the 2012 -2013 annual report

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HISTORIC
HOUSES
TRUST OF
NEW SOUTH
WALES
ANNUAL REPORT
2012-2013
The Hon Robyn Parker MP
Minister for the Environment
Minister for Heritage
Parliament House
Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Dear Minister
On behalf of the Board of Trustees and in accordance with the provisions of the
Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984, the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983
and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2010, we submit for presentation to
Parliament the Annual Report of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales for
the year ending 30 June 2013.
Yours sincerely
Michael Rose
Mark Goggin
Chairman
Director
HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST
Head Office
The Mint
10 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T 02 8239 2288
F 02 8239 2299
E info@hht.net.au
TTY 02 8239 2377
(telephone for people
with hearing disabilities)
This report and all our programs
are published on our website
www.hht.net.au
HISTORIC
HOUSES
TRUST OF
NEW SOUTH
WALES
ANNUAL REPORT
2012–2013
Contents
From the Chairman
4
Acquiring new collection material
25
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
6
26
Corporate Plan & performance r eporting
7
Endangered Houses Fund
properties sold
Maintaining our properties
27
Vision
7
From the Director
5
Mission
7
Corporate framework
7
Performance reporting
8
Key achievements
9
1 Involvement
10
Collaborating with Aboriginal 10
communities
4 Stability
28
Investing in and upgrading
our facilities
28
Generating income
28
Raising awareness of the HHT
28
Controlling our costs
29
Reducing our carbon footprint 29
5 Wellbeing
30
30
Broadening our audiences
10
Developing skills and training
Fostering and developing
new partnerships
Improving workplace health and safety
30
10
31
Supporting our volunteers
11
6 Knowledge
Strengthening ties with
local communities
11
Sharing our specialist knowledge 31
Involving the over 55s
11
2 Access & enjoyment
Researching the past
31
12
32
Creating new exhibitions
and publications
Making research and knowledge accessible
to the community
12
Conference presentations
33
Refreshing interpretation
12
Expanding our digital presence 12
Taking the HHT to regional
New South Wales
11
12
Public programs
16
Access to our collections
17
Connecting to multicultural
communities
18
ABOUT THE HHT
34
Who we are
35
Justice & Police Museum
36
Museum of Sydney 36
Susannah Place Museum
36
Elizabeth Bay House
37
Government House
37
Our properties
36
Improving access for people
with disabilities
18
Rose Seidler House
37
Education
19
Vaucluse House
38
Outreach maps
22
3 Conservation & curatorship
24
Hyde Park Barracks Museum
38
The Mint
38
Government House
24
Elizabeth Farm
39
24
Meroogal
39
Key conservation projects
24
Rouse Hill House & Farm
39
Conserving our collections
25
APPENDICES58
Our collections
41
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
41
Photographic collection
41
Breakdown of visitor numbers
42
44
Beulah
44
Exeter Farm
45
Glenfield
45
Moruya manse
45
Joint Consultative Committee
60
Equal employment opportunity 67
(EEO)
Nissen hut
46
Use of consultants
70
46
Workplace Health &
Safety Committee
60
Throsby Park
Corporate governance
47
71
47
60
60
Our volunteers
Board of Trustees
Trustees
47
Staff & Management Participatory and Advisory Committee (SAMPAC)
Committees
48
Associated groups
60
Corporate planning
48
Management Group
49
Commercial & Marketing
Services Group
50
Creative Services Group
50
Heritage & Portfolio Group
50
Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection 61
Pty Limited
Operations Group
50
Organisational chart
51
Admission fees
61
Volunteers
52
Sponsors
61
Risk management
52
Grants
61
Internal Audit and Risk Management Attestation
53
Fundraising
62
Financial controls
54
Delegations
54
Other operational activities
54
Other entities
55
Board standing committees
59
Audit & Risk Committee
59
Services Advisory Committee
59 Creative Services Advisory 59
Committee
Heritage & Endangered
Houses Advisory Committee
59
HHT standing committees
60
Collections Valuation Committee
60
Foundation for the Historic 60
Houses Trust of New South Wales
Friends of the Historic Houses 61 Trust of New South Wales Executive Committee
Self-generated income
61
62
Disability Action Plan
62
Privacy Management Plan
63
Multicultural Policies & Services 63
Program
Foundation for the Historic
56
Access to government information 63
Our information
63
Friends of the Historic Houses
Trust of New South Wales
Access to information
63
Charges
66
57
Consumer response
66
Land disposal
66
Electronic services delivery
Credit card certification 66
66
Cost of annual report
66
Exceptional movements in employee wages, salaries and
allowances
67
Personnel policies & practices
67
Human resources
Payment performance
HHT FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
67
70
73
FOUNDATION FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
106
FOUNDATION LIMITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
124
AMILTON ROUSE HILL TRUST H
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
134
ROUSE HILL HAMILTON COLLECTION PTY LIMITED
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
142
Contacts
150
Sponsors
152
Thank you to our program supporters and partners
151
from the chairman
In April this year I attended the launch
of Public Sydney: drawing the city
at the Museum of Sydney. This
remarkable book by Philip Thalis and
Peter John Cantrill was published
jointly by the Historic Houses Trust of
NSW (HHT) and the journal Content
of the Faculty of Built Environment,
University of New South Wales. An
extraordinary work of scholarship, it
is the result of the authors’ dedication
and insight, and their affection for
Sydney. It is a landmark publication
and will be a vital reference for
architects, designers and urban
planners for decades to come.
The drawings and photographs in
Public Sydney are a great reminder
not only of what Sydney has lost in
terms of its built environment since
Governor Phillip originally defined
the town, but also of what we have
gained as successive generations
have added new layers to our city.
The HHT is proud to be associated
with a publication that explores
these themes and adds to the
wider understanding of our historic
public places.
The constant expansion and layering
of Sydney is reflected in the HHT’s
collection of historic houses and
museums, which includes the Hyde
Park Barracks and The Mint –
dominant buildings in the young
Sydney township – and also Vaucluse
House, Elizabeth Farm and Rouse Hill
House & Farm, which once sat
outside the boundaries of Sydney on
the frontier of European settlement.
Their incorporation into the
expanding city is as much a part of
our state’s history as their original
establishment.
Our work is supported by the
Foundation for the Historic Houses
Trust of New South Wales, which brings
together a dedicated group of donors
and supporters. We are extremely
grateful for the continued support of
the Foundation and its donors.
Just as the city has changed and
evolved around many of our houses,
so too has our society. Our buildings,
and the landscapes within which they
sit, have been influenced not only by
changes in the built environment but
also by successive waves of
immigration, which have changed the
nature of our communities and the
way we live. Also, a wider community
awareness of Indigenous culture and
European settlement gives us a new
opportunity to consider the dramatic
changes in our environment. Our
collections help us to follow these
changes as well.
In July 2013, Kate Clark announced her
resignation as Director of the HHT.
Over five years Kate achieved a great
deal as Director, bringing about
significant and necessary organisational
change, continuing a strong focus on
research and scholarship, and
promoting the cultural significance and
value of our collection. On behalf of
the wider HHT community, I would like
to thank Kate for her enormous
contribution to our heritage legacy.
At the HHT we want to continue to
evolve and take our stories to a
broader cross-section of our
community. With this in mind, we
have changed our public identity to
Sydney Living Museums. In adopting
a new brand we hope we will unify our
diverse collection while preserving
the distinct identity of each property.
The public response to Sydney Living
Museums has been very encouraging
and, in the coming year, we will be
using the new brand to connect our
properties and programs in new and
exciting ways.
In 2012–13, more than 940,000 visitors
enjoyed our properties, exhibitions,
travelling exhibitions and activities.
All of them had an opportunity to
experience the buildings and
landscapes, as well as the curatorship
and scholarship, of the HHT.
Michael Rose. Photograph Scott Hill © HHT
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Historic Houses Trust Annual Report 2012–2013
We are also grateful to the Friends of
the Historic Houses Trust of New South
Wales, an independent charitable
organisation that works with us to
deliver a program of members’ events.
Our new Director, Mark Goggin, joined
us in August. He brings a wealth of
experience, as well as great energy and
enthusiasm, to our organisation. We
welcome Mark and look forward to
working with him in his new role.
In presenting its properties and
collections, the HHT offers insights into
the ways in which our environment, our
society and our lives have changed
since European settlement. We offer
our visitors unique stories and histories,
and our success in this is underpinned
by personal connections – it relies on
the engagement, energy and
enthusiasm of our staff and volunteers.
We know that this is important to our
visitors and we thank all our staff and
volunteers for their work.
Michael Rose, Chairman
from the director
the historical phases of the house’s
development. We have also
catalogued an intriguing collection
of furniture, soft furnishings, kitchenalia,
uniforms and domestic wares from
the former service wings and
private quarters.
I joined the HHT in August 2013.
It is an incredible privilege to have the
opportunity to lead an institution that
has developed an enviable reputation
for the care and conservation of our
remarkable historic properties and
their collections. Equally, it has been
fantastic to experience the passion
of our staff, volunteers, donors and
supporters, all of whom are involved
in unlocking the unique stories of our
sites for audiences.
The foundation of our work is the care
and conservation of our significant
houses, gardens and grounds for future
generations. The outstanding efforts of
staff and volunteers are evident in the
technical conservation of the 22 historic
buildings across our 12 museums, which
are maintained in outstanding
condition, and through the fastidious
and thoughtful care of their related
collections.
This year a key conservation project has
been the extensive renovation of
Government House to enable the
Governor of New South Wales to return
to full residence. Renovations have
been carried out in close collaboration
with the Department of Premier and
Cabinet and the Office of the Governor,
and revealed for the first time some of
Our programs reached a new level of
vitality. Sydney Open 2012 doubled its
visitation to more than 9000 visitors
through 69 properties, the largest
visitation since the event started in
1997. The Fifties Fair remained ever
popular. We welcomed the arrival of our
nostalgic Vintage Sundays series across
our key properties. We reviewed and
revamped our education programs,
delivered by 46 newly recruited
Curriculum Program Deliverers,
educating more than 50,000 children
across our sites.
Our exhibitions reached more than
200,000 people through our core
museums, the Museum of Sydney,
the Hyde Park Barracks Museum and
the Justice & Police Museum, as well
as regional venues across New South
Wales. The landmark, and sellout,
publication, Public Sydney: drawing
the city, defined new intellectual and
historical territory for the institution.
We achieved all this despite a 32%
reduction in weekly opening hours
at all properties since October 2012.
In addition, the streamlining and
economising of the education offer and
the shift to a new front-of-house model
has temporarily reduced education
numbers in 2012–13.
We developed a new digital strategy
framework for engaging our future
audiences. This thinking, combined with
our innovative Interpretation &
Exhibitions Team, delivered new
experiential ways to engage audiences
through new technologies: our Minister
for Heritage The Hon Robyn Parker MP
launched the first Auslan guide for a
cultural site in New South Wales for
the World Heritage listed Hyde Park
Barracks; visitor iPad guides at Elizabeth
Farm were warmly received; and the
award-winning The Cook and the
Curator blog engaged a new virtual
audience of people interested in
food history.
In a year of retail restructuring and
leasehold review for the Hyde Park
Barracks Cafe, commercial returns from
four cafes and restaurants and our
thriving premium events business were
largely maintained. Collectively,
commercial revenues, including
admissions and events, accounted for
21% of the HHT’s annual revenue.
This year’s achievements are a
testament to the leadership of former
Director Kate Clark. I would like to
acknowledge Kate’s role in strongly
positioning the institution for its future
sustainability. Kate’s legacy is
immediately evident across the
organisation, which has been
significantly modernised in its systems,
administration, brand and programs.
Kate’s heritage and policy expertise has
also played a central role in
underpinning some major strategic
initiatives for 2013–14, notably, a review
of the whole-of-organisation business
model and a heritage master-planning
process for Rouse Hill House & Farm.
Finally, the achievements of the HHT
are due to the efforts of its remarkable
people: the Board of Trustees, the
talented staff, the hardworking
volunteers, and our committed
Foundation, partners, members, friends
and supporters. I collectively thank this
dedicated group of individuals who
underpin our reputation as Australia’s
leading place-based cultural institution.
Mark Goggin, Director
Mark Goggin. Photograph © Stuart Miller
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OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
OUR Achievements
corporate plan &
performance reporting
Vision
A future
for the past
Corporate framework
The Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Corporate Plan 2010–
2015 is underpinned by six key aims and objectives, each supported by a
list of actions that drives our strategic direction.
1 2 3
Involvement
A wider range of
people are involved
in understanding,
interpreting and
caring for the past.
Access &
enjoyment
Conservation
& curatorship
We provide more
people and a wider
range of people access
to our properties,
collections, programs
and knowledge.
Our properties
and collections
are handed on to
future generations
in good heart.
mission
To care for
significant
historic places,
buildings,
collections and
landscapes with
integrity, and
enable people to
enjoy and learn
about them
4 5 6
Stability
Wellbeing
Knowledge
The HHT becomes
a more resilient
organisation with
a secure future.
The wellbeing of
our staff improves.
We use our knowledge
and expertise, and
work with others, to
change the way people
think about heritage
and the past.
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PERFORMANCE Reporting
VISITation*
Self-generated revenue*
July 2009 – June 2013
July 2009 – June 2013
920,643
941,549
2011–2012
2012–2013
*Includes visitors to Government House
grounds but excludes those to grounds of
the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Museum
of Sydney and Vaucluse House. Visitation to
travelling exhibitions is shown in darker shade.
Expenditure 2012–13
$29.554 million
60% Personnel services
20% Other operating costs
7% Maintenance
8%Services provided free of charge
2% Contract staff
2%Depreciation
1% Insurance
2013
2012
2011
2010
The decrease in general visitation numbers
reflects a 32% reduction in weekly opening hours
at all properties since October 2012.
self-generated Revenue 2012–13
Total assets*
$6.474 million
$331.191 million
33%Commercial services*
24%Donation and sponsorships
22%Admissions
10%Retail
5% Investments
5%Special activities†
1% Other income
*Commercial services include venue hire, catering,
rental income from commercial leases, and hire
of properties for filming and photography.
†Special activities include public programs and the
Sydney Open program.
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$7.457m
$7.163m
$7.377m
(average)
$6.474m
2009
2009–2010
846,126
919,417
2010–2011
$8.342m
$7.448m
85% Land and buildings
12% Collection assets
2%
Cash and cash equivalents
1% Other assets†
* As at 30 June 2013.
†Other assets include capital work in progress
($445,000), intangible assets ($396,000), trade
and other receivables ($495,000), inventories
($315,000), plant and equipment ($719,000),
non-current assets held for resale ($1.250 million)
and Biobank receivables ($715,000).
OUR Achievements
KEY achievements
Involvement
Wellbeing
•We enhanced our reach to diverse audiences through
major partnerships, including our fully sponsored
exhibition The Force: 150 years of NSW Police, which
was held at the Justice & Police Museum and also
travelled to Wagga Wagga, Dubbo and Newcastle.
•Our staff completed 3300 hours of training, a
28% increase on the previous year, which was
provided at the same cost as for the previous year.
•We recruited 399 new program volunteers to assist us
in presenting Sydney Open 2012.
• 21% of our income was self-generated.
•More than 9000 people attended Sydney Open 2012,
our largest public program to date.
•
We produced Public Sydney: drawing the city, a
critically acclaimed book co-published with the journal
Content of the Faculty of Built Environment, University
of New South Wales, and sponsored by the City of
Sydney and the Friends of the Historic Houses Trust
of New South Wales.
Access & Enjoyment
•We developed our first digital strategy, which has
resulted in a significant increase in collections-focused
digital output and a 30% growth in visitation to
our website.
•135,437 visitors across regional New South Wales and
on the Gold Coast attended our travelling exhibitions
Built for the bush: the green architecture of rural
Australia, Margaret Olley: home, Smalltown and
The Force: 150 years of NSW Police.
• For the Hyde Park Barracks Museum, we produced
the first Australian Sign Language (Auslan) video guide at a museum or heritage site in New South Wales.
Conservation and Curatorship
•We sold two Endangered Houses Fund (EHF) properties,
ensuring their future preservation.
•We completed conservation work to stabilise Throsby
Park house and maintained the historic garden and
curtilage.
• W
e refurbished the private quarters at Government
House in collaboration with the Department of Premier
and Cabinet, and created new office accommodation
in a former service wing.
•We finalised a mould remediation project at our
properties, which included cleaning and stabilising 2500
objects from the Justice & Police Museum collection.
Stability
•We attracted more than 40,000 people to over
500 commercial events at our properties.
•We increased public awareness of our organisation
through an increase of 39% in the number
of media articles.
•We created a new Compliance and Knowledge
Team that has responsibility for records
management and overseeing the development
of policies and procedures.
•Our ICT Team began upgrading our security and
network infrastructure.
•We managed our budget to achieve the New South
Wales Government's productivity targets and produce
unqualified financial statements for all Historic Houses
Trust of New South Wales (HHT) reporting entities.
•As part of our ongoing organisational restructure, we
recruited 91 new staff members, whose dynamic skills
complement the expertise of existing staff. This resulted
in an increase of around 3% in permanent positions and
a decrease of about 4% in temporary roles.
Knowledge
•We installed a new digital interactive in the Hyde
Park Barracks Museum, entitled Lags & Swells, which
presents existing and new research on the lives of
50 convicts who lived and worked in the building
between 1819 and 1848.
•Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
staff researched a new acquisition, the archive of
business and personal papers relating to the late
Leslie Walford AM, interior decorator.
•In a major project for the HHT, we began researching
historic documents, photographs and plans at
the Justice & Police Museum to inform our
decision-making about the reinterpretation of
and improved visitor experience at this museum.
•We evaluated the significance of more than 800 objects
at Throsby Park, ranging from an 1822 James Oatley
clock and farm machinery to photograph albums and
personal diaries.
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involvement
We are dedicated to providing increasing opportunities for
people to become involved with the Historic Houses Trust
of New South Wales (HHT) through a range of programs.
We value people’s involvement and participation in helping
us to learn about and enjoy our sites and collections. Two
of the best ways we can do this are through collaborating
with other organisations to strengthen community
involvement with our properties, and by encouraging
and supporting volunteers.
COLLABORATING WITH ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES
Contributors from Aboriginal communities continue to tell
their stories at the HHT. This year we worked with local
Aboriginal researchers and heritage professionals to uncover
stories from pre- and post-contact history as well as to foster
cultural connections to communities today. Aboriginal
heritage specialists (Darug descendant Leanne Watson
and Dharawal man Michael Ingrey) have been retained as
advisers to the HHT to help with interpretation and
programming and to strengthen our connections to
communities in Western Sydney and La Perouse.
We continued our successful working partnership between
the Museum of Sydney (MOS) on the site of first Government
House and Boolarng Nangamai Aboriginal Art and Culture
Studio, and commissioned Aboriginal researcher Mariko
Smith to undertake an Aboriginal legal and social-justice
project to assist in future interpretation and engagement
at the Justice & Police Museum.
Two of our exhibitions explored aspects of Aboriginal history
and featured the achievements of individual Aboriginal
people. The wild ones: Sydney Stadium 1908–1970 at the
Museum of Sydney (MOS) highlighted Aboriginal boxers,
like Lionel Murphy, who gained recognition and success in
the ring, while The Force: 150 years of NSW Police at the
Justice & Police Museum (with a tour to three regional
museums across New South Wales) included information
about the service of blacktracker Sergeant Alexander Riley.
The HHT celebrated NAIDOC Week 2012 (1–8 July) with a
community day, entitled Darug Stories, at Rouse Hill House
& Farm, where participants heard stories, watched a
demonstration of carving by Uncle Greg Simms and
participated in the creation of a painting by Leanne Watson.
A weaving workshop at MOS by Boolarng Nangamai
Aboriginal Art and Culture Studio sold out.
BROADENING OUR AUDIENCES
The Project, our History Extension seminar day for HSC
students and their teachers, was once again successfully
delivered in November in partnership with the State Library
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A wider range of people are
involved in understanding,
interpreting and caring
for the past.
of New South Wales. The HHT’s part of the program featured
a keynote speech by City of Sydney Historian Dr Lisa Murray,
followed by presentations from HHT portfolio curators, and
staff from Collections & Access and Interpretation &
Exhibitions. The seminar, with 242 participants, was sold out
and the program was once again enthusiastically received:
‘Thank you very much for a most informative and helpful day’,
wrote history teacher Jill Carroll from Mercy Catholic College.
FOSTERING AND DEVELOPING NEW PARTNERSHIPS
Over the year we developed or enhanced a number of
important partnerships with other organisations.
•Our ongoing relationship with the National Institute of
Dramatic Art (NIDA) enabled Forgotten Fragments, a
collaborative project for the Hyde Park Barracks Museum.
NIDA’s artist in residence, Nick Schlieper, and Australian
stage-lighting designer Nigel Levings mentored students
as they created a contemporary interpretation of the
experience of immigrant women in the 1840s. Other
projects with NIDA were the playwriting course for
postgraduate students at Elizabeth Bay House, and the
NIDA Open school-holiday programs at Vaucluse House.
•The exhibition The Force: 150 years of NSW Police at the
Justice & Police Museum was developed in colloboration
with the NSW Police Force to celebrate its 150 years,
1862–2012. The NSW Commissioner of Police, Andrew
Scipione, described the project as a ‘cooperative and
valued partnership’. The exhibition and its tour to regional
museums in New South Wales (Wagga Wagga, Dubbo,
Newcastle and Goulburn) was fully sponsored by the
NSW Police Force, the Police Association NSW and the
Police Credit Union NSW.
•The book Public Sydney: drawing the city, by architects
Philip Thalis and Peter John Cantrill, was co-published by
the HHT and the journal Content of the Faculty of Built
Environment, University of New South Wales (UNSW BE).
This highly acclaimed book was fully sponsored by UNSW
BE, the City of Sydney and the Friends of the Historic
Houses Trust, with input and support from the
Government Architect’s Office, New South Wales.
•We again collaborated successfully with the City of
Sydney’s event Art & About, hosting, outside the Hyde
Park Barracks, an installation entitled I wish you hadn’t
asked by artist James Dive from the Glue Society.
•The Rocks Windmill pop-up installation, coordinated
by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, included
contributions to various programs by HHT staff.
•The HHT continued to develop partnerships with
OUR Achievements
Parramatta heritage organisations by participating in the
Parramatta Heritage Partners Group. In the process of
developing the Meroogal Women’s Arts Prize in Nowra,
links with other South Coast heritage organisations are
also being strengthened.
•In August, Meroogal hosted the monthly Museum &
Galleries NSW breakfast series, which was attended by
staff from local cultural organisations.
SUPPORTING OUR VOLUNTEERS
Over the year, across our programs, activities and sites, the
HHT was assisted by over 500 volunteers. In November 2012
an enthusiastic group of 399 volunteers helped to deliver
our major public program Sydney Open. Volunteers were
fully trained in the roles of Site Volunteer and Site Supervisor,
and demonstrated fantastic commitment, receiving praise all
round for their attitude and energy.
