio interviews 212 163 142 Public programs 5,736 1,930 7,066 2,391

Television stories 14 24 41 Education 257 513 406 788

Properties 2,253 4,083 1,226 1,866

TOTAL 8,246 6,526 8,698 5,045

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AUSTRALIA/OVERSEAS AUSTRALIA

New South Wales 82% 12% Australia 69% 3% Overseas 31% Western Australia 3%

NEW SOUTH WALES

Eastern suburbs 32% Inner city 18% Inner west 7% South Sydney 7% Western Sydney 7% Northern Sydney 17% Rural NSW 12%

PAID ADMISSION 1980–2009 (inc general admission, public programs, venue hire, education and GH tours)

350,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 94 – 95 94 81 – 82 81 93 – 94 95 – 96 01 – 0201 96 – 97 91 – 92 80 – 81 97 – 98 87 – 88 86 – 87 02 – 03 92 – 93 82 – 83 06 – 07 90 – 91 07 – 08 88 – 89 00 – 01 85 – 86 84 – 85 89 – 90 83 – 84 03 – 04 98 – 99 05 – 06 04 – 05 08 – 09 99 – 00

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VISITOR BREAKDOWN 2009 % difference 2008 2007

PAID ADMISSION* General public 151,390 4 145,369 168,439

Education 54,384 -2 55,598 52,886

Public programs 18,652 -14 21,598 16,831

Venue hire 100,032 13 88,716 71,217

Outreach** 8,246 26 6,526 8,698

Subtotal 332,704 5 317,807 318,071

Free entry Complimentary tickets 52,670 36 38,812 35,354

Free public programs*** 10,842 -55 23,790 37,190

Government House 152,697 32 115,405 114,514

Other** 364,458 -29 477,060 519,134

Subtotal 580,667 -16 655,067 706,192

TOURING EXHIBITIONS Meroogal Women’s Arts Prize 4,062 -78 18,547 3,572

Regional police stations 7,820 -5 8,204 15,715

Cook’s sites 13,530 -70 45,626 30,124

Joseph Lycett: convict artist –– –28,082

Drugs: a social history 225,719 72 130,830 40,278

Nissen hut student design competition 2,671–––

Subtotal 253,802 25 203,207 117,771

Total 1,167,173 -4 1,176,081 1,142,034

GROUNDS (through traffi c)+ Hyde Park Barracks Museum forecourt 2,671 – – – First Government House Place – 601,127 -10 669,600 669,600 Museum of Sydney Vaucluse House – parklands and beach paddock 6,099 26 4,844 4,860

Subtotal 847,019 -6 897,341 904,795

GRAND TOTAL 2,014,192 -5 2,112,170 2,046,828

* Paid admission also includes education visits, public programs and venue hire at Government House (10,470). General admission to Government House is free so these numbers are reported as Government House under Free entry (excluding free public programs). Paid admission also includes the following visitor statistics from The Mint: public programs (1559) and venue hire (19,232). Free entry also includes the following statistics from The Mint: complimentary tickets (29,556). ** Outreach consists of 5,736 public programs, 257 education programs and 2,253 properties outreach. *** Free public programs this year include Australia Day entry at The Mint, Government House. + Includes site visits, cafes, shops, public sculptures and a percentage of people visiting the parklands and beach paddock at Vaucluse House. Grounds, cafe and shop figures are as accurate as possible; calculations are based on estimated numbers.

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Goal 3 Goal 4 Goal 5 Develop and maintain Develop and manage Develop major capital staff expertise the Endangered Houses works Fund (EHF) program Work began on development of an as a new initative ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM organisation-wide corporate training The New South Wales Government and development plan to aid better provided funding of $3.5m spread The EHF acquired a Nissen hut at mapping of training activities and over 2008–09 and 2009–10 to Lake Macquarie, one of 50 built resources required plus identification develop the former Rouse Hill Public during the 1950s to provide housing of skills gaps. School into an education facility and for postwar migrants. An ideas provide associated security, car A number of career development competition was held with parking, services infrastructure and opportunities were made available architecture students from the landscaping. Following approval to staff during the year: University of Newcastle to generate of the development application, innovative solutions for how to adapt > Jane Kelso, Project Offi cer Kinsley Constructions Pty Ltd were a Nissen hut for contemporary living Research, was awarded the 2009 awarded the contract. The new and to generate ideas to influence Phillip Kent Staff Development education facility is scheduled the design of proposed work to the Scholarship generously funded to open in February 2010. by the Members. Nissen hut owned by the HHT, with construction scheduled to commence Planning continued on the more > Ruth Williams, Media Relations in spring 2009. ambitious project for the property to Manager, and David Wilson, provide a new museum and cultural Extensive conservation work began Building Trades and Maintenance centre for western Sydney. Manager, were joint recipients of at Exeter Farm and it is intended the property will be sold freehold for the 2009 HHT/UK National Trust THE MINT Exchange Program. residential purposes. Replacement of air-conditioning in Negotiations continued concerning the front building of The Mint was the freehold sale of Glenfield with completed on time and on budget the aim of placing the property on with only minimal disruption to the market in spring 2009. commercial activity in the building. (See also page 75.) Significant redecoration was undertaken and further redevelopment and enlargement of the Sydney Mint Cafe’s kitchen is being planned.

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Goal 6 Goal 7 Increase our earned Responsibly and revenue through efficiently manage commercial activity and our fi nances and philanthropy to maintain public resources to core activities improve our operational effectiveness The HHT’s earned revenue in 2008–09 accounted for 26 per cent In light of the continued decrease in of the total operating budget. This interest rates an investment strategy is a 2 per cent decrease from the was developed to deposit some previous year primarily as a result funds in fixed deposit accounts to of the global financial crisis. increase interest earnings. HHT venues delivered 633 The changes in property opening commercial venue hire and filming times made in 2008 were reviewed. and photography activities to more Opening hours at Vaucluse House than 100,000 guests. There was a and Elizabeth Farm were slightly following page: top row, l–r : Historic Houses Trust curators 3 per cent increase in government extended to match demonstrated clientele and a 4 per cent decrease in Caleb Williams with a pair of 18th-century silver- visitor demand during school mounted fl intlock pistols. the corporate client base. Business holidays. Opening hours were also Justice & Police Museum Collection from recurrent clientele remained Caroline Butler-Bowdon with a Strathallen box, reviewed at Susannah Place Museum John William Lewin (attrib), maker unknown, c1820. Caroline Simpson Collection steady at 35 per cent. All venues and it was agreed to trial new reported an increase in revenue Ann Toy with a blackwood table designed by opening hours when the youth hostel Charles Wilson and made by David Herring, 2007. Government House Collection apart from the Museum of Sydney opposite the museum opens in which, due to its large corporate scond row, l-r: November. Annie Campbell with a clay pipe. client base, experienced the greatest Museum of Sydney Archaeology Collection impact of the global financial crisis. A review of ticket prices for all HHT Inara Walden with a shellwork Harbour Bridge events and assessment of a number by Gloria Ardler. Museum of Sydney Collection Strong growth in filming and Barbara Konkolowicz with a pair of babies’ photography at Rouse Hill House & of free and minor public programs shoes belonging to June Wallace, c1918. increased revenue from public Meroogal Collection Farm helped to balance the revenue Robert Griffi n with a presentation set of bronze loss from the Museum of Sydney. programs by 48 per cent. medals from the Great Exhibition, London, 1851. The Mint Collection The Board approved development To better manage bookings for third row, l–r: education programs across the Scott Carlin with a screen tile from Guandong of a retail shop in the front building province, China, used with others as a garden of The Mint to increase our earned HHT additional licences were edging at Vaucluse House, c1860. purchased for the Events Perfect Vaucluse House Collection revenue, raise the HHT’s profile on Megan Martin with a carte-de-visite photograph Macquarie Street and exploit our rich booking system. User guidelines and of a house in taken around August 1870 protocols have been developed and by the American and Australasian Photographic collections. The two reception areas Company. will be reduced to one, which will the system will go ‘live’ across the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection properties on 1 July 2009. The system Scott Hill with a covered ice pail/wine cooler with operate out of the Engine Room handles, England, Flight Barr & Barr, c1825. in the rear building. The shop is will produce more comprehensive Caroline Simpson Collection reports and provide a better picture bottom row, l-r: scheduled to open in November Gary Crockett with a shell-bordered 19th-century 2009. of education activity across the HHT. postcard found under fl oorboards on level 2 of the Hyde Park Barracks. The final stage of the e-commerce Hyde Park Barracks Archaeology Collection Anna Cossu with photos of Ernie and Jack Andersen, project, ticketing, went live and tenants of Nos 58 & 64. revenue generated through the Susannah Place Museum Fergus Clunie with a hand-wrought, galvanised website increased by 100 per cent. roofi ng nail of the type supplied to fasten the fi rst generation of galvanised corrugated iron roofi ng Our online retail operations will exported to Australia from England in the 1850s. now be included as appropriate Rouse Hill House & Farm Matthew Scott with an owl fairy light c1895. on printed material produced by Rouse Hill Collection the HHT. Photographs © Paolo Busato

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The WORK of ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS so often CONCERNS BUILDINGS which have DISAPPEARED or are UNDER THREAT. It was VERY ENCOURAGING to VISIT the HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST in SYDNEY and LEARN about its WORK in EDUCATION and CONSERVATION.

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Trustees

JILL WRAN BA MBA FAIM, CHAIRMAN ELAINE LAWSON BA (Hons) Jill Wran has given many years of honorary service to the Elaine Lawson lives near Nimmitabel, south of Cooma, cultural life of New South Wales while maintaining strong and is a conservation and curatorial consultant. From business interests in the community. Currently on 1989 to 2001 Elaine was the senior curator with the the boards of SMEC Holdings Ltd and NSW Cultural ACT Government’s Cultural Facilities Corporation. Management (Sydney Theatre), she is also on the Council She has also lectured in heritage and curatorship at of the University of New England. Jill still serves as a key the University of , Australian National University, member of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Curtin University and Canberra Institute of Technology. Trust, which she chaired for five years from June 2000. Since 1990 she has been a curatorial and interpretation Formerly on the boards of the New South Wales State adviser on various conservation projects. She has been Conservatorium of Music, the Sydney Symphony a member of the Official Establishments Trust since Orchestra, the Centennial and Moore Parks Trust and the 1999. Elaine is a member of the Council of the Australiana Sydney Opera House Trust, she is Patron of Greening Fund and was a foundation member of the Board of Australia (NSW). Jill was appointed a Trustee on 1 January Australia’s Open Garden Scheme. She was appointed 2001 and Chairman on 1 January 2002, and her current as a Trustee on 1 January 2003 and her term expired term expires on 31 December 2009. on 31 December 2008.

KEITH COTTIER AM AASTC LFRAIA GRACE KARSKENS Keith Cottier is one of Australia’s most highly regarded Dr Grace Karskens has worked in history, heritage and and awarded architects. A Director of Allen Jack + Cottier historical archaeology for the past 30 years and now since 1965, he has been a driving force behind the quality teaches Australian history and public history in the School of the company’s work, which, in that period, has been of History and Philosophy at the University of New South recognised by an unequalled number of design awards. Wales. She has held a number of Australian Research In 2001 he was awarded the Gold Medal, the Royal Council grants and has published extensively and Australian Institute of Architects’ highest honour. He was internationally in Australian colonial and convict history, appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004. urban and environmental history and historical Keith has had a continuing involvement in heritage archaeology. Grace’s books include Inside The Rocks: conservation, serving as a Commissioner of the Australian the archaeology of a neighbourhood and the multi-award Heritage Commission for six years, as a Member of the winning The Rocks: life in early Sydney. She is interested Heritage Council of New South Wales for three years, in promoting historical understanding and awareness and also in property management as a Member of the to wide audiences and is currently on the boards of the Authority and the City West Development Dictionary of Sydney, the National Museum of Australia’s Corporation. Some of the high-profile heritage projects reCollections journal and a number of other international completed under Keith’s direction include Wylie’s Baths, scholarly journals. Her latest book, The colony: a history the Argyle Centre, the Submarine Mine Depot at Chowder of early Sydney, was released by Allen & Unwin in 2009. Bay and Penfold’s Magill Estate in . Keith was Grace was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2008 and appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2007 and his current her current term expires on 31 December 2010. term expires on 31 December 2009. CAROL LISTON BA (Hons) PhD FRAHS BRUCE HAMBRETT LLM Carol Liston is Associate Professor in History at the Bruce Hambrett is a partner with Baker & McKenzie and University of Western Sydney. She holds a PhD from the a former General Counsel of SingTel Optus Limited. He . Her research covers early colonial is a director of the Pacific Opera Company Limited and history in New South Wales, with interests in people a former chair of the Media and Communications Law (convict, colonial born and free immigrant), local history, Committee, Business Law Section, with the Law Council heritage and the built environment. Her particular of Australia. He was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January interest is the colonial development of the County 2006 and his current term expires on 31 December 2011. of Cumberland.

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Carol’s current projects include researching and writing setting the definitions and methodologies for the creative histories of Liverpool and its heritage places, such as industries as a sector of the economy which has since been Collingwood House. A continuing research interest is taken up officially by the UK government. In 2005 John was women in the convict period. In 2008 she worked on commissioned to redesign ’s cultural centre as an the history of the at Parramatta in a urban place. John’s work has directly influenced UK partnership with Parramatta Heritage Centre for an government policy on town and city centre revitalisation, exhibition. This has opened up new areas of research the evening economy, the ‘urban renaissance’, the 24-hour into the convict women and their work. She continues to city, urban design, creative industry clusters and city research the Female Orphan School at Parramatta, now cultural development. His latest book, The new wealth a campus of UWS. Carol was appointed as a Trustee in of cities, was published in 2007. John was appointed 2009 and her current term expires on 31 December 2011. as a Trustee in 2009 and his current term expires on 31 December 2011.

BRUCE MCWILLIAM BEc LLB (Hons) Bruce McWilliam has been an executive director of Seven PENELOPE PIKE BA Dip T&CP Network Limited since 2003. Bruce previously worked as Penelope Pike is a conservation planner who has the General Counsel of News International PLC in London specialised in heritage studies for local government areas and as an executive director of British Sky Broadcasting and in preparing and implementing local environmental PLC. He is on the Council of St Pauls College, University plans and detailed control plans for historic towns, of Sydney, and is Chairman of the Sydney Law School precincts and suburbs. Penelope has served on the Urban Advisory Committee. Bruce was appointed as a Trustee Conservation Committee of the National Trust, was on 1 January 2003 and his term expired on 31 December Founding Chairman of its Cemeteries Committee and 2008. represented the National Trust on the Heritage Council. She is currently on the Board of Trustees for Eryldene and Parramatta Park. She was appointed as a Trustee MARTYN MITCHELL BscChemEng ICAEW ICAA on 1 January 2002 and her current term expires on Martyn Mitchell has more than 30 years experience as an 31 December 2010. auditor and business adviser, including 20 years as a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Martyn has held a number of senior management positions within PETER TONKIN BScArch (Hons) BArch (Hons) FRAIA PwC and has extensive experience with major public Peter Tonkin graduated as an architect with first-class companies in Australia and Asia. He is currently a Director honours from the University of Sydney in 1977. He joined of the New South Wales Bible Society and was previously Brian Zulaikha in 1987 to form Tonkin Zulaikha Greer a Vice-Chairman of the Australia China Business Council. (TZG) Architects, known for its strong urban design. Martyn is the Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee. TZG’s projects include a specialist library for the Royal He was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2005 and his Blind Society, which won a merit award in 1991 from the current term expires on 31 December 2009. RAIA; the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, winner of two RAIA awards; the National Memorial to the Australian DR JOHN MONTGOMERY BSC PHD MRTPI FRSA Vietnam Forces; and the Tomb of an Unknown Australian Soldier in Canberra. TZG also worked on the refurbishment John Montgomery is a town planner and urban economist of Customs House; the multi-award winning solar-powered specialising in the creative industries, arts strategy and Plaza Lighting Towers for the Sydney Olympics; and, in place-making: the economy, culture and design of cities. collaboration with artist Janet Laurence, the Australian Much of his experience is drawn from the United Kingdom War Memorial in London. Peter has taught architecture and Ireland, dating from the mid-1980s, and with his and lectured extensively in Australia and New Zealand. London-based firm Urban Cultures Ltd since 1991. John He has been widely published. He was appointed as a prepared the first creative industries economic Trustee on 1 January 2005 and his current term expires development strategy in the UK, for Manchester and the on 31 December 2010. North-west, and went on to produce the first cross- London study of, and strategy for, the creative industries,

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KATE CLARK MIKE FIELD BSC (HONS) DIRECTOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, MARKETING & BUSINESS Kate commenced as Director for the Historic Houses DEVELOPMENT Trust on 20 October 2008. Kate is a heritage consultant Mike Field joined the HHT in January 2007. Formerly he with experience in industrial archaeology, museums, was Deputy Marketing Manager and Head of Publicity at landscapes, funding, teaching, statutory protection, SBS Television for eight years, and before that Marketing research, policy development and management. Kate’s Manager at the Sydney Morning Herald. His previous expertise includes evaluating the economic and social work experience includes time with publishers in the benefits of heritage conservation, including historic United Kingdom and Australia, as well as three years at buildings and industrial and landscape archaeology. the where he was responsible for Kate is a Sydneysider who has been based in the United publishing the museum’s magazine Nature Australia and Kingdom for the past 25 years. She worked with the for other revenue-raising initiatives. Ironbridge Gorge Museums Trust, the Council for British Archaeology and English Heritage before joining the ANNE HICKING BBus, CPA Heritage Lottery Fund as Deputy Director of Policy and SENIOR FINANCE MANAGER Research. Kate previously ran a consultancy specialising in heritage policy, practice and planning with clients Anne Hicking joined the HHT in January 2009. Formerly including the States of Jersey, Sir John Soane’s Museum she was the Executive Director, Corporate Services & and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. She has Chief Finance Officer for the Federal Magistrates Court. published widely on industrial archaeology, conservation, Before that Anne was the Chief Finance Officer for the heritage management, sustainable development and the Federal Court of Australia, a position she held for four wider value of heritage. Kate has also coordinated years. Her previous work experience includes time as workshops and taught in the UK as well as in Ireland, the Finance Manager for the Embassy of Australia in South Africa, Slovenia, Canada and the United States. Washington DC, as well as more than 18 years financial management experience within the Commonwealth Government. NICHOLAS MALAXOS BA (ECON) AFAIM ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, MANAGEMENT SERVICES CAROLINE MACKANESS BA DIP MUSEUM STUDIES Nicholas Malaxos joined the HHT in 1995 from the GENERAL MANAGER, PROPERTIES Earth Exchange Museum and prior to that Film Australia. Nicholas is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute Caroline Mackaness joined the HHT in 1990 and has of Management and a member of the Institute of Public contributed as a curator to major museum projects at the Administration in Australia. He is Chairman of the Greek– Hyde Park Barracks Museum, the Justice & Police Museum Australian Museum Foundation and has assisted with the and the Museum of Sydney. Caroline was Exhibitions exchange of major exhibitions between and Coordinator from 1992 to 1999 and Head of the Australia, including 1000 years of Olympic Games at the Exhibitions and Publications Unit from 1999 to 2006, with in 2000; Our place, a contemporary responsibilities as Acting Properties Coordinator from Indigenous exhibition at the Benaki Museum, Athens, 2002. In 2006 she was appointed General Manager, in 2004; and the Greek treasures exhibition at the Properties, responsible for Government House, Elizabeth Powerhouse Museum in 2005. Bay House, Vaucluse House, Meroogal, Rouse Hill House & Farm and the Justice & Police Museum. Before joining the HHT Caroline was Curator of the Australian Bicentennial travelling exhibition and Collection Manager for the Robert Holmes à Court Collection. Caroline has curated and contributed to numerous exhibitions on Sydney’s social and urban history including Sydney by ferry, Sydney from the skies and Sydney’s pubs: liquor, larrikins and the law. She curated and edited the major exhibition and publication Bridging Sydney for the

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75th anniversary of the in 2007, Staff co-authored Sydney then & now and co-curated Sydney at Federation. Staff are involved in the management of the organisation through the Staff and Management Participatory and Advisory Committee (SAMPAC). MARK VINER GENERAL MANAGER, PROPERTIES (See pages 16 and 88.) Mark Viner studied Modern History and History of Art at Cambridge University and has worked extensively in Training the arts and heritage industries in the United Kingdom Eighty-five staff attended a variety of training programs and Europe, as well as in Australia, for more than 20 years. including skills-based courses, conferences and seminars. The HHT’s Head of Public Programs for seven years, Mark was appointed General Manager, Properties, in Staff representation 2007. He is responsible for Elizabeth Farm, Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Museum of Sydney, Rose Seidler We employ 18 staff members from non-English speaking House, Susannah Place Museum, The Mint, Caroline (NESB) backgrounds, 17 of whom spoke a language other Simpson Library & Research Collection and the than English as a child. Volunteers Program. We employ five members of staff with a disability, of whom two required some form of adjustment to the workplace. We have two indigenous employees.

Major occupation group 2009 Staff representation ABS: ANZSCO* (FTEs) by salary Managers 36.5 Salary level Total staff* Women NESB Professionals 50.2 < $36,677 4 4 0 Technicians and trades workers 17 $36,677 – $48,172 63 40 5 Community and personal service workers 44.3 $48,173 – $53,854 33 25 1 Clerical and administrative workers 36.6 $53,855 – $68,147 52 36 6 Sales workers 9.2 $68,148 – $88,127 56 35 3 Machinery operators and drivers 1.2 $88,128 – $110,160 14 7 2 Labourers 5.6 > $110,160 (non-SES) 2 0 1 Unidentified 0 > $110,160 (SES) 2 1 0 Total 200.6 Total 6 148 18

* Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations * Headcount and non-casual employees

page 40, photographs (detail), top row, clockwise from left: Government House, photograph © Leo Rocker | Susannah Place Museum, photograph © Jody Pachniuk | Museum of Sydney, photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall | Vaucluse House, photograph © Scott Hill | Meroogal, photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall | second row, l–r: Elizabeth Farm, photograph © Christopher Shain | Hyde Park Barracks, photograph © Leo Rocker | The Mint, photograph © Paolo Busato | bottom row, l–r: Justice & Police Museum, photograph © Jenni Carter | Elizabeth Bay House, photograph © Scott Carlin | Rose Seidler House, photograph © Justin Mackintosh | Rouse Hill House & Farm, photograph © Patrick Bingham-Hall

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MINISTER FOR THE ARTS

DEPARTMENT OF Foundation BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE ARTS, SPORT & RECREATION

Members DIRECTOR

Endangered Houses Fund

Directorate

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Marketing & Business Management Services Development

Marketing Administration Retail Finance & Systems Sponsorship Human Resources Venues Legal Public Programs Unit Education Unit

GENERAL MANAGER GENERAL MANAGER Properties Properties

Elizabeth Farm Caroline Simpson Library Elizabeth Bay House Hyde Park Barracks Museum & Research Collection Government House Museum of Sydney Design Unit Justice & Police Museum Rose Seidler House Exhibitions Meroogal & Publications Unit Susannah Place Museum Rouse Hill House & Farm The Mint Vaucluse House Collections Management Unit Volunteers Program Properties Unit Properties Unit

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HISTORY LESSONS SHOULD be CONDUCTED here RATHER than INSIDE a SCHOOL ROOM.

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The Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection is open to anyone with an interest in the history of house and garden design and interior furnishing in New South Wales.

The Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection was established as the Lyndhurst Conservation Resource Centre in 1984 and renamed in 2004. The collection supports the HHT’s work of interpreting and managing places of cultural signifi cance in New South Wales and provides a specialist research resource for scholars, heritage and conservation practitioners and museum professionals. The collection’s scope is broad, covering houses and gardens of all kinds and ranging from the 19th century to the present day. It includes material across a wide range of formats: architectural pattern books; manufacturers’ trade catalogues and sample books; wall coverings; fl oor coverings; garden ornaments; curtain and blind hardware; door and window furniture; soft furnishings and trimmings; personal papers and manuscripts; pictures; and books and periodicals.

The PEOPLE of NSW are so LUCKY to HAVE such an INSTITUTION to RECORD our HERITAGE and HAVE SUCH KNOWLEDGEABLE PEOPLE who WORK in it.

Michael Antill, Bellevue Hill, NSW

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A YEAR IN REVIEW their inaugural Historic interiors 1790 –1950 course. Students > Public awareness of the research enrolled in the course were among value of our collections and of the 800 people who came to the the specialist reference resource library in group visits during the provided by our library staff year. It is significant that, in an era continued to grow steadily. of increasing online access and As in previous years, the growth the library’s own growing is indicated through visitor electronic presence, tertiary numbers, which include ‘virtual’ teachers continue to bring visits to our web pages. A more students to the physical library subtle indication of growing space. It reflects the value that awareness of some of the rare they place on access to rare material in our collections has heritage material and recognises come through the national the expertise of our library staff interlibrary loan system. Almost and curators. 25 per cent of requests received have been for rare books and > The library continued to play an trade catalogues held only by active role in bringing its unique the HHT. perspective to the Australian library profession and in August > A total of 680 items from the rare 2008 hosted a meeting of book, trade catalogue and pattern representatives from New South book collection have been Wales government heritage identified as assets. They were libraries and archives to discuss selected partly on the basis of an future information sharing and individual threshold value of $500 collaborative opportunities and partly on an assessment of between agencies. A number association value and rarity, and of tours for TAFE and university their replacement value has been students training for a career in assessed at $1.5 million. For 86 per librarianship were conducted and cent of the trade catalogues listed the library provided placement on the Libraries Australia national training opportunities for two bibliographic database, the HHT’s of the students. copy was the only copy listed. > A significant contribution to the > Promotion of the cultural value debate on future access to, and of our rare material continued communication of, cultural through a program of changing heritage in Australian libraries was displays within the library and a made in May 2009 through two program of public presentations peer-reviewed articles published and group tours. A collaboration in ‘Vanishing Collections: Special with the Faculty of the Built Issue on Cultural Heritage’ in the Environment at the University Australian Library Journal. of New South Wales supported

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Elizabeth Bay House was built between 1835 and 1839 by the fashionable architect for the Colonial Secretary, Alexander Macleay, and his family.

