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OUR VISION IS TO BE THE NATION'S MOST DYNAMIC CULTURAL RESOURCE, ENRICHING LIVES BY PROMOTING KNOWLEDGE AND ENJOYMENT OF AUSTRALIA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS WATERWAYS AND THE SEA

australian national maritime museum annual report 2004-2005

Q0OA u s t r a l ia n N a t io n a l M a r it im e M u s e u m

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Australian National Maritime Museum

The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM)

at Darling Harbour, Sydney, opens 9.30 a m -5.0 0 pm

everyday (open 9.30 a m -6.0 0 pm January)

Closed 25 December

Entry at 30 June 2005

Museum Ticket (including museum galleries, special

exhibitions, lighthouse and Wharf 7): FREE

Big Ticket (including Vampire, Onslow, James Craig,

Endeavour and audio guide):

adult $30, child/concession $16, family $65

Big Ticket (including Vampire, Onslow and EITHER

James Craig or Endeavour and audio guide):

adult $25, child/concession $13, family $55

Navy Ticket (includes Vampire, Ons/owand audio

guide): adult $18, child/concession $9. family $40

James Craig Ticket:

adult $10, chiid/concession $ 6 ,family $20

EndeavourTicket:

adult $15, chiid/concession $8, family $30

2 Murray Street Darling Harbour NSW:

Executive, commercial & visitor services,

building services, security, fleet

Wharf 7 Maritime Heritage Centre Pyrmont NSW:

Vaughan Evans Library, curators, registration,

conservation, design, volunteers and ANMM

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Website (including this annual report)

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Editor Jeffrey Mellefont ANMM

Assistant editor Dr Wendy Wilkins ANMM

Photography Andrew Frolows (staff photographer).

Jeffrey Mellefont ANMM, unless otherwise credited

Graphic designer Jeremy Austen, austenkaupe

Layout and production Vanda Graphics

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cover: Seahorse stem ornament

from the royal launch of King Louis

Philippe, carved at Cherbourg

dockyard, 18 3 0 -1 8 4 8 . It's one

of the magnificent sculptures the

museum has borrowed from the

Musee National de la Marine,

Paris. for this year's outsta nding

exhibition Les Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces o f French Naval

Sculpture. Photographer

A Frolows/ANMM

title page: HM Bark Endeavour

at anchor, watercolour (1989) by

Western Australian artist Ross

Shardlow. ANMM collection

CHAI RMAN’S MESSAGE

Chairman Mark Bethwaite with

the figurehead from Queen Marie-

Antoinette’s ceremonial launch, at

the opening of Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture

It gives me great pleasure to present the Australian National Maritime Museum’s

Annual Report for the period 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005. We are now midway

through the museum’s Strategic Plan for 2003 to 2006, and I'm pleased to report

we're achieving the goals and outcomes which we set ourselves.

There have been some exciting and challenging milestones during the year under

report. None were higher profile than the arrival of the Endeavour replica at the

museum. The spectacular ship was transferred to the Australian Government by the

HM Bark Endeavour Foundation which had operated it over the last decade and a half.

The replica was then gifted to the museum by the Australian Government, along with

additional funds for its operation. The eyes of Australia are on us as the museum takes

on stewardship of this extraordinary artefact which has been acclaimed world wide,

and which for so many Australians is a powerful symbol of their history.

This year, too, the museum's Council has endorsed the bold step of making entry

to the museum's galleries free to all visitors. This initiative has undergone intitial trials

with impressive success, and in making it a continuing feature we are acknowledging

the paramount importance of increasing public access to this, the nation’s leading

maritime heritage resource. We are confident that subsequent reviews will reinforce

the value of this arrangement.

The year’s outstanding exhibitions, educational programs and public events build

the museum’s reputation for continually renewing, expanding and eiaboratingthe

concepts of maritime history and heritage. I’d like to pay special tribute to all who

worked to bring the spectacular Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture all the way from Paris. It’s an exhibition that has, for many people, redefined

the notion of what a maritime museum is about.

I would like once again to offer thanks to all who have made these achievements

possible: the Australian Government and the Minister for the Arts and Sport Senator

the Hon Rod Kemp - in particularfor his enthusiasm and financial support for bringing

the Endeavour replica to the museum; corporate and individual sponsors, donors

and supporters; my fellow Council members; and a dedicated management, staff and

volunteers.

Mark Bethwaite, Chairman

Australian National Maritime Museum

Vision statement 1

Contact officer 2

Chairman's message 3

Mission statement 6

Values 7

SECTION 1 YEAR IN REVIEW

Highlights 2004-2005 10

Director’s overview 12

Exhibitions and major events 20

Statutory information requirements: 26

Effectiveness in managing human resources, joint consultative council,

occupational health and safety, workplace diversity, access and equity,

Commonwealth disability strategy, disability action plan, environmental

performance, insurance and indemnity, risk management, developments in

external scrutiny, reports by the Auditor General, fraud control, advertising

and market research, corporate governance, freedom of information, judicial

decisions, ministerial directions

SECTION 2 PERFORMANCE REPORTING

Key Result Area 1 Engaging our audiences 30

Strategies and performance reporting:

a modern maritime museum; education and visitor programs; market research;

venue hire and catering; The Store; Sydney by Sail

Key Result Area 2 Maritime heritage 36

Strategies and performance reporting:

maritime heritage and material culture, Australian Register of Historic Vessels,

Blackmore's First Lady, Tu Do, maritime archaeology program, maritime history

book prize, acquisitions, registration and conservation, USA Gallery, Indigenous

affairs, fleet, Vaughan Evans Library, outreach and collaboration

Key Result Area 3 Infrastructure development 46

Strategies and performance reporting:

early loan repayment, capital works, building services, security,

communications and information management services, human resource

management and OHS, staffing overview, volunteers

Key Result Area 4 Reputation and recognition 52

Strategies and performance reporting:

customer feedback, marketing, media, publications and website, design,

corporate support, The Welcome Wall, Members

Performance overview 57

SECTION 3 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Statement by Council members 58

Independent audit report 60

Statement of financial performance 62

Statementof financial position 63

Statement of cash flows 64

Schedule of commitments and contingencies 65

Notes 66

SECTION 4 APPENDICES

Images from the exhibition Les

Gen/es de la Mer - Masterpieces

of French Naval Sculpture.

Photographs© Musee National de

la Marine, Paris

01. Visitors and Members programs

02. Selected acquisitions to the National Maritime Colllection

03. Donors to the National Maritime Colllection

04. MMAPSS grants

0 5 . ANMM publications

06. Staff publications

07. Staff conference papers and lectures

08. Staff media appearances

09. Staff professional appointments

10. Staff overseas travel

11. Organisation chart at 30 June 2005

12. APS staff at 30 June 2005

13. Council members

14. Council meetings and committees

15. Australian National Maritime Foundation

16. Sponsors, patrons and supporters

17. Corporate and supporting members

18. Volunteers

19. Volunteer speakers panel

20. Consultants

21. Customer service charter

22. List of Acts administered

23. Functions and powers of the minister

24. Functions and powers of the museum

25. Director’s statement

26. Index

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OUR MISSION IS TO BRING MARITIME HERITAGE TO LIFE AND PRESERVE IT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS THROUGH...

programs and

products that are

creative, inclusive,

enjoyable and

memorable

national

leadership and

international

collaboration

fostering

traditional skills

and practices

research,

acquisition,

conservation,

interpretation,

outreach and

education

The best of all was the

National Maritime Museum.

I had a lovely wander there.

And it's a good thing to do on

a wet day, beautiful. Gee, they

do it well. Had a walk around

Endeavour, the Captain Cook

replica ship. Just fabulous.

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top: More than 60 members ot

the Za m progno f a m i ly f ro m Ita ly

attended the unveiling of panel 36

of the Welcome Wall, in October

2004.

left: Replica of Lt James Cook's

Endeavour sails home.

Mike Carlton

Sydney 2UE

we promote a broad

interpretation of

maritime heritage

and culture

we value

partnership and

collaboration

we strive for the

highest standards

of service

we focus on the

lives of people

as the core of

our products and

programs

we champion we regard we encourage

integrity and ethical engagement, commitment,

practice innovation and application and

creativity as the achievement

keystones of our

work

top: Decorated powder horn from

a whale ship, Boston, USA, circa

1840, on display in Scrimshaw

- Art o f the Whaler.

left: Esther and Evie Rolfe-

Douglass dressed sailor-style for

the school holiday About Time

program in Sailor Street

left: Transom of a model of the

100-gun, 17th-century flagship

of Louis XIV, Le Saleil Royal.

Reconstruction by Jean-Baptiste

Tanneron, Paris, 1839 © Musee

Nationale de la Marine, Paris.

opposite: Detail from Tanneron's

model of walnut, boxwood and

ebony.

John McDonald

Spectrum. Sydney Morning Hera/d

SECTI ON ONE

...no one should be excused

from seeing Les Genies de

la Mer. It is unlikely there

w ill be a more amazing

exhibition held anywhere

in Australia this year.

The craftsmanship that has

gone into these sculptures

that ornamented the ships o f

the Trench navy...is simply

breathtaking...

HIGHLIGHTS 2 0 0 4 - 2 0 0 5

Attracted 1,602,315 interactions

with the museum (including

411,340 museum visitors) and

raised $5.5 million gross revenue

Opened Blackmores First Lady

and an installation of Kay Cottee’s

shipboard effects to the public

(above)

Celebrated the return of the

Endeavour replica to Australia (left),

to make her home atthe ANMM

Hosted the third Australian visit of

the steel-hulled yachts of the Global

Challenge round-the-world race

Brought Les Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture from Paris to Australia

- a spectacular display of artworks

spanning 1660 to 1860 (left)

Designed and installed About

Time (left) which drew on major

international collections of historical

timepieces and chronometers

Unveiled three new Welcome Wall

panels (above), with a total of 1.119

names, one ceremony coinciding

with Refugee Week and another

with the Greek Festival

Established American Friends of

ANMM to support the USA Gallery

THE YEAR IN REVIEW | HIGHLIGHTS 2 0 0 4 - 2 0 0 5 11

Provided 12 grants worth a total

of $30,000 underthe Maritime

Museums of Australia Project

Support Scheme (MMAPSS) and

two regional museums internships

Organised and led a unique history

and culture tour of the coasts

of southern India, marketed to

museum Members and the public

(above)

Added 1,708 items to the

Australian National Maritime

Collection

Implemented Phase I of Australian

Produced an Indigenous protocols

document, developed by a working

party with the aim of raising

awareness of Indigenous issues in

programs and procedures

Completed a disability action plan

Congratulated museum apprentice

shipwright Manny Ariel on winning

the NSW Medal for best shipwright

apprentice of the year

Supported maritime archaeological

programs (right) of various

organisations includingthe NSW

Heritage Office

DIRECTOR S OVERVIEW

Interactions, visits and visitor profile

The number of people who visited our exhibitions and historic vessels, and took tours

of the Wharf 7 Maritime Heritage Centre this year, was 411,340. If we compare this

with visitation just two years ago, it's an increase of nearly 40%. School visitors this

year totalled a pleasing 34,897. Some 40,500 guests or clients attended functions

held at the museum as part of our venue hire operation, while 3,145 museum

Members attended events organised for them. Overall for the year 2004-2005

there were 1,616,015 interactions with the museum. This is our measure of all who

availed themselves of our services and facilities in one way or another. In addition to

the visitations already noted, this includes categories such as enquiries assisted and

users of our research and information services.

Free admission

The museum’s Council has endorsed the continuation of our initiative of making entry

to the museum galleries free of charge. When we decided to trial free entry in late

2003 we were the first of Sydney’s major museums to do so. The initiative was to make

our exhibitions more accessible than ever before, and it has worked. Over the initial

trial period we saw a substantial increase in our visitation over a comparable period in

the previous year, and the numbers have remained encouraging.

The challenge for us was always to ensure that the loss of ticket revenue was offset by

increased patronage of our other facilities, and ticketed attractions such as the replica

of HM Bark Endeavour, by those larger numbers of visitors, so we could continue to

provide the full range of attractions and services that our public expects of us. Our

confidence that we will be able to do so is reflected in Council’s decision to approve

free entry as a continuing feature of the museum. Australian maritime history will be

one of the beneficiaries, as even more people come through our doors and learn about

ourfascinating past and present.

above: Director Mary-Louise

Williams with Minister for the Arts

and Sport. Senator Rod Kemp,

at the opening of Les Genies de

la M er - Masterpieces of French

Naval Sculpture.

left: Detail from Napoleon I s

ceremonial launch. Gilded lime

wood, Van Petersen, 1810.

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top: Endeavour replica moored

at Museum Quay, the museum's

historic vessel basin.

above: Endeavour's great cabin set

up in museum mode for visitors,

with replicas illustrating life as

it was when Cook, Banks and

Solander worked there during the

voyage.

The Endeavour replica

One of the most significant additions to the museum in many years took place, when

the internationally acclaimed replica of James Cook’s legendary Whitby collier, HM

Bark Endeavour, was transferred into the museum’s care. Endeavour will be based

here, managed and operated by our own staff, after more than a decade of world

voyaging. The ship had been operated by the HM Bark Endeavour Foundation, created

in 1991 to complete construction in Fremantle WA, and to manage it as a voyaging

museum after it was launched in 1993. Senator the Hon Rod Kemp, Minister forthe

Arts and Sport, received the replica on behalf of the Australian Government from the

Foundation’s chairman Dr Michael Sharpe AO, in order to gift it to the museum.

Managing Endeavour as a high-profile heritage icon and an exceptional educational

asset, and maintaining the replica in sailing survey, is a huge commitment forthe

museum. It takes us into operational areas previously outside our core business. We

commenced immediately by building a team comprising the most experienced square

rig and replica managers and shipkeepers to do the job. We have been generously

aided in this by additional annual fundingfrom the Australian Government, which will

allow us to keep the ship in the best condition possible and to be fully operational on

Sydney Harbour. Long-distance offshore voyaging is extremely expensive and forthat

we will seek corporate sponsorship, in order to extend the ship’s ambassadorial role.

Managing the Endeavour replica opens up many superb opportunities for the

museum. For many, many Australians Endeavour has an almost mystical status as a

symbol of the nation’s colonisation history; operating such an iconic ship demands of

us a sensitivity to all Australians’ view of history. As the new custodians of this vessel,

the eyes of Australia will be on us.

Exhibitions

It’s been a bumperyearfor exhibitions, which have been colourful and hugely diverse

in nature and style, as we strive to attract new and wider audiences.

The highlight of our year - some might say decade! - was the truly wonderful

exhibition Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture.

These magnificent sculptures, figureheads and other works of art decorated

French warships and vessels of state from 1660 to 1860. The artworks represent

a fascinating period and some of the most powerful and intriguing characters of

history, the likes of the Sun King (Louis XIV), Marie-Antoinette and Napoleon. Their

grand scale, epic subject matter, sensuous colour and forms have bowled over our

audiences.

The exhibition came about through a collaboration between the Musee National

de la Marine, Paris, owner of the sculptures, the Musee des beaux-arts du Quebec

in Canada, and ourselves. It’s a great accolade for us that these French national

treasures were allowed to come here - they may never leave Paris again - and a

great satisfaction that our energy made it happen. It cements a closer alliance with

important French cultural institutions and has boosted our connections with the

French community in Australia too.

Special mention must be made of oursponsors SDV International Logistics, Cathay

Pacific Cargo and ANL Container Line Pty Ltd, since moving priceless items on this

scale is a gargantuan undertaking.

Other exhibition highlights of the year included:

About Time - a brief history of timekeeping on sea and land - drew on major

international collections of historical timepieces and chronometers, made possible by

our growing links to important overseas and Australian collections. Just one example:

the British National Maritime Museum lent its extraordinary working copy of the

Harrison 1 chronometer. The exhibition enjoyed the major support of sponsor IWC

International Watch Co Schaffhausen, the Swiss watchmaker.

Gina's Journey - from Istria to Australia, a series of intensely personal paintings in a

vibrant style by 74-year-old Croatian migrant Gina Sinozich, captured herfamily's 1957

voyage from Istria in Croatia to Australia. Most were commissioned by us from the self-

taught artist who has burst upon the gallery scene in recent years.

Sailor Style - Art Fashion Film continued its run until February, a cheeky and irreverent

history of the sailor suit and its place in popular culture.

above: Winged mermaid

figurehead in maritime pine,

from the sloop L'Australie, carver

unknown, 1844.

right: Louis XIV’s royal galley

La Reale, oil on canvas, artist

unknown, circa 1694. Both images

Paris

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top: Gina Sinozich with one of her

paintings from Gina's Journey

- from Istria to Australia

above: Estanislau da Silva

(centre), East Timor's M inisterfor

Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries,

visited the exhibition Children of

the Crocodile - the Australia-East

Timor Story with son Sahe and

daughter Nairana

Among the year’s other exhibition’s were Children of the Crocodile, an examination of

East Timor’s recent history and links with Australia; displays of works by documentary

photographers and Indigenous artists - and in an entirely new approach for us, an

exhibition of classic speedboat photographs selected from our collection by a guest

curator who bid for the privilege at a fund raising dinner held by our Australian National

Maritime Foundation!

We also saluted our founding Chairman who died late last year with Peter

Doyle a m , Fisherman (1932-2004), a display of personal effects in memory of the

contributions to this museum made by this legendary Sydney restaurateur and

environmentalist.

Staff overcame considerable logistical and conservation hurdles to realise a cherished

goal: making the famous yacht Blackmores First Lady accessible to visitors in our

Watermarks exhibition where it’s the centerpiece. They can now board, enter the cabin

and view an installation of Kay Cottee’s shipboard effects from the historic 1987-88

solo circumnavigation that made her Australia's best-known sailor.

Travelling exhibitions

An additional 13,700 visitors to the South Australian Maritime Museum saw a

travelling exhibition, Siglas de Pescadores - Signs of fishermen, which was nearing

the end of its Australian tour. We imported this appealing ethnographic study of an

Atlantic fishing community in Portugal in mid-2003, and after appearing here for seven

months it travelled to venues all around Australia.

Since importing and touring exhibitions is an important but complex and demanding

part of our outreach activities, staff have this year developed a Temporary and

Travelling Exhibitions Production Guide for exhibitions developed, hosted and toured

by the museum.

Major events

For the third time we hosted the Australian visit of the steel-hulled yachts of the Global

Challenge round-the-worid race which moored at our wharves, pausing duringtheir

punishing circumnavigation which takes them the wrong way, against prevailing winds

and tides. The race was conceived of by the famous British yachtsman Sir Chay Blythe

as a character-building event for non-professional sailors, who are sponsored to sail

the fleet of rugged, identical yachts.

One of the most popular museum events ever, Wetworld, returned this year over the

summer school holiday to encourage children to experiment with the many enjoyable

properties of water. This year, a new wet lab was added to increase the fun and

learning, with an emphasis on conservation and avoiding water wastage.

We unveiled three new Welcome Wall panels, with a total of 1,119 names cast in

bronze, on the museum’s tribute to migrants who have journeyed to Australia to make

new homes. The unveilings once again attracted thousands of family and friends of

Welcome Wall subscribers, one ceremony coinciding with Refugee Week and another

with a national festival celebrating Greek culture.

Demonstrating the museum’s engagement with the wider Asian and Indian Ocean

region, a unique maritime-themed history and cultural tour of the coasts of southern

India was developed and marketed to museum Members and the public. The three-

week tour, led by a staff member who specialises in Asian maritime history, took in

spice ports of antiquity and colonial periods, contemporary fishing communities and

traditional boatbuilding, and a host of littoral cultural sites.

Our seminar and lecture program is developing an impressive depth and diversity.

Many are commissioned to support current exhibitions - for example a seminar in

conjunction with the exhibition About Time which featured stellar academics Professor

Paul Davies, Peter Ekin and Professor Marilyn Mitchell. Others keep our audiences

up to date with developments in maritime history and related topics, with thought-

provoking and sometimes controversial topics such as Navy historian Dr Tom Frame's

Anzac Day lecture ‘The Gallipoli campaign and HMAS Voyager: a tale of two tragedies'.

Still others reflect our multidisciplinary approach, for example culinary academic

Dr Barbara Santich’s ‘Australian cuisine in the golden age of windjammers’, delivered

in the galley of the 1874 barque James Craig.

Collections

The National Maritime Collection's profile is growing among other Australian exhibiting

institutions, with a sharp rise in the number of items we have out on loan. Items were

on display in National Archives of Australia’s Beacons by the Sea travelling exhibition

and the Powerhouse Museum’s Sport more than heroes and legends travelling

exhibition. Others were on loan to the Supreme Court of Queensland for their Lucinda

exhibition, the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia to celebrate their centenary,

the South Australian Maritime Museum for their dolphin display and the National

Museum of Australia for their Encounters exhibition.

The number of objects registered in the National Maritime Collection this year was

1,708, among which were 95 groups or collections. The diversity of our collecting

activity never ceases to astound and entertain, as we acquired artworks and

photographs, ship models and surfboards, tools and instruments, books, stamps,

coins, programs, memorabilia, baleen, banners, textiles, ceramics, Olympians' swim

wear, cloth sailor dolls, a bottle of brandy that once belonged to Sir Francis Chichester,

a can of butter from Kay Cottee’s world voyage, and a whale penis fitted as a lamp.

Several collection areas grew in strength, with a very strong showing of maritime art

and ship portraiture enteringthe collection. And we built on our extensive holdings

of material relating to Australia's most famous boatbuilding dynasty, the Halvorsens,

with a collection of scrapbooks, plans and clothing relatingto the ocean racing and

sporting interests of Trygve and Magnus Halvorsen, and draftingtools used by Trygve

and Lars Halvorsen. Amongthese plans of Halvorsen-designed and crewed yachts that

dominated Australian ocean racing in the post-WW2 period are those of the legendary

top: Scrimshaw - Art o f the whaler Freya ' three-time winner of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race in 1963-65. A number of

highlighted a n m m ’s extensive these items will be displayed next year,

collection of these sailorly arts

and crafts.

above: Photograph, 1938, from

ANMM's Sam Hood collection, in

the exhibition Sydney - Working

Harbour

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top: Crown Princess Victoria of

Sweden visits the museum to

open the exhibition Swedish Style.

Photographer E Maloney/ANMM

above: ANMM Members whale

watching off Sydney Heads

Partnerships and collaborations

Phase I of our Australian Register of Historic Vessels got underway with the

appointment of contract yacht designer and heritage vessel specialist, David Payne,

to develop a data base and methodologies, and to research and enter the first tranche

of significant vessels. The register will become an important national research tool

for maritime heritage and an outreach program extendingthe network of maritime

museums in this country.

We developed strategies for the official launch and promotion of a new organisation,

American Friends of the Australian National Maritime Museum, which has been

incorporated to raise knowledge of and support for the museum’s USA Gallery.

The USA Gallery is the enduring product of a generous endowment which was the

United States’ bicentennial gift to Australia in 1988. American Friends will facilitate

fundraising and promotional activities, and has gained the support of Australian

diplomatic missions in the USA.

A museum working party produced and published an Indigenous protocols document,

with the aim of raising awareness of Indigenous issues as they impact upon museum

programs and procedures. Doing so enhanced our links with bodies such as the

Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander Commission and the Australia Council, by takingtheir

own protocols as a starting point to develop specifics for material in our collection.

Producing this document is a strong statement that we will promote respectful

treatment of Indigenous materials, cultures and forms of expression.

Twelve grants worth a total of $30,000 were provided under the Maritime Museums

of Australia Project Support Scheme (MMAPSS) to non-profit maritime museums

and historical societies, most of them community-based and run by volunteers, to

conserve and display their maritime heritage. Projects range from boat restorations

to conservation of exquisite artworks. The scheme was initiated in 1995 and since

then, 113 projects across all Australian states and most of its territories have been

supported. It’s our most important cultural outreach program, administered by us and

jointly funded by the museum and the Australian Government through the Distributed

National Collection Program of the Department of Communications, Information

Technology and the Arts. This year we secured a substantial increase in the Australian

Government’s contribution, which will enable us to more than double the number of

grants commencing with the 2005-2006 round of grants.

We also awarded two regional museums internships which allow people from smaller

museums who are managing maritime heritage collections to spend up to four weeks

with ourstaff, developing skills. This year’s interns were Ray Robinson from the Port

Broughton Sailingand Boat Club Inc of South Australia, and Marie Nunan, a volunteer

from the Geelong Heritage Centre in Victoria.

A second staff exchange was undertaken with the National Maritime Museum,

Greenwich, UK. This important program develops relations with what is arguably the

world’s pre-eminent maritime museum - certainly one with critical strategic links to

Australian maritime history. Dominic Mackintosh, ANMM marketing services manager,

spent two months with the Greenwich museum's marketing arm. Liz Campbell, a display

technician at Greenwich, spent six weeks with our exhibition designers and preparators.

Trained underwater archaeologists and divers on staff contributed to the maritime

archaeology programs of various organisations includingthe NSW Heritage Office.

Our involvement in the search for remains of James Cook’s Endeavour continues, in

Newport, Rhode Island, in the USA. This year Nigel Erskine, ANMM’s new curator of

exploration and acting senior maritime archaeologist, was sent to assist the Rhode

Island Marine Archaeology Project (Rl MAP, led by American archaeologist Dr Kathy

Abbass) with its underwater surveys and test excavations.

I was recently invited to join the board of the Foundation forthe Preservation of

Captain Cook's Ships, a US organisation which provides administrative and fund

raising support for RIMAP's work. We're happy to be working with the Foundation and

RIMAP to establish a strategic approach for our forthcoming involvement with the

wreck site. It’s a project of great significance to us all.

I have been appointed acting President of the International Congress of Maritime

Museums, continuing this museum’s tradition of close involvement with, and

executive membership of, this world body which does important work on standards

and policies that relate to our discipline.

above: In the Navy exhibition.

right: Director Mary-Louise

Williams welcomes the Endeavour

replica. Behind (Lto R): ship's

former master, Chris Blake;

Minister forthe Arts and Sport,

Senator Rod Kemp; chairman

of the HM Bark Endeavour

Foundation, Dr Michael Sharpe AO.

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Issues and outlook

Our continuation of free museum entry is a keystone of our marketing that now

positions us to maximise our audience share. With the right mix of attractions we’re

confident that we can do this, and resist the now well-documented, worldwide decline

in museum audiences.

Sailing over our horizon is the long-awaited Vikings exhibition, to open in November

2005 ready for the summer crowds. Treasures of the Viking world, artefacts and

replicas, have been sourced from great European collections, to dig beneath the

legend and myth and reveal the truth about these incredible navigators, explorers,

warriors, traders and artists. Next year well also open Dreamboats and workboats

- the Halvorsen story. It showcases our extensive collection documenting the lives

and work of this Norwegian migrant family which became a household name with their

popular Hawkesbury hire fleet and finely crafted vessels.

Work on several long-term projects which will improve our infrastructure and services

made excellent progress during the year. The very complex task of developing the new,

state-of-the-art Collection Management Information System neared completion. We

began planning for the redevelopment of the Commerce exhibition theme, and we

selected a consultant and tenderer to redevelop the museum website, among other

things to align it more closely with our business process.

And we continued the ongoing process of developing the comprehensive site

masterplan, to provide for future growth and to grapple with the challenges posed

by our site and the wider precinct. Our neighbourhood gets busier and busier as the

rapid development of Pyrmont and Darling Harbour continues, with a number of major

construction projects underway that will increase residential and commercial activity

on our doorstep. Closer to home we face the demands of maintaining an 18-year-old

building and wharfage which needs upgrading. Our attention is now focusing on the

building's eastern fapade and how it can be redeveloped to provide better public

amenities and facilities.

While we have an outstanding track record in importing and touring exceptional

international exhibitions - part of our role as the nation's leading maritime heritage

organisation - one constant hurdle that we face is the rarity of suitable, major

exhibitions with universal appeal. Another is the escalating costs of moving exhibition

material and obtaining insurance coverage, exacerbated by international security

concerns and procedures.

Along with increased costs of our own security operations, we share with many

organisations a growing list of compliance issues from governance to occupational

health and safety, risk management, equity and access, on-line standards and

and consequently costs of compliance are high, accompanied by increasing needs to

—--------------------------------- monitor developments and make submissions. ·

top: Staff organised their own

viewing of the 2 004 transit of

Venus, 235 years after Cook

observed a transit in Tahiti

above: Entertainers at a

Caribbean-themed corporate event

held at the museum.

Photographer L Faye/ANMM

EXHIBITIONS AND

MAJOR EVENTS

Sydney - Working Harbour Sailor Style - Art Fashion Film

Sydney’s working harbour has a major

role in Australian industry, trade,

national profile and tourism. The

exhibition showed how developers and

governments are making changes to

this working harbour. Included were

photographs from the museum’s

outstanding collection of Sam Hood’s

work - a fine record of ships, seamen,

work on the wharves and leisure boating.

sponsored by Freedom Group.

above: Triton blowing in a conch,

stern ornament from La Rea/e

Gilded walnut, attributed to

Frangois Caravaque, Marseilles

dockyard, 1 6 94.© Musee National

de la Marine, Paris

above: Mermaid figurehead

from the ceremonial launch of

Queen Marie-Antoinette. carver

anonymous. 1777. © Musee

National de la Marine, Paris

opposite: Bust of a young

naval officer, from the sloop La

Bayonnaise, carved at Brest

dockyard. 1846.

SECTION TWO

The exhibition looked

breath-taking... and lhave

spent more than SO years

mucking about in boats o f

every size and shape...

O.D. McNicoli

The Australian

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ENGAGING OUR AUDIENCES

Understand our audiences and interpret Australia’s

maritime heritage in exciting and informative ways

create a mix of entertaining,

scholarly, educational, topical and

relevant programs and products for

greatest value to our audiences

explore new and developing

directions through scholarship,

research, innovation and

experimentation in the

development of programs and

products

conduct research and create

dialogue with ouraudiences to

understand their changing needs

and wants

build our capabilities through our

staff and volunteers and the best

use of our infrastructure

pursue excellence in the quality

of our programs and services

through monitoring, evaluation and

management systems that support

good practice in all that we do

above: Professor Paul Davies (left),

keynote speaker at a Members

seminar for About Time, with one

of the exhibition's curators.

Dr Nigel Erskine.

left: Young visitors on a guided

tour of the museum's 1874 Cape

Bowling Green lighthouse.

The very model of a modern maritime museum

ANMM occupies a unique place in the cultural life of our nation. Throughout all sections of the museum there

exists a powerful charge of enthusiastic commitment to the things it represents, exploringthe meaning of

maritime history in a thoroughly modern way. Through research and astute curatorial choices, collection

management expertise, media and marketing skills, and the energies and imaginations of exhibition, program and

event managers, museum visitors are discovering and rediscovering the richness of our maritime heritage.