This year an ongoing group of 120 volunteers, taking on a
range of roles, donated over 8600 hours to support the
HHT’s events and activities. Our dedicated core of volunteer
guides contributed many hours conducting our visitors on
engaging and inspiring interpretive tours of our properties.
Event volunteers helped to stage the highly successful Fifties
Fair at Rose Seidler House in August and the Dress to Kill
ball at the Justice & Police Museum in February. They also
supported the new Vintage Sundays event series at various
HHT sites. Across the Sydney metropolitan region speakers
from the Volunteer Speakers’ Program delivered more than
14 outreach presentations to interested groups; these were
attended by over 728 people.
The Soft Furnishings Volunteer Group continued their
association with Elizabeth Bay House, producing a variety
of soft furnishings to embellish numerous properties.
Project volunteers provided excellent support at the
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, in the
Interpretation & Exhibitions team and in administrative
roles in the Programs team. A new garden volunteer
program was established at Vaucluse House and Rouse
Hill House & Farm.
Meetings of volunteers were held at all portfolios and, as
part of the change to visitor services, volunteers attended
a number of training sessions and curator talks. Volunteer
guides participated in a refresher workshop to enhance
their guiding skills. The Soft Furnishings Group gained
new skills at specialist workshops.
STRENGTHENING TIES WITH LOCAL COMMUNITIES
•Vaucluse House hosted a couple of ‘meet the
neighbours’ events during the year, the last of which was
attended by over 30 local guests including Councillor
Petrie, Mayor of Woollahra. Attendees were very
supportive of the HHT’s management of the property.
•A Community Open Day was held at Throsby Park
historic house and garden at Moss Vale on 14 April,
attended by almost 700 enthusiastic visitors, some from
as far away as Canberra and Goulburn. Since the HHT
took on management of the property in 2010, the local
community has displayed a strong interest in our
activities. Community feedback on the Endangered
Houses Fund approach and the conservation work
completed by the HHT was overwhelmingly positive.
•We also ran a two-day working bee at Throsby Park with
horticulture students from the local TAFE college,
who worked with HHT gardening staff to learn about
the maintenance and rejuvenation of old gardens.
A dedicated group of local volunteers assisted members
of the Friends of the Historic Houses Trust of New South
Wales and staff with the cleaning and presentation
of the buildings and collections.
•On 9 March we celebrated International Women’s Day
with an awards presentation for Shoalhaven women in
recognition of their contribution to the local community.
INVOLVING THE OVER 55s
Older people comprise a significant cohort of visitors to
HHT properties and events. They are mostly tertiary
educated and well informed, with time and disposable
income available. We attract in particular Probus and senior
citizens’ clubs and special interest and community groups,
such as Aboriginal elders working with the HHT.
Much of our exhibition content focuses on the history of
Sydney, which attracts strong visitation and participation by
seniors. This year The wild ones: Sydney Stadium 1908–1970
presented the memories and stories of people who had
both performed at the Sydney Stadium and attended events
there. Margaret Olley: home was also popular with older
visitors. Both exhibitions were marketed through seniors’
networks to encourage older people and their families
to visit.
Each year during Seniors Week in March, the HHT
provides free entry to its properties for senior citizens,
often presenting specific programs for senior audiences.
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ACCESS & enjoyment
Underpinned by a new digital strategy, over the past year
we have focused on growing our digital-media resources
to build broader engagement with our properties.
CREATING NEW EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
The Historic Houses Trust developed a series of significant
new exhibitions this year. Highlights included The wild ones:
Sydney Stadium 1908–1970; Now and then; Margaret Olley:
home; Wicked women; and Public Sydney: stop, look, live!
The exhibition The wild ones: Sydney Stadium 1908–1970
celebrated one of Sydney’s most iconic former venues, fondly
known as ‘the Old Tin Shed’. The exhibition opened at the
Museum of Sydney with a free evening event held as part of
Sydney’s Art & About festival. This format was extremely
successful; large crowds were drawn in on the night by
dancers and entertainers in the foyer and on the museum
forecourt. The exhibition, with its mix of historic footage and
contemporary interviews, entertained visitors with tales of
sportsmen, promoters, stars and patrons who performed and
worked at the stadium during its heyday.
The HHT partnered with ABC Open, a regional initiative of
the ABC, to develop Now and then, an amateur
photographic exhibition in which the public participated by
submitting their own photographs of Sydney places in the
past and present. Later in the year A convict in the family?
presented photographs by Mine Konakci of convict
descendants, which revealed the connections between the
convict settlers, their direct descendants and the petty crimes
that changed the course of their family histories.
Wicked women, which was opened at the Justice & Police
Museum by Professor Larissa Behrendt, consisted of 17
vibrant oil paintings and a collection of preparatory sketches
by Australian contemporary artist-in-residence Rosemary
Valadon. The works were inspired by 20th-century film noir
and pulp-fiction covers and featured intriguing modern
women who agreed to model for this unusual project.
Visitation to this exhibition resulted in a 25% increase in
visitation to the museum compared to the same period
in the previous year.
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We provide more people
and a wider range of
people access to our
properties, collections,
programs and knowledge.
Public Sydney: stop, look, live! at the Museum of Sydney. The
exhibition combined drawings from the book and histories of
five key sites with a series of photographs and films showing
how people shape our public spaces. Sydneysiders were
invited to engage with their city both in the exhibition space
and through a blog written by urban blogger Vanessa Berry.
REFRESHING INTERPRETATION
The Cook and the Curator blog won two prestigious prizes
at the Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design
Awards (MAPDA), and has attracted nearly 40,000 page views
since it was launched in October 2012 (see page 17).
Several new interpretation tools are proving popular at the
HHT. New iPads at Elizabeth Farm, issued at the front desk
and carried freely throughout the site, allow visitors to find out
about the hidden features, personalities and human stories
behind the property’s set-piece interiors and spaces.
Feedback has been exceptionally positive, confirming that
the iPads are successfully adding depth and enjoyment to the
museum experience, extending the average length of the visit
and providing interpretive content in a convenient, hands-on,
user-friendly device. The uptake of the Hyde Park Barracks
Museum audio tour has been so strong that we have had to
double our supply of handsets from 25 to 50 to keep up with
the demand.
The new digital interactive, ‘Lags & Swells: meet 50 convicts
of the Hyde Park Barracks’, was created for the third floor of
the barracks and draws together new and existing research to
profile the lives of 50 convicts who passed through the Hyde
Park Barracks between 1819 and 1848. Details from the
convict database were combined with new research to piece
together individual stories of transportation, punishment and
life in the colony, giving character and dimension to the
difficult and often tragic lives of some of the convicts.
EXPANDING OUR DIGITAL PRESENCE
A significant increase in digital output occurred this year, with
teams across the organisation becoming actively involved in
the creation of digital content.
The exhibition Margaret Olley: home at the Museum of
Sydney, supported by the Trustees of the Margaret Hannah
Olley Estate, celebrated this well-known Sydney artist
through a selection of her paintings, photographs of her
Paddington home and a film. It enjoyed a strong response
from the public, attracting both local and national audiences.
One key achievement has been the resolution of our new
digital strategy. Developed with design group Pure and
Applied, the strategy has given the HHT a clear framework for
expanding our reach, using digital platforms and a roadmap
that will help to ensure that we remain relevant over the years
to come.
Our major publication Public Sydney: drawing the city, with
exquisite scale drawings of 100 public spaces, essays from
leading architects, landscape architects and historians, and
accompanying images, was the inspiration for the exhibition
We launched two major programs on the web – Sydney
Open, via a microsite and iPhone app, and our food program,
via The Cook and the Curator blog. Sydney Open was our
first experiment in replacing a printed program with digital
OUR Achievements
information and a printed map. Feedback was very positive;
the app clocked up nearly 78,000 page views over the
Sydney Open weekend. Launched in November, The Cook
and the Curator blog includes a diverse offering of video
material to promote or tell our stories, and has been viewed
around 4000 times to date.
We have continued to deliver a range of digital resources for
exhibitions and interpretive projects, including interactive
elements for the exhibitions Wild ones, Public Sydney and
City of shadows, a new interactive for the Hyde Park Barracks
and our first iPad-based site tour of Elizabeth Farm.
Other notable achievements in the digital realm have
included the:
•creation of a fully responsive promotional page for
the new brand at www.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au
•revamping of and improvements to the existing site
to fit the new brand and better promote HHT activities
• Public Sydney blog.
TAKING THE HHT TO REGIONAL NEW SOUTH WALES
Our active regional program included taking three travelling
exhibitions to regional New South Wales and interstate,
continuing the projects of the Endangered Houses Fund,
offering video-conferencing programs and online education
resources through Connected Classrooms, sending our staff
to regional museums and collections to share their
professional expertise, and loaning a number of HHT
collection items to regional museums.
More than 135,000 visitors attended the HHT travelling
exhibitions Built for the bush: the green architecture of rural
Australia, Margaret Olley: home, Smalltown and The Force:
150 years of NSW Police at various regional and interstate
museums and galleries. All three tours were wholly
externally funded. The Justice & Police Museum also
provided images and research expertise to numerous
regional NSW Police Local Area Commands to assist them
to tell their own stories as part of the 150-year anniversary
celebrations of the NSW Police Force.
Clockwise from top left Hyde Park Barracks Museum shop.
Photograph © Haley Richardson & Stuart Miller; Museum of Sydney
exterior. Photograph © James Horan; Convict Sydney exhibition
at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photograph © James Horan
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Visitation
1 July 2012 –
30 June 2013
Exhibitions*
Title
Location
Exhibition dates
A convict in the family
Museum of Sydney
13 April – 14 Jul 2013
8,505
79 108
Convict Sydney
Hyde Park
Barracks Museum
11 Sept 10 – ongoing
66,376
363 183
Home front: wartime
Sydney 1939–1945
Museum of Sydney
31 Mar – 9 Sept 2012
12,352
71 174
Margaret Olley: home
Museum of Sydney
10 Nov 2012 – 1 Apr 2013
33,199
140 237
Now and then
Museum of Sydney
16 Jun – 4 Nov 2012
20,733
127 163
Public Sydney: stop,
look, live!
Museum of Sydney
30 Mar – 8 Sept 2013
11,197
93 120
The Force: 150 years
of NSW Police
12 May – 7 Oct 2012
9,763
The wild ones: Sydney
Stadium 1908–1970
Museum of Sydney
22 Sept 2012 – 10 Mar
2013
36,870
168 219
20 Oct 2012 – 26 May
2013
10,466
113
Wicked women: an
exhibition by Rosemary Justice & Police Museum
Valadon
* Only major exhibitions are included in the table.
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Visitors Days Av
99
99
93
OUR Achievements
Tour visitation
1 July 2012 –
30 June 2013
TRAVELLING Exhibitions
Title
Location
Exhibition dates
Built for the bush: the
green architecture of
rural Australia
Western Plains Cultural
Centre, Dubbo
21 Jul – 28 Oct 2012
24,155
Orange Regional
Gallery, Orange
15 Feb – 31 Mar 2013
1,216
37
Tamworth Council
Chambers, Tamworth
15 Apr – 17 May 2013
2,782
26 107
Creative Arts Gallery,
Gunnedah
25 May – 7 Jul 2013
1,029
16
New England Regional Art
Museum, Armidale
3 May – 14 Jul 2013
5,734
52 110
Smalltown
New England Regional Art
Museum, Armidale
11 May – 5 Aug 2012
3,815
26 147
Liverpool Library, Liverpool
17 Aug – 25 Nov 2012
55,780
75 744
Gold Coast City Art Gallery,
Gold Coast
11 May – 16 Jun 2013
3,229
37
87
19 Oct 2012 – 17 Feb 2013
6,162
103
60
The Force: 150 years of Museum of the Riverina,
Wagga Wagga
NSW Police
Western Plains Cultural
Centre, Dubbo
TOtal
Visitors Days
Av
86 281
33
64
2 Mar – 21 Apr 2013
10,473
46 228
Newcastle Regional Museum,
4 May – 28 Jul 2013
Newcastle
21,062
56 376
135,437
Left to right Margaret Olley: home
exhibition. Photograph © James Horan;
The wild ones: Sydney Stadium 1908–1970
exhibition, installation view (detail);
Photograph © Penelope Clay; Artist
Rosemary Valadon at the opening of
Wicked women. Photograph © Dave Swift
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The interactive educational programs of Connected
Classrooms were presented to over 2200 schoolchildren.
In 2012–13, regional and rural schools made up 51% of
participating schools, extending HHT resources to
communities that would otherwise not have access to them.
Video-conferencing was also used to engage 500 high
school history students in Stages 5 and 6 in a series in which
experts talked and answered questions about life on the
home front during WWII (funded by the Department of
Veterans’ Affairs). Several regional schools also attended the
History Extension Project at the Museum of Sydney, among
them ten students from Cowra High School and a teacher
from each of Dungog and Armidale high schools. Regional
schools make up about 25% of our education bookings for
education programs at our metropolitan museums.
To high school students we offered sessions on exhibition
development, enabling students and teachers to talk with
exhibition designers, curators, and programs officers. Our
professional development program It’s a RAP: Reconciliation
Action Plans, presented with Museums & Galleries NSW at
the Museum of Sydney, was also streamed live to an
audience of museum and gallery professionals at the
Western Plains Cultural Centre. The HHT, in partnership with
the Powerhouse Museum, once again hosted the Regional
Stakeholder Forum at the Justice & Police Museum, at
which delegates from 20 regional and state cultural
institutions shared ideas and collaborated on future
projects. The Caroline Simpson Library & Research
Collection also offered programs to tertiary school groups,
detailed under ‘Access to our collections’ on page 17.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
We engaged thousands of people during 2012–13 in a
range of popular programs, building our signature events,
as well as introducing initiatives to grow new audiences.
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The HHT’s largest public program, the biennial Sydney
Open, was held over three days in November and
attracted a record audience of 9375 people to 69
buildings, double the attendance at the 2010 event.
Sydney Open 2012 was launched by The Hon Robyn
Parker, The Minister for the Environment and Minister for
Heritage, and City of Sydney Councillor Jenny Green in
the newly restored David Jones ballroom On Seven in
Elizabeth Street. New programming in partnership with
the City of Sydney enabled free access on the evening of
Friday 2 November to five iconic Sydney sites – the Chief
Secretary’s Building, NSW Parliament House, the Hyde
Park Barracks Museum, St James’ Church and the
ballroom at David Jones. An extensive audience and
market evaluation showed that customer satisfaction was
high, with positive feedback received on the newly
developed app and website, our new platforms for
engaging our audiences. In partnership with the
Architects Registration Board of NSW, we also presented
the new Sydney Open Talks series, the highly successful
House Talks series and the Public Sydney Talks series, an
ideal lead-up to the Sydney Open event.
Our school-holiday programs continued to introduce HHT
properties and stories to young audiences, and in July the
annual Redcoats & Convicts event lived up to its
reputation as a fun-packed family day of living history.
Redcoats, costumed guides, re-enactors, heritage
tradesmen demonstrating their crafts, musicians and
specialist tours attracted 927 visitors.
The 2012 House Music concert program at Government
House was once again a great success, with nearly
1400 tickets sold (97% of box-office capacity). Our
audience enjoyed the Sydney Symphony Fellows,
Grigoryan Brothers, New Sydney Wind Quintet, Sydney
Chamber Choir, Pinchgut Opera, Kathryn Selby & Clancy
OUR Achievements
The Cook and the Curator blog
In May 2013 the HHT won two prestigious prizes at the Museums Australia
Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDA) for our new blog The Cook
and the Curator: the Judges Special Award for multimedia, and in the category
‘Design for a particular exhibition or program in an institution with more than
40 employees’. The judges remarked, ‘Great use of textures and decals in
a digital environment interprets the history theme and adds personality’.
The Cook and the Curator blog, blogs.hht.net.au/cook, written by Jacqui
Newling and Scott Hill, invites you to explore our food heritage. Each month
we take people to one of our extraordinary properties, introducing them to its
past residents and looking at what, where and how they ate.
Far left Soft Furnishings Group at Elizabeth Bay House.
Photograph © Haley Richardson & Stuart Miller
Left NAIDOC Week 2012. Photograph © Joy Lai
Newman, Streeton Trio, Joseph Tawadros Trio, Osmosis,
and Goldner String Quartet.
Vintage Sundays, a new programming initiative held at HHT
museums – Regency Sunday at Elizabeth Farm, and Gothic
and Victorian Sundays at Vaucluse House – offered special
activities such as food tastings, games on the lawn, a Punch
and Judy show in the stables, and waltzing in the courtyard
at Vaucluse House, as well as talks and tours.
Two family fun days, Meet the Police, were held at the
Justice & Police Museum as part of The Force exhibition.
And as an adjunct to the Home front exhibition at the
Museum of Sydney, a series of programs and tours focusing
on the WWII wartime era were held at Elizabeth Bay House
and Vaucluse House. Our forum Victory in the Pacific, with
high-profile historians James Curran, Peter Dean, Michael
McKernan and Richard Waterhouse, attracted 70
participants.
In August the annual Fifties Fair was likewise a great
success. A cap on numbers (2500 visitors) made for a better
visitor experience at this extremely popular event. Both
visitors and stallholders made favourable comments about
how smoothly it ran.
ACCESS TO OUR COLLECTIONS
The Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
continued its active learning and outreach programs, with
education visits, partnerships and media activities. New
displays in the library and elsewhere at The Mint included
a small selection of the thousands of textile fragments
discovered in the underfloor cavities at Hyde Park Barracks
during archaeological excavations, and a display titled
Painted decoration at Valetta, Petersham.
The library regularly hosted student groups from various
tertiary institutions and courses, such as Enmore TAFE
(History of Interiors), COFA (Design & Textiles); Charles Sturt
University (Librarianship); NIDA (Design); UTS (Interior
Architecture); Newcastle TAFE (library technicians);
Whitehouse Institute of Design; Wollongong TAFE (library
technicians); Australian Textile Arts & Surface Design
Association; and CATC Design School.
Notably, library staff presented, in collaboration with the
Friends of the Historic Houses Trust and the Australian Garden
History Society, Glamour & Grit: New Stories for Garden
History. Staff members also facilitated public access to and
enjoyment of our collections by speaking with the media,
providing entries for the Dictionary of Sydney and articles for
journals, and giving public talks.
At the Museums Australia Conference a staff member
presented on the research opportunities and challenges of
managing the NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive at
the Justice & Police Museum. We added to the pictures
catalogue around 1000 images of police stations from the
Justice & Police Museum collection, also scanning and
cataloguing around 900 files of floor plans of police stations/
residences dating from around 1914, the 1930s and later.
The range of in-depth reference queries received by the library
was extensive, with some evidence that a growing number of
researchers and readers are discovering the special focus
of the collection (the history of domestic design, interiors
and gardens.)
An article entitled ‘Meroogal’s Uncle Kenny’ – about Kenneth
McKenzie, the brother of Jessie Thorburn (matriarch of
Meroogal), ardent bushman, keen woodworker, and
credited as the architect of Meroogal – was launched on
the HHT website. This was the outcome of new research
triggered by the library’s acquisition of the June Wallace
papers in 2011 (June was the property’s last owner).
The article has received very positive feedback from
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South Coast locals, including noted designer and furniture
maker Leon Sadubin, who commented, ‘What a wonderful
gathering of information in an accessible format on
Kenneth Mackenzie! It is a great template for individuals
of local historic significance’.
Eighty-seven significant objects in the HHT’s collections
went on tour in Australia in a range of exhibitions. A
white-painted revolving bookcase provenanced to the
home of the late Patrick White and Manoly Lascaris, now
in the collection of the Caroline Simpson Library & Research
Collection, was lent to the State Library of New South
Wales for the exhibition The life of Patrick White. The
Strathallan Box from the Museum of Sydney was displayed
at the National Library of Australia in the exhibition Lewin:
wild art. Collection objects were also lent to the Tasmanian
Museum and Art Gallery, Australian National Maritime
Museum, National Parks and Wildlife Service (NSW) and Art
Gallery of New South Wales.
connecting with MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITIES
The HHT continued to reach out to multicultural
communities this year through exhibitions, interpretation,
public programs and our curriculum-related education
programs, attended by growing numbers of children from
non-English-speaking backgrounds.
•New translations of the Hyde Park Barracks Museum
audio tour were completed and installed this year,
enabling culturally and linguistically diverse audiences
to engage more fully with the museum. Mandarin,
Japanese and Korean versions were well received and
are catering to growing audiences from these
communities.
•The HHT worked in partnership with the Chinese Heritage
Association of Australia and City of Sydney to celebrate
and profile Chinese New Year at the Museum of Sydney
with the popular talk entitled ‘The Chinese in The Rocks:
The Rocks, King Nam Jang and the Cumines Family’.
•We provide tours at the Hyde Park Barracks Muse for
teenagers from all over the USA who come to Australia
with the organisation People to People Ambassador
Programs to expand their global awareness and discover
new experiences.
IMPROVING ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
The HHT continued to improve access to our sites for people
with disabilities. In August The Hon Robyn Parker, The
Minister for the Environment and Minister for Heritage,
launched our Australian Sign Language (Auslan) video guide
at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Developed in
partnership with the non-profit charity Australian
Communication Exchange (ACE), with support from the City
of Sydney, this free tour is available via the OpenMi app on
iTunes, or on pre-loaded iPods on site. As the state‘s
first-ever Auslan tour of a museum or heritage site, it reflects
'… the greatest work of public-space scholarship seen in this country'*
Public Sydney: drawing the city, by Sydney architects Philip Thalis and Peter John Cantrill,
was launched in April 2013, and the first print run had sold out by July. The publication
was a collaboration between the HHT and Content, the journal of the Faculty of Built
Environment, University of New South Wales, to raise awareness of Sydney’s historic
public buildings and place them in their wider city context. It celebrates the public
buildings, rooms and spaces of central Sydney, and presents a comprehensive
overview of almost 100 of Sydney’s most important public places.
*Elizabeth Farrelly, The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 June 2013
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OUR Achievements
the HHT’s commitment to making our sites and stories more
accessible to everyone. Deaf awareness training for visitor
services staff supports the video guide.
This year we welcomed 257 students with special needs as
part of booked education groups, and hosted tours of our
properties for many different groups who assist people with
disabilities and their carers, among them the Acacia Centre
residents and their carers, Stroke by Stroke Recovery Group,
Blacktown Community Aid Group, Deaf & Blind Association,
Blacktown Workers Club (travel club for seniors requiring
wheelchair access), Breakthru Solutions for people with mild
intellectual disability, Schizophrenia Fellowship of New South
Wales, and Riverlink Interchange, which supports people
with intellectual disability.
EDUCATION
Education programs continued to enjoy strong attendance
across HHT museums. Our most popular curriculum-based
education programs were, as ever, Lessons from the Past at
Rouse Hill House & Farm and Transported in Time at Elizabeth
Farm. To further improve our education offer, in February 2013
the HHT introduced a new model for the delivery of education
programs. The Programs and Portfolio teams recruited
46 people to the newly created positions of Curriculum
Program Deliverers. Given the substantial training required to
offer 28 curriculum-linked programs at eight of our sites, the
new program roll-out was staggered across the calendar year.