The house, a superb Greek revival villa, was the centrepiece of an estate that was laid out from 1826 onwards and which adapted the planning principles of the English landscape movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries to the magnifi cent Sydney Harbour setting. The house’s situation on an axis with Clark Islands and the Sydney Heads may be appreciated despite the loss of the estate to subdivisions between the 1840s and 1920s. Externally the house is incomplete owing to the fi nancial crisis of the early 1840s. This focuses the visitor’s attention on the interior, particularly the domed saloon with its elegant cantilevered staircase, which is regarded as the fi nest interior in Australian colonial architecture. The house’s interiors are notable for their detailing, particularly the quality of the joinery, plaster and stonework. The fi ne collection of Australian cedar furniture refl ects the neoclassical tastes of the early 19th century and presents an evocative picture of life before the depression of the early 1840s forced Macleay to leave the house. The house is the setting for specialist tours and tertiary level educational programs examining themes of architecture, design and craftsmanship.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW > Public programming at Elizabeth Bay House has been strengthened > Several pieces of Georgian by several annual events including mahogany furniture – a bureau- a domestic arts series, an acapella/ bookcase, Regency breakfast table early music concert program and and two chests of drawers – were Highland fling, a festival event donated to Elizabeth Bay House recreating the celebration of and Vaucluse House by Mr Bruce Alexander Macleay’s birthday Arnott under the Australian in 1843 with traditional Scottish Government’s Cultural Gifts music, dance and food. To Program. In line with a 19th-century celebrate both the International Macleay family inventory a portrait Year of Astronomy and the 150th engraving of civil engineer John anniversary of the publication of Rennie (1761–1821) was purchased Charles Darwin’s On the origin by the Members. The ongoing of species, a program of events was curatorial relationship between developed in association with other the HHT and the National Trust Sydney cultural institutions. These continued with two Caroline included lectures, candlelit tours, Simpson collection pieces being a harbour cruise, an early music loaned to the National Trust concert and a winter solstice and the Old Government House breakfast to mark the dawn rays sewing volunteers being streaming through the house’s hall commissioned to make soft and saloon. furnishings for a number of HHT properties. > Education visitation has been sustained through seasonal > Contemporary photographer programs including Make art Robyn Stacey continued with an artist and Dinner guests. development of a publication on Elizabeth Bay House has a growing HHT collections in collaboration tertiary architecture and design with curatorial staff. It is proposed audience, with recurrent visitors that the HHT will publish a book, including students and staff of with a working title House, University of New South Wales featuring these photographs. Faculty of the Built Environment, Enmore TAFE, Nepean Arts & Design Centre, The White School and Boston University. FANTASTIC, MAJESTIC, EYE OPENING. > In April 2009 the NSW State Transit Authority rerouted the 311 bus so THANKS for keeping this PLACE ALIVE. that it no longer passes Elizabeth Marisa D’Andrew Bay House. This reduced visbility to Sydney’s tourists will be reflected in reduced visitation.

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Elizabeth Farm, the former home of the Macarthur family, contains part of the oldest European building in Australia and is among the nation’s most important historic sites.

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

An OASIS AMONG the MODERN SPRAWL.

D Hamporch, United Kingdom

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A YEAR IN REVIEW > A lightning strike several years ago caused irreparable damage to an > Extensive improvements ancient stone pine that loomed have been made to the entry over the carriage loop of Elizabeth and orientation areas of the Farm. Die-back descended from its museum, including newly drafted upper branches and on the advice interpretation displays and a large of HHT gardening specialists and aerial map explaining connections with council approval, the stone between the farm and its urban pine was removed for reasons of setting. New reception facilities public safety. The tree was thought have provided additional retail to have been more than 150 years space, along with better ticketing old and is likely to be among those and visitor management systems. featured in a Conrad Martens > Maintenance works continued painting of the 1860s. and have combined the regular > For a second year Elizabeth Farm schedule of patch repairs with a list hosted Texstyle, an exhibition of of exceptional projects requiring works by HSC students in textile specialist care and expertise. The design. Twenty works were doorbell was reconfigured and its arranged and interpreted arcane system of pulleys and levers throughout the house interiors is once again in full operation. and special tours and workshops Stencilled canvas floor cloths have were conducted for school and been laboriously hand painted by community groups. Steve Wilson and have replaced worn-out floor coverings in > As part of Parramatta City hallways and corridors. Council’s Parramatta stories initiative to better coordinate > Archaeology unearthed new marketing and enhance the insights and raised tantalising identity and profile of heritage questions. Nudged by thirsty tree assets in the area, staff from roots, a low stone wall running Elizabeth Farm provided input between the courtyard piers had into council marketing strategies slowly drifted sideways and was and the Visitors Centre. likely to damage the palisade fence connected above. The cause of the disturbance was removed and any underlying structural issues were examined, then the stonework was dismantled and the 1820s footings exposed. Archaeologist Ted Higginbotham discovered that a narrow courtyard entrance of about 2.5 metres had later been changed into a wide palisade opening.

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Government House was built between 1837 and 1845 in the Gothic Revival style and was home to twenty-four governors of New South Wales and their families.

The building and the site demonstrate the property’s changing role as the seat of executive power, the former residence of the monarch’s representative and an important place for state ceremony. The HHT’s ongoing conservation and interior refurbishment of Government House continue to be guided by the principle of seeking to realise ‘best practice conservation’ of the traditional building fabric and historic interiors with ‘contemporary design innovation’. This philosophy has resulted in important collaborative partnerships with leading New South Wales artists, craftspeople and designers to provide new contemporary design furniture, textiles, carpets and decorative arts for the State Rooms refurbishment program. The house is sited within an important historic garden and remains a ‘working state house’ hosting a diverse program of vice- regal, Commonwealth government, state government, cultural and community events.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW of Commerce Public Building Stonework Program will continue its > Government House’s importance role at the property. A survey of the to the Commonwealth and state exterior stonework of the main governments’ hospitality programs house has been completed and a continued in July 2008, when the five- to ten-year plan for stonework Official Welcome for His Holiness conservation is being prepared. Pope Benedict XVI, hosted by the Hon Kevin Rudd, MP, Prime Minister > The HHT received $500,000 from of Australia, and the then Premier the State Government to replace of New South Wales, the Hon deteriorated sandstone paving on Morris Iemma, was held on the the eastern terrace and associated parade ground. The ceremony drainage, irrigation and lighting was attended by Major General works. Planning for the project has Michael Jeffery, AC AO(Mil) CVO MC commenced and work is expected (retd), former Governor-General to be completed by June 2010. of Australia, Her Excellency > The To Furnish a Future advisory Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO, committee continues to focus on Governor of New South Wales, proposals for the conservation and other dignitaries and more than refurbishment of historic fabric 200 guests, members of the public and the interiors. This work is and media representatives. The critical to ensure that the functional event received extensive national requirements of the house continue and international media coverage. to be met. > Her Excellency Professor Bashir > A large tempera painting of and Sir AC OBE the State drawing room hosted an open day at Government commissioned by the HHT from House to raise funds for noted Sydney artist Peter Godwin communities in rural Victoria has been bought for the collection. affected by the devastating > A major program to sort, clean bushfires and to pay tribute to and document the large collection the excellent work performed by of domestic crockery, glassware, the state’s emergency services. kitchenalia, metalwork and textiles Staff worked closely with the Office was undertaken with assistance of the Governor, the New South from University of Sydney Museum Wales Emergency Services and Studies interns. the Rotary Club of New South Wales to manage the event, which > Government House guiding staff attracted more than 2100 visitors successfully reintroduced and raised $25,000. educational programs following a period of disruption caused by > The budget for maintenance refurbishment projects and programs at Government House planning for meetings of the was transferred from the 2007 Asia–Pacific Economic Department of Commerce to the Cooperation (APEC) summit. HHT in July. The Department

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Hyde Park Barracks was built between 1817 and 1819 by convict workers under the direction of convict architect .

Lachlan Macquarie, colonial governor from 1810 to 1821, ordered convict architect Francis Greenway to design a monumental dormitory building for convicts on Sydney’s eastern ridge, overlooking the township. The Hyde Park Barracks took two years to build and functioned, after 1819, as the colony’s principal convict establishment. Designed for 600 men, the building sometimes slept 1400. From 1848 to 1886 the barracks provided lodging for government-assisted female immigrants and an employment offi ce. Wards for destitute women operated on the upper fl oor after 1862. In 1887 the site was remodelled as a legal centre, with courts, judges’ chambers and government agencies crowded together until 1979, when work on the museum began. Today, Hyde Park Barracks Museum uses the fabric and spaces of the building and its rich archaeology collection to unravel stories of its occupants and uses over the past 190 years.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW made important contributions to exhibition research and ensured > The research partnership between that linked public programs were the Hyde Park Barracks and the well attended. Archaeology Program at La Trobe University, funded through an > During St Patricks Day festivities, Australian Research Council grant, the Irish Minister for Community, continued. The aim is to throw Rural and Irish Language Affairs, new light on the barracks’ Mr Eamon O’Cuiv, visited the archaeological collection through barracks to view the Australian closer analysis of the artefacts Monument to the Great Irish and to improve the quality of the Famine and the Irish orphan girls museum database. The program exhibition. As part of this visit, the continues to sift fresh stories from minister also presented grants to this vast archive and add depth organisations involved in famine to the museum’s permanent and refugee support programs. archaeology displays. Additional > Redcoats and convicts, the outcomes include a series of barracks’ annual ‘living history’ scholarly and popular publications birthday celebration held in early on key collection themes. June, drew record crowds to the > In July 2008 works commenced to site. Throughout the day, historical replace air-conditioning plants in actors infused the barracks the barracks and Mint buildings. courtyard with the sights, sounds The Mint component of the project and smells of a convict worksite, was completed on time and on while inside the museum, talks, budget in April 2009. Works to the tours and children’s theatre barracks began in June and are provided visitors with a broad due for completion in September range of convict-themed 2009. experiences and entertainment. Buoyed by good media coverage, > Links between the barracks museum visitation rose 300 per and Sydney’s Irish community cent on last year’s numbers, with an strengthened in October with the overwhelming proportion of family launch of a new temporary tickets sold. exhibition, Irish orphan girls. The exhibition examines the role > As part of our ongoing partnership of the barracks as an immigration with Sydney Festival, the barracks depot, converted in 1848 to again hosted the Festival First house and process shiploads of Night Opening Party and the orphaned teenage girls fleeing Beck’s Festival Bar during January famine-ravaged Ireland. The first 2009. The Beck’s Festival Bar sold installation of its kind to rely out on many nights and planning solely on barracks archaeology for for the 2010 festival is underway. display material, it featured several collection highlights. A network of ‘orphan girl’ descendants

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The Justice & Police Museum houses a unique collection of objects relating to crime, policing and legal history, including an extensive archive of police forensic photographs.

Originally the Water Police Court (1856), Water Police Station (1858) and Police Court (1886), the Justice & Police Museum now features a variety of displays including spine-chilling weapons, bushranging artefacts and physical evidence from notable crimes. A dynamic exhibition program explores both historical and contemporary issues relating to crime and its consequences and daily education activities unfold the worlds of justice and policing to schools. The museum also houses a large and signifi cant forensic photography archive of 130,000 negatives that has, in recent times, appeared in a number of popular exhibitions and books.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW the collection attracted 28,000 web visits to the museum’s blog > Sydney’s pubs: liquor, larrikins and From the Loft. The site is accessed the law, which examined Sydney’s through the museum’s home long and sometimes controversial page on the HHT website. relationship with alcohol, concluded in February 2009. > In January 2009 a digital art Femme fatale: the female criminal installation of crime photography followed and is a vibrant, by multimedia artists and historically comprehensive and researchers Ross Gibson and provocative account of female Kate Richards coincided with the deviance, contrasting the lurid museum’s launch of the illustrated fantasy of popular culture with novel The summer exercises the tough, often tragic lives of real by Ross Gibson. The novel is female offenders. An illustrated published in conjunction with book containing historical images the University of Western of Long Bay Female Reformatory Australia Press and features inmates from the museum’s 175 photographs from the archives was published to coincide museum’s collection. with the exhibition and has sold > The museum’s object store was well. Rosemary Valladon became redesigned, new shelving and the museum’s first artist-in- storage systems introduced and residence and used curatorial many collection items repackaged research materials to inform a suite into conservation-friendly housings. of oil paintings on Femme fatale- Storage of collection objects inspired themes. remains a critical issue for the > A new internal photography space museum. known as the Archive Gallery > The museum’s guiding team has been developed and will conducted a successful outreach accommodate two photography visit to the Cessnock–Kurri Kurri shows per year to expose fresh region, presenting education discoveries from the museum’s programs to a variety of primary forensic photography collection to schools over three days. The the general public. The Archive museum’s collaborative education Gallery’s first exhibition, Exposure, program with the Sydney Opera surveys the archive of images House continued to be popular captured by police photographers with schools. between 1920 and 1960. Scanning, cataloguing and re-housing of the 130,000 negatives of the archive collection continued as well as increasing online access through the HHT pictures collection and Pictures Australia. Curatorial discussion of key images from

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Meroogal is located in the south coast town of Nowra. This fascinating timber house was built in 1885 and was home to four generations of women from the same family.

The daily routine, domestic chores and social lives of its former occupants have moulded its intimate rooms. Meroogal’s rich collection of personal objects provides an insight into the private lives and daily world of this family. Meroogal and the support of family enabled the Thorburn and Macgregor women to lead independent, single lives without undertaking paid employment. Meroogal was both a home and an economic resource providing food and fuel from the garden and rent from occasional paying guests and tenants. Without Meroogal the lives of the women who lived there might not have been possible.

THANKYOU for the INSIGHT into the LIVES of THESE WONDERFUL WOMEN. Maiki-Jane Blakeney, Bomaderry, NSW

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A YEAR IN REVIEW > Now in its third year, Meroogal garden fair has grown into a fully > The Meroogal Women’s Arts Prize fledged event with talks, activities (MWAP), International Women’s for children, musical entertainment Day awards and the biennial and food. The Mad Hatters tea Meroogal garden fair continue party for children continues to be to reach a growing and diverse a popular school holiday event in regional audience. summer. > The 11th MWAP exhibition was > In March, Meroogal worked with opened by Margaret Wallace, the Bundanon Trust and hosted a descendant of the Thorburn and Hyperbolic Crochet workshop as Macgregor families and daughter a community outreach gesture and of the property’s last owner, June continued to work in partnership Wallace. The theme Celebrating with the Shoalhaven Museums and the everyday things women do Arts Trail group (SMART) and the was developed in partnership International Women’s Day with the Australasian Occupational Collective. Science Centre based at the Shoalhaven campus of the > Public access to the Meroogal University of Wollongong. The textiles and clothing collection centre sponsored a special prize, is a priority and Lindie Ward is won by Bethany Thurtell, for the continuing her work documenting artwork that best represented and assessing the collection. an occupational perspective. > An intern enrolled in the Masters > First prize was awarded to of Museum Studies course at the Alexandra Cody for her work University of Sydney has been Peregrination (journey) and working with staff from Meroogal Johanna Weiss won second prize and the Education Unit to develop for Teapot dreaming. The a program for Shoalhaven teachers Bundanon Trust Regional Artist and students of the Year 12 History in Residence Scholarship was Extension course to support their awarded to Kim Williams for Time use of the resources of the HHT, machine. Awarded and selected Meroogal and the other member works toured to the Spiral Gallery, museums of SMART. Bega; Members Lounge at The Mint; Tuggeranong Arts Centre, ACT; and for the first time to Goulburn Regional Art Gallery and Gunnedah Creative Arts Centre. The catchment area for the prize has been extended to include the Goulburn Mulwaree Council area.

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The Museum of Sydney – a modern museum built on a historic site – takes you on a journey exploring Sydney’s people, places and cultures, then and now.

Designed by one of Sydney’s best- known architects, Richard Johnson, MOS is on the site of Australia’s first Government House, built in 1788 as a home and office for the colony’s first governor, . The museum forecourt, known as First Government House Place, preserves the remaining foundations of the house below, while above ground the art installation Edge of the trees marks the site of first contact between the British colonisers and the Gadigal people. At the museum, visitors meet our city’s first people, inspect models of the ships and peer into the archaeological remains of First Government House. A changing exhibition program reveals the distinctiveness of the city and its harbour, transport and people over time.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW David Mist: swinging Sydney, photos of Sydney in the 1960s; Danny Huynh: > Exhibitions featured topics as rituals and traditions of Sydney, diverse as the disappearing rich colour photos of Ramadan, gardens of Sydney, the city’s Vietnamese Tet New Year and obsession with pets and the great Russian Orthodox Easter, produced loss of Sydney’s once-vast tram in partnership with the Fairfield City network. Curated by leading Museum & Gallery; and Glenn garden historian Colleen Morris, Murcutt: architecture for place, an Lost gardens of Sydney won an exhibition celebrating Australia’s Energy Australia National Trust most renowned architect. The focus Heritage Award for Education. on photography increased the Tails of the city: Sydney’s passion schools audience for the program for pets attracted the greatest Through the Lens. number of families to the museum for several years, and Shooting > The dedicated Aboriginal gallery through: Sydney by tram was a at MOS was revamped and will open major collaboration with the Sydney in July as Gadigal Place. The Tramway Museum at Loftus. This centrepieces of the new display are interactive exhibition encouraged objects specially made by members visitors to drive a tram, pull a of Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal driver’s bell and hear stories from Art and Culture Studio. Beautifully former tram conductors. handcrafted tools and weapons, fishing tackle and woven items have > Level 3 was refurbished to improve been painstakingly researched and the visitor experience and a new made to illustrate the traditional lives semi-permanent display, Sydney of Aboriginal people in the Sydney visionaries, profiles ten people from region. a range of fields including urban planning, architecture, engineering, > Building work focused on the conservation and heritage. refurbishment of the electronic > The Theme Gallery became a lighting control system, increasing dedicated photographic space with flexibility and efficiency and lowering exhibitions by some of Sydney’s energy costs. The building best-known photographers. This maintenance systems and security year’s program included were also upgraded.

CONGRATULATIONS on your EFFORT in telling SYDNEY’S STORY Anonymous

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Rose Seidler House, built between 1948 and 1950, was designed by internationally renowned architect Harry Seidler AC OBE for his parents, Max and Rose.

It is one of the fi nest examples of mid-20th-century domestic architecture and its original furniture forms one of the most important postwar design collections in the country. Nestled in natural bushland, Rose Seidler House has panoramic views of the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park and embodies the postwar wave of design and style ideals that so strongly infl uenced Australia’s built environment. Awarded the Sulman Medal in 1952, it has been a highly infl uential house, stimulating much social comment and intellectual debate. The house, contents and grounds have been carefully restored to the controversial 1950 scheme.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW > The Fifties fair and the free weekend in memory of Harry > Much of the work at Rose Seidler Seidler both attracted large crowds House during the year focused and minor public programs and on the fabric of the building and seasonal Members events continue the long-term conservation of to complement the weekly Sunday the collection. openings. > Fifty-eight years of paint layers on > Rose Seidler House continues to the original cedar cladding were provide an educational resource to removed to restore the painted secondary and tertiary institutions. walls to their original appearance High-school students of visual as first photographed in 1951. All art and design and technology the glass walls and windows were participate in structured programs treated with UV-resistant film to in response to course requirements reduce the damage caused by and visits by local community and sunlight on the furniture and seniors groups have remained furnishings. Protective covers strong over the year. were made for all original pieces of furniture to be used when the > A surge in corporate venue hire house is closed to extend their life. and use of the property for filming and photography resulted in a > Monitoring the wear and tear of significant increase in revenue. the property resulted in a thorough review of the use and presentation of the museum. The level of public access has been significantly modified and changes to venue hire and public programs have also been instigated. > Over half a century of bush and tree growth around the house prompted an investigation into the health of some of the larger trees on the site and a eucalypt was removed due to an aggressive fungal rot.

WOULD be a FUN PLACE to LIVE in, GREAT SPACES.

Ryan Jayo, Avalon, NSW

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Rouse Hill House & Farm is celebrated for the nationally signifi cant Rouse Hill House (1819), with its unparallelled collection of generations of Rouse family belongings.

The estate’s early colonial garden, stables and supportive array of other old structures are also important. Less well known is that the recently enlarged site also contains a section of the nationally signifi cant Windsor Road turnpike laid down by Governor Macquarie in 1812–13 and an associated stretch of the nationally signifi cant Hawkesbury Road laid down by Major Grose in 1794 along which the 1804 Battle of Vinegar Hill took place. The house is one of the oldest continually occupied houses in Australia, and was originally set in a much larger estate. Today its farm animals graze against the backdrop of a rapidly changing urban landscape.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW course of the old Hawkesbury Road (1794) and contain peripheral > Stage 1 funding of $3.5m over acreage of Governor Bligh’s 2009/10 and 2010/11 for a new Copenhagen Farm grant of 1806. education facility allowed work to Evidence also suggests the site of commence on the site. Following the Vinegar Hill battlefield (1804) approval of the development may be in the vicinity. The turnpike application Kinsley Constructions gate and tollhouse that Richard Pty Ltd, the lowest conforming Rouse came to Vinegar Hill to build tender, were awarded the contract. in 1812–13 were also located. > The Roads and Traffic Authority > A review of the conservation policy (RTA) agreed to the transfer of two has been commissioned and the blocks of land lying between the statement of significance now old Windsor Road and the nearby reflects the broader landscape and highway bypass and the HHT the Vinegar Hill story. Archaeology received the land titles in April. on site revealed the foundations of A subsequent review of flora and the original school residence and fauna by Total Earth Care Pty archaeology test trenches on the Ltd revealed some significant school site revealed no evidence Cumberland Plain woodland on of the Old Hawkesbury Road. the newly acquired HHT lands. > Conservation of the potting shed > Progress was made on the long- (c1860) was carried out and serious term transfer of the Windsor and structural flaws in the service wing Annangrove Road stub end with a (c1865) of the house were rectified. Deed of Transfer drafted between Highly detailed records were also Blacktown and Hills Shire Council made of several critically and the HHT. endangered structures. > Rouse Hill House & Farm and part > Research into the collections and of the neighbouring regional park conservation of key furnishings were included in the new Area 20 and collection items also advanced land release area extending with a focus on furnishing textiles southward from Windsor Road and costume and upgrading at Schofields Road to the western collections storage. boundary of the property. The area has been assigned a target > By making the property more of 2500 dwellings which will add accessible, total annual visitor pressure to property resources numbers rose by a quarter to and infrastructure. surpass 10,500 for the first time. Increased film-making activity was > Research led to the discovery that matched by an increase in venue the former RTA-owned land and hire income and a substantial the grounds of the old Rouse Hill boosting of the public profile Public School (in HHT ownership of the property. since 2003) are crossed by the

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Susannah Place Museum, located in the heart of The Rocks, is a terrace of four houses incorporating a re-created 1915 corner grocer shop.

Located in the heart of The Rocks, Susannah Place is a rare surviving example of a simple working-class terrace. Built in 1844 and typically English in design, the four houses, including a corner grocer shop, were built by assisted Irish immigrants Edward and Mary Riley. The houses survived largely unchanged through the slum clearances of the early twentieth century and the area’s redevelopment in the 1970s. Today Susannah Place Museum tells the stories of the often overlooked everyday lives of working class people and the neighbourhood in which they lived. Continually occupied from 1844 to 1990, Susannah Place was home to more than 100 different families; their occupancy is still very much evident in the many layers of paint, wallpapers, linoleums, modifi cations and repairs that have survived.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW hostel directly opposite the museum in late 2009, to establish > Involvement in the Greek marketing and education links. Festival of Sydney was successful, Opening hours at the property establishing a new audience within are being reviewed to capitalise the Greek community and bringing on the increased number of to light additional information tourists expected in the about the two Greek families who immediate neighbourhood. lived at Susannah Place during the 1930s and 1940s. > Key conservation work was carried out to stabilise plaster and > Connections with former tenants wallpapers throughout the four and their descendants continue houses. The annual program of through oral history interviews, maintenance work on exteriors support of the inaugural Millers was completed in conjunction Point Festival and assisting with with Sydney Harbour Foreshore family history research. The Authority. collection of photographs of tenants, family stories and > Education audiences knowledge about the houses strengthened with a new primary- and neighbourhood continues school program, The Corner to grow. The recollections of Store, drawing on the history and Patricia Thompson were essential appeal of the re-created corner in re-creating her family’s 1940s shop. The Archaeology in The parlour in No 62. Excerpts from our Rocks program, an annual joint oral history collection also feature initiative with Sydney Learning in a display called Pegged that Adventures, had its biggest explores the history of a simple season to date with more than but indispensable domestic 600 students of ancient history object, the clothes peg. attending from local and regional schools. > Discussions continued with the YHA in the lead-up to the > All things 1970s were celebrated opening of the 105-room youth with the third We’re living in the 70s event and more than 4300 people attended the free street party, with 350 paid admissions to the museum. A FANTASTIC working class MUSEUM. GREAT INSIGHT into LIFE in THE ROCKS area THROUGH the YEARS.

Kelly and Dean Walker, Melbourne

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The Mint consists of two structures – the southern wing of Governor ’s General Hospital, constructed 1811–1816, and the Coining Factory, built 1854–1855.