We continue to extend our core field of maritime history and heritage in new and surprising ways. Our exhibition

About Time was about chronometers and longitude, certainly, but it also entered the metaphysical realm to

explore the ways humans have sought to control and manipulate time. In the acclaimed Les Genies dela Mer

- Masterpieces o f French Naval Sculpture, the carved figureheads and other sculptures from the workshops of

the French dockyards were presented not just as documentary elements of shipbuilding, but as the incomparable

works of art that they are. The display of Gina Sinozich’s paintings, Gina’s Journey - from /stria to Australia,

brought more extraordinary artworks to our audiences, while exemplifying some of our core concerns, journeys by

sea and the experience of migration.

Education and visitor programs

By means of wide-ranging and imaginative programming, the museum not only maintains its patronage but

engages new audiences and introduces them to Australia’s abundant maritime heritage. Our education programs

extend to the wider community, making the museum an active participant in lifelong learning.

A vast range of events complements our exhibitions. This year, About Time provided opportunities for time-

related activities, such as the successful About Time Second-hand Sunday, compered by Dr Deane Hutton from

The Curiosity Show and Hey Hey It’s Saturday. At this popular event, horologists from the National Association of

Watch and Clock Collectors gave expert opinions of watches and clocks brought in by visitors. For Les Genies de la

Mer, a lecture series featured the exhibition’s original curators from Paris and Quebec, local art history specialists

and the ANMM’s own curators and designers. Theatre and music are compelling ways to engage audiences both

young and old, and Les Genies programs included a light-hearted contemporary production of Sinbad the Sailor

(in French) by Le Temps de Vivre theatre company; exhibition-inspired fashions created and modelled by young

design students; and an evening of French literature and arias. Another popular success this year was Wetworld,

an activity installation that lets children experience first hand the properties and pleasures of water.

New tours, programs and workshops were developed for schools, community and interest groups (such

as WEA). They added to the existing program of science workshops, the annual marine careers day for senior .

students, cruise forums, and special teacher previews of all major exhibitions. The tables of school visitation

overleaf show a relative decline over this reporting period, coming off a peak of school visits to a previous

year’s exhibition with highly targeted curriculum relevance that proved irresistible to schools: Oceans of Stories

- Illustrations from Australian children's books.

The visitor programs section is a collaborative partner with the Australian National University and the

Australian Research Council in researching and developing interpretative material for our Saltwater collection of

bark paintings from Yirrkala, East Arnhem Land, NT. Staff from this and other sections made a highly productive

visit to the region in May this year, to interview artists and community leaders.

As in previous years, visitor programs staff were closely involved with visiting vessels and associated on-the-

water events. These included the stopover of the 12 yachts in the Global Challenge; the Sail Expo and Classic &

Working Boat Challenge; and the visit of the CSIRO ocean research vessel Southern Surveyor. The latter was a

tremendous opportunity - fully exploited - fortours and talks about marine science. A number of briefings were

also held for the return of the Endeavour replica.

Duringtheyearthe department hosted personnel from the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery and from-

Questacon (ACT), who wished to discuss the range and types of programs offered by ANMM. In addition, staff from

the section participated in the Darling Harbour educators’ group which meets quarterly to discuss issues of

mutual interest and maximise the educational value of the precinct for schools and local groups.

Market research

In an increasingly competitive tourist and leisure sector, market research continues to inform and influence this

museum’s interaction with its audiences and the broader community, and is firmly part of the planning and

decision-making process. In partnership with the University of Technology and the Powerhouse Museum, market

research staff completed the qualitative stage of a major strategic study investigating museums and leisure

choices. The museum's evaluation researcher supervised a university student research project whose report has

provided a useful comparative analysis between international and domestic tourists. Consultant Stollznow

Research conducted research that explored public awareness and attitudes about the AN MM and evaluated the

level of interest in six exhibition proposals.

An exit survey tested visitor responses to our temporary exhibition, Sa//or Style - Art Fashion Film and gathered

valuable demographic information about our audiences. A remedial tracking study of visitors to Les Genies de la

Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture resulted in the installation of a gallery map. Another remedial

tracking study of visitors to Scrimshaw - Art of the Whaler provided valuable information about gallery design and

its effect on visitation. Evaluation of The Welcome Wall provided useful information about registrations.

Currently underway is a research study exploring family leisure. This is expected to provide useful insights into

this important AN MM audience. Also underway is research examining how the storage, work and preparation

spaces in our Wharf 7 Maritime Heritage Centre can be improved so as to enhance visitor satisfaction.

Venue hire and catering

As a venue operation AN MM possesses a winning combination of unique museum atmosphere, Darling Harbour

backdrop, diversity and flexibility of spaces for hire, and award-winning catering by the MODE Group. Revenue from

venues continues to rise, with the year’s total ahead of the projected budget figures (see table page 33). A major

contribution to this year’s success was the client Global Challenge, with its 12 competing yachts using the

museum as a base for the famous round-the-world race's two-week stopover in February 2005. The welcome

reception was held here, along with associated Members events, open day activities, corporate sailing days and

the Challenge management’s daily business and office requirements on site.

The venue department's strongest marketing alliance has been with SUVA (Sydney's Unique Venues

Association). This year, the assistant venue manager worked in a marketing role with the SUVA committee of

seven. Our presence in ‘SUVA Boulevard' at the new industry tradeshow RSVP in June added to the museum’s

exposure as a venue for corporate events.

Marketing to the corporate and government sectors has been strengthened by alliances with precinct partners

for referral business. The Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre and the Accors, Avillion and Star City hotels

have all conducted site inspections with a view to conference business and related events. Brochures and links on

related websites have raised our profile in the lucrative wedding market, and we are in increasing demand in the

film and advertising industry as an unusual location for film and photo shoots. Business has increased too from

our improved on-site facilities: the new Festival pontoons provide landing for vessels for Terrace Room functions

and the permanent South Wharf structure enables us to offer dinners with pre-dinner drinks on Vampire.

A considerable side-effect of the venue operation is the creation, through clients, of new audiences for ANMM:

public events this year included the international design exhibition Swedish Style and Australian Voices in Print -

the 2005 Popular Australian Readers' and Writers' Festival which attracted large crowds. ANMM was chosen as

the Sydney venue for a numberof national and international museum-related events, including Museums

Australia's star-studded Museums Australia Publication Design Awards 2005.

The Store

In recent years The Store has built up a reputation - through originality, authenticity, wit and marketing flair - as

one of the best museum stores in Australia, gaining wider recognition too through staff participation in

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international conferences and other activities in the museum retail world. In September The Store hosted the

2004 conference of the Museum Shops Association of Australia.

Product development made popular gains with new stock sourced and created for the exhibitions About Time,

Sailor Style and Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture, selected items relating to Cook

and Endeavour, and ANMM’sown merchandise. One of the year's successful initiatives was trade with book

remainderers, increasing profits further. In addition, more museums wholesaled ANMM products. The Store is

promoted to Members through advertisements and inserts in Signals, the museum’s quarterly colour magazine,

offering special deals on new books and other purchases; this continues to be a worthwhile and cost-effective

method of increasing business.

In the financial year under report, The Store recorded its highest sales to date, and increased its gross profit

margin percentage to 49%. Overall, it's a flourishing trade adding considerably to the museum’s revenue and to

the ‘take-away’ museum experience.

Sydney By Sail

Sydney By Sail is a successful commercial enterprise operated from the museum waterfront by former Olympian

Matt Hayes. His yacht charter company is highly regarded in the tourism industry and offers short sails on the

harbour and overnight cruises as well as sailing courses, giving visitors the opportunity to extend their museum

experience with sport and play on the water. Our sponsorship manager has successfully negotiated attractive

Sydney By Sail sailing days for potential and existing sponsors, some of whom are introduced in this way to

yachting, Sydney Harbour by sail, the breathtaking sight of our Philip Cox building and the world of maritime

adventure for the first time, and are encouraged to consider corporate support.

Visitors and interactions

20 0 2 -0 3 2003-04 2004-05

Visitors to the museum 304,394 431,536 411,350

Travelling exhibitions 110,023 183,996 13,700

Interactions 1,131,617 1,638,732 1,602,315

Major visitor revenue sources

20 0 2 -0 3 20 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Visitor entry revenue $1,770,178 $1,466,876 $1,340,950

The Store gross revenue $503,881 $570,907 $577,033

The Store net revenue $22,238 $87,768 $84,236

Yots Cafe rental revenue $89,928 $92,317 $104,749

Visitor Services revenue $170,168 $233,747 $230,996

TOTAL $2,556,393 $2,451,615 $2,327,972

Venue hire performance

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Number of functions 192 234 252

Guests 31,252 38,175 40,531

Turnover $615,814 $734,983 *$894,994

Net revenue $368,708 $481,912 *$625,812

* Includes 2005 Global Challenge Yacht Race revenue $62,664

Education groups

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Primary schools 433 310 296

Secondary schools 275 349 372

Tertiary/adult groups 108 214 61

GROUPS TOTAL 816 873 729

Visitor numbers

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Primary students 24,728 17,393 14,634

Secondary students 9,938 12,048 12,106

Adult students 1,738 994 1,244

Teachers 4,904 4,186 4,004

Vacation care 4,753 3,328 2,909

Mini Mariners 1,265 na na

Other groups 3,175 3,048 2,257

GROUPS TOTAL 49,873 40,970 37,154

Kids Deck 21,230 10,734 *9,928

ALL PROGRAMS TOTAL 58,331 69,172 47,082

* Dec 2004 - June 2005 only

Schools booked with teacher guides

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Navigators gallery/early explorers/history 67 70 53

Transport 43 42 36

The Sea 10 11 1

Watermarks 11 na na

Migration na na 2

Shipwreck Stories na na 2

Museum Highlights na na 56

Dipping into History na na 12

Antarctic Heroes 114 na na

Brunei - Treasures of Darussalam na 31 na

Oceans of Stories na 26 na

Sydney Working Harbour na 10 na

Southern Surveyor na na 2

Sailor Style na na 6

About Time na na 7

Les Genies de la Mer na na 13

Other tours 26 21 na

Sinbad le Marin performance na na 22

The Dean Hutton Show na na 5

Tours & performance* 30 10 3

TOTAL SCHOOLS ON TOURS 300 211 220

Percentage of schools taking a guided tour 65% 32% 36%

*2 0 0 2 -0 3 Navigators & Mapmaker’s Brother; 2 0 0 3 -0 4 Stormy Grey (Oceans of Stories)

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School workshops

2002-03 200 3 -0 4 2004-05

Archaeology - junior 6 21 12

Archaeology - senior 10 19 9

Submarine Adventure 10 2 5

Ship Shape & Life aboard a Tall Ship (James Craig) 16 21 25

Pirate School (James Craig, Bounty in 2002-03) 31 22 23

Bounty programs na 24 na

Science and other workshops 4 8 4

Shipwreck, Conservation & Corrosion 70 85 99

Shipwreck Sleuths 2 5 7

Technology of Gold workshop 30 24 15

History workshops 17 9 12

Pyrmont walk 15 37 43

Sailors and Superstition workshop na na 2

Splash Workshop na na 12

Don’t Mess with the Junksons na na 2

TOTAL SCHOOLS IN WORKSHOPS 134 364 360

Percentage of schools participating in a workshop 20% 56% 57%

Schools booked on vessels

20 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Schools on cruises 42 40 20

Schools on Bounty 9 na na

Schools on Onslow (including workshops) na 245 208

James Craig (includes Ship Shape and Sleuths programs) 25 50 57

Schools on Endeavour na na 51

TOTAL SCHOOLS ON VESSELS 76 335 336

2002-03 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Antarctic Heroes teacher preview 354 na na

Oceans of Stories teacher preview 80 na na

Oceans of Stories teacher conference na 70 na

Sydney Working Harbour teacher preview na 60 na

About Time na na 35

Les Genies de la Mer/ Endeavour na na 150

Brunei - Treasures of Darussalam teacher preview na 300 na

Marine careers day, senior students 489 304 313

Legal studies lecture - Saltwater 35 na â¢ na

Public program - Amundsen anniversary 60 na na

Public program - Antarctic lecture 83 na na

Public programs - Cruise forums 187 220 136

Public programs - WEA program 97 25 â 77

Public programs - Harbour Week cruises 127 na na

Public program - Night in the Navy 60 na na

TOTAL 1,572 979 711

KEY RESULT AREA 2

MARITIME HERITAGE

Foster the care and research of Australia’s maritime

heritage and material culture

develop the national maritime facilitate research into maritime

collection heritage and material culture

above: ANMM preparator Adam

Laerkesen demonstrated the fine

art of wood carving during the

exhibition Les Genres de la Mer

- Masterpieces o f French Naval

Sculpture

left: Carving on one of the

Endeavour replica's windlass bitts.

manage and preserve the

maritime historical material in

our care

preserve and foster traditional

maritime skills and practices

maximise access to the national

maritime collection and other

maritime heritage material in our

care

work with national and international

communities to foster best practice

in the promotion of maritime history

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Caring for Australia’s maritime heritage and material culture

Through research, acquisition and conservation, we continue to build the national maritime collection - the

accumulated records and stories, knowledge and narratives of Australians’ past and present experience of the

sea and its waterways. And through ingenuity, resourcefulness and wit in its interpretation, we elicit active

participation and enjoyment from our visitors.

One of the mostsignificant additions to our heritage assets occurred in June 2005 when the acclaimed replica of

LieutenantJames Cook’s Bark Endeavour was gifted to the museum, along with additional financial assistance, by

the Australian Government, after the ship’s transfer from the foundation which formerly operated it (see the director’s

report, page 12). In orderto best manage this spectacular icon the museum recruited an experienced square-rig

master, Ross Mattson - formerly master of the Bounty replica - as ship manager, and an additional shipwright and

ship keepers. We were fortunate to retain the expertise of the replica’s historian-researcher Antonia Macarthur on a

consultancy basis. Planning commenced immediately for a major refit of the vessel.

Management of the floating collection took significant strides with the completion of vessel management plans

for the World War Two commando raider MV Krait and the pearling lugger John Louis, both very important

representatives of the nation’s maritime history. The publication of a Temporary and Travelling Exhibitions

Production Guide will improve planning forthe development and production of exhibitions. Other significant

projects are mentioned below.

Australian Register of Historic Vessels

A major achievement this year was the implementation of a pilot program to select and test software for the first

phase of a descriptive list of vessels of significance to Australian history. The pilot includes vessels from ANMM,

Sydney Heritage Fleet and private records already on file. This ambitious project aims to record details of a range

of vessels (from commercial to leisure craft, large to small), owners, builders, designers, events, sites and

geographical areas, to place the vessels in the context of maritime and cultural history.

We hope to build a national picture of the distribution and use of surviving historic craftto encourage

interpretation, promotion and best practice in preservation and management, whether the vessels are in private

ownership, floating, in use or out of the water, or in museums.

The first phase, including research and assessment of information on historic vessels to be included, has involved

community and institutional liaison and the employment of a part-time project officer.

Blackmores First Lady

Another important achievement this year was providing public access into the cockpitand cabin of Blackmores

First Lady, the yacht in which Kay Cottee AO sailed to fame in a record-breaking solo, non-stop and unassisted

voyage around the world. A centrepiece in the ANZ Tall Gallery, the yacht has been fitted out with a selection of

artefacts to represent some of the experiences and technical challenges of the circumnavigation. The installation

uses a special interactive camera feed inside the cabin and gives the sense and sound of being at sea. The project

included extensive volunteer training to address the challenge of flowing visitors through the limited spaces, and

development of a maintenance manual and monitoring program.

The Tu Do project

Work commenced on a project to complement the restoration of our Vietnamese refugee boat Tu Do (see also

Fleet section report, below). Lindl Lawton, curator of post-Federation migration history, interviewed five surviving

members oftheLu family which fled Vietnam in this vessel, arriving in Darwin in 1977.Thefilm and recordings will

be used in interpretingthe vessel and future exhibitions on Vietnamese migration. Associated photographic

material has been collected forthe project.

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Maritime archaeology program

The maritime archaeology project team - staff members Dr Nigel Erskine, Lee Graham, Paul Hundley and Stirling

Smith - undertook a number of Sydney Harbour dives in collaboration with the NSW Heritage Office, including the

search for evidence of a sunken barge in Little Whiting Bay and an anchor in Grotto Point, and a survey of the

underwater landscape of Fort Denison.

Our maritime archaeologists assisted the Department of the Environment in preparingthe first draft of the

National Maritime Heritage Strategy; participated in the exhibition production guide referred to above; and

provided the script, content and production of the video Preserving the Bounty cannon for ANMM chemistry

workshops.

Dr Nigel Erskine took part in the museum’s fifth season with the Rhode Island Maritime Archaeology Project in

the continuing search for the remains of HMB Endeavour. Stirling Smith took part in a non-disturbance survey for

signs of Philip Parker King's survey vessel Mermaid, wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef. He also successfully

tendered for the project management of the Sydney Ports Corporation archaeological survey of White Bay.

Recommendations were made regarding the anchor and propeller located in the shipping channel.

Maritime history book prize

The second Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize was awarded this year. Funded jointly by ANMM

and the Australian Association for Maritime History (AAMH), the $2,000 prize was awarded to Encountering Terra

Australis: the voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders, by prominent South Australian academics Jean

Fornasiero, Peter Monteath and John West-Sooby, published by Wakefield Press. The prize was awarded duringthe

five-yearly conference of the International Commission of Maritime History in Sydney. The Australian Association

for Maritime History is the Australian affiliate of this body; this year both the president and vice president of AAMH

are museum staff members (senior curator Lindsey Shaw holds the former position, publications manager Jeffrey

Mellefontthe latter).

Acquisitions

The museum's collections were enriched this year by the purchases and gifts listed in Appendixes 2 and 3. All our

acquisitions are prized, but some can be singled out for particular interest or rarity. This year, for example, with the

200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar coming up in October 2005, we were pleased to receive a piece of

timber (in a fragile condition) from Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory. Among the objects

falling within the ‘crafts and curios’ classification this year we acquired a whale penis fitted as a lamp mounted on

a square plinth with a standard electric light bulb, cord and plug.

Three watercolour paintings by Captain George W R Bourne, a topographical artist and ship portrait painter

active in the colonial ports of South and Western Australia from the 1880s to 1910, are fine examples of the

oeuvre of a professional maritime artist of the day. A bold painted surfboard titled Bra Boys, by artist James Dodd,

was acquired from Christies to add to our sport and lifestyle collection. Gina Sinozich donated another oil painting

in her poignant series depicting her family’s voyage from Croatia to Australia on board Neptune. This work

completes the series commissioned from the artist in 2003 and contributes to oursmall but significant collection

of works by first-generation migrants who have documented their journeys through art.

Registration and conservation

A major project of the registration section has been the continued development of a new Collection Management

Information System, which is nearing completion at the end of the period under report. An Australian Research

Council Linkage Grant partnership formed this year with Wollongong University and the National Museum of

Australia will assist us to develop a collection software methodology suitable to our specific needs.

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Our registrars are closely involved in ANMM's work with national and international communities. This year we lent

objects to the National Archives of Australia’s Beacons by the Sea travelling exhibition and the Powerhouse Museum’s

Sport - More than Heroes and Legends travelling exhibition. We also have items on loan to the Surf Life Saving

Association of Australia to celebrate their centenary, the South Australian Museum fortheir dolphin display and the

National Museum of Australia for their Encounters exhibition. A painting by Gordon Syron, a screenprint by Gilbert Kevin

and a Torres Strait Islander dance machine were lent to the Powerhouse Museum’s Our Place: Indigenous Australia

travelling exhibition which was displayed at Athensforthe 2004 Olympics and at the National Museum of China.

Registrars developed and implemented a management plan for material not part of the National Maritime

Collection. This includes props or facsimiles acquired or made by the museum’s preparators specifically for

exhibition dressing. The new plan will ensure efficient use of our storage and documentation resources for both

NMC material and non-NMC material.

Our conservation department works closely with the curatorial and registration sections of the museum,

providing expertise to all projects and exhibitions. They continue to provide conservation guidelines for ANMM's

collection development policies and collection management systems. This year, conservation of the 88 bark

paintings of the important Saltwater collection, by Yirkkala artists from Arnhem Land, was completed, together

with their travelling and handling documentation. This painstaking project which has taken place over several

years will allow the environmentally-sensitive works to travel securely for display in venues here and overseas. The

same processes will be applied to 34 non -Saltwater barks in the collection.

USA Gallery

The USA Gallery is the enduring legacy of a generous endowment which was the USA’s bicentennial gift to

Australia. Its purpose is to showcase the longstanding maritime links between the two nations on either side of the

Pacific rim. The gallery occupies a unique place in the international museum world as a gallery in a national

museum funded by another nation.

Final documentation for the USA Gallery five-year masterplan was in preparation this year to enhance this

tangible tribute to the close political and cultural ties between our two nations. The fledgling American Friends of

ANMM, formed to further these relationships and support the gallery, will raise funds and acquire collections to

supplement our exhibitions, research and other programs. In his capacity as an affiliate member of the Council of

American Maritime Museums, senior curator of the gallery, Paul Hundley, visited Norfolk, Virginia in October 2004.

The long-runningScr/mshaw - Art o f the Whaler continues to excite interest in this near-forgotten craft from

the recent past. Among several significant acquisitions this year were three maritime paintings of considerable

historic and aesthetic value (including one of the Cecilia Sudden by Arthur Gregory, from the family of illustrious

ship portraitists) and a wooden sea-chest (with iron handles) from the clipper Chariot of Fame. Curatorial research

was conducted for two proposed exhibitions - Magnificent voyages and Clipper ships.

Indigenous Affairs

An Indigenous protocol document, Connections: Indigenous Cultures and the Australian National Maritime

Museum, was developed to guide ANMM staff in their relationships with Indigenous cultures and people. It is also

a public resource helpingto build understanding and encourage interaction with Indigenous communities, artists

and organisations. Its publication will reaffirm the museum's longstanding commitment to these goals. '

Michael Crayford, assistant director, collections and exhibitions, and education officer Jeffrey Fletcher

travelled with the Indigenous curator and liaison officer John Waightto North East Arnhem Land to continue

important collaborative work (with the Australian National University and Australian Research Council) on the

Turtle Tracks Indigenous Science Curriculum Project.

As in previous years, the section was involved in celebrations for NAIDOC week, when Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander peoples' work from the museum collection went on display to complement this year’s NAIDOC

themes of self determination - ‘our community, our future, our responsibility’.

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In a spirit of international cooperation, and with the aim of increasing access to our collection as well as raising

the profile of Indigenous cultural heritage and its representation at ANMM, the Indigenous curator arranged forthe

loan of objects created by John Mawurndjul to the Tinguely Museum in Basel, Switzerland. Exceptional

acquisitions this year included a number of lovely woven sculptures from Maningrida, includingfish traps, with

their distinctive and organic form.

Fleet

Fleet section facilitated aseamless handover of Endeavour from the HM Bark Endeavour Foundation to the

museum, by providing staff and ensuring the continuity and integrity of the ship’s operation systems. New signage

forthe historic vessels at Museum Quay was installed in September 2004, after research, rewriting and editing of

the vessel label system. This included the addition of plans and images to the weatherproof signage system.

The conservation of the Vietnamese refugee boat Tu Do has been a major undertaking for the section. Working

from a conservation management plan which identified specific treatments for every component of the vessel,

fleet staff have restored the ship using innovative techniques to replicate the traditional shipbuilding practices of

South-East Asia, retaining more than 80% of the historic fabric. In addition, all major spars on the Colin Archer-type

ketch Kathleen Gillett(a veteran of the first Sydney-Hobart yacht race) were removed for maintenance including

the treatment of rot in the bowsprit.

Two apprentices worked with staff throughout the year, part of an ongoing commitment to ensure that the

traditional skills and artisanship associated with the conservation of historic craft are maintained. Apprentice

Immanuel (Manny) Ariel was awarded a distinction for his Certificate in Boat and Ship Building and took the NSW

Medal awarded by the Boating Industry Association, and a TAFE merit award, forthe highest pass. Another

apprentice commenced the four-year course.

In our sailing program our early 20th-century open sloop Thistle, a Victorian 'couta fishing boat, won the Nick

Masterman Trophy in the race for historic yachts at the Balmain regatta, as well as the Pyrmont Cup for best boat

in the regatta. Fleet staff sailed Kathleen Gillett in the parade of historic yachts prior to the start of the 2004 Rolex

Sydney-to-Flobart Race and provided the pearling lugger John Louis forthe dedication of the Centurion plaque, at

the site of the 19th-century wreck off Cannae Point, North Head. The former naval patrol boat Advance cruised on

a number of occasions for sponsors, and to welcome Endeavour home to the museum.

Fleet staff contributed further to the museum's outreach program by continuing to provide advice on a daily

basis to the publicand in particularto other organisations on the management of floating craft. This included

advice for a project involving the restoration of a 500-ton fire float in Hong Kong. The section hosted an intern, Mr

Koven Kai-ming Lo, assistant curator in conservation from the Central Conservation Section of the Hong Kong

Department of Leisure and Cultural Services.

Vaughan Evans Library

Library staff focused this year on several collection maintenance and documentation projects which included

working on the cataloguing backlog, particularly of oral histories. The first in a planned series of stock-takes

involving the main library stack and the reference collection was completed without any disruption to services.

Library staff also commenced a project to document the collection of books housed on the Endeavour replica. The

preservation microfilming and digitisation of back issues of the museum's quarterly Signals magazine was

completed. Rehousing serials, which is to be part of the library collection preservation project, will be undertaken

when resources become available.

Library acquisitions centred on staff information needs for future exhibitions and research projects including

Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture and Vikings, as well as on professional

development in areas such as museology and conservation. Other acquisitions included the Mercantile Navy List

(1853-189) on microfilm from the Library of Congress and another instalment of the Daily Commercial News

1929-1945 on microfilm. We continue to build up the library’s holdings of microfilm relatingto vessels registered

KEY RESULT AREA 2 | MARITIME HERITAGE 41

in Australia, with purchases this year of microfilms of the Register of Colonial Vessels Port of Hobart 1830-1855

and the Colonial Secretary return of all vessels registered Sydney 1817-1827.

The public enquiry service offered by the library remains popular; numbers are slightly down on last year but on

a par with previous years. The public as ever were enthusiastic in expressing their appreciation of this important

service. Other outreach activities included hosting visits from outside groups such as the Art Libraries Society,

family history groups and librarianship students. Inter-library loan requests for material from the library collection

remain at levels similar to previous years. Our librarians continued to offer information and guidance to other

museums, maritime museums and maritime-related organisations, state and public libraries and archives.

We continue to contribute to the national bibliographic database Libraries Australia, with a total of 15,180

titles. In addition the library has undertaken to add cataloguing records for National Maritime Collection material

such as rare books, and information about our archival and photographic collections, as a long-term project to

facilitate access to the museum's collection.

Outreach and collaborations

Collaborative projects and outreach programs provide opportunities to share the expertise and experience of staff

with the wider maritime heritage community. The museum’s most important outreach program, the MMAPSS

grants scheme, is detailed in Appendix 14. Collaborations take many forms. Museum staff worked with the South

Australian Maritime Museum, Albury Museum and Museum of the Riverina on the development of a travelling

exhibition about the Murray and Darling Rivers and their communities, called The River. Senior curator Daina

Fletcher supervised the study tour of Oriel Williams, former curator at the museum in Docklands, London, who

visited us on a Churchill Fellowship.

Other instances were project management and shipwright skills provided to Sydney City Council to rebuild the

gun carriage for HMS Sirius displayed at Macquarie Place; assistance to the Townsville Museum with information

on convict transports and to the Norfolk Island Museum with the design of their new Sirius exhibition; advice to the

RAN on developing the Navy Heritage Centre at Garden Island; work with the NSW volunteer coastal patrol

collecting memorabilia for the museum; developing the script, content and production of a video on the battle

between FIMAS Sydney and FIMAS Emden for the Pulau Keeling National Park (featuring items from the collection

and some impressive underwater footage); and the annual Remembrance Day service in conjunction with Z

Special Unit Association.

Staff participated in the 12th biennial national conference of the Australian Historical Association at

Newcastle. Liaison with the Chinese Australian FIistoricaI Society has been ongoing over the NSW Chinese

Australian Cultural Heritage Project, which will culminate when the museum hosts the 2005 conference The

dragon's journey to Australia. Work continued with the Western Australian Museum and the State Library of NSW

to coordinate a major international symposium celebrating 400 years of Australian-Dutch maritime links -

Australia on the Map 1606-20 06 - to be held here in May 2006.