To reduce the operational costs of running school programs,
we withdrew the programs that drew the smallest audiences
or rationalised the number of days per week they were
offered. These changes to delivery have meant a temporary
fall in education numbers in the first half of 2013.
These changes have provided us with the much-needed
opportunity to review and revise all programs, which has
resulted in greater consistency and improvement for
teachers and students. The new model means we can
maximise school visitation, allowing greater flexibility in
programming during the available hours and weeks of the
year. The qualitative returns have been very positive and will
contribute to growing visitation in the long term, both by
word of mouth and by encouraging audiences to make
return visits. Projected visitation for the second half of the
2013 school year matches visitation for the previous year.
Top Redcoats & Convicts 2013 (detail). Photograph © James Horan
Above Australia Day Celebrations 2012. Photograph © Narelle Spangher,
MONDE Photo
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Visitor breakdown*
2013
% difference†
2012
2011
140,509
-9%
155,234
172,096
Paid admissions
General public
Education
46,595
-20%
58,438
59,682
‡
1,423
–
–
–
Public programs
8,853
-34%
13,480
15,078
Venue hire
42,739
-38%
69,022
97,279
Outreach
6,738
76%
3,819
11,571
Outreach education
2,311
-32%
3,411
2,543
Paid admission total
249,168
-18%
303,404
358,249
62,902
1%
62,113
58,918
916
-40%
1,531
6,608
175,952
10%
160,195
147,966
857
-34%
1,308
1,418
312,505
-4%
324,453
280,095
3,812
715%
468
–
556,944
1%
550,068
495,005
29,182
–
28,993
8,569
–
–
22,029
46,184
5,734
–
–
–
62,824
–
10,799
11,410
–
–
5,350
–
37,697
–
–
–
Total travelling exhibitions
135,437
–
67,171
66,163
Total (properties, exhibitions and activities)
941,549
920,643
919,417
Tertiary
Free entry
Complimentary tickets
Free public programs
Government House (includes GH grounds)§
Government House education
Other||
Outreach free
Free entry total
Travelling exhibitions
Built for the bush: the green architecture of rural Australia
Femme fatale: the female criminal
Smalltown
Meroogal Women’s Arts Prize 2011–2012: made by hand
The Force: 150 years of NSW police
Grounds
312,406
-18%
381,059
309,358
Museum of Sydney
666,512
-5%
700,346
829,294
59,705
-20%
74,420
68,935
Grounds total
1,038,623
-10%
1,155,825
1,207,587
GRAND TOTAL
1,980,172
-5%
2,076,467
2,127,004
Vaucluse House
*The decrease in general visitation numbers reflects a 32% reduction in weekly opening hours at all properties since October 2012. In addition, the streamlining
and economising of the education offer and the shift to a new front-of-house model has temporarily reduced education numbers in 2012–13.
† Percentage difference from the previous year.
‡ In previous years, tertiary numbers were included in the Education category.
§ Includes house tours and vice-regal.
|| Includes site visits, internal bookings and events, cafes, shops, public sculptures, etc.
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OUR Achievements
WHERE VISITORS CAME FROM*
38.4%
25%
Northern Sydney
21,522
64,868
23.9%
Inner city
20,570
N/A 32,373
16.7% Eastern Suburbs
14,386
Sydney86,062
28.9%Overseas
14.4% WHERE SYDNEY VISITORS CAME FROM*
†
7.8%Rural NSW
17,588
15.8%Western Sydney
13,583
3.9%Victoria
8,838
10.8%
South Sydney
9,321
3.4%Queensland
7,622
7.8%
Inner West
6,680
3.1%
Other states 6,895
‡
* Includes
general public, public programs,
complimentary tickets, free public programs
and Government House tours.
*Includes general public, public programs,
complimentary tickets, free public programs
and Government House tours.
† Data not collected or not provided.
‡ Includes ACT, NT, SA, Tas and WA.
MAJOR EVENTS
Title
Location
Redcoats & Convicts
970
Saturday 14 July 2012
Sydney Open talks
The Mint & outreach
384
Various dates
Fifties Fair
Rose Seidler House
2,205
Sunday 26 August 2012
Sydney Open
The Mint & outreach
9,375
2–4 November 2012
House Music
Government House
1,386
Various dates
Vintage Sundays
Vaucluse House & outreach
596
Various dates
Grand Total
Total visitors
Date
14,916
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outreach maps
Travelling exhibitions
Armidale
Gunnedah
Tamworth
Dubbo
Newcastle
Orange
Liverpool
Wagga Wagga
Built for the bush
Margaret Olley
The Force
Smalltown
Connected Classrooms
Hunter River
Kempsey West
Kilmore (Vic)
Lawrence
Lismore South
Lithgow
Lochinvar
Lock (SA)
Maclean
Mount George
Mount Victoria
Rankin’s Springs
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Albury
Coffs Harbour
Sandy Beach
Ariah Park
Coolah
Tamworth
Beckom
Bowning
Corinda (Qld)
Wollar
Bega Valley
Cowell (SA)
Wollongong
Berrigan
Bunnaloo
Bylong
Dubbo
Yeoval
Bourke
Cassilis
East Ballina
Young
OUR Achievements
digital engagement
Education program delivery*
2013
Total website visits
786,316
Page views
www.hht.net.au*
1,908,427
Students by region
City Portfolio
Primary schools
6,091
Secondary schools
6,858
Government House & Eastern Sydney Portfolio
E-commerce
173,396
Microsites/blogs (including Sydney Open)
342,789
Primary schools
Collections
314,200
Secondary schools
Page views total
2,738,812
Enews subscribers
14,791
Social media
5,366
118
Macquarie Street Portfolio
Primary schools
11,087
Secondary schools
Facebook followers
6,931
Twitter followers
1,062
Videos
2,945
Meroogal & Western Sydney Portfolio
Primary schools
15,266
Secondary schools
Vimeo loads
250,925
Vimeo plays
16,937
YouTube plays
2013
2,927
* Includes all page views other than e-commerce, microsites/blogs and collections.
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Primary total
37,810
Secondary total
10,010
Outreach (Connected Classrooms)
2,311
Tertiary
1,423
Total
51,554
*The decrease in general visitation numbers reflects a 32% reduction in
weekly opening hours at all properties since October 2012. In addition,
the streamlining and economising of the education offer and the shift
to a new front-of-house model has temporarily reduced education
Media coverage
2013
2012
2011
2010
Print and
online
725
1,141*
1,596
1,285
Radio
110
114
111
235
Television†
982
52
32
32
1,817
1,307
1,739
1,552
Total
* This figure was incorrect in last year’s report.
† The increase from last year’s figure reflects an increase in national
TV stories plus the national syndication of local television content.
Children playing at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum.
Photograph © James Horan
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CONSERVATION & CURATORSHIP
Our properties and
collections are handed
on to future generations
in good heart.
We aim to put research at the heart of all of our work,
make good use of our curatorial expertise, make informed
decisions, and properly maintain our properties and
collections. In 2012–13 we continued to make our
conservation processes more visible.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
We worked in close collaboration with the Department of
Premier and Cabinet and the Office of the Governor on
the implementation of plans for an updated private
apartment and modernised staff offices at Government
House to enable the Governor of New South Wales to take
up full residence. During the process of internal demolition
of 20th-century additions, we were able to analyse and
document for the first time some of the phases in the
development of the back-of-house areas of the property.
We briefed the Heritage Division of the NSW Office of
Environment and Heritage on the initial demolition work
being carried out and also sought approval for the design
and construction of the refurbishment. We discovered
friable asbestos in early-20th-century plaster in some of
the service areas and this was carefully removed by
accredited contractors; the building has now been
certified safe by industrial hygienists.
Valuable collections were removed and placed in secure,
environmentally controlled storage facilities off site, and
will be returned to Government House at the completion
of the project. We catalogued and evaluated a very large
collection of furniture, soft furnishings, kitchenalia,
uniforms and domestic wares from the former service wing
and private quarters. This ranged in quality from antique
furniture items of exceptional heritage value to disused
microwave ovens and electric toasters. The work was carried
out as part of a larger project to decant the former service
wing and private quarters to allow their refurbishment.
JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM
We worked closely with Government Property NSW and the
operator of the Sir Stamford Hotel in Macquarie Street to
refine a proposed redevelopment of the hotel site to reduce
heritage impacts on the adjoining Justice & Police Museum.
We anticipate entering into a deed with the developer in
relation to the granting of easements that affect both sites,
and for which some financial compensation will be paid.
It is the HHT’s intention that such compensation will
primarily be reinvested in the Justice & Police Museum for
the conservation of the building and collections, and to
completely revamp the interpretation to reflect crime
and punishment in Sydney in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The buildings of the Justice & Police Museum, which are of
exceptional significance, having been designed by colonial
architects Edmund Blacket, James Barnet and Alexander
Dawson, were originally built to deal with crime occurring
around the waterfront at Circular Quay and on the harbour.
KEY CONSERVATION PROJECTS
Other conservation projects were completed at properties
to ensure the ongoing preservation and integrity of the
HHT’s buildings, gardens and interiors, including:
•the sourcing and hanging of new lace curtains in the
Vaucluse House drawing room to help prevent damage
to antique furniture and finishes from exposure to
A 21st-century approach to an age-old problem
Levels of lighting are of particular concern to museums; too much light leads to
fading of collection items, too little makes it hard for visitors to enjoy our spaces.
This year we carried out microfade testing on significant and fragile textiles at
Rouse Hill House. This process uses a microscopic light source to calculate the
degree to which different materials will fade when exposed to light.
We found that, in general, the textiles were fairly stable and there was little risk
of light damage from our current lighting system. Armed with this information,
we are now exploring opportunities to increase light levels and improve the
visitor experience in the house.
Wool tablecloth on gypsy table, Rouse Hill House & Farm. Photograph © Bruce Ford
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Above left Throsby Park homestead. Photograph © Doug Riley
Above right Restoration of verandah at Throsby Park. Photograph © HHT
sunlight. This was the first significant refurbishment at
Vaucluse House since the museum was fitted out in
the early 1980s, and it will be followed by the phased
replacement of all the fabrics and carpets that are
deteriorating due to age and wear and tear. Research
into the style and fabrication of the curtains included
reference to other known examples such as an 1880s
archive photograph of the historic house Tivoli at
Rose Bay;
•research into the original use and exact edges of one of
the farm ponds at Rouse Hill, and excavation of several
hundred cubic metres of silt and mud to re-create its
earlier form. We also reconstructed the split hardwood
post-and-rail fences to provide a safety barrier, an
important surviving feature of the historic garden and
farm layout. We followed the principles of the 1987
Conservation Policy to test whether they remained valid
and were still able to be applied;
•ongoing efforts to control mould, which damages
furniture, textiles, paper and leather items, at several
sites. The growth of mould is triggered by damp weather
and inadequate ventilation and air movement, and can
permanently disfigure or damage museum collections.
In addition to extensive cleaning of air-conditioning
filters and ducting to eliminate mould spores, specialised
conservation treatments were applied to a large range
of collection objects at the Justice & Police Museum and
furniture stored at Rouse Hill House; and
•opening the archaeological display trench at the
Museum of Sydney to remove moisture and
condensation which was degrading the exposed brick
and stone on display.
CONSERVING OUR COLLECTIONS
An extensive program of technical conservation has been
carried out across HHT properties and collections, including
conservation cleaning of the models of the ships of the First
Fleet at the Museum of Sydney, conservation of the metal
of The Mint coining press, freezing of organic materials to kill
insect pests, repair and regilding of the frame of the portrait
of Queen Charlotte at Government House, and infrared and
UV photography of paintings in the Museum of Sydney
collection.
Given the number of new staff now working in the portfolios,
we also developed new housekeeping guides for the
treatment and handling of collections objects. The Head
of Collections Care provided training advice and technical
tips to staff at all properties.
ACQUIRING NEW COLLECTION MATERIAL
We acquired a very large archive of business and personal
papers from the estate of the late Leslie Walford AM
(1927–2011), considered by many to be one of the most
influential interior decorators of the post-WWII period in
Australia. Dating from 1964 to 1991, the material provides
a rich historical resource, including the only known surviving
records of the Society of Interior Designers of Australia.
Walford was partly responsible for the furnishing and fit-out
of Elizabeth Bay House in the late 1970s and assembled an
outstanding collection of Australian colonial furniture,
pictures and objects, all displayed in a grand manner.
Other new acquisitions for the Hyde Park Barracks Museum
and Mint social-history collections included a 1920 penny
minted at the Sydney Royal Mint, a Sydney Mint coin bag,
pans for gold mining, gold scales and gold-dust bags, an ink
drawing of the barracks c1900 by cartoonist and illustrator
Amandus Fischer, and a 1928 etching by Frederick Britton
showing the south-west corner of The Mint.
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Endangered Houses Fund properties sold
This year we sold two of the properties conserved under
the Endangered Houses Fund (EHF), Exeter Farm at
Glenwood and the former Presbyterian manse at Moruya,
and exchanged contracts on a third, Glenfield at Casula.
For each property we found a purchaser who would respect
the inherent qualities of these extraordinary historic buildings,
and was willing to become the custodian of the state’s
heritage. The outcome for each property was positive and an
endorsement of the effort the HHT has put into building this
program. Rather than these properties becoming an ongoing
burden on the taxpayer through state ownership, the EHF
program provides an alternative to demolition or insensitive
redevelopment of houses at risk. Through the HHT’s program
of open days, specialist talks and publications, the public was
invited to visit and learn about historic buildings.
Throsby Park
At Throsby Park we completed a program of stabilisation and
repair work to the main house, stables and outbuildings,
formal gardens and farm landscape. The property had been
well managed and conserved by the National Parks and
Wildlife Service before we took over control in 2010, so the
scope of intervention required to prepare the property for
release to the market was much less than was the case with
previous Endangered Houses Fund projects.
Throsby Park, an important verandahed bungalow built in
1834, is the centrepiece of the earliest land grant in the
Southern Highlands, and is a rare, surviving, relatively intact
example of a colonial-era rural estate. In addition to the
house, the property includes stables and other farm
buildings, a formal garden, paddocks, dams, farm fencing
and tree plantations that reveal the history of rural land
management over the course of 170 years. Charles Throsby
and succeeding generations of his family had a significant
role in farming and community life in the Southern
Highlands, including up until 2006 when the last of his
descendants, ‘Del’ Throsby, famous for her children’s riding
school, passed away.
We commissioned a new Conservation Management Plan
and Heritage Guidelines to assist a future lessee to
understand what makes Throsby Park important, and to
provide guidelines on how to approach the task of upgrading
and modernising it so as to protect its nationally recognised
heritage significance.
We completed extensive repairs to the turned timber
columns along the verandah, which had internal decay, and
also repairs to plaster and painted surfaces internally. The
house was completely repainted externally, following a colour
scheme based on paint-scrape analysis at the site.
Throsby Park house also contains an extensive collection of
19th-century furniture and domestic objects, although of
varying quality and provenance. We completed an inventory
and significance assessment of the entire collection to aid
in deciding which items had to remain at the house, which
could be brought into the HHT permanent collection,
and which were of little or no significance so could be
disposed of.
Beulah, Appin
Beulah is an extraordinary colonial estate near Appin,
comprising an 1830s homestead and farm buildings, a
large area of regenerating Cumberland Plain Woodland
vegetation, paddocks and the remains of a formal garden.
Situated on the south-western urban fringe of Sydney, it is
NEW ARTWORK CELEBRATES LIFE LIVED ON THE HARBOUR
The Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House acquired
the limited-edition work Shark-net seahorses of Balmoral: a harbour
memoir by well-known Sydney artist Peter Kingston and poet Robert
Adamson. The 21 lino prints and 15 poems explore the artists’ shared
memories of growing up in and around Sydney Harbour, and include
works such as Wintergarden, The river caves and The Sydney Stadium.
Independent art curator Gavin Wilson described the prints as a
collaboration that succeeds ‘in bringing to the public a memoir that
celebrates the indivisible pleasures of harbourside life’. This latest
acquisition allows the museum to explore the collective and very
personal responses that people have to Sydney Harbour.
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facing considerable development pressure that has the
future potential to compromise Beulah’s natural and cultural
heritage values.
We engaged heritage specialists Urbis to prepare a
Conservation Management Plan for the site, and to
analyse the economic opportunities and planning issues that
affect how the property can be used and developed.
We completed an archaeological survey of the colonial-era
sandstone bridge, and commissioned engineering designs for
the construction of a modern replacement bridge, taking into
account the need to preserve the remains of the original
structure.
We continued to actively manage the important remnant
Cumberland Plain Woodland using funds provided by the
former NSW Government Department of Environment,
Climate Change and Water1 under the Biobanking Agreement.
Nissen hut, Belmont
We received Council approval for an adjusted Development
Application with a revised package of building works. The aim
of the revised development application was to bring the cost
of the renovations to the Nissen hut back to a level that took
into account the potential sale price eventually able to be
achieved for the property.
MAINTAINING OUR PROPERTIES
Successful preservation of the HHT’s historic buildings,
gardens and collections is as much a result of careful and
consistently applied maintenance and housekeeping as it is of
once-off intervention to prevent catastrophic failure.
We initiated work on a comprehensive tree management
program for Vaucluse House, Rouse Hill House & Farm, Rose
Seidler House and Elizabeth Farm, all of which feature ageing
trees. We also set up a Tree Condition Assessment database
for risk management, allowing the gardens team to monitor
major trees and track their remedial care. The fieldwork
included the use of Picus Sonic Tomography on a number of
mature trees. This enables a cross-section to be produced
that shows living and dead wood, and these cross-sections
can be used to assess whether or not trees present a risk
to safety.
Amenities at the Hyde Park Barracks Cafe, last refurbished by
the Department of Public Works in 1981, were completely
refitted to meet current code standards for accessibility and
to eliminate ongoing plumbing problems. We engaged Weir
and Phillips conservation architects to design a scheme to
provide for contemporary standards of service and comfort
while minimising impacts to the historic building fabric.
(See also pages 44–6.)
1 Now the Office of Environment and Heritage
Far left R Adamson & P Kingston, Shark-net seahorses of Balmoral: a
harbour memoir, Chowder Bay Press, Sydney, 2012; Above left Moruya
manse after restoration. Photograph © Andrew Metcalfe
Above right Carefully dismantling a crystal chandelier in the drawing
room at Government House. Photograph © HHT
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stability
The HHT becomes a more
resilient organisation with
a secure future.
Our aims include investing in and developing our
properties, increasing self-generated revenue, improving
public awareness of the HHT, better controlling our costs
and reducing our carbon footprint.
INVESTING IN AND UPGRADING OUR FACILITIES
The Hyde Park Barracks Cafe was refurbished in partnership
with our lessee, which included a major capital program to
extensively upgrade the toilet facilities. New motorised
awnings were installed at the MOS Cafe, and the audiovisual
facilities in the commercial meeting rooms at The Mint
received an upgrade.
GENERATING INCOME
In 2012–13 the HHT’s income from school and education
groups rose by 1%, and visitation to exhibitions was
comparable with that of the past year. Income from commercial
venue hire fell 15% from the previous year, largely due to the
loss of the Sydney Festival Bar at the Hyde Park Barracks
Museum. Vaucluse House, on the other hand, proved an ever
more popular venue for weddings, filming and photography;
revenue increased 18% from the previous year. While revenue
from hire of the Justice & Police Museum increased by 36%,
commercial leasehold income decreased by 13% due to the
weaker turnover of food and beverages at the MOS Cafe.
The HHT produces a comprehensive range of gifts, souvenirs
and publications available through the online shop and at all
museums. We also have a dedicated shop at the Museum
of Sydney. Gross sales for the year exceeded $600,000.
We continued our tradition of book publishing; this year we
published Public Sydney: drawing the city, which went to a
second print run, and the fifth reprint of City of shadows.
Overall, our income from commercial services decreased
by 2% from the previous year.
RAISING AWARENESS OF THE HHT
Broadcast, print and digital media have all played an
important role in raising awareness of the HHT, and in
showcasing the initiatives that bring our properties,
exhibitions, events and collections to life.
In 2012–13 a total of 1817 stories were covered by the print
and broadcast media. Importantly, this media coverage
helped us to launch and build awareness of our new brand,
Sydney Living Museums, and to familiarise audiences with it.
Media highlights included extensive coverage in the
metropolitan newspapers of the exhibition Public Sydney:
stop, look, live! at the Museum of Sydney, as well as
excellent reviews of the accompanying book Public Sydney:
drawing the city, the first print run of which sold out in a
matter of weeks. Book reviews included a half page in
The Sydney Morning Herald’s ‘Spectrum’, and a comment
by a columnist; pieces in The Canberra Times ‘Review’,
ArchitectureAU, The Daily Telegraph, Australian Book
Review, Architectural Review and Inside History; and four
pages in Architecture Australia.
Other highlights included strong media coverage of the
Sydney Open 2012 event, the exhibitions Margaret Olley:
home, A convict in the family?, The wild ones: Sydney
Stadium 1908–1970 and Wicked women, and the Vintage
Sundays events. Relationships with media continued to be
strengthened, with a visit to the Hyde Park Barracks
Museum by Channel 9’s Today Show; NAIDOC Week
coverage in local papers as well as on ABC Radio, and
our new brand
As one of the most successful heritage organisations in New South Wales, the
HHT has cared for the state’s most important heritage buildings, landscapes and
collections for 33 years. Conserving these sites and their contents and handing
them on to future generations is at the core of everything we do, but our
continuing success means ensuring that more people, and a wider range of
people, enjoy them today and in the future.
In April, the HHT launched its brand ‘Sydney Living Museums’. The brand firmly
positions our sites and their collections at the core of what we offer, enabling us
to promote all 12 properties as a collective, as well as single destinations.
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extensive coverage for the touring exhibitions Built for the
bush and The Force: 150 years of NSW Police.
CONTROLLING OUR COSTS
The financial year 2012–13 was challenging for the HHT,
with increased efficiency savings reducing our NSW
government allocation, and a downturn in commercial
revenue. However, we balanced our budget by cutting down
on public programming costs, further reducing staff numbers
and restricting visiting hours at all properties.
REDUCING OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT
We aim to reduce our ecological, including carbon, footprint,
by managing our properties sustainably. Measures included:
•standard use of E10 fuel in the majority of our small fleet of
motor vehicles;
•moving towards greater use of electronic communications
to reduce the amount of printing in the office;
•continuing to use paper certified by the Forestry
Stewardship Council, guaranteed to have been sourced
from sustainably managed plantation timber, for necessary
printing;
•wider implementation of the TRIM records management
system to reduce the need for paper files;
•continuing use of the NSW government electricity
contracts, including a provision for 6% green power;
•continuing to partner with AGL Energy to offer commercial
event clients at MOS and The Mint the option of powering
their events with 100% green energy;
•progressively replacing halogen and fluorescent lamps with
low-voltage energy-efficient LED fittings at various
properties for both interior and exterior purposes;
•continuing to recycle and repurpose structural elements
from exhibition installations to reduce our use of new
materials with high embedded energy; and
•planning capital upgrades to property plant and
equipment with more energy-efficient models.