Located on Macquarie Street, The Mint is one of the oldest buildings in central Sydney and is now the head offi ce of the HHT. In 1854 the site was transformed into the fi rst overseas branch of the , when the former hospital building was converted into offi ces and the Coining Factory was constructed at the rear of the site. The Mint operated until 1926. The site then housed a succession of government departments until 1997, although the Macquarie Street building was converted into a museum and opened in 1982. In 1997 the Macquarie Street building was transferred to the HHT. In 2001, an extensive conservation and redevelopment project commenced to provide accommodation as the head offi ce of the HHT, and the site was occupied in September 2004. The Mint now houses the head offi ce of the HHT as well as the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, the Sydney Mint Cafe and a range of function spaces.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW > The existing air-conditioning plant in the Macquarie Street building > The Mint was recognised by was replaced with a smaller, two major organisations for its energy-efficient system resulting conservation/adaptation and for in lower energy consumption, its role as a specialty venue. In lower emissions, cost savings and September 2008 The Mint was improved conditions. Additional listed as one of the 30 most space has been created in the ground-breaking buildings of the former plant room, providing the past 30 years by a distinguished opportunity to expand the cafe international panel formed by the operations. Other building works UK’s Chartered Building Services included stonework conservation Engineers. It was included to the guardhouse, stabilisation of alongside such world-renowned historic paint finishes, repainting buildings as the Scottish of the eastern façade joinery of the Parliament, Edinburgh; the Macquarie Street building and Reichstag, Berlin; and Le Centre improvements to exhibition display Pompidou, Paris. The Mint’s facilities in the Members Lounge. reputation as a major venue was further enhanced when it won the > A range of public programs was national Meetings and Industry presented during the year, Events Australia (MEA) Industry including a series of public talks Award for the second year in a row. and presentations in conjunction It is the only Sydney venue and the with Sydney Design Week and the only cultural institution to have won Sydney Writers’ Festival. The Mint the award. was open for special tours and presentations as part of Australia > Interest in The Mint’s conservation Day and Sydney open. and adaptation remained high. Demand for presentations on the > The Members Lounge continued project and tours of the site to be a popular venue with its continues to increase with requests program of temporary exhibitions. from the public, tertiary students of These included selected entries architecture, design and building from the Meroogal Women’s Arts conservation, and architectural Prize and exhibitions by artists firms, heritage consultants and Greg Hollo, Gria Shead and the other specialists. The HHT Northside Printmakers. published The Mint project exploring the HHT’s approach to the site and the transformation of the historic buildings into a head office. To assist visitors a Mint Volunteers group was established to provide visitor services and guided tours.

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Vaucluse House, constructed in the Gothic revival style, is Sydney’s most romantic 19th-century harbourside villa. It retains its ornamental and kitchen gardens and outbuildings.

Vaucluse House – one of Sydney’s great 19th-century harbourside estates – was purchased in 1827 by William Charles Wentworth, a gifted but restless lawyer and politician who campaigned for trial by jury, co-published the colony’s fi rst independent newspaper and was a founder of the University of Sydney. He also helped frame the New South Wales constitution for representative government, which passed into law in 1856. Wentworth’s public life was beset by scandal, illegitimacy and convict associations. Vaucluse House is unresolved architecturally, owing to its construction over many years for a growing family that was forced to socialise outside of colonial society. The New South Wales Government purchased part of the Vaucluse estate in 1911 to provide public access to the harbour foreshores. The house was opened to the public in 1912 and since that time has been an important place for the presentation of Australian history. The house has been restored to refl ect the Wentworth family’s residence in 1827–1853 and 1861–1862.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW storm damage to the mausoleum’s roof the Members funded the > Public programs continue to be reproduction of the original red developed according to a variety and cream terracotta tiles. of themes such as music, water conservation, colonial gastronomy > Replacement of the verandah and social history. Signature events roofing iron and re-limewashing of Jazz in the garden and Carols by the crenellated parapets enhanced candlelight were joined by Rustic, Vaucluse House’s façade. Shutters a festival event featuring displays for the service wing windows were of decorative arts throughout reproduced based on a 1924 the house and grounds in shell, photograph showing an unusual twig, ceramic and horn work, arrangement of divided shutters. contemporary sculpture, cooking Cedar-framed gauze window demonstrations, organic produce screens were commissioned in stalls and music. the drawing and breakfast rooms based on originals in the Rouse > A program to allow the c1828–30 Hill House & Farm collection. kitchen wing to better tell its stories was concluded with kauri pine plate > A French drawing room mantel racks installed over the butler’s clock with Sèvres plaques and an pantry and the scullery’s stone enamelled snuffbox c1855–60 sinks. Timber coat racks were were acquired from Wentworth re-created for the service hall, descendants. Several Wentworth- contrasting this space with the main provenanced items including a salt hall and ensuring the property cellar, silver flatware and glasses continues its examination of were accepted into the collection early-19th-century Sydney society at under the Australian Government’s both ends of the social spectrum. Cultural Gifts Program. > The HHT manages the Wentworth > The Vaucluse House Tearooms Mausoleum under lease from the were upgraded and collaboration Anglican Church Property Trust, between the property and the Diocese of Sydney, and following tearooms continued through venue hire and jazz, gastronomy and Valentine’s Day events. > University of Sydney Masters of Teaching visual arts students mounted a display of artworks in A MUST SEE the Vaucluse House stables for Sandi Landridge, Masterton, New Zealand the fourth year.

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Breakdown of visitor numbers

ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 4,928 6,950 8,154 9,705 Education 481 1,279 666 736 Public programs 1,734 384 397 324 Venue hire 694 1,029 965 1,185 Subtotal 7,837 9,642 10,182 11,950 Free entry Complimentary tickets 959 1,520 1,403 2,514 Free public programs 75 0 378 Other (site visits) 248 478 443 531 Subtotal 1,282 1,998 2,224 3,045 TOTAL 9,119 11,640 12,406 14,995

ELIZABETH FARM Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 5,646 6,330 7,104 7,033 Education 8,567 7,758 8,294 8,617 Public programs 148 3,414 537 4,864 Venue hire 1,111 776 434 411 Subtotal 15,472 18,278 16,369 20,925 Free entry Complimentary tickets 1,613 1,545 2,323 3,046 Free public programs 529 0 412 640 Other (site visits) 2,573 3,060 2,198 1,393 Subtotal 4,715 4,605 4,933 5,079 TOTAL 20,187 22,883 21,302 26,004

GOVERNMENT HOUSE Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 Education 1,947 1,427 1,834 1,268 Public programs 4,754 3,848 1,637 8,957 Free public programs 1,070 2,350 4,777 3,282 Venue hire 3,789 5,620 3,856 6,392 House tours* 20,542 18,952 18,720 17,736 Grounds* 110,959 87,347 85,458 94,307 Vice-regal functions* 9,636 9,106 10,336 10,603 TOTAL 152,697 128,650 126,618 142,545

*free entry

Photographs (detail) Elizabeth Bay House, photograph © Scott Carlin | Elizabeth Farm, photograph © Christopher Shain | Government House, photograph © Leo Rocker

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HYDE PARK BARRACKS Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 45,254 45,785 42,269 38,516 Education 16,214 15,292 14,465 13,474 Public programs 163 615 862 2,123 Venue hire 57,973 37,238 23,106 16,784 Subtotal 119,604 98,930 80,702 70,897 Free entry Complimentary tickets 5,691 4,374 2,753 8,557 Free public programs 2,439 1,733 7,599 0 Other* 84,019 85,516 89,177 74,994 Subtotal 92,149 91,623 99,529 83,551 TOTAL 211,753 190,553 180,231 154,448 Grounds Forecourt 239,793 222,897 230,335 222,143

*site visits, café, shop and visits to the ‘Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine’ grounds; café and shop fi gures are as accurate as possible; calculations are based on estimated numbers

JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 17,628 14,755 18,213 25,587 Education 7,444 8,019 6,897 7,576 Public programs 487 301 353 480 Venue hire 4,082 4,271 2,388 3,306 Subtotal 29,641 27,346 27,851 36,949 Free entry Complimentary tickets 2,302 2,254 1,850 8,547 Free public programs 410 137 3,985 0 Other (site visits) 431 89 657 236 Subtotal 3,143 2,480 6,492 8,783 TOTAL 32,784 29,826 34,343 45,732

MEROOGAL Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 915 1,105 955 1,030 Education 858 739 560 728 Public programs 634 159 335 131 Subtotal 2,407 2,003 1,850 1,889 Free entry Complimentary tickets 292 380 211 505 Free public programs 0 120 221 20 Other (site visits) 29 43 216 0 Subtotal 321 543 648 525 TOTAL 2,728 2,546 2,498 2,414

Photographs (detail) Hyde Park Barracks, photograph © Leo Rocker | Justice & Police Museum, photograph © Leo Rocker | Meroogal, photograph © Leo Rocker

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Breakdown of visitor numbers

MUSEUM OF SYDNEY Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 59,210 49,849 71,797 52,243 Education 6,160 5,989 7,126 5,741 Public programs 2,083 2,087 2,325 2,249 Venue hire 7,541 13,861 17,827 15,051 Subtotal 74,994 71,786 99,075 75,284 Free entry Complimentary tickets 6,899 6,316 9,008 8,226 Free public programs 397 4,180 4,593 4,176 Other* 182,267 334,800 334,800 334,423 Subtotal 189,563 345,296 348,401 346,825 TOTAL 264,557 417,082 447,476 422,109 Grounds Forecourt 601,127 669,600 669,600 667,800

*site visits, café, shop and visits to the ‘Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine’ grounds; café and shop fi gures are as accurate as possible; calculations are based on estimated numbers

ROSE SEIDLER HOUSE Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 773 633 816 907 Education 286 268 280 348 Public programs 4,806 4,755 4,507 3,541 Venue hire 308 260 132 247 Subtotal 6,173 5,916 5,735 5,043 Free entry Complimentary tickets 1,256 83 112 1,399 Free public programs 12 1,862 1,674 0 Other (site visits) 46 0 39 0 Subtotal 1,314 1,945 1,825 1,399 TOTAL 7,487 7,861 7,560 6,442

ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 2,221 1,404 886 925 Education 4,044 3,336 1,361 1,008 Public programs 1,152 1,696 609 873 Venue hire 1,387 303 103 36 Subtotal 8,804 6,739 2,959 2,842 Free entry Complimentary tickets 1,227 849 608 467 Free public programs 0 0 157 Other (site visits) 962 846 465 251 Subtotal 2,189 1,695 1,230 718 TOTAL 10,993 8,434 4,189 3,560

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SUSANNAH PLACE Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 5,626 6,664 6,527 5,508 Education 3,036 3,321 2,340 2,355 Public programs 419 194 503 390 Venue hire 54 44 0 22 Subtotal 9,135 10,223 9,370 8,275 Free entry Complimentary tickets 871 943 876 2,219 Free public programs 4,389 5,434 3,725 Other* 19,021 15,454 17,121 13,708 Subtotal 24,281 21,831 21,722 15,927 TOTAL 33,416 32,054 31,092 24,202

*Site and shop visits

THE MINT Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General 71 85 59 457 Education 0 0 0 29 Public programs 1,559 1,563 700 1,347 Venue hire 19,232 19,420 17,538 16,332 Subtotal 20,862 21,068 18,297 18,165 Free entry Free 29,556 17,518 13,009 13,771 Free public programs 1,085 7,974 9,483 7,571 Subtotal 30,641 25,492 22,492 21,342 TOTAL 51,503 46,560 40,789 39,507 Mint Café 6,968 6,878 7,671 9,254 Local traffi c 6,099 4,844 4,860 5,029

VAUCLUSE HOUSE Paid admissions 2009 2008 2007 2006 General public 9,118 11,809 11,659 13,166 Education 5,347 8,170 9,063 8,822 Public programs 713 2,582 4,066 1,006 Venue hire 3,861 5,894 4,868 4,606 Subtotal 19,039 28,455 29,656 27,600 Free entry Complimentary tickets 2,004 3,030 3,201 3,719 Free public programs 1,506 0 2,972 2,250 Other* 74,861 68,644 66,346 63,163 Subtotal 78,371 71,674 72,519 69,132 TOTAL 97,410 100,129 102,175 96,732 Grounds Local traffi c 6,099 4,844 4,860 5,029

*site visits to the Tearooms, shop and a percentage of people visiting the parklands and beach paddock grounds; café and shop fi gures are as accurate as possible; calculations are based on estimated numbers

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Annual Report 08 > 09 | Education

Education

The HHT is continually developing, student internship program which world of convicts, and at the updating and resourcing a range is generated and maintained Museum of Sydney, aboard an of education programs across the by the Education Unit. Twelve historic tram carriage in association curriculum for school groups who student placements have been with the Shooting through: Sydney visit HHT properties. Guiding staff completed and benefi ts have by tram exhibition. The response are given ongoing training and included the development of from students and teachers to the support in the delivery of all more sophisticated educational programs was positive with more school programs. outcomes for students and than 3000 school children visiting workplace experience for potential the barracks in Term 2. Children’s A YEAR IN REVIEW museum professionals. activity trails are also being developed at a number of > Primary-school programs were > To streamline education properties. bookings and continue to aim for updated at Elizabeth Farm and consistency across the HHT, extra the Justice & Police Museum to > Joint programs with the Sydney licences to the Events Perfect address changes in the history Opera House and the Technology electronic booking system were syllabus and attract new schools. Educators Association (TEA) purchased. The system helps In response to the increasing continued. The TEA presented manage education bookings popularity of crime fi ction in the Year 12 students’ major works at and generates detailed reports, senior English syllabus a new Elizabeth Farm with more than 400 providing a better understanding program titled Crime Story was students visiting and participating of the visiting patterns of our developed to complement the in related workshops conducted school audiences. Femme fatale exhibition. by HHT guides. The Justice & Police Museum and the Museum > Working with HHT staff from all > Schoolchildren encountered museum theatre at the Hyde Park of Sydney offered joint programs disciplines, meaningful projects with the Sydney Opera House. have been created for the tertiary Barracks Museum, exploring the

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Annual Report 08 > 09 | Endangered Houses Fund

Endangered Houses Fund

The purpose of the Endangered > In 2008 the HHT purchased a Nissen hut. An exhibition of the Houses Fund (EHF) is to help save Nissen hut in Belmont north, two fi nalists was held in the Lake houses that are in danger of being hours north of Sydney. The Nissen Macquarie City Art Gallery. demolished or changed beyond hut was one of 50 constructed in > The process created extraordinary recognition, by using a model of the 1950s on the northern shores publicity in the local media and on acquisition, conservation and resale. of Lake Macquarie to provide talkback radio and the HHT was accommodation for postwar inundated with personal accounts A YEAR IN REVIEW migrants working in the Hunter of life in Nissen huts, both positive coal fi elds. The remaining Nissen > The HHT was active in seeking and negative. The feedback was huts are now under threat from used to inform the proposed potential candidates for the EHF development. program and inspected and alterations and additions to the assessed a number of properties > To highlight the plight of the Nissen hut and construction is as far afi eld as Deniliquin and the Nissen huts the HHT held an due to commence in spring 2009. southern highlands. ideas competition for architecture students from the University of > The HHT acquired Exeter Farm in Newcastle. The purpose of the 2007 and extensive conservation competition was twofold: to work to the two timber slab generate fresh innovative ideas buildings is due for completion by to show the local community how spring 2009. It is anticipated the a Nissen hut can be successfully property will then be placed on upgraded and to generate ideas the market and the proceeds used that may infl uence the design of to save another property. the proposed works to the HHT’s

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Annual Report 08 > 09 | Events

Events

The HHT continues to showcase A YEAR IN REVIEW with larger-scale events. its properties through a series Lectures and talks continued of innovative cultural programs > Growth in new audiences and to deliver important learning providing opportunities for broad revenue was achieved through the outcomes, including professional community engagement with the large-scale events Sydney open, development opportunities for layered stories of our sites. Events Garden music and Fifties fair. Jazz museum professionals. include talks and tours, specialist in the garden was cancelled due > The primary sales tool, the to unsafe weather. Pricing for all workshops and seminars, diverse seasonal Events calendar, was major programs was reviewed school holiday offerings, live transformed into a colour pocket- and helped increase ticketing performances and festivals, and sized booklet produced by Avant revenue. Sydney open sold out for refl ect current curatorial, conservation Card, enabling a more targeted a second year, providing 5000-plus and educational research. Ongoing distribution to cultural precincts people with access to unseen and partnerships with other cultural and and increased opportunities to signifi cant sites and insight into festival institutions allow better develop and grow new audiences. access to audience and content. hidden aspects of Sydney’s built environment. > New programs were created to re-engage local communities with the stories of each site. Rustic at Vaucluse House was developed with a small production budget and attracted 450 people, equating to a reduced spend per visitor when compared

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Annual Report 08 > 09 | Exhibitions & publications

Exhibitions & publications

The HHT creates and presents an A YEAR IN REVIEW > In a fi rst for HHT publications, Lost innovative and vibrant program of gardens of Sydney sold out before > Major refurbishment projects at the exhibitions that attract new and the exhibition closed and was a Museum of Sydney saw the Theme repeat visitors, provide an enriching top ten bestseller for distributor Gallery reworked as a dedicated and educative experience, support Thames & Hudson. A reprint was picture gallery. Displays included new scholarship and increase the organised to meet demand and David Mist: swinging Sydney, profi le of the organisation. a 2010 matching diary is being Danny Huynh: rituals and traditions produced. The HHT has a reputation for of Sydney and Glenn Murcutt: producing high-quality, well- architecture for place. Gadigal, > A new publishing format, a series researched and beautifully designed the museum’s indigenous space, of ‘little books’, was launched and books that present programs, was remodelled to incorporate will profi le HHT exhibitions and collections and properties to the post-contact Aboriginal presence, collections. The fi rst two titles, broader community. hands-on elements and improved Femme fatale: the female criminal opportunities for education and Shooting through: Sydney by groups and is scheduled to open tram, have sold well as their size, in July 2009. content and price make them suitable exhibition souvenirs. The > More than 1.1 million people have Mint project, a defi nitive account now visited the HHT’s travelling of the conversion of The Mint into exhibitions. Drugs: a social history the HHT’s head offi ce, was also completed a three-and-a-half-year published. tour of interstate and regional venues and was seen by more than 400,000 people.

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Regional

The HHT’s ongoing commitment to management is now in place of Australia’s Community Heritage sharing its expertise and resources and will be administered by the Grants program and delivered a throughout New South Wales has Newstead Advisory Committee, presentation on preservation to included the development of a of which the HHT is a member. 44 recipients representing a number of collaborative relationships > Justice & Police Museum guiding cross-section of community with selected districts. staff undertook an outreach tour collections from around Australia. to the Maitland–Scone district > Staff attended workshops at Hill A YEAR IN REVIEW and the lower . End Historic Site (National Parks The Curator, Caroline Simpson and Wildlife Service) to discuss a > The Hon Nathan Rees, MP, Premier > draft interpretation strategy and of New South Wales, was special Library & Research Collection, plan for the site. guest at the offi cial opening of through membership of the Newstead on 15 March 2009. This Standards Review Committee > The Department of the Arts, was the result of a joint project for Museums & Galleries NSW, Sport and Recreation agreed to between the HHT and Inverell undertook site visits to the contribute $100,000 to the Built Shire Council to secure the long- Museum of Education, University for the bush exhibition currently term future of the oldest surviving of New England; Aboriginal being developed by the HHT, in homestead and garden in the Cultural Centre and Keeping collaboration with the other State Inverell Shire. The opening was Place, Armidale; McCrossin’s Mill Cultural institutions. also attended by the Hon Richard Museum and Armidale Dumaresq Torbay, MP; Barry Johnston, the Council Museums including Mayor of Inverell; descendants the Folk Museum and Hillgrove of families associated with the Historic Site. property; and members of the > The Collections Manager Inverell community. A plan of participated in the National Library

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Annual Report 08 > 09 | Retail

Retail

The HHT’s retail operations include Carols by candelight at Vaucluse > The fi rst in the series of ‘little four museum shops and an online House and the modest success books’, designed to showcase store. The HHT also sells merchandise with these events indicates exhibition content and the HHT’s at major events. that stronger revenues can be various collections and areas of achieved. expertise, were released. Shooting through: Sydney by tram and A YEAR IN REVIEW > Retail sales at a number of HHT properties continued to grow, Femme fatale: the female criminal, > Retail sales increased by 9 per cent with Rouse Hill House & Farm the fi rst examples of this format, despite the challenging state of experiencing an increase of 44 per have proved successful with the economy. Through maximising cent, Justice & Police Museum distribution channels, with a wider the retail opportunities of the 55 per cent and Hyde Park variety of bookshops choosing exhibitions program and major Barracks Museum 3 per cent. to stock the smaller HHT public events, high-quality Due to changes in operations publications. ranges of unique products were at Elizabeth Bay House and developed for Femme fatale: the Vaucluse House retail sales at both female criminal, Shooting through: properties decreased. Sydney by tram and Lost gardens of Sydney. > The HHT online store sales grew by 100 per cent. A number of > Retail sales continued to increase system upgrades led to improved at major events, with sales at the presentation of merchandise and Fifties fair increasing by 41 per increased ease of use of the back cent on last year. For the fi rst time end and have improved both the merchandise was for sale at House overall look of the website and the music at Government House and visitor experience.

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Venues

The HHT offers nine venues for A YEAR IN REVIEW > Venue hire increased at both hire for a wide range of business Elizabeth Bay House and Elizabeth > Venue hire increased its gross and private functions and fi lming Farm due to the changes in turnover and net profi t during and photography shoots. operations. The Justice & Police the year with more than 630 Museum delivered a record commercial events delivered to number of bookings and revenue the corporate, government, social largely due to the New South and fi lming and photography Wales Government sector utilising markets. The economic downturn it for all-day conferences and resulted in a contraction in workshops, supported by more the overall number of events competitive catering prices. delivered, particularly in the second half of the year. > Rouse Hill House & Farm revenue grew 690 per cent due to a > At the 2009 Meetings & Events number of major location shoots Australia (MEA) National for commercial television series Conference held in Adelaide, The and still photography. Vaucluse Mint won Specialty Venue at the House still remains the most National Awards for Excellence attractive venue for the fi lming for the second year running. The and photography sector. award acknowledges The Mint as the nation’s leading specialty venue for business meetings and events.

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Annual Report 08 > 09 | Foundation

Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales

The Foundation for the Historic > Although there was no major the Governors Program were: Houses Trust of New South appeal for the EHF this year, acquisition of several volumes Wales exists solely to support the donors continued to support the of the celebrated 19th-century diverse work of the HHT through program and St Hilliers made a periodical Ackermann’s Repository philanthropic giving. The Foundation generous fi ve-year commitment of Arts, Literature, Commerce, receives support through the as a Silver EHF Donor. Manufactures, Fashions and Politics following fundraising avenues: for the Caroline Simpson Library > The Foundation’s annual Foundation Governors Program, Governors’ Dinner raised $75,000 & Research Collection; acquisition Endangered Houses Fund, Special for the EHF. of a rosewood and satinwood Appeals and Bequest Program. davenport desk c1845 once owned > Nine new Governors were by Thomas Sutcliffe Mort’s fi rst welcomed to the Foundation wife, Theresa Laidley, for Vaucluse A YEAR IN REVIEW Governors Program including House and publication of Crooks > At the 2008 NSW Australian John Schaeffer AO who pledged like us by Peter Doyle. Business Arts Foundation to become the Foundation’s fi rst > A number of events for prospective (AbaF) Awards, the Foundation Bligh Governor with a commitment and current Foundation donors was awarded the AbaF Giving of $75,000. were held throughout the year, Award for its 2007 fundraising > Funds raised through the including curator-led tours of HHT campaign for the conservation Governors Program continued exhibitions and intimate evenings of Glenfi eld, the fi rst house to be to support vital HHT projects in the Caroline Simpson Library saved through the Endangered and acquisitions that are not & Research Collection. Houses Fund (EHF). possible through regular government funding. This year the projects supported by

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Annual Report 08 > 09 | Members

Members

Incorporated in 1988, the Friends A YEAR IN REVIEW Members. Last year’s recipient, of the Historic Houses Trust Inc > The 20th anniversary of the Friends Annie Campbell, Assistant Curator, (Members) is a volunteer organisation of the Historic Houses Trust, known Museum of Sydney, travelled to and a registered charity. It aims to as the Members, was celebrated. Singapore, London, Liverpool, promote public interest in the HHT’s Over the last 20 years Members Manchester, Belfast, New York and properties and raise funds for their have funded countless projects Quebec to visit museums that conservation, preservation and across the HHT, all of which help interpret cities and their citizenry. interpretation through encouraging visitors to better understand the > The program of exhibitions held membership and coordination history of each property. in the Members Lounge at The of a large and varied program of Mint continues to attract visitors. fundraising events and tours. > The Members annual program of events and tours has extended Commission from the art sales An Executive Committee elected by internationally and included a at the shows proved again to be the membership runs the Members. tour to historic houses, gardens a successful fundraiser. The four One Trustee and the Director and/ and collections in England. Led exhibitions held were Harbour or the Assistant Director, Marketing by historian and writer Dr James views by Nick Hollo, Meroogal & Business Development represent Broadbent, the tour encompassed Women’s Arts Prize 2008, A home the HHT on the Members Executive London, the West Country, the on the goldfi elds by Gria Shead Committee. The Members employs Midlands and the Peak and Lake and Paper and clay – impressions its own staff. districts. of the past by Northside Printmakers. > Since 2003 the Members have funded an annual staff development scholarship of $7,500 in memory of the late Dr Phillip Kent, a former Chair of the

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Annual Report 08 > 09 | Volunteers program

Volunteers Program

The Volunteers program supports A YEAR IN REVIEW > The 2008 New South Wales the participation of volunteers and Government Heritage Volunteer > The volunteer team at The Mint recognises volunteering as a vital Award was presented to James has expanded their role as hosts component of HHT operations. Griffi th, volunteer guide at Rouse to include free guided tours of The program manages all aspects Hill House & Farm, in recognition The Mint building fi ve days a week. of volunteering within the HHT and of his outstanding contribution The tour covers the history of directs and assists staff who supervise to the HHT. the site during the Rum Hospital volunteers. At present there are and Royal Mint periods and the > The Speakers Program, involving 257 HHT volunteers, all of whom conservation and redevelopment selected volunteers conducting provide a valuable link to the wider project to adapt the Coining promotional presentations about community by helping to raise public Factory buildings to become the the HHT and its activities to awareness of the cultural heritage of HHT’s head offi ce. community groups, continued with New South Wales and promoting HHT a signifi cant increase in bookings exhibitions, events, programs and > A working partnership between and presentations made to more activities. Baulkham Hills TAFE and Rouse Hill than 2050 people. The Volunteers Forum comprises House & Farm was formed to train > A new HHT volunteer handbook, 12 elected representatives chosen people to work as volunteer guides available as a printed booklet or from among HHT volunteers. (See at their local heritage property. online via the HHT website, was page 96 for a list of volunteers.) Twelve new volunteers have completed guide training produced to guide new volunteers. on site at Rouse Hill House & Farm > The Museum of Sydney had its fi rst and gained their Certifi cate 111 intake of volunteers, with a group in Tourism (Guiding). of project volunteers working with MOS curators on a number of forthcoming exhibitions.