Objects registered

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Documents 258 470 148

Clothing and accessories 188 41 114

Photographs 944 206 495

Tools and equipment 86 344 643

Models and model parts 7 0 0

Vessels, vessel parts and accessories 0 21 155

Other 350 380 146

Totals of enquiries assisted

public/private

SECTION 2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05 2 0 0 2 -0 3

organisations

2 0 0 3 -0 4 20 0 4 -0 5

Technology 507 478 523 115 107 121

Communities 510 620 480 150 175 130

USA Gallery 143 138 152 114 127 103

Indigenous 40 50 120 70 40 70

TOTAL 1,200 1,286 1,275 449 449 424

Project profile - temporary exhibitions (% staff time)

SECTION 2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 20 0 4 -0 5

Technology 45 40 40

Communities 55 50 55

USA Gallery 70 70 25

Indigenous 50 70 35

Project profile - core exhibitions (%staff time)

SECTION 2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2 0 0 4 -0 5

Technology 45 50 30

Communities 40 50 25

USA Gallery 10 5 60

Indigenous 10 10 30

Project profile - public programs, media relations, outreach (% staff time)

SECTION 2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 20 0 4 -0 5

Technology 5 5 15

Communities 5 7 20

USA Gallery 10 15 10

Indigenous 40 20 15

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Project profile - maritime archaeology (%staff time)

SECTION 200 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Technology 5 5 15

Communities 0 0 0

USA Gallery 10 10 5

Indigenous 0 0 0

Acquisitions to National Maritime Coflection

SECTION 20 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Technology 98 16 60

Communities 96 15 75

USA Gallery 25 2 5

Indigenous 4 6 28

TOTAL 233 38 168

Donations to National Maritime Collection

SECTION 200 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Technology 368 21 123

Communities 54 34 57

USA Gallery 0 0 0

Indigenous 0 1 0

TOTAL 422 56 180

Acquisition funding - by appropriation

SECTION 2002-03 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Technology $110,346 $40,141 $44,691

Communities $34,943 $152,675 $61,762

USA Gallery 0 0 0

Indigenous $127,123 $29,524 $14,746

Total $272,412 $222,340 $121,199

2 0 0 2 - 03 includes $59,159 purchased through director’s fund

2 0 0 3 - 04 includes $14,332 purchased through director’s fund

2 0 0 4 - 05 includes $15,000 purchased through director's fund

Acquisition funding - by trust fund

SECTION 2002-03 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Technology 0 0 0

Communities 0 0 0

USA Gallery $24,658 $25,808 $13,661

Indigenous 0 0 0

TOTAL $24,657 $25,808 $13,661

4 4

Conservation

Conservation hours (preparation,

examination, treatments)

Preventative conservation hours

Collection objects examined, treated

Loan objects examined, treated

Maritime archaeology project hours

Public enquiries serviced

Special projects (Hood Collection, Tu Do, Saltwater barks)

High school student workshop hours (maritime archaeology,

shipwrecks & salvage)

Registration

Objects registered (NMC)

Collections registered

Collections remaining unregistered

Objects on display in core exhibitions (NMC, loans)

Objects on temporary display

Objects borrowed

Objects loaned (includes ANMM travelling exhibitions)

Institutions borrowing from NMC

Core exhibition objects changed over (NMC, loans)

Collections donated

Registration photographs

Other photographic services

Fleet projects profile (% staff time)

Maintenance/conservation

General tasks/shipkeeping

Routine vessel operations

Special events (vessels)

Other

Public enquiries serviced

Vaughan Evans Library

Monographs/AV titles accessioned

Internal loans processed

Inter-library loans processed

Public research requests

External research requests

Total research requests

Items catalogued

Revenue

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

4,918 6,116 4,493

658.5 502 356

1,062 1,437 773

1,355 1,149 920

na 20 na

77 15 28

378 750 644

776 32 25

20 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

1,925 1,462 1,707

114 52 95

119 90 135

1,750 2,314 2,583

701 1,260 655

484 521 202

43 67 104

3 3 10

11 689 100

54 55 87

1,925 108 1,707

451 462 204

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

61 58 64

28 28 28

7 5 2

1 4 3

3 5 3

na 85 50

20 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

1,272 733 816

1,618 1,645 2,097

506 291 327

4,180 4,353 4,139

3,298 3,339 3,356

4,180 4,353 4,139

782 704 1,089

$4,467 $7,683 $5,253

K EY R E S U L T A R EA 2 ] M A R I T I M E HERITAGE 4 5

KEY RESULT AREA 3

INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

Develop our facilities and assets to provide the

most effective and efficient infrastructure for

programs, services, collections management and

professional work

develop the masterplan for our

DarlingHarboursite, including

sustainability and precinct

partnership considerations

undertake major capital works set

out in the masterplan

coordinate infrastructure

development to provide maximum

value for our programs,

collections and administrative

needs, including vessel upkeep

and skills display within a ‘working

harbour' model

maintain the value of the national

investment in capital assets

Views across the museum and

Darling Harbour. The lower picture

shows some of the historic vessels

at Museum Quay, and Sydney By

Sail hire boats at Festival Pontoon.

Photographer Bill Richards/ANMM

KEY RESULT AREA 3 | INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 47

Early loan repayment

In June 2005 the museum was able to repay $10,000,000 of the principal outstanding and accrued interest on

the Commonwealth Bank loan taken out to finance the design and construction of the Wharf 7 Maritime Heritage

Centre in the late 1990s, and proposes repaying the balance in the following financial year. These payments are

made without detriment to the existing program of capital works and, in addition, relieve the capital budget of the

burden of funding loan repayments in future years.

Capital works

The maritime heritage precinct in which the museum is located continues to change and develop rapidly, this

growth itself presenting challenges. Our building and property services section spentthe past year further revising

and refining the site masterplan to ensure it meets the unique needs of a museum with a fleet of historic vessels. A

significant challenge lay in the ongoing pursuit of rectifications to the retractable pontoon which allows vessels

access and egress from Museum Quay, the historic vessel marina with its unique pontoon system commissioned

to ameliorate wash from Darling Harbour water traffic.

This year the resources of the section were successfully directed chiefly towards the completion of the second

stage of repair to the sub-structure supporting the Wharf 7 Maritime Heritage Centre.

Building services

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2003-04 2004-05

Capital works $5,358,000 $7,604,000 $3,047,970

Maintenance & minor works $749,545 $734,988 $834,699

Energy costs $354,735 $369,962 $368,075

Energy (kilowatt hours) 5,126,729 5,370,043 5,339,453

Security

The security section of the museum provides frontline support to our customers, staff and volunteers. In 2004 the

security and front-of-house contracts were re-tendered. The successful tenderer, Wilsons Security, took up the

contract in October 2004, with the majority of our security and FOH personnel who were previously employed by

the former service provider opting to remain at the museum.

The security manager Peter Haggarty was elected president of the Museums Australia security and emergency

operations special interest group. This timely new group has been formed with the aim of raising security

awareness in museums around Australia. The section continues to work with otherfederal and state agencies in

training programs. Regular meetings are also held with commercial and residential security managers in the

Darling Harbour area, focusing on local issues.

Communications and information management services

This section provides often unseen, essential services to ensure that visitors experience museum displays of

technological sophistication. For the popular exhibition Sailor Style - Art Fashion Film, the section maintained

audiovisuals and exhibition lighting rig. For About Time CIMS staff negotiated with Telstra to provide a free instant

hotline to the time 1194. For Les Genies de/a Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture they plotted, .

installed and focused exhibition lighting. In addition, they produced audiovisuals delivered by the museum's

Media and Venue Management System (MVMS).

The opening of Blackmores First Lady and the installation of Kay Coffee's shipboard effects provided a

technical challenge. The museum’s MVMS was extended to First Lady so that visitors are able to see inside the

yacht via cameras controlled from the Kay Cottee interactive screen; the same system automates lighting for on

board tours. CIMS also provided technical advice for the request for tender to develop the Australian Register of

Historic Vessels database, and staff are part of the working team for that project. Likewise CIMS staff are

represented on the website redevelopment team. They took part in selecting the website redevelopment

coordinator, evaluated tenders and presentations of proposed solutions, and ensured that all briefs reflected the

museum’s technical environment.

The museum’s maritime archaeology program used the underwater expertise of Mike Meyer during surveys of

the waters around Fort Denison and in Little Whiting Bay in the search fora cannon. With StirlingSmith, Mike

edited and produced a short video about the wreck of the SMS Emden, sunk during battle with HMAS Sydney in

World War I on the Cocos Keeling Islands. With Dr Nigel Erskine and Lindsey Shaw, he produced the video -

Preserving the Bounty cannon - for the museum’s chemistry workshops.

O th e r p ro je c ts in a b u s y y e a r in c lu d e d :

â¢ Records management created 1,222 files and expedited 7,675 file movements.

â¢ Records management has had over 1,250 inactive files approved for destruction and approximately 2,000

inactive files identified for transfer to National Archives.

â¢ Replaced the Finance Netware file server with a Windows 2000 file server to facilitate the upgrade of

SunSystemsfrom the ISAM database platform to the Microsoft SQL version of SunSystems.

â¢ Specified, procured and installed a new file server and workstations to facilitate the upgrade of the

museum's ticketing system to ProVenueMax.

â¢ Upgraded network hubs to Cisco managed switches for enhanced network performance.

â¢ Implemented Nsure Identity Managerto allow Windows and Netware users to synchronise multiple

passwords into a single login.

â¢ Installed the Tickit Enterprise Risk Management System to ensure that management systems meet good

practice requirements.

â¢ Upgraded the museum computer room physical environment.

Human resource management and OHS

C e rtifie d a g re e m e n t a n d AWAs

As at 30 June 2005 there were 113 APS employees covered by a certified agreement and AWAs.

The salary ranges available for APS employees by classification structure (as at 30 June 2005) are as follows:

APS 1 $30,450-34,328 APS 2 $34,460-38,979

APS 3 $39,254-43,214

APS 4 $43,748-48,449

APS 5 $48,796-52,673

APS 6 $52,702-61,750

E L I $67,562-74.414

EL 2 $77,923-91,296

The range of non-salary benefits provided by the agency to employees includes access to a confidential

professional counselling service through Employee Assistance Program; reimbursement of costs to APS staff for

vaccinations; eyesight testing for APS staff and reimbursement for spectacles; studies assistance to ongoing APS

staff; access to a Purchased Leave Scheme for ongoing APS staff; health awareness program for APS staff; flexible

working hours and a range of family-friendly initiatives such as childcare advisory service and payment of

childcare fees if staff are required to travel for work.

All Australian workplace agreements offered in the museum link pay to performance. As at 30 June 2005, eight

KEY RESULT AREA 3 | INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 49

staff received performance payments totalling $41,920. Information on performance pay - the number of APS

employees at each classification level who received performance pay; aggregated amount of payments at each

classification level; and average and range of bonus payment at each classification level - is available but only on

request, since publishingthis information would allow amounts paid to individuals to be identified.

As reported in the Annual Report 2 0 0 3 -2 0 0 4 , negotiations for the 2 004-20 06 Certified Agreement were

completed but awaiting a hearing at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. The Agreement was certified

on 23 July 2004. Its main features are:

â¢ Pay increase of 4% from date of certification and a 4% increase effective from 1 July 2005.

â¢ Agreement to link all progression through the pay scale to the museum performance scheme. Staff will

need to be rated as at least an ‘achiever’ to progress through the pay scale. To move to the top salary staff

must be rated at least as a ‘high achiever'.

â¢ In conjunction with staff the museum will develop a health awareness program aimed at increasing staff's

health and fitness.

â¢ The museum has agreed to ‘family-friendly’ initiatives such as not arranging meetings before 9.30 am

whenever possible and providing employees with extra dependent-care costs when they are required to

travel for work or work additional hours and/or where they are required to pay for additional child care

arrangements. The museum has also agreed to two additional weeks maternity leave.

â¢ A community language allowance will be paid to staff where there is an identified need for particular

language skills, and the staff member has the appropriate qualifications.

A s s e s s m e n t o f e ffe c tiv e n e s s in m a n a g in g h u m a n re s o u rc e s

The museum performance scheme was reviewed and a revised scheme implemented. Regular human resource

management statistics are provided to managementto enable them to assess workforce need and apply

workforce planning strategies.

Staff turnover was 13.1% in the last financial year compared to 10.7% in the previous year.

Secondment to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK, was undertaken by a museum staff member

as part of an exchange program between the two organisations. This was the second highly satisfactory

secondment.

Again this year, relevant staff attended an in-house program management workshop.

The volunteer program (recruitment and training) was increased in response to increased needs followingthe

return of the Endeavour replica.

Productivity gains as negotiated in the 2004-20 06 Certified Agreement for the 2 0 0 4 -0 5 financial year

centred round staff and other resource efficiencies relating to closure of Berrys Bay; improvements in the use of

information technology; review of the museum performance scheme; and commitment to obtaining lowest

airfares when travelling on behalf of ANMM.

O c c u p a tio n a l h e a lth a n d s a fe ty

It is ANMM policy to provide and maintain a working environment that is safe for employees, is without risk to their

health and provides adequate facilities for their welfare at work. The Occupational Health and Safety committee

charged with overseeing this policy met five times during the year. The museum has a range of procedures in place

to manage OH&S including a staff OH&S induction booklet, accident investigation guidelines, confined-space

entry guidelines, a hot-work permit system and a system of workplace inspections.

A number of initiatives related to health surveillance included hearingtests and flu and hepatitis vaccinations.

The new health awareness program provides health checks such as blood pressure, back and posture, and lung

function testing.

This year we successfully met a number of performance targets. There was a reduction of reported accidents

of 10%; we had capture information on 100% of accidents or incidents which occur on the museum site; and

regular inspections of all work areas were conducted. There were 60 reported incidents in the 2 0 0 4 -0 5 financial

year - a reduction from 73 in 2003-04. There were five compensation claims from staff and volunteers.

D is a b ility a c tio n p la n

The plan was developed by a consultant and endorsed by the executive group in the previous year. Targets met this

year include a review of the service charter; incorporation of protocols for designing and building exhibitions into

core exhibition guides and 3D guidelines; training for relevant staff on meeting the needs of sight-impaired

visitors; and the review of human resource management policies commenced. The marketing section worked with

the Deaf Society of NSW and the Royal Blind Society to develop tours of the Endeavour replica for aurally and

visually impaired visitors.

In d u s tria l d e m o c ra c y

The museum’s Joint Consultative Council of three management and three employee-elected representatives

meets to discuss a wide range of issues including financial and human resource planning, workplace diversity,

occupational health and safety, work organisation and structures and general employee issues. The committee

met on four occasions in the last financial year.

W o rk p la c e d iv e rs ity p o lic y

The policy was endorsed by the executive group and distributed to staff last year. Its implementation has

continued through the year.

Staffing overview

As at 30 June 2005, staff employed under the Public Service Act 1999 totalled 101(77 ongoingfull-time, 12

ongoing part-time, 11 non-ongoingfull-time and 1 non-ongoing part-time).

STAFFING

Staff years(actual)

Staff by gender

Senior Management (EL 2)

Middle Management (Sect Head)

Others

Totals

Branch staff

Executive/Secretariat

Collections & Exhibitions

Commercial & Visitor Services

Corporate Services

Total

Salaries

Executive/Secretariat

Collections & Exhibitions

Commercial & Visitor Services

Corporate Services

Total

2 0 0 2 -0 3

96.9

2 0 0 2 -0 3

male female

male

4 4

7 12 8

38 47 39

49 59 51

2002- 03

108

2002-03

$1,128,578

$2,387,352

$1,090,035

$1,323,417

$5,929,382

2 0 0 3 -0 4 2 0 0 4 -0 5

99.55 102.65

2 0 0 3 -0 4 20 0 4 -0 5

female male female

0 4 0

11 10 14

39 38 47

50 52 61

2 0 0 3 -0 4 2 0 0 4 -0 5

18 18

44 48

18 26

21 21

101 113

2 0 0 3 -0 4 200 4 -0 5

$1,328,876 $1,383,627

$2,665,561 $2,665,152

$1,197,932 $1,319,140

$1,410,710 $1,456,100

$6,603,079 $6,824,019

KEY RESULT AREA 3 | INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 51

Volunteers

Volunteers help deliverthe museum’s services in many and diverse ways, working in most sections, as the following

table shows. Volunteers might be called ‘the human face' of ANMM. They are knowledgeable, hardworkingand loyal,

with a passionate commitment to what the museum represents. This enthusiasm is deeply persuasive and many

visitors have become frequent visitors or Members after experiencing a volunteer-guided tour.

At 30 June 2005, the 335 registered volunteers at the museum had contributed 52,070 hours - 5,890 hours

more than for the same period last year and 12.8% above the museum's target of 46,000 hours. There was an

increase in the volunteer program of recruitment and training this year to support arrival of HMB Endeavour replica.

Altogether, since the museum's volunteer program began, volunteers have contributed 420,978 hours to the

museum. At an estimated $15 per hour this equates to $6.31 million of donated support and effort.

Volunteers service summary

2 0 0 2 -0 3 20 0 3 -0 4 20 0 4 -0 5

Number of volunteers at 30 June 333 335 441

Volunteer hours for year 43,040 46,180 52,070

General museum tours led 3,176 2,944 2,524

Visitors taking general museum tour 13,243 11,927 9,930

Vampire tours led 3,786 3,678 3,222

Visitors taking Vampire tour 27,475 29,216 22,166

Wharf 7 tours led 532 606 255

Visitors taking Wharf 7 tour 1,182 999 635

Lighthouse tours led na 242 591

Visitors taking lighthouse tour na ; 5,247 14,052

Blackmores First Lady tours led na na 2,164

Visitors to Blackmores First Lady na na 3,565

Volunteers service profile (% of service time)

20 0 2 -0 3 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Guides 60.4 63.7 68.5

Fleet 13.2 11.6 10.6

Members 7.6 7.2 6.6

Others* 6.4 5.1 4.5

Public programs 2.8 3.5 3.0

Volunteer office 1.3 1.3 0.9

Conservation 2.4 1.8 l 1.4

Registration 2.3 2.6 : 2.0

Marketing/External relations 3.4 3.2 2.5

Curatorial 0.2 0.0 0.0

*lncludes Library, Records, Design and Secretariat and miscellaneous task hours

KEY RESULT AREA 4

REPUTATION AND RECOGNITION

Be acknowledged as a pre-eminent and

innovative cultural institution

increase awareness of what the

museum is and does through

innovative marketing and promotion

extend and enhance the

museum's corporate and

government relationships

below: Thousands attend the unveiling of new panels of the

Welcome Wall. Behind is the

encourage involvement in develop programs to encourage

professional and community forums wider involvement by members,

museum's Wharf 7 Maritime volunteers, interest groups and

Heritage Centre.

other individuals

above: Students from the

Whitehouse Institute of Design

modelled their creations

inspired by ie s Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces o f French Naval

Sculpture. Photographer

S Andrews/ANMM

KEY RESULT AREA 4 | REPUTATION AND RECOGNITION 53

A popular public institution

The museum continues to enjoy high and indeed growing levels of support and appreciation from its public, as the

following tables illustrate.

Customer feedback

Visitors’ comments book

Number of entries

Complimentary or positive

Neutral or indecipherable

Criticism/suggested improvements

Letters and emails

Complaint

Complimentary

Marketing

Major promotional and advertising campaigns accompanied the exhibitions About Time, and Les Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture, both immensely popular with the general public as well as special

interest groups. Promotions of About Time focused on the replica Harrison One chronometer on loan from the

National Maritime Museum of the UK, the most famous artefact in mankind’s quest to determine longitude. It

proved a star attraction. Capitalising on the rarity and exceptional beauty of the works in Les Genies, a national

campaign was conducted with advertising in the Melbourne Age, The Australian, national art magazines and

regional press. These were complemented by high-profile advertisements in the Sydney Morning Herald.

The keynote of our Christmas 2004 advertising campaign was ‘Join a Journey of Discovery’. This theme

extended across all media includingtelevision, metropolitan poster media and print. Combining both indoorand

outdoor activities with equal emphasis, it promoted the museum as a full day out for families. Wetworld, the

popular children's water activity, featured in selected children's publications and school holiday supplements of

newspapers and magazines.

The Endeavour replica arrived at the museum on 17 April to assume its position as flagship of the museum

fleet. An advertising campaign was undertaken to welcome the vessel home and inform the public of this

momentous development. The museum introduced Encfeavourtoursforthe hearing-impaired and visually-

impaired in conjunction with The Deaf Society of NSW and the Royal Blind society. The tours were enormously

popular, and the museum plans to include similar introductory tours in programs for all new temporary exhibitions.

The marketing services manager, Dominic Mackintosh, was seconded to the National Maritime Museum in

Greenwich UK, fora period of work and study of practices in the marketing department there. During this period he

was able to observe and report on their policy and methods of providing improved access to the disabled,

disadvantaged and ethnic communities.

Media

The museum was well represented in the media in the 12 months to 30 June 2005, featuring in almost 1,000

stories in press, radio and TV across Australia. The monitored total was 939 stories, 15% more than in the

previous year. In a broader sense, this means the museum in two years comfortably reached the 25% increase in

media coverage it aimed to achieve in the triennium to 30 June 2006. The number of stories on television rose

from 37 to 62 (or 67%), an increase due partly to the enormous TV interest in the Endeavour replica's home-

comingand its presence at the museum.

ABC TV’s 7.30 Report, with a million viewers Australia-wide, reported on the exhibition Gina's Journey. Channel

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2003-04 2004-05

1,517 1,023 1,499

88% 86% 91%

1% 0% 0%

11% 14% 9%

2 0 0 2 -0 3 2003-04 200 4 -0 5

18 26 11

76 89 220

7’s high-rating Sunrise program and Channel 9's Today both carried an increased number of valuable live crosses

promoting exhibitions, and there was an increase in the number of museum stories on children’s TV programs.

The most publicised museum activities were Endeavour’s arrival (134 stories), Sailor Style (97), Les Genies de

la Mer (81), Gina's Journey (36) and Blackmores First Lady being open for inspection (22). Sailor Style was clearly

important for the museum in the media. It produced 149 stories over the two years July 2003 to June 2005, and

carried the museum into the ‘glossy’ fashion and design media for the first time. In contrast, Les Genies de la Mer

significantly drew high praise from 'arthouse' press, being acclaimed by art critics in national and metropolitan

publications.

Publications and website

A working group to oversee the redevelopment of the museum's first-generation website was established in October

2004 with members drawn from a range of museum departments. The aim is to develop an innovative, standards-

compliant website with enhanced functionality to facilitate business process across a number of sections, in a

product that will be nationally and internationally regarded as the online authority on Australian maritime heritage

and culture. A consultant was engaged to draft the redevelopment brief and to assist the working group to select and

contract the website developer. A website redevelopment coordinator was appointed in April 2005 to consult with

museum departments and website audiences, to develop the website information architecture, navigation, usability

and content, to implement content management and publishingguidelines, and to overseethe website development

work. The new website is expected to be on-line by the end of 2005.

Signals, the museum's quarterly journal, has been upgraded with additional pages and a heavier wrap-around

cover, to give a more substantial magazine ‘feel’ and accommodate more articles. In line with the findings of a

survey of readership last year, design changes have been made to the important members events and visitor

information pages, to make them easier to navigate. These changes are intended to increase the Members’ sense

of value for money spent on their memberships.

Last year’s successful hardcover venture, Wooden Boats, Iron Men - the Halvorsen Story, by Randi Svensen,

published by the museum in association with Halstead Press, sold out. In response to demand, the book was

reprinted this year. The work documents this important Norwegian-Australian maritime family's achievements as

gifted designers and boatbuiiders, astute marketers and champion sailors. The commitment of this museum to

telling the Halvorsen storywill continue into the coming year with the launch of an exhibition Dreamboats and

Workboats - the Halvorsen story.

The section managed a steady demand for images from museum archives and collections and provided

editorial services to a number of museum projects including development of the pathbreaking Connections:

Indigenous Cultures and the Australian National Maritime Museum.

Design

Visitors' engagement with the intellectual content of an exhibition is maximised through visual, tactile and aural

experiences, making innovation and experiment in the design and preparation of displays a regular feature. AINMM

exhibitions and programs, promotional and other material including exhibition brochures aim to achieve a unique

style and identity, which is reinvigorated or reinvented each year.

Design staff employed their skills on the temporary exhibitions Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French

Naval Sculpture and Vikings. They also worked on display and access for Blackmores First Lady, the changeover

exhibition Children of the Crocodile - the Australia-East Timor Story, and the fourth successful Wetworld. The

exhibitions About Time was designed by Five Spaces Design under the supervision of the in-house design team.

The preparation section was closely involved with the challenge of installing the large, old and fragile sculptures in

Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture, as well as in the presentation of objects for

temporary exhibitions and loans. The volunteer who makes models for our designers clocked up 157 hours this

year. The publication Connections: Indigenous Cultures and the Australian National Maritime Museum was

KEY RESULT AREA 4 | REPUTATION AND RECOGNITION 55

designed in-house; and the department also contributed to interpretive signage for our historic vessels and the

lighthouse. .

The percentage of time spent on exhibition projects by the designers was approximately 67%. Preparators

spent around 74% of their time working on exhibitions and public programs; graphic designers also spent

approximately 28% of their time designing for the many public programs produced by the museum including those

complementing exhibitions. The figures are consistent with previous years.

The design manager and graphic designers worked with various sections to ensure that the museum identity is

applied appropriately and consistently, as well as spending about 25% of their time working on non-exhibition

related material. A style guide has been developed for the use of the corporate image in different mediums,

includingthe website.

Staff expertise is called on by other organisations. This year our graphic designers produced the plaque

commemorating the Sydney Harbour wreck, Centurion, for the NSW Heritage Office; they also helped the Norfolk

Island Museum prepare an exhibition about Sirius. A ‘highly commended’ award was given to designer Daniel

Ormella in the prestigious, national Museums Australia Publications Design Awards, for his Sa/'/or Sty/e dinner

invitation.

Corporate support

The museum is increasingly successful in forming and maintaining sponsor partnerships for special exhibitions.

The exhibition Les Genres dela M e r- Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture required equally extraordinary

efforts to bring this priceless collection of 17th-to 19th-century French naval sculptural artefacts - all 20 tonnes

of them - from Paris to Darling Harbour. Three sea and airfreight logistics companies - SDV (Australia), Cathay

Pacific Cargo and ANL Container Line - supported the museum in this risky but wholly successful enterprise.

The prestigious Swiss company IWC International Watch Co Schaffhausen sponsored the exhibition About

Time, an appropriate and rewarding partnership.

Sponsorship performance

2 0 0 2 -0 3 20 0 3 -0 4 2004-05

Number of new sponsorships 6 8 5

Cash committed na* $280,000 $282,800

In-kind committed na* $32,700 $15,400

Received in financial year (cash & in-kind) $299,832 $158,104 $430,350

TOTAL $299,832 $470,804 $728,550

*Change in reporting methodology

The Welcome Wall

This year we unveiled three new panels of the Welcome Wall, the museum’s lasting tribute to the six million people

who have migrated across the seas to make their homes in Australia. National Director of Australia forthe United

Nations High Commission for Refugees, Naomi Steer, unveiled 806 new names on panels 36 and 37 at an event

held during Refugee Week in October 2004. An estimated 1,200 guests participated in the ceremony in which a

number of people who arrived in Australia as refugees shared their unique stories of migration. Panel 38, with

another 393 names, was unveiled in April during the Greek Festival of Sydney. His Excellency, Fotios-Jean Xydas,

the Greek Ambassador to Australia, addressed a crowd of 900; the President of the Greek Orthodox Community,

George Angelopoulos, also delivered a speech.

In the past year 1,281 Welcome Wall names were registered which brings the total to just over 14,500 for the

project. There are now 126 countries of origin, the top ten countries registered being England, Italy, Ireland

(including Northern Ireland), Netherlands, Scotland, Germany, Greece, Poland, Hungary and Malta.

Promotional activities for this period included advertising and editorials in a wide range of print media including

regional and ethnic newspapers, specialist group publications, and wide-circulation metropolitan newspapers.

The October unveiling attracted positive coverage from the commercial network Channel 7, includinga piece

about the event in the evening news. This generated a high number of inquiries about the project from a broad

cross-section of the community in the weeks that followed.

Members

Membership is a loyalty program that rewards both the museum and Members. Membership is a source of

revenue and a guarantee of enthusiastic advocacy. Our program of special Members events and additional

benefits such as the Members Lounge provide Members with a sense of ownership and a deeper relationship with

our maritime heritage than that experienced by the casual museum visitor.

The past financial year was a period of relatively stable membership compared to the previous year when the

introduction of free entry caused a drop in numbers. Membership at the end of the period was the highest since

April 2004, mostly due to a popular program. We are confident that we can build on this year's gains, capitalising

on the continuing presence of the ever-popular Endeavour replica and the exciting exhibitions on the way. Details

of Member numbers and activities appear in a table below.

Administrative changes included new membership cards - a smart looking credit card style card sporting an

image of the museum. It’s a more cost effective and durable card and will allow us to offer multiple-year

memberships. Ultimately, the cards will contain all membership details on their magnetic strip, enabling us to use

swipe terminals for easy and quick access to the museum, and providing us with data about the frequency of

Members’ visits.

We launched a new format email newsletter for Members. The new design has a more professional

appearance with colour images and museum branding. The email package allows us to communicate more

effectively with Members, who have welcomed this initiative.

The Membership manager and staff continually strive to present imaginative and stimulating events,

frequently themed to complement exhibitions. Many Members events this year featured well-known international

and local speakers: popular programs included the one-day seminar Ancient Fleets o f the Mediterranean, with

three distinguished maritime archaeologists from the USA; a talk by Dianne Preston on her acclaimed new book

about William Dampier; and a one-day seminar relating to the About Time exhibition with Professor Paul Davies as

keynote speaker. This event was one of the best attended of the year, and attracted a great deal of media

attention. An international Members cultural tourto southern India, run successfully last November-December,

was the latest of a series of unique maritime-themed itineraries to Asia developed exclusively by this museum.

Members program

2002-03 2 0 0 3 -0 4 2 0 0 4 -0 5

Memberships at 30 June 3,764 2,970 3,083

Members at 30 June 10,043 7,751 8,391

Percentage renewing 71% 63% 73%

Corporate memberships 29 31 28

Gross revenue $293,875 $311,518 $293,458

Net revenue $127,316 $176,416 $153,813

Donations $15,566 $16,571 $16,873

Exclusive Members functions held* 66 62 54

Members attending functions 2,965 3.164 3,145

Members & guests visiting museum 21,615 17,073 15,739

*Listed in Appendix 1

KEY RESULT AREA 4 | REPUTATION AND RECOGNITION 57

PERFORMANCE OVERVIEW Key Performance Indicators of the Australian National Maritime Museum Strategic Plan 2003-2006.

KEY RESULT AREA 1 Engaging our audiences Understand our audiences and interpret Australia’s maritime heritage in exciting and informative ways

Key Performance Indicator 1.1 Visitor satisfaction

Percentage of ANMM visitors who express overall satisfaction: 99 (2003-04: 95)

Key Performance Indicator 1.2 Number of interactions

Total number of interactions: 1,616,015 (2003-04:1,668,503)

Key Performance Indicator 1.3 Accuracy of visitor predictions

Percentage above or below predicted total museum visitors annually: 0.6 above (2003-04:31)

Key Performance Indicator 1. 4 Annual income net of government sources

$5.5 million income from all non-government sources (2003-04: $5.3)

KEY RESULT AREA 2 Maritime Heritage Foster the care and research of Australia’s maritime heritage and material culture

Key Performance Indicator 2.1 State of the collection

Collection Management Information System (CIMS) development nearing completion

Key Performance Indicator 2.2 Research profile

Number of published articles/papers by museum staff: 59 articles, 75 papers (2003-04: 43 articles, 34 papers)

Key Performance Indicator 2.3 Reach into maritime heritage community

Number of collaborative projects related to maritime heritage: 46 (2003-04: 30)

Key Performance Indicator 2.4 Profile of Australian maritime history

Organisations assisted nationally by ANMM: 437 (2003-04:424)

KEY RESULT AREA 3 Infrastructure Development Develop our facilities and assets to provide the most effective and efficient infrastructure for our programs,

services, collections management and professional work

Key Performance Indicator 3.1 Stakeholder satisfaction with infrastructure

Percentage of external users/stakeholders who express overall satisfaction with infrastructure: 96 (2003-04: 85)

Key Performance Indicator 3.2 Relative cost of infrastructure

Percentage of major infrastructure projects completed within budget: 100 (2003-04:100)

Key Performance Indicator 3.3 Business excellence

Management systems meet Standards Australia criteria for business excellence: working towards 2006 deadline

KEY RESULT AREA 4 Reputation and Recognition Be acknowledged as a pre-eminent and innovative cultural institution

Key Performance Indicator 4.1 Reputation

Focus group panels consensus rating of ANMM reputation: high to very high (2003-04: high to very high)

Key Performance Indicator 4.2 ANMM involvement in community, national & international policy/practices

Formal advice requests received/provided on museum issues: 5,609 (2003-04: 2,665) .