Top The Mint Auditorium. Photograph © Penelope Beveridge,
Penelope Photography Above Wedding at the Hyde Park Barracks
Museum. Photograph © Thomas Stewart
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Wellbeing
In 2010 we began an exercise to reshape the HHT in order
to meet the challenges facing both us as an organisation
and museums in general in the 21st century. Those
challenges included issues such as shrinking resources and
the need to grow self-generated income, new approaches
to museum interpretation that put audiences and
experiences at the core of what we do, greater use of the
web and social media, and the need to find new audiences.
Since then we have put in place some new teams, and
strengthened existing ones. Over the past three years we
have succeeded in focusing on our four core roles: caring
for properties, reaching audiences, generating income, and
corporate responsibility. Our properties have been brought
together into portfolios to reduce isolation, create a more
team-based approach and bring in new skills. New teams
have been set up to concentrate on the web and
interpretation, and we have put more emphasis on
generating income. During the year, 83 people were
recruited into the new team structure, the majority of whom
were existing staff, plus 46 new Curriculum Program
Deliverers into the Programs team.
As at 30 June 2013 we had almost finalised the last phase
of our restructure and recruitment for our Commercial and
Marketing Services, Operations, and Directorate teams.
DEVELOPING SKILLS AND TRAINING
In 2012–13 we gave priority to compliance training.
We also continued to support staff affected by
organisational change, assisting them to apply for new
roles, and through change management workshops.
We support staff by offering flexible work practices
including flex days and rostered days off, maternity leave,
and family and community service leave. We provide
opportunities for development through expressions of
interest and higher duties allowances for temporary
appointments. We also continue to support staff affected
by organisational change through our Employee
Assistance Program.
The HHT ensures diversity of representation on recruitment
panels and internal bodies such as the Workplace Health
and Safety Committee (WHSC), Staff and Management
Participatory and Advisory Committee (SAMPAC), Joint
Consultative Committee (JCC) and job evaluation panels.
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The wellbeing of
our staff improves.
IMPROVING WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
We continued to implement the Occupational Health and
Safety and Injury Management Plan 2009–11, with:
•our Human Resources team having two accredited Return
to Work coordinators to better help our workers
compensation claims;
•the provision of detailed risk assessments, which are
updated annually, available on the HHT website;
•planning for very large events supported through an Events
Manual that covers workplace health and safety (WHS)
requirements as well as risk-management information and
instructions;
•volunteers for events being given site tours and instructions
about WHS;
•each portfolio undertaking specialised training in disaster
management specific to their site, such as bushfire control
and management undertaken at our Western Sydney
properties;
•each of the property portfolios having policies regarding
on-site contractors that require them to sign the visitor
book and fire register. All new contractors have a
site-specific induction and must sight a Safe Work Method
Statement (SWMS);
•a mandatory staff training course to address the new NSW
Food Safety Authority requirements provided by Workplace
Food Safety Handlers for all Visitor and Interpretation
Officers, and Programs staff. Supervisors undertook the
Food Safety Supervisor course. As well as this training,
Tearoom staff also had mandatory certification in Prepare
& Serve Expresso Coffee; and
•further compliance training for staff across the HHT in areas
including Child Protection, Child Protection reporting,
Senior First Aid, Manual Handling, Snake Awareness, White
Card Construction, Scissor Lift Yellow Card, Deaf
Awareness, Armed Hold Up & Robbery Survival, Defensive
Driving & Operating Van Hydraulic Platforms, Responsible
Service of Alcohol (Programs and Venues staff), and
Chainsaw Operations & Chemical Applications training
(entire Garden Team).
The result was an improvement in Workplace Health and
Safety performance compared to previous years. For example,
as at June 2013 there were no significant ongoing incidents,
compared with two in June 2012, and there were no public
liability claims.
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knowledge
We use our knowledge and
expertise, and work with
others, to change the way
people think about heritage
and the past.
Through a range of programs and projects relating to
our museums and collections, we promote the value
of conservation, challenge assumptions about the past
and encourage more people to discover their own past.
SHARING OUR SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE
This year we ran a series of workshops and seminars to share
our knowledge and research with an audience of peers and
the general public. These included Colonial Gastronomy,
the Museums Seminar Series with Museums & Galleries NSW,
The Archaeology of Cooking and Eating, Sydney Open Focus
Tours, Public Sydney Digital City sessions for Vivid Sydney,
The Historical Stylist event at Elizabeth Bay House with Sibella
Court and the Macleay Museum, and the Trustwords sessions
as part of the Sydney Writers’ Festival. In the lead-up to
Sydney Open 2012 several members of the HHT staff
presented specialist papers in our series Sydney Open
Presents Talks: Public Sydney. In September, Ian Innes,
Assistant Director, Heritage and Portfolio, spoke about the
history of public gardens in Sydney, and Michael Lech,
Curator, Collections Online, spoke on the history of
department stores and shopping in Sydney. All talks from this
series are available as MP3 files on our website.
RESEARCHING THE PAST
The Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection (CSL&RC)
continued its collection-related research throughout the year.
Research has begun on the large archive of business and
personal papers relating to the late Leslie Walford AM, interior
decorator (see also ‘Acquiring new collection material’ on
page 25), which includes minutes, correspondence, press
cuttings, and profiles of the members of the Society of Interior
Designers of Australia. In addition to documenting the archival
material, the CSL&RC commissioned a photographic
documentation of Leslie Walford’s penthouse, Princeton,
in Double Bay, and this was completed in October. Some
elements of the Princeton furnishing scheme, including cornice
poles, curtains and blinds, were acquired for the CSL&RC
collection.
Top King George V Recreation Centre, The Rocks from the Public Sydney: stop,
look, live! exhibition (detail). Photograph © James Horan Above HHT colonial
gastronomer, Jacqui Newling. Photograph © James Horan
We also commissioned, from heritage specialist Nicholas
Powell, a complete set of measured drawings of our property
Meroogal at Nowra. Based on a physical survey
of the property, the drawings accurately document the
building’s construction, fabric and finishes, and allow us to
better understand how such 19th-century buildings were
designed and built. Meroogal’s design was based on those in
American pattern books, which were freely adapted and used
in Australia, and this makes it particularly fascinating.
This year HHT historian Jane Kelso continued her search for
historic documents, photographs and plans relating to the
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Justice & Police Museum to inform our decision-making
about the reinterpretation and management of this
important museum. A systematic search in State Records
NSW was augmented with analysis of photographic
evidence and searches of newspapers to fill in the gaps
where other archival material no longer survived. This
enriches our understanding of the evolution of the site and
its structures and history, and brings to light stories of those
who passed through its doors. It allows us not only to
conserve and manage the site, but also to interpret it
engagingly and evoke a sense of place. Drawing together
various records has revealed practical details such as
alterations, furnishings and the internal layout and
operations of the Water Police Court and Station, and has
also provided insight into the atmosphere of the place,
from its eccentric acoustics and ‘noisome odours’ to
invasive goats.
MAKING RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGE ACCESSIBLE TO
THE COMMUNITY
In the process of managing our diverse portfolio of
museums and collections, the HHT has amassed a
wealth of knowledge about buildings, interiors, gardens,
domestic life and technology, and social history. We aim
to share this knowledge with as broad an audience as
possible through our publications, website, exhibitions,
events and lecture series.
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Our Web and Screen Media Team is continuing to build
an archive of video documentation of programs and talks,
and is working closely with curatorial staff to increase the
amount of content and information accessible via the
internet. The new website will allow for significantly more
stories about our places, families and collections, and their
history. Blogs such as The Cook and the Curator, which
showcases unique aspects of the food history of New
South Wales as seen through the kitchens, dining and
service rooms, gardens and collections of HHT museums,
continue to share new research about our places
and collections.
The new digital interactive, Lags & Swells, was installed
in the Hyde Park Barracks to present existing and new
research on the lives of some of the convicts who lived and
worked in the building. Visitors can explore the personal
stories of 50 convicts who passed through the barracks
between 1819 and 1848, and learn some words of ‘flash’
cant, or convict slang.
For Sydney architects and authors Philip Thalis and Peter
John Cantrill, Public Sydney: drawing the city was the
culmination of 15 years of inspired and meticulous work
involving generations of their architecture students at the
University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University
of Technology, Sydney. It presents detailed architectural
drawings, essays (including one by Ian Innes, the HHT’s
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Assistant Director, Heritage and Portfolio) and photographs
of Sydney’s public spaces. Architecture writer Elizabeth
Farrelly, who reviewed the book in The Sydney Morning
Herald, called it ‘a magnificent tome … [which] resonates
with passion and intelligence’.
In April we held an open day at Throsby Park, a property
being conserved through the Endangered Houses Fund. Over
700 visitors attended and were able to explore all corners of
the house, stables and outbuildings. Staff and other experts
gave guided tours and talks to explain aspects of Throsby
Park’s architectural history, historic gardens and horticulture,
Australian furniture and decorative arts. We spoke about our
conservation of the property, including the dismantling and
reconstruction of the timber bay window, the splicing of the
verandah columns to remove and replace decayed wood, and
the research into paint colours, using paint scrapes and
reference colours. (See also page 26.)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
HHT staff presented at a number of conferences and
seminars throughout the year, giving papers to share our
expertise and knowledge with a wide range of professional
and interested audiences. These were:
•‘The Artifact, Its Context and Their Narrative
Multidisciplinary Conservation in Historic House Museums’
conference, Getty Institute, Los Angeles, November 2012
(Kate Clark);
•Interpretation Australia 2012, Melbourne (Beth Hise);
•‘It’s a RAP: Building Relationships with Your Aboriginal
Community’ symposium, Museum of Sydney, September
2012 (Beth Hise);
•NSW Premiers’ Awards for History, 2012 (Dr Caroline
Butler-Bowdon was a judge);
•QUESTnet (Queensland Education, Science and
Technology Network) conference, Cairns, July 2012 (Sian
Morgan-Hall presented a paper in collaboration with
Richard Ford, Director of Teaching and Learning and Head
of History at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney, and
Jill Abel of the Hutchins School in Tasmania);
•‘Research and Collections in a Connected World’,
Museums Australia National Conference, Adelaide,
September 2012 (Holly Schulte);
•‘A Good Story Gets People in: A New Approach to
Interpretation at the Historic Houses Trust of NSW’,
Interpretation Australia Conference, Melbourne,
November 2012 (Beth Hise);
•‘A History Seldom Recognised and Poorly Understood:
Finding Aboriginal Stories at the Historic Houses Trust
of NSW’, Museums & Galleries NSW, It’s a RAP, Building
Relationships with Your Aboriginal Community
Symposium, Museum of Sydney, September 2012
(Beth Hise).
•‘Arts Leadership: New Challenges/New Models’, Sydney
Arts Management Advisory Group (SAMAG), February
2013 (Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon);
•‘Future Approaches to Historic Houses, their Gardens
and Collections’, Adelaide, November 2012 (Kate Clark);
•‘The Generous Table’, 19th Australian Gastronomy
Symposium, Newcastle, April 2013 (Jacqui Newling);
•‘Glamour and Grit: New Stories for Garden History’,
presented by the Friends of the Historic Houses Trust in
collaboration with the Sydney & Northern NSW Branch of
the Australian Garden History Society, The Mint, Sydney,
July 2012 (Megan Martin, Michael Lech);
•‘How Museums Work: People, Industry and Nation’,
Museums Australia National Conference, May 2013,
Canberra (Kate Clark, Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Edward
Washington);
Far left and left Throsby Park Open Day 2013.
Photographs © Paul K Robbins, MONDE Photo
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ABOUT THE HHT
ABOUT THE HHT
Who we are
The Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT)
operates under the Historic Houses Act 1980 (NSW) to
manage, conserve and interpret the properties vested in it
for the education and enjoyment of the public. We are a
New South Wales statutory authority, administered through
the Office of Environment and Heritage in the Department
of Premier and Cabinet. We are one of Australia’s largest
state museum bodies. Over the past 33 years we have
grown from a small organisation into one of the state’s
major heritage and cultural institutions, managing and
conserving sites of historical and cultural importance that
tell a story about the history and development of New
South Wales.
We care for portfolio assets valued at more than $322
million including buildings, land and museum collections.
Our built assets comprise 16 historic buildings dating
between 1793 and 1950, and include several of the earliest
surviving colonial buildings in Australia, as well as major
public buildings of the Macquarie era.
We maintain and open 12 museums to the public: Elizabeth
Bay House, Elizabeth Farm, Government House, Hyde Park
Barracks Museum, Justice & Police Museum, Meroogal,
Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House,
Rose Seidler House, Rouse Hill House & Farm, Susannah
Place Museum, The Mint and Vaucluse House. All are
listed in the NSW State Heritage Register. The Museum of
Sydney and the Hyde Park Barracks are also on the National
Heritage list, and the Hyde Park Barracks is on the
UNESCO World Heritage List. (See also pages 36–9.)
The HHT also maintains 38 hectares of land including
public spaces, farmland and gardens, as well as
infrastructure such as roads, farm dams, 8 kilometres of
fences and gates. Our principal landscapes include the
formal historical colonial gardens, public park and beach at
Vaucluse House, and 18 hectares of farm and open land at
Rouse Hill House & Farm. Our gardens include some of the
oldest and best surviving historical plant collections in
Australia found outside botanical collections.
In 2012–13 we generated 21% of our total income through
commercial activities, paid admissions and non-recurrent
allocation such as grants, sponsorship and donations from
individuals, companies or government. We have a thriving
venue hire business, retail outlets, four commercial cafes/
restaurants, and our properties are in demand as locations
for both film and photography shoots.
Revenue raised from our commercial operations facilitates
our innovative program of public and educational events
and activities. Every year more than 50,000 school children,
across all stages from Kindergarten to Year 12, attend
education programs linked closely to the school curriculum
at our properties. The Connected Classrooms program
allows children throughout New South Wales to enjoy our
programs via new media technology. We stage
approximately 200 public programs and events each
year, ranging from large outdoor festivals to small
specialist tours, enjoyed by almost 15,000 visitors.
We are consistently building our digital content to
provide greater accessibility to our museums, collections
and stories.
Our innovative exhibitions bring history to life through
exploration of various themes such as architecture,
Indigenous history, convicts, the NSW Police Force,
criminals, and Sydney’s places, past and present.
Each exhibition is addressed in a unique way to create
an engaging experience for our visitors. (See also
page 12 and pages 14–15.)
We work with and are supported by a friends organisation,
a foundation, sponsors and hundreds of volunteers.
We form partnerships with other cultural and heritage
institutions, artists, community groups, universities and
voluntary organisations.
We collect, catalogue and conserve material relating to our
core themes of domestic material culture, the history of art,
architecture and design, and aspects of Sydney’s social
history related to our sites. The collections held at our
museums are valued at more than $38 million and comprise
250,000 archaeological artefacts, more than 47,500 objects,
more than 130,000 glass-plate negatives, a library
collection and a small but important digital collection,
all of cultural and heritage significance to the history of
New South Wales. (See also page 41.)
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our Properties
city portfolio
Museum of Sydney
The Justice & Police Museum houses
a unique collection of objects
relating to crime, policing and legal
history, including a significant
forensic photography archive of
more than 130,000 glass-plate
negatives. The building complex,
developed in three separate stages
– Water Police Court (1856), Water
Police Station (1858) and Police
Court (1886) – is the work of New
South Wales Colonial Architects
Edmund Blacket, James Barnet and
Alexander Dawson. As a group, it is
an extraordinarily intact surviving
example of civic buildings of the
mid-to-late 19th century. The
museum now features a variety of
displays, including spinechilling
weapons, bushranging artefacts and
physical evidence from notable
crimes. A dynamic exhibition
program explores both historical
and contemporary issues relating to
crime and its consequences, and
daily education activities reveal the
worlds of justice and policing to
school students.
The modern Museum of Sydney on
the site of first Government House
was opened to the public in 1995.
Designed by one of Sydney’s best
known architects, Richard Johnson,
it occupies the site of Australia’s first
Government House, built in 1788 as
home and office for the colony’s first
governor, Arthur Phillip. The museum
forecourt, known as First Government
House Place, preserves the remaining
foundations of the house below, while
above ground the art installation
Edge of the trees marks the site of
first contact between the British
colonisers and the Gadigal people.
The museum’s evocative displays take
visitors on a journey exploring
Sydney’s people, places and culture,
then and now. Visitors can learn
about our city’s first people, inspect
models of the First Fleet ships and
peer into the archaeological remains
of first Government House. An
exciting program of changing
exhibitions reveals this great city’s
distinctiveness.
Susannah Place Museum is a terrace
of four houses incorporating a
re-created 1915 corner grocer shop.
Located in the heart of The Rocks, it
was built in 1844 by Irish immigrants
and was continually occupied until
1990. The terrace survived largely
unchanged through the slum
clearances of the 1900s and the area’s
redevelopment in the 1970s. It is a
rare surviving example of housing for
workers from the mid-19th century,
once ubiquitous but now almost
vanished. In 1993 the HHT worked
with the (then) Sydney Cove Authority
to develop and open Susannah Place
as a museum. Today, the museum
tells the often overlooked stories of
the lives of ordinary people. Susannah
Place was home to more than 100
different families; their occupancy is
still evident in the many layers of
paint, wallpapers, linoleums,
modifications and repairs that have
survived.
Above, left to right Justice & Police Museum; Museum of Sydney; Susannah Place Museum. Photographs © James Horan
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ABOUT THE HHT
GOVERNMENT HOUSE & EASTERN SYDNEY PORTFOLIO
Elizabeth Bay House
Government House
Rose Seidler House
Designed by architect John Verge,
Elizabeth Bay House was built in
1835–39 for the Colonial Secretary,
Alexander Macleay, and his family.
A superb example of a Greek Revival
villa, it enjoys a magnificent setting
overlooking Sydney Harbour and
was originally the centrepiece of a
renowned landscape garden
developed by Macleay on the slope
above Elizabeth Bay. The saloon, with
its elegant cantilevered staircase, is
regarded as the finest interior in
Australian colonial architecture. The
house’s interiors are notable for their
detailing, particularly the quality of
the joinery, plaster and stonework.
Government House, built between
1837 and 1845, was designed by
Edward Blore, Special Architect to
William IV. Set within extensive
landscaped grounds, Government
House is the finest example of a
castellated Gothic Revival house in
Australia. As the centre of state
ceremonial functions since 1845, the
house occupies a special place in the
public consciousness of Sydney and
the history of New South Wales. More
than two million people have visited
the property since the house was
opened to the public in 1996. The HHT
coordinates a diverse program of
vice-regal, Commonwealth and state
government functions, cultural and
community events, public tours, and
education and public programs at the
property. The conservation and
refurbishment of Government House
continues to be guided by the
principle of uniting best practice
conservation with contemporary
design innovation. A project to
return the Governor of New South
Wales to Government House is
currently underway.
Built between 1948 and 1950, Rose
Seidler House was designed by
internationally renowned architect
Harry Seidler AC, OBE for his parents,
Max and Rose. It is one of the finest
examples of mid-20th-century
modern domestic architecture in
Australia and its original furniture
forms one of the most important
postwar design collections in the
country. Seidler was awarded the
Sulman Medal in 1952 for his design
of Rose Seidler House, and at the
time the house was highly influential,
stimulating much social comment and
intellectual debate as a manifestation
of the Modernist principles of space,
the unity of arts and architecture
coupled with structural engineering,
and industrial design. It embodied
new design and style ideals that
gradually came to influence the
direction of architecture in Australia.
Nestled in natural bushland at
Wahroonga with panoramic views of
Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park,
Rose Seidler House is presented in its
original 1950 scheme.
The house was restored by the state
government and transferred from the
Elizabeth Bay House Trust to the newly
formed HHT in 1980. A favourite of
students of design and social history,
Elizabeth Bay House presents an
evocative picture of early 19th-century
life before the economic depression
of the early 1840s forced Macleay to
leave the house.
Above, left to right Elizabeth Bay House (detail). Photograph © Haley Richardson & Stuart Miller; Government House (detail). Photograph © Richard
Glover; Rose Seidler House. Photograph © Nicholas Watt
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MACQUARIE STREET PORTFOLIO
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Vaucluse House
The Mint
Vaucluse House was built between
1805 and the early 1860s. At its core a
Georgian farmhouse, it is embellished
with Gothic Revival turrets and
crenellations to create a romanticised
eye-catcher in an Arcadian landscape
setting. One of a few surviving
harbourside estates from the early
years of the colony, Vaucluse House
retains its ornamental gardens, a
kitchen garden and outbuildings of
what was once a self-sufficient small
estate. The estate was purchased in
1827 by William Charles Wentworth,
lawyer, explorer and statesman, who
took a leading role in the
achievement of responsible
government for New South Wales in
1856. The New South Wales
Government purchased part of the
Vaucluse estate in 1910 to provide
public access to the Sydney Harbour
foreshores. The house was opened to
the public in 1912 and, since that time,
has been an important place for the
presentation of Australian history.
The property has been restored to
reflect the Wentworth family’s
occupation in 1827–53 and 1861–62.
The Hyde Park Barracks was built
between 1817 and 1819 by convict
workers under the direction of architect
(and former convict) Francis Greenway,
and functioned as the colony’s
principal convict establishment. It was
Greenway’s largest and most important
commission from Governor Lachlan
Macquarie. When viewed in relation
to the nearby St James’ Church and
Supreme Court, also designed by
Greenway, the barracks is a key
element of an extraordinary cluster of
civic buildings surviving from the early
colonial period. Designed to house
600 men, the building sometimes slept
1400. After transportation ended in
1848, the barracks served as
courtrooms, government offices, and
migrant accommodation.
The oldest surviving public building in
central Sydney, The Mint is widely
regarded as one of the finest Georgian
buildings in Australia, with its elegant
proportions and double-height
colonnades. It consists of two
structures: the south wing of Governor
Lachlan Macquarie’s General Hospital
(constructed 1811–16) and the Coining
Factory (built 1854–55). The site
became the first overseas branch of the
Royal Mint when the Coining Factory
was constructed at the rear. The Mint
operated until 1926; the site then
housed a succession of government
departments until 1997, with the
Macquarie Street building converted
into a museum in 1982. In 1997 the
building was transferred to the HHT,
which undertook extensive
conservation and redevelopment of the
site. The Coining Factory buildings were
converted to office accommodation in
2004. As well as being the HHT’s head
office, The Mint also houses the
Caroline Simpson Library & Research
Collection (see page 41), the Sydney
Mint Café, the Foundation for the
Historic Houses Trust of New South
Wales, our Friends, and function
spaces.
Today, the HHT uses the fabric and
spaces of the building as well as its rich
archaeology collection to unravel
stories of its occupants and uses over
the past 190 years. The Hyde Park
Barracks was placed on the UNESCO
World Heritage List in 2010 as part of
the Australian Convict Sites listing.