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As USUAL the CURATORS give us an EXHIBITION to EDUCATE, to DELIGHT and to MAKE us PONDER.

A Hargreaves, Milton, NSW

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OUR COMITTMENT Edward Simpson Betty Sideres, Justice & Police TO WOMEN Stephen Wall (Deputy Chair) Museum Jill Wran Annette Smith-Bridges, Meroogal WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT (joint) General Manager: David Hely APPROACH Neridah Tyler, Hyde Park Barracks The HHT is committed to the MEMBERS OF THE HISTORIC Museum (joint) advancement of women in cultural HOUSES TRUST OF NEW Elaine White, Rouse Hill House and artistic life and is aware of the SOUTH WALES & Farm need to identify and redress Patron: Jack Mundey AO Clarice Wilkins, Elizabeth Farm discrimination against women when Graham Spindler (Chair) delivering services and programs. We Marie Wilson, Government House Maria Linkenbagh acknowledge the needs and interests of women as a distinct occupational Rosemary MacDonald COMMITTEES group and are supportive of Teri McMillan COLLECTIONS VALUATION strategies and initiatives that assist Jennifer Noble (Deputy Chair) COMMITTEE the advancement of women in the Elinor Wrobel OAM Tamara Lavrencic, Collections workplace. Three of our six-person Penny Pike, Trustees representative Manager (Chair) senior management team are women. Kate Clark/Mike Field, HHT Scott Carlin, Curator, Elizabeth Bay representative House/Vaucluse House (See also Equal Opportunity Achievements on page 90.) General Manager: Judy Pittaway Anne Hicking, Senior Finance Manager The HHT is committed to promoting ROUSE HILL HAMILTON Joanna Nicholas, Curator, Caroline the position of women in all aspects COLLECTION PTY LTD Simpson Library & Research of society through interpretation Company Directors: programs at or in our museums, Collection Kate Clark, HHT representative exhibitions, publications and events. Kate Clark, Director (ex-officio) (Chair) Many of these programs incorporate themes relating to the lives and Nanette Ainsworth, Hamilton family COMMERCIAL LEASE COMMITTEE experiences of women in Australian representative Bruce Hambrett, Trustee (Chair) society and are targeted at and Miriam Hamilton, Hamilton family Neville Allen, former Trustee attract female audiences. representative Martyn Mitchell, Trustee Carol Liston, HHT representative Kate Clark, Director (ex-officio) ASSOCIATED GROUPS Nick Malaxos, HHT representative EDUCATION COMMITTEE FOUNDATION FOR THE VOLUNTEER FORUM HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST Kate Clark, Director (Chair) Karen Griffiths, Volunteer OF NEW SOUTH WALES Jeannie Douglass, Head of Education Coordinator (Chair) Company Directors: Mike Field, Assistant Director, Lynne Allen, Meroogal (joint) Howard Tanner (Chair) Marketing & Business Development Garry Cook, Elizabeth Bay House/ Mark Lillis, Acting Head of Public Neville Allen Vaucluse House Programs Kate Clark Patricia Cooper, Speakers Program Caroline Mackaness, General Lynn Fern Nora Etmekdjian, Susannah Place Manager Properties John Gordon Museum Mark Viner, General Manager Beat Knoblauch Amanda Miles, The Mint Properties Clive Lucas OBE Maria Schattiger, Hyde Park Barracks Edwina Macarthur-Stanham Museum (joint) Susan Rothwell

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Endangered Houses Fund IT Steering Committee Jennifer Twemlow, Guide, Hyde Park Committee Kate Clark, Director (Chair) Barracks Museum Jill Wran, Chairman (Chair) Mike Field, Assistant Director, Kerrie Yates, Office Manager, Rouse Neville Allen, former Trustee Marketing & Business Development Hill House & Farm Keith Cottier, Trustee John Hoey, Acting Administration Publications Committee Manager Bruce Hambrett, Trustee Kate Clark, Director (Chair) Megan Martin, Head, Caroline Howard Tanner, Chairman, Peter Barnes, Retail Manager Foundation Simpson Library & Research Louise Cornwall, Design Manager Stephen Wall, Director, Foundation Collection Mike Field, Assistant Director, Tamara Lavrencic, Collections Kate Clark, Director (ex-officio) Marketing & Business Development Manager Exhibitions Advisory Sarah Fitzherbert, Publications Committee Occupational Health & Officer Safety Committee Kate Clark, Director (Chair) Janine Flew, Publications Officer Paul Berkemeier, architect and Andrew Mitchell, Manager, Rose Rebecca Kaiser, Editorial Director, former Trustee Seidler House (Chair) Allen & Unwin Dr Jane Connors, Manager, ABC Carmel Aiello, Cultural Programs Caroline Mackaness, General Radio National Officer Manager Properties Dinah Dysart, arts writer, former Allison Campbell, Collections Officer, Roger Mackell, proprietor, Gleebooks gallery director and former Trustee Collections Management Susan Sedgwick, Manager, Dr Shirley Fitzgerald, historian and Tabitha Charles, Clerical Officer, Exhibitions & Publications former Trustee The Mint Robert Stapelfeldt, Business Judith O’Callaghan, Senior Lecturer, Jan Conti, Operations Manager, Development Manager, McPherson’s Faculty of the Built Environment, Venues Printing Group UNSW Nicholas Crean, Guide, Government Mark Viner, General Manager Susan Sedgwick, Manager, House Properties Exhibitions & Publications Gordon Fehross, Guide, Elizabeth Public Programs Committee Peter Tonkin, architect and Trustee Bay House Kate Clark, Director (Chair) Dr Jaky Troy, colonial historian, Renee Fryer, Guide, Elizabeth Farm Mike Field, Assistant Director, linguist and anthropologist Duncan Harrex, Exhibitions Marketing & Business Development Bob Whight, Assistant Exhibitions Production Manager Mark Lillis, Acting Head of Public Officer Nicole Ison, Casual Guide, Meroogal Programs Naomi Jeffs, Gardener, Vaucluse Finance and Audit Committee House Caroline Mackaness, General Manager Properties Martyn Mitchell, Trustee (Chair) Victor Johnson, Guide, Justice & Bruce Hambrett, Trustee Police Museum Judy Pittaway, General Manager, Members Anne Hicking, Senior Finance Tony Katsigiannis, Manager, Human Mark Viner, General Manager Manager Resources Properties Nicholas Malaxos, Assistant Director, Birugl Onal, Receptionist, Museum Management Services of Sydney Security Committee Kate Clark, Director (ex-officio) Alda Scofield, Guide, Susannah Place Nicholas Malaxos, Assistant Director, Jill Wran, Chairman Museum Management Services (Chair) Dayn Cooper, Manager, Hyde Park Barracks Museum and The Mint

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Steve Dawkins, Manager, Government Outcomes for 2008–09 include: > An HHT Response Paper was House > 21 staff across the HHT were prepared for Arts NSW regarding John Hoey, Acting Administration provided with a TAFE-accredited the proposed National Arts and Manager training program on Disability Disability Strategy. Awareness conducted by > An Access Information Sheet was STAFF AND MANAGEMENT Accessible Arts NSW. devised and provided to all PARTICIPATORY AND ADVISORY > Three Access and Awareness front-of-house staff to improve the COMMITTEE (SAMPAC) training sessions were held at HHT’s service to all prospective Kate Clark, Director Vaucluse House and Museum of visitors. Louise Cornwall, Design Manager Sydney with presenters from Guide > Specialised tours were devised at Tony Katsigiannis, Manager, Human Dogs NSW. Elizabeth Farm for children from Resources > Staff attended access-related the Deaf and Blind Society and at Graeme Lloyd, Grounds and Livestock training from the Department of Meroogal for adults with a mental Manager, Rouse Hill House & Farm Ageing, Disability & Home Care illness from St Vincent de Paul, and Vision Australia Access, plus Wollongong. Nicholas Malaxos, Assistant Director, Disability Awareness training by Management Services > Staff worked with carers from Accessible Arts NSW. DARTS (Disabled Alternative Road Fatma Onal, Guide, Elizabeth Farm > Twenty front-of-house staff Travel Service) to facilitate Fabienne Virago, Education Officer received Access training. wheelchair access for people Inara Walden, Curator, MOS > Volunteers from Elizabeth Bay attending the public program (PSA delegate) House, Rouse Hill House & Farm Garden music at Government and Vaucluse House received House. DISABILITY ACTION Access training and a Volunteer PLAN Forum meeting centred on CREDIT CARD Disability Awareness with a guest The Trust adopted a revised Disability CERTIFICATION speaker talking on the subject. Policy in June 2005 that is The HHT has a policy for the use implemented through its Disability > Multi-sensory and tactile features of credit cards by senior staff, which Action Plan (DAP). The DAP is were incorporated in the is in accordance with Premier’s updated every three years and exhibitions Tails of the city at Memoranda and Treasurer’s addresses priority areas broadly in Museum of Sydney and Convict Direction. accordance with the key priority areas hulks: life on the prison ships at identified in the New South Wales Hyde Park Barracks Museum to ELECTRONIC SERVICE maximise the experience for all Government Disability Policy DELIVERY visitors. Framework: information about The following services are available > A number of publications were services; physical access to HHT electronically via the Internet: redesigned to ensure inclusive properties; access to complaints > the website at www.hht.net.au procedures; employment and staff language and the use of > all appropriate government training; and promoting positive international access symbols. publications (for reference only, community attitudes. The strategies > Wheelchair access was improved in not for sale) in the DAP are carefully planned and The Mint courtyard by the > HHT annual reports from 2001 to steadily implemented to ensure the installation of stainless steel grates 2008 HHT continues to provide the highest placed across historic drainage standard of access delivery. The HHT channels > HHT publications available from supports the rights of people with > Wheelchair access was improved at the HHT website in 2008 disabilities and aims to provide both Vaucluse House by reconfiguration physical and intellectual access to our of spaces in the service yard/ properties, programs and services. kitchen area.

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ETHNIC AFFAIRS followed by a Q&A session. The ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL HHT’s association with Metro Screen OPPORTUNITIES – KEY RESULT PRIORITY STATEMENT also continued, featuring films by AREA THREE We are committed to the principles of young Indigenous filmmakers whose (See staff representation page 38) cultural diversity as outlined in work is funded under the Lester Section 3 of the Ethnic Affairs Bostock Mentor Scheme for Future directions Commission Act 1979, and we Indigenous Filmmakers. To recruit more NESB staff and participated in the following activities The exhibition Danny Huynh: rituals ensure they have equal opportunities to achieve the goals. and traditions of Sydney was and access to staff development and training. SOCIAL JUSTICE – KEY RESULT produced in partnership with the AREA ONE Fairfield City Museum and Gallery. The photographic exhibition HUMAN RESOURCES We offer free printed guides to eight explores the unique cultural beliefs of our 12 museums in: EXCEPTIONAL MOVEMENTS IN and religious customs of three ethnic EMPLOYEE WAGES, SALARIES AND > Chinese communities in Fairfield City as they ALLOWANCES > French celebrate Ramadan, Lunar New Year A 4% salary increase came into effect > German and Russian Orthodox Easter. More from 11–24 July 2008, the first full pay > Italian than 200 people enjoyed a lion and period of the financial year. > Japanese dragon dance to mark the Chinese and Vietnamese Lunar New Year, > Korean POLICIES AND PRACTICES which coincided with the opening > Spanish > Assisted in the restructure of the of the exhibition. Artists Danny management team The HHT now has 56 different Huynh and Kim Tao both spoke > Successfully trialled with language guides available at eight about their work. Management Group and staff properties in seven different Museums & Galleries NSW and MOS from the Museum of Sydney and languages. The guides are uploaded held two joint seminars on the theme Government House the HHT’s new to the website as a pre-visit tool for of Import/Export: Asian–Australian performance appraisal system, multicultural and international visitors, Creative Exchange. The first, Sites of Individual Planning and printed copies are distributed to creativity: projects bridging Asia and > Continued to discuss the the properties. Australia, was chaired by SBS environmental, health and safety There are no printed guides for newsreader Lee Lin Chin, and the survey conducted in June 2008 Meroogal, Rose Seidler House and second was entitled Programming with Management Group and Rouse Hill House & Farm, where across cultural boundaries. SAMPAC access is via guided tour only. An Insites article about the > Four staff inductions were held, Our English as a Second Language Sarantides family resulted in each of two days duration (ESL) tours are available at every Susannah Place Museum being property and this year attracted 3227 invited to participate in the annual Future directions students. Sydney Greek Festival. As part of > Continue to roll out Individual Future directions the festival, curator Anna Cossu Planning presented a lecture, Greek Odyssey, Continue to provide these services. > Implement an organisation-wide at the Museum of Sydney and all five corporate training and COMMUNITY HARMONY – Greek Connections night-time tours development plan KEY RESULT AREA TWO of Susannah Place sold out. Building on the success of last year’s Future directions NAIDOC Week at the Museum of To continue to program for culturally Sydney, program filmmaker Tom diverse audiences. Murray screened his award winning documentary Dhakiyarr vs The King,

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SES reporting MONETARY AMOUNT OF 2009 2008 2007 2006 RECREATION LEAVE AND LONG Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female SERVICE LEAVE ENTITLEMENTS 1 1 101111 Liability Taken SES levels 2009 2008 2007 2006 Recreation leave as at Level 2 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 Level 2 Level 3 $1,233,652 $800,514 30 June 02111111 2009

TABLE A. Trends in representation of EEO groups (as at 30 June 2009) Extended % of total staff leave at $1,800,397 $402,345 Benchmark 30 June EEO groups 2009 2008 2007 or target 2009 Women 50% 65% 65% 63% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 2% 1% 1% 0 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT People whose first language was not 20% 8% 8% 9% OPPORTUNITY (EEO) English Our self-assessed outcomes for the People with a disability 12% 2% 3% 4% year include: People with a disability requiring 7% 1% 1% 1.1% work-related adjustment > Diversity of representation on recruitment panels and the TABLE B. Trends in the distribution of EEO groups (as at 30 June 2009) provision of EEO information % of total staff to applicants. Diversity of Benchmark EEO groups 2009 2008 2007 representation on internal bodies or target such as the OH&S Committee, Women 100% 92% 85% 86% SAMPAC and job evaluation panels Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders 100% n/a n/a n/a People whose first language was not > Flexible work practices including 100% n/a n/a n/a English flex days and RDOs, maternity People with a disability 100% n/a n/a n/a leave, family and community People with a disability requiring service leave 100% n/a n/a n/a work-related adjustment > Provision of development • Excludes casual staff • A distribution index of 100 indicates that the centre of the distribution of the EEO group opportunites through expressions across salary levels is equivalent to that of other staff. Values less than 100 mean that the EEO group tends to be more concentrated at lower salary levels than is the case for other staff. The more pronounced this tendency is, the of interest and higher duties lower the index will be. In some cases the index may be more than 100, indicating that the EEO group is less concentrated at lower salary levels. The Distribution Index is automatically calculated by the software provided by allowance ODEOPE • The distribution index is not calculated where EEO groups or non EEo group numbers are less than 20 Future directions Occupational Health & Safety (OH&S) 2009 2008 2007 2006 Identify an appropriate Indigenous Number of work-related injuries 27 37 29 31 employment strategy and review Number of work-related injuries per joint initiatives with other agencies. 0.13 0.18 0.015 0.16 employee No of work-related illnesses 1 1 nil nil OVERSEAS TRAVEL No of workers compensation claims 6 11 10 12 Louise Cornwall, Design Manager, No of workers compensation claims 0.03 0.05 0.15 0.06 travelled from 9–15 February 2009 to per employee Singapore to press check the printing Average cost per workers $2,538.10 $1,207 $3,910.80 $4,633.50 of The Mint project and Shooting compensation claim through: Sydney by tram, and from Average workers compensation claim $75.91 $66.28 $197.71 $294.72 23–30 May 2009 to Singapore to press per employee check the printing of Crooks like us. Prosecution under the OH&S Act nil nil nil nil

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PRINTING COST OF THIS IN-KIND HUNTER GOVERNORS ($25,000) ANNUAL REPORT 702 ABC Sydney: In-kind media Antoinette Albert This report was printed at a total cost support for the public program event Robert Albert AO and Libby Albert of $17,956.40. The report was written Sydney open 2008. Julian Beaumont and designed by staff. It is available Adshel: In-kind outdoor media Dr Zeny Edwards from our website at www.hht.net.au sponsor of the following exhibitions: John Fairfax AO and Libby Fairfax under ‘About us’. Tails of the city: Sydney’s passion for pets at Museum of Sydney, Femme Lynn Fern DONORS (over $5,000) fatale: the female criminal at Justice Mr Bruce Arnott & Police Museum and Shooting PHILLIP GOVERNORS ($10,000) Chee Soon and Fitzgerald through: Sydney by tram at Museum Anonymous x 2 of Sydney. Noel Crowe David Adams In addition Adshel provided in-kind Mrs Peggy Thorn Hugh Allen and Judith Ainge outdoor media sponsorship for the Neville Allen Sydney open 2008 public program SPONSORS event. Bill and Kate Anderson CASH Angove Family Winemakers: wine Terrey and Anne Arcus AGL Energy: naming rights sponsor sponsor of the Historic Houses Trust, Kate Armati of the AGL Theatre at the Museum House music concert series at Colin Bell Government House, HHT exhibition of Sydney Graham Bradley AM and Charlene launches and events and HHT Bayer Animal Health: sponsor of Tails Bradley Member events. of the City: Sydney’s passion for pets Sir Ron Brierley Avant Card: in-kind media sponsor exhibition at Museum of Sydney. for Tails of the city: Sydney’s passion Diana Brown : major sponsor of the for pets exhibition at Museum of Andrew and Kate Buchanan public program event Sydney open Sydney and Shooting through: Andrew Cameron 2008 and sponsor of the Tails of the Sydney by tram exhibition at Museum Greg Crone city: Sydney’s passion for pets of Sydney as well as the quarterly Michael Crouch AO and exhibition at Museum of Sydney. HHT Events calendar. Shanny Crouch Nikon Australia: sponsor of Museum Bally donated prizes for the Sue Cummings of Sydney Theme Gallery Government House Bushfire photographic exhibitions. fundraiser. William and Julia Dangar Percy Marks: sponsor of the Jazz in Michael and Manuela Darling the garden 2008 public program FUNDRAISING Genevieve David event and Shooting through: Sydney Foundation for the Historic Houses Robert Domabyl by tram exhibition at Museum of Trust of New South Wales Current Peter Garling SC and Jane Garling Sydney. Supporters Edward and Deborah Griffin Sydney Seaplanes: sponsor of the MACQUARIE GOVERNORS Evelyn Hawkins Flying boats exhibition at Museum ($100,000) of Sydney. Peter Keel Anonymous Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority: John and Jan Kehoe partner in upcoming Struggle for BLIGH GOVERNORS ($100,000) Christine M Liddy AO and David The Rocks exhibition at Museum John Schaeffer AO B Liddy of Sydney KING GOVERNORS ($50,000) Juliet Lockhart Maple-Brown Family Charitable Clive Lucas OBE Foundation Ltd John and Edwina Macarthur-Stanham Geoff O’Conor David Maloney and Erin Flaherty

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John Matheson and Jeanne Eve BRONZE ($50,000) Finance Robert McGrath Tim Ambler Anne Hicking, Michael Morgan David Baffsky AO Senior Finance Manager David and Edwina O’Donnell Sir Ron Brierley Alison Olander, Michael and Gillian Pembroke Peter Campbell Financial Accountant Diana Polkinghorne Brendan Crotty Vimala Jayadevan, Accounts Receivable Clerk Mrs E Ramsden Robert Whyte Kenneth Webb, Accounts Penelope Seidler AM PROTECTORS ($10,000) Payable Clerk Kerry Stokes AO Nanette and Stephen Ainsworth Human Resources Colin Sullivan AO Robert Albert AO and Libby Albert Tony Katsigiannis, Manager, Human Howard and Mary Tanner John Fairfax AM and Libby Fairfax Resources Nola Tegel The Jenour Foundation David and Annalise Thomas Ruth Stig, Personnel/Payroll SUPPORTERS ($5,000) Supervisor P/T Eleonora Triguboff Robert Domabyl Denis Loos, HR/Payroll Officer Sandra and John Trowbridge Gosford Quarry Holdings Limited Jarred Baker, HR/Payroll Officer Peter Tyree Marshall Family Foundation Gay Voss IT Morna and Edward Vellacott Stephen Wall and Alex Gibson, Support Engineer Alison Magney Wall Staff list Peter Kocielnik, Systems Manager Peter Weir AM and Wendy Weir Thomas Makowski, IT Support Directorate Kim Williams AM Officer Michael and Prue Williams Kate Clark, Director John Mackay, IT Support Officer Geoff and Karen Wilson Sally Webster, Executive Officer P/T Charlie Chen, IT Project Manager Tim and Sophie Wilson Richard Silink, Manager, Portfolio Development and Endangered Legal Jill Wran Houses Fund John Morgan, Legal Officer CORPORATE PARTNERS Fiona Bytheway, Executive Assistant MARKETING & BUSINESS BankWest MANAGEMENT SERVICES DEVELOPMENT DIVISION Macquarie Group Foundation DIVISION Mike Field, Assistant Director, Macquarie Private Bank Nicholas Malaxos, Assistant Director, Marketing & Business Development Macquarie Private Wealth Management Services Vanessa Jones, Project Officer

endangered houses fund Administration Marketing GOLD ($200,000) John Hoey, Acting Administration Charlotte Grant, Marketing Manager Garry Rothwell Manager Janine Huan, Assistant Marketing Colleen Kremer, Records Manager Manager SILVER ($100,000) Merrin Marks, Assets & Procurement Naomi Hill, Marketing Assistant Macquarie Group Foundation Manager Pascale Hastings, Box Office Guy Paynter Michael Larkin, Administrator St Hilliers Group Receipt and Dispatch Manager Emily Howard, Box Office Assistant Harry Triguboff AO Troy Fear, Administration Assistant Walker Corporation Pty Limited Neville Adams, Westfield Group Driver/General Assistant

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Ruth Williams, Vedran Grozdanic, Casual Event COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT Media Relations Manager Supervisor Tamara Lavrencic, Stephanie Gold, Publicity Assistant George Lehuta, Casual Event Collections Manager Rachael Hainsworth, Supervisor Caroline Lorentz, Loans Manager New Media and Web Manager Richard Boxhall, Casual Audio-Visual Bronwyn McKenzie, Technician Loans Officer P/T RETAIL Simon Branthwaite, Casual Audio- Jennifer Olman, Database Manager Peter Barnes, Retail Manager Visual Technician Chantal Sneddon, MOS Shop Shinae Stowe, Collections Officer Lindsay Dugan, Casual Audio-Visual Manager Allison Campbell, Technician Gemma O’Brien, Merchandise Collections Officer Marcel Gotch, Audio-Visual Supervisor Shana Satyanand, Coordinator Craig Stanton, Merchandise Officer Project Officer P/T Michael Hanlon, Casual Audi-Visual Matthew Scott, Conservation and Hannah Boaden, MOS Shop Technician Assistant P/T Curatorial Advisor Ian Shadwell, Casual Audio-Visual Suzy Kay, MOS Shop Assistant P/T Technician DESIGN Jessica Heneka, Casual Stock & Sales Konrad Skirlis, Casual Audio-Visual Louise Cornwall, Design Manager Assistant Technician Bruce Smythe, Alex Perrett, Casual Stock & Sales Shawn Morris, Casual Facilities Assistant Design Manager Assistant Officer Trudi Fletcher, Display Planner P/T Meg Olds, Casual Stock & Sales Jonothan Pye, Casual Facilities Cathy Osborne, Assistant Officer Display Planner P/T Jack Williams, Casual Stock & Sales Marisol Bogaz, Reception P/T Hana Rocak, Display Planner Assistant Caroline Mackie, Reception P/T Anne-Louise Falson, SPONSORSHIP Joy Minter, Reception P/T Senior Designer P/T Tina Koutsogiannis, Vicky Tycho, Reception P/T Julie Stinson, Designer Sponsorship Manager Beau Vandenberg, Designer PROPERTIES DIVISION Naomi Morris, Emma Warfield, Designer Sponsorship Assistant P/T Caroline Mackaness, General Manager Properties EDUCATION VENUES Mark Viner, General Manager Jeannie Douglass, Senior Education Damian Poole, Venues Manager Properties Officer Jan Conti, Operations Manager Louise Ruddock, Project Officer, Kathryn Hanson, Education Officer Matt Adamson, Sales & Marketing Policy P/T Ross Heathcote, Education Officer Manager Richard Taylor, Project Manager, P/T Kate Elliott, Sales & Marketing Properties Jenny Stuart, Education Officer P/T Coordinator Karen Griffiths, Volunteer Fabienne Virago, Education Officer Ai-Lin Crisford, Events Coordinator Coordinator Irene Hunter, Events Coordinator Jane Kelso, EXHIBITIONS & PUBLICATIONS Angela Sanfilippo, Project Officer, Research Susan Sedgwick, Manager, Events Coordinator Tabitha Charles, Clerical Officer P/T Exhibitions & Publications Joe Binder, Casual Event Supervisor Virginia Eales, Clerical Officer Tim Girling-Butcher, Exhibitions Chris Burke, Casual Event Supervisor Project Manager David Wilson, Building Trades Brendan O’Connell, Casual Event and Maintenance Manager Beth Hise, Exhibitions Project Supervisor Manager P/T