Key Performance Indicator 4.3 Sponsorship

$ value of sponsorships $728,550 in cash & kind (2003-04: $470,804)

left: Winged Spirit, gilded walnut

stern ornament from La Reale,

attributed to Francois Caravaque.

Marseilles dockyard, 1694. ©

Musee National de la Marine, Paris

opposite: Seahorse stern

ornament from the launch of

King Louis Philippe, carved at

Cherbourg dockyard, 1 8 3 0 -1 8 4 8

Australian National Maritime Museum

Statement by Council Members

In our opinion, the attached financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2005

are based on properly maintained financial records and give a true and fair view of the

matters required by the Finance Minister’s Orders made under the Commonwealth

Authorities and Companies Act 1997.

In our opinion, at the date of this statement, there are reasonable grounds to believe

that the Australian National Maritime Museum will be able to pay its debts as and

when they become due and payable.

This statement is made in accordance with a resolution of Councillors.

Signed Signed

__________

Mark Bethwaite, Chairman

7 September 2005

Mary-Louise Williams, Director

7 September 2005

SECTION THREE

Like fairytales, marine

figureheads are things that

every child recognises even

though they scarcely exist in

our contemporary world...

Adults and children w ill be

equally fascinated by the

Maritime Museum's new

exhibition...

Christopher Allen

Australian Financial Review

Australian N ational

Audit Office

INDEPENDENT AUDIT REPORT

To the Minister for the Arts and Sport

Scope

The financial statements and Council's responsibilities

The financial statements comprise:

â¢ Statement by Council Members; â¢ Statements of Financial Performance, Financial Position and Cash Flows; â¢ Schedules of Commitments and Contingencies; and â¢ Notes to and forming part of the Financial Statements

of the Australian National Maritime Museum for the year ended 30 June 2005.

The Council Members of the Australian National Maritime Museum (the Museum) are responsible for preparing the financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position and performance of the Museum, and that comply with Finance Minister's Orders made under the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997, accounting standards and other mandatory financial reporting requirements in Australia. The Council Members of the Museum are also responsible for the maintenance of adequate accounting records and internal controls that are designed to prevent and detect fraud and error, and for

the accounting policies and accounting estimates inherent in the financial statements.

A udit approach

1 have conducted an independent audit of the financial statements in order to express an opinion on them to you. My audit has been conducted in accordance with the Australian National Audit Office Auditing Standards, which incorporate the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards, in order to provide reasonable assurance as to whether the financial

statements are free of material misstatement. The nature of an audit is influenced by factors such as the use of professional judgement, selective testing, the inherent limitations of internal control, and the availability of persuasive, rather than conclusive, evidence. Therefore, an audit cannot guarantee that all material misstatements have been detected.

While the effectiveness of management’s internal controls over financial reporting was considered when determining the nature and extent of audit procedures, the audit was not designed to provide assurance on internal controls.

I have performed procedures to assess whether, in all material respects, the financial statements present fairly, in accordance with Finance Minister’s Orders made under the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997, accounting standards and other mandatory financial reporting requirements in Australia, a view which is consistent with my

understanding of the Museum’s financial position, and of its performance as represented by the statements of financial performance and cash flows.

The audit opinion is formed on the basis of these procedures, which included:

â¢ examining, on a test basis, information to provide evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements; and â¢ assessing the appropriateness of the accounting policies and disclosures used, and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by the Council Members.

Independence

In conducting the audit, I have followed the independence requirements of the Australian National Audit Office, which incorporate the ethical requirements of the Australian accounting profession.

Audit Opinion

In my opinion, the financial statements of the Australian National Maritime Museum:

(a) have been prepared in accordance with Finance Minister’s Orders made under the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997; and (b) give a true and fair view of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s financial position as at 30 June 2005 and of its performance and cash flows for the year then

ended, in accordance with:

(i) the matters required by the Finance Minister’s Orders; and (ii) applicable accounting standards and other mandatory financial reporting requirements in Australia.

Australian National Audit Office

P Hinchey Senior Director Delegate of the Auditor-General

Sydney 7 September 2005

SECTION 3 - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

for the year ended 30 June 2005

REVENUE

R e v e n u e s fro m o r d in a r y a c tiv it ie s

Revenue from Government

Goods and services

Interest

Revenue from sale of assets

Other revenues

T o ta l re v e n u e s fr o m o r d in a r y a c tiv it ie s

EXPENSES

E x p e n s e s fr o m o r d in a r y a c tiv it ie s

(e x c lu d in g b o r r o w in g c o s ts e x p e n s e )

Employees

Suppliers

Grants

Depreciation and amortisation

Write-down of assets

Value of assets sold

T o ta l e x p e n s e s f r o m o r d in a r y a c tiv it ie s

(e x c lu d in g b o r ro w in g c o s ts e x p e n s e )

B o rr o w in g c o s ts e x p e n s e

O p e r a tin g s u rp lu s ( d e f ic it ) fr o m o r d in a r y a c tiv it ie s

N e t p r o fit (lo s s )

Net credit to asset revaluation reserve

T o ta l re v e n u e s , e x p e n s e s a n d v a lu a tio n a d ju s tm e n t s

re c o g n is e d d ir e c tly in e q u ity

T o ta l c h a n g e s in e q u ity o t h e r th a n th o s e r e s u ltin g f r o m

t r a n s a c tio n s w ith th e A u s t r a lia n G o v e r n m e n t a s o w n e r

Notes 2005 2004

$ ’000 $ 0 0 0

5(a) 22,775 19,930

5(b) 4,727 4,760

5(c) 442 336

5(d) 37 6

5(e) 1,829 1,361

29,810 26,393

6(a) 9,119 8,704

6(b) 9,689 9,593

6(c) 28 36

6(d) 9,007 8,442

6(e) 62 122

5(d) 32 3

27,937 26,900

7 827 973

1,046 (1,480)

1.046 (1,480)

13 19.456 92,971

19,456 92,971

20,502 91,491

The above s ta te m e n t s h o u ld be read in c o n ju n c tio n w ith th e a ccom panying notes.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

as at 30 June 2005

Notes 2005 2004

ASSETS $'000 $’000

F in a n c ia l a s s e ts

Cash 14(b) 1,660 6,047

Receivables 8(a) 491 557

Investments 14(b) 33 886

Total f in a n c ia l a s s e ts 2,184 7,490

N o n -fin a n c ia l a s s e ts

Land and buildings 9(a),9(e) 158,132 162,027

Infrastructure, plant and equipment 9(b),9(e) 42,519 24,517

National Maritime Collection 9(c),9(e) 24,225 24,104

Intangibles 9(d),9(e) 409 116

Inventories 9(f) 94 74

Other 9(g) 210 218

T otal n o n -f in a n c ia l a s s e ts 225,589 211,056

T o tal a s s e ts 227,773 218,546

LIABILITIES

In t e r e s t b e a r in g lia b ilit ie s

Loans 10(a) 2,511 15,007

T o ta l in t e r e s t b e a r in g l ia b ilitie s 2,511 15,007

P ro v is io n s

Employees H (a) 1,983 1,871

T o ta l p ro v is io n s 1,983 1,871

P a y a b le s

Suppliers 12(a) 791 878

Other 12(b) 150 72

T o tal p a y a b le s 941 950

T o ta l lia b ilit ie s 5,435 17,828

NET ASSETS 222,338 200,718

EQUITY

Contributed equity 13 2,118 1,000

Reserves 13 152,596 133,140

Accumulated surplus 13 67,624 â¢ 66,578

Total equity 222,338 200,718

C u rre n t a s s e ts 2,341 7,635

N o n -c u r re n t a s s e ts 225,432 210,911

C u rre n t lia b ilitie s 4,291 4,488

N o n -c u rre n t l ia b ilitie s 1,144 13,340

The above statementshould be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

for the year ended 30 June 2005

Notes 2005 2004

$ 0 0 0 $'000

OPERATING ACTIVITIES

C a s h re c e iv e d

Appropriations 22,775 20,064

Goods and services 5,118 4,951

Interest 463 346

GST received from ATO 660 1,581

Other 456 332

T o ta l c a s h re c e iv e d 29,472 27,274

C a s h u s e d

Employees (7,817) (7,554)

Suppliers (10,299) (12,664)

Borrowing costs (1,062) (997)

Grants (28) (36)

T o ta l c a s h u s e d (19,206) (21,251)

N e t c a s h fr o m o p e r a t in g a c tiv it ie s 14(a) 10,266 6,023

INVESTING ACTIVITIES

C a s h re c e iv e d

Proceeds from sales of property, plant and equipment 37 6

T o ta l c a s h re c e iv e d 37 6

C a s h u s e d

Purchase of property, plant and equipment (3,048) (7,604)

T o ta l c a s h u s e d (3,048) (7,598)

N e t c a s h (u s e d b y ) in v e s tin g a c tiv it ie s (3,011) (7,598)

FINANCING ACTIVITIES

C a s h u s e d

Repayment of debt (12.495) (1,503)

T o ta l c a s h u s e d (12,495) (1,503)

N e t c a s h (u s e d b y ) f in a n c in g a c tiv it ie s (12,495) (1,503)

N e t ( d e c r e a s e ) in c a s h h e ld (5,240) (3,078)

Cash at the beginning of the reporting period 6,933 10,011

C a s h a t th e e n d o f th e r e p o r tin g p e r io d 14(b) 1,693 6,933

The above s ta te m e n t s h o u ld be read in c o n ju n c tio n w ith th e a cc o m p a n y in g n o te s .

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

SCHEDULE OF COMMITMENTS and CONTINGENCIES

asa t3 0J u n e2 00 5

2005

Notes $ ’000

SCHEDULE OF COMMITMENTS BY TYPE

C o m m it m e n t s

Operating leases 78

Other commitments (1) 283

Total c o m m it m e n t s 361

C o m m it m e n t s (r e c e iv a b le ) (2) (3,833)

N e t c o m m it m e n t s ( r e c e iv a b le ) (3,472)

BY MATURITY

O p e r a tin g le a s e c o m m it m e n t s (3 )

One year or less 78

From one to five years —

T otal o p e r a t in g le a s e c o m m it m e n t s 78

O th e r c o m m it m e n t s

One year or less 283

From one to five years —

T o tal o t h e r c o m m it m e n t s 283

C o m m it m e n t s ( r e c e iv a b le ) (3,833)

N e t c o m m it m e n t s (r e c e iv a b le ) (3,472)

N.B: Commitments are GST inclusive where relevant.

2004

$'000

290

982

1,272

(4 ,995 )

(3 ,723 )

208

290

823

159

982

(4 ,995 )

(3 ,723)

(1) Other commitments include service contracts in respect of the Museum’s buildings

(2) Commitments receivable under the sublease of Level 3, Wharf 7

(3) Operating lease commitments payable include a lease for storage facilities on which there are no contingent

rentals

SCHEDULE OF CONTINGENCIES

There were no contingent losses or gains as at 30 June 2005.

The above s c h e d u le s s h o u ld be read in c o n ju n c tio n w ith th e a c c o m p a n y in g notes.

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OFTHE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2005

Note Description

1 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

2 Adoption of AASB Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards from 2005-2006

3 Economic Dependency

4 Events Occurring After Reporting Date

5 Operating Revenues

6 Operating Expenses

7 Borrowing Cost Expense

8 Financial Assets

9 Non-Financial Assets

10 Interest Bearing Liabilities

11 Provisions

12 Payables

13 Equity

14 Cash Flow Reconciliation

15 Contingent Liabilities and Assets

16 Remuneration of Council Members

17 Related Party Disclosures

18 Remuneration of Officers

19 Remuneration of Auditors

20 Average Staffing Levels

21 Financial Instruments

22 Appropriations

23 Assets Held in Trust

24 Reporting of Outcomes

25 Australian National Maritime Foundation

1. SUMMARYOFSIGNIFICANTACCOUNTING POLICIES

1.1 Basis of Accounting

The financial statements are required by clause 1(b) of Schedule 1 of the Commonwealth Authorities and

Companies Act 1997 and are a general purpose financial report.

The statements have been prepared in accordance with:

â¢ Finance Minister’s Orders (being the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Orders (Financial

Statements for reporting period ending on or after 30 June 2005));

â¢ Australian Accounting Standards and Accounting Interpretations issued by the Australian Accounting

Standards Board; and

â¢ Urgent Issues Group Abstracts.

The Statements of Financial Performance and Financial Position have been prepared on an accrual basis and are

in accordance with historical cost convention, except for certain assets which, as noted, are at valuation. Except

where stated, no allowance is made for the effect of changing prices on the results orthe financial position.

Assets and liabilities are recognised in the Statement of Financial Position when and only when it is probable that

future economic benefits will flow and the amounts of the assets or liabilities can be reliably measured. Assets

and liabilities arising under agreements equally proportionately unperformed are however not recognised unless

required by an accounting standard. Liabilities and assets that are unrecognised are reported in the Schedule of

Commitments and the Schedule of Contingencies.

Revenues and expenses are recognised in the Statement of Financial Performance when and only when the flow or

consumption or loss of economic benefit has occurred and can be reliably measured.

Consolidation and associated company. The financial statements show information for the economic entity only;

this reflects the consolidated results for the parent entity, the Australian National Maritime Museum, and its wholly

owned controlled entity, The Australian National Maritime Foundation. The results ofthe parent entity do not differ

materially from the economic entity and have therefore not been separately disclosed. The Australian National

Maritime Foundation is a company limited by guarantee, with an initial contribution of $385,620. See note 25.

The accounting policies of The Australian National Maritime Foundation are consistent with those of the Museum

and its assets, liabilities and results have been consolidated with the parent entity accounts in accordance with

AAS24 - Consolidated Financial Reports. All internal transactions and balances have been eliminated on

consolidation.

1.2 Changes in Accounting Policies

The accounting policies used in the preparation of these financial statements are consistent with thos.e used in

2003-2004, except in respect of:

â¢ the initial revaluation of property, plant and equipment on a fair value basis (see note 1.12); and

â¢ the imposition of an impairment test for non-current assets carried at cost (see note 1.19).

1.3 Revenue

The revenues described in this Note are revenues relating to the core operating activities ofthe Museum.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

Revenue from the sale of goods is recognised upon the delivery of goods to customers.

Interest revenue is recognised on a time proportionate basis that takes into account the effective yield on the

relevant asset.

Revenue from disposal of non-current assets is recognised when control of the asset has passed to the buyer.

Revenue from the rendering of a service is recognised by reference to the stage of completion of the contract to

provide the service. The stage of completion is determined according to the proportion that costs incurred to date

bear to the estimated total costs of the transaction,

Receivables for goods and services are recognised at the nominal amounts due less any provision for bad and

doubtful debts. Collectability of debts is reviewed at balance date. Provisions are made when collectability of the

debt isjudged to be less ratherthan more likely.

Revenues from Government —Output Appropriations

The full amount of the appropriation for departmental outputs for the year is recognised as revenue.

Resources Received Free of Charge

Services received free of charge are recognised as revenue when and only when a fair value can be reliably

determined and the services would have been purchased if they had not been donated. Use of those resources is

recognised as an expense.

Contributions of assets at no cost of acquisition or for nominal consideration are recognised as revenue at their

fair value when the asset qualifies for recognition.

1.4 Transactions by the Government as Owner

Equity injections

Net assets received other than under a restructuring of administrative arrangements are treated as contributions

by owners.

1.5 Employee Benefits

Benefits

Liabilities for services rendered by employees are recognised at the reporting date to the extent that they have not

been settled.

Liabilities for wages and salaries (including non-monetary benefits), and annual leave are measured at their

nominal amounts. Other employee benefits expected to be settled within 12 months of their reporting date are

also measured attheir nominal amounts.

The nominal amount is calculated with regard to the rates expected to be paid on settlement of the liability.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2 0 0 5

All other employee benefit liabilities are measured as the present value of the estimated future cash outflows to be

made in respect of services provided by employees up to the reporting date.

Leave

The liability for employee benefits includes provision for annual leave and long service leave. No provision has

been made for sick leave as all sick leave is non-vesting and the average sick leave taken in future years by

employees is estimated to be less than the annual entitlement for sick leave.

The leave liabilities are calculated on the basis of employees’ remuneration, including employer superannuation

contribution rates to the extent that the leave is likely to be taken during service rather than paid out on

termination.

The non-current portion of the liability for long service leave is recognised and measured at the present value of

the estimated future cash flows to be made in respect of all employees at 30 June 2005. In determining the

present value of the liability, the Museum has taken into account attrition rates and pay increases through

promotion and inflation.

Superannuation

Employees contribute to the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme and Public Sector Superannuation Scheme.

The liability for their superannuation benefits is recognised in the financial statements of the Australian

Government and is settled by the Australian Government in due course.

The Museum makes employer contributions to the Australian Government at rates determined by an actuary to be

sufficient to meet the cost to the Government of the superannuation entitlements of the Museum’s employees.

1.6 Leases

A distinction is made between finance leases, which effectively transfer from the lessor to the lessee substantially

all the risks and benefits incidental to ownership of leased non-current assets, and operating leases, under which

the lessor effectively retains substantially all such risks and benefits. The Museum has no finance leases.

Operating lease payments are expensed on a basis that is representative of the pattern of benefits derived from

the leased assets.

1.7 Borrowing Costs

All borrowing costs are expensed as incurred.

1.8 Grants

The Museum recognises grant liabilities as follows.

Most grant agreements require the grantee to perform services or provide facilities, or to meet eligibility criteria.

In these cases, liabilities are recognised only to the extent that the services required have been performed or the

eligibility criteria have been satisfied by the grantee.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

In cases where grant agreements are made without conditions to be monitored, liabilities are recognised on

signing of the agreement.

1.9 Cash

Cash means notes and coins held and any deposits held at call with a bank or financial institution. Cash is

recognised at its nominal amount. Interest is credited to revenue as it accrues.

1.10 Other Financial Liabilities

Bills of exchange are carried at the amount of their initial proceeds plus accrued interest.

Trade creditors and accruals are recognised at their nominal amounts, being the amounts at which the liabilities

will be settled. Liabilities are recognised to the extent that the goods and services have been received (and

irrespective of having been invoiced).

Interest payable is accrued overtime.

1.11 Acquisition of Assets

Assets are recorded at cost on acquisition except as stated below. The cost of acquisition includes the fair value

of assets transferred in exchange and liabilities undertaken.

Assets acquired at no cost, or for nominal consideration, are initially recognised as assets and revenues, at their

fair value at the date of acquisition.

1.12 Property (Land and Buildings), and Infrastructure, Plant and Equipment

Asset Recognition Threshold

Purchases of property, infrastructure, plant and equipment are recognised initially at cost in the Statement of

Financial Position, except for purchases costing less than $2,000, which are expensed in the year of acquisition

(other than where they form part of a group of similar items which are significant in total).

Revaluations

Land, buildings, infrastructure, plant and equipment and the National Maritime Collection are carried at valuation.

Revaluations undertaken up to 30 June 2002 were done on a deprival basis; revaluations since that date are at

fair value. This change in accounting policy is required by Australian Accounting Standard AASB 1041 Revaluation

of Non-Current Assets.

Fair and deprival values for each class of assets are determined as shown below.

Asset Class Fair Value Measured at: Deprival Value Measured at:

Land Market selling price Market selling price

Buildings Market selling price Depreciated replacement cost

Leasehold Improvements Depreciated replacement cost Depreciated replacement cost

Exhibition Fitouts Market selling price Depreciated replacement cost

Plant & Equipment Market selling price Depreciated replacement cost

National Maritime Collection Market selling price Market selling price

Under both deprival and fair value, assets which are surplus to requirements are measured at their net realisable

value. At 30 June 2005, there were no assets in this situation (2004: nil).

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

Land, buildings, infrastructure, plant and equipment and the National Maritime Collection are revalued

progressively in successive three-year cycles, so that no asset has a value greater than three years old.

The Museum completed its asset revaluation cycle in 2004-05, with asset groups updated as follows:

â¢ exhibition fitouts have been revalued by type of asset in 2004-05;

â¢ plant and equipment, including information technology equipment, have been revalued by type of asset in

2004-05 ;

â¢ leasehold improvements have been revalued in 2004-05;

â¢ leasehold land and buildings were revalued in 2003-04;

â¢ the National Maritime Collection has been revalued in 2002-03.

Assets in each class acquired after the commencement of a progressive revaluation cycle are not captured by the

progressive revaluation then in progress.

The Finance Minister's Orders require that all property, plant and equipment assets be measured at up-to-date fair

values from 30 June 2005 onwards. The current year is therefore the last year in which the Museum will undertake

progressive revaluations.

Conduct

All valuations are conducted by an independent qualified valuer and take effect on 1 July each year.

Depreciation and Amortisation

Depreciable property, plant and equipment assets are written off to their estimated residual values over their

estimated useful lives to the Museum using, in all cases, the straight-line method of depreciation. Leasehold

improvements are amortised on a straight-line basis over the lesser of the estimated useful life of the

improvements orthe unexpired period of the lease.

Depreciation/amortisation rates (useful lives) and methods are reviewed at each reporting date and necessary

adjustments are recognised in the current, or current and future reporting periods, as appropriate. Residual

values are re-estimated for a change in prices only when assets are revalued.

Depreciation and amortisation rates applying to each class of depreciable asset are based on the following useful lives:

The Collection is not depreciated because of its longterm nature and the expected appreciation of its historical value.

Frequency

Leasehold land

Buildings

Capitalised loan interest

Leasehold improvements

Exhibition fitouts

Plant & equipment

Intangibles

2 0 0 4 -0 5

Lease term (105 years)

22 years

Lease term or 10 years

7 -2 0 years

3 -2 0 years

5 -1 0 years

20 0 3 -0 4

Lease term (105 years)

22 years

Lease term or 10 years

7-20 years

3-20 years

5-10 years

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

The aggregate amount of depreciation allowed for each class of asset during the reporting period is disclosed in

Note 6(d).

Intangibles

The Museum’s intangibles comprise software for internal use and are carried at cost.

Software is amortised on a straight-line basis over its anticipated useful life. The useful lives of the Museum’s

software is 5 -1 0 years (2 0 0 3 -0 4 :5 -1 0 years).

1.13 Inventories

Inventories held for resale by the Museum store are valued at the lower of costand net realisable value.

1.14 Taxation

The Museum is exempt from all forms of taxation except fringe benefits tax and the goods and services tax (GST).

Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of GST:

â¢ except where the amount of GST incurred is not recoverable from the Australian Taxation Office: and

â¢ except for receivables and payables.

1.15 Foreign Currency

Transactions denominated in a foreign currency are converted at the exchange rate at the date of the transaction.

Foreign currency receivables and payables (if any) are translated at the exchange rates current as at balance date.

Associated currency gains and losses are not material.

1.16 Insurance

The Museum has insured for risks through the Government's insurable risk managed fund, called ‘Comcover’.

Workers compensation is insured through Comcare Australia.

1.17 Comparative Figures

Comparative figures have been adjusted to conform to changes in presentation in these financial statements

where required.

1.18 Rounding

Amounts are rounded to the nearest $1,000 except in relation to:

â¢ remuneration of Council Members (note 16);

â¢ remuneration of officers (note 18);

â¢ remuneration of auditors (note 19);

â¢ assets held in trust (note 23); and

â¢ Australian National Maritime Foundation (note 25).

1.19 Impairment of Non-Current Assets

Non-current assets carried at up-to-date fair value at the reporting date are not subject to impairment testing.

Non-current assets carried at cost or deprival value and held to generate net cash inflows have been tested for

their recoverable amounts at the reporting date. The test compared the carrying amounts against the net present

value of future net cash inflows. No write-down to recoverable amount was required (2004: nil).

The non-current assets carried at cost or deprival value, which are not held to generate net cash inflows, have

been assessed for indications of impairment. Where indications of impairment exist, the carrying amount of the

asset is compared to its net selling price and depreciated replacement costand is written down to its higher of the

two amounts, if necessary.

2. ADOPTION OF AUSTRALIAN EQUIVALENTS TO INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS FROM

2 0 0 5 -2 0 0 6

The Australian Accounting Standards Board has issued replacement Australian Accounting Standards to apply

from 2 0 0 5 -0 6 . The new standards are the Australian Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards

(AIFRS) and cannot be adopted early.

The Australian Equivalents contain certain additional provisions which will apply to not-for-profit entities, including

the Australian National Maritime Museum. Some of these provisions are in conflict with the International Financial

Reporting Standards (IFRS) and therefore the Museum will only be able to assert compliance with the Australian

Equivalents to the IFRS.

Existing Australian Standards that have no IFRS equivalent will continue to apply.

Accounting Standard AASB 1047 Disclosing the Impact of Adopting Australian Equivalents to International

Financial Reporting Standards requires that the financial statements for 2 0 0 4 -0 5 disclose:

â¢ an explanation of how the transition to AIFRS is being managed;

â¢ narrative explanations of the key differences in accounting policies arisingfrom the adoption of AIFRS;

â¢ any known or reliably estimable information about the impacts on the financial report had it been prepared

using AIFRS; and

â¢ if the impacts of the above are not known or reliably estimable, a statement to that effect.

Management of the transition to Australian Equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards

The Museum has taken the following steps in preparation towardsthe implementation of AIFRS:

â¢ The Museum’s Finance and Audit Committee is tasked with oversight of the transition to and implementation

of AIFRS. The Chief Finance Officer is formally responsible forthe project and reports regularly to the Finance

and Audit Committee on progress against theformal plan approved by the Committee.

â¢ The plan requires the following key steps to be undertaken and sets deadlines for their achievement:

— All major accounting policy differences between current AASB standards and AIFRS were identified by

30 June 2004;

— Identification of system changes necessary to be able to report under AIFRS, including those necessary

to enable capture of data under both sets of rules for 2 0 0 4 -0 5 have been completed;

— A transitional balance sheet as at 1 July 2004, under AIFRS was completed;

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

— An AIFRS compliant balance sheet was also prepared during the preparation of the 2004-05 statutory

financial reports; and

— The 2 0 0 4 -0 5 Balance Sheet under AIFRS will be reported to the Department of Finance and

Administration in line with their reporting deadlines.

â¢ The plan also addresses the risks to successful achievement of the above objectives and includes strategies

to keep implementation on track to meet deadlines.

Major changes in accounting policy

Changes in accounting policies under Australian Equivalents are applied retrospectively i.e. as if the new policy

had always applied. This rule means that a balance sheet prepared under AIFRS must be made as at 1 July 2004

to allow the opening (IFRS's) balances to be prepared for the 2004/05 comparatives, except as permitted in

particular circumstances by AASB 1 First-time Adoption of Australian Equivalents to International Financial

Reporting Standards. This will enable the 2 0 0 5 -0 6 financial statements to report comparatives under AIFRS.

Changes to major accounting policies are discussed in the following paragraphs.

Impairment of Non-Current Assets

The Museum’s policy on impairment of non-current assets is at note 1.18.

Under AIFRS these assets will be subject to assessment for impairment and, if there are indications of impairment,

measurement of any impairment (impairment measurement must also be done, irrespective of any indications of

impairment, for intangible assets not yet available for use). The impairment test is that the carrying amount of an

asset must not exceed the greater of (a) its fair value less costs to sell and (b) its value in use. ‘Value in use’ is the

net present value of net cash inflows for for-profit assets of the Museum and depreciated replacement cost for

other assets which would be replaced if the Museum were deprived of them.

The most significant changes are that, forthe Museum's for-profit assets, the recoverable amount is only generally

to be measured where there is an indication of impairment and that assets carried at up-to-date fair value,

whether for-profit or not, may nevertheless be required to be written down if costs to sell are significant.

Capitalised Interest

Borrowing costs related to qualifying assets are currently capitalised. It is expected that the Finance Minister's

Orders for 2 0 0 5 -0 6 will elect to expense all borrowing costs under AIFRS. Accordingly, borrowing costs capitalised

as at 1 July 2005 will be written-off to accumulated results.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

Reconciliation o f Im pacts

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

AGAAP AIFRS Difference

30-Jun-05 30-Jun-05

$ ’000 $ 0 0 0 $'000

ASSETS

F in a n c ia l a s s e ts

Cash 1,660 1,660 —

Receivables 491 491 —

Investments 33 33 —

T o ta l f in a n c ia l a s s e ts 2,184 2,184 —

N o n -fin a n c ia l a s s e ts

Land and buildings 158,132 157,237 (895)(:

Infrastructure, plant and equipment 42,519 42,519 —

National Maritime Collection 24,225 24,225 —

Intangibles 409 409 —

Inventories 94 94 —

Other 210 210 —

T o ta l n o n -f in a n c ia l a s s e ts 225,589 224,694 (895)

T o ta l a s s e ts 227,773 226,878 (895)

LIABILITIES

In t e r e s t b e a r in g lia b ilitie s

Loans 2,511 2,511 —

T o ta l in t e r e s t b e a r in g lia b ilitie s 2,511 2,511 —

P ro v is io n s

Employees 1,983 1,983 —

T o ta l p ro v is io n s 1,983 1.983 —

P a y a b le s

Suppliers 791 791 -

Other 150 150 —

T o ta l p a y a b le s 941 941 —

T o ta l lia b ilit ie s 5,435 5,435 —

N e t A s s e ts 222,338 221,443 (895)

EQUITY

Contributed equity 2,118 2,118 -

Reserves 152,596 152,596 -

Accumulated surplus 67,624 66,729 (895)

T o ta l e q u ity 222,338 221,443 (895)

Note (1) On transition to AIFRS

Write-off of Capitalised Interest $894,660

3. ECONOMIC DEPENDENCY

The Australian National Maritime Museum is controlled by the Commonwealth of Australia.

The Museum is dependent on appropriations from the Parliament of the Commonwealth for its continued

existence and ability to carry out its normal activities.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

4. EVENTS OCCURRING AFTER REPORTING DATE

In July 2005, the Museum fully repaid its loan with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia which financed the

construction of the Wharf 7 building.

2005 2004

5. OPERATING REVENUES $ 0 0 0 $'000

5(a) Revenues from Government

Appropriations for outputs 22,775 19,930

Total revenues from Government 22,775 19,930

5(b) Sales of goods and services

Goods 580 577

Services 4,147 4,183

Total sales of goods and services 4.727 4.760

Provision of goods to:

Related entities 1 2

External entities 579 575

Total sales of goods 580 577

Rendering of services to:

Related entities 35 37

External entities 4,112 4.146

Total rendering of services 4,147 4,183

Costs of sales of goods 294 298

5(c) Interest Revenue

Deposits 442 336

Total interest revenue 442 336

5(d) Revenue from Sale of Assets

Infrastructure, plant and equipment

Proceeds from sale 37 6

Less: Net book value at sale (32) (3)

Net gain from disposal of infrastructure, plant and equipment 5 3

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

5(e) Other Revenues 2005 2004

$ ’000 $'000

Industry contributions 458 159

Other- Donations and bequests 1,356 1,187

Grants 15 15

Total other revenues 1,829 1,361

Industry contributions and donations include $1,372,390 (2003--04: $1,028,700) for service-related donations-in-kind from a range of donors.