ABOUT THE HHT
MEROOGAL & WESTERN SYDNEY PORTFOLIO
Elizabeth Farm
MeroogaL
Elizabeth Farm is Australia’s oldest
surviving colonial homestead, built in
1793 for the family of John and
Elizabeth Macarthur, who lived there
until 1850. It once stood within a
1000-acre (405-hectare) property
stretching east from Parramatta to
Duck River, with a river frontage on
three sides. This was Darug country,
sustained by the Burramattagal,
Wangal and Wategora people. By the
late 1820s the prosperous Macarthurs
had transformed their farmhouse into
a smart bungalow surrounded by
‘pleasure grounds’ rich in exotic
plants and fruit trees. Urban and
industrial development chipped away
at the estate in the late 19th century.
In 1904 the homestead, now on less
than 5 acres (2 hectares), was sold to
the Swanns, a large household of
resourceful women who occupied
and protected the property until
1968. Elizabeth Farm has been
managed by the HHT since 1983; the
unique hands-on, experience-based
house museum opened in 1984.
Meroogal is located in the South
Coast town of Nowra. This fascinating
Gothic Revival timber house,
designed by Kenneth McKenzie and
built in 1885, was home to four
generations of women from the same
family. Meroogal’s rich collection of
personal objects provides insights
into the daily routines, domestic
chores and social lives of the house’s
former occupants. Meroogal and
the support of family enabled the
Thorburn and Macgregor women
to live independently without
undertaking paid employment.
It was both a home and an economic
resource, with food and fuel provided
from the garden and rent from
occasional paying guests and
tenants. Without Meroogal, the
lifestyles of the women who lived
there might not have been possible.
Rouse Hill House & Farm was built
between 1813 and 1819 and is
surrounded by one of Australia’s
earliest surviving gardens. Originally
set in a much larger estate, the house
is one of the oldest continually
occupied homes in Australia, and its
significance lies in the survival of its
almost unchanged interiors and
furnishings, and the collection of
objects from six generations of the
Rouse family. The site contains a
section of the original Windsor Road
turnpike laid down by Governor
Macquarie in 1812–13 and an
associated stretch of the Hawkesbury
Road laid down in 1794, along which
the 1804 Battle of Vinegar Hill took
place. The estate was bought by the
state government in 1978. In 1987 it
was transferred to the HHT, and we
opened it to the public in 1999.
In 2003 the Department of Education
transferred the Rouse Hill Public
School (built 1888) to the HHT. In 2010
we restored the old schoolhouse to
its original appearance.
Page 38, left to right Vaucluse House (detail). Photograph © HHT; Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photograph © Nicholas Watt; The Mint. Photograph
© Nicholas Watt Above, left to right Elizabeth Farm. Photograph © James Horan; Meroogal. Photograph © Nicholas Watt; Rouse Hill House & Farm
(detail). Photograph © Haley Richardson & Stuart Miller
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ACQUIRED
PROPERTY
OPENED
STATUS
1980
Vaucluse House
1980
Museum
1980
Elizabeth Bay House
1980
Museum
1984
Elizabeth Farm
1984
Museum
1984
Lyndhurst
(sold 2005)
Offices and library
1985
Meroogal
1988
Museum
1987
1999
Museum
1988
Rose Seidler House
1991
Museum
1990
1991
Museum
1990
1991
Museum
1990
Museum of Sydney
on the site of first Government House
1995
Museum
1990
Young Street terraces
–
Offices
1990
1993
Museum
1993
Walter Burley Griffin House
(sold 1995)
Conservation project
1996
Government House
1996
State house and garden
1998
The Mint
1998 & 2004
Offices and library
2003
Former Rouse Hill Public School
2010
Museum and education facilities
2007
Tusculum
–
Leased until May 2086*
2007
Exeter Farm
(sold 2012)
Endangered Houses Fund project
2007
Glenfield
(sold 2013)
2008
Nissen hut
–
2009
Moruya Presbyterian manse
(sold 2013)
2010
Throsby Park
–
2010
Beulah
–
* Leased to the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
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ABOUT THE HHT
Our collections
Each HHT property holds collections of historical
and modern material related to the house and site.
The collections include furniture, ceramics, silverware,
soft furnishings, household and personal accessories,
costume, artworks, photographs and archaeological
artefacts. Most of the objects from our collections are
on show to the public.
Electronic access to the collections is provided to the
public through a suite of online catalogues including the
Library Catalogue, the Pictures Catalogue, the Colonial
Plants Database and the Museums Collections Catalogue.
Digital content is added to these catalogues as resources
allow. The HHT also contributes to national aggregated
data services including TROVE, Design and Art Australia
Online, Australian Dress Register, and the Museum
Metadata Exchange.
Caroline Simpson Library
& Research Collection
The Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection was
established as the Lyndhurst Conservation Resource
Centre in 1984. In 2004 it was renamed in honour of the late
Caroline Simpson OAM (1930–2003), whose outstanding
collection of Australian colonial furniture, pictures and
objets d’art was gifted by her children to the HHT. The
collection is a specialised research resource available to
anyone – staff, scholars, heritage and conservation
practitioners, museum professionals – with an interest in
the history of house and garden design and interior
furnishing in New South Wales from the 19th century to the
present day. It includes architectural pattern books and
fragments, wall and floor coverings, manufacturers’ trade
catalogues and sample books, garden ornaments, fittings,
soft furnishings, personal papers and manuscripts,
pictures, photographs, books and periodicals.
Photographic Collection
The HHT cares for a significant collection of photographs
including more than 130,000 glass-plate negatives created
by the New South Wales Police Force between 1910 and
1964, now housed at the Justice & Police Museum.
Above left Graflex Crown Graphic folding camera, date unknown, used by NSW Police forensic photographers. Justice & Police Museum
Above right Early Australian greeting card, designed by Harriet Scott and published by Turner & Henderson, Sydney, 1880. The Hamilton
Rouse Hill Trust Collection
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Breakdown of visitor numbers*
The decrease in general visitation numbers reflects a
32% reduction in weekly opening hours at all properties
since October 2012. In addition, the streamlining and
economising of the education offer and the shift to a new
front-of-house model has temporarily reduced education
Elizabeth Bay House
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Other (site visits)
Subtotal
Total
2013
2012
2011
4,390
141
300
1,437
6,268
4,575
291
629
1,557
7,052
4,801
283
488
1,390
6,962
810
15
418
1,243
7,511
962
168
286
1,416
8,468
850
185
261
1,296
8,258
2013
2012
2011
4,152
7,501
384
444
12,481
4,374
9,638
257
289
14,558
4,943
10,783
217
456
16,399
1,515
14
300
645
3,209
5,683
18,164
1,473
–
450
807
3,148
5,878
20,436
2,468
29
64
253
1,528
4,342
20,741
2013
2012
2011
1,285
4,117
5,402
2,060
3,556
5,616
3,980
5,055
9,035
Elizabeth farm
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Other (site visits)
Cafe
Subtotal
Total
government house
Paid admissions
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Education
Free events
House tours
Vice-regal functions
Subtotal
Grounds
Total
42
857
1,308
1,418
2,244
471
664
44
–
–
20
–
1,068
20,450
22,775
22,526
12,374
12,587
12,566
35,989
37,141 38,242
143,128 124,833 112,874
184,519 167,590 160,151
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Other (site and shop visits)
Cafe
Subtotal
Total
Grounds
2013
47,754
14,032
331
1,510
63,627
2012
2011
44,796
51,727
13,964
15,037
184
1,004
19,888
57,417
78,832 125,185
6,824
3,855
4,124
–
300
398
–
40
1,262
12,281
26,194
27,253
23,424
35,242
35,652
42,529 65,631 68,689
106,156 144,463 193,874
312,406 381,059 309,358
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Other (site visits)
Subtotal
Total
2013
2012
2011
14,554
5,221
443
3,725
23,943
24,701
8,309
868
1,633
35,511
25,659
7,913
138
2,807
36,517
2,688
65
131
101
2,985
26,928
3,828
94
–
109
4,031
39,542
2,983
201
547
99
3,830
40,347
Meroogal
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Other (site visits)
Subtotal
Total
2013
2012
2011
536
344
16
180
1,076
739
441
334
–
1,514
887
826
171
–
1,884
107
125
100
134
466
1,542
176
–
–
98
274
1,788
230
185
–
6
421
2,305
*At some museums general visitation numbers include a number of
education visitors, therefore total education visitation numbers are
understated for 2012–13.
ABOUT THE HHT
Museum of Sydney
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Cafe
Subtotal
Total
Forecourt
2013
2012
52,075
5,464
328
10,276
68,143
56,478
7,533
1,059
11,814
76,884
2011
63,101
7,439
1,719
9,790
82,049
7,668
5,857
7,504
186
546
1,413
488
604
1,346
65,656
14,378
15,798
128,242 156,264 112,594
202,240 177,649 138,655
270,383 254,533 220,704
666,512 700,346 829,294
Rose Seidler House
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Other (site visits)
Subtotal
Total
2013
2012
2011
1,396
8
2,523
345
4,272
966
399
3,792
126
5,283
747
353
4,804
168
6,072
247
–
–
45
292
4,564
144
–
–
5
149
5,432
48
1,199
16
25
1,288
7,360
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Subtotal
Total
2013
2012
2011
2,259
7,024
190
27
9,500
2,711
8,698
145
136
11,690
3,361
8,034
169
555
12,119
1,156
54
–
927
2,137
11,637
1,412
–
–
1,517
2,929
14,619
1,675
–
28
1,354
3,057
15,176
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Subtotal
Total
2013
2012
2011
5,910
2,382
70
8,362
6,837
3,518
271
10,626
7,358
2,369
223
9,950
1,053
20
–
21,200
22,273
30,635
1,303
29
9
32,892
34,233
44,859
1,306
–
133
34,049
35,488
45,438
2013
2012
2,175
15,345
17,520
2,086
25,755
27,841
713
15,162
15,875
35,563
393
–
6,439
15,725
58,120
75,640
38,036
315
–
7,774
14,302
60,427
88,268
28,888
798
1,403
9,354
13,079
53,522
69,397
2013
2012
8,906
4,478
808
5,333
19,525
9,057
5,647
1,795
4,268
20,767
The Mint
Paid admissions
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free general
Free events
Cafe
Subtotal
Total
2011
Vaucluse House
Paid admissions
General public
Education
Public programs
Venue hire
Subtotal
Free entry
Free events
Cafe
Subtotal
Grounds
TOTAL
2011
9,512
6,645
1,452
4,479
22,088
1,988
3,463
2,171
–
79
2,200
–
30
140
371
646
488
33,688
30,791
28,302
36,047 35,009 33,301
59,705
74,420
68,935
115,277 130,196 124,324
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endangered houses fund properties
Established in 2005 and supported by the Foundation
for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, the
Endangered Houses Fund (EHF) is an HHT program
that identifies significant ‘at risk’ properties and saves
them from demolition or unsympathetic development.
It provides a way for the HHT to use its expertise to
save significant endangered places and buildings
across New South Wales without the long-term
recurrent costs to government of continued ownership
and operation. The HHT applies its extensive
knowledge of heritage conservation to carry out the
project works required on each property. The EHF is
not about creating new public museums; instead,
properties are conserved, protected and then offered
back into the marketplace for the use and enjoyment of
future generations. In this way, funds revolve and more
houses can be saved over time.
The inspiration for the EHF came from our own work.
In 1993 the HHT acquired the then-threatened GSDA
No 1 Dwelling, a display house at Castlecrag designed
by Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney, restoring
the house and financing the construction of a new
house adjacent to the property. The HHT then sold
both properties (having arranged statutory protection
and private covenants), saving a key work of two
important 20th-century architects and winning
widespread praise for this innovative approach
to conservation.
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Beulah
Beulah, Appin, an 80-hectare property still in its original
landscape setting, was acquired in September 2010.
The property, which includes an important colonial-era
farmhouse with outbuildings, a bridge and a gazebo, is
listed on the State Heritage Register and is under threat
from encroaching urban development. The stone
homestead was built c1835 by Irish emancipist Connor
Boland and the property was later associated with the
Hume family (of explorer Hamilton Hume). The former
Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water
(now Office of Environment and Heritage) contributed to
the purchase of the property with a covenant to protect a
significant remnant stand of endangered Cumberland Plain
Woodland. This, the state’s second major biobanking
initiative, was signed in March 2011. An archaeological
assessment and building condition report have been
completed, and site works including extensive fencing and
bushcare are being carried out. A conservation
management plan and land-use capability study are being
prepared to guide future conservation and sensitive
development of the site.
ABOUT THE HHT
Exeter Farm
Glenfield
Moruya manse
Transferred to the HHT in 2007,
Exeter Farm, Glenwood, consists
of two c1860s early colonial timber
slab buildings on what was once a
large farming property on the
north-west outskirts of Sydney.
Before conservation work began in
2008 the two buildings were severely
dilapidated and had not been
inhabited for decades. After
completing extensive repairs and
installing new services, the HHT sold
the property in March 2013, after a
short marketing campaign.
Glenfield, in Casula, was the first
property to be saved through the EHF
program, with the buildings and their
curtilage transferred to the HHT in
2007. The property, listed on the State
Heritage Register, is of national
significance. Dr Charles Throsby, naval
surgeon, explorer, magistrate and
member of the Legislative Council,
built the house c1817 and it remained
in the Throsby family until the mid
1920s. During the 20th century
Glenfield was owned by the Leacock
family, who ran a dairy farm on the
property. It was later managed as the
Goodwill Co-operative Society
communal farm. The HHT carried out
vital conservation work to the
buildings and the landscape to
prepare it for return to the market.
Following a lengthy marketing
campaign, the HHT exchanged
contracts to sell Glenfield; completion
is expected in October 2013.
In 2009 the HHT acquired a
Presbyterian minister’s house (manse)
at Moruya on the New South Wales
far South Coast. The modest c1860s
timber building contains rare and
delicate wallpaper and paint finishes
from the 19th and early 20th
centuries. The building was
dilapidated, but the HHT undertook
an extensive refurbishment of the
house, conserving its significant
interiors while satisfying the
requirements of a modern family
home. Following a short local
marketing campaign, the manse was
sold in February 2013.
Above, left to right Beulah (detail). Photograph © Paolo Busato; Exeter Farm after restoration
(detail). Photograph © Paolo Busato; Glenfield (detail). Photograph © Nicholas Watt; Moruya
manse (detail). Photograph © Paolo Busato
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endangered houses fund properties
Nissen hut
Throsby Park
The HHT acquired a Nissen hut in the Lake Macquarie
district of Belmont North in 2008. Named after
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Nissen, the Canadian
engineer who designed the prefabricated steel-framed
huts in 1916, the huts were widely used in world wars I
and II as military buildings and, later, for some types of
civil construction. This particular hut was one of 33
erected to house migrants, mostly British, after World
War II; the huts were commonly known as ‘Pommy
Town’. The collection of huts is extremely rare in
Australia and highly significant, as it provides tangible
evidence of Australia’s post World War II immigration
assistance programs. The building is in fair condition
and adaptive re-use options are being investigated.
Throsby Park, the 75-hectare remnant of a once much
larger property built for Charles Throsby in 1834, is
located near Moss Vale in the Southern Highlands of
New South Wales. The site is considered of state and
national significance for its rarity and completeness,
comprising a fine Georgian homestead, an early timber
cottage (thought to be one of the first permanent
buildings erected in the Southern Highlands) and
several outbuildings: dairy, dairyman’s cottage, meat
house, piggery and timber-framed hay shed. There is
also a fine historic garden with specimen trees and
richly planted shrub borders opening up to extensive
landscape views, which were captured by the colonial
artist Conrad Martens in 1836. The HHT has
undertaken repairs and completed a maintenance
program to the house and grounds, and catalogued
and evaluated the collection of furniture and domestic
objects. We have also prepared an updated
conservation management plan and maintenance
guidelines to assist a future tenant to understand the
heritage significance of the site. We have sought an
up-to-date asset valuation and developed a leasing
strategy for the property in preparation for inviting
tenders for a long-term lease in late 2013.
Above left Exterior of Nissen hut. Photograph Nicole Davis © HHT
Above right Throsby Park. Photograph © HHT
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ABOUT THE HHT
CORPORATE governance
Board of Trustees
Trustees
The Historic Houses Act 1980 provides that the HHT Board
of Trustees shall be the governing body of the HHT. The
HHT Board of Trustees is constituted under Section 6 of the
Act. The nine members of the Board are members of the
public nominated by the Minister for Heritage and
appointed by the Governor of New South Wales. The
Trustees are subject to the direction and control of the
Minister. The Act stipulates that members of the Board of
Trustees must include:
Michael Rose (Chairman) is the Chief Executive
Partner of law firm Allens. He is a board member of
ChildFund Australia and the ChildFund International
Alliance. ChildFund is an international aid and
development organisation that supports children and their
communities in 55 developing countries. Michael is also a
member of the Education, Skills and Innovation and the
Indigenous Engagement task forces of the Business
Council of Australia. He lives in Sydney with his wife,
Jo D’Antonio, and their three children. Michael was
appointed as a Trustee in June 2010 and his current term
expires on 31 December 2015.
•at least one person who ‘has knowledge or experience
in history’; and
•at least one person who ‘has knowledge or experience
in architecture’.
Current Board members who fulfil these requirements are
Keith Cottier, Associate Professor Grace Karskens, Associate
Professor Roderick Simpson and Peter Tonkin.
The Trustees represent a diversity of expertise and experience
in business, law, architecture, history, conservation, information
technology, education and management. Trustees are
appointed for a term of up to three years and may be
appointed for more than one term, but for no more than three
consecutive terms of office. Trustees do not receive any
remuneration for their board activities.
Louise McElvogue and Paddy Carney joined the board on
6 March 2013.
The board met six times this year. Trustees attended board
meetings as per the table below.
Table of Trustee attendance
Attended
Leave of
absence
Eligible
to attend
Michael Rose
(Chairman)
6
–
6
Keith Cottier
6
–
6
Grace Karskens
2
4
6
Martyn Mitchell
3
–
3
Andrew Tink
6
–
6
Peter Tonkin
5
1
6
Roderick Simpson
4
2
6
Bruce Hambrett
2 + 1 as
observer
3
5
Paddy Carney
2 + 1 as
observer
–
2
2
–
2
Name
Louise McElvogue
Paddy Carney CA BSc(Hons) is a registered company
auditor. She is a Partner at PwC and also a member of its
Board of Partners in Australia. She has more than 20 years’
financial experience with PwC in the United Kingdom and
in Australia across a broad range of clients, with a focus on
the retail and consumer sector. She is also a Governor of
the Sir David Martin Foundation, which aims to get more
young people off the streets, away from unhealthy
situations and into care and rehabilitation. Paddy is the
Chair of the HHT's Audit and Risk Committee. She was
appointed as a Trustee in March 2013 and her term expires
on 5 March 2016.
Keith Cottier AM, AASTC, LFRAIA is a Director of the highly
awarded architectural firm Allen Jack+Cottier. In 2001 he
was awarded the Gold Medal, the Royal Australian Institute
of Architects’ highest honour. He was appointed a Member
of the Order of Australia in 2004. Keith has served as a
Commissioner of the Australian Heritage Commission, as a
Member of the Heritage Council of New South Wales, and
as a Member of the Sydney Cove Authority and the City
West Development Corporation. His high-profile projects
include Wylie’s Baths, the Argyle Centre, the Submarine
Mine Depot at Chowder Bay and Penfold’s Magill Estate in
Adelaide. Keith was appointed as a Trustee on 1 January
2007 and his current term expired 31 December 2012.
Bruce Hambrett LLM is a practising lawyer, the chairman of
Baker & McKenzie, Australia, and a former General Counsel
of SingTel Optus Pty Limited. He is also a Director of the
Pacific Opera Company Limited and a former chair of the
Media and Communications Law Committee, Business Law
Section, with the Law Council of Australia. He was
appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2006 and his current
term expires on 7 November 2015.
Associate Professor Grace Karskens BA, MA, PHD FAHA
teaches Australian history at the University of New South
Wales. Grace has published extensively, including Inside
The Rocks: the archaeology of a neighbourhood, the
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multi-award-winning The Rocks: life in early Sydney and
The colony: a history of early Sydney, which won the 2010
Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. She is a
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and is
on the boards of the Dictionary of Sydney, the National
Museum of Australia’s reCollections journal and a number
of international scholarly journals. Grace was appointed as
a Trustee on 1 January 2008 and her current term expires
on 31 December 2013.
Louise McElvogue is a principal of Macleod Media, which
advises on strategy, technology and media. She works with
boards, government and executives to set business
strategies and policies, and to develop e-business,
partnerships and digital efficiencies. She has worked in the
United States, Europe and Australia for various clients,
including McDonald’s, Invensys, the ABC, News Limited,
Channel 4, the BBC and Société Générale. Louise was a
member of the federal government’s Convergence Review
in 2012. This landmark review of Australia’s media and
internet regulatory framework recommended a new
approach to regulation. Louise has a background in
journalism and her work has appeared in The New York
Times, The Guardian, Financial Times Media, The Wall
Street Journal TV, the BBC and CNN. She was appointed
as a Trustee in March 2013 and her current term expires on
5 March 2016.
Martyn Mitchell BSc ChemEng, ICAEW, ICAA , has over
30 years’ experience as an auditor and business adviser,
including having spent more than 20 years as a partner in
PwC. Martyn has held a number of senior management
positions within PwC and has extensive experience with
major public companies in Australia and Asia. Martyn was
the Chair of the HHT’s Audit and Risk Committee. He was
appointed as a Trustee on 1 January 2005 and his term
expired on 31 December 2012.
Associate Professor Roderick Simpson AAIA MPIA is a
principal of Simpson + Wilson Architecture + Urban
Design, and Associate Professor of Urban Design at the
University of Sydney, with interests in urban renewal and
regeneration, ecologically sustainable design and strategic
urban design. He has worked with the Sydney Harbour
Federation Trust, and contributed to the HHT’s
Harbourings exhibition at the Museum of Sydney. He
co-authored Greenpeace’s ‘Strategy for a Sustainable
Sydney’ in 1992, applying many of the principles in future
planning work. Most recently, he led the urban design of
the ‘Sustainable Sydney 2030’ strategy for the City of
Sydney. Roderick was appointed as a Trustee in January
2011 and his current term expires on 31 December 2013.
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Andrew Tink BA, LLB, HonDLitt is a Visiting Fellow at
Macquarie University’s law school. After eight years at the
bar and 19 years in the New South Wales Parliament, where
his roles included Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow
Leader of the House, Andrew stepped back from active
politics to focus on writing. In 2010 his biography of William
Charles Wentworth won the Nib CAL Waverley Award for
Literature. His second book, a biography of Lord Sydney,
was published in 2011, and his third, the story of Canberra’s
air disaster in 1940, was released in 2013. Andrew is also a
member of the Library Council of NSW. He was appointed
as a trustee on 22 May 2012 and his current term expires on
22 May 2015.
Peter Tonkin BScArch (Hons), BArch (Hons), FRAIA is Adjunct
Professor of Architecture at the University of Canberra and
the University of Queensland, and is widely published. He
is a partner of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects, winner of
more than 90 awards. His projects include the Hyde Park
Barracks Museum, the National Memorial to the Australian
Vietnam Forces, the Tomb of an Unknown Australian
Soldier and the National Arboretum, Canberra, the
refurbishment of Customs House, the multi-award-winning
Plaza Lighting Towers for the Sydney Olympics, and the
Australian War Memorial in London. Peter was appointed
as a Trustee on 1 January 2005 and his final term expires on
31 December 2013.
Committees
There are four Board standing committees which provide
advice to Trustees: Audit and Risk Committee, Commercial
and Marketing Services Advisory Committee, Creative
Services Advisory Committee, and Heritage and
Endangered Houses Advisory Committee. All four
committees are convened per Section 9 of the Historic
Houses Act 1980 (NSW).