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Duncan Harrex, Exhibitions ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE Ann Steng, Gardener P/T Production Manager Scott Carlin, Curator, Elizabeth Bay Candice Iyer, Chief Guide Peter Burne, Assistant House/Vaucluse House Louise Brooks, Guide P/T Exhibitions Officer Gillian Redman-Lloyd, Acting Jackie Dalton, Guide P/T Bob Whight, Assistant Manager, Elizabeth Bay House/ Kate Gardiner, Guide Exhibitions Officer Vaucluse House Brad Hyslop, Guide Kieran Larkin, Coordinator Exhibition Scott Hill, Assistant Curator, Elizabeth Fatma Onal, Guide P/T Design and Documentation Bay House/Vaucluse House Diane Barrera, Casual Guide Wendy Osmond, Coordinator Amelia Ramsden, Assistant Manager, Exhibition Design and Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House Jo Barrett, Casual Guide Documentation P/T Jemma Donaldson, Chief Guide, Megan Bennett, Casual Guide Sarah Fitzherbert, Publications Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House Jade Boys, Casual Guide Officer P/T Maria Amodeo, Guide P/T, Elizabeth Melanie Eagleston, Casual Guide Janine Flew, Publications Officer P/T Bay House/Vaucluse House Rebecca Geraghty, Casual Guide Alice Livingstone, Rights and Steven Collyer, Guide P/T, Elizabeth Johanna Henwood, Casual Guide Permissions Officer P/T Bay House/Vaucluse House Merilyn Mamone, Casual Guide Justin Maynard, Multimedia Gordon Fehross, Guide P/T, Christy Pidgeon, Casual Guide Coordinator Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House James Thomason, Casual Guide Ben Crosby, Office Manager Wendy Goodrick, Guide P/T, Man-Ling Yuen, Casual Guide Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House PUBLIC PROGRAMS Liz Brown, Tearoom Manager P/T Mary Johnstone, Guide P/T, Elizabeth Mark Lillis, Acting Head of Public Bay House/Vaucluse House Helen Reynolds, Tearoom Manager Programs P/T Elizabeth Little, Guide P/T, Elizabeth Carmel Aiello, Cultural Programs Bay House/Vaucluse House GOVERNMENT HOUSE Officer Jacqui Newling, Guide P/T, Elizabeth Ann Toy, Supervising Curator P/T Ann Frederick, Cultural Programs Bay House/Vaucluse House Officer P/T Robert Griffin, Curator P/T Helen Richards, Guide P/T, Elizabeth Julie Ryan, Cultural Programs Officer Joanna Nicholas, Curator P/T Bay House/Vaucluse House Nicola Sinclair, Cultural Programs Ann Proudfoot Horn, Assistant Linda Shakiba, Guide P/T, Elizabeth Officer Curator P/T Bay House/Vaucluse House Deborah Ward, Administrative Steve Dawkins, General Manager Anthony Springford, Guide P/T, Assistant Mantej Singh, Assistant Manager Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House Mason Dean, Audio-Visual Coordinator Natalie Brosseau, Office Manager Karen Wilcox, Guide P/T, Elizabeth P/T Bay House/Vaucluse House Peter Francis, Building Services Manager CAROLINE SIMPSON LIBRARY Isobel Johnston, Casual Guide John Terzis, Assistant Building & RESEARCH COLLECTION Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House Services Manager Megan Martin, Head Taline Kalaidjian, Casual Guide, Yvonne Mytka, Property Services Joanna Nicholas, Curator P/T Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House Officer Matthew Stephens, Reference Librarian Ian Trounson, Casual Guide, Elizabeth Bay House/Vaucluse House Stewart Campbell, Museum Assistant Michael Lech, Assistant Curator Rick Santucci, Museum Assistant Anna Blunt, Library Technician P/T ELIZABETH FARM Asoka Ekanayake, Functions Penny Gill, Library Technician P/T Bronwyn Alcorn, Manager Supervisor Gary Crockett, Curator Joanne Oldfield, Hospitality Renee Fryer, Assistant Manager Coordinator

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Sharon Howe, Chief Guide MEROOGAL ROSE SEIDLER HOUSE David Bruderlin, Guide P/T Barbara Konkolowicz, Curator P/T Andrew Mitchell, Manager Nicholas Crean, Guide P/T Sandra Lee, Manager P/T ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM Linda Drew-Smith, Guide P/T Cheryl Scowen, Casual Guide and Fergus Clunie, Curator Mark Hamilton, Guide Gardener P/T Monica Leach, Visitor Services Mark Yabsley, Guide P/T Lynne Allen, Casual Guide Manager Maureen Clack, Guide Casual Guide Gwen Chappelow, Casual Guide Maria Martin, Assistant Curator Nicole Forsyth, Casual Guide Nicole Ison, Casual Guide Graeme Lloyd, Gardener & Livestock Marianne Rhydderch, Casual Guide Suzi Krawczyk, Casual Guide Manager Toshie Swift, Casual Guide Martin Parkinson, Casual Guide John Daujotis, Maintenance Officer Jen Saunders, Casual Guide HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM Kerrie Yates, Office Manager Ruth Sykes, Casual Guide Dayn Cooper, Manager, Hyde Park Belinda Mitrovich, Chief Guide Barracks Museum and The Mint Richard Bates, Casual Garden Peter Anderson, Guide P/T Labourer Gary Crockett, Curator Maureen Clack, Guide P/T Margaret Verity, Assistant Manager THE MINT Margaret Lewis, Guide P/T Alex Bray, Office Manager Robert Griffin, Supervising Kylie Roberts, Guide P/T Claire Deck, Acting Chief Guide Curator P/T Jennifer Hill, Casual Guide Trudie Craig, Guide MUSEUM OF SYDNEY David Joy, Casual Guide Carlin De Montfort, Guide P/T Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Head Kylie Mead, Casual Guide Kimberley Doyle, Guide Curator Alana Pienkosz, Casual Guide Clare Fookes, Guide Larissa Anstee, Acting Manager Marianne Rhydderch, Casual Guide Margot Tidey, Guide P/T Inara Walden, Curator P/T Shirley Seale, Casual Guide Jennifer Twemlow, Guide Katinka Kemp, Assistant Manager Michel Wilson, Casual Guide Jennifer White, Guide P/T Annie Campbell, Assistant Curator Stephen Hanson, Museum Assistant Sacha Sata, Museum Assistant Matthew Holle, Building Manager Kathy Porter, Casual Museum JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM Birugl Onal, Receptionist Assistant Caleb Williams, Curator/Manager Scott Cumming, Chief Guide SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM Nerida Campbell, Assistant Craig Coventry, Guide P/T Anna Cossu, Curator/Manager Curator P/T Dianne Corry, Guide Helen Johnson, Guide P/T Rebecca Edmunds, Assistant Mark Sanfilippo, Guide P/T Geoff Marsh, Guide P/T Curator P/T Toshie Swift, Guide P/T Alda Scofield, Guide P/T Holly Schulte, Assistant Curator Russell Garbutt, Casual Guide Vanessa Barratt, Casual Guide Lauren O’Brien, Photo/Digital Sabina Kruzejilenan, Casual Guide Imaging Assistant Annie Eyers, Casual Guide Irene Karageorgiou, Casual Guide Antonio Valdes, Building Services Wendy Freidman, Casual Guide Manager Rebecca Bowman, Casual Guide Margaret Shain, Casual Guide Cassandra Morgan, Office Manager Sienna Brown, Casual Guide Luisa Vasile, Casual Guide David Openshaw, Chief Guide Chris Hodgson, Museum Assistant VAUCLUSE HOUSE Carole Best, Guide P/T Kate Bruxner, Museum Assistant P/T (see also Elizabeth Bay House) Greg Bond, Guide P/T Sam Sinnayah, Administration Maureen Clack, Guide P/T Assistant Victor Johnson, Guide

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Dave Gray, Head Gardener C Emery, Nora Etmekdjian, Donald Betty Shaw, Joyce Shaw, Tracey Naomi Jeffs, Gardener Evans, Julie Evans, Alexandra Shaw, Marina Shipton, Kathleen Evesson, , Dianne Shuster, Betty Sideres, Jeanette Stuart Macpherson, Acting Gardener Gerald Finn M Finnegan, Belinda Finocchiaro, Sims, Annette Smith-Bridges, Moira Steven Halliday, Garden Labourer Ron Fisher, Diann J Ford, Helen Smith, Robyn Anita Rayner, Garden Labourer Foster, Emma K Friezer, Ellen E Smith, Jann E Stanford, Jean Steel, Geraghty, Rebecca C Geraghty , Barbara M Stevenson, Shirley FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC Marion Gibbeson, Gillian Gibbons, Stimson, Patricia Stock, Michelle HOUSES TRUST Diana Glenn, Diana J Glover, Lesley Stromberg, Doreen Sully, Janet Tate, David Hely, General Manager P/T Goldberg, Zelda Goldstein, Gregory Susannah E Tennant, Aline Terhorst, Annette Jee, Events Coordinator P/T Joseph Gould, Narelle Gould, Elaine Rebecca Thompson, Noela K Graham, Neil Graham, Emma Greig, Trimble, Neridah Tyler, Geraldeen MEMBERS OF THE HISTORIC James Griffith, Robin Guthrie, A Walker, Robert Wallis, Belinda R HOUSES TRUST Margaret Guy, John Hamer, Robin Walsh, Christine Waters, Anne Judy Pittaway, General Manager L Hammond, Gordon Hannam, Watson, Gordon C Watson, John Andrew Finlay, Events Coordinator Shirley Hannam, Leslie Anne Watt, Michael Webster, Leonard Rachael MacNamara, Membership Hardwick, Betty Harris, Patricia Werman, Elaine White, Anne Services Officer Hartmann, Janette Heffernan, Whitelaw, Janet Whitten, Karen J Kaily Koutsogiannis, Administration Stephen Hickman, Mengi Hilal, Joy Wilcox, Clarice Wilkins, Emily Wilson, Officer Hill, Margaret Hill, Marjory Holdom, Laraine Wilson, Marie Wilson, Kathleen Hossack, Roslynne M Hunt, Stephanie Wong, Robert M Wood, Peter James, Wendy James, Julie Anne Woodley, Edith Ziegler. VOLUNTEERS Johnson, Prue K Johnson, Maureen Rawiya Ali, Frey Albert, Lynne Allen, King, David Knapp, Lada Kolonkova, Peter Anderson, Tim Armitage, Veronica A Kooyman, Richard Leonie Baxter, Lorraine Bell, Margery Lambert, June Lane, Ellen M Lawson, Bennett, Rose Bersten, Raelene Greta Lee, Mollie Lenthall, Jean Beuermann, Colin Bishop, Joy Bloch, Londish, Dennis F Lovely, Mary E Liselotte Bourcier, John Boyd, Ron Lumsden, Anne E Lynam, Inez Bray, Claire Brockhoff, Melinda Majcan, Malcolm Mawhinney, Frank E Broughton, Marnie Brown, Kate McHale, Lyn McHale, Susan J L Bruxner , Olga Buchanan, Kim McIntyre, Betty McLintock, Rae Bucknole, Steve R Cartland, Judith McLintock, Sue Miller, Susan Miller, G Chapple, Bernadette Chin, Mariana Amanda Milles, Belinda Mitrovich Cidade, Anthony Clapham, Louise Natalie Moore, Nicola Moore, Clark, Pamela Connor, Gary Cook, Frances Moors, Marilyn E Moseley, Patricia Cooper, Estelle Cox, Trudie N Ingrid Mueller, Ross Muller, Valda Craig, Stacey Cutifani, Maryann D’sa, Muller, Alwyn Murray, Lynette J Amanda Da-Silva, Murray, Amy Nhan, Vili Nikolovski, Jan Dash, Caroline De Jongh, Toni A Novoselac, Jan O’Donnell, Janise Derbyshire, Rochelle Brian Oliver, Rhondda Orchard, O Derriman, Maureen Devereaux, Robert Pauling, Teresa Petersen, Laurence Dillon, Margaret Donachy, Glenys A Pike, Adriana Piscicelli, Malcolm R Donaldson, Betty Robin Porter, Brian L Powyer, Greg Donnelly, Ruth Dornan, Kate Preece, Margaret Prosser, Graham Dorrough, Heather Dryburgh, Priscilla Rankin, Kenneth Raven, Stewart Duncan, Dominic M Dwyer, Helen Reed, Joan Rodd, Mary Ryland, Economus, Rebecca Edmunds, Sara Sarah Sabolta, Maria Schattiger, C Elmir, Philip Helen Seale, Bernard Sharah,

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Index

Admission fees, 16 Finance & Audit Committee, 14, 87 Properties, collections and programs, Annual report printing costs, 91 Finances and public resources, 29 24 Associated groups, 81 Financial information, 97 Properties list, 134 Audience, 24 Fleet management, 17 Public Programs Committee, 16, 87 Audit reviews, 16 Foundation for the Historic Houses Publications, 25 Auditor General’s Report, 102 Trust of New South Wales, 81 Publications Committee, 16, 87 Freedom of information, 18 Awards, 5 Regional, 78 Fundraising, 91 Board, 32 Retail, 79 Government House, 48 Risk management, 16 Caroline Simpson Library Grants given, 18 Rose Seidler House, 58 & Research Collection, 42 Guarantee of service, 18 Rouse Hill House & Farm, 60 Chairman’s review, 6 Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Collections, 24 Heritage management, 16 Pty Ltd, 86 Collections Valuations Human resources, 89 Committee, 14, 86 Hyde Park Barracks Museum, 51 Salaries, 38 Commendations, 5 Security Committee, 16, 87 Commercial activity, 29 IT Steering Committee, 14, 87 Senior staff, 37 Commercial Lease Insurance, 16 Sponsors, 91 Committee, 14, 86 Staff and Management Advisory Justice & Police Museum, 52 Commitment, 5 Committee (SAMPAC), 16, 88 Committees, 14, 86 Land disposal, 18 Staff list, 92 Consultants, 99 Staff representation, 38 Major works in progress, 18 Consumer response, 18 Standing, 4 Management, 36 Corporate governance, 14 Susannah Place Museum, 62 Media coverage, 25 Credit card certification, 88 Members of the Historic Houses Trust The Mint, 64 Delegations, 14 of New South Wales, 82 see also Caroline Simpson Library Director, 36 Meroogal, 54 & Research Collection Director’s overview, 9 Mission, 4 Training, 38 Disability Action Plan, 88 Museum of Sydney, 56 Travelling exhibitions, 23 Trustees, 32 Education, 23, 74 Non–English Speaking Education commitee, 14, 86 background staff, 38 Vaucluse House, 66 Venues, 80 Electronic service delivery, 88 Our commitment to women, 86 Visitors, 27 Elizabeth Bay House, 44 Occupational Health & Safety Visitor information, 134 Elizabeth Farm, 46 (OH&S), 90 Volunteers, 83 Endangered Houses Fund Occupational Health & Safety Committee, 14, 87 (OH&S) Committee, 14, 87 Volunteers Forum, 83, 86 Endangered Houses Fund Organisational chart, 39 Volunteer list, 96 program, 28, 75 Overseas travel, 90 Waste reduction management, 17 Energy management, 17 Water management, 17 Environmental management, 17 Partnerships, 25 Website, 25 Equal Employment Opportunity, 90 Privacy Management Plan, 18 Women, our commitment, 86 Ethical standards, 17 Properties, 42 Ethnic affairs priority statement, 89 see also Elizabeth Bay House, Elizabeth Farm, Government House, Hyde Park Events, 24, 76 Barracks Museum, Justice & Police Exhibitions, 22, 77 Museum, Meroogal, Museum of Exhibitions Advisory Committee, 14, 86 Sydney, Rose Seidler House, Rouse Hill House & Farm, Susannah Place Museum, The Mint, Vaucluse House x 4pp AR HHT 08-09.indd 27/10/09 12:00:36 PM - 98 - (Process Cyan)Magenta)Black)Yellow)

Contacts

All properties are closed Good Government House Rose Seidler House Friday and Christmas Day Macquarie Street 71 Clissold Road Sydney Wahroonga Historic Houses Trust T 02 9931 5222 T 02 9989 8020 Head Office F 02 9931 5208 F 02 9487 2761 The Mint House open Friday to Sunday Open Sunday 10am – 5pm 10 Macquarie Street 10.30am–3pm Schools and booked groups by arrangement Sydney NSW 2000 Access by guided tour only Rouse Hill House & Farm T 02 8239 2288 Grounds open daily 10am – 4pm Guntawong Road, via Rouse Road F 02 8239 2299 Schools and booked groups by arrangement Rouse Hill E [email protected] Hyde Park Barracks Museum T 02 9627 6777 Open Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm Queens Square F 02 9627 6776 infoline 02 8239 2442 Macquarie Street Sydney Wednesday to Sunday 9.30am – 4.30pm TTY 02 8239 2377 T 02 8239 2311 (Bookings advisable) www.hht.net.au F 02 8239 2322 Schools and booked groups by arrangement Caroline Simpson Library Open daily 9.30am – 5pm & Research Collection Schools and booked groups by arrangement Susannah Place Museum The Mint 58–64 Gloucester Street 10 Macquarie Street Justice & Police Museum The Rocks Sydney NSW 2000 Cnr Albert and Phillip Streets T 02 9241 1893 T 02 8239 2233 Circular Quay F 02 9241 2608 F 02 8239 2433 T 02 9252 1144 Open weekends 10am – 5pm E [email protected] F 02 9252 4860 Access by guided tour only, every half http://library.hht.net.au Open weekends 10am – 5pm hour, no tour 1.30 and 3.30pm Open Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm Daily in January, during NSW school Daily in January and NSW school holidays holidays and NSW public holidays Schools and booked groups by arrangement Elizabeth Bay House Schools and booked groups by arrangement 7 Onslow Avenue Vaucluse House Elizabeth Bay Meroogal Wentworth Road T 02 9356 3022 Cnr Worrigee and West Streets Vaucluse F 02 9357 7176 Nowra T 02 9388 7922 Open Friday to Sunday 9.30am – 4pm T 02 4421 8150 F 02 9337 4963 Schools and booked groups by arrangement F 02 4421 2747 Open Friday to Sunday 9.30am – 4pm Open Saturday 1pm – 5pm and Daily in January, during NSW school Elizabeth Farm Sunday 10am – 5pm holidays and NSW public holidays 70 Alice Street Access by guided tour only, on the hour Schools and booked groups by arrangement Rosehill Open Friday to Sunday 10am – 5pm T 02 9635 9488 in January F 02 9891 3740 Schools and booked groups by arrangement Open Friday to Sunday 9.30am – 4pm Daily in January, during NSW school Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House holidays and NSW public holidays Cnr Bridge and Phillip Streets Schools and booked groups by arrangement Sydney T 02 9251 5988 F 02 9251 5966 Open daily 9.30am – 5pm Schools and booked groups by arrangement x 4pp AR HHT 08-09.indd 27/10/09 12:00:36 PM - 99 - (Process Cyan)Magenta)Black)Yellow)

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FASCINATING STORIES, BEAUTIFULLY presented. KEEP up the GOOD WORK - WILL KEEP COMING BACK.

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ECONOMIC AND OTHER FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACHIEVEMENT OF OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES

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

CONSULTANTS Type of consultant Service Amount $ General > $30,000 – – Nil – – General < $30,000 – – 5 consultants Architecture 33,517 Conservation Property valuation

PAYMENT OF ACCOUNTS Aged analysis at the end of each quarter Quarter Less than 31–60 61–90 More than Total 30 days days overdue days overdue 90 days $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 September 2008 25 89 50 1 165 December 2008 5 11 0 –3 13 March 2009 191 125 11 –2 325 June 2009 158 19 0 –6 171

Quarter Total accounts paid on time Total amount paid Target % Actual % $’000 $’000 September 2008 100 98 8,605 9,372 December 2008 100 96 8,517 8,707 March 2009 100 94 9,978 10,413 June 2009 100 95 9,158 9,776

The Trust’s policy is to endeavour to ensure that all payments to suppliers are made promptly and in line with State Government guidelines. In some instances, certain issues relating to claims for payment require further clarification with suppliers. In such cases payment is made promptly once agreement is reached on matters requiring clarification. There were no instances where interest was paid on overdue accounts.

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UNDERSTANDING OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

This information is to assist readers to understand our financial year. It shows the assets held as well as liabilities financial statements, which are made up of four reports or claims against these assets. The statement is also and accompanying notes: prepared on an accruals basis. Assets and liabilities are > Income statement expressed as current or non-current. Current assets > Statement of recognised income and expense are expected to be realised within 12 months after the reporting date or the asset is cash or a cash equivalent. > Balance sheet Current liabilities are obligations which are expected to > Cash flow statement be settled within the Trust’s normal operating cycle and The statements disclose separately the Trust which is where the Trust does not have an unconditional right to known as the Parent Entity and the group of organisations defer settlement of the liability for more than 12 months under the control of the HHT which is known as the after the reporting date. Non-current assets/liabilities are consolidated group. The consolidated group includes all those assets and liabilities which are not current and are of the entities which fall under our control: generally unlikely to be settled within the next 12 months. > Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New The difference between total assets and total liabilities is South Wales expressed as net assets, which equals total equity – that > Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New is, the net worth of the organisation at the end of the South Wales Limited financial year. > Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Ltd 4 CASH FLOW STATEMENT > The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust The cash flow statement shows the nature and amount of The NSW Auditor-General audits NSW public sector cash inflows/outflows. The cash flow statement reflects agencies such as the HHT and its controlled entities. a recording of cash (as opposed to accruals as in the The Auditor-General’s audit certificate is included with the operating statement) when it is received or paid. financial statements and it states the Auditor-General’s The cash flow statement has only two sections: audit opinion on the HHT’s financial statements. > The cash flows from operating activities: summarises 1 OPERATING STATEMENT those cash flows which relate to the provision of goods The operating statement looks at our performance over and services. In our statement this includes cash flows the financial year (1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009) and is from government. reported as a surplus/deficit in delivering our services. > The cash flows from investing activities: summarises The statement enables readers to identify the cost of those activities which relate to the acquisition and goods and services provided and the extent to which disposal of non-current assets and other productive these costs were recovered as well as the source of the assets and investments not falling under the definition funding. It also allows the reader to compare the result of cash, for example the sale of plant and equipment. against the previous financial year to see the change A resulting net increase or decrease in cash results from in resources as a result of operations. The statement is the total of the cash flows from operating and investing prepared on an accruals basis, which means it accounts for activities. This is then added to or subtracted from to income and expenditure when it is earned/incurred and the opening cash position to arrive at the closing cash not when money is received or paid. Accrual accounting position for the year. also recognises non-cash items such as depreciation of assets. 5 NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2 STATEMENT OF RECOGNISED INCOME AND EXPENSE The notes provide further information in relation to the rules and assumptions used to prepare the financial The statement of recognised income and expense statements, as well as giving more specific information describes the movement in equity and the source of those and detail about items within the financial statements. movements during the reporting period. If there are changes to accounting standards, policy or 3 BALANCE SHEET legislation this will be disclosed in the notes. The ‘note’ The balance sheet sets out the net accumulated financial indicates which note the reader can refer to for value at a point in time, in this case, the end of the further information.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS CONTENTS

102 Auditor General’s Report 117 Note 9: Current/non current assets – other financial assets 103 Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Statutory financial statements 117 Note 10: Restricted assets 104 Operating statement 118 Note 11: Non current assets – property, plant and equipment 104 Statement of recognised income and expense Note 12: Capital works in progress 105 Balance sheet 121 Note 13: Intangible assets 106 Cash flow statement 121 Note 14: Current/non-current liabilities 107 Notes to and forming part of the financial 121 statements 121 Note 15: Non-current liabilities 107 Note 1: Summary of significant accounting policies 122 Note 16: Changes in equity 114 Note 2: Expenses excluding losses 123 Note 17: Controlled entities 115 Note 3: Revenue 124 Note 18: Reconciliation of cash flows from operating activities to net cost of services 116 Note 4: Gain/(loss) on disposal Note 19: Financial instruments 116 Note 5: Acceptance by the entity of 124 employee benefits and other liabilities 130 Note 20: Non-cash financing and investing activities 116 Note 6: Current assets – cash and cash equivalents 131 Note 21: Commitments for expenditure 117 Note 7: Current assets – receivables 131 Note 22: Contingent liabilities 117 Note 8: Current assets – inventories 131 Note 23: Post balance date events

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES AND CONTROLLED ENTITIES

To Members of the New South Wales Parliament An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit I have audited the accompanying financial report of the evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (the Trust), financial report. The procedures selected depend on the which comprises the balance sheet as at 30 June 2009, auditor’s judgement, including the assessment of the risks the income statement, statement of recognised income of material misstatement of the financial report, whether and expense and cash flow statement for the year then due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, ended, a summary of significant accounting policies the auditor considers internal controls relevant to the and other explanatory notes for both the Trust and the Trust’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial consolidated entity. The consolidated entity comprises report in order to design audit procedures that are the Trust and the entities it controlled at the year’s end appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose or from time to time during the financial year. of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal controls. An audit also includes evaluating Auditor’s Opinion the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by the In my opinion, the financial report: Trustees, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of > presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial the financial report. position of the Trust and the consolidated entity as at I believe that the audit evidence I have obtained is 30 June 2009, and of their financial performance for sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for my the year then ended in accordance with Australian audit opinion. Accounting Standards (including the Australian Accounting Interpretations) My opinion does not provide assurance: > is in accordance with section 41B of the Public Finance > about the future of the Trust or consolidated entity, and Audit Act 1983 (the PF&A Act) and the Public > that they have carried out their activities effectively, Finance and Audit Regulation 2005. efficiently and economically, or My opinion should be read in conjunction with the rest of > about the effectiveness of their internal controls. this report. Independence Trustees’ Responsibility for the Financial Report In conducting this audit, the Audit Office of New South The Trustees are responsible for the preparation and Wales has complied with the independence requirements fair presentation of the financial report in accordance of the Australian Auditing Standards and other relevant with Australian Accounting Standards (including the ethical requirements. The PF&A Act further promotes Australian Accounting Interpretations) and the PF&A Act. independence by: This responsibility includes establishing and maintaining > providing that only Parliament, and not the executive internal controls relevant to the preparation and fair government, can remove an Auditor-General, and presentation of the financial report that is free from > mandating the Auditor-General as auditor of public material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; sector agencies but precluding the provision of selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; non-audit services, thus ensuring the Auditor-General and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in and the Audit Office of New South Wales are not the circumstances. compromised in their role by the possibility of losing clients or income. Auditor’s Responsibility My responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial report based on my audit. I conducted my audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. These Auditing Standards require that I comply with relevant ethical requirements relating to audit engagements Steven Martin and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable Director, Financial Audit Services assurance whether the financial report is free from 30 October 2009 material misstatement. Sydney

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HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES STATUTORY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009

STATEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 41C(1C) OF THE PUBLIC FINANCE AND AUDIT ACT, 1983 Pursuant to Section 41C (1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act, 1983, and, in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, we state that: a) The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983, the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2005, applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which includes Australian Accounting Interpretations) and the Treasurer’s Directions; b) The financial statements and notes thereto exhibit a true and fair view of the financial position as at 30 June 2009 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.