6. OPERATING EXPENSES

6(a) Employee Expenses

Wages and Salaries 5,345 5,102

Superannuation 852 846

Leave and other entitlements 667 696

Other employee expenses 2,157 1,972

Total employee benefits expenses 9,021 8,616

Workers compensation premiums 98 88

Total employee expenses 9,119 8,704

6(b) Supplier Expenses

Goods and services from related entities 1,085 1,066

Goods and services from external entities 8,371 8,251

Operating lease rentals 233 276

Total supplier expenses 9,689 9,593

6(c) Grants Expense

Non-profit institutions 28 36

The Museum makes grants to support the involvement of community groups in maritime heritage projects.

6(d) Depreciation and Amortisation

Depreciation of property, plant and equipment 7.899 7,347

Amortisation of capitalised interest 68 68

Amortisation of leasehold assets 975 978

Amortisation of intangibles 65 49

Total depreciation and amortisation 9,007 8,442

The aggregate amounts of depreciation or amortisation expensed during the reporting period, for each class of

depreciable asset are as follows:

Land and Buildings 4,993 4,947

Capitalised interest 68 68

Leasehold improvements 8 11

Exhibition fitouts, plant and equipment 3,873 3,367

Intangibles 65 49

Total depreciation and amortisation 9,007 8,442

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

2005 2004

$ 0 0 0 $'000

6(e) Write-Down of Assets

Plant & equipment - write-off on disposal 62 122

Total write-down of assets 62 122

7. BORROWING COST EXPENSE

Loan 827 973

Total borrowing costs expense 827 973

8. FINANCIAL ASSETS

8(a) Receivables

Goods and services 175 206

Interest receivable 27 21

Receivable from Trust 31 12

GST receivable 258 318

Total receivables (net) 491 557

Receivables (gross) are aged as follows:

Not overdue 469 552

Overdue by:

Less than 30 days 6 3

30 to 60 days 7 2

60 to 90 days 9 -

More than 90 days — -

22 5

Total receivables (gross) 491 557

All receivables are current assets.

9. NON-FINANCIAL ASSETS

9(a) Land and Buildings

Leasehold land - at valuation (2003-04) 60.000 60,000

Accumulated amortisation (316) (158)

Total leasehold land 59.684 59.842

Buildings - at cost 3.478 2.274

Buildings - at valuation (2003-04) 105,000 105,000

Accumulated depreciation (10,057) (5,154)

98,421 102,120

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

9(a) Land and Buildings (continued) 2005 2004

$'000 $’000

Leasehold improvements — at cost — 17

Leasehold improvements —at valuation (2004-05) 38 -

Leasehold improvements - at valuation (2001-02) — 128

Accumulated Amortisation (11) (80)

27 65

Total buildings 98,448 102,185

Total Land and Buildings 158,132 162,027

9(b) Infrastructure, Plant and Equipment

Plant and equipment —at cost 295 808

Plant and equipment - at valuation (2004-05) 2,733 -

Plant and equipment - at valuation (2001-02) — 2,079

Accumulated depreciation (1,650) (1,675)

1,378 1,212

Exhibits fitouts - at cost 3,427 10,129

Exhibits fitouts — at valuation (2004-05) 75,274 -

Exhibits fitouts - at valuation (2001-02) — 34,772

Accumulated depreciation (37,560) (21,596)

41,141 23,305

Total Infrastructure, Plant and Equipment 42,519 24,517

9(c) National Maritime Collection

National Maritime Collection — at cost 516 395

National Maritime Collection — at valuation (2002-03) 23,709 23,709

24,225 24,104

All revaluations are independent and are conducted in accordance with the revaluation policy stated in Note 1.

In 2004-05, a revaluation of Infrastructure Plant and Equipment was completed by the Australian Valuation Office.

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia transferred the ownership of the Endeavour to the Museum at

its capitalisation at the time of transfer, 27 June 2005. The first revaluation of the Endeavour by the Museum was

undertaken in 2004-05.

9(d) Intangibles

Computer software:

Internally developed in progress - at cost

In use - at cost

Accumulated amortisation

Total Intangibles

188 -

509 440

(288) - (324)

409 116

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Item

As at 1 July 2004

Gross book value

Accumulated depreciation/amortisation

Net book value

Additions

By purchase

Net revaluation increment

Assets transferred in

Depreciation/amortisation expense

Disposals

Other disposals

As at 30 June 2005

Gross book value

Accumulated depreciation/amortisation

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NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2 0 0 5

9(f) Inventory

Store inventory held for sale - at cost

All inventories are current assets.

9(g) Other non-financial assets

Prepayments

10. INTEREST BEARING LIABILITIES

2005 2004

$ ’000 $’000

94 74

210 218

10(a) Loans

Bill of exchange 2,511 15,007

In July 2005, the Museum fully repaid its loan with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia which financed the

construction of the Wharf 7 building.

11. PROVISIONS

11(a) Employee Provisions

Salary 28 —

Leave 1,787 1,698

Superannuation 168 173

Aggregate employee benefit liability 1,983 1,871

Workers’ compensation - -

Aggregate employee benefit liability and related on costs 1,983 1,871

Current 839 656

Non-current 1,144 1,215

12. PAYABLES

1,983 1,871

12(a) Supplier Payables

Trade creditors

All supplier payables are current. Settlement is usually made net 30 days.

791 878

12(b) Other Payables

Advance revenue - Venue hire 93 65

Prepayments received 57 7

Total other payables 150 72

All other payables are current.

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14. CASH FLOW RECONCILIATION 2005 2004

$'000 $'000

14(a) Reconciliation of Operating Surplus to Net Cash from Operating Activities

Reconciliation of operating surplus to net cash from operating activities

Operating surplus (deficit) 1,046 (1,480)

N o n -C a s h It e m s

Depreciation and amortisation 9,007 8,442

Net writedown of non-current assets 57 120

C h a n g e s in A s s e ts a n d L ia b ilitie s

(lncrease)/decrease in receivables 66 130

(lncrease)/decrease in inventories (19) 17

(lncrease)/decrease in other assets 7 85

Increase/fdecrease) in employee provisions 112 84

lncrease/(decrease) in liability to suppliers, deposits and accrued interest (10) (1,375)

N e t c a s h fr o m o p e r a t in g a c tiv itie s 10,266 6,023

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2 0 0 5

14(b) Reconciliation of Cash

Cash balance comprises:

Cash at bank and on hand 1,560 1,078

Deposits at call 100 4,969

T o ta l c a s h 1,660 6,047

Cash investments - bank bills 33 886

T o ta l in v e s t m e n t s 33 886

Balance of cash as at 30 June shown in the Statement of Cash Flows 1,693 6,933

14(c) Non-Cash Financing and Investing Activities

Non-cash financing and investing activities 1,118 10

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia transferred the ownership of the Endeavour to the Museum

at its capitalisation at the time of transfer, 27 June 2005. During 2003-04, equipment of $10,000 was received

from a sponsor.

15. CONTINGENT LIABILITIES AND ASSETS

The Museum has given notice of termination of a contract in respect to consulting services provided and will

defend any counter-claim should one arise.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

16, REMUNERATION OF COUNCIL MEMBERS

The number of Council Members ofthe Museum included inthese

figures are shown below in the relevant remuneration bands 2005 2004

$ Nil — $9,999 - 2

$10,00 0-$19,999 9 7

$ 2 0 .0 0 0 -$ 2 9 ,9 9 9 1 1

$210,000-$219,999 - 1

$ 2 3 0,0 00-$239,999 1 -

Total n u m b e r o f C o u n c il M e m b e r s o f t h e M u s e u m 1 1 11

Remuneration received or due and receivable by Council $ $

Members of the Museum 361,657 331,078

Aggregate amount of superannuation payments in connection

with the retirement of Council Members ofthe Museum — 304

Total r e m u n e r a t io n r e c e iv e d o r d u e a n d r e c e iv a b le b y C o u n c il

M e m b e r s o f t h e M u s e u m 361,657 331,382

17. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

Council Members ofthe Museum duringtheyear were:

Mr Mark Bethwaite (Chairman)

Ms Mary-Louise Williams (Director)

Mr Marcus Blackmore AM

Mr John Simpson

The Hon Brian Gibson AM

Ms Eda Ritchie

Ms Nerolie Withnall

Ms Gaye Hart AM

Dr Andrew Sutherland

Dr John Penrose

CORE Geoff Geraghty AM, RAN

Mr John Rothweil AO

The aggregate remuneration of Council Members is disclosed in Note 16.

18. REMUNERATION OF OFFICERS

The number of officers who received or were due to receive total remuneration of $100,000 or more:

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

2005 2004

$1 3 0 ,0 0 0 -$ 1 3 9 ,9 9 9 — 2

$ 1 4 0 ,0 0 0-$149,999 1 1

$1 5 0 ,0 0 0 -$ 1 5 9 ,9 9 9 2 -

Total 3 3

$ $

The aggregate amount of total remuneration of officers shown above. 455,848 403,945

The officer remuneration includes all officers concerned with or taking part in the management of the Museum

during 20 0 4 -0 5 except the Director. Details in relation to the Director have been incorporated into Note 16:

Remuneration of Council Members.

19. REMUNERATION OF AUDITORS

Remuneration to the Auditor-General for auditing

the financial statements for the reporting period 37,000 34,000

No other services were provided by the Auditor-General during the reporting period.

20. AVERAGE STAFFING LEVELS

102 100 The average staffing levels for the Museum during the year were

Nature of underlying instrument (including significant terms and

conditions affecting the amount, timing and certainty of cash flows)

Temporarily surplus funds, mainly from monthly drawdowns of

appropriation, are placed on deposit at call with the ANZ Bank and

the Commonwealth Bank. Interest is earned on the daily balance at

the prevailing daily rate for money at call and is paid monthly.

The bills are funds with the ANZ Bank, in 30 day accounts. Interest

is earned at the prevailing rate and is paid monthly.

-04: 30 days)

Financial liabilities are recognised when a present obligation to another party is entered into and the amount of the liability can

be reliably measured.

Bills were issued at a discount reflecting market yields. They have

an average maturity of 90 days and an effective interest rate of

6.9%. The final bill was fully repaid in July 2005.

Settlement is usually made net 30 days (2003-04: 30 days)

Service revenue is recognised as it is earned, at the date the

service is provided.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2005

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NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

21 FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS

21(c) Net Fair Values of Financial Assets and Liabilities

Note

2 0 0 4 -0 5 2003-04

Financial Assets

Total

carrying

amount

Aggregate

net fair

value

Total

carrying

amount

Aggregate

net fair

value

$ 0 0 0 $ 0 0 0 $’000 $'000

Cash 14(b) 1,660 1,660 6,047 6,047

Investments 14(b) 33 33 886 886

Receivables 8(a) 491 491 557 557

Total Financial Assets 2,184 2,184 7,490 7,490

Financial Liabilities (Recognised)

Loans 10(a) 2,511 2,511 15,007 15,412

Trade creditors 12(a) 791 791 878 878

Other payables 12(b) 150 150 72 72

Total Financial Liabilities (Recognised) 3,452 3,452 15,957 16,362

Financial Assets

The net fair values of cash, deposits on call and receivables approximate their carrying amounts.

The net fair values of bank bills are based on discounted cash flows using current interest rates for assets with

similar risk profiles.

Financial Liabilities

The net fair value of trade creditors are approximated by their carrying amounts. The net fair value of the bills of

exchange were based on discounted cash flows using current interest rates for liabilities with similar risk profiles.

The final bill was fully repaid in July 2005.

21(d) Credit Risk Exposures

The Museum's maximum exposures to credit risk at reporting date in relation to each class of recognised financial

assets is the carrying amount of those assets as indicated in the Statement of Financial Position.

The Museum has no significant exposures to any concentrations of credit risk. All figures for credit risk referred to

do not take into account the value of any collateral or other security.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

22. APPROPRIATIONS

The Museum received the following appropriations for Departmental Outputs during the year out of the

Consolidated Revenue Fund:

2005 2004

Year ended 30 June 2005 $ ’000 $’000

Balance carried forward from previous year — -

Annual Appropriation Bill No 1 - Basic Appropriation 20,386 19,728

Annual Appropriation Bill No 3 - Basic Appropriation 2,389 202

Available for payment of CRF 22,775 19,930

Payments made out of CRF 22,775 19,930

Balance carried forward to next year — -

23. ASSETS HELD IN TRUST

The Museum has established a number of Trust accounts which are detailed below. Donations and bequests are

received for specified purposes under formal trust arrangements. Moneys received are placed in a special bank

account and expended on the specified projects in accordance with the terms of the trusts. These moneys are not

available for other purposes of the Museum and are not recognised in the financial statements.

23(a) USA Bicentennial Gift Fund

In December 1987 a gift of US$5 million was received to develop and maintain the USA Gallery at the Museum. Upon

completion of the fitout the assets were transferred to the Museum. The financial position of the Fund is as follows:

2005 2004

$ $

Opening balance at 1 July 3,563,778 3,255,310

Receipts:

Distributions 216,168 181,326

Tax Credits 25,361 19,978

Exhibitions — -

3.805,307 3,456,614

Less payments:

Acquisitions 13,661 25,808

Other expenses 24.601 130,300

Increase/fdecrease) in value of Managed Fund 336,775 263,272

Closing balance at 30 June 4,103,820 3,563,778

Represented by:

Managed Funds 3,966.936 3,486,874

Distributions Receivable 143,111 70,230

Tax credits receivable 25,353 19,978

Liability to Museum (31.580) (13,304)

4,103,820 3,563,778

The USA Gallery funds are deposited into a long-term investment with Merrill Lynch Mercury Wholesale Balanced

Fund. Ongoing operational expenses are financed from distributions payable from this Fund.

23(b) NZ Bicentennial Gift Fund

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

A fund was created to research and develop educational material and undertake maintenance relating to the yacht

Akarana. The financial position of the Fund is as follows:

2005 2004

$ $

Opening balance at 1 July 50,496 48,029

Receipts: Interest 2,715 2,467

Closing balance at 30 June 53,211 50,496

Represented by:

Investment 53,086 50,432

Interest Receivable 125 64

53,211 50,496

23(c) Maritime Museum Bequest Fund

In March 2003, a fund was created to accommodate non-specific bequests made to the Museum. The financial

position of the Fund is as follows:

Opening balance at 1 July

Receipts:

109,643 101,318

Donations 15,261 3,000

Interest 6,082 5,325

130,986 109,643

Represented by:

Investment 130.679 109,503

Interest Receivable 307 140

130,986 101,643

23(d) Louis Vuitton Fund

In November 1988 Louis Vuitton Pty Ltd donated $30,000 to set up the Louis Vuitton Collection for the acquisition

of material relating to the early French exploration voyages to the Pacific, as well as later maritime association

between France and Australia. The financial position of the Fund is as follows:

Opening balance at 1 July 13,996 13,312

Receipts: Interest 752 684

14,748 13,996

Represented by:

Investment 14,714 13,978

Interest Receivable 34 â¢ 18

14,748 13,996

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24. REPORTING OF OUTCOMES

24(a) Outcomes of the Museum

The Museum is structured to meet one outcome, being increased knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of

Australia’s relationship with its waterways and the sea.

Only one Output Group is identified for the Outcome.

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

24(b) Net Cost of Outcome Delivery

2005

$ 0 0 0

2004

$'000

Departmental expenses 28,765 27,874

T o ta l e x p e n s e s 28.765 27,874

Costs recovered from provision of goods and services to the

non-government sector

Departmental 4,691 4,721

T o ta l c o s ts r e c o v e r e d 4,691 4,721

Other external revenues

Departmental

Sale of goods and services - to related entities 36 39

Interest 442 336

Revenue from sale of assets 37 6

Donation and bequests 1.356 1,187

Industry contributions 458 159

Total Departmental 2,329 1,727

T o ta l o th e r e x t e r n a l re v e n u e s 2,329 1,727

N e t c o s t o f o u t c o m e 21.745 21,426

24(c) Departmental Revenues and Expense by Output Group

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

Outcome 1

Output 1

Operating expenses 2005 2004

$ 0 0 0 $'000

Employees 9,119 8,704

Suppliers 9,690 9,593

Grants 28 36

Depreciation and amortisation 9,007 8,442

Write-down of assets 62 122

Value of assets sold 32 3

Borrowing costs expense 827 974

Total operating expenses 28,765 27,874

Funded by:

Revenues from Government 22,775 19,930

Sale of goods and services 4,727 4,760

Interest 442 336

Revenue from sales of assets 37 6

Donations and bequests 1,356 1,187

Industry contributions 458 159

Other 15 15

Total operating revenues 29,810 26,393

All the Museum’s revenues, expenses, assets and liabilities are attributable to the one Output Group.

25. THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME FOUNDATION

The Australian National Maritime Foundation, a Company Limited by Guarantee, was established in December

2000 and is controlled by the Council of the Australian National Maritime Museum. Funds in the amount of

$385,620 were transferred to the Foundation from the Patrons Fund.

The Foundation’s objects are to create a capital fund, through gifts, bequests and fund-raising activities, for the

purposes of:

â¢ Acquiring major additional items or collections of items to develop the National Maritime Collection;

â¢ Conserving the National Maritime Collection;

â¢ Other activities which enhance the National Maritime Collection.

The financial position of the Foundation is as follows:

NOTES TO AND FORMING PART OFTHE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

2005 2004

$ $

Opening balance at 1 July

Revenues:

384,353 378,630

interest 8,666 7,490

Donations 4,110 -

Sales of goods and services 43,475 -

Less expenses:

440,604 386,120

Suppliers 31.550 1,767

Closing balance at 30 June 409.054 384.353

Represented by:

Cash at bank 407,947 383,615

Receivables 1,107 738

4 09 ,05 4 384,353

9 6

above: Siren mermaid, stern

decoration from frigate La Naiacle.

Carver unknown, after a design by

Antoine Gibert, Toulon dockyard,

1779, © Musee National de la

Marine, Paris

opposite: L'Afrique, detail of a

display case stand carved in

limewood by Victor Aimone,

Paris, 1896.

Tracey Clement

Metro. Sydney Morning Herald

SECTION FOUR

Massive figureheads in

the form o f mythical sea

creatures, French war heroes

and voluptuous women

from a pre-anorexia age,

magnificently carved and

covered in gold ... radiate

wealth and authority, but

carvings o f slaves in shackles

and subjugated indigenous

people show the dark side o f

colonial pow er...

APPENDIX 1

VISITOR AND MEMBER PROGRAMS

Seminars

0 1/08/0 4: 'Ancient fleets of the Mediterranean’,

international maritime archaeology seminar with

Dr John R Hale, University of Louisville; Prof Robert

Hohlfelder, University of Colarado; A/Prof Shelley

Wachsman, Texas A&M University

12/02/0 5: A b o u t T im e : seminar with Professor Paul

Davies, Peter Ekin and Professor Marilyn Mitchell

Lectures and talks

01/07/04: W in d ja m m e r s - th e fin a l s to ry , book launch

and talk by Robert Carter

15/07/04: 'Antarctica - the director's cut', talk by Mary-

Louise Williams about the Members' Antarctic tour

29/07/0 4: ‘Australian cuisine in the golden age of

windjammers', talk by Dr Barbara Santich in the galley of

James Craig

1 5 /09/0 4: The life of William Dampier’. talk by Diana

and Michael Preston, authors of A P ir a te o f E x q u is ite

M in d

2 9 /09/0 4: Members' viewing of A b o u t T im e with talk by

astronomer Dr Nick Lomb and ANMM curator

Dr Nigel Erskine

31/10/0 4: ‘Time and charting the Pacific’, talk by Peter

Poland, author of T ra v e ls o f t h e T im e k e e p e rs

07/11/2004: The history of time', discussion about

clocks and watches led by Doug Minty from the National

Association of Watch and Clock Collectors

l l / H / 0 4 : 'Heroes of the Australian Navy' -

Remembrance Day lecture by Lt Tom Lewis o a m ran

13/11/04: 'Brunei: engineering genius', talk by Cliff Emerson

0 2 /1 2 /0 4 : 'The Nulka: a rocket that thinks it's a ship',

talk by inventor and designer Mai Crazier

1 2 /01/0 5: U p o n a p a in t e d o c e a n : S ir O s w a ld B rie riy ,

exhibition viewing at the NSW State Library, with talk by

curator Warwick Hirst

03/03/0 5: 'After the Bounty mutineer: Mr Christian on

Pitcairn Island', talk by curator of exploration

Dr Nigel Erskine

10/03/05: 'The history, restoration and return of

Barranjoey’ - the 3rd Phil Renouf memorial lecture,

given by Michael York and Bill Solomons

24/04/0 5: 'The Gallipoli campaign and HMAS Vo yager,

a tale of two tragedies', Annual Anzac Day lecture by Dr

Tom Frame

15/05/05: ‘B lu e w a t e r B u s h m e n - the colourful history

of the great open boats of Sydney Harbour', with author

Bruce Stannard

15/05/0 5: ‘Indian maritime history, ancient to

contemporary’, lecture by Jeffrey Mellefont, leader of

Members tour to southern India

18/05/05: ‘Power, extravagance, revolution: France

from 1660 to I8 6 0 ', talk by Professor Ross Steele for

the exhibition Les G e n ie s d e ia M e r - M a s t e r p ie c e s o f

F re n c h N a v a i S c u lp t u r e

10/06/05: First in a series of special Members

lunchtime curator’s tours of Les G e n ie s d e la M e r

- M a s t e r p ie c e s o f F re n c h N a v a l S c u lp t u r e , led by Daina

Fletcher

22/06/05: ‘Splice the mainbrace on HM Bark

E n d e a v o u r replica', special Members evening tour with

talks and 18th-century-style refreshments

Walks and excursions

17/07/04: 'The Rocks and the docks', history walk in

The Rocks area with Brian and Colleen Harrison

22/09/0 4: Tour of new water police headquarters at

Balmain

17/10/04: 'What keeps Sydney ticking?', tour of the city's

clocks with the National Association of Watch and Clock

Collectors

24/10/04: La Perouse discovery walking tour

APPENDIX 1 I VISITOR AND MEMBER PROGRAMS 99

23/01/05: Goat Island picnic and tour with NPWS guides

08/02/05: Spectacle Island and the RAN repository,

tour led by Lieutenant Commander Moore

04/05/05: James Squire: beer lovers’ tour and tasting

at Malt Shovel Brewery

Tours

0 8 -1 0 /1 0 /0 4 : Eden whaling and maritime heritage

tour, NSW south coast

1 6 /1 1 -0 7 /1 2 /0 4 : ‘Where three seas meet - the

coasts of Southern India’, led by ANMM specialist in

Asian history and seafaring Jeffrey Mellefont

On the water

18/08/04: R V S o u t h e r n S u rv e y o r tour of CSIRO

research vessel and lecture

22/08/0 4: Annual autumn winter jazz cruise on board

classic wooden ferry F ie s t a

29/09/0 4: Sail on S ilv e r S p ra y , classic timber ketch

3 0 /10/0 4: Spring, spray & jacarandas’, Lane Cove

River cruise with Adam Woodhams, from Better Homes

and Gardens

20/11/04: HMAV B o u n ty sail to demonstrate

timekeeping instruments

18/12/0 4: Sail STV W in d e w a r d B o u n d , sunset cruise

on a brigantine

26/12/04: Sydney-Hobart yacht race - champagne cruise

on heritage ferry Lithgowto watch the start of the race

26/01/05: Australia Day family ferry cruise on MV Eve

17/02/05: Global Challenge yacht race stopover,

exclusive Members viewing

27/02/05: Members ferry cruise to follow the Global

Challenge race start

06/03/05: Harbour Week on board L a d y W a k e h u r s t,

competing in the annual Ferry and Work Boat Challenge

17/04/05: HM Bark E n d e a v o u r welcome home parade,

Watsons Bay to AN Î M

07/05/05: Autumn leaves annual garden cruise on Lane

Cove River, with Adam Woodhams, B e tte r H o m e s a n d

Gardens

2 9 /0 5 /0 5 : Industrial heritage harbour cruise - the

harbourthat worked, with Michael Clarke and Don

Fraser, Sydney Engineering Heritage Committee

2 6 /06/0 5: Whale watch cruise off the coast of Sydney

Special Members events

3 0 /0 7 /0 4 : South Pacific - sailor songs and

discussions with cast from the hit musical

1 6/08/0 4: South Pacific theatre party for Members

2 9 /1 1 /0 4 : Members 13th anniversary lunch

1 2 /1 2 /0 4 : Members Christmas party

2 6 /0 1 /0 5 : Australia Day BYO family picnic party

0 7 /0 4 /0 5 : Members viewing of L e s G e n ie s d e la M e r

- M a s t e r p ie c e s o f F re n c h N a v a l S c u lp tu r e , with guest

curators Marjolaine Mourot and Mario Beland and

ANMM curator Daina Fletcher

10/04/0 5: Members preview screening of D e a r

F ra n k ie , Palace Verona, Paddington

2 2/04/0 5: New Members welcome party

2 6/04/0 5: Members special viewing of T h e

L ig h t k e e p e r at the SBW Stables Theatre, with a forum

comprisingthe play’s director, writerand actors

Other public and Members programs

0 3 -4 /0 9 /0 4 : Free concerts by Northern Territory

school bands: Yirrkala Community Education Centre

band and Darwin High School band

S y d n e y H a r b o u r C ru is e F o ru m s (in a s s o c ia tio n w ith W E A )

17/10/0 4: ‘Past pleasure grounds of Sydney Harbour’,

with Mary Shelley Clarke and Ian Hoskins

0 7 /1 1 /0 4 : ‘A literary look at Sydney Harbour’, with

Associate Professor Peter Kirkpatrick and Rick Pool

1 1/05/0 5: 'FuellingSydneyfrom the harbour', with

historian John McClymontand author Greg Blaxell

3 1/10/0 4: Welcome Wall unveiling of panels 36 and

37, with 806 names

1 1 /1 1 /0 4 : Special Z Special Force Remembrance Day

ceremony, focusing on ANMM vessel K r a it

0 7 /1 2 /0 4 : J o h n L o u is and ANMM maritime '

archaeologists take part in the ceremony placing a

plaque on the wreck of the C e n tu rio n

100

2 6/1 2 /0 4 : Kathleen Gillett participates in a parade of sail

to mark the 60th anniversaryoftheSydney-Hobart race

1 1 -2 7 /0 2 /0 5 : 2 0 0 4 -0 5 Global Challenge yacht race

stopover

0 4 -0 6 /0 3 /0 5 : Sail Expo

16/03/05: Walk around Pyrmontfor Seniors Week

0 2 /0 4 /0 5 : Discovery after Dark, 30 Sydney museums

includingANMM open late

1 0 /0 4 /0 5 : Unveiling of Welcome Wall panel 38, with

393 names

0 9 -1 7 /0 4 /0 5 : special viewings of Les Genies de la

Mer - Masterpieces o f French Naval Sculpture for

Heritage Week

14/04/05: An evening of French opera with mezzo

soprano Annette Tesoriero and pianist Nigel Kellaway,

and special Members viewing of Les Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture

Special program for Les Genies de ia Mer -

Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture, three lectures

and a theatre performance:

3 1 /0 3 /0 5 : David Gaucher, exhibition designer

0 7 /0 4 /0 5 : Marjolaine Mourot, chief curatorand head

of collections at Musee national de la Marine, Paris

0 5 /0 5 /0 5 : Robert Forgacs, Louis Pratt and ANMM

curators Daina Fletcher and Mariea Fisher

07 & 0 8 /0 5 /0 5 : Le Temps de V/vretheatre company

performances in French of Sinbad the Sailor

23/05/0 5: Performance by the Dili Allstars duringtalks

related to the exhibition Children of the Crocodile - the

Australia-East Timor Story

0 1 /0 6 /0 5 : Sydney at war: the untold story, film and

presentation for Members with director Claude Gonzalez

Children’s programs

0 7 /0 8 /0 4 : SailorStyle family fun day for Members

0 5 /0 9 /0 4 : SailorStyle Super Sassy Sunday

2 7 /0 9 -0 8 /1 0 /0 4 : Vampire activity tours

2 8 /0 9 -1 0 /1 0 /0 4 : Watch time go by from Sailor Street

0 7 /1 1 /0 4 : About Time Second-hand Sunday

2 7 /1 2 /0 4 -2 5 /0 1 /0 5 : Wetworld

2 7 /1 2 /0 4 -2 5 /0 1 /0 5 : Sailor Street

0 3 -2 1 /0 1 /0 5 : The Last Drop theatre show

1 1 -2 5 /0 4 /0 5 : Kids Deck, including ‘Sculptor on show'

for the exhibition Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces

of French Naval Sculpture

Exhibition film programs

2 8 /0 9 /0 4 -0 6 /0 3 /0 5 : Movies on Sundays - The Time

Machine and Ice Age

Themed programs for visiting schools

About Time workshop and science show with Dr Deane

Hutton, years 2-10 maths, science, HSIE, geography

SailorStyle - Art Fashion Film for years 5-12 visual arts

& design, textiles & design, history, HSIE

Les Gen/'es de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture for years 3-12 history, visual arts and

French, and Sailors & Superstitions - a game on the

exhibition's mythical themes for primary years

Permanent programs for schools

Replica of Cook's Endeavour, tours for all years

Investigating Pyrmont, years 9-12 history and

geography

Maritime archaeology, for years 5-12 history, HSIE,

science

Navigators, years 3 -6 HSIE

Pirate School, years K -3 maths, English, HSIE, PE, PD

& health

Science at the National Maritime Museum, years 3-12

science

Shipshape on James Craig, years 3 -6 HSIE

Shipwrecks, Corrosion & Conservation, year 12

chemistry

Submarine Venture, years 3 -6 science, HSIE

Transport, years 1-2 HSIE

What is history? years 9-10 history

Visiting speakers programs

Throughoutthe year, lunchtime talks and seminars

are given to museum staff and volunteers by visiting

curators and specialists.