There are also five HHT standing committees which make
decisions on both policy and management. Staff are
involved in the management of the organisation through
the Staff and Management Participatory and Advisory
Committee (SAMPAC) and are also represented through
the Joint Consultative Committee (JCC). Committees
operating are listed in the Appendices on pages 59–61.
Corporate Planning
A corporate plan is developed on a five-year cycle by HHT
staff and Trustees. Using the goals and strategies set out in
the corporate plan, portfolios and teams within each group
develop annual action plans. Each action plan is
accompanied by an internal budget bid in April every year.
ABOUT THE HHT
These action plans set the direction and budget for the
HHT’s operational business year. The action plans directions
are based on the corporate goals and strategies, and
government priorities such as NSW2021: A Plan to make NSW
number one. The action plans are incorporated into the HHT’s
annual business plan and reported to the Trustees at
bi-monthly board meetings.
Management Group
The Director manages the day-to-day business of the
organisation and is responsible for implementing the policies
of the government and the HHT. The five-member
Management Group meets weekly and is made up of the
Director, the Assistant Director, Commercial and Marketing
Services Group, the Assistant Director, Creative Services
Group, the Assistant Director, Heritage and Portfolio Group,
and the Assistant Director, Operations Group. The
Management Group meets weekly and leads the strategic
direction of the organisation. The Director works to an annual
performance agreement held with the Chief Executive at the
Office of Environment and Heritage.
Mark Goggin EMPA, commenced as Director on 6 August
2013. He has 20 years’ experience in leadership across the
museum, cultural and health sectors as CEO, festival producer,
educator and researcher. For the past decade, he was General
Manager, Marketing, Programs and Commercial Services, at
the Powerhouse Museum. Building the museum’s brand profile
and audiences, Mark was responsible for leading
entrepreneurial exhibitions and creating innovative programs,
such as the annual citywide festival, Sydney Design. He
oversaw the renewal of the heritage Sydney Observatory site
and successfully launched the publicly accessible Powerhouse
Discovery Centre: Collection Stores at Castle Hill. Originally
trained as a psychologist [BA (Hons)], he has an Executive
Masters of Public Administration (EMPA) from the Australian
and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG).
Kate Clark MA, FSA, FRGS, MIFA, IHBC, commenced as
Director in 2008, and left the HHT on 5 August 2013. She is an
industrial archaeologist with 25 years’ experience in museums
and heritage in the United Kingdom, where she worked with
the Ironbridge Gorge Museums, the Council for British
Archaeology, and English Heritage before joining the Heritage
Lottery Fund as Deputy Director of Policy and Research. She
has also been a heritage consultant, working with clients such
as the States of Jersey, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and the
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. She has published
widely on industrial archaeology, conservation, heritage
management, sustainable development and the social,
economic and environmental values of heritage, and has
taught in the United Kingdom as well as in Ireland, South
Africa, Slovenia, Canada and the United States of America.
Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon BA (Hons), MA, PhD, is
Assistant Director, Creative Services. Caroline has
worked in the cultural/heritage sector for more than 15 years,
holding posts at the Museum of Sydney and the Art Gallery of
NSW, and casual teaching positions at the universities of
Sydney and New South Wales. She was most recently Head
Curator at the Museum of Sydney where she published
widely and curated exhibitions on many aspects of
Australian history. In 2009 Caroline completed her PhD at
the University of New South Wales on the history of
apartment living in Sydney.
Ian Innes BScArch, BLArch, is Assistant Director, Heritage
and Portfolio. He has been with the HHT since October
2009. Ian has more than 20 years’ experience in cultural
landscape management and conservation, and has held
senior management roles at the Royal Botanic Garden,
Sydney, and Centennial Parklands. He studied architecture
and, later, landscape architecture, and his ongoing
professional interests span a range of aspects of the built
environment, including architectural and landscape design,
heritage conservation, cultural landscape management
and strategic asset management.
Julie Turpie BA (Hons), commenced as Assistant Director,
Commercial and Marketing Services, in June 2011. Julie
has more than 20 years’ experience in brand development,
destination marketing, commercial venue hire and public
programming. She worked for the Sydney Harbour
Foreshore Authority for six years, managing their
sponsorship, business development program and annual
events portfolio at The Rocks and Darling Harbour,
including the signature New Year’s Eve and Australia Day
events. Julie was most recently with Brisbane Marketing,
responsible for city branding strategies, destination
marketing campaigns and delivering a major events
strategy for Brisbane.
Trish Kernahan joined the HHT as Assistant Director,
Operations, in July 2013. In this position Trish has
responsibility for the Finance, Human Resources,
Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and
Compliance and Knowledge teams. Immediately prior to
taking up this role, Trish spent 16 years at the Art Gallery of
NSW working in corporate strategic planning and
governance. During her 36 years in the New South Wales
public sector Trish has worked in management and
operational roles across six government agencies.
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The HHT is structured around four groups: Commercial
and Marketing Services, Creative Services, Heritage and
Portfolio, and Operations.
The Web and Screen Media Team drives the development
and delivery of web- and screen-based content to enrich
visitor experience and engage new audiences.
Commercial & Marketing Services Group
Heritage & Portfolio Group
The Commercial and Marketing Services Group drives
self-generating revenue strategies, and is responsible for
growing our audiences and building brand awareness and
value for the HHT through marketing, design and
communications activities.
The Heritage and Portfolio Group manages the HHT’s
houses, museums and landscapes, as well as the
Endangered Houses Fund (EHF) program through place
management, maintenance, capital works, conservation
management planning, collections care, conservation and
landscaping.
The Commercial Services Team is responsible for venue hire,
commercial leaseholds (cafes) and retail, including the
Museum of Sydney shop. It manages the commercial hire of
the HHT’s unique and specialty venues for corporate and
private events, including for filming and photography.
The Marketing and Communications Team provides strategic
direction on and implementation of marketing, design and
communications (including media and public relations)
activities to support our properties, exhibitions, public
programs and events. It also manages the HHT box office.
The Development and Fundraising Team manages the HHT’s
strategic partnerships and fundraising activities, including
seeking corporate sponsorship and government grants and
working with the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of
New South Wales.
Creative Services Group
The activities of the group are related to reaching audiences
who visit our sites as well as those we connect with online and
in regional areas. We produce exhibitions, collection stories,
educational and public programs, publications and web
content. We also manage web and social-media platforms.
Through these projects we deliver services and programs that
involve interpretation, education, audience development and
participation, volunteering, public access to our collections
and community engagement.
The Programs Team drives the development and delivery of
programs, engaging a wide range of audiences to access and
enjoy our collections, knowledge and museums.
The Interpretation and Exhibitions Team takes a
multidisciplinary team-based approach to interpretation,
exhibition, design and publication projects. The team
provides innovative and accessible ways to interpret our stories
and research for the public, focusing on visitor experience and
participation.
The Collections and Access Team manages a suite of online
discovery tools that provide access to knowledge and research
about HHT’s collections, sites and buildings. It is also
responsible for collections acquisitions and de-accessioning.
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The Heritage Team provides technical leadership and
specialist skills in the care, conservation and maintenance
of the HHT’s buildings, interiors, landscapes and movable
heritage, and manages the EHF program.
The Government House and Eastern Sydney Portfolio
includes Government House, Elizabeth Bay House and
Vaucluse House, all of which illustrate the evolution of
19th-century architecture and interiors, as well as Rose Seidler
House, a significant mid-20th-century house designed by
Harry Seidler.
The Meroogal and Western Sydney Portfolio comprises
Rouse Hill House & Farm, Elizabeth Farm and Meroogal,
including beautiful gardens, a former schoolhouse from the
late 1800s, a farm, an education centre and wonderful
collections linked to the properties.
The City Portfolio includes the Museum of Sydney on the
site of first Government House, the Justice & Police Museum
and the Susannah Place Museum, all of which explore a
diverse range of stories from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Macquarie Street Portfolio includes The Mint (the HHT’s
head office and major commercial venue) and the World
Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks, two of Sydney’s most
important early-19th-century buildings on Macquarie Street.
Operations Group
The Operations Group supports the business of the HHT
and its position as a leading history and cultural heritage
organisation in New South Wales. This group is responsible for
strategic advice and management across four key corporate
governance teams: Human Resources, Information and
Communications Technology (ICT), Finance, and Compliance
and Knowledge. It also oversees the engagement of legal
services.
The Human Resources Team provides strategic leadership in
employee relations planning, practice and policy development,
as well as operational services such as payroll delivery and staff
training.
ABOUT THE HHT
Organisational chart
As at 30 June 2013
minister
for heritage
Department
of Premier
and Cabinet
Board of
Trustees
Office of Environment
& Heritage
director
Members
Friends
Foundation
Directorate
commercial
& Marketing
services group
Operations
Group
Collections &
Access Team
Commercial
Services Team
Compliance &
Knowledge Team
Interpretation &
Exhibitions Team
Development &
Fundraising Team
Finance Team
Programs Team
Marketing &
Communications
Team
Heritage &
Portfolio Group
Creative Services
Group
Heritage Team
City Portfolio
Government House
& Eastern Sydney
Portfolio
Macquarie
Street Portfolio
Meroogal & Western
Sydney Portfolio
Web & Screen
Media Team
Human Resources
Team
ICT Team
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The ICT Team develops and manages the strategic
ICT services required to achieve the HHT’s business
requirements, and ensures our ICT network, business
applications, and telecommunications systems are operating
at optimum integrity and performance.
The Finance Team provides strategic financial advice and
accurate information to ensure the HHT manages its budget
prudently, maintains high standards of internal control,
maintains our insurance coverage and is compliant with the
relevant statutory and Australian Accounting Standards.
The Compliance and Knowledge Team manages the
development, evaluation and review of policies and
procedures to ensure the HHT has the knowledge and
processes to comply with a range of legislative and audit
requirements in relation to organisational policy, including
records management and risk management. This team is
also responsible for coordinating the transport and storage
logistics of an organisation operating across multiple sites.
Volunteers
The HHT’s volunteer program enables individuals in the
community to connect with and contribute to the
protection and appreciation of New South Wales’ cultural
heritage. Volunteering activities help to raise public
awareness about the HHT, reach new audiences and
achieve valuable work. In 2012–13, 120 volunteers guided
at our properties and museums, helped to manage our
public events and undertook meaningful project work.
This year, volunteers gave the HHT approximately
8600 hours of their time. Additionally, 399 volunteers
participated in Sydney Open on 2–4 November 2012,
donating around 2800 hours of their time during the
three-day event.
Our volunteers enjoy using their skills, sharing their
knowledge and helping to keep HHT properties and
museums relevant and accessible. Volunteers are given
opportunities to provide feedback about their experiences
and how the volunteers program is run.
(See pages 71–2 for a list of people who volunteered
in 2012–13.)
Risk Management
Risk management is essential to good corporate
governance. The HHT is committed to a risk-management
approach to planning, which identifies and addresses both
external and internal risks to our operations. Internal risks
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are also managed through policies, procedures and
internal controls.
We have adopted a risk-management framework that
conforms to the Australian/New Zealand Risk Management
Standard (AS/NZS ISO 31000:2009) and to New South
Wales Treasury Guidelines (Treasury Policy Paper: TPP
09-5). The mandatory annual attestation certificate is
included on page 53.
Our Audit and Risk Committee is an advisory committee
of the Board of Trustees and an integral component of the
HHT’s corporate governance arrangements. Its
responsibilities cover the review and oversight of internal
controls, risk management, corruption and fraud
prevention, external accountability (including the financial
statements), applicable laws and regulations, and internal
and external audits.
The committee meets each year with senior managers of
the external auditor team from the Audit Office of New
South Wales to discuss findings from its review of our
statutory accounts. The 2012–13 financial statements of the
HHT’s consolidated and related entities have all been
issued without qualification.
Ethical standards
Our code of conduct was adopted in 2000. It is included in
the package of material given to all staff, is required
reading on our induction list for new staff, and is an integral
part of any staff and management training. There were no
incidents of staff breaching the code in this reporting year.
The Trustees’ code of conduct, which was adopted in 2003,
is specific to our Trustees and is required reading for new
Trustees as part of their induction. In addition, both the
Board of Trustees meetings and the Audit and Risk
Committee meetings have ‘conflicts of interest’ as a
standing agenda item.
Corporate Financial Controls Internal Audit
During 2012–13, an internal review was conducted by
Deloitte, our internal auditors, as part of a triennial audit
plan. The objective of the internal audit was to review and
assess the HHT’s financial performance in relation to the
design and operating effectiveness of the operational and
financial internal controls established to mitigate risks.
Recommendations from the review will be implemented by
management during an agreed time frame as resources
allow. The Audit and Risk Committee will monitor the
implementation of internal and external recommendations.
Internal Audit and Risk Management Attestation
for the 2012–13 financial year
for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
I, Mark Goggin, am of the opinion that the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT) has internal audit and risk
management processes in place that are, excluding the exemption described below, compliant with the core requirements
set out in Treasury Circular NSW TC 09/08 Internal Audit and Risk Management Policy.
I, Mark Goggin, am of the opinion that the internal audit and risk management processes for HHT depart from the
following core requirements set out in Treasury Circular NSW TC 09/08 and that
(a)the circumstances giving rise to these departures have been determined by the Portfolio Minister and
(b)the HHT has implemented the following practicable alternative measurers that will achieve a level of assurance
equivalent to the requirement.
Ministerially Determined
Departure
Reason for Departure and Description of Practicable Alternative
Measures Implemented
Core Requirement 3
The Chair and Members of the Audit and Risk Committee are to be
appointed by the statutory body.
The alternative measures implemented to achieve equivalent level of
assurance was for HHT to satisfy itself the chair and members of the HHT
Committee collectively possess the eight skills and knowledge as outlined in
core requirement 3.4.3. The composition of the HHT Committee membership
in 2012–13 met these requirements.
These processes, including the practicable alternative measures implemented, provide a level of assurance that
enables the senior management of HHT to understand, manage and satisfactorily control risk exposures.
I, Mark Goggin, am of the opinion that the Audit and Risk Committee for HHT is constituted and operates in accordance
with the independence and governance requirements of Treasury Circular NSW TC 09/08. The Chair and Members of
the Audit and Risk Committee are:
> Martyn Mitchell, independent Chair and HHT Trustee (Term 3: March 2011 – current)
> Bruce Hambrett, independent Member and former HHT Trustee (Term 2: February 2009 – November 2015)
> Michael Rose, Independent Member and President HHT Trust (Term 1: August 2010 – current)
I, Mark Goggin, declare that this Internal Audit and Risk Management Attestation is made on behalf of the following
controlled entities:
> Foundation for the Historic House Trust of New South Wales
> The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust
Mark Goggin
Director
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
21 August 2013
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Workplace Health & Safety (Wh&S)
The HHT’s WH&S Committee continues to meet regularly.
We are proactively case-managing return-to-work plans
for injured employees. We have ensured that the
recommendations made by a WH&S consultant were
completed and will be maintained. (See also page 30.)
Insurances
As a New South Wales statutory authority, the HHT’s insurable
risks are covered under the Treasury Managed Fund (TMF),
the New South Wales Government’s self-insurance scheme.
There were three property damage claims in 2012–13:
damage to a collection object (long case clock); damage
to the floor in the Vaucluse House Tearooms; and hailstorm
damage to Government House. Each of these claims has
been accepted and finalised. From 15 October 2012, the
TMF’s procedures for managing damage to fleet vehicles
were changed to a system of mandatory notification of any
damage to a vehicle including minor damage. Previously,
minor damages that did not impact the roadworthiness of
a vehicle had been submitted as an accumulative damages
claim prior to the disposal of the vehicle. Following the
change in 2012, the number of notifications has increased
and in 2012–13 there were 15 notifications. To date, repairs
have been undertaken to the vehicles involved in eight of
these claims.
Legal change
Records management
The recruitment of records staff was completed early in 2013
and the HHT now has the capacity to provide quality in-house
records management training. We also commenced a
program to review the HP TRIM records management system
and developed a business classification system (implemented
in June 2013). This work was undertaken to improve the
HHT’s capacity to implement a digital record-keeping
program. We have also commenced a program to address
the backlog of hardcopy records across the organisation.
These initiatives will assist the HHT to meet key criteria of the
State Records Act 1998, manage records centrally and
electronically, reduce dependency on network/share drives
and pave the way for the HHT to become a paperless
environment.
Financial controls
The purpose of this review was to review and assess the
HHT’s financial performance in relation to the design and
operating effectiveness of the operational and financial
internal controls established to mitigate risks. The review
identified opportunities for improvement with a low
residual risk.
No changes were made to the Historic Houses Act 1980
during the reporting period. The favourable judicial decision
affecting an HHT retail lease was reversed on appeal and, as
a consequence, a further five-year lease has been granted
with court costs awarded against the HHT. This matter is now
finalised.
Delegations
Policies and procedures
In addition, in March 2013 the Chief Executive, Office of
Environment and Heritage, under delegation from the
Director-General, Department of Premier and Cabinet, issued
a revised instrument of sub-delegations in relation to
employment functions. Under these delegations the HHT’s
Director has full employment authority with the exception of
the public sector-wide restriction on the employment of
senior executives.
During 2012–13, a new comprehensive policy framework was
approved and implemented at the HHT. The following
policies and procedures were either developed or revised:
Staff Discounts (revised), Investment Policy (developed),
Records Destruction (developed), Use of Taxis (revised).
In addition, the HHT’s Staff induction handbook was
significantly revised to reflect the restructure of the
organisation, which has now been finalised. This induction
manual covers the HHT’s vision and mission, the history of
the agency, our organisational and management structure, the
research library, the independent friends association,
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employee representative groups, the Employee Assistance
Program (EAP), and employees’ leave entitlements and
conditions.
The occupants of key managerial positions are authorised by
the Minister for Heritage under Section 12 of the Public
Finance and Audit Act 1983 to exercise financial delegation
to specific limits. These financial delegations were reviewed
and updated on 7 April 2013.
ABOUT THE HHT
Other operational activities
During the reporting period, two EHF properties were sold
and a third was revalued. This activity was not anticipated
when the original net costs of services (NCS) budget controls
were set; however, approval was obtained during the financial
year for the change to the NCS result. And this year the HHT
has worked closely with the Department of Premier and
Cabinet (DPC), who have been allocated the capital grant for
the Refurbishment of Government House project. A delay by
the DPC in remitting the final reimbursement payment for the
2012–13 accounting period has resulted in a further variation
to the HHT’s approved NCS result.
The HHT’s policy is to endeavour to ensure that all payments
to suppliers are made promptly and in line with New South
Wales Government guidelines. In some instances, issues
relating to claims for payment require further clarification with
suppliers, which can cause delays in payment. Capital work in
progress can further affect time frames for payment. There
were no instances in which interest was paid on overdue
accounts.
Other entities
The HHT is responsible for providing administrative support
to two other entities: the Foundation for the Historic Houses
Trust of New South Wales and the Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust.
While these entities are consolidated for financial reporting
purposes, they have separate legal structures established by
a trust deed or under the Associated Incorporations Act 2009.
Each has a board of directors as determined by their
enabling legislation.
The Foundation Board meets six times a year. The
Foundation’s Finance and Legal Committee meets before
each Board of Directors meeting.
The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust holds a Board of Directors
meeting once a year.
The HHT provides support to these entities in the areas of
management, finance, corporate secretariat and general
administrative services.
Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Limited
The Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Limited is a private
company that formed in October 1994 as Trustee for the
Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust. This Trust holds certain items
of property in and about Rouse Hill House & Farm.
Three HHT representatives and two members representing
the Hamilton family make up the board. The Director of the
HHT is the Chair of the company. The company complies
with all the requirements of the Australian Securities and
Investments Commission.
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Foundation for the
Historic Houses Trust
of New South Wales
Table settings for the
Foundation Governors’
Dinner, 2012, in the ballroom
at Government House.
Photograph Scott Hill © HHT
The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South
Wales (the Foundation) is a DGR 2 (deductible gift recipient)
tax concession charity that exists solely to support the work
of the HHT. It is governed by a non-executive Board of
Directors, which met seven times in 2012–13.
Through bequests, special appeals, corporate support and
the Governors program, the Foundation helps the HHT to
achieve vital goals and initiatives that cannot be funded
from government sources.
This year support focused on the Rouse Hill House & Farm
Master Planning project, which is looking at how the site
can become more sustainable in the future, including
providing more ways for children to learn about food
and farming.
The Foundation supported acquisitions to the Caroline
Simpson Library & Research Collection, including an
exceptionally rare trade catalogue of garden ornaments
produced by the Coalbrookdale Company c1875. This
catalogue is held in no other public collection in Australia.
A most unusual acquisition to the library was a copy of the
1883–84 annual report from the Massachusetts State Board
of Health, Lunacy and Charity on the use of arsenic in daily
life, such as its use in wallpaper and sweet wrappers. The
report identifies the dangers of arsenic and is illustrated
with actual samples of wallpaper, which provide a unique
insight into Victorian decoration in Australian homes.
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This year the Foundation supported the proposed repairs
to the bridge at Beulah, an EHF project. The purpose of the
EHF program is to conserve and upgrade key properties
for lease or sale, allied with protective covenants.
The Foundation retained its ongoing commitment to the
HHT’s educational programs, including the Connected
Classrooms program, which uses new technology to reach
students across New South Wales.
The Foundation hosts events in partnership with private
sponsors and supporters, such as the annual Foundation
Governors’ Dinner. These exclusive events, held in the
historical and evocative settings of our properties, promote
the special work of the HHT and celebrate the support
of donors.
ABOUT THE HHT
friends of the
of new south wales
Dessert serving plate,
19th century, acquired by
the Friends of the Historic
Houses Trust of New South
Wales for the Elizabeth Bay
House collection.
Photograph © Penny Clay
The Friends of the Historic Houses Trust of New South
Wales celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2013. Incorporated
in 1988, the organisation was founded when the Friends of
Elizabeth Bay House and Friends of Vaucluse House
combined to form the Friends of the Historic Houses Trust
of New South Wales Inc (the Friends), having supported
the formation of the HHT in 1980 to manage both houses.
A volunteer organisation and registered charity, the Friends
of the Historic Houses Trust’s mission is to promote public
interest in the HHT and raise funds for the conservation
and interpretation of its historic properties.
The organisation, which has around 5500 members and
some 40 active volunteers, raises funds through
membership fees, events, tours and exhibitions. It delivers
an annual program of more than 90 events about history,
art, architecture and gardens. The program, comprising
members-only events and events for the general public,
includes walking tours, lectures, concerts, literary lunches,
private viewings and soirees.