Jill Wran Kate Clark Chairman Director

Dated this 30th Day of October 2009

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OPERATING STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009

Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

EXPENSES EXCLUDING LOSSES Operating expenses Personnel services 2(a) 16,175 15,700 16,175 15,618 Other operating expenses 2(b) 9,589 10,950 9,454 10,885 Depreciation and amortisation 2 (c) 1,560 1,608 1,560 1,608 Total expenses excluding losses 27,324 28,258 27,189 28,111

REVENUE Sale of goods and services 3(a) 5,930 5,279 5,930 5,279 Investment revenue 3(b) 643 740 555 588 Grants and other contributions 3(c) 23,399 22,093 23,173 22,087 Other revenue 3(d) 461 261 446 253 Total revenue 30,433 28,373 30,104 28,207 Gain/(loss) on disposal 4 537 (3) 537 (3) SURPLUS/(DEFICIT) FOR THE YEAR 3,646 115 3,452 93

STATEMENT OF RECOGNISED INCOME AND EXPENSE FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009

Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant and equipment asset revaluation reserve 16 940 1,338 794 1,307 Other net increases/(decreases) in equity 16 – – – – TOTAL INCOME AND EXPENSE RECOGNISED DIRECTLY IN EQUITY 940 1,338 794 1,307 Surplus for the year 16 3,646 112 3,452 93 TOTAL INCOME AND EXPENSE RECOGNISED FOR THE YEAR 4,586 1,450 4,246 1,400

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 JUNE 2009

Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

ASSETS Current assets Cash and cash equivalents 6 8,569 7,369 6,765 5,807 Trade and other receivables 7 872 767 906 755 Inventories 8 723 688 723 688 Financial assets at fair value 9 2,500 – 2,500 – Total current assets 12,664 8,824 10,894 7,250

Non-current assets Financial assets held at fair value 9 – 2,500 – 2,500 Property plant and equipment 11 - Land and buildings 200,976 201,472 200,976 201,472 - Plant and equipment 1,089 1,311 1,089 1,311 - Collection assets 35,919 34,643 35,009 33,879 Total property, plant and equipment 237,984 237,426 237,074 236,662

Capital works in progress 12 3,239 1,571 3,239 1,571 Intangible assets 13 129 70 129 70 Total non-current assets 241,352 241,567 240,442 240,803 Total assets 254,016 250,391 251,336 248,053

LIABILITIES Current liabilities Payables 14 2,372 3,334 2,360 3,324 Borrowings 14 – – 1,100 1,100 Total current liabilities 2,372 3,334 3,460 4,424

Non-current liabilities Payables 15 11 10 11 10 Borrowings – – – – Total non-current liabilities 11 10 11 10 Total liabilities 2,383 3,344 3,471 4,434 NET ASSETS 251,633 247,047 247,865 243,619

EQUITY Reserves 16 105,762 104,822 105,527 104,733 Accumulated funds 16 145,871 142,225 142,338 138,886 Total equity 251,633 247,047 247,865 243,619

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009

Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Payments Employee related (16,478) (15,699) (16,393) (15,699) Grants and subsidies – – – – Finance costs – – – – Other (10,125) (13,250) (10,120) (13,093) Total payments (26,603) (28,949) (26,513) (28,792)

Receipts Sale of goods and services 6,140 9,062 6,125 9,062 Interest received 423 740 333 593 Grants and contributions 23,146 20,713 22,922 20,343 Other 110 261 107 242 Total receipts 29,819 30,776 29,487 30,240

Cash flows from Government – – – – Recurrent appropriation – – – – Capital appropriation (excluding equity appropriations) – – – – Net cash flows from Government – – – – NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 18 3,216 1,827 2,974 1,448

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Proceeds from sale of land and buildings, plant and equipment and infrastructure systems 1,609 2 1,609 2 Proceeds from the sale of investments – 1,015 – – Purchases of land and buildings, plant and equipment and infrastructure systems (3,625) (3,585) (3,625) (3,585) Purchases of investments – (2,511) – (2,500) Other – – – _ NET CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES (2,016) (5,079) (2,016) (6,083)

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES Capital appropriation – equity appropriation – – – – Proceeds from borrowings and advances – – – 1,100 Repayment of borrowings and advances – – – – Other – – – 360 NET CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES – – – 1,460

NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH 1,200 (3,252) 958 (3,175) Opening cash and cash equivalents 7,369 10,621 5,807 8,982 CLOSING CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 6 8,569 7,369 6,765 5,807

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009

1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING b) Basis of preparation POLICIES The Trust’s financial report is a general purpose a) Reporting Entity financial report, which has been prepared in The Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT), accordance with: is a reporting entity, is a statutory body of the NSW > applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which State Government. The Trust is a not-for-profit entity include Australian Accounting Interpretations) (as profit is not its principal objective) and it has no > the requirements for the Public Finance and Audit cash generating units. The financial report covers the Act 1983 consolidated group (the Trust) and the HHT as an > the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit individual parent entity. The controlled entities are: Regulation 2005 i) The Rouse Hill Hamilton Collections Pty Ltd > the Financial Reporting Directions published in the The sole purpose of the Rouse Hill Hamilton Financial Reporting Code for Budget Dependent Collections Pty Ltd is to act as the Trustee of the General Government Sector Agencies or issued by Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust and it has never traded the Treasurer. in its own right. The following is a summary of the material accounting The Company has issued two $1 fully paid shares. policies adopted by the consolidated group in the The HHT holds 1 share and Peter Watts in his preparation of the financial report. The accounting capacity as the former Director of the HHT held policies have been consistently applied, unless otherwise the other share from 1 July 2008 to 19 October stated. 2008 and Kate Clark in her capacity as Director of Property, plant and equipment, collection assets, and the HHT holds the other share from 20 October financial assets at ‘fair value through profit or loss’ and 2008. There were no financial transactions in this available for sale are measured at fair value. Other financial year. financial report items are prepared in accordance with ii) The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust the historical cost convention. The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust was established on Judgements, key assumptions and estimations 27 October 1994 and holds collection items in and management has made are disclosed in the relevant about Rouse Hill House. These were revalued notes to the financial report. during the year ended 30 June 2009. All amounts are rounded to the nearest one thousand iii) Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of dollars and are expressed in Australian currency. New South Wales Limited Accounting Standards issued but not yet effective The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited was established for the The Trust did not early adopt any new accounting sole purpose to act as Trustee to the Foundation standards and interpretations that are not yet effective. for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales At the date of authorisation of the financial report, the and has never traded in its own right. There were following standards and interpretations were on issue no financial transactions for the year. and applicable to the Trust, but not yet effective: iv) Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of > AASB3, AASB127 and AASB2008-3 regarding business New South Wales combinations The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of > AASB8 and AASB2007-3 regarding operating New South Wales was established for the segments promotion, advancement and development of the > AASB101, AASB2007-8 and AASB2007-10 regarding museums under the care, custody and control of presentation of financial statements the HHT. > AASB123 and AASB2007-6 regarding borrowing costs The consolidated report has been authorised for > AASB1039 regarding concise financial reports issue by the Board of Trustees on 30 October 2009. It is consolidated as part of the NSW Total State > AASB2008-1 regarding share based payments Sector Accounts. > AASB2008-2 regarding puttable financial instruments

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The Trust has assessed the impact of these new standards iii) Rendering of services and interpretations and considers the impact to be Revenue is recognised when the service is insignificant. provided. Royalty revenue is recognised in c) Principles of consolidation accordance with AASB 118 Revenue on an accrual basis in accordance with the substance of the A controlled entity is any entity that the Trust has the relevant agreement. power to control the financial and operating policies of so as to obtain benefits from its activities. a. Investment income All controlled entities have a June financial year-end. Interest income is recognised using the All intercompany balances and transactions between effective interest method as set out in AASB139 entities in the consolidated group, including any Financial Instruments: Recognition and unrealised profits or losses, have been eliminated Measurement. TCorp Hour-Glass distributions on consolidation. Accounting policies of controlled are recognised in accordance with AASB118 entities have been changed where necessary to ensure when the Trust’s right to receive payment is consistencies with those policies applied by the established. parent entity. b. Grants and contributions Where controlled entities have been entered or Grants and contributions include donations and left the consolidated group during the year, their grants from the Department of the Arts, Sports operating results have been included/excluded from and Recreation (DASR). They are generally the date control was obtained or until the date control recognised as income when the Trust obtains ceased. control over the assets comprising the grants d) Statement of compliance and contributions. Control over grants and contributions is normally when the obligations The consolidated and parent entity financial relating to the receipt have been met and, in statements and notes comply with Australian the case of donations, on receipt of cash. Accounting Standards, which include Australian Accounting Interpretations. f) Personnel services and other provisions e) Income recognition a) Personnel services arrangements Income is measure at the fair value of the The HHT and DASR entered into a Memorandum consideration or contribution received or receivable. of Understanding effective from 1 July 2006 which Additional comments regarding the accounting sets out the arrangements for employment and policies for the recognition of income are discussed payment of staff working at the HHT. Staff working below: for the HHT are considered employees of the i) Parliamentary appropriations and contributions Department of the Arts, Sports and Recreation (Department of Communities NSW from 1 July 2009 Except as specified below, parliamentary appropriations and contributions from other All payments to personnel and related obligations bodies (including grants and donations) are are done in the DASR name and ABN and are generally recognised as income when the classified as ‘Personnel Services’ costs in these Trust obtains control over the assets comprising financial statements. the appropriations/contributions. Control over b) Personnel services – salaries and wages, annual appropriations and contributions is normally leave, sick leave and on-costs obtained upon the receipt of cash. Based on the memorandum of understanding with (ii) Sale of goods DASR, liabilities for personnel services are stated Revenue from the sale of goods is recognised as as liabilities to the service provider DASR. Salaries revenue when the Trust transfers the significant and wages (including non-monetary benefits), risks and rewards of ownership of the assets. annual leave and paid sick leave that fall due

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wholly within 12 months of the reporting date g) Insurance are recognised and measured in respect of The Trust’s insurance activities are conducted through employees’ services up to the reporting date at the NSW Treasury Managed Fund Scheme of self- undiscounted amounts based on the amounts insurance for Government agencies. The expense expected to be paid when the liabilities are settled. (premium) is determined by the Fund Manager based If applicable, long-term annual leave that on past claim experience. is not expected to be taken within 12 months is h) Accounting for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) measured at present value in accordance with Income, expenses and assets are recognised net of the AASB 119 Employee Benefits. Market yields on amount of GST, except where: government bonds are used to discount long-term annual leave. > the amount of GST incurred by the Trust as a purchaser that is not recoverable from the Unused non-vesting sick leave does not give rise to Australian Taxation Office is recognised as part of a liability, as it is not considered probable that sick the cost of acquisition of an asset or as part of an leave taken in the future will be greater than the item of expense benefits accrued in the future. > receivables and payables are stated with the The outstanding amounts of payroll tax, workers’ amount of GST included. compensation insurance premiums and fringe Cash flows are included in the cash flow statement benefits tax, which are consequential to the on a gross basis. However, the GST component of provision of personnel services by DASR, are the cash flows arising from investing and financing recognised as liabilities and expenses where the activities which is recoverable or payable to the personnel services to which they relate have been Australian Taxation Office is classified as operating recognised. cash flows.

c) Long service leave and superannuation i) Assets In the financial statements of DASR, the i) Acquisition of assets liabilities for long service leave and defined benefit The cost method of accounting is used for the superannuation are assumed by the Crown Entity. initial recording of all acquisitions of assets Consequently the Trust accounts the equivalent controlled by the Trust. Cost is the amount of expense and income in its financial statements to cash or cash equivalents paid or the fair value reflect this provision of personnel services. of the other consideration given to acquire the Long service leave is measure at present value in asset at the time of its acquisition or construction accordance with AASB 119 Employee Benefits. or where applicable the amount attributed to that This is based on the application of certain factors, asset when initially recognised in accordance specified by NSW Treasury, to employees with 5 with the specific requirements of other Australian or more years of service, using current rates of pay. Accounting Standards. These factors were determined based on an Gifts or artworks or works acquired at no cost, or actuarial review to approximate present value. for nominal consideration, are initially recognised The superannuation expense for the financial at their fair value at the date of acquisition and brought to account as assets and revenues for year is determined by using the formulae specified the period. in the Treasury Circular TC09/01. The expense for certain superannuation schemes (ie Basic Benefit Fair value is the amount for which an asset could and First State Super), is calculated as a percentage be exchanged between knowledgeable, willing of the employees’ salary. For other superannuation parties in an arm’s length transaction. schemes (ie State Superannuation Scheme and Where payment for an asset is deferred beyond State Authorities Superannuation Scheme), the normal credit terms, its cost is the cash price expense is calculated as a multiple of the equivalent, ie the deferred payment amount is employees’ superannuation contributions. effectively discounted at an asset specific rate.

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ii) Capitalisation thresholds then increased or decreased by the revaluation Property, plant and equipment, and intangible increments or decrements. assets costing $5000 and above individually (or Revaluation increments are credited directly to forming part of a network costing more than the asset revaluation reserve, except that, to the $5000) are capitalised. extent that an increment reverses a revaluation decrement in respect of that class of asset iii) Revaluation of property, plant and equipment previously recognised as an expense in the Physical non-current assets are valued in surplus/deficit, the increment is recognised accordance with the ‘Valuation of Physical immediately as revenue in the surplus/deficit. Non-Current Assets at Fair Value’ Policy and Revaluation decrements are recognised Guidelines Paper (TPP07-1). This policy adopts immediately as expenses in the surplus/deficit, fair value in accordance with AASB 116 Property, except that, to the extent that a credit balance Plant and Equipment. exists in the asset revaluation reserve in respect Property, plant and equipment is measured on of the same class of assets, they are debited an existing use basis, where there are no feasible directly to the asset revaluation reserve. alternative uses in the existing natural, legal, As a not-for-profit entity, revaluation increments financial and socio-political environment. However, and decrements are offset against one another in the limited circumstances where there are within a class of non-current assets, but not feasible alternative uses, assets are valued at their otherwise. highest and best use. Where an asset that has previously been revalued Fair value of property, plant and equipment is is disposed of, any balance remaining in the asset determined based on the best available market revaluation reserve in respect of that asset is evidence, including current market selling prices transferred to accumulated funds. for the same or similar assets. Where there is no available market evidence, the asset’s fair v) Impairment of property, plant and equipment value is measured at its market-buying price, As a not-for-profit entity with no cash generating the best indicator of which is depreciated units, the Trust is effectively exempted from replacement cost. AASB 136 Impairment of Assets and impairment The Trust revalues each class of property, plant testing. This is because AASB 136 modifies and equipment at least every five years or with the recoverable amount test to the higher of fair sufficient regularity to ensure that the carrying value less costs to sell and depreciated amount of each asset in the class does not differ replacement cost. This means that, for an materially from its fair value at reporting date. asset already measured at fair value, impairment Details of the last revaluations are shown at Note can only arise if selling costs are material. Selling 11 and were based on independent assessments. costs are regarded as immaterial. Non-specialised assets with short useful lives vi) Assets not able to be reliably measured are measured at depreciated historical cost, as The Trust does not hold any assets other than a surrogate for fair value. those recognised in the balance sheet. When revaluing non-current assets by reference to current prices for assets newer than those being vii) Depreciation of property, plant and equipment revalued (adjusted to reflect the present condition Except for certain heritage assets, depreciation is of the assets), the gross amount and the related provided for on a straight-line basis for all accumulated depreciation are separately restated. depreciable assets so as to write off the depreciable For other assets, any balances of accumulated amount of each asset as it is consumed over its depreciation at the revaluation date in respect useful life to the Trust. of those assets are credited to the asset accounts All material separately identifiable component to which they relate. The net asset accounts are assets are depreciated over their shorter useful lives.

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Land is not a depreciable asset. Certain heritage Operating lease payments are charged to the assets have an extremely long useful life, including income statement in the periods in which they original art works and collections and heritage are incurred. buildings. Depreciation for those items cannot x) Intangible assets be reliably measured because the useful life and the net amount to be recovered at the end of the The Trust recognises intangible assets only if it is useful life cannot be reliably measured. In these probable that future economic benefits will flow cases, depreciation is not recognised. The to the Trust and the cost of the asset can be decision not to recognise depreciation for these measured reliably. Intangible assets are assets is reviewed annually. measured initially at cost. Where an asset is acquired at no or nominal cost, the cost is its fair The estimated useful life of items are as follows: value as at the date of acquisition. > Non-heritage buildings – 40 to 50 years The useful lives of intangible assets are assessed > Computer equipment and major software – 4 years to be finite. Intangible assets are subsequently measured at fair value only if there is an active > Mechanical and electronic office equipment – market. As there is no active market for the Trust’s 7 years intangible assets, the assets are carried at cost less > Electronic equipment – 7 years any accumulated depreciation. > Radio communications equipment – 7 years The Trust’s intangible assets (software) are > Telephone installations – 10 years amortised using the straight line method over a > Office fittings – 10 years period of four years. > Miscellaneous tools and equipment – 7 years Intangible assets are tested for impairment where an indicator of impairment exists. If the > Mobile plant – 10 years recoverable amount is less than its carrying The estimated useful lives are reviewed annually to amount the carrying amount is reduced to ensure they reflect the assets’ current useful life and recoverable amount and the reduction is residual values. recognised as an impairment loss. viii) Maintenance j) Inventories Day-to-day servicing costs or maintenance are Inventories held for distribution are stated at cost, charged as expenses as incurred, except where adjusted when applicable, for any loss of service they relate to the replacement of a part of potential. A loss of service potential is identified component of an asset, in which case the costs and measured based on the existence of a current are capitalised and depreciated. replacement cost that is lower than the carrying amount. ix) Leased assets The Trust does not have any inventories acquired at no A distinction is made between finance leases cost or for nominal consideration. which effectively transfer from the lessor to the lessee substantially all the risks and benefits k) Financial intruments incidental to ownership of the leased assets, and The Trust’s principal financial instruments policies operating leases under which the lessor effectively are outlined below. These financial instruments arise retains all such risks and benefits. directly from the Trust’s operations and are required Where a non-current asset is acquired by means to finance its operations. The Trust does not enter into of a finance lease, the asset is recognised at its fair or trade financial instruments for speculative purposes value at the commencement of the lease term. The and does not use financial derivatives. corresponding liability is established at the same amount. Lease payments are allocated between the principal component and the interest expense.

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i) Cash and cash equivalents non-monetary benefits), annual leave and paid Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances. sick leave that fall due wholly within 12 months Interest is earned on daily bank balances and paid of the reporting date are recognised and monthly at the normal commercial rate. measured in respect of employees’ service up to the reporting date at undiscounted amounts ii) Loans and receivables based on the amounts expected to be paid Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial when the liabilities are settled. assets with fixed or determinable payments Long-term annual leave that is not expected to that are not quoted in an active market. These be taken within 12 months is measured at financial assets are recognised initially at fair value, present value in accordance with AASB 119 usually based on the transaction cost or face value. Employee Benefits. Subsequent measurement is amortised cost using the effective interest method, less an allowance Unused non-vesting sick leave does not give for any impairment or receivables. Collectability rise to a liability as it is not considered probable of trade debtors is reviewed on an ongoing basis. that sick leave taken in the future will be greater Debts which are known to be uncollectible are than the benefits accrued in the future. written off. Any changes are accounted for in the The outstanding amounts of payroll tax, income statement when impaired, derecognised workers’ compensation insurance premiums or through the amortisation process. and fringe benefits tax, which are consequential Short term receivables with no stated interest rate to employment, are recognised as liabilities and are measured at the orginal invoice amount where expenses where the employee benefits to the effect of discounting is immaterial. The credit which they relate have been recognised. risk is the carrying amount (net of any allowance ii) Long service leave and superannuation for impairment). No interest is earned on trade The Trust’s liabilities for long service leave and debtors. The carrying amount approximates defined benefit superannuation are assumed by fair value. the Crown Entity. The Trust accounts for the iii) Investments liability as having been extinguished, resulting Investments are initially recognised at fair value in the amount assumed being shown as part of plus, in the case of investments not at fair value the non-monetary revenue item described as through profit or loss, transaction costs. The ‘Acceptance by the Crown Entity of employee Trust determines the classification of its financial benefits and other liabilities’. assets after initial recognisition and, when allowed Long service leave is measured at present and appropriate, re-evaluates this at each financial value in accordance with AASB 119 Employee year end. Benefits. This is based on the application of l) Liabilities certain factors (specified in NSWTC 09/04) to employees with five or more years of service, i) Payables using current rates of pay. These factors were These amounts represent liabilities for goods and determined based on an actuarial review to services provided to the Trust and other amounts. approximate present value. Payables are recognised initially at fair value, usually based on the transaction cost or face value. m) Special funds Short term payables with no stated interest rate The Trust receives monies and gifts of property are measured at the original invoice amount where subject to restrictions. The aggregate of these the effect of discounting is immaterial. contributions received for the year has been stated ii) Employee benefits and other provisions as revenues. These revenues provide for expenditure i) Salaries and wages, annual leave, sick leave in the current year and future years. Any revenues and on-costs unspent in the current year have been carried forward Liabilities for salaries and wages (including for appropriate expenditure in future years.

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n) Trustee benefits No Trustee of the Trust has entered into a material contract with the HHT or the consolidated entity since the end of the previous financial period and there are no material contracts involving Trustees’ interests existing at the end of the period.

o) Taxation status The activities of the Trust are exempt of income tax. The Trust is registered for GST purposes and has gift deductible recipient status.

p) Services provided at no cost Where material contributions are made to the Trust at no charge an expense is recorded in the accounts to reflect activities at the Trust and is offset by an equivalent revenue entry.

q) Comparative information Except when an Australian Accounting Standard permits or requires otherwise, comparative information is disclosed in respect of the previous period for all amounts reported in the financial statements.