23/09/0 4: 'Endeavour’s “other” history and the

part ANMM is playing in the search for Endeavour’s

last resting place’, by Dr Nigel Erskine, curator of

exploration and European settlement

29/10/0 4: ‘The Docklands Museum - exploring

waterfront developments and interpretation of

dockland and port histories', by Oriel Williams, visiting

Churchili Fellowship scholar, interpretive consultant

and former curator at the Docklands Museum, London

21/01/05: ‘Report on secondment to the National

Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 2004’, by Dominic

Macintosh, marketingservices manager

11/03/0 5: ‘The role of a display care manager in the

collections care department’, by Mary Jane Holton,

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, and courierfor

ANMM’s exhibitions About Time and Sailor Style - Art

Fashion Film

0 9/05/0 5: ‘Notes on life at sea aboard the replica

of HM Bark Endeavour or\ the last leg of her final

voyage from England to Australia, April 2005’, by Dr

Nigel Erskine, curator of exploration and European

settlement

102

APPENDIX 2

SELECTED ACQUISITIONS TO THE NATIONAL MARITIME COLLECTION

Artworks & prints

Three watercolour paintings by Captain George W R

Bourne (active in Western Australia and South Australia

1887-1910): D a r t f o r d 1 9 1 0 , A lb a n y H a r b o u r circa

1900, R o b R o y circa 1 8 8 5 -1 9 0 0

Captain George W R Bourne was a topographical artist

and ship portrait painter working in the colonial ports of

Western and South Australia from the 1880s to 1910.

He painted sailing ships, steamships, lighthouses

and port scenes of the settlements along the coastal

shipping route between the south-western colonies.

The three watercolours are significant as examples

of the oeuvre of a professional maritime artist

pre-and post-Federation and as an artistic record of

the burgeoning coastal shippingtrade servicing the

developing Australian economies. Purchased from

McKenzie Fine Art.

Oil painting of the yacht F a ir lie II by Captain James

Haughton Forrest, circa 1900

Oil on canvas portrait, in gilded timber and composition

frame, the painting gives a broadside view of the

gaff-rigged cutter yacht Fairlie II racing offshore in

the early 1900s. The yacht Fairlie II was a high profile

yacht owned by an equally high profile 'gentleman'

yachtsman, Frederick N Clarke, from Tasmania. The

acquisition represents an important piece of Australian

yachting history. Purchased from Richard Schmidt and

Jane Bluett.

Painted surfboard B ra B o ys by artist James Dodd for

the Clean Ocean Foundation

The surfboard, painted with bold, tattoo-like brands

in blue on both sides, represents a contemporary

interpretation of a surfing subculture, showing the

iconography of the Bra Boys, a group of surfers at

Maroubra Beach, by an artist whose work explores

brands and identities. Purchased from Christies Art

Auctioneers.

Framed oil painting of SS S o p h o c le s berthed at Circular

Quay in 1884

The painting is a charming depiction of a 19th-century

passenger ship to Australia and an unusual souvenir of

a 19th-century voyage alluding to a special relationship

between the captain and one of his charges. Purchased

from Frances Lowndes.

Watercolour painting of SS O o n a h signed and dated

A V Gregory, 1908

SS Oonah (1888-1934) was builtforthe Tasmanian

Steam Navigation Company but operated from 1912

for the Bass Strait trade. The painting represents the

importance of shippingin developing colonial and

Australian economies. Purchased from Marani Fine Art.

A watercolour paintingtitled M o s m a n 's B a y S y d n e y

H a rb o u r, signed G H Brown and dated 1875

The painting is significant as a careful depiction of the

type of ship carrying cargo and emigrants to Australia in

the 19th century, and as the impressions of a seaman

on the ship. Purchased from Marani Fine Art.

Watercolour painting, a ship’s portrait of the C e c ilia

S u d d e n , by Arthur Gregory

The Cecilia Sudden was a four-masted schooner built

in California in 1902 by the Bendixsen Shipbuilding Co.

for Sudden & Christenson of San Francisco; she was

sold in 1915 to a company in Tasmania where she was

used in the timber, coal and kerosene trade between

America and Australia. Purchased atSothebys.

Sketchbook containing 24 pencil sketches by

Midshipman G Mundy RN. HMS B la n c h e , South

American Station, 1 8 2 4 -2 6

The South American Station protected shipping routes

to Asia and the Pacific, its work extending to protection

of routes to the colony of NSW. The sketchbook

contains sketches of Portugal. Brazil, Cape Horn, Chile

and Columbia in the period 1824-26. Purchased from

Christies, London.

Engravings after Webber from the alias - A V o y a g e

to th e S o u th P a c i f i c . . . fo r m a k in g d is c o v e r ie s in th e

N o rth e r n H e m is p h e r e , published by Strahan, Nicol and

Caldwell. London 1784

John Webber was the official expedition artist during

Cook’s third Pacific voyage. Purchased from Christies,

London.

APPENDIX 2 | SELECTED ACQUISITIONS TO THE NATIONAL MARITIME COLLECTION 103

Three watercolours by Robert McCrae

Depicting the RAN patrol boat HMAS Geraldton, Darwin

Harbour, 2003; Italian Navy amphibious assault ship

San Giusto preparingtotransportsupplies to East

Timor, Darwin Harbour, 2000; Royal Canadian Navy

supply ship HMCS Protecteur and Royal Australian

iandingship HMAS Tobruk, preparingtotransport

supplies to East Timor, Darwin Harbour, 1999.

Purchased from Robert McCrae.

Oil painting by Maude Gum, A m e r ic a n R e d C ro s s s h ip

n e a r G a b o Is la n d m e m o r ia l

Maude E Gum (1885-1973) was a versatile South

Australian artist who worked in a wide range of media

and also as a teacher of drawing and design.

Photographs

18 colour slides of the passenger liner O rs o v a

departing Sydney on 28 May 1957

The images capture the crowds and excitement of

ship departures from Sydney’s wharves during the

1950s. The slides provide a personal perspective of a

passenger journey and dockside farewell. Purchased

from Lois Kuip.

Nine digital images of Australian Paralympic team

members training in Rome and competing at 2004

Athens Paralympic Games in swimming and sailing

events

Robert Prezioso was official photographerto the

Australian Paralympic Committee. These images

are significant in documenting the feats of disabled

Australian aquatic athletes duringtrainingand

competition at the 2004 Paralympic Games.

Purchased from Prezioso Photography.

Two colour prints by Rene Nowytarger titled T h e

C ro s s in g , 2002

Prints depict Afghan refugee women crossing the ship's

loading ramp off the coast of Nauru. Purchased from

The Australian.

Books & documents

Australasian United Steam Navigation Co Ltd

H a n d b o o k o f In f o r m a t io n f o r th e C o lo n ie s a n d In d ia ,

12th edition, 1 8 9 9 -1 9 0 0

Published as a guide to the Australasian colonies

and services provided for travellers, exporters and

importers. Purchased from Horden House Rare Books

and Prints.

A N a r r a tiv e o f th e B rito n 's V o yag e to P itc a irn 's Is la n d by

Lieutenant J Shillibeer, with 15 illustrations, published by

Law & Whittaker. London, 1818

HMS Briton was voyaging in the Pacific in 1814,

accompanied by HMS Tagus, visiting Chile, Peru,

Galapagos and other Pacific islands. They ‘discovered’

Pitcairn’s Island -only the second ship to visit the island

since the Bounty mutiny in 1790. Shillibeer’s account is

thus the second description of Pitcairn and the situation

of the mutineer settlement - 24 years after its inception.

Purchased from Hordern House Rare Books and Prints.

Tools & equipment

A Victorian two-day chronometer by Hewitt & Sons,

London, about 1860

Contained within a mahogany box with glass protective

inner lid, the chronometer complements the museum’s

collection of navigational instruments of the 17th to

19th centuries. Purchased from Australian Association

of Watch and Clock Collectors.

A pair of base-mounted optical gunsight binoculars, about

1944. made by Ross of London

Used on Royal Australian Naval ships for observation,

range and angle measurement from the bridge when

training the ship's guns for firing; original mahogany case.

Clothing & accessories

Swimwear and leisurewear from the collection of

Sophie Van Rood, from the 1880s to 1950s

The material, including straw boaters, a rare Edwardian

bathing cap, men's swimming trunks from the

1940s, and a 1920s beach pyjama suit, adds to our

understanding of beach culture and swimming, water

sports and popular culture. Purchased from Lawson

Menzies Pty Ltd.

Women's 1960s swimsuit related to beach culture and

beach fashion ,

Purchased from Mr Michael Whiteside.

An Australian Home Journal dressmaking pattern for a

playsuit from the 1940s or 1950s

Purchased from Ms Janis Ferguson.

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Crafts & curios

Whale penis fitted as a lamp mounted on a square

plinth with a standard electric light bulb, cord and plug

installed at the base

This electric whale penis lamp, provenance unknown,

is significant as an example of material souvenired by

the Australian whaling industry duringthe 18th, 19th

and 20th centuries. It shows how parts of the whale

werefetishised and collected by whalers themselves

and others in the industry. It is also a rare example

of a whale penis preserved and mounted into a

contemporary electric lamp. Purchased from Dalia

Stanley.

Wooden sea chest with iron handles and latch

The chest, from the Chariot of Fame, is painted on

the front with three passengers' names, the name

of the ship, and 'Not Wanted on the Voyage'. Chariot

of Fame was a three-masted, square-rigged clipper,

built at Massachusetts and launched in 1853. Initially

she sailed out of American ports, then made many

passages between England and Australia before being

abandoned at sea in 1876.

Medals & coins

Bronze medal commemorating Captain James Cook

(1728-1779), struck by the Royal Society, engraver

Lewis Pingo of the Royal Mint

The obverse features a bust of Cook with the inscription

Cook Oceani Investigator Acerrimus (the most intrepid

investigator of the seas). Following Cook's death in

Hawaii in 1779 the Royal Society produced medals in

gold, silver and bronze - gold costing 20 guineas. Over

500 bronze medals were struck. Purchased from Noble

Numismatics Pty Ltd.

Commemorative medallion for the 1908 visit of the

American Great White Fleet

The visit of the American Fleet in 1908 was an event of

enormous proportions. It is estimated that over 25%

of the Australian population participated in some way

in the celebrations in Sydney, Melbourne and Albany,

WA. The medallion has been pierced at the top for

suspension from a necklace.

Indigenous acquisitons

Three striking, woven pandanus fish traps, one smaller

fish trap and a dilly bag

The fish traps - from Maningrida in the Northern

Territory- highlightthe diversity of methods used

by Aboriginal people to catch fish. Maningrida is well

known for conical fish traps such as these, traditionally

made by men.

The dilly bag is beautifully woven. Such bags were

once common throughout Australia, and were used

for carrying or storing objects, and for ceremonial

purposes.

Fibre objects are linked to all aspects of Indigenous life:

as well as for everyday use, they personify ancestral

events and reinforce connections to the land.

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DONORS TO THE NATIONAL MARITIME COLLECTION

Mr James Allison

A white cotton-fringed scarf with HMAS Tobruk ship’s

badge embroidered in bottom comer

Badge consists of castle flying St George flag from left

tower, within rope circle, surmounted by naval crown

and Tobruk on a scroll. Boomerang, nulla nulla and

stone axe appear beneath rope circle, and ship’s motto

Fidelis et Fortis is embroidered below.

Mr Russ Ames

Five paintings, in acrylic on canvas board, of Royal

Australian Navy ships by Russ Ames, 2000, member of

the Australian Society of Marine Artists

Mr Grant Arbuthnot

Handbook for Masters and Seagoing Officers - The

Australian National Line (Australian Coastal Shipping

Commission), first edition, 1962

Handbook adds to the collection of ANL material

already held bythe museum and represents the lives of

merchant seamen.

Ms Jean Beckett

Commemorative medalet from the arrival of the First

Australian Fleet Unit in 1913

Ms Hanja Bicknell

Two canvas standard life jackets made by Harry West,

sail makers of Balmain, probably 1950s, used on the

motor-sailor boat Wyaree in Sydney

Mr Gordon and Mrs Carole Billet

A collection o f power boating memorabilia relating to the

power boat racing careers of Mr Jack and Mrs Valerie

Lewitz, in NSW in the 1950s and 1960s

The collection includes racing certificates; albums of

photographs and racing ephemera; news and magazine

articles; and nine silver-plate powerboat racingtrophies.

Mr Marcus Blackmore

A tin ofQBB butter concentrate taken with Kay

Cottee on board Blackmores First Lady on her

circumnavigation of the world in 1987-1988. The tin is

signed by Kay Cottee.

Ms Ruth Boydell

Collection of banners, flags, gifts, leaflets, t-shirts and

posters connected with the 'Flotilla of Hope' to Nauru,

2004

The flotilla was a seaborne protest involving two

Australian sailing boats, the Eureka and the One Off,

and seven crew. The expedition sailed from Sydney and

arrived in Nauru on 20 June (World Refugee Day) with

educational and recreational items and messages of

support forthe 260 asylum seekers detained in Nauru.

The vessels were not allowed to dock. The actions

sought to draw media attention to the government’s

‘Pacific Solution' to unauthorised asylum seekers.

Mr Dart and Indigo Breeder

Regatta program, single folio, NSW 2 ft Model Sailing

Council-State Open-Water Championship held on

Sunday 31 August 1947, a rule book 2 foot Model

Sailing Club and a flyer for the Sydney Ship Model Club

circa 1973 seeking members to revive the sport of

model skiff racing in Sydney

The program lists regatta entrants with details of

skippers, model boat names, post position, mainsail

colours etc. The rule book contains 59 rules including

objectives, registration, subscription details, codes

of conduct for members, handicapping rules and race

rules. Printed by Frederick E Dearing.

Mr David Bromley

Framed assemblage of wooden cut-outs titled The

Collection by Adelaide-based artist David Bromley (5 of

edition of 40)

Signed lower right, exhibited with other works by David

Bromley in 2003 at Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney. The work

depicts wooden cut-out profiles of commercial ships

and paintings of several yachts with black pen details;

it presents a playful vision of commercial ship profiles

and reflects the artist’s interest in reinterpreting 1930s

‘boys-own’ adventure story book imagery.

Mr Neil Brough

Two Christmas cards

One card from HMS Vampire, with paper insert and

black & white photograph of Vampire·, one from

1 0 6

HMS S h r o p s h ir e with paper insert and black & white

photograph o f S h r o p s h ir e .

Ms Rachella Chidgey

A f r a m e d b la c k a n d w h ite p h o to g r a p h ic p a n o r a m a o f

B a n t r y B a y P u b lic M a g a z in e

The site pictured is listed on the Australian heritage

database for its significance as a preserved industrial

site; it is also an important maritime heritage site.

The Honorable Peter Collins QC

M e t a l w a te r lin e m o d e ls o f m e r c h a n t a n d n a v a l v e s s e ls

As well as 51 models, donation includes 21 naval

books from 1918 to 2001 and a framed topographic

map of Gallipoli, reproduced at the survey department,

Egypt, 1915.

Ms Kay Cottee

E ig h te e n d y e lin e p la n s o f a T a s m a n S e a b ir d y a c h t

d e s ig n b y A la n P a y n e

Kay Cottee’s father Jim McLaren built the Tasman

Seabird yacht J o y T oo in 1961 from these plans. The

yacht was raced on Sydney Harbour and crewed by the

McLaren family including Kay, who gained her early

sailing experiences on this yacht. The Tasman Seabird,

ocean racers, heavily built for extra safety in rough seas.

Mr Graeme Cox

A c r e a m s ilk p e n n a n t w ith g o ld - f r in g e d t a s s e l a n d

b lu e e m b r o id e r e d l e t t e r in g Î- la i-Q u a n V i e t - N a m /

T h a n t a n g / 1 9 6 2 ' , s u r r o u n d in g tw o c r o s s e d f o u le d

a n c h o r s . T h e r e p u b lic o f V ie t n a m 's flag , o f t h r e e

r e d b a r s o n a g o ld e n b a c k g r o u n d , is e m b r o id e r e d

d ia g o n a lly in o n e c o r n e r

Mrs Vera Crage

F e r r y to k e n - a b ro w n m e t a l d is c w ith t h e in s c r ip tio n

‘F o r u s e in F e r r y T u r n s t ile s /S y d n e y H a r b o u r F e r r ie s P ty

L t d ’ - in u s e b e t w e e n 1 9 0 0 a n d 1 9 5 1

Mr Andy Curran

A 1 9 8 0 A m e r ic a 's C u p t e a m j u m p e r fro m t h e A u s tr a lia n

c h a lle n g e r Australia w o rn by g r in d e r J o h n L o n g le y ; a ls o

a c o lle c tio n o f s o u v e n ir s r e la t in g to th e R o y a l A u s tr a lia n

N a v y h e lic o p te r flig h t - V ie tn a m (R A N H F V ), 2 0 0 5

Mr Rene Davidson

Tw o p ie c e s o f b a le e n , o n e e n g r a v e d b y t h e d o n o r in

2 0 0 4 w ith a n im a g e o f h is g r a n d f a t h e r , E d e n ’s m a s t e r

w h a le r G e o r g e D a v id s o n ( 1 8 6 3 - 1 9 5 2 )

The pieces provide links to an important family in

Australian whaling history. Davidson Whaling Station

at Eden in New South Wales was the longest-operating

whaling station in Australia and the last shore-based

operation. The engraving by Rene Davidson is also an

unusual example of contemporary scrimshaw.

Mrs Nancy de Almeida

C a lic o h a n d k e r c h ie f p a in t e d w ith a m a p o f t h e is la n d o f

T im o r a n d t h e w o rd s ‘E a s t T im o r F r e e d o m '

Used by dancers from the East Timorese Cultural

Centre (Sydney) during performances in the 1990s.

The handkerchief reflects the meshing of cultural

traditions with political objectives that characterised

the East Timorese community in Australia.

Ms Sarah Elliott

A c ro s s in g -th e -lin e c e r t ific a t e fro m th e H M A S Sydney

c o r o n a tio n c r u is e 1 9 5 3 , p r e s e n t e d to M a lc o lm E llio tt;

a c e r t ific a t e s t a t in g t h a t M a lc o lm E llio tt w a s s e r v in g in

H M A S Sydney o n t h e o c c a s io n o f Q u e e n E liz a b e t h ll's

re v ie w a t S p i t h e a d o n 1 5 J u n e 1 9 5 3 ; a n d a s o u v e n ir

p ro g r a m

Mrs Halcyon Evans

One p ie c e o f w o o d f r o m t h e h o ld o f V ic e - A d m ir a l L o rd

H o r a t io N e ls o n 's fla g s h ip H M S Victory

The piece of wood, in fragile condition, is contained in

an envelope with the handwritten pencil note ‘From the

V ic to ry 's hold'.

Georges Hall Public School

A n a d j u s t e r ’s r e p o r t o f t h e a s s e s s m e n t o f in s u r a n c e

c la im s r e s u ltin g f r o m a n a c c id e n t to t h e SS Narrung in

D e c e m b e r 1 9 1 2

The report documents the damage, repairs, valuations

of ship and cargo, seamen’s pay etc and is significant in

revealing details of cargo shipping in the period.

Mrs Pat Gillard

A l e a t h e r a u t o g r a p h b o o k w ith a h a n d - p a in t e d

s k e tc h o f t h e M V Duntroon o n t h e c o v e r; c o n t a in s t h e

s ig n a tu r e o f C a p t a in L lo y d d a t e d 2 4 t h N o v 3 9

Mr Ray Goddard

C a r d b o a r d - m o u n t e d b la c k & w h ite p h o to g r a p h o f W h ite

S t a r L in e v e s s e l Afric in S y d n e y H a rb o u r, a b o u t 1 9 0 7

The image shows Sydney's cityscape in the

background. The photo belonged to the Reverend

Herbert Egerton Hulme who migrated from London

to Australia on the A fric in 1907. He has written

‘Torpedoed by Germans July 1917’ at the bottom and

the top is covered with signatures of fellow passengers.

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Mr Lance Gowland

Collection of prayer flags covered in messages flown

from yachts participating in the ‘Flotilla of Hope'

expedition to Nauru in 2004 (relates to donation by

Ms R Boydell, above)

Mrs Jean Hale

Two black & white photographs of the Royal Australian

Navy hospital ship Manunda leaving Darling Harbour,

Sydney, in April 1945 bound for Morotai to pick

up wounded personnel and return to Australia for

treatment; photographer unknown

Mr Trygve and Mrs Noreen Halvorsen

Collection of ocean racing memorabilia including

scrapbooks, plans and clothing, relating to the ocean

racing and sporting interests of Trygve and Magnus

Halvorsen

Collection includes 31 scrapbooks relating to the

Sydney-Hobart, Trans Tasman, Admiral’s Cup,

Montague Island, America's Cup and other races;

Gretel account book listing modifications to this yacht;

shell from the starter’s gun fired at the start of the 50th

Sydney-Hobart yacht race; and various rolled plans

of Solveig, Anitra V, PeerGynt, and Norla designed by

Trygve Halvorsen and plans by Lars Halvorsen.

Halvorsen Boats Pty Ltd

Life buoy from Kathleen Giliettand a diverse collection

of wooden patterns, mandrel boxes and Halvorsen

boat fittings dating from the 1940s to the 1960s

Mr Peter Hellmrich

Anniversary regatta program, 26 January 1844, on

embossed paper and supported on layers of linen and

coated paper

Printed by Daniel Lovett Welch, Sydney, the program

is the earliest regatta program to be offered to the

museum and is a valuable document of recreational

rowing and sailing and details of a colonial regatta in

the 1840s.

Mrs Freda Henderson

Model o f ship Archibald Russell, flanked by sm aller

models o f the Star and the Gaelic displayed in

wooden box

The diorama is significant for its depiction of key

vessels in the Australian grain race fleets and for

capturingthe romance of this last era of sail, when

wheat-bearing windjammers raced round Cape Horn in

an effort to record the fastest voyage.

Mrs Meredith Hinchliffe

Bottle of brandy presented to the Secretary of the

Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, Capt Leslie Maxwell

Hinchliffe DSC RAN, by Francis Chichester in 1966

during his stopover in Sydney in Gipsy Moth IV; eight

silver gelatin photographs taken by Ern McQuillan

at the start of the 1968 Sydney-Hobart Yacht

Race; correspondence and two novelty advertising

booklets for Rothmans cigarettes entitled ‘Queries in

Seamanship No 1 and No 2 ’, 1920s-1930s

The brandy is a rare memento of Chichester’s

circumnavigation in Gipsy Moth IV in 1966-7, the first

true single-handed circumnavigation where the track

passes over two diametrically opposite points on the

globe. The photographs add to our documentation of

Australia’s best-known blue water classic; the booklets

reflect the nautical imagery in advertising of the 1920s

and 1930s.

Mr Gerald Hurst

A Victorian naval forces certificate of service of Charles

Hurst in the Victorian Navy; a reference letter written

byWG Colquhoun, gunnery lieutenant, aboard HMVS

Nelson in Port Melbourne, 1896, to recommend

Charles Hurst to any employer

Mr Peter Huxley

Souvenir t-shirt ofOberon class submarine HMAS

Onslow’s involvement in RIMPAC 78

The t-shirt dates com memorate Australia’s

commitment to Pacific rim naval exercises around

Hawaii in April 1978. During RIMPAC exercises (held

every two years) nations that border the Pacific

join together to hone their battle skills. RIMPAC 78

was made up of 47 ships, 252 aircraft and 22,000

personnel from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and

the USA.

Mrs Joan Killingsworth

A dark-blue triangularfelt Women’s Royal Australian

Naval Service (WRANS) pennant with two suspension

loops on the hoist

Mr Nelson Manuel Lay

Wooden model Uma Lulik (East Timorese sacred

house) '

Made by carpenter Nelson Lay, the model’s thatched

roof isfashioned from broom bristles; the windows are

glazed with plastic; a paper Fretilin flag flies from the

wooden finial and a larger cloth East Timorese flag is

mounted outside the house.

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Mr Raymond Leung

Dragon boat racing memorabilia from 1999 to 2001

including programs, shirts and processional lanterns

Mr Vincent Leyden

A stringerless foam 9 foot 6 inch (2.9 m) Gordon and

Smith long board, custom-shaped byCronulla surfer

Bobby Brown circa 1967

One of the last works of this skilled surfer and board

shaper, regarded as a major surfing talent in the 1960s

when he was killed, aged 22.

Mr Phil Logan

Two pairs of men's swimming trunks worn by members

of the Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club

MrsTuyet Lu

Fry pan and plastic dishes decorated with Chinese

designs, brought from Vietnam to Australia in 1977 by

Tuyet Lu on the vessel Tu Do (owned by the museum)

Mr Bernado Machado

Jersey, t-shirt, medals and caps relating to the annual

Timor Cup soccer competition in Australia, (one of the

few events that regularly unite East Timorese from

all over Australia) and highlighting the importance of

maintaining cultural traditions in the East Timorese

community

Mrs Doris Marshall

A framed oil painting of the passenger steamer

Westralia operated by the Huddart Parker Line. Signed

and dated by crew member Hugo Lupi 17.4.1915

Mr John Matheson

Fourteen 19th-century prints depicting Macquarie

Lighthouse, the Hornby Light and South Head coastline

of Sydney

The images document the changing face of Sydney

Harbour over the century, shipping changes and the

aesthetic appeal of lighthouses fortourists of the period.

Ms Gillian Matthews

Machine-stitched submariner's cream pure wool polo

neck jumper

Manufactured in 1998 by the Elegant Knitting

Company of Penrith, New South Wales to Royal

Australian Navy pattern, issued to submariners only.

Mrs Janice Mcllree

Carved wooden commemorative triptych featuring

HMS Victory, Admiral Lord Nelson and the battleship

HMS Nelson, all surmounted by a naval crown, with a

facsimile of a handwritten letter by Nelson dated 1782

Mr Graeme McNamara

A black & white photograph ofHMAS Voyager in Sydney

Harbour, with the bridge in the background; caps of two

sailors are visible in the foreground

The Royal Navy vessel was transferred to the RAN and

spent long periods in Sydney. She was wrecked and

scuttled while disembarking troops on Betano Beach,

Timor in 1942.

Mr Douglas Murray

A wooden tray with raised silver-plated rail around

the outside and silver plated handles at either end. A

presentation plaque in the centre is inscribed ‘To Mr

C.C. Cox from Victualling S taff of SS Katoomba 27.6.25’

Mr Keith Murray

A collection of marine surveyor’s instruments,

including a rope gauge used by Keith Murray as marine

surveyor and superintendent of shipping from the

1940s to the 1980s

Two photograph albums o f MV Maheno and other

Union Steam Ship Company ships built in the 1960s

Albums compiled by Keith Murray during his career

as shipbuilder, surveyor and construction engineer

in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. One album

features black & white photographic prints of the

maiden voyage and sea trials of the Union Steamship

Company of New Zealand RoRo (Roll on Roll off) ship

MV Maheno, 1969.

Mr Chris Nixon

Selected papers and newsletters from the Hood 23

Association archives 1970s-1980s; two copies of the

Hood Association constitution 1973-4

The Hood 23 was designed as a family day sailer by

Warwick Hood in October 1966; the first boats were

produced by the Hood Boating Company in late 1967.

Mr Bill Olson

Framed poster (designed by William Olson) was

issued as a limited edition by P&O welcoming Francis

Chichester to Australia on the occasion of a 1968

promotional tour of his book about the 1967-68

single-handed circumnavigation in Gipsy Moth IV

Mr Roland Osborne

Two shipboard newspapers from HMAS Vampire

- titled AUDAMUS - written and published on board,

August 1967, containing details of shipboard and

shore activities, cartoons, poems, and Australian and

world news during Vampire’s cruise to Korea and the

South China Sea for SEATO exercises in 1967

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P&O Nedlloyd

A Marconi Alert type 1119/B emergency receiver

with instruction manual published by the Technical

Information Department - The Marconi international

Marine Company Ltd

Ms Erika Peile

Three cloth souvenir sailor dolls acquired on voyages

between London and Australia in the 1950s onboard

SS Stratheden and SS Southern Cross

Ms Amanda Penrose Hart

Oil painting on canvas by Amanda Penrose Hart titled

Mirror of the sea - the Krait2004 depicts a seascape

with MV Krait, veteran o f Operation Jay wick

Mr John Perryman

RAN petty officer coxswain navy blue double-breasted

dress jacket, manufactured by ADI in 1990; RAN petty

officer yeoman of signals navy blue double-breasted

dress jacket, manufactured by Otele Mfg Pty Ltd in

1988

Mr Bob Poole

Diary & scrapbook in ink, illustrated with photographs

and magazine clippings, recording the experiences

of Raymond Oswald Poole, a seaman on the barque

Archibald Russell on a voyage from South Australia to

England in 1933

Mr David Porter

Seven dyeline copies of design drawings by Bruce Farr

from 1972-3 of the 18-foot skiff KB (in the museum’s

collection); and a reel of film showing KB under

construction

Mrs Marjorie Quick

P&O Pocket Book published in 1899 providing

information on the customs, climate, currency and

culture of foreign ports of call. Stamped Î E Quick, it

includes handwritten notes on weather conditions etc

during a trip on the Prinz Regent Luitpold

Mr Bob Reid

Large colour map of Sydney CBD1910 attached

to a calico sheet, showing wharves in Pyrmont,

Woolloomooloo and Circular Quay and the shipping

companies affiliated with them

Estate of Noel Robins

Medal uniform accessories worn by gold medallist sailor

Noel Robins at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games

The material is significant in documentingthe

achievements of Australian Paralympians and in

particular the gold medal success of Noel Robins, Jamie

Dunross and Graeme Martin in the Sonar class event.

Captain K H Ross

Gunter scale rule, 610 mm long and 47 mm wide, made

of boxwood with brass inserts for compass points

Invented by Edmund Gunter, Professor of Astronomy

at Gresham College, London, in 1620, the Gunter

scale was a forerunner of the slide-rule and was

used by navigators until about 1900. The Gunter

scale exemplifies the technical achievement of

mathematicians and instrument makers in the 17th

century and augments the museum’s collection of

navigation instruments.

Estate of W Schroder

Collection of personal and shipping memorabilia

belonging to Wim Schroder, a captain in the merchant

navy (1953-1982)

Collection includes material from the Straat Auckland;

ephemera relating to launch of Nedlloyd, Royal

Interocean and other shipping lines; navigational

charts and tables; black & white photographs; plaque

commemorating Schroder’s retirement from the Straat

Auckland; and delftware souvenir jugfrom the Straat

Fukuoka.

Ms Lindsey Shaw

First day cover issued to commemorate the 200th

anniversary of Captain Cook’s landing in Hawaii in

1778. Two USA 13-cent stamps depict Cook in a formal

portrait and HMS Resolution in Hawaii in 1779

Two Naval Brigade and Naval Reserve cupro-nickel

commemorative medallions issued in 2000 by the

Reserve Forces Day Council Inc to celebrate 100 years

service by naval brigade and naval reserve forces in

the Defence of Australia

Mr Marcus Shaw

Rip Curl Pro Sunsmart Classic 2000 program;

Australian Surf riders Association Victorian

Championship trophy 1970 awarded to Marcus Shaw;

other Marcus Shaw surfing memorabilia including

silver gelatin photographs by Barrie Sutherland

Shaw was a pioneer of big-wave surfing in Victoria and

one of the first to surf at Bells Beach, one of Australia’s

most famous surfing beaches and location of the

world’s longest-running surf contest.