The tour program this year included daytrips to Canberra
and the Southern Highlands, an exploration of art on the
South Coast of New South Wales, several tours examining
the life and works of the colonial architects, and a
three-day tour exploring some of the beautiful houses and
gardens of Bathurst, Australia’s oldest inland settlement.
Overseas tours to Italy and the United Kingdom were led
by Dr James Broadbent and included visits to historic villas
and gardens.
The Friends delivers a program of art exhibitions, held in
HHT museums. This year exhibitions showcased the work of
artists Kaily Koutsogiannis, Penny Walton and artists from
The Australian Miniature Art Society. Three exhibitions held
in the Members Lounge were Harry Seidler’s grand tour,
Rugs to riches, which celebrated the contribution the
Friends has made to the conservation and interpretation of
HHT sites over the past 25 years, and Remnants of the past
– Cockatoo Island. The Friends also hosted an exhibition of
works by the Parramatta Arts Society at Elizabeth Farm.
In 2012–13, the Friends provided the HHT with financial
support of $62,000, which contributed towards the
purchase of iPads, umbrellas and fabric, the refurbishment
of the tearooms at Elizabeth Farm, and the publication of
Public Sydney: drawing the city.
On 11 November 2012 The Hon Robyn Parker, The Minister
for the Environment and Minister for Heritage, presented
the Friends with a New South Wales Government Heritage
Volunteer Award.
The Friends is governed by an executive committee made
up of six representatives elected by its members, as well
as the HHT’s Director and one member of the Board of
Trustees. The committee meets monthly to discuss future
directions and funding support for the HHT.
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APPENDICES
Appendices
BOARD STANDING
COMMITTEES
The Board standing committees are
advisory bodies to the HHT Board
of Trustees.
Audit & Risk Committee
The Audit and Risk Committee is
an integral component of the HHT's
corporate governance arrangements.
Its responsibilities cover the review
and oversight of internal controls,
risk management, prevention of
corruption and fraud, external
accountability (including for the
financial statements), applicable laws
and regulations, and internal and
external audits. The committee
usually meets five times in the
financial year; however, this year the
committee also held out-of-session
conferences relating to the approval
of the retail write-off.
During the reporting period the
committee met with representatives
from the Audit Office of New South
Wales and twice with our external
auditors (October 2012 and March
2013), with part of each meeting
conducted without staff in
attendance.
The members of this committee
and their attendance at meetings in
2012/13 were as follows:
Members
Martyn Mitchell, Trustee (Chair to
31 December 2012), attended 2,
eligible to attend 4 [ie 2/4]
Paddy Carney, Trustee (Chair from
February 2013), 2/2
Bruce Hambrett, Trustee (observer
on 7 November 2012), 4/6
Louise McElvogue, Trustee (attended
7 June meeting as an observer,
appointed to the Committee on
17 June), 1/1
Michael Rose, Trust Chairman, 6/6
Staff
Kate Clark, Director, 5/5
Yaseen Dean, Head of Finance, 4/5
Ian Innes, Acting Director, 1/1
Trish Kernahan, Assistant Director,
Operations, 5/5
Louise Ruddock, Head of Strategy
and Government Relations (minute
secretary).
The Commercial and Marketing
comprises Trustees, senior staff and
industry specialists. It meets three
times a year to provide advice on
strategic issues relating to commercial
and marketing strategies.
University of Sydney, 3/4
Professor Susan Groundwater-Smith,
Honorary Professor, Faculty of
Education and Social Work, University
of Sydney, 4/4
Associate Professor Grace Karskens,
Trustee, 2/4
Andy Kent, musician, tour manager
and co-owner of Love Police
Records, 3/4
Tim Ross, comedian, radio host,
author and television presenter, 1/4
Liane Rossler, designer and artist,
co-founder of Dinosaur Designs, 3/4
Members
Keith Cottier, Trustee (Chair), 3/3
Neville Allen, Partner, Holding Redlich
Lawyers, and former Trustee, 2/3
Ken Knox, Project Director, The GPT
Group (joined March 2013), 2/3
Associate Professor Roderick
Simpson, Trustee, 1/4
Peter Tonkin, Trustee, 4/4
Staff
Kate Clark, Director (Chair), 4/4
Louise McElvogue, Trustee (joined
June 2013), May (as observer), 1/1
Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Assistant
Director, Creative Services, 3/4
Martyn Mitchell, Trustee (until
December 2012), 0/3
Julie Turpie, Assistant Director,
Commercial and Marketing
Services, 4/4
Staff
Heritage & Endangered
Houses Advisory Committee
Kate Evans, Head of Marketing &
Communications (from December
2012), 1/3
Damian Poole, Head of Commercial
Services, 3/3
Julie Turpie, Assistant Director,
Commercial & Marketing Services, 3/3
Creative Services Advisory
Committee
The Creative Services Advisory
Committee comprises Trustees, senior
staff and external experts. It meets
three times a year to provide advice on
strategic issues relating to how we
reach our audiences, including
programming, exhibitions, publications,
education, web and social media,
collections and research, interpretation
and signage projects.
Members
Dr Jane Connors, Manager, ABC Radio
National, attended 3/4
Dinah Dysart, arts writer, former
gallery director and former Trustee,
3/4
Elizabeth Ellis, Inaugural Emeritus
Curator, Mitchell Library, and Honorary
Associate, Department of History,
The Heritage and Endangered Houses
Advisory Committee comprises
Trustees, Foundation Directors, senior
staff and external experts. It meets
three times a year to provide advice
on strategic issues relating to the care
and conservation of collections,
buildings and sites, including the
Endangered Houses Fund program.
Members
Keith Cottier, Trustee (Chair), 3/4
Tanya Koeneman, Senior Aboriginal
Heritage Officer, Heritage Branch, 4/4
Associate Professor Carol Liston,
Associate Professor in History,
University of Western Sydney, 1/4
Robert McCuiag, Co-Founder, Colliers
International, 2/4
Colleen Morris, Heritage Consultant, 4/4
Dr Judith O’Callaghan, Senior
Lecturer, Faculty of Built Environment,
University of New South Wales, 2/4
Peter Root, Managing Director, Root
Projects, 2/4
Curtis Smith, Foundation Director,
and Company Director, 1/4
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Howard Tanner, Chairman, Tanner
Architects, and Senior Consultant,
Tanner Kibble Denton Architects, 3/4
Peter Tonkin, Trustee, 2/4
Staff
Ian Innes, Assistant Director,
Heritage and Portfolio, 4/4
Richard Silink, Head of Heritage
and Endangered Houses Team
(until November 2012), 1/4
HHT STANDING
COMMITTEES
Collections Valuation
Committee
The committee meets annually to
monitor the HHT’s rolling five-year
collection valuation process, review
formal independent valuations, note
the value of new acquisitions and
determine appropriate global
revaluations.
Megan Martin, Head of Collections
and Access (Chair)
Scott Hill, Portfolio Curator, Western
Sydney Portfolio
Joanna Nicholas, Portfolio Curator,
Government House and Eastern
Sydney Portfolio
Jennifer Olman, Registrar,
Documentation
Joint Consultative Committee
This committee, of Public Service
Association (PSA) representatives, and
staff who are PSA members, meets as
required and provides a forum that
allows consensus on employee matters
to be reached. The most recent
elections were held in November 2011.
Kate Clark, Director (Chair)
Kerrie Butson, PSA Industrial Officer
Darby Carr, Visitor and Interpretation
Officer, Government House & Eastern
Sydney Portfolio (PSA workplace
delegate)
Operations
Georgina Pearce, Head of Human
Resources
Fabienne Virago, Coordinator,
Learning, Programs (PSA workplace
delegate)
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Workplace Health & Safety
Committee
Officer, Government House and
Eastern Sydney Portfolio
The committee comprises both
management, and staff representing
sites and classifications, and meets
bimonthly to consider, and advise on,
workplace health and safety issues
(WH&S). In line with Section 5.3 of the
HHT Corporate Plan 2010–2015, the
committee continued to assess and
implement WH&S risk-management
systems across the sites.
Edward Champion, Visitor Services
Coordinator, Government House and
Andrew Mitchell, Building Facilities
Officer, Western Sydney Portfolio
(Chair)
Michael Bennett, Building Facilities
Assistant, Macquarie Street Portfolio
Anastasia Churchill, Customer Service
Assistant, Government House &
Nicole Elliott, Visitor and
Interpretation Officer, Meroogal
and Western Sydney Portfolio
Thomas Hull, Building Facilities
Assistant, City Portfolio
Ian Innes, Assistant Director, Heritage
& Portfolio (Management rep)
Tabitha Charles, Records Officer,
Operations (until March 2013)
Brad Lancaster, Visitor and
Interpretation Officer, Macquarie Street
Portfolio
Sara O’Shea, Marketing Officer,
Commercial and Marketing Services
PSA staff representative
Fabienne Virago, Learning
Coordinator, Creative Services
Human Resources representative
Resources
Staff reserves
Carole Best, Guide, City Portfolio (until
November 2012)
Michel Wilson, Guide, Western Sydney
Portfolio
Management representatives
Stuart Macpherson, Gardener,
Heritage Team
Dr Caroline Butler-Bowdon, Assistant
Director, Creative Services
Resources (Management rep)
Kate Clark, Director
Dave Wilson, Manager, Building
and Facilities, Heritage Team
Staff & Management
Participatory & Advisory
Committee (SAMPAC)
SAMPAC comprises staff, including a
Public Service Association (PSA) staff
representative. Elections are held
biennially, the most recent in
September 2011. The committee
meets bimonthly, with reserve
meetings held on alternate months as
required. SAMPAC participates in the
discussion of issues such as flexible
working hours and the Code of
Conduct, and acts as the Classification
and Grading Committee in reviewing
the grading of staff positions.
Staff representatives
Ben Crosby, Client Service Officer,
Creative Services (Chair)
Ian Innes, Assistant Director, Heritage
and Portfolio
Operations
Minute secretary
Amy Rowe, Administration Officer
ASSOCIATED GROUPS
FOUNDATION FOR THE
HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST
OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Company directors
Curtis Smith (Chair)
Michael Reid (Deputy Chair)
Alastair Baxter
Kate Clark
David O’Donnell
Fiona Playfair
Michael Rose
Anna Blunt, Library Technician, Creative
Services
Edward Simpson
Darby Carr, Visitor and Interpretation
Simon White (from Feb 2013)
Judith Whelan
Appendices
Friends of THE HISTORIC
HOUSES TRUST of new south
wales EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Jack Mundey AO, Patron
Jenny Noble (Chair, Jul 2012 to Apr
2013; Deputy Chair, Apr to 30 Jun 2013)
Rosemary McDonald (Deputy Chair,
Jul 2012 to Apr 2013; Chair, Apr to
30 Jun 2013)
Kate Clark, Director, HHT
Wolf Krueger
Government House Place (the forecourt
of the Museum of Sydney).
We also charge for our formal
education programs: $6–$10 per
student, depending on the type and
duration of the program. Education
programs at Government House are
free. No fee is charged to
accompanying teachers.
SELF-GENERATED INCOME
Geraldine O’Brien
SPONSORS
Judy Pittaway, General Manager
Cash
Graham Spindler
>AGL Energy: naming rights
Andrew Tink, HHT Trustee
representative (Oct 2012 to Apr 2013)
Elinor Wrobel
ROUSE HILL HAMILTON
COLLECTION PTY LIMITED
The Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection
Pty Limited is a private company that
was formed in October 1994 as Trustee
for the Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust. It
holds property in and about Rouse Hill
House & Farm that was formerly part
owned by the Hamilton family. The
Director and a senior staff member
represent the HHT.
Company directors
Kate Clark, representative, HHT (Chair
and Secretary)
Nanette Ainsworth, representative,
Hamilton family
Miriam Hamilton, representative,
Hamilton family
Ian Innes, representative, HHT
Dr Carol Liston, former Trustee, HHT
ADMISSION FEES
Tickets to the Museum of Sydney, the
Justice & Police Museum and the Hyde
Park Barracks Museum are: general
entry $10, child/concession $5, and
family $20. Tickets to all other HHT
properties are: general entry $8, child/
concession $4, and family $17. Entry is
free to The Mint; Government House
and its grounds; and the garden,
parklands and beach paddock of
Vaucluse House. No fee is charged for
access to a number of significant urban
spaces including the Hyde Park
Barracks Museum courtyard and First
sponsor of the AGL Theatre at the
Museum of Sydney (MOS) and
sponsor of the exhibition Home
front: wartime Sydney 1939–45 at
MOS
>City of Sydney: sponsor of the
multilingual audio guides for the
Hyde Park Barracks Museum, and
presenting partner of the Sydney
Open event and the publication
Public Sydney: drawing the city
>Department of Veterans’ Affairs:
major sponsor of the exhibition
Home front: wartime Sydney
1939–45 and outreach activities
associated with the exhibition
>Destination NSW: sponsor of the
exhibition Margaret Olley: home
at MOS
>Momento: sponsor of
photographic exhibitions in the
Theme Gallery at MOS, including
Margaret Olley: home, Now and
then and A convict in the family?
>NSW Architects Registration
Board: sponsor of the Sydney
Open Presents Talks series
>NSW Police Force celebrating 150
years, 1862–2012: major sponsor of
the exhibition The Force: 150 years
of NSW Police at the Justice &
Police Museum and regional NSW
tour
>Police Association of NSW: major
sponsor of The Force: 150 years of
NSW Police exhibition and
regional NSW tour
>Police Credit Union NSW: sponsor
of The Force: 150 years of NSW
Police exhibition and regional
NSW tour
>The Returned and Services
League of Australia (NSW branch):
sponsor of the Home front:
wartime Sydney 1939–45
exhibition
In kind
>702 ABC Sydney: promotional
support for the exhibition Now
and then at MOS
>Aesop: product sponsor
>Angove Family Winemakers:
product sponsor of events,
including the House Music concert
series at Government House,
exhibition launches and associated
programs
> Architecture Media: promotional support for the Sydney Open event
> Avant Card: in-kind media sponsor
>City of Sydney Art & About:
promotional support for the
exhibition and launch of the
exhibitions The wild ones: Sydney
Stadium 1908–1970 and Now and
then at MOS, and Wicked women
at the Justice & Police Museum
>Fresh Catering: in-kind sponsor of
the Sydney Open event
>NSW Architects Registration
Board: promotional support for the
Sydney Open talks
>The Sydney Morning Herald:
in-kind media sponsor of the Public
Sydney: stop, look, live! exhibition
GRANTS
During the year, grants of $18.653
million for recurrent allocation and
$1 million for capital grant allocation
were received from the Office of
Environment and Heritage.
>An additional grant of $556,000
was received from the Department
of Premier and Cabinet for the
maintenance and refurbishment of
Government House.
>Funding assistance of $100,000 for
the development of a strategic and
business-review model was provided
by the NSW Treasury.
grant of $70,000 to provide
> A
support for the Sydney Open 2012
event was supplied by the City
of Sydney.
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>Conservation planning for Rouse
Hill House & Farm was funded by a
grant of $150,000 from Your
Community Heritage Program
Fund.
>Contributing significantly to the
costs of publishing the book Public
Sydney: drawing the city were a
generous $30,000 grant from the
Faculty of Built Environment,
University of New South Wales, a
$15,000 grant from the City of
Sydney, and $10,000 donated by
the Friends of the Historic Houses
Trust of New South Wales.
FUNDRAISING
The Foundation for the Historic
acknowledges donations (received
in part or full since 1 July 2009, as per
the HHT Gift Management Policy)
in the following categories:
Macquarie Governor
Geoff O’Conor
Bligh Governor
John Schaeffer AO
King Governor
Eleonora Triguboff
Graham Bradley AM and
Charlene Bradley
Sandra and John Trowbridge
Diana Brown
Andrew and Kate Buchanan
Neil and Jane Burley
Andrew and Cathy Cameron
Amanda Carter and Randolph
Griffiths
Kate Clark
Michael Crouch AO and Shanny
Crouch
Sue Cummings
Gay Voss and David Voss QC
Stephen Wall and Alison Magney Wall
Peter Weir AM and Wendy Weir
Judith Whelan
Kim Williams AM
Michael and Prue Williams
Tim and Sophie Wilson
Nicholas and Elise Yates
ENDANGERED HOUSES FUND
Charles Curran AC and Eva Curran
Silver
William and Julia Dangar
Guy Paynter
Rowena Danziger AM and
Ken Coles AM
Guardians
Michael and Manuela Darling
Anne Galbraith
Terry and Dianne Finnegan
Protectors
Brian and Philippa France
Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners
Justice Peter Garling SC and Jane
Garling
Supporters
Jennifer Giles
John and Jenny Gordon
Edward and Deborah Griffin
Morna and Edward Vellacott
Hyde Park Barracks Domes Appeal
Antoinette Albert
Bruce and Joanne Hambrett
Neville Grace
Maple-Brown Family Charitable
Foundation Ltd
Diana Houstone
Peter James Hall AM
The Sir Asher & Lady Joel Foundation
Bill and Allison Hayward
Hunter Governors
John and Jan Kehoe
Robert Maple-Brown
Antoinette Albert
Geoff and Rachel O’Conor
Robert Albert AO and Libby Albert
John Knox and Roanne McGinleyKnox
Dr Zeny Edwards
Clive Lucas OBE
John Fairfax AO and Libby Fairfax
John and Edwina Macarthur-Stanham
Lynn Fern
David Maloney and Erin Flaherty
Prudence Macleod
John Matheson and Jeanne Eve
Robert and Kelly Salteri
Alan Matthews
Penelope Seidler AM
Terry and Wendy Mullens
Colin Sullivan AO
David and Edwina O’Donnell
Howard and Mary Tanner
Hon Justice Michael Pembroke and
Gillian Pembroke
Jill Wran
Phillip Governors
Anonymous x 3
Madeleine Adams
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Mairaed Bilmon
Diana Polkinghorne
Mrs E Ramsden
Michael J Reed
Hugh Allen and Judith Ainge
Harvey Sanders and Sheba
Greenberg
Terrey Arcus AM and Anne Arcus
Curtis Smith and Jennie Janick
Kate Armati
Ian and Maisy Stapleton
James Beck and Michael Kilkeary
Nola Tegel
Colin Bell
Annalise Thomas
DISABILITY ACTION PLAN
A draft DAP 2010–13 has been
developed in line with the Disability
Policy Framework introduced by the
NSW Government in 2008. Our
previous DAP 2006–08 continues in
place in the interim, and addresses
the following priority areas:
information about services, physical
access to our properties, access to
complaints procedures, employment
and staff training, and promoting
positive community attitudes.
The HHT supports the rights of
people with disabilities, and aims
to provide both physical and
intellectual access to our properties,
programs and services. (See also
page 18.)
Appendices
This year, ten of our Visitor and
Interpretation Officers attended
Deaf Awareness training conducted
by the Australian Communication
Exchange.
Our information
MULTICULTURAL POLICIES
& SERVICES PROGRAM
> statutory reports
Information maintained by the HHT
includes:
As far as possible, requests for access
to information, not already available
at this site, will be dealt with formally.
You can make a formal request by
contacting Madeleine Bennison by
email or letter. An application form
can be found at <http://www.hht.net.
au/_data/assets/pdf_file/0004/75820/
Access_Application_Form.pdf>
> policies and procedures
>plans
>images
Consistent with the Multicultural
Policies and Services Program, we
continue our commitment to cultural
and linguistic diversity, and have
made progress with our targets, with
tangible results in 1) involvement, and
2) access and enjoyment. We have
achieved steady progress in relation
to Priorities P2, P4, P5 and P10, as
outlined in the HHT Corporate Plan
2010–2015. Of the bodies that report
to the HHT, none has a multicultural
policy and services plan. (See also
page 18.)
>publications
PRIVACY MANAGEMENT
PLAN
The public can follow these links to
find out more about:
The HHT has a Privacy Management
Plan modelled on the plans of other
New South Wales museums, and our
Head of Compliance & Knowledge is
also the Privacy Officer. We have
received no complaints regarding
non-compliance with this plan during
2012–13.
ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
The HHT is proactive in responding
to applications for access to
government-held information under
the Government Information (Public
Access) Act 2009 (GIPA). During the
reporting period 2012–13 we
responded on time to one request
received.
In an endeavour to increase
accountability and transparency, and
to meet best practice, the HHT has
taken a proactive decision to disclose
information to the public by
publishing policy and information on
our website at www.hht.net.au.
Under the Government Information
(Public Access) Regulation 2009 we
reported the following:
> corporate records.
Access to information
We aim to make information about
our organisation and operations
easily accessible to members of the
public, providing there is no
overriding reason, in the public
interest, not to. Where possible, we
make such information freely
available online at www.hht.net.au,
under GIPA.
>our policies <http://www.hht.net.
au/about/policies>
>a disclosure log of information
previously released upon request
by members of the public <http://
www.hht.net.au/about/open_
access_information/disclosure_
log>
>our annual reports and plans
<http://www.hht.net.au/about/
reports_and_plans>
>our register of government
contracts <http://www.hht.net.au/
about/open_access_information/
register_of_government_
contracts>.
After an internal review of the
categories of information held
and created by the HHT, it was
considered that none of this
information would be released.
In 2012–13, one application for
information was received. This single
access application was partially
refused because it was considered
not in the public interest to disclose it
under Schedule 1 of GIPA. There were
nil open-access applications received
by the HHT during this period.
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Schedule 2: Statistical information about access applications
Table A: Number of applications by type of applicant, and outcome*
Access Access Access Information Information
not held
already
granted granted refused
in full
available
in full in part
Refuse to
deal with
application
Refuse to Application
confirm/
withdrawn
deny
whether
information
is held
Media
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Members of Parliament
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Private-sector business
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Not-for-profit organisations
or community groups
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Members of the public
(application by legal
representative)
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Members of the
public (other)
–
1
–
–
–
–
–
1†
*More than one decision can be made in respect of a particular access application. If so, a recording must be made in relation to each such decision.
This also applies to Table B.
† Invalid application.
Table B: Number of applications by type of application, and outcome*
Access Access Access Information Information
not held
already
granted granted refused
in full
available
in full in part
Refuse to
deal with
application
Refuse to Application
confirm/
withdrawn
deny
whether
information
is held
Personal information
applications*
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Access applications
(other than personal
information applications)
–
1
–
–
–
–
–
–
Access applications that
are partly personal
information applications
and partly other
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
*A personal information application is an access application for personal information (as defined in Clause 4 of Schedule 4 to the Act) about the applicant
(the applicant being an individual).
Table C: Invalid applications
Reason for invalidity
1
Application is for excluded information of the agency (Section 43 of the Act)
–
Application contravenes restraint order (Section 110 of the Act)
–
Total number of invalid applications received
Invalid applications that subsequently became valid applications
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No of applications
Application does not comply with formal requirements (Section 41 of the Act, Part (c):
It must be accompanied by a fee of $30). The $30 fee was not included
1
1 (after this reporting date)
Appendices
Table D: Conclusive presumption of overriding public interest against disclosure:
matters listed in Schedule 1 of the Act
Number of times
consideration used*
Overriding secrecy laws
NIL
Cabinet information
1
Executive Council information
NIL
Contempt
NIL
Legal professional privilege
NIL
Excluded information
NIL
Documents affecting law enforcement and public safety
NIL
Transport safety
NIL
Adoption
NIL
Care and protection of children
NIL
Ministerial code of conduct
NIL
Aboriginal and environmental heritage
NIL
*More than one public-interest consideration may apply in relation to a particular access application and, if so, each such consideration is to be recorded (but only once per application). This also applies in relation to Table E.