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Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

2 EXPENSES EXCLUDING LOSSES a) Personnel service expenses Personnel services (including recreation leave) 13,788 13,318 13,788 13,244 Superannuation – defined benefit plans 111 111 111 111 Superannuation – defined contribution plans 1,090 1,012 1,090 1,012 Long service leave (53) 124 (53) 124 Workers’ compensation insurance 229 189 229 189 Payroll tax on superannuation – defined benefit plan 6 7 6 7 Payroll tax and fringe benefit tax 1,004 939 1,004 931 16,175 15,700 16,175 15,618

b) Other operating expenses Advertising and publicity 676 660 676 660 Auditors’ renumeration 65 75 57 67 Bad debts – 1 – 1 Books, publications and subscriptions 54 51 54 51 Contract cleaning 659 629 659 629 Contract staff 438 386 438 386 Cost of sales 473 432 473 432 Entertainment and catering expenses 70 54 70 54 Exhibition fees and related costs 440 587 440 587 Fees for services rendered 318 646 318 633 Gas and electricity 450 403 450 403 Insurance 216 184 216 184 Maintenance (refer reconciliation below) 2,375 3,602 2,375 3,602 Maintenance contracts (refer reconciliation below) 41 34 41 34 Marketing and promotion 534 523 534 523 Motor vehicle running costs 224 189 224 189 Operating lease rental expense 208 169 208 169 Other expenses 601 587 474 543 Postage 85 120 85 120 Printing 137 161 137 161 Public programs 397 427 397 427 Rates 270 42 270 42 Stores and IT Maintenance 571 631 571 631 Telecommunications 192 225 192 225 Travel and accommodation 95 132 95 132 9,589 10,950 9,454 10,885

Reconciliation – total maintenance Maintenance expense as above 2,416 3,636 2,416 3,636 Employee related maintenance expense included in Note 3(a) 844 765 844 765 Total maintenance included in Note 3(a) and 3(b) 3,260 4,401 3,260 4,401

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 c) Depreciation and amortisation expense Buildings 1,134 1,119 1,134 1,119 Plant and equipment 386 424 386 424 Intangibles 40 65 40 65 1,560 1,608 1,560 1,608 3 REVENUE a) Sale of goods and services Sale of goods Merchandise, book and publication sales 916 844 916 844 Rendering of services Admission fees 1,428 1,361 1,428 1,361 Special activities and openings 940 854 940 854 Venue hire and catering 1,398 1,422 1,398 1,422 Rental 1,117 720 1,117 720 Filming and photography 131 78 131 78 5,014 4,435 5,014 4,435 5,930 5,279 5,930 5,279 b) Investment income TCorp Hour-Glass Investment facilities 541 623 458 511 Other investments 102 117 97 77 643 740 555 588 c) Grants and contributions From DASR: Recurrent grants 19,230 17,958 19,230 17,958 Capital grants 3,391 1,031 3,391 1,031 Personnel service benefits and liabilities provided free of charge by DASR 5 64 242 64 242 22,685 19,231 22,685 19,231 From other institutions and individuals Donations – cash 271 765 47 799 Sponsorship – cash 127 162 125 122 Grants – other 130 555 130 555 Sponsorship – in kind 20 128 127 128 127 Donations – in kind 20 58 143 58 143 Services provided at no charge 20 – 1,110 – 1,110 714 2,862 488 2,856 23,399 22,093 23,173 22,087 d) Other income Other income 461 261 446 253 461 261 446 253 TOTAL RECURRENT REVENUE 30,433 28,112 30,104 28,207

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

4 GAIN/(LOSS) ON DISPOSAL Property, plant and equipment 537 (3) 537 (3) 537 (3) 537 (3)

5 ACCEPTANCE BY THE CROWN ENTITY OF EMPLOYEE BENEFITS AND OTHER LIABILITIES The following liabilities and/or expenses have been assumed by the Crown Entity or other government agencies:

Superannuation (defined benefit) 111 111 111 111 Long service leave (53) 124 (53) 124 Payroll Tax 6 7 6 7 Debt and borrowings – – – – Other operating expenses 64 242 64 242

6 CURRENT ASSETS – CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

Cash at bank and on hand 346 1,134 266 1,091 TCorp Hour-Glass cash facility 5,298 6,235 4,549 4,716 Other investments 2,925 – 1,950 – 8,569 7,369 6,765 5,807

For the purposes of the cash flow statement, cash and cash equivalents include cash at bank, cash on hand and short term deposits. Cash and cash equivalent assets recognised in the balance sheet are reconciled at the end of the financial year to the cash flow statement as follows:

Cash and cash equivalents (per balance sheet) 8,569 7,369 6,765 5,807 Closing cash and cash equivalants (per cash flow statement) 8,569 7,369 6,765 5,807

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 7 CURRENT ASSETS – RECEIVABLES Sale of goods and services 290 194 290 194 less allowance for impairment (1) (1) (1) (1) Accrued income 322 42 317 34 Other receivables 198 484 237 480 Prepayments 63 48 63 48 872 767 906 755 Movement in the allowance for impairment Balance as at 1 July 1 1 1 1 Amounts written off during the year – – – – Amount recovered during the year – (1) – (1) Increase/(decrease) in allowance recognised for profit or loss – 1 – 1 Balance at 30 June 1 1 1 1

8 CURRENT ASSETS – INVENTORIES Held for resale Stock on hand-at-cost 723 688 723 688

9 CURRENT/NON CURRENT ASSETS – OTHER FINANCIAL ASSETS

Current – other term deposits 2,500 – 2,500 – Non-current – other term deposits – 2,500 – 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500

10 RESTRICTED ASSETS Investments in the following are restricted use assets to the extent that they represent bequests and donations held by the Trust to be used in accordance with the deed of trust or other documents governing these funds.

Cash and cash equivalents 6,608 6,144 4,803 4,582 Financial assets 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 9,108 8,644 7,303 7,082

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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11 NON CURRENT ASSETS – PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Reconciliation A reconciliation of the carrying amount of each class of property and equipment at the beginning and ending of each reporting period are set out below.

Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Land and buildings Gross carrying amount 213,272 212,696 213,272 212,696 Accumulated depreciation and impairment (12,296) (11,224) (12,296) (11,224) Land and buildings at fair value 200,976 201,472 200,976 201,472 Plant and equipment Gross carrying amount 8,143 9,073 8,143 9,073 Accumulated depreciation and impairment (7,054) (7,762) (7,054) (7,762) Plant and equipment at fair value 1,089 1,311 1,089 1,311 Collection assets Gross carrying amount 35,919 34,643 35,009 33,879 Accumulated depreciation and impairment – – – – Collection assets at fair value 35,919 34,643 35,009 33,879

Total property, plant and equipment at fair value 237,984 237,426 237,074 236,662

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Land and Plant and Collection Consolidated Group Buildings Equipment Assets Total $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Year ended 30 June 2009 Fair value at start of year 201,472 1,311 34,643 237,426 Additions 1,567 170 112 1,849 Contributed assets – – 58 58 Disposals (930) (4) (130) (1,064) Transfer – – 2 2 Depreciation expense (1,133) (388) 0 (1,521) Net revaluation increments less revaluation decrements – – 940 940 Previously unrecognised – – 294 294 Fair value at end of year 200,976 1,089 35,919 237,984

Year ended 30 June 2008 Fair value at start of year 201,605 1,350 32,558 235,513 Additions 986 388 749 2,123 Disposals – (3) (2) (5) Transfer – – – – Depreciation expense (1,119) (424) – (1,543) Net revaluation increments less revaluation decrements – – 1,338 1,338 Fair value at end of year 201,472 1,311 34,643 237,426

Land and Plant and Collection Parent Entity Buildings Equipment Assets Total $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Year ended 30 June 2009 Fair value at start of year 201,472 1,311 33,879 236,662 Additions 1,567 170 112 1,849 Contributed Assets – – 58 58 Disposals (930) (4) (130) (1,064) Transfer – – 2 2 Depreciation expense (1,133) (388) 0 (1,521) Net revaluation increments less revaluation decrements – – 794 794 Previously unrecognised – – 294 294 Fair value at end of year 200,976 1,089 35,009 237,074

Year ended 30 June 2008 Fair value at start of year 201,605 1,350 31,825 234,780 Additions 986 388 749 2,123 Disposals – (3) (2) (5) Transfer – – – – Depreciation expense (1,119) (424) – (1,543) Net revaluation increments less revaluation decrements – – 1,307 1,307 Fair value at end of year 201,472 1,311 33,879 236,662

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i) Accredited valuers from the State Valuation Office and Theo Stamoulis and Associates valued land and buildings at their fair value as at June 2005. ii) The major collection items at each property have been valued by accredited valuers, at their fair value. The remaining collection items were valued internally by the Valuations Committee, established by the Finance & Audit Committee. The below lists the individual property collection and the date last valued with the accredited valuer who valued the collection.

Collection Date Valued Accredited Valuer Meroogal 1 June 2008 Various valuers Government House 1 June 2008 Various valuers Elizabeth Bay House 1 June 2007 Andrew Simpson Elizabeth Farm 1 June 2007 Andrew Simpson Vaucluse House 1 June 2007 Andrew Simpson Hyde Park Barracks Museum 1 June 2006 Adrienne Carlson Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection 1 June 2006 Various valuers Rose Seidler House 1 June 2005 Andrew Shapiro Museum of Sydney 1 June 2005 Rushton Valuers Pty Ltd Justice & Police Museum 1 March 2004 Anthony Palmer Rouse Hill House & Farm 1 March 2004 Anthony Palmer Susannah Place Museum 1 March 2004 Anthony Palmer Archaeology Collections 1 June 2004 Simon Storey

These values do not differ materially from their fair values at reporting date.

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Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 12 CAPITAL WORKS IN PROGRESS Buildings 3,229 1,571 3,229 1,571 Collections 10 – 10 3,239 1,571 3,239 1,571

13 INTANGIBLE ASSETS Software As at 30 June 2009 Cost 654 750 654 750 Accumulated amortisation and impairment (525) (680) (525) (680) Net carrying amount 129 70 129 70 Year ended 30 June 2009 Fair value at start of year 70 101 70 101 Additions 107 34 107 34 Disposals (8) – (8) – Amortisation (40) (65) (40) (65) Other movements – – – – Net carrying amount at end of year 129 70 129 70

14 CURRENT/NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES Payables Creditors 485 1,131 473 1,131 Revenue received in advance 198 416 198 416 Accrued expenses 490 391 490 381 Recreation leave 990 1,213 990 1,213 Long service leave on-costs 220 193 220 193 2,383 3,344 2,371 3,334 Current 2,372 3,334 2,360 3,324 Non-current 11 10 11 10 2,383 3,344 2,371 3,334 Borrowings Loan payable – – 1,100 1,100 – – 1,100 1,100 Total liabilities 2,383 3,344 3,471 4,434

15 NON-CURRENT LIABILITIES Employee benefits and related costs Long service leave on-costs 11 10 11 10

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16 CHANGES IN EQUITY

Asset Accumulated Revaluation Total Consolidated Group Funds total Reserve Equity $’000 $’000 $’000 Year ended 30 June 2009 Balance as at 1 July 2008 142,225 104,822 247,047 Increase/(decrease) in net assets from equity transferred – – – Surplus for the year 3,646 – 3,646 Increment on revaluation of non-current assets – 940 940 Balance as at 30 June 2009 145,871 105,762 251,633

Year ended 30 June 2008 Balance as at 1 July 2007 142,113 103,484 245,597 Increase/(decrease) in net assets from equity transferred – – – Surplus for the year 112 – 112 Increment on revaluation of non-current assets – 1,338 1,338 Transfers within equity – – – Balance as at 30 June 2008 142,225 104,822 247,047

Asset Accumulated Revaluation Total Parent Entity Funds total Reserve Equity $’000 $’000 $’000 Year ended 30 June 2009 Balance as at 1 July 2008 138,886 104,733 243,619 Increase/(decrease) in net assets from equity transferred – – – Surplus for the year 3,452 – 3,452 Increment on revaluation of non-current assets – 794 794 Transfers within equity – – – Balance as at 30 June 2009 142,338 105,527 247,865

Year ended 30 June 2008 Balance as at 1 July 2007 138,793 103,426 242,219 Increase/(decrease) in net assets from equity transferred – – – Surplus for the year 93 – 93 Increment on revaluation of non-current assets – 1,307 1,307 Transfers within equity – – – Balance as at 30 June 2008 138,886 104,733 243,619

Asset Revaluation Reserve The asset revaluation reserve is used to record increments and decrements on the revaluation of non-current assets. This accords with the Trust’s policy on the ‘Revaluation of Property, Plant and Equipment’ as discussed in Note 1.

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17 CONTROLLED ENTITIES The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales and the Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust are the only controlled entities with financial transactions this financial year. A separate financial report is prepared for the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. The following is a summary of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales financial statement for the financial year. The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales has provided the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales with an interest free loan of $1.1m in order to perform conservation works on Glenfield, the first property being acquired by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Endangered Houses Fund. The loan is to be repaid from the proceeds from the sale of either a lease of the property or the sale of the property.

2009 2008 $’000 $’000 Foundation Foundation Revenues 367 526 Expenses 135 148 Surplus for the year 232 378

Total assets 2,909 2,679 Total liabilities 52 15 Net assets 2,857 2,664

Accumulated funds 2,857 2,664 Distributions to Beneficiary – the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales amounted to: 40 360

The balances for the controlled entities reported above are included in the consolidated financial report prepared by the Trust within the relevant line items. The collections were revalued during the year.

Hamilton Hamilton Rouse Hill Rouse Hill Revenues – – Expenses – – Surplus for the year – –

Total assets 906 760 Total liabilities – – Net assets 906 760 Accumulated funds 906 760

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Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 18 RECONCILIATION OF CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES TO NET COST OF SERVICES Reconciliation of the surplus for the year to net cash flows from operating activities Surplus for the year 3,646 112 3,452 93 Net (gain)/loss on sale of non-current assets (537) 3 (537) 3 Depreciation 1,560 1,608 1,560 1,608 Distribution Paid – – – (360) Donation of collection (58) (143) (58) (143) Increase/(decrease) in trade and other payables (961) 299 (963) 299 (Increase)/decrease in trade and other receivables (105) 22 (151) 22 (Increase)/decrease in inventories (35) (74) (35) (74) Previously unrecognised assets (294) – (294) – Net cash flows from operating activities 3,216 1,827 2,974 1,448

19 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS 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 instruments, including derivative financial instruments for speculative purposes. The Trust’s main risks arising from financial instruments are outlined below, together with the Trust’s objectives, policies and processes for measuring and managing risk. Further quantitative and qualitative disclosures are included throughout this financial report. The Director has overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of risk management and reviews and agrees policies for managing each of these risks. Risk management policies are established to identify and analyse the risks faced by the Trust, to set risk limits and controls and to monitor risks. Compliance with policies is reviewed by the internal auditor on a cyclical basis.

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a) Financial Instrument Catergories

Notes Catergories Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Financial assets Class Cash and cash equivalents NA 8,568 7,369 6,765 5,807 Receivables Loans and receivables 612 235 606 227 (at amortised cost) Other financial assets Loans and receivables 2,500 2,500 2,500 2,500 (at amortised cost)

Financial liabilities Class Payables Financial liabilities measured 768 778 768 778 at amortised cost Borrowings Financial liabilities measured – – 1,100 1,100 at amortised cost

b) Credit risk 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.

Cash Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances. Interest is earned on daily bank balances at the daily rate set by the bank. The TCorp Hour-Glass cash facility is discussed in Note (d) below.

Receivables – trade debtors All trade debtors are recognised as amounts receivable at balance date. Collectibility of trade debtors is reviewed on an ongoing basis. Procedures as established in the Treasurer’s Directions are followed to recover outstanding amounts, including letter of demand. Debts which 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 to a single trade debtor or group of debtors. Based on past experience, debtors that are not past due (2009: $236K; 2008 $113K) and less than six months past due (2009: $53K; 2008: $80K) are not considered impaired and together represent 100% of the total trade debtors. There are no debtors which 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 balance sheet.

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Consolidated Group $’000 Parent Entity $’000 Total Past due but Considered Total Past due but Considered not impaired impaired not impaired impaired 2009 < 3 months overdue 236 236 – 236 236 – 3 months – 6 months overdue 53 53 – 53 53 – > 6 months overdue – – – – – –

2008 < 3 months overdue 75 75 – 75 75 – 3 months – 6 months overdue 5 5 – 5 5 – > 6 months overdue 1 – 1 1 – 1

Authority deposits The Trust has placed funds on deposit with Macquarie Bank Ltd, which has been rated ‘A1/a’ by Standards and Poor’s. These deposits are similar to money market or bank deposits and can be placed ‘at call’ or for a fixed term. For fixed term deposits, the interest rate payable is negotiated initially and is fixed for the term of the deposit, while the interest rate payable on at call deposits can vary. The deposits at balance date were earning an average interest rate of 8% (2008 – 7.56%), while over the year the weighted average interest rate was 8% (2008 – 8.52%) on a weighted average balance during the year of $2.5m (2008 – $605,728). None of these assets are past due or impaired.

c) Liquidity risk Liquidity risk is the risk that the Trust will be unable to meet its payment obligations when they fall due. The Trust continuously manages risk through monitoring future cash flows and maturities planning to ensure adequate holding of high quality liquid assets. The objective is to maintain a balance between continuity of funding and flexibility through the use of overdrafts, loans and other advances. During the current and prior years, there were no defaults or breaches on a loans payable. No assets have been pledged as collateral. The Trust’s exposure to liquidity risk is deemed insignificant based on prior periods’ data and current assessment of risk. The liabilities are recognised for amounts due to be paid in the future for goods or services received, whether or not invoiced. Amounts owing to suppliers (which are unsecured) are settled in accordance with the policy set out in Treasurer’s Directions 219.01. If trade terms are not specified, payment is made no later than the end of the month following the month in which an invoice or a statement is received. Treasurer’s Direction 219.01 allows the Minister to award interest for late payment. No interest was paid during the year (2008 – nil). The table below summarises the maturity profile of the Trust’s financial liabilities, together with the interest rate exposure.

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Consolidated Group $’000 Interest Rate Exposure Maturity Dates

Weighted Nominal Fixed Variable Non- < 1 yr 1 – 5 yrs > 5 yrs Average Amount Interest Interest Interest Effective Rate Rate bearing Int. Rate

2009 Payables Nil 2,372 – – 2,372 2,372 – – Borrowings Nil – – – – – – – – 2,372 – – 2,372 2,372 – –

2008 Payables Nil 778 – – 778 778 – – Borrowings Nil – – – – – – – – 778 – – 778 778 – –

Parent Entity

2009 Payables Nil 2,360 – – 2,360 2,360 – – Borrowings Nil 1,100 – – 1,100 1,100 – – – 3,460 – – 3,460 3,460 – –

2008 Payables Nil 778 – – 778 778 – – Borrowings Nil 1,100 – – 1,100 1,100 – – – 1,878 – – 1,878 1,878 – –

d) Market Risk 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 exposures to market risk are primarily through interest rate risk on the Trust’s borrowings and other price risks associated with the movement in the unit price of the Hour-Glass Investment Facilities. The Trust has no exposure to foreign currency risk and does not enter into commodity contracts.

Interest rate risk Exposure to interest rate risk arises primarily through the Trust’s interest bearing liabilities. This risk is minimized by undertaking mainly fixed rate borrowings, primarily with NSW TCorp. The Trust does not account for any fixed rate financial instruments at fair value through profit or loss or as available-for-sale. Therefore for these financial instruments, a change in interest rates would not affect profit or loss or equity. A reasonably possible change of +/- 1% is used, consistent with current trends in interest rates. The basis will be reviewed annually and amended where there is a structural change in the level of interest rate volatility. The Trust’s exposure to interest rate risk is set out below.

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Consolidated Group $’000 -1% 1% Carrying Amount Profit Equity Profit Equity

2009 Financial assets Cash and cash equivalents 8,569 (85) (85) 85 85 Receivables 872 – – – – Other financial assets 2,500 – – – – Financial Liabilities Payables 2,372 – – – – Borrowings – – – – –

2008 Financial assets Cash and cash equivalents 7,369 (74) (74) 74 74 Receivables 235 – – – – Other financial assets 2,500 – – – – Financial Liabilities Payables 778 – – – – Borrowings – – – – – Parent Entity

2009 Financial assets Cash and cash equivalents 6,765 (68) (68) 68 68 Receivables 906 – – – – Other financial assets 2,500 – – – – Financial Liabilities Payables 2,360 – – – – Borrowings 1,100 – – – –

2008 Financial assets Cash and cash equivalents 5,807 (58) (58) 58 58 Receivables 227 – – – – Other financial assets 2,500 – – – – Financial liabilities Payables 778 – – – – Borrowings 1,100 – – – –

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Other price risk – TCorp Hour-Glass Facilities Exposure to ‘other price risk’ primarily arises through the investment in the TCorp Hour-Glass Investment Facilities, which are held for strategic rather than trading purposes. The Trust has no direct equity investments. The Trust holds units in the following Hour-Glass investment trusts:

Consolidated Group Parent Entity Facility Investment Investment 2009 2008 2009 2008 Sectors Horizon $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000

Cash facility Cash, money Up to 1 year 5,298 6,235 4,549 4,716 market instruments

The unit price of the facility is equal to the total fair value of the net assets held by the facility divided by the number of units on issue for that facility. Unit prices are calculated and published daily. NSW TCorp is trustee for each of the above facilities and is required to act in the best interest of the unit holders and to administer the trusts in accordance with the trust deeds. As trustee, TCorp has appointed external managers to manage the performance and risks of each facility in accordance with a mandate agreed by the parties. However, TCorp acts as manager for part of the cash facility. A significant portion of the administration of the facilities is outsourced to an external custodian. Investment in the Hour-Glass facilities limits the Trust’s exposure to risk, as it allows diversification across a pool of funds with different investment horizons and a mix of investments. NSW TCorp provides sensitivity analysis information for each of the investment facilities, using historically based volatility information collected over a ten year period, quoted at two standard deviations (ie 95% probability). The TCorp Hour-Glass Investment facilities are designated at fair value through profit or loss and therefore any change in unit price impacts directly on profit (rather than equity). A reasonably possible change is based on the percentage change in unit price (as advised by TCorp) multiplied by the redemption value as at 30 June each year for each facility (balance from Hour-Glass statement).

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e) Fair value Financial instruments are generally recognised at cost, with the exception of the TCorp Hour-Glass facilities, which are measured at fair value. As discussed, the value of the Hour-Glass investments is based on the Trust’s share of the value of the underlying assets of the facility, based on the market value. All of the Hour Glass facilities are valued using ‘redemption’ pricing. Except where specified below, the amortised cost of financial instrument recognised in the balance sheet approximates the fair value, because of the short-term nature of many of the financial instruments.

Consolidated Group Parent Entity

2009 2009 2008 2008 2009 2009 2008 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 Carrying Fair Carrying Fair Carrying Fair Carrying Fair Amount Value Amount Value Amount Value Amount Value

Financial assets Nil Nil Nil Nil Financial liabilities Nil Nil Nil Nil

Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 20 NON-CASH FINANCING AND INVESTING ACTIVITIES

Donations of collection items 58 143 58 143

The following items are brought to account as expenses in the operating statement and are credited as income in the form of non-cash sponsorship, non-cash donations or services provided free of charge.

Advertising, freight, accommodation travel and similar expenses 128 127 128 127 Maintenance (Dept of Commerce) – 1,110 – 1,110

128 1,237 128 1,237

The Trust received advertising free of charge as shown from Ltd as sponsorship. In 2008 the Trust received maintenance services free of charge from the Heritage Buildings Program of the Department of Commerce for the maintenance of Government House. In 2009 this was received through a grant from DASR. The Trust received security services and gardening services free of charge for Government House from the NSW Police and Botanic Gardens Trust respectively, and services from the Department of Commerce, the values of these services are not able to be accurately estimated. The Trust’s work was also assisted by the Friends of the Historic Houses Trust Inc. and volunteers. These services were provided free of charge and it is considered not possible to estimate their value.

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Notes Consolidated Group Parent Entity 2009 2008 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 $’000 $’000 21 COMMITMENTS FOR EXPENDITURE

a) Capital commitments Aggregate capital expenditure contracted for at balance date and not provided for: – Not later than one year 1,232 99 1,232 99 – Later than one year and not later than five years – – – – – Later than five years – – – –

Total (including GST) 1,232 99 1,232 99

b) Other expenditure commitments Aggregate other expenditure for the acquisition of goods and services contracted for at balance date and not provided for: – Not later than one year 90 297 90 297 – Later than one year and not later than five years – – – – – Later than five years – – – –

Total (including GST) 90 297 90 297

c) Operating lease commitments Future non-cancellable operating lease rentals not provided for and payable: – Not later than one year 253 274 253 274 – Later than one year and not later than five years 1,036 837 1,036 837 – Later than five years 906 1,150 906 1,150

Total (including GST) 2,195 2,261 2,195 2,261

22 CONTINGENT LIABILITIES The Trust has a potential obligation to pay disputed fees for recruitment services. The Trust estimates the potential obligation to be $20,000. The Trust expects the matter to be resolved during the 2009–10 financial year. The Treasury Managed Fund normally calculates hindsight premiums each year. However in regard to workers compensation premiums the final adjustment calculations are in arrears. There are no other contingent liabilities.

23 POST BALANCE DATE EVENTS Ownership of the Justice and Police Museum was officially transferred to the Trust after year end and will be accounted for in 2009–10. No other 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 Trust, the results of those activities or its state of affairs in the ensuing or any subsequent financial year.

END OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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

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REPORT BY THE DIRECTORS OF THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES LIMITED – FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2008

BEING TRUSTEE FOR THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST

The names and particulars of the Directors of the PRINCIPAL ACTIVITIES Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South The principal activity of the Foundation during the Wales Limited during or since the end of the financial financial year was to act as the Trustee of the year are: Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales and to do all things such as are necessary, Name Particulars incidental and conducive to acting as the Trustee of Neville Allen Solicitor, Property Partner, the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New Holding Redlich South Wales. Kate Clark Director, Historic Houses Trust There was no change in the principal activity of the of New South Wales Foundation during the financial year. (appointed 20/10/08) REVIEW OF OPERATIONS Lynn Fern Author John Gordon Chartered Accountant and The net surplus of the Foundation for the financial year Director, Chairman Boyce ended 30 June 2009 was $233,306. The Foundation is a Chartered Accountants non-profit organisation and is exempt from the payment (appointed 18/05/09) of income tax under Subdivision 50-5 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. Beat Knoblauch Company Director, Beat Knoblauch & Associates CHANGES IN THE STATE OF AFFAIRS Clive Lucas OBE Heritage Architect and One resignation from the board was accepted during the Director, Clive Lucas Stapleton year. Three new Directors were appointed to the board & Partners during the year. Edwina Coordinator, Camden Park House During the financial year there was no significant change Macarthur-Stanham (appointed 6/04/09) in the state of affairs of the Foundation other than that Susan Rothwell Architect, Principal Partner, referred to in the financial statements or notes thereto. Susan Rothwell & Associates SUBSEQUENT EVENTS Edward Simpson Company Director There has been no other matter or circumstance that Howard Tanner Architect and Director, has arisen since the end of the financial year that has Tanner Architects significantly affected, or may significantly affect, the Foundation Chairman operations of the Foundation, or the state of affairs of Stephen Wall Chairman, Wallop Content Pty Ltd the Foundation in future financial years. Foundation Deputy Chairman FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS Peter Watts AM Director, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Disclosure of information regarding likely developments (Resigned 1/10/08) in the operations of the Foundation in future financial years and the expected results of those operations Jill Wran Chairman, Historic Houses Trust is likely to result in unreasonable prejudice to the of New South Wales Foundation. Accordingly, this information has not been The above-named Directors held office during and since disclosed in this report. the end of the financial year. DISTRIBUTIONS A distribution of $40,000 was paid to the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales during the financial year.