Mrs Gina Sinozich

Oil painting titled Our Story (2004), by Croatian

migrant Gina Sinozich who is shown at the bow of the

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vessel Neptunia in 1957 stretching towards a map of

Australia, depicted upside-down under a night sky; her

husband Eugene and two children Jenny and Michael

are seated behind her

Child's woollen jacket, wooden donkey and souvenir

belonging to Gina Sinozich, treasured by her for

50 years as almost the only link with her Croatian

homeland

Mrs Valerie Sloan

A red canvas Australian merchant flag waved by six-

year-old Valerie Sloan at a procession of men from

HMAS Sydney through Sydney city streets in the first

half of 1941

Mr John Smith

A painted HMAS Vampire ship’s badge consisting of

vampire bat within rope circle, surmounted by naval

crown and Vampire in blue name scroll

Mr Trevor Smith

A framed black & white photograph of Titan crane

lifting another crane at Vickers Cockatoo Dockyard Pty

Ltd, Cockatoo Island

Cockatoo Island was the site of the first major naval

shipbuilding program in Australia, important to the

development of the Royal Australian Navy and the

maintenance of the allied navies during two world wars.

Mrs Lesley Smolders

A crossing-the-line certificate for HMAS Sydney III

presented to Peter Mcgarry in 1967; a telegram dated

2 August 1967 from Malcolm Fraser, Minister for

the Army, to Lesley Brabbins advising that her fiance

Private Peter Shaun Mcgarry was killed in action on 1

August 1967 in Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam

Ms Dawn Springett

A pair of dark-green cotton overalls with zippered

pocket on front embroidered with red Naval Dockyard

Wllliamstown insignia, consisting of text in oval,

surrounding fouled anchor

Ms Paula Stafford

Diary written by George Garrard of his voyage on the

steamer Ville de Metz 1924-25

The handwritten diary records Garrard's arrival in

Sydney from Melbourne in 1924 and his embarkation

on the steamer Ville de Metz for the voyage to Europe.

The diary records his observations of shipboard life,

other vessels, ports, weather and travels in France,

including the Riviera, where he describes yacht

races, hydroplanes and motor-boats. Garrard was a

Melbourne yachtsman who owned the William Fife-

designed yacht Sayonara, considered the finest yacht

in Australian waters in the 1890s.

Mr Philip Stevens

Ralston indicator (used for weighing and balancing a

ship loading and discharging cargo) from SS Act 1, built

1968-9

The Swatch Group

Boxed Swatch Sydney 2000 Olympic Pin Collection in

original packaging produced as an official souvenir for

the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. The Swatch Group

was official timekeeper for the Games

Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club

Two pairs o f men’s swimming trunks worn by members

of the Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club circa 1950

Ms Petria Thomas

A selection of competition swimming and training

apparel worn by Olympic gold medallist Petria Thomas

The selection includes swimwear, caps, goggles,

training gear, an alarm clock and a shoulder brace

and represents Petria Thomas’s career from her first

Olympic Games in 1996 to her retirement after Athens in

2004. The material is significant because it reveals the

development of swimming gear in the decade from the

mid-1990s, and the tenacity of a champion swimmer.

The Trixie Whaling estate

Rowing memorabilia consisting of pennants, ribbons,

badges, scrap book and photograph album relating to

the career of Trixie Whaling (nee Forest) with the YWCA

rowing club 1929-1939

Mrs Cairo Walker

The Corrigan collection comprises three oil paintings

signed G Edwards, depicting steamships owned by B M

Corrigan in the early 20th century: SS Friendship, SS

Kiltobranks and SS Mokau; and a naive model of three-

masted ship Shieldaic, in a glass and timber case with

shelves above for ornaments

Corrigan's was a small coastal shipping company

serving the north coast of NSW from about 1880 to

1920. The collection represents a virtually forgotten

minor coastal company.

Ms Wendy Williams

King George Jacks Day badge, 1940s

During the reign of King George VI, small silver and

enamel badges such as this were sold as mementoes

and to raise funds for the war effort orthe navy.

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Westpac Banking Corporation

Promotional Westpac ephemera relating to the

Australian Olympic swimming squad competing in the

Sydney 2000 Olympics

Collection includes posters featuring black & white

photographs of swimmers Matt Dunn, Susie O’Neill,

Grant Hackettand Ian Thorpe; Westpac financial year

calendars titled 500 Days of Dreams and Count Down

to History showing aquatic athletes.

Women’s Pioneer Society of Australia

A wooden coffee table constructed bySH Ravenscroft

using souvenir pieces from historic vessels; wooden

bookshelf made by Ravenscroft in 1934 with timber

from Burdekin House and HMAS Sydney.

Anonymous

Papers relating to the 1962 America's Cup Challenge

including plans of 12-Metre yacht Gretel

Various items relating to yacht racing with particular

reference to the early history of Australia’s involvement

in the America’s Cup. The plans provide documentation

of Australia’s first America's Cup challenger Gretel,

manuscript Wind and Water is an unpublished account

of this challenge. Other documents reveal valuable

information about the organisational structure of the

Australian syndicate headed by Sir Frank Packer.

Unknown

Spiral-bound 1993 Australian Rowing calendar

produced by the Australian Rowing Council

The calendar, which features Australian Olympic

and World Champion teams including the Oarsome

Foursome’, is an example of elite sports promotion and

gives contextual images for the men's double scull and

men's coxless four which both won gold at the 1992

Barcelona Olympics.

Unknown

Souvenir vinyl sound recording with Super Duck,

the theme o f the America's Cup Challenge 1987,

performed by Galapagos Duck and friends, EMI

Records 1986

The sound recording reflects the influence of major

sporting events on Australian popular culture.

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APPENDIX 4

MMAPSS GRANTS 2 0 0 4 -2 0 0 5

One of the museum's most important cutural outreach

programs is the Maritime Museums of Australia

Project Support Scheme (M MAPSS), administered

by us and jointly funded by the museum and the

Australian Government through the Distributed

National Collections Program of the Department of

Communications, Information Technology and the

Arts. The grants are awarded to non-profit maritime

museums and historical societies, most of them

community-based and run by volunteers, to fund

restoration, conservation, collection management

and exhibition development projects. The scheme

was initiated in 1995 and since then 113 projects

across all Australian states and most of its territories

have been supported. For the year 2 0 0 4 -2 0 0 5 ,1 2

grants totalling $30,000 were awarded to the following

organisations.

Albany Maritime Foundation Inc, Albany WA

A grant of $4,400 will fund the development of a

maritime heritage gallery within the Albany Boat Shed.

As part of the fitting-out process, displays will be created

recording the history of several prominent boating

and/or fishing families from this famous southern-ocean

port of Western Australia, best-known as the home of

Australia’s last whaling-hunting industry.

Broome Historical Society, Broome WA

An award of $3,000 will contribute towards the

conservation work and digitisation of the Pearling

Master's Register N-Z. This important historical

document, a key primary resource relating to

Broome's pearling history, will be taken to Perth where

each page will be copied, conserved, and returned

as close as possible to its original form. The original

will then be stored safely away and the copy made

available to the public.

Axel Stenross Maritime Museum Inc, Port Lincoln SA

Funding of $3,000 will enable the museum to restore

an ex-RAN Montague whaler to working order, both

for display and demonstration sailing use. This is

the only ex-navy whaler - a cutter used for transport

and seamanship training - in the vicinity, and on

completion of restoration it will be the only working

example in South Australia.

Cairns Maritime Museum, Cairns Qld

A grant of $2,000 will assist the museum to conserve

the Hayles Green Island glass bottom boat. It’s the

only known example remaining in Cairns of the once

ubiquitous type designed and built in the early 1950s

by the Hayles family, an important tool in marketing

and developing tourism in tropical Australia. It allowed

thousands of mainly Australian tourists, visiting Cairns

up to the 1980s, to view coral reefs off Green Island.

Maritime Museum of Townsville, Qld

A grant of $2,000 will fund the assessment,

development and implementation of a management

program forthe museum’s important photographic

collection. The program will include a complete audit,

cataloguing, preventative conservation appraisal,

volunteerand curatortraining.

Echuca Historical Society, Echuca Vic

A grant of $3,500 was made to conserve a collection

of maritime photographs believed to be unique. The

images, dated from 1890, include the Echuca Wharf,

paddlesteamers and boats built in the town, the rail

bridgeand street scenes, children and adults outside

The Sawmill Sunday School, and PS Marion passing

through Torrumbarry Loch in 1939. Most were donated

by community members.

Geelong Heritage Centre, Vic

An award of $2,000 will assist the Geelong Heritage

Centre to preserve and catalogue their W G Volum

Collection, donated in 2000. The estimated 12,000

photographs of 19th and 20th-century British and

Australian-built ships illustrate changes in Australian

shipping, trade, naval history and migration from the

1860s to 1980s. They include 600 photographs from

the second half of the 19th century, of early steam

ships in the Port of Geelong - once the wool capital of

Australia and a busier port than Melbourne.

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Clarence River Historical Society Inc, Grafton NSW

Fundingof $2,500 will enable the society to preserve

the remnants of a skiff that belonged to world sculling

champion, Henry Searle. Scullingdeveloped in the 19th

century into a popular professional sport with mass

appeal, and Searle was one of several heroes bred on

the northern rivers of NSW. Champion of the world in

1889, he made headlines as ‘The Invincible Oarsman’

and The Clarence Comet’, but died of fever at age 23.

Lane Cove 12-Foot Sailing Skiff Club, Lane Cove NSW

A grant of $2,400 will contribute towards the club’s

efforts to research and document its history and its

connection with the challenging 12-foot skiff class, a

distinctive racingtype which has evolved into a high-tech

two-hander raced competitively today. The club traces

its origins back to the 1890s. The project involves

collecting oral history stories from club members,

assembling a digital collection of images related to the

club, and will culminate in the publication of a book.

Port of Yamba Historical Society Inc, NSW

An award of $2,000 will assist in conserving and

displayinga collection of 223 watercolour paintings

of marine life with notes on their appearance, habitat

and feeding habits. Dated 1899,1905 and 1908, the

delightful watercolours in a fresh and appealingstyle are

the work of an unknown artist {‘JTP’), and were made in

Queensland, NSW and some Pacific islands. They were

found in the estate of the late Frank O’Grady, owner of

Yamba’s Pacific Hotel, and donated to the society.

Tweed Heads Historical Society Inc, NSW

Fundingof $2,000 will allow Tweed Heads Historical

Society to design and construct a mount for the display

of a pre-1936 carvel-built river skiff. Boats such as

this were used from the time of early settlement on the

Tweed and surrounding rivers as work boats to move

family, transport provisions, and for fishing, at a time

when there were no roads.

Maritime Museum of Tasmania, Hobart Tas

A grant of $2,000 will fund registration and

conservation of a collection of 77 silk regatta

programs. Hobart’s regatta was inaugurated in 1838

with racing whale boats, and by the early 1900s was

‘the greatest aquatic carnival South of the Line'. It

celebrated the local anniversary of Abel Tasman’s

discovery of the island in 1642. Ornate silk programs

dating back to the mid-19th century detailed the

equally elaborate program of events that were a

theatrical feature of Hobart's regattas.

Internships

The Australian National Maritime Museum also

operates a partnership or internship program allowing

people from smaller regional museums who are

managing maritime heritage collections to spend up

to four weeks here deveiopingtheir skills. This year’s

interns were Ray Robinson from the Port Broughton

Sailing and Boat Club Inc of South Australia, and Marie

Nunan, a volunteer from the Geelong Heritage Centre

in Victoria.

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APPENDIX 5

ANMM PUBLICATIONS

Books

Voluteers Handbook 2003-04, annual volunteer

handbook of the Australian National Maritime

Museum, 40pp, editor Gillian Matthews. Free to ANMM

volunteers.

Serials

Signals, quarterly colour magazine of the Australian

National Maritime Museum. Numbers 68-71. ISSN

1033-4688,36pp, editor Jeffrey Mellefont. Published

September, December, March, June. Free to Members.

Australian National Maritime Museum Annual Report

2003-2004. ISSN 1034-5019,151pp, editor Jeffrey

Mellefont.

All Hands, magazine of the Australian National

Maritime Museum Volunteers. Issues 4 8 -51, 28pp,

published quarterly. Free to ANMM volunteers.

Newsletter, monthly newsletter of the Australian

National Maritime Museum Volunteers. Issues

1 2 2 -1 3 3 ,10pp, editor Peter Wood. Published monthly.

Free to ANMM volunteers.

Documents

Connections: Indigenous Cultures and the Australian

National Maritime Museum. ISBN 0-9751428-2-8,

authors Michael Crayford and John Waight, editor

Dr Wendy Wilkins.

Educational Resources

About Time school activity book

About Time maths competition workbook

About Time school workshop activity sheets

Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture activity trail

School holiday brochures 2004-05 (four)

World Wide Web

Australian National Maritime Museum Web Site

http://www.anmm.gov.au. Updated continually.

556,118 web site visits this year. Webmaster Jeffrey

Mellefont, publications manager.

The Welcome Wall http://www.anmm.gov.au/ww

Searchable database of all Welcome Wall registrations

including personal histories. Online registration for

intending participants.

ANMM Image Library - searchable database of

selected ship images from the collection (http://www.

anmm.gov.au/pics/search/index.cfm).

This is the museum’s contribution to the national

heritage portal coordinated by the National

Library of Australia PictureAustralia (http://www.

pictureaustralia.org/).

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APPENDIX 6

STAFF PUBLICATIONS

Penny CUTHBERT, ‘50,000 km by kayak’ article, New

Zealand Kayak Magazine 27 2 0 0 4 :1 6 -2 1 (reprint)

Max DINGLE, ‘A brief guide to strategic planning',

Friends Review (newsletter of the Australian Federation

of Friends of Museums), April 2005

Dr Nigel ERSKINE, Time and longitude', feature article,

Signals 68 2004: 2 -5

- & Bill Richards, ‘About Time', article, Signals 68

2004:6-7

- Be Excellent to Each Other', feature article, Signals

7 1 2 0 0 5 :8 -9

- Time and longitude’, article, The World of Antiques

and Art, August 2004-February 2 0 0 5 :5 9 -6 2

Maria Jose FERNANDEZ, Our Welcome Wall is awash

with stories’, feature article, Signals 71 2 0 0 5 :1 0 -1 1

Daina FLETCHER, ‘Kay Cottee's great adventure

brought to life’, feature article, Signals 70 200 5 :1 2 -1 3

- & Natasha WHYTE, 'Sydney Harbour - working or

not?' feature article, Signals 68 2 0 0 4 :8 -1 1

Elizabeth HADLOW, ‘Snapshot - howto keep your

photos safe’, feature article, Signals 68 2 0 04:2 4-27

Michael HEDGER, ‘Southern Surveyor: ocean research

flagship’, article, Signals 69 2004-05: 38

Kieran HOSTY, ‘Shipwrecks on our doorstep’, feature

article, Signals 68 2 0 04:1 2-14

Paul HUNDLEY, ‘Captain Mickleburgh and the barque

Terror’, feature article, Signals 69 2 0 04-05 : 2 -5

- & Jeffrey Mellefont, ‘Log of the barque Terror’, feature

article, Signals 69 2004-05 : 6 -8

- 'Whalebone art, whaler's log open window on 19th

century maritime adventure’, article in Antiques in New

South Wales, December 2004-M ay 2005

- ‘Acquisition - Henry Downes, Log of the Terror,

1846-1847’, article in World of Antiques and Art,

February-August 2005

- ‘Acquisition- scrimshaw panbone of Benjamin

Boyd’, article in World of Antiques and Art, February-

August 2005

Bliss JENSEN, ‘Regulating time in the colony’, feature

article, Signals 69 2 0 0 4 -0 5 :9 -1 1

Lind! LAWTON, ‘Refugee women - heroes and

survivors', feature article, Signals 69 2 0 0 4 -0 5 :1 2 -1 3

- ‘Known to the unknown - Gina's journey’, feature

article, Signals 70 2 005:8 -1 0

- ‘Ships, scenery and society’, review of Waterline:

Images from the Golden Age of cruising by John

Graves, Signals 7 1 2005: 32

Antonia MACARTHUR, ‘DressingEndeavour-style’,

feature article, Signals 68 2004: 28 -3 0

- ‘A Scandinavian skirmish’, feature article, Signals 69

2 0 0 4 -0 5 :3 0 -3 1

- The transit of Panama', feature article, Signals 70

2 0 0 5 :3 4 -3 5

Ewen McPHEE, ‘Sailing a century', review of Redbill

From Pearls to Peace - the life and times of a

remarkable lugger, by Kate Lance, Signals 68 2004:31

Jeffrey MELLEFONT, ‘Museum Quay, Festival Pontoon',

feature article, Signals 69 2 0 0 4 -0 5 :1 4 -1 6

- & Paul Hundley, ‘ Log of the barque Terror’, feature

article, Signals 69 2004-05: 6 -8

- ‘Memories of maritime India", feature article, Signals

70 2 0 0 5 :2 6 -3 0

- & Dr Wendy Wilkins & Bob Matchett, ‘Rivals at sea’,

feature article, Signals 7 1 2005: 2 -4

- & Simon Morris, ‘Around the world on Sirius’, feature

article, Signals 712005: 27-31

- ‘Fishmarket aromas’, Letters to the Editor, Sydney

Morning Herald 18/02/0 5

- ‘Pre-and post-Tampa immigration policies', Letters to

the Editor, Sydney Morning Herald 11/05/0 5

- Cited in ‘What the Fuck’, Language Most Foul, Ruth

Wajnryb, Allen & Unwin, Sydney 2004

Kimberly O'SULLIVAN STEWARD, ’MeetingGina’,

article, Signals 70 2005:11

David PAYNE, ‘Chalk and cheese', feature article,

Signals 7 1 200 5 :1 2 -1 4

Bill RICHARDS, ‘Feedingthe mind', feature article,

Signals 70 2 0 0 5 :1 4 -1 6

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- & Dr Nigel Erskine, 'About Time’, article, Signals 68

2 0 04:6 -7

- About Time, article, Collectable Trader, September-

0ctober2004: 5 0 -5 3

Karen SCHAMBERGER & Lind I LAWTON, ‘Fretilin calling

feature article, Signals 70 2005:3 1-33

Lindsey SHAW, ‘A raggle-taggle flotilla’, review of

Forgotten Fleet 2: an updated and expanded history of

the part played by Australian men and ships in the US

Army Small Ships in New Guinea 1942-1945 by Bill

and Ruth Lunney, Signals 69 2 0 0 4 -0 5 :2 9

- 'Voyages to Vietnam’, review of Photographs by

Australian naval and military veterans of the Vietnam

conflict by Stephen Lewis, Signals 70 2005: 36

Stirling SMITH, ‘Sentinels on sandstone', review of The

Fragile Forts - the fixed defences of Sydney Harbour

1788-1963 by Peter Oppenheim, Signals 712005:33

Gaynor STANLEY, ‘Steady hand at the helm', article,

Signals 68 2004: 32-33

- 'Tasmania's resurgent Aboriginal crafts', article,

Signals 69 2 0 0 4 -0 5 :3 5

Jo THOMSON, ‘Understanding our audiences', article,

Signals 712005: 23

Natasha WHYTE & Daina Fletcher, Sydney Harbour

- working or not?’, feature article, Signals 68 2004:8-11

Dr Wendy WILKINS, ‘Bienvenue Baudin’, article, Signals

68 2004:34

- ‘Handle with care’, article. Signals 70 2 0 0 5 :3 8 -3 9

- & Jeffrey Mellefont & Bob Matchett, ‘Rivals at sea’,

feature article, Signals 7 1 2 0 0 5 :2 -4

- ‘Scandinavians at the museum’, article, Signals 71

2005:34

APPENDIX 7

STAFF CONFERENCE PAPERS & LECTURES

Neil BROUGH, ‘Care of floating maritime objects’,

paper at Big Stuff conference - Caringfor Large

Technology, Australian War Memorial, Canberra,

2 9 /1 0 -0 1 /1 1 /2 0 0 4

Zara COLLINS, ‘All that glitters talk, International

Glass Art Society conference, JamFactory Centre for

Craft and Design, Adelaide, 01/09/0 4

- lecture on contemporary glass and jewellery designs,

visiting artists' program, Sydney College of the Arts,

16/03/05

Michael CRAYFORD, ‘Maritime heritage - a museum

perspective', paper and two workshop presentations

on museum management, International Symposium

on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Yangon,

Myanmar, 2 4 /0 8 /0 4 -2 5 /0 8 /0 4 and Bagan, Myanmar,

2 6 -2 8 /0 8 /0 4

- ‘Australian National Maritime Museum', lecture and

participation in discussion on broader museology

issues, National Museum of Brunei, BandarSeri

Bagwan, Brunei Darussalam, 0 1 -0 3 /0 9 /0 4

- & V Daniel, H Mansell, K Fernandez and I Cook, 'The

politics of international engagement in the Asia-Pacific

region’, paper, Museums Australia conference, Sydney,

03/05/05

Max DINGLE, ‘Does your museum know you exist?',

paper at Museum Shops Association of Australia

conference, 1 5 -17/09 /04

Penny CUTHBERT, ‘The enigmatic Oskar Speck', paper,

12 Biennial National Conference of the Australian

Historical Association, 06/07/04

- Watermarks volunteer guide training 27/07/04 and

24/02/05

Dr Nigel ERSKINE, 'After the Bounty: Mr Christian's

settlement at Pitcairn Island’, lecture at Salve Regina

University, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, 0 2 /0 9 /0 4

- 'The Newport connection’, ANMM staff lecture,

23/09/04

- About Time’, exhibition tour and talk to ANMM

Members, 29/09 & 2 8/10/0 4

- About Time’, exhibition tour and talk to FOH and

security, 27/09 & 0 1/10/0 4

- About Time’, exhibition tour and talk to teacher

guides. 12/10/04

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- ‘About Time’, exhibition tour and talk to volunteer

guides, 13/10/04

- ‘About Time’, exhibition tour and lecture to WEA,

10/02/05

- ‘After the Bounty mutiny', lecture to Members,

03/03/05

- Endeavour replica volunteer guide training, 11,12, &

21/03/05; 22/04/05; 13/05/05; 14 & 18/0 6 /0 5

- Navigators gallery volunteer guide training,

15/02/05 & 11/0 5 /0 5

- Four onboard lectures to Endeavour replica crew

duringthe voyage from NZ to Australia, 01-17/04/05,

comprising: ‘Historical archaeology of Pitcairn Island’,

‘Search for Endeavour', The development of the

Pacific in the late-18th and 19th centuries’, ‘Maritime

archaeology in Australia'

- ‘A brief history of navigation', lecture at University of

NSW, 0 4 /0 5 /0 5

- ‘Voyaging on the Endeavour replica', lecture to ANMM

staff, 09/0 5 /0 5

- ‘Preservingthe Bounty cannon', lecture in ANMM

chemistry workshops, 1 0 ,1 3 ,1 8 ,1 9 & 20/05/0 5

- ‘Shipwrecks and maritime archaeology', lecture to

the Royal Australian Historical Society, 0 1 /0 6 /0 5

Mariea FISHER, Sailor Style - Art Fashion Film, lecture

to College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales,

25/08/04

- ‘There’s no place like home - museum management

of the repatriation of cultural material', paperto

Museums Australia conference, 03/05/0 5

- ‘Exhibition critique - toys, science and play’, paper,

Museums Australia conference, 04/0 5 /0 5

Daina FLETCHER, ‘Les Genies de la Mer in Australia',

lecture to ANMM Members, 12/12/0 4

- ‘Interpreting Blackmores First Lady - viewing

artefacts on board an artefact', lecture to volunteer

guides, 1 3 /1 2 /0 4

- le s Genies de la Mer - art and empire’, talk to

teacher focus group, 15/02/05

- ‘As if you are unlockinga showcase and stepping

inside - Blackmores First Lady', talk at volunteers

forum, ANMM, 17/02/05

- ‘A preview of Les Genies de la Mer’, talk at volunteers

forum, 17/02/05

- Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture volunteer guide training, 05 & 08/04/0 5

- Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture, museum security training, 05 & 0 6/04/05

- ‘Les Genies de la Mer for Australian visitors’, talk and

tourfor ANMM Members, with Marjolaine Mourot and

Mario Beland, 07/04/05

- ‘The iconography of empire and Les Genies de la

Mer’, talk to partners of Heads of Mission, French

Embassy, Canberra, 19/04/05

- Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture, teacher guide training, 27/04/05

- ‘The development of Les Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture', paper

to delegates at Museums Australia conference,

30/04/0 5

- ‘A report on the scope and program for the Australian

Museums Association conference, 02/0 5 /0 5

- ‘France and Australia: recontextualising Les Genies

de la M eratthe ANMM', a WEA course, 05/05/0 5

- Les Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French Naval

Sculpture, teachers preview, 10/05/05

- ‘Watermarks and Blackmores First Lady’, volunteer

guide training, 19/05/05

- le s Genies de la Mer - Masterpieces of French

Nava! Sculpture in Australia', talk to Art Gallery of New

South Wales and Alliance Francaise members, with

Associate Professor Ross Steele, 18/05/05

- le s Genies de la Mer - treasures and masterpieces’,

talk and tourfor Institute of Australian Tourist Guides,

30/06/05

- le s Genies de la Mer - France at sea’, talk at a

recital of French songs held at Women's College,

University of Sydney, 3 1 /03/0 5

- & David PAYNE, ‘Afresh initiative - the Australian

council, 2 9 /0 6 /0 6

Michael HEDGER, ‘Characteristics and the positioning

of a contemporary maritime museum’, lecture and

walkingtourto Sydney University Museum Studies

students, 0 5 /0 4 /0 5

Paul HUNDLEY, ‘The Wreck of the Julia Ann - from

acquisition to exhibition', paper, Pacific Maritime

History and Archaeology conference, Honolulu, Hawaii,

February 2005

- ‘Trans-Pacific trade duringthe American and

Australian gold rushes’ and ‘Maritime cultural

landscapes’, guest lectures in the maritime

archaeology program, James Cook University,

Townsville, Queensland, 0 7 -08/03 /05

Lindl LAWTON, Passengers, volunteer guide training,

22/0 3 /0 5

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- ‘Children of the Crocodile at the AN MM', talk at

the East Timorese Independence Day celebrations,

Chippendale, 20/05/0 5

Matt LEE, host, Museum Shops Association of

Australia conference, ANMM, 15-17/09/04

Dominic MACKINTOSH, ‘In the Meantime’, presentation

to ANMM staff, 21/0 1 /0 5

- & Elizabeth Zammit-Estrada, presentation to visiting

TAFE students, 0 8 /0 6 /0 5

- & Elizabeth Zammit-Estrada, presentation to members

of the Institute of Australian Tourist Guides, 30/06/05

Jeffrey MELLEFONT, ‘Southern Indian maritime history',

lecture to ANMM Members, 15/05/05

Patricia MILES, Commerce volunteer guide training,

07/10/04 & 09/06/0 5

- ‘The Sydney wharfies mural', presentation to

Maritime Union of Australia retired members group,

08/02/0 5

- Vikings, talk to teacher focus groups, 15/02/05

David PAYNE & Daina FLETCHER, ‘Afresh initiative

- the Australian Register of Historic Vessels’,

presentation to ANMM council, 29/06/06

Lindsey SHAW, The pitfalls (and pleasures) of

contemporary collecting - case studies from ANMM’,

paper at the 12th Biennial Conference of the Australian

Historical Association, Newcastle, NSW, 06/07/04

APPENDIX 8

STAFF MEDIA APPEARANCES

This appendix lists appearances by museum staff

communicating their research and special expertise to

a wider audience.