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INDEMNIFICATION OF OFFICERS DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS The Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (the The following tables set out the number of Directors’ controlling entity) has included the Foundation within meetings held (including meetings of committees of its Treasury Managed Fund indemnity coverage. The Directors) during the financial year and the number of Treasury Managed Fund is a self-insurance scheme meetings attended by each Director (while they were a owned and underwritten by the New South Wales Director or a committee member). During the financial Government. Such inclusion of the Foundation year the following meetings were held: five Board and confers upon it ‘protected entity’ status within the five Planning, Legal and Finance Committee. Three Treasury Managed Fund. The contract of coverage is Foundation Directors were members of the Historic an indemnification for any and all actions leading to a Houses Trust’s Endangered Houses Fund Committee claim against the covered entity subject to the contract and attended four meetings for this body. 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 PLANNING, LEGAL AND FINANCE COMMITEE Directors Held Attended Directors Held Attended Howard Tanner (Chairman) 5 5 Beat Knoblauch (Chairman) 5 5 Neville Allen 5 4 John Gordon 1 0 Kate Clark 4 4 Howard Tanner 5 4 Lynn Fern 5 2 Stephen Wall 5 5 John Gordon 1 1 Beat Knoblauch 5 4 Clive Lucas OBE 55 Edwina Macarthur-Stanham 2 2 Susan Rothwell 5 4 Edward Simpson 5 4 Stephen Wall (Deputy Chairman) 5 5 Peter Watts AM 11 Jill Wran 5 5

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES

To Members of the New South Wales Parliament Auditor’s responsibility Report on the Financial Report My responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial I have audited the accompanying financial report report based on my audit. I conducted my audit in of Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. These South Wales (the Foundation), which comprises Auditing Standards require that I comply with relevant the balance sheet as at 30 June 2009, the income ethical requirements relating to audit engagements statement, statement of recognised income and and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable expense and cash flow statement for the year then assurance whether the financial report is free from ended, a summary of significant accounting policies material misstatement. and other explanatory notes. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the Auditor’s opinion financial report. The procedures selected depend on the In my opinion, the financial report: auditor’s judgement, including the assessment of the risks > presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial of material misstatement of the financial report, whether position of the Foundation as at 30 June 2009, and due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, its financial performance for the year then ended in the auditor considers internal controls relevant to the accordance with Australian Accounting Standards Trust’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial (including the Australian Accounting Interpretations) report in order to design audit procedures that are > is in accordance with section 41B of the Public Finance appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose and Audit Act 1983 (the PF&A Act) and the Public of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Finance and Audit Regulation 2005. entity’s internal controls. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the > is in accordance with the Charitable Fundraising reasonableness of accounting estimates made by the Act 1991 (CF Act) and the Charitable Fundraising Trustees, as well as evaluating the overall presentation Regulation 2008 (CF Regulation), including showing of the financial report. a true and fair view of the Foundation’s financial result of fundraising appeals for the year ended I believe that the audit evidence I have obtained is 30 June 2009. sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for my audit opinion. My opinion should be read in conjunction with the rest My opinion does not provide assurance: of this report. > about the future viability of the Foundation, Trustees’ responsibility for the financial report > that it has carried out its activities effectively, The Trustees are responsible for the preparation and efficiently and economically, fair presentation of the financial report in accordance > about the effectiveness of its internal controls, or with Australian Accounting Standards (including the > that the Foundation has compiled with requirements Australian Accounting Interpretations) and the PF&A Act. and conditions of the CF Act and CF Regulation that This responsibility includes establishing and maintaining do not relate to the preparation and presentation of internal controls relevant to the preparation and fair the financial report. presentation of the financial report that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; Report on other aspects of the Charitable Fundraising selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; Act 1991 and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in In addition, I have audited the Foundation’s operations in the circumstances. order to express an opinion on the matters specified at sections 24(2)(b), 24(2)(c) and 24(2)(d) of the CF Act for the year ended 30 June 2008.

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Auditor’s opinion This audit involved performing procedures to obtain In my opinion: audit evidence about the Foundation’s compliance with the CF Act and CF Regulation and its ability to > the Foundation has properly kept the ledgers and pay future debts. The procedures selected depend associated records during the year ended 30 June on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment 2008 in accordance with the CF Act and CF Regulation of the risks of material breaches of compliance and (section 24(2)(b)of the CF Act) inability to pay future debts. In making those risk > the Foundation has, in all material respects, properly assessments, the auditor considers relevant internal accounted for and applied money received as a result controls in order to design audit procedures that are of fundraising appeals conducted during the year appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the ended 30 June 2008 in accordance with the CF Act purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness and CF Regulation (section 24(2)(c)of the CF Act) of the Foundation’s internal controls. > there are reasonable grounds to believe that the My procedures included obtaining an understanding Foundation will be able to pay its debts as and when of the internal controls structure for fundraising appeal they fall due over the 12-month period from the date activities and examination, on a test basis, of evidence of this independent auditor’s report (section 24(2)(d) supporting the Foundation’s compliance with specific of the CF Act). requirements of the CF Act and CF Regulation, and My opinion should be read in conjunction with the rest assessing the reasonableness and appropriateness of of this report, including the inherent limitations. management’s assessment regarding the Foundation’s ability to pay future debts. The Trustees’ responsibility under the CF Act The Trustees are responsible for complying with the Inherent limitations requirements and conditions of the CF Act and CF Because of inherent limitations of any compliance Regulation. This responsibility includes establishing and procedure, it is possible that fraud, error or non- maintaining internal controls over the conduct of all compliance with the CF Act may occur and not be fundraising appeals; ensuring that all assets obtained detected. My procedures have not been performed during, or as a result of, a fundraising appeal are continuously throughout the period, were not designed safeguarded and properly accounted for; and maintaining to detect all instances of non-compliance, and have proper books of account and records. not covered all requirements of the CF Act and The Trustees are also responsible for ensuring that the CF Regulation. Foundation will be able to pay its debts as and when they Any projection of the evaluation of compliance with the fall due. CF Act to future periods is subject to the risk that the procedures may become inadequate because of changes Auditor’s responsibility in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with them My responsibility is to express an opinion on the matter may deteriorate. specified at sections 24(2)(b), 24(2)(c) and 24(2)(d) of the While evidence is available to support the Foundation’s CF Act. I conducted my audit in accordance with ability to pay future debts, such evidence is future applicable Australian Auditing Standards and Standards orientated and speculative in nature. As a consequence, on Assurance Engagements to obtain reasonable actual results are likely to be different from the information assurance whether the Foundation has, in all material on which the opinion is based, since anticipated events respects, complied with the specific requirements of the frequently do not occur as expected or assumed and the CF Act and CF Regulation, and whether there are variations between the prospective opinion and the actual reasonable grounds to believe the Foundation will be outcome may be significant. able to pay its debts as and when they fall due over the 12-month period from the date of this independent auditor’s report (future debts).

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

Independence In conducting this audit, the Audit Office of New South Wales has complied with the independence requirements of the Australian Auditing Standards and other relevant ethical requirements. The PF&A Act further promotes independence by: > providing that only Parliament, and not the executive government, can remove an Auditor-General, and > mandating the Auditor-General as auditor of public sector agencies but precluding the provision of non-audit services, thus ensuring the Auditor-General and the Audit Office of New South Wales are not compromised in their role by the possibility of losing clients or income.

Steven Martin Director, Financial Audit Services 2 November 2009 Sydney

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STATEMENT 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

The Directors of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited, the Trustee of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, declare that: a) The attached financial statements and notes thereto comply with applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which include Australian Accounting Interpretations) and Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and regulations. b) The attached financial statements and notes thereto give a true and fair view of the financial position and performance of the Trust. c) In the Directors’ opinion, the attached financial statements and notes thereto are in accordance with the Trust Deed. d) In the Directors’ opinion, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Trust will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due and payable. e) The Directors are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars included in the financial report to be misleading or inaccurate. f) The financial report has been properly drawn up and the associated records have been properly kept for the period from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009, in accordance with the Charitable Fundraising (NSW) Act 1991 and Regulations; and g) The internal controls exercised by the Trust are appropriate and effective in accounting for all income received and applied by the Trust from any of its fundraising appeals. Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors. On behalf of the Directors

Howard Tanner Beat Knoblauch Chairman Director

Sydney, 2nd November 2009

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INCOME STATEMENT FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009

Notes 22009009 2008 $ $

REVENUE 2 3 367,74767,747 525,778

EXPENSES Administration expenses 87,450 88,036 Marketing expenses 28,973 45,912 Audit fees 3 7,6007, 6 0 0 7,600 Other 1010,418,418 5,965 Total expenses 134,441 147,513 Surplus for the year 10(b) 233,306 378,265

BALANCE SHEET FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES AS AT 30 JUNE 2008

Notes 2009 2008 $ $

ASSETS Current assets Cash and cash equivalents 4 1,803,617 1,562,015 Receivables 5 5,781 17,282 Other financial assets 6 1 1,100,000,100,000 1,100,000 Total current assets 2 2,909,398,909,398 2,679,297

Non-current assets Total non-current assets – – TOTAL ASSETS 2,909,3982,909,398 2,679,297

LIABILITIES Current liabilities Payables 7 52,488 15,693 Total current liabilities 5252,488,488 15,693 Non-current liabilities Total non-current liabilities – – TOTAL LIABILITIES 5252,488,488 15,693 NET ASSETS 2,856,9102,856,910 2,663,604

EQUITY Accumulated funds 8 2,856,910 2,663,604 TOTAL EQUITY 2 2,856,910,856,910 2,663,604

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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STATEMENT OF RECOGNISED INCOME AND EXPENSE FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2009

Notes 2009 2008 $’000 $’000 Net increase in asset revaluation reserve - - TOTAL INCOME AND EXPENSE RECOGNISED DIRECTLY IN EQUITY - - Surplus for the year 233,306 378,265 TOTAL INCOME AND EXPENSE RECOGNISED FOR THE YEAR 233,306 378,265

CASHFLOW STATEMENT FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES AS AT 30 JUNE 2008

Notes 2009 2008 $ $

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Payments Suppliers/employees –125,972 –157,695 Other – – Total payments –125,972 –157,659

Receipts Donations 223,232 326,046 Sponsorship 40,000 40,000 Interest received 83,169 146,971 Other 21,173 19,367 Total receipts 367,574 536,384 NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 10(b) 241,602 378,689

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Purchases of investments – –10,747 Sale of investments – 1,1014,966 Provision of loan 6 – –1,100,000 NET CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES – -95,781

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES Distribution paid – –360,000 NET CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES – –360,000 NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH 241,602 –77,092 Opening cash and cash equivalents 1,562,015 1,639,107 CLOSING CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 10(a) 1,803,617 1,562,015

The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.

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1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING c) Statement of compliance POLICIES The Foundation financial statements and notes a) Reporting entity comply with Australian Accounting Standards, which The Foundation was formed on 14 November 2001 include Australian Accounting Interpretations. and commenced operating in October 2002 when d) Significant accounting policies all assets and liabilities of the Historic Houses Trust Accounting policies are selected and applied in a of New South Wales Foundation were transferred. manner which ensures that the resulting financial The Trust is a not-for-profit entity (as profit is not its information satisfies the concepts of relevance and principal objective) and it has no cash generating units. reliability, thereby ensuring that the substance of the b) Basis of preparation underlying transactions or other events is reported. The financial report is a general-purpose financial The following significant accounting policies have been report which has been prepared in accordance with adopted in the preparation and presentation of the the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and regulations, financial report: the Treasurer’s Directions and applicable Australian e) Income recognition Accounting Standards (which include Australian Interest revenue – Interest revenue is recognised on Accounting Interpretations). an accruals basis. The financial report is for the entity Foundation for Donations – Donations are recognised as and when the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales as an received in cash or in kind. individual entity. f) Acquisition of assets The financial report has been prepared on an accrual Assets acquired are recorded at the cost of acquisition, basis and is based on historical costs modified by the being the purchase consideration determined as at the revaluation of selected financial assets and financial date of acquisition plus costs incidental to the acquisition. liabilities for which the fair value basis of accounting has been applied. g) Goods and Services Tax (GST) Judgments, key assumptions and estimations that Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the management has made are disclosed in the relevant amount of GST except where: notes to the financial report. > the amount of GST incurred by the Foundation as a All amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar and are purchaser that is not recoverable from the Australian expressed in Australian currency. Taxation Office is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of an asset or as part of an item of expense Accounting standards issued but not yet effective > receivables and payables are stated with the amount The Trust did not early adopt any new accounting of GST included. standards that are not yet effective. At the date of authorisation of the financial report, the following h) Receivables standards and interpretations were on issue and Trade receivables and other receivables are recorded applicable to the trust, but not yet effective: at amounts due less any allowance for impairment. > AASB 3, AASB 127 and AASB 2008-3 regarding i) Income tax business combinations The Foundation is exempt from income tax under > AASB 8 and AASB 2007-3 regarding operating Subdivision 50-B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. segments j) Accounts payable > AASB 101 and AASB 2007-8 regarding presentation Trade payables and other accounts payable are of financial statements recognised when the Foundation becomes obliged to > AASB 123 and AASB 2007-6 regarding borrowing costs make future payments resulting from the purchase of > AASB 1039 regarding concise financial reports goods and services. > AASB 2008-1 regarding share based payments k) Service provider arrangements > AASB 2008-2 regarding puttable financial instruments The Foundation does not have any employees. The The Trust has assessed the impact of these new Standards Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales provides and Interpretations and considers the impact to be administration services for a charge on the basis of insignificant. cost recovery.

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2009 2008 $’000 $’000

2 REVENUE Donations 224,418 326,046 Sponsorship 40,000 40,000 Interest 88,409 151,732 Other 14,920 8,000 Total revenue 367,747 525,778

3 REMUNERATION OF AUDITORS Audit of the Financial Report Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales 5,500 5,500 Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited 2,100 2,100 Total remuneration of auditors 7,60 0 7,60 0

4 CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS Cash on hand and at bank 80,300 43,250 Tcorp Hour-Glass Cash Facility Trust 748,129 1,168,107 Macquarie Bank Deposit 470,134 350,658 National Australia Bank Deposit 505,054 – Total cash and cash equivalents 1,803,617 1,562,015

5 CURRENT RECEIVABLES GST receivable 540 9,401 Prepayments 0 0 Accrued interest on deposit 5,241 7,881 Total current receivables 5,781 17,282

6 OTHER CURRENT FINANCIAL ASSETS Other loans 1,100,000 1,100,000 Total other current financial assets 1,100,000 1,100,00

The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales has provided the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales with an interest-free loan of $1.1m in order to perform conservation works on Glenfield, the first property being acquired by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Endangered Houses Fund. The loan is to be repaid from the proceeds from the sale of either a lease of the property or the sale of the property. The Foundation resolved to increase its loan to the Historic Houses Trust for the conservation of Glenfield by a further $300,000, however this resolution was not actioned in 2008–09.

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2009 2008 $’000 $’000

7 CURRENT PAYABLES Interest 10,610 151,732 Other 41,878 8,000 Total revenue 52,488 525,778

8 ACCUMULATED FUNDS Balance at the beginning of the financial period 2,663,604 2,645,339 Surplus for the year 233,306 378,265 Transactions with owners as owners less: distribution paid to the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales –40,000 –360,000 Accumulated funds at the end of the financial period 2,856,910 2,663,604

9 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS Transactions between related parties are on normal commercial terms and conditions no more favourable that those available to other parties unless otherwise stated.

a) Transactions with related entities Contribution to Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales 40,000 360,000 During the financial period the trustee of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales was the Foundation for the Historic Houses of New South Wales Trust Limited. This company’s ultimate parent entity is The Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales. Transactions with the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales for services provided are fully reimbursed by the Foundation.

Current receiveables-controlling entity – 1100 Current payables-controlling entity 41,878 5228

b) Transactions with trustees There were no transactions between the Trustee and the Foundation. No Director of the Trust receives remuneration for his/her duties as a director of the Foundation of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited.

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2009 2008 $ $

10 NOTES TO CASHFLOW STATEMENT a) Reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents For the purpose of the cashflow statement, cash and cash equivalents include cash on hand and in banks and Tcorp Hour-Glass deposits. Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the financial period as shown in the cashflow statement are reconciled to the related items in the balance sheet as follows: Cash and cash equivalents 1,803,617 1,562,015

b) Reconciliation of surplus for the year to net cash flows from the operating activities Surplus for the year 233,306 378,265 (Increase)/decrease in assets: Current receivables 11,501 –5,529 (Increase)/decrease in liabilities: Current receivables 36,795 5,953 Distribution to Historic Houses Trust –40,000 – Total cash and cash equivalents 241,602 378,689

11 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS The Foundation’s principal financial instruments are outlined below. These financial instruments arise directly from the Foundation’s operations or are required to finance the Foundation’s operations. The Foundation does not enter into or trade financial instruments including derivative financial instruments, for speculative purposes. The Foundation’s main risks arising from financial instruments are outlined below, together with the Foundation’s objectives, policies and processes for measuring and managing risk. Further quantitative and qualitative disclosures are included throughout this financial report. The Planning, Legal and Finance Committee has overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of risk management and reviews and agrees policies for managing each of these risks. Risk management policies are established to identify and analyse the risks faced by the Foundation, to set risk limits and controls and to monitor risks. Compliance with policies is reviewed by the Planning, Legal and Finance Committee on a continuous basis.

Investment Sectors Categories 2009 2008 $ $

a) Financial instrument categories Financial assets Class Cash and cash equivalents 1,803,617 1,562,015 Receivables 5,241 7,881 Other financial assets 1,100,000 1,100,000 Financial liabilities Class Payables 52,488 15,693

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b) Credit risk Credit risk arises when there is the possibility of the Foundation’s debtors defaulting on their contractual obligation, resulting in a financial loss to the Foundation. The maximum exposure to credit risk is generally represented by the carrying amount of the financial assets (net of any allowance for impairment). Credit risk arises from the financial assets of the Foundation, including cash, receivables and authority deposits. No collateral is held by the Foundation. The Foundation has not granted any financial guarantees. Credit risk associated with the Foundation’s financial assets, other than receivables, is managed through the selection of counterparties and establishment of minimum credit rating standards.

Cash Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances. Interest is earned on daily bank balances at the daily rate set by the bank. The TCorp Hour-Glass cash facility is discussed in note (d) below.

Receivables – trade debtors All trade debtors are recognised as amounts receivable at balance date. Collectibility 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 which 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 to a single trade debtor or group of debtors. Based on past experience, debtors that are not past due (2009: $Nil; 2008: $Nil) and not less than six months past due (2009: $Nil; 2008: $Nil) are not considered impaired and together these represent 100% of the total trade debtors. There are no debtors which are currently not past due or impaired whose terms have been renegotiated. Statutory receivables are excluded as these are not within the scope of AASB 7. Receivables that are not past due and not impaired are excluded. The Foundation did not have any debtors which were over due or impaired.

Authority deposits The Foundation had funds on deposit with Macquarie Bank which has been rated ‘A1/A’ by Standard and Poor’s. These deposits are similar to money market or bank deposits and can be placed ‘at call’ or for a fixed term. For fixed-term deposits, the interest rate payable by Macquarie Bank is negotiated initially and is fixed for the term of the deposit, while the interest rate payable on at-call deposits may vary. The deposits at balance date were earning an average interest rate of 5.1% (6.8%), while over the year the weighted average interest rate was 3.71% (2008 – 0.76%) on a weighted average balance during the year of $417,795 (2008 – $121,086). None of these assets are past due or impaired.

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c) Liquidity risk Liquidity risk is the risk that the Foundation will be unable to meet its payment obligations when they fall due. The Foundation continuously manages risk through monitoring future cash flows and maturities planning to ensure adequate holding of high-quality liquid assets. The objective is to maintain a balance between continuity of funding and flexibility. During the current and prior years, there were no defaults or breaches on any loans payable. No assets have been pledged as collateral. The Foundation’s exposure to liquidity risk is deemed insignificant based on prior periods’ data and current assessment of risk. The liabilities are recognised for amounts due to be paid in the future for goods or services received, whether or not invoiced. Amounts owing to suppliers (which are unsecured) are settled in accordance with the policy set out in Treasurer’s Directions 219.01. If trade terms are not specified, payment is made no later than the end of the month following the month in which an invoice or a statement is received. Treasurer’s Direction 219.01 allows the Minister to award interest for late payment. No interest was paid during the year (2008 – nil). The table below summarises the maturity profile of the Foundation’s financial liabilities, together with the interest rate exposure.

Maturity analysis and interest rate exposure of financial liabilities Weighted Nominal Fixed Variable Non- < 1 yr 1–5 yrs > 5 yrs average amount1 interest interest interest effective rate rate bearing int rate 2009 Payables – 52,488 – – 52,488 52,488 – –

2008 Payables – 15,693 – – 15,693 15,693 – –

1 The amounts disclosed are the contractual undiscounted cash flows of each class of financial liabilities and therefore may not reconcile to the balance sheet.

d) Market risk 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 Foundation’s exposures to market risk are primarily through interest rate risk associated with the movement in the unit price of the Hour-Glass Investment Facilities. Notwithstanding the global financial crisis, the impact upon the Foundation is minimal because of the ability to invest in fixed-interest facilities. The Foundation has no exposure to foreign currency risk and does not enter into commodity contracts.

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Interest rate risk Exposure to interest rate risk arises primarily through the Foundation’s interest-bearing liabilities. This risk is minimised by undertaking mainly fixed rate borrowings, primarily with NSW TCorp. The Foundation does not account for any fixed rate financial instruments at fair value through profit or loss or as available-for-sale. Therefore for these financial instruments, a change in interest rates would not affect profit or loss or equity. A reasonably possible change of +/- 1% is used, consistent with current trends in interest rates. The basis will be reviewed annually and amended where there is a structural change in the level of interest rate volatility. The Foundation’s exposure to interest rate risk is set out below.

-1% 1% Carrying amount Profit Equity Profit Equity

2009 Financial assets Cash and cash equivalents 1,803,617 –18,036 –18,036 18,036 18,036 Receivables – – – – – Other financial assets 5,241 – – – – Financial liabilities Payables 52,488 – – – –

2008 Financial assets Cash and cash equivalents 1,562,015 –16,391 –16,391 16,391 16,391 Receivables 7,881 – – – – Other financial assets 1,100,000 – – – – Financial liabilities Payables – – – – – Financial liabilities Payables 5,228 – – – –

Other price risk – TCorp Hour-Glass facilities Exposure to ‘other price risk’ primarily arises through the investment in the TCorp Hour-Glass Investment Facilities, which are held for strategic rather than trading purposes. The Foundation has no direct equity investments. The Foundation holds units in the following Hour-Glass investment trusts.

Facility Investment sectors Investment horizon 2009 2008

$ $ Cash facility Cash, money market instruments Up to 1.5 years 748,129 1,168,107

The unit price of the facility is equal to the total fair value of the net assets held by the facility divided by the number of units on issue for that facility. Unit prices are calculated and published daily. NSW TCorp is trustee for each of the above facilities and is required to act in the best interest of the unit holders and to administer the trusts in accordance with the trust deeds. As trustee, TCorp has appointed external managers to manage the performance and risks of each facility in accordance with a mandate agreed by the parties. However, TCorp acts as manager for part of the cash facility. A significant portion of the administration of the facilities is outsourced to an external custodian.

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Investment in the Hour-Glass facilities limits the Foundation’s exposure to risk, as it allows diversification across a pool of funds with different investment horizons and a mix of investments. NSW TCorp provides sensitivity analysis information for each of the investment facilities, using historically based volatility information collected over a ten-year period, quoted at two standard deviations (ie 95% probability). The TCorp Hour-Glass Investment facilities are designated at fair value through profit or loss and therefore any change in unit price impacts directly on profit (rather than equity). A reasonably possible change is based on the percentage change in unit price (as advised by TCorp) multiplied by the redemption value as at 30 June each year for each facility (balance from Hour-Glass statement).

e) Fair value Financial instruments are generally recognised at cost, with the exception of the TCorp Hour-Glass facilities, which are measured at fair value. As discussed, the value of the Hour-Glass investments is based on the Foundation’s share of the value of the underlying assets of the facility, based on the market value. All of the Hour-Glass facilities are valued using ‘redemption’ pricing. The amortised cost of financial instrument recognised in the balance sheet approximates the fair value, because of the short-term nature of many of the financial instruments.

12 CHARITABLE FUND RAISING ACTIVITIES Results of fundraising activities The Foundation receives many donations as a result of its day-to-day activities. In addition, other special fundraising events were conducted during the year and the results are as follows:

Notes 2009 2008 $ $ Donations 224,418 326,046 Sponsorship 40,000 40,000 Gross income from fundraising A 264,418 366,046 Cost of fundraising B –25,992 –51,310 Net surplus from fundraising C 238,426 314,736 Cost of services provided D – – Transferred to/(from) accumulated funds 238,426 314,736 238,426 314,736 List of all forms of appeals – events and appeals How appeal moneys are applied Distributions to the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales 40,000 360,000 Comparative figures and ratios Cost of fundraising to gross income from fundraising B/A 10% 14% Net surplus from fundraising to gross income from fundraising C/A 90% 86% Cost of services provided to total expenditure D/(B+D) 0% 0% Cost of services provided to gross income from fundraising D/A 0% 0%

END OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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