Scott ANDREW, ‘Sail Expo', interview with Alan Borg,

Radio 2RDJ, 05/03/0 5

Dr Nigel ERSKINE, ‘Being a maritime archaeologist’,

interview with James O'Loghlin, Radio 2BL, 26/07/04

- 'About Time', interview, Radio 2SM, 27/09/04

- ‘Endeavour replica', interview with Alan Borg, Radio

2RDJ. 30/04/05

Julie STACKER, ‘The interpretation program for

Blackmores First Lady', lecture to volunteer guides,

13/12/05

Mary-Louise WILLIAMS, speaker, unveiling of Baudin

Bust, 05/07/04

- ‘Antarctica: the director’s cut', lecture to ANMM

Members, 15/07/04

- ‘Antarctica: the director’s cut’, lecture to Newcastle

Women’s Business Club, 06/09/05

- Host, Welcome Wall unveilings, 31/10/0 4 &

10/04/05

- speaker, launch of Aquatic Paralympic exhibition,

03/1 2 /0 4

-speaker and MC, launch of exhibition Gina's Journey,

15/2/05

- speaker, Swiss Consulate 150th Anniversary, ANMM

2/3 /0 5

- speaker and presenter, Ferry and Workboat

Challenge, Darling Harbour 06/03/0 4

- speaker, World Presidents Organisation, ANMM,

22/03/0 5

- speaker and MC, opening of Les Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture, 0 6 /0 4 /0 5

- speaker and MC, Endeavour welcome home,

17/04/05

Elizabeth ZAMMIT-ESTRADA & Dominic Mackintosh,

presentation to visitingTAFE students, 0 8 /0 6 /0 5

- & Dominic Mackintosh, presentation to members of

the Institute of Australian Tourist Guides, 3 0 /0 6 /0 5

- Endeavour replica', interview with John Condon,

Television Asia/Pacific. 13/05/05

- ‘La Perouse’s ships', interview with Brendan

Trembath, Radio National, 11/05/05

Daina FLETCHER, 'Les Genies de la Mer -

Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture in Australia',

talk at media preview, 06/04/0 5

Paul HUNDLEY, ‘Captain Mickleburgh and the Terror

panbone’, interview with Steve Meacham, Sydney

Morning Herald, 2 2 /1 1 /0 4

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- ‘Captain Mickleburgh and the Terror panbone’,

interview with Louise Maher, ABC Radio, Canberra,

23/11/04

- ‘Captain Mickleburgh and the Terror panbone’,

interview with Nick Reinburger, ABC Regional

(Southwest) Radio, 2 3 /11/0 4

- interview with Sally Loane on listener confusion

about the difference between the prowand bow of a

ship, ABC Radio, Sydney, 24/03/05

Bliss JENSEN, ‘About Time’, interview with Mark

Kennedy, 2RDJ, 08/0 2 /0 5

- About Time', interview with Alan Borg, Radio 2NSB,

12/02/05

- ‘What is time?’, interview with Jack Yabsley, Totally

Wild, Network 10,1 8 /0 5 /0 5

- ‘Howto master the arts', interview, Sunday

Telegraph, 2 4 /04/2 005

Lindl LAWTON, ‘Gina’s Journey’, interview with

Elizabeth Fortescue, The Telegraph, 8 /0 2 /2 0 0 5

- ‘Gina’s Journey’, 7.30 Report, 24/02/05

- ‘Gina’s Journey’, SBS Croatian Radio, 09/0 3 /0 5

- ‘Children of the Crocodile’, interview with Portuguese

radio station, SBS Radio, 23/04/05

Matt LEE, quoted in Retail Trader April-May 2005

Jeffrey MELLEFONT, ‘SekarAman, Indonesian perahu

in ANMM collection', interview with Grant Denyer,

Sunrise, Channel 7, 24/10/2004

Bill RICHARDS, ‘Australian National Maritime Museum’,

interview, Radio 2CH, 24/10/2004

- ‘Welcome Wall unveiling', news interview, Radio 2SM,

29/10/2004

- ‘Museum visitor programs’, interview, Radio SBS,

1 1 /11/2 004

- 'Summer holiday program’, interview, Radio 666,

27/11/2004

- ‘Summer holiday program’, interview, Radio Indian

Link, 2 9 /1 1 /2 0 0 4

- ‘Australian National Maritime Museum, its

exhibitions and activities', discussion, Radio 2RRR,

18/12/2 005

- ‘Australia Day at the museum’, interview, Radio

FM99.3, 2 4 /0 1 /2 0 0 5

- ‘Museum’s call for volunteers’, interview, Radio

FM 99.3,17/02/2005

- 'Global Challenge yachts arrive’, news interview,

Radio 2SM, 20/02/2 005

- ‘Museum visitor programs’, interview, Radio 2RDJ,

0 2 /0 4 /2 0 0 5

- ‘School holiday program’, interview, Radio 2SM,

09/04/2 005

- ‘Endeavour’s homecoming’, interview, Radio WS FM,

17/04/2005

Lindsey SHAW, ‘HMAS Onslow’, TV interview, HR Live

(Foxtel), 09/0 5 /0 5

- ‘Dutch connections at ANMM’, guest lecture, reunion

of ex-Netherlands merchant shipping, 28/05/0 5

Stirling SMITH, ‘Gone but not forgotten - maritime

archaeology in Australia', interview, ANC Radio,

05/06/0 5

Mary-Louise WILLIAMS, ‘What's on - exhibitions

at ANMM', interview with Simon Marnie, Sunday,

04/07/04

- ‘Welcome Wall’, interview on George and Paul, 2UE

radio, 0 8 /0 8 /0 4

- ‘Sailor Style’, interview with Grant Denyer, Channel 7

Sunrise, 27/07/04

- ‘Welcome Wall’, interview with Tim Bolt, ABC

Southern Regional Radio, 29/10/04

- ‘Welcome Wall’, interview on SBS Radio, news,

31/10/0 4

- ‘The Endeavour replica’, interview, Channel 9,

0 9 /1 1 /0 4

- ‘The Endeavour replica’, interview, NBN, news,

09/1 1 /0 4

- ‘The Endeavour replica' interview, Sky News

Australia, 0 9 /1 1 /0 4

- 'The Endeavour replica’ interview, TCN 9 National 6

news, 0 9 /1 1 /0 4

- interview with Aletha Mays in ‘Up Close and Personal’,

MAG magazine February 2 0 0 5 ,1 4 /1 2 /0 4

- Les Genies de la Mer, profile in France Australie,

March-May 2005: p 7

- ‘Endeavour’, letters to the editor, Sydney Afloat, May 05

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APPENDIX 9

STAFF PROFESSIONAL APPOINTM ENTS

Steven ADAMS, auditor, Australian Registrars

Committee

Susan BRIDIE, member, Marketing Managers

Committee, Darling Harbour Business Association

- member, executive committee, Australian Federation

of Friends of Museums

- member, committee, Friends and Volunteers Special

Interest Group, Museums Australia

Michael CRAYFORD, member, board of directors,

AusHeritage: Australia's network for Cultural Heritage

Services

Max DINGLE, Australian delegate, World Federation of

Friends of Museums council

- World Federation of Friends of Museums

representative, Australian Federation of Friends of

Museums council

- vice-president, Friends and Volunteers Special

Interest Group, Museums Australia

- board member, Darling Harbour Business Association

- board member. Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre

- member, Adelaide University Research Centre for the

History of Food and Drink

Dr Nigel ERSKINE, member, NSW Maritime Archaeology

advisory panel

- member, Commonwealth Historic Shipwrecks

Delegates advisory panel

Mariea FISHER, national committee member,

Museums Australia

- vice-president, Temporary and Travelling Exhibitions

Special Interest Group, Museums Australia

- board member, ICOM (International Council of

Museums)

Jeffrey FLETCHER, editor, newsletter of the Australian

Maritime Museums Council

- treasurer, Australian Maritime Museums Council,

Special Interest Group, Museums Australia

Michael HEDGER, paneljudge, University of Western

Sydney inaugural sculpture prize, 11/04

- member, Woollahra council small sculpture award

committee

Bliss JENSEN, member, conference programming

subcommittee, Museums Australia conference 2005

- Politics and Positioning

Matt LEE, president, Museum Shops Association of

Australia

- consultantto retail & product development staff,

National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria

- consultantto retail & product development staff,

Museum of Flight, Nowra, NSW

- consultant to retail & product development staff,

Australian Aviation Museum, Bankstown, NSW

- consultantto new visitor centre at Old Quarantine

Station, North Head, Sydney

Jeffrey MELLEFONT, vice-president, Australian

Association for Maritime History

Denise MACKENZIE, honorary secretar, Australian

Registrars Committee

Lindsey SHAW, president, Australian Association for

Maritime History

- newsletter editor, Australian Assn for Maritime History

Stirling SMITH, member, NSW Maritime Archaeology

advisory panel

- Commonwealth representative, Australian Institute

of Maritime Archaeology council

Jo THOMSON, president. Evaluation and Visitor

Research Special Interest Group, Museums Australia

Dr Wendy WILKINS, editor, Friends Review, newsletter

of the Australian Federation of Friends of Museums

- foundation member, Sydney Society of Literature and

Aesthetics, Sydney University

Mary-Louise WILLIAMS, member. Museums and

Galleries Foundation of New South Wales

- vice-president and president of International

Congress of Maritime Museums

- board member, Council of Australian Museum Directors

- board member, Foundation for the Preservation of

Captain Cook's Ships

- peer reviewer, Museum Management and

Curatorship, 2 0 0 4 -0 5

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APPENDIX 10

STAFF OVERSEAS TRAVEL

Steven ADAMS, fleet manager: Gisborne, NZ, 2 8 /0 3

01/04/2004. Assess Endeavour replica as part of

project planning for the handover of the vessel to AN MM.

Zara COLLINS, volunteers’ assistant: Beijing, China,

0 1 /1 1 -0 1 /1 2 /2 0 0 4 . Awarded an Australia-China

Council artist-in-residency to research traditional

textile designs and inspire new jewellery designs.

Michael CRAYFORD, assistant director, Collections and

Exhibitions: Singapore, Myanmar, Brunei, 2 0 /0 8

04/09/2004. Attended International Symposium on

Preservation of Cultural Heritage and participated in

discussions on broader museological issues.

- USA, Newark, New York, 0 6 -1 4 /0 6 /2 0 0 5 . Visited

Newark museums to establish interest in Saltwater

exhibition and negotiated donation for American

Friends of ANMM.

Dr Nigel ERSKINE, curator, Exploration: Newport, Rhode

Island, USA, 2 1 /0 8 -0 6 /0 9 /0 4 . Assisted Rhode Island

Marine Archaeology Project in survey of wrecks in

Newport Harbour, seeking remains of HMB Endeavour.

- crew member, the Endeavour replica, New Zealand-

Australia voyage, 01-17/05/05.

Daina FLETCHER, senior curator, Maritime

Communities: Paris, London, 10 -1 8 /0 9 /0 4 . Selected

material and negotiated development of Les Genies

de la Mer -Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture;

meetings with Paula Austin, project manager and

Simon Stephens, curator of the National Register

of Historic Vessels at Greenwich, to discuss a

comparative model for ANMM’s Australian Register of

Historic Vessels.

Paul HUNDLEY, senior curator, USA Gallery: Norfolk,

Virginia USA, October 2004. For Council of American

Maritime Museums.

- Honolulu, Hawaii, February 2005. Presented

paper ‘The wreck of the Tu//a Ann - from acquisition

to exhibition’ atthe Pacific Maritime History and

Archaeology conference.

Dominic MACKINTOSH, marketing services manager:

Greenwich, UK, 0 6 /0 9 -2 9 /1 0 /2 0 0 4 . Secondmentto

the National Maritime Museum.

Jeffrey MELLEFONT, publications manager: Tamil Nadu

and Kerala, India, 16/11-07/12/04. Led a maritime-

themed tour of coastal southern India, for 12 museum

Members and public subscribers.

Mary-Louise WILLIAMS, director: Rhode Island, USA,

0 4 -0 5 /1 0 /0 4 . Rhode Island Archaeological Maritime

Museum Project, participated in discussion on the

search for Cook's ships.

- New York, USA, 05-07/10/04. Met with consular

and trade organisations regarding American Friends

of Australian National Maritime Museum (AFANMM),

gallery systems, site visit to Metropolitan Museum of Art.

- Washington, USA, 08 -1 1 /1 0 /0 4 . Met with embassy

officials and trade organisations regarding AFANMM:

visits to American Natural History Museum, Museum

of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institute, USS

Sequoia.

- Bilbao, Spain, 13-17/10/04. Attended meeting of

ICMM executive, visit to Bilbao Maritime Museum.

- Paris, France, 18-20/10 /04. Musee national de

la Marine for negotiations for Les Genies de la Mer

- Masterpieces of French Naval Sculpture; Musee

Jacquemart-Andre.

- Auckland, NZ, 25-26/10 /04. Meetings at NZ

National Maritime Museum.

- Wellington, NZ, 26-28/10 /04. Attended Council of

Australian Museum Directors meeting, Te Papa.

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ORGANISATION CHART AT 30 JUNE 2005

Design

J Nettleton A/g

Publishing J Mellefont

Commercial & Visitor Services M Dingle

Marketing S Bridie

Financial Services J Miller

Visitor Programs M Hedger

Customer Services P Haggarty

Collections & Exhibitions M Crayford

Maritime Communities D Fletcher

Communications & Information D Churchill

Human Resources G Matthews

Library Services F Prentice

Corporate Services Q Howarth

Building Services R McMaster

Registration S Fletcher

Conservation I Miles A/g

Property Liaison & Capital Works G Edmondson

Fleet- S Adams

Secretariat - R Smylie

External Relations - B Richards

Minister for the Arts and Sport

Director - M-L Williams

ANMM Council

Maritime Technology Exploration & Navy L Shaw

Special Projects Mariea Fisher Paul Hundley John Waight

APPENDIX 12 | STAFF AS AT 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5 1 2 3

APPENDIX 12

STAFF AS AT 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5

This appendix lists only APS staff employed under the Public Service Act 1999

EXECUTIVE

Mary-Louise Williams MA Inger Sheil BA Russell Smylie BBus

Director Executive Assistant Manager, Secretariat

& Fleet Services

Fleet

Steven Adams Eng C12 BBus CertMusStud CertMarEng CertlndEiect ASA Neil Brough Eng C ll DipNavArch DipMarEng CertMusStud Robert Parish JP Coxswain CertElect

Lee Graham Coxswain CertShpbldg Todd Maiden CertBIrmkg Matthew Spillard CertFitMchng

Michael Whetters CertShpbldg Vince McGuire Christine Finlay

Peter Lightbody Coxswain CertBIrmkg

George Hannaford JP CertShpbldg ASTC Noel Burgess Matthew Dunn Cert Shpbldg Robert Townsend Cert Shpbldg

Fleet Manager Fleet Engineer Superintendent Fleet Foreman (On Leave)

Shipwright Shipwright Shipwright

Shipwright A/Fleet Foreman Shipkeeper Shipkeeper Shipkeeper

Shipkeeper

Shipkeeper Shipwright Shipwright

External relations unit Bill Richards JP BA DipJourn DipPubAdmin Media & Communications Manager

Samantha McDonough BACom Promotions Assistant (On Leave)

COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS

Michael Crayford MA(CultSt&Comm) BA(VisArts) DipMusStud Jade Lor-Chan BA

Special Projects Unit

Mariea Fisher BA(Hons) MM Bliss Jensen BA BSc DipPR John Waight CertEd Paul Hundley MA

Maritime communities

Daina Fletcher BA(Hons) Patricia Miles BA

Penny Cuthbert BA DipMusStud Until Lawton MA BA(Hons) David Payne SA (ID)

Maritime Technology, Exploration & Navy

Lindsey Shaw BA DipMusStud

Stirling Smith BA PGradDipMarArch

Nigel Erskine PhD BA GradDipMarArch CertMusStud

Assistant Director, Collections & Exhibitions Project Assistant

Manager, Temporary & Travelling Exhibitions Curator, Temporary & Travelling Exhibitions Indigenous Curator & Liaison Officer

Senior Curator, USA Gallery

Senior Curator

Curator, Commerce Curator, Sport & Leisure Curator Post Federation Immigration Project Officer, Australian Register.of Historic

Vessels

Senior Curator, Maritime Technology,

Exploration & Naval History Curator, Maritime Technology &

Maritime Archeology Curator, Exploration

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Kim Tao MA

Kieran Hosty BA DipMarArch

Michelle Linder MA DipMusStud

Design

Johanna Nettleton BA

Adrienne Kabos MDes DipIndDes CertCompGraphics

Daniel Ormella MDes AssDipGraphDes

Tanguy Le Moing

Heidi Riederer Degree Industrial Design

Cameron Krone BCommMedia AdvDipProductDesign Stephen Crane MVisArts

Kevin Bray DipVisArts

Adam Laerkesen BVisArts

Peter Buckley BVisArts DipVisArts

Eszter Matheson AdvDipintDes

Shame Fielder BDes CertProjMgt

Registration

Sally Fletcher BA DipMusStud

Denise Mackenzie MA DipMusStud Anupa Shah Boom

Will Mather BA(Hons) DipMusStud Andrew Frolows CertPhoto

Elizabeth Maloney BFA

Sabine Escobar-Jaramillo MAMusStud BASocSc Melinda Smith BA GradDipAppSc

Myffanwy Bryant

Conservation

Sue Frost AssocDipMatCon

Ian Miles BAppSc Hons

Tasha Brown BAppScCon BA Arch

Karina Acton BAppScCon

Jolanta Grzedzielska

Library Services

Frances Prentice BA(LibSc) Jan Harbison BA GradDipLib

Gillian Simpson BA DipLib Karen Pymble DipLib AssocDipCommunityWel

Kathryn Vandine BSc GradDipLib

COMMERCIAL & VISITOR SERVICES

Max Dingle

Maria Jose Fernandez MA

Antonia Macarthur BA

Helen Skewes BinfoSci

The E n d e a v o u r replica

Ross Mattson MasterlV

Anthony Longhurst CertBoatbldg Clare Randall

David Lewis

Assistant Curator, Special Projects Curator, Ship Technology & Maritime

Archaeology, (On Leave) Curator (On Leave)

A/Manager Graphic Designer/Coordinator

Graphic Designer Exhibition Designer

Graphic Designer

Exhibition Designer Senior Preparator

Team Leader Preparation

Prepa rator

Preparator

Exhibition Designer (On Leave) Manager (On Leave)

SeniorRegistrar

Registrar, Information Management & Loans

Registration Assistant

Assistant Registrar Documentation

Photographer Photographic Librarian

Registration Assistant

Senior Conservator Senior Conservator, Objects/Mixed

Collections A/Head of Conservation

Conservator, Preventive Conservation/

Mixed Collections Conservator, Objects/Mixed Collecltions/Metals

Conservator. Objects/Mixed Collections/Metals

Manager

Technical Services Librarian

Public Enquiries Library Technician

Library Technician

Assistant Director Commercial & Visitor Services

Project Assistant

Ship Consultant Website Coordinator

Ship Manager

Shipwright

Ship Keeper

APPENDIX 12 | STAFF AS AT 3 0 JUNE 2 0 0 5 1 2 5

Customer Service

Peter HaggartyJP

Marketing Susan Bridie Dominic Mackintosh BA(Hons) Elizabeth Zammit-Estrada BATourism MA(lnt’IReins) Jo Thomson BA(Hons) Amanda Graham Adrian Adam BBus Claire Palmer BA Lisa Faye AssocDipHospMgt Liz Tomkinson BCA Jan Mclnnies

Publications Jeffrey Mellefont BA DipEd

Visitor Programs Michael Hedger MA MA(Arts Adm) DipEd Dip Fine Arts Dallas Bicknell BA(Hons) DipEd Jeannie Douglass MA DipEd Jeffrey Fletcher DipTeach

Carolyn Allen BA MBS Scott Andrew MTeach(Hons) BA Anita Toft MA BVisArts

CORPORATE SERVICES Quentin Howarth Marie Nunan

Communications & Information Management Services Dianne Churchill BA(Hons) DipEd DiplM Fifi Brown Dip Teach BEd Robyn Gurney BA DipEd MIM

Financial Services Joan Miller BCom ACA CPA GradCertArtsMan William Good BA James Egan Tina Lee Tony Ridgway BA

Human Resources Gillian Matthews BAppSc GradCertPubSectorMgt John Miranda BA JP Cindy Fung DipHRM Joan Cheung

Peter Wood MasterMariner MAqua DipVolMg Zara Collins BVisArts Emma Cant GradDipArts BA

Building Services Ray McMaster DipEng AssocDipConMaint lari McKellar AssocDipConMaint Keith Buckman

Property Liaison Greg Edmondson

Manager

Manager Marketing Services Manager Marketing Assistant Market Research and Evaluation Officer Sponsorhip Members Manager Members Service Coordinator Venue Hire Manager Visitor Services Officer

Receptionist

Publications Manager

Manager, Visitor Services Public Programs Officer School Programs Coordinator K-6 School & Programs Coordinator

Education Project Officer Events Coordinator Visitor Programs Officer

Assistant Director, Corporate Services Project Assistant, Corporate Services

Manager Records Officer Records Manager (On Leave)

Chief Financial Manager Assistant Finance Manager Accounts Supervisor Accounts Officer Accounts Officer

Manager Manager Personnel Services Personnel Officer Assistant Personnel Officer Volunteers Manager Volunteers Assistant Volunteers Assistant (Thur, Fri, Sat)

Building Services Manager Maintenance Manager Assets Coordinator

Property Liaison Manager

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APPENDIX 13

COUNCIL MEMBERS

Chairman

Mr Mark Bethwaite BE (Civil), MBIdSc, MBA

Term: 30 June 2001-29 June 2004

30 June 2 0 0 4 -2 9 June 2007

Attended all Council meetings

Mark Bethwaite is managing director and CEO of the

leading industry organisation, Australian Business

Limited. An engineer by profession, he has

been chief eecutive of two major listed Australian

mining and manufacturing companies. His current non

executive directorships, in addition to the museum,

include the Reserve Bank’s Note PrintingAustralia

Limited, Deacons - Lawyers, the Foundation for Rural

and Regional Renewal and the Australian Institute

of Management NSW & ACT Limited. As a member

of the Australian yachtingteamsforthe 1972,1976

and 1980 Olympic Games, and a world champion in a

number of international classes, Mark Bethwaite has a

strong affinity with Australia's maritime heritage.

Members

Mr Marcus Blackmore AM (NSW)

Term: 22 November 2 0 0 0 -2 1 November 2003

22 November 20 0 3 -2 1 November2006

Attended five Council meetings

Executive chairman of Biackmores Ltd, Mr Blackmore

is the founding president and a board member of the

Complementary Healthcare Council of Australia. He

is a director of the Young Endeavour Youth Scheme, a

council member of both NSW Maritime and Westmead

Children’s Hospital and honorary trustee of the

Committee for the Economic Development of Australia.

He is chairman of both the Industry Advisory Panel

of the National Marine Safety Committee and the

Board of Governors of the Heart Research Institute.

Mr Blackmore is an experienced yachtsman whose

company sponsored Kay Cottee’s solo voyage in 1988.

The Hon Brian Gibson AM. BScF. BA, FAICD (Tas)

Term: 26 June 20 0 2 -2 5 June 2005

26 June 2005-25 June 2008

Attended ail Council meetings

Brian Gibson is a director of Talent 2 International

Ltd and Australian Stem Cell Centre Ltd as well as

chairman of two private companies. He was a Liberal

senator for Tasmania from 1993 until February 2002.

In 1996, he was parliamentary secretary to the

treasurer and responsible for corporations law and

the Australian Securities Commission. Before entering

parliament, he was managing director of Australian

Newsprint Mills Ltd during the 1980s, chairman of the

Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania 1988-1992,

chairman of Unitas Consulting Ltd, and a director of

several other companies.

Ms Gaye Hart AM, BA, MEd, DEd, FACE, FAICD (NSW)

Term: 14 May 2003-13 May 2006

Attended five Council meetings

Gaye Hart is director of the Hunter Institute of TAFE

NSW, a director of the Newcastle Port Corporation and

president of the Australian Council for International

Development. She is a Fellow of the Australian College

of Education and of the Australian Institute of Company

Directors. In June 1989 she was awarded membership

of the Order of Australia (AM) for her services to the

community and to Australia's Bicentenary. In 1999 she

was awarded an honorary doctorate in Education by

the University of Newcastle.

Emeritus Professor John Penrose AssAppSc (PTC), PhD

(City, London) (WA)

Term: 18 December 20 0 3 -1 7 December 2006

Attended five Council meetings

Professor Penrose was the founding director of Curtin

University’s Centre for Marine Science and Technology.

He is currently project managerforthe National

Coastal Water Habitat Mapping Program of the

Cooperative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary

and Waterway Management. His research interests

are in marine science and technology; particularly

marine acoustics, oceanography, remote sensing and

maritime archaeology. He is an honorary associate

of the Western Australian Museum and the founder

in 1970 of the Perth welfare association volunteer

task force. He has been an active diver and sailor in

Australian waters for over four decades.

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Mrs Eda Ritchie AMusA. GradDipBus (Vic)

Term: 26 June 2002-25 June 2005

26 June 2 0 0 5 -2 5 June 2008

Attended all Council meetings

Coming from a farming and business background,

Mrs Ritchie has had a strong community commitment

mainly through local government, the arts and as

trustee of the R E Ross Philanthropic Trust. She is a

member of the council of Melbourne University and

has worked in natural resource management and

coastal strategic planningforthe Victorian government

for over ten years. She is a member of the Victorian

Environmental Assessment Council.

Mr John Rothwell AO (WA)

Term: 24 June 20 0 4 -2 3 June 2007

Attended four Council meetings

With over 30 years shipbuilding experience Mr Rothwell

is executive chairman and founder of Austal Ships Pty

Ltd, a world leader in the construction of aluminium

vessels. In January 2004 he was appointed an Officer

in the General Division of the Order of Australia for

service to the Australian shipbuilding industry through

the development of trade links and for contributions

to vocational education and training. Mr Rothwell is a

member of the Bureau Veritas Classification Society

and past chairman of both the Australian Shipbuilders

Association and the State Training Board of Western

Australia. He is a keen sailor and diver in his leisure

time and has a strong interest in maritime history.

Mr John Simpson BA, MAICD. FPRIA(VIC)

Term: 22 November 20 0 0 -2 1 November 2003

22 November 20 0 3 -2 1 November 2006

Attended four Council meetings

MrSimpson is a director of Shell Australia Limited and

Shell Energy Holdings (Australia) Ltd. He is director of

External and Corporate Affairs for Shell and a director

of several community and educational organisations.

These include the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra,

Scotch College Melbourne, the NGV Foundation and

the Hitchin Foundationfocusingon men's health.

Dr Andrew Sutherland MB. BS, FRCSC. FRACS. GradDip BA

Term: 14 May 2003-13 May 2006

Attended five Council meetings

Dr Andrew Sutherland is chief of the division of Surgery

and head of the Orthopaedic Department atthe

Adelaide Women's and Children’s Hospital. He was

educated at St Peter’s College and the University of

Adelaide, graduating MB, BS in 1967 and Grad Dip BA

in 2000. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons

of Canada as well as a Fellow and treasurer of the Royal

Australasian College of Surgeons. He is a keen amateur

maritime historian and yachtsman.

Ms Mary-Louise Williams (NSW)

Term: 9 November 2 0 0 0 -8 November 2003

9 November 2 0 0 3 -8 November 2006

Attended five Council meetings

Ms Williams began her career atthe Australian

National Maritime Museum as senior curator in 1988,

then became assistant director responsible for the

Collections and Exhibitions branch two years later.

She was appointed director in November 2000. She is

currently vice president of the International Congress

of Maritime Museums and chair of the Museums and

Galleries Foundation of NSW.

Mrs Nerolie Withnall BA, LLB, MAICD (Qld)

Term: 26 June 2002-25 June 2005

26 June 2 0 0 5 -2 5 June 2008

Attended all Council meetings

Mrs Withnall is a former partner in corporate law

with Minter Ellison Lawyers. She is a past chair of

the Queensland Museum board and a director with

Campbell Brothers Group, Pan Australian Resources

Ltd, Alchemia Ltd, the Brisbane Institute and the Major

Sports Facilities Authority. She is also a member of the

Takeovers Panel.

Naval member: CORE Geoff Geraghty AM RAN (ACT)

Term: 1 M ay2 0 0 4 -

Attended five Council meetings

The naval member holds office at the pleasure of

the Chief of Navy. Commodore Geraghty joined the

RAN in 1969 as a seaman officer. After gaining his

Bridge Watch Keeping Certificate he specialised in

hydrography. In addition to ship and shore postings

CORE Geraghty has commanded HMAS Flinders and

HMNZS Monowai. He has had appointments to other

foreign navies, serving with the United States Navy,

the PNG Defence Force, the Royal Navy and Royal New

Zealand Navy. In 1998 he was appointed director of

the RAN Staff College. Duringthis period Commodore

Geraghty completed his Graduate Certificate.in

Business Administration. In late 1999 he was

appointed Australian Hydrographerand Hydrographic

Force Element Group Commander, then Head of the

Australian Defence Staff, London, from 2001 to 2004.

CORE Geraghty assumed Command of Australian Navy

Systems Command on 30 April 2004.

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APPENDIX 14

COUNCIL MEETINGS & COMMITTEES

2 0 0 4 -2 0 0 5 meetings

Meeting No 74 2

Meeting No 75 2

Meeting No 76 8

Meeting No 77 2

Meeting No 78 2

Meeting No 79 2

28 July 2004

29 September 2004

8 December 2004

23 February 2005

27 April 2005

29 June 2005

Finance & Audit Committee

Met six times. * M embers/attendance:

Mr Brian Gibson / 6

Mrs Eda Ritchie/ 5

Ms Mary-Louise W illiam s/ 5

Others/attendance:

Mr Quentin Howarth, ANMM (Secretary)/ 6

Ms Joan Miller, ANMM / 6

Mr Max Dingle, ANMM / 1

Mr Graham Johnson, Australian National Audit Office / 4

Ms Sue Rowan, Australian National Audit Office / 1

Mr Aziz Dindar, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu / 2

* The Committee also convened two teleconference

meetings

Major Capital Works Committee

Met five times. * Members/attendance:

Mr Mark Bethwaite/ 5

Mr John Rothwell/ 4

Ms Mary-Louise W illiam s/ 5

Mrs Nerolie Withnall / 3

Others/attendance:

Mr Quentin Howarth, ANMM (Secretary)/ 5

Mr Greg Edmondson, ANMM / 5

Ms Joan Miller, ANMM / 5

Mr Max Dingle, ANMM / 1

* The Committee also convened a number of

teleconference meetings

Marketing, Programs & Sponsorship Committee

Met six times. Members / attendance:

Mr John Simpson / 4

Ms Gaye H a rt/ 4

Mr Marcus Blackmore/ 4

Ms Mary-Louise W illiam s/5

Others/attendance:

Mr Max Dingle, ANMM (Secretary) / 5

Mr Peter Haggarty, ANMM / 1

Mr Michael Hedger, ANMM / I

Collections & Exhibitions Committee

Met five times. Members/ attendance:

Mrs Nerolie Withnall / 3

Prof. John Penrose/ 5

Dr Andrew Sutherland / 4

Ms Mary-Louise Williams / 4

Others/attendance:

Mr Michael Crayford, ANMM (Secretary) / 5

Mr Max Dingle, ANMM / 1

Mr James Englebert, ANMM 1

MsSharne Fielder. ANMM / 1

Fleet Committee

Met five times. M em bers/ attendance:

Mrs Eda Ritchie / 4

CDRE Geoff Geraghty/ 5

Mr Marcus Blackmore / 2

Ms Mary-Louise W illiam s/ 4

Others / attendance:

Mr Russell Smylie, ANMM (Secretary)/ 5

Mr Steven Adams, ANMM / 1

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APPENDIX 15

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME FOUNDATION

Chairman

Mr Bill Cutbush

Company director

Directors

Mr Mark Bethwaite

Managing director & CEO, Australian Business Limited;

chairman, Australian National Maritime Museum

The Hon Peter Collins RFD QC

Former State Opposition Leader and Commander in

the Naval Reserve

Miss Kay Cottee AO

Record-making solo sailor; former chairman, Australian

National Maritime Museum

Mr Peter Dexter AM

Regional director, Wallenius Wilhelmsen

Captain Trevor Haworth AM

Executive chairman, Captain Cook Cruises

Mr Rob Mundle

Authorand journalist

Ms Mary-Louise Williams

Director, Australian National Maritime Museum

Secretary

Mr Russell Smylie

Australian National Maritime Museum

Australian National Maritime Foundation Dinner

The Australian National Maritime Foundation held a

fund-raising dinner on 7 December 2004, to assist with

its aims to create a capital fund to develop, conserve

and enhance the museum and its collection.

The event, which took Sailor Style as its theme, was

hosted by Mark Bethwaite and Mary-Louise Williams.

The entertainment was provided by The Rats Pack

Back who proved popular with the 120 guests dressed

to the theme of ‘sailor’.

Pre-dinner cocktails were served in Nortel Networks

Gallery to allow guests to view the Sailor Style

exhibition, and the three-course dinner was held

in the terrace room. An elegant and witty invitation

was designed inhouse and was commended in the

Museums Australia Publications Design Awards.

The net surplus for the 2004 Foundation Dinner was

$13,600, the funds being raised through sale of entry

tickets, silent auction bids and raffle tickets. Corporate

sponsorship and donations were sought and we

received a substantial level of support forthe event. A

number of key sponsors provided in-kind assistance

in staging the event, includingSpotless, Moreton

Exhibition & Events (Sydney) and Videoplus Pty Ltd.

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APPENDIX 16

SPONSORS, PATRONS & SUPPORTERS

Principal Sponsor

ANZ

Australian Customs Service

State Forest of NSW

Major Sponsors

Blackmores Ltd

Raytheon Australia Pty Ltd

Spotless

Tenix Pty Ltd