Table E: Other public interest considerations against disclosure: matters listed in table to Section
14 of the Act
Number of occasions when
application not successful
Responsible and effective government
NIL
Law enforcement and security
NIL
Individual rights, judicial processes and natural justice
NIL
Business interests of agencies and other persons
NIL
Environment, culture, economy and general matters
NIL
Secrecy provisions
NIL
Documents exempt under interstate freedom of information legislation
NIL
Table F: Timeliness
Number of applications
Decided within the statutory time frame (20 days plus any extensions)
1
Decided after 35 days (by agreement with applicant)
NIL
Not decided within time (deemed refusal)
NIL
Total
1
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Table G: Number of applications reviewed under Part 5 of the Act (by type of review and outcome)
Decision varied
Decision upheld
Total
Internal review
NIL
1
1
Review by Information Commissioner*
NIL
NIL
–
Internal review following recommendation under Section 93 of Act
NIL
NIL
–
Review by ADT
NIL
NIL
–
–
–
1
Total
*The Information Commissioner does not have the authority to vary decisions, but can make recommendations to the original decision-maker. The data in this
case indicates that a recommendation to vary or uphold the original decision has been made by the Information Commissioner.
Table H: Applications for review under Part 5 of the Act (by type of applicant)
Number of applications for review
Applications by access applicants
–
Application by an individual for access to personal information about the applicant
(see Section 54 of the Act)
–
Charges
CONSUMER RESPONSE
Where a formal application is made
to access information held by us, an
application fee of $30 applies. Where
requests are complex and/or require
the commitment of significant
resources in order to make the
information available, a processing
fee of $30 per hour may apply.
As the HHT is a service-based
organisation, customer feedback is of
prime importance to us and we monitor
it closely. We have in place a range of
evaluation measures, including visitor
books and evaluation forms at each
property, traditional and digital visitor
books and other interactive devices in
exhibitions, customer surveys following
public programs, teacher evaluations
following education programs, and
feedback forms for our venue-hire
clients. In addition, a general file is
maintained for written compliments and
complaints. Each complaint is dealt with
in writing, minor complaints by the
property or team where the complaint
was received, and major complaints by
the Director or a member of the
Management Group.
Historic Houses Trust of
NSW Head Office:
The Mint
10 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T 02 8239 2288 F 02 8239 2299
info@hht.com.au
To access government information
under GIPA, please contact:
Madeleine Bennison
Head of Compliance & Knowledge
Sydney Living Museums
The Mint
10 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T 02 8239 2288 F 02 8239 2299
madeleineb@hht.com.au
To make arrangements to inspect
documents on site, contact the
officer above.
During the year we received 127
compliments in total: our museums and
properties (34), venues and functions
(42), events and public programs (20),
exhibitions (4), Caroline Simpson Library
& Research Collection (3), donations
(10), education programs (6) and
miscellaneous (8). We received 31
complaints in total: our museums and
properties (9), events and public
programs (8), cafes (5), exhibitions (2)
and miscellaneous (5).
ELECTRONIC SERVICES
DELIVERY
The following services are available via
the HHT’s corporate website and
associated sub-domains hht.net.au and
sydneylivingmuseums.com.au
>online resources, including blogs,
collection databases and links to
HHT-related social media
>all appropriate government
publications (for reference only, not
for sale)
>HHT annual reports from 2001–02 to
2011–12
>e-commerce facilities for the
purchase of HHT publications and
merchandise, and for ticketing,
membership and donations.
LAND DISPOSAL
No land was disposed of during the
reporting year.
Credit card certification
The HHT has a policy for the use
of credit cards by staff that is in
accordance with the New South Wales
Premier’s Memoranda and New South
Wales Treasurer’s Directions.
Cost of annual report
This report was prepared and printed
at a cost of $495 and is available
on our website.
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Appendices
HUMAN RESOURCES
Exceptional movements in
employee wages, salaries and
allowances
A 2.5% salary increase for the New
South Wales Public Sector came into
effect in the first full pay period in July
2012 for the 2012–13 financial year.
Personnel policies and
practices
>We continued to implement our
Occupational Health & Safety and
Injury Management Plan 2009–11.
>Work commenced on the
development of an agency-wide
Workforce Performance Plan.
>Comprehensive staff training was
undertaken with a strong focus
on compliance.
Future directions
>Key issues for the year ahead
will be finalising the restructure
of the HHT, improving our service
delivery through better technology
and interpersonal communication
with staff and management,
innovatively inducting new staff,
further developing the skills of our
existing staff and continually trying
to improve workplace health
and safety.
>The HHT plans to increase training in
accessibility skills to improve
our outreach to audiences
with disabilities.
diversity, innovation and service
responsiveness in the New South
Wales workforce by reducing barriers
to employment and improving
promotional opportunities for
Aboriginal people.
Equal Employment
Opportunity (EEO)
Our self-assessed outcomes for the year
include:
>diversity of representation on
recruitment panels and the provision
of EEO information to applicants
>diversity of representation on
internal bodies such as the WH&S
Committee, SAMPAC and Joint
Consultative Committee, and on
job-evaluation panels
>flexible work practices, including flex
days and RDOs, maternity leave, and
family and community-service leave
>provision of development
opportunities through expressions of
interest and higher duties allowance.
Future directions
The HHT will explore externally funded
grants, with the aim of promoting
workforce profile data – EEO report
Current selections
Cluster
Reporting entity
Premier and Cabinet
1 Size of agency (headcount)
2011
2012
2013
% change 2012–13
Headcount at census date
260
238
241
1.26%
Non-casual headcount at census date
219
199
183
-8.04%
2011
2012
Non-casual headcount at census date
219
199
183
Non-casual EEO survey respondents at census date
219
199
183
100%
100%
100%
2 EEO survey response rate (non-casual
headcount at census date)
Response rate
2013
Note: All calculated EEO data in Tables 1 and 2 are based on employee status as at census date.
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3 EEO actual staff numbers (non-casual headcount at census date)
Remuneration
level of substantive
position
$0 – $41,679
Total staff
(men &
women) Respondents
Men
2013
People from
People
People
racial,
whose
with a
Aboriginal
ethnic,
language
disability
& Torres
ethno- first spoken
requiring
Strait
religious
as a child
People
workIslander
minority
was not
with a
related
Women
peoples
groups
English disability adjustment
2
2
–
2
–
–
–
–
–
$41,679 – $54,742
49
49
16
33
–
3
3
–
–
$54,742 – $61,198
19
19
3
16
–
2
3
–
–
$61,198 – $77,441
42
42
13
29
–
5
1
1
–
$77,441 – $100,145
53
53
26
27
–
8
7
2
–
$100,145 – $125,181
13
13
6
7
–
2
2
–
–
$125,181 > (Non SES)
4
4
1
3
–
–
–
–
–
$125,181 > (SES)
1
1
–
1
–
–
–
–
–
183
183
65
118
–
20
16
3
–
Total
4 EEO actual and estimated staff numbers (non-casual headcount at census date)
ACTUAL
Remuneration
level of substantive
position
$0 – $41,679
2013
estimated
Total staff
(men &
women) Respondents
Men
People from
People
racial,
whose
People with
Aboriginal
ethnic,
language
a disability
& Torres
ethno- first spoken
requiring
Strait
religious
as a child
People
workIslander
minority
was not
with a
related
Women
peoples
groups
2
2
–
2
–
–
–
–
–
$41,679 – $54,742
49
49
16
33
–
3
3
–
–
$54,742 – $61,198
19
19
3
16
–
2
3
–
–
$61,198 – $77,441
42
42
13
29
–
5
1
1
–
$77,441 – $100,145
53
53
26
27
–
8
7
2
–
$100,145 – $125,181
13
13
6
7
–
2
2
–
–
$125,181 > (Non SES)
4
4
1
3
–
–
–
–
–
$125,181 > (SES)
1
1
–
1
–
–
–
–
–
183
183
65
118
–
20
16
3
–
Total
Note 1: Estimated figures are calculated on the basis of the number of employees who have responded ‘yes’ to the EEO category as a proportion of the total
number of employees who have responded to the EEO survey, multiplied by the total amount of employees in the salary band ie Estimated People with a Disability
from salary band 1 = (Actual number of People with a Disability in salary band 1/Total number of respondents from salary band 1)* Total number of staff in salary
band 1. Note 2: Respondents are classified as employees who have provided an answer for any of the EEO questions, whether they have chosen to withdraw their
response or not, ie all employees who do not have ‘missing’ as their response. Note 3: Separated employees are excluded in the above table.
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Appendices
2013
4a EEO actual and estimated staff numbers (non-casual headcount at census date)
as a percentage
estimated
ACTUAL
Remuneration level of
substantive position
Total staff
(men &
women) Respondents
$0 – $41,679
2
100.0%
Men
People from
People
racial,
whose
People with
Aboriginal
ethnic, language
a disability
& Torres
ethno- first spoken
requiring
Strait
religious as a child
People
workIslander
minority
was not
with a
related
Women
peoples
groups
0.0%
100.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
$41,679 – $54,742
49
100.0% 32.7%
67.3%
0.0%
6.1%
6.1%
0.0%
0.0%
$54,742 – $61,198
19
100.0% 15.8%
84.2%
0.0%
10.5%
15.8%
0.0%
0.0%
$61,198 – $77,441
42
100.0% 31.0%
69.0%
0.0%
11.9%
2.4%
2.4%
0.0%
$77,441 – $100,145
53
100.0% 49.1%
50.9%
0.0%
15.1%
13.2%
3.8%
0.0%
$100,145 – $125,181
13
100.0% 46.2%
53.8%
0.0%
15.4%
15.4%
0.0%
0.0%
$125,181 > (Non SES)
4
100.0% 25.0%
75.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
$125,181 > (SES)
1
100.0%
0.0%
100.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
100.0% 35.5%
64.5%
0.0%
59.0%
52.9%
6.2%
0.0%
Total
183
Note 1: Estimated percentages are calculated in a similar manner to the estimated figures in Table 4, only they are expressed as a percentage, ie Estimated
Percentage of People with a Disability from salary band 1 = (Actual number of People with a Disability from salary band 1/Total number of respondents from
salary band 1).
5 Parliamentary annual report tables
EEO group
Benchmark/Target
2011
2012
2013
Women
50%
63.5%
63.8%
64.5%
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
2.6%
0.5%
0.5%
0.0%
19.0%
9.1%
9.5%
8.7%
People with a disability
N/A
1.8%
2.5%
1.6%
People with a disability requiring
work-related adjustment
1.5%
0.0%
0.0%
0.0%
Women
100
95
96
90
100
N/A
N/A
N/A
People whose first language spoken
as a child was not English
100
107
N/A
N/A
People with a disability
100
N/A
N/A
N/A
People with a disability requiring
work-related adjustment
100
N/A
N/A
N/A
5a Trends in the representation of EEO groups
5b Trends in the distribution of EEO groups
Note 1: A Distribution Index of 100 indicates that the centre of the distribution of the EEO group across salary levels is equivalent to that of other staff. Values less
than 100 mean that the EEO group tends to be more concentrated at lower salary levels than is the case for other staff. The more pronounced this tendency is, the
lower the index will be. In some cases the index may be more than 100, indicating that the EEO group is less concentrated at lower salary levels.
Note 2: The Distribution Index is not calculated where EEO group or non-EEO group numbers are less than 20.
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6 Representation of EEO groups
EEO group
Benchmark/Target
2011
2012
2013
Women
50%
63.5%
63.8%
64.5%
2.6%
0.5%
0.5%
0%
19%
9.1%
9.5%
8.7%
63.5%
63.8%
64.5%
2.6%
50%
Trends in EEO group: women
2012–2013
Type of consultant
Service
Amount
General > $50,000
Business Review Model
$158,488
Property Economic Analysis
$63,057
Branding Project
$39,362
Payments
Aged analysis at the end of each quarter
Quarter
70
Less than 31–60 days 61–90 days
overdue
overdue
30 days
$'000
$'000
$'000
More than
90 days
overdue
$'000
Total
$'000
September 2012
560
328
9
31
928
December 2012
549
76
–
6
631
March 2013
696
119
30
–
845
June 2013
783
52
–
42
877
Quarter
Total accounts paid on time
Total amount paid
Target %
Actual %
$’000
September 2012
100
94
6,053
6,420
December 2012
100
99
5,554
5,636
March 2013
100
98
6,463
6,612
June 2013
100
98
6,167
6,261
8.7%
Trends in EEO group: people whose first
language spoken as a child was not English
Use of Consultants
General < $50,000
9.5%
2012–2013
2011–2012
Trends in EEO group: Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander peoples
9.1%
2011–2012
0%
2010–2011
0.5%
benchmark
0.5%
2010–2011
benchmark
2012–2013
2011–2012
2010–2011
benchmark
19%
Appendices
THANK YOU
HHT Volunteers. Photograph Alison Waterhouse © HHT
OUR VOLUNTEERS
As well as those who are part of the
ongoing HHT Volunteers program,
this list includes those who
volunteered for Sydney Open 2012.
Rachel Abraham, Allana Afshar,
Salman Afzal, Omar Aguila, Remy
Aguila, Hamed Al-Raisi, Luisa Alessi,
Lynne Allen, Jean Jorel Alvarez, Prue
Anthony, Marie Rose Arong, Clare
Ashton, Ozzie Azhar, Andy (Hee Tae)
Bae, Mary Bagtas, Karin Bahls, Steven
Bai, Kim Bailey, Teresa Baldassarre,
Ann Banister, Heather Banyard,
Suzanna Bartlett, Scott Barwick, Anne
Baskerville, Leslie Bassett, Adrienne
Beattie, Kate Belfield, Andrew Bell,
elva bennett, Margery Bennett,
Naomi Bernhardt, Jill Berry, Joy
Berville, Carole Best, Raelene
Beuermann, Colin Bishop, Richard
Blaxland, Annette Blinco, Hannah
Boaden, Frank Boland, Hanneke
Bongers, Vicki Bowden, John Boyd,
Lisa Brady, Annette Bray, Ron Bray,
Warren Bressler, Pam Brock, Dolores
Brooker, John Brooks, Marnie Brown,
Helen Bryant, Joan Buckley, Fiona
Buls, Brent Button, Sharyn Byrne,
Ningyuan Cai, Lisa Calder, Lynn
Caldwell, Jennifer Carlton, Barbara
Carnie, Anne Carpenter, Steve
Cartland, Patricia Casbarra, Mike
Cave, Jenny Cen, David Chandler,
Jenny Chandler, Suzane Charles, Tina
Chen, Xu Chen, Elsa Cheung, Nicole
Chew, Wei Heng Chin, zhen xun chin,
Lee Sheng Kenny Choo, Julia Ciano,
Mariana Cidade, Trish Clancy, Anthony
Clapham, Jonathan Claridge, Terry
Clarke, Rob Clarkson, Debbie Cluer,
Beverley Conley, Douglas Cook, Gary
Cook, Doug Cooper, Patricia Cooper,
Bronwyn Coulston, Sevda Cranston,
Nicole Cripps, Andrew Crooks, Yen
Dao, Elsa Darmalingum, Suzanne
Davey, Brooke Davidson, Kathryn
Davis-Slade, Catherine De Lorenzo,
Grahame Deck, Marie Delas, Grant
Dempsey, Graham Desailly, Maureen
Devereaux, Adam Dickson, Laurence
Dillon, Philippa Doig, Margaret
Donachy, Mal Donaldson, Elizabeth
Donnelly, Antonio Dorigo, Ruth
Dornan, Georgia Douglas, Melissa
Drake, Natalie Du, Lou Duerden, Peter
Duerden, Yvonne M Duke, Priscilla
Duncan, Dominic Dwyer, Judy Ebner,
Cassandra Egger, Victoria Emerton,
Kirsten Englert, Julie Evans, Tim Evans,
Ann Eyers, Ingrid Farkas, Katherine
Farrell, Yanfei Feng, Dianne Finnigan,
Belinda Finocchiaro, Ronald Fisher,
Bernadette Flynn, Sue Forsyth, Helen
Foster, Julian Foster, Helen Freame,
Antonia Fredman, Christine Fulcher,
Anne Galbraith, Diana Garder,
Malcolm Garder, Nicole Gardner,
Charlotte Gardner-Dyson, Allan
Garrick, Gillian Gibbons, Prutha Girme,
Caroline Gleeson, Diana Glenn, Maria
Luisa Gleria, Lesley Goldberg, Jamie
Gooding, Elaine Graham, Neil
Graham, Sharon Greene, Juliana
Grego, James Griffith, Marina Grilanc,
Francis-Joseph Gross, Janet Grundy,
Rosa Guan, Lynette Gurr, Robin
Guthrie, Margaret Guy, Regina
Haertsch, Rob Haggett, Sandra Hall,
Winsome Hall, Katarina Hamalainen,
Chloe Hamilton, Gordon Hannam,
Shirley Hannam, Roben Hapgood,
Tracey Harper, David Harris, Tracie
Harvison, Jan Heffernan, Jennifer
Hempton, Sheila Henderson, Janet
Heslep, Stephen Hickman, Elizabeth
Hicks, Cherissa Higgins, Margaret
Hill, Anthony Ho, Fiona Ho, Danielle
Hoareau, Isabela Honda, Tim Hopper,
Raymond Horsey, Gerard Hosier,
John Hudson, Linzi Hughes, Lesley
Hume, Nouha Hussney, Claire
Hutchinson, Heather Ingham, Robert
Irving, Chris Isgro, Carol Jacobson,
Ken Jacobson, Kash Jain, Peter
James, Sally James, Wendy James,
Anne Jaumees, Jimmy Jimenez,
Penelope Johnston, Anne Jones,
Darin Jones, Michael Jones, Dess
Kammason Kelley, Bianca Karcher,
Jeannette Keir, Ashley Keith,
Christine Kemp, Colin Kemp, Graham
Kerr, Aysha Khan, Ming Khoo,
Heather King, Maureen King, David
Knapp, Ian Kolln, Lada Kolonkova, Jun
Ming Kong, Maree Kovac, Vera
Krasnova, Anthony Kryger,
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Appendices
Migyeoung Kwak, Jane Kwan, Louise
Lam, Rowena Lam, Richard Lambert,
Nikhil Langham, Tracey Larkin, Stuart
Lawrence, Steven Laws, Ellen Lawson,
Courtney Lee, Edmund Lee, Greta
Lee, Sangkyu Lee, Alison Leeson,
Mollie Lenthall, Liane Leslie, Gary
Leung, Lanna Leung, Lorraine Leung,
Gwendolyne Lever, Bethany Leyshon,
Yanjia Liao, Anne Little, Wei Liu,
Justine Lloyd, Maggie Lo, Nicholas
Loder, Denis Lovely, Peter Lowe, Xuan
Luo, Alex Luu, May Sabai Lwin,
Stephen Mcauley, James McElvenny,
John McFadden, Lynette McHale,
Craig McIlveen, Erin McIntyre, Sue
McIntyre, Lynne McKenzie, Elizabeth
McKinnon, Betty McLintock, Rae
McLintock, Anita McMahon, Judy
McMaugh, Craig McPherson, Robert
Macoun, Conrad Marder, Kurt
Marder, Nikolas Margerrison, Sally
Marks, Aida Markulin, Judy Marshall,
Stephen Martin, Gabriela Martinez,
Nailah Masagos, Sophia Mascia,
Stefanie Matosevic, Vicki Mavrofora,
Malcolm Mawhinney, Peter Maxwell,
Susan Melrose, Joy Middledorp,
Elizabeth Miller, Sue Miller, Susan
Miller, Jules Miner, Dianne Mitchell,
Peter Mitchell, Belinda Mitrovich,
Natalie Moore, Frances Moors, Leone
Morrison, Jo Moses, Emily Mudie,
Valda Muller, Ross Muller, Jo-ann
Murphy, Alwyn Murray, Susan
Mussared, Kaoru Nakamori, Sharang
Nawani, Frances Neill, Michael
Neustein, Albert Ng, Florence Ng,
Robin Sing-Leui Ngai, Anh Nguyen,
Violeta Nikolovska, Michael Noone,
Jacqui O’Doherty, Pauline O’Kane,
Sandra Ollington, Linda Oliver,
Rosemarie Olk, Joanne O’MeadhraElder, Peter Onus, Michael Oxenham,
Daryl Page, Jean-Ann Page, Helen
Palmer, Lynne Palmer, Rosemary
Palmer, Bella Papian, Jennifer Parker,
Marilyn Paul, Robert Pauling, Karina
Peatey, Novia Phandita, Susan
Phillips, Glenys Pike, Adriana
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Piscicelli, Su-Jin Poh, Marion Pollak,
Elaine Poon, Andrew Porter, Robin
Porter, Irene Potts, Brian Powyer,
Ginette Priestley, Casper Pu, Hayley
Pullinger, Lusia Nini Purwajati, Meg
Quinlisk, Felipe Ramirez, Mark
Ransom, Lina Rapone, Ken Raven,
Alyssa Raymundo, Alex-Oonagh
Redmond, Stewart Reed, Anne
Resplendino, Jill Robert, Sharyn
Roberts, Paul Robinson, Joan Rodd,
Russell Rodrigo, Esther Rolfe, Peter
Rolfe, Natalie Rosin, Peter Rowen,
Laura Russett, Gregory Sachs, Sarah
St George, Jennifer Lynn Salcedo,
Laura Sansonetti Eringa, Erica Saville,
Leo Sawicki, Maria Schattiger, David
Scobie, Helen Seale, Margaret Shain,
Bernard Sharah, Cathey Shepherd,
Dorothy Shoard, Betty Sideres, Mark
Simblist, Jeanette Sims, David Sketch,
Diane Slater, Duncan Smith, Sue
Smith, Annette Smith-Bridges, Bin
Song, Paula Southcombe, Brian
Soutter, Robert Squires, Jann
Stanford, Julie Stark, Jean Steele,
Ross Steele, Mary Steenson, Jesse
Stein, Peter Stepek, Constance
Stevens, Heather Stevens, Michael
Stevens, Shirley Stimson, Patricia
Stock, Lesley Suggett, Leigh Sullivan,
Nikki Sullivan, Doreen Sully, Siska
Sumual, Nicole Sutherland, Dianne
Switzer, Raphael Sy, Lisa Sykes, Briana
Tabone, Grace Tan, Jeanette
Tancred, Susannah Tennant, Caroline
Terianto, David Thio, Michael
Thomson, Margot Tidey, Camilla
Tierney, Leah Tome, Queenie Tran,
Isabelle Trovato, Sophie Tsouloukidis,
Eleanor Tullock, Neridah Tyler-Perry,
Gillian Van Rensburg, Annalies van
Westenbrugge, Pamela Vaughan,
Margaret Vidler, Ron Vincent,
Stephanie Vining, Kerstin Vintila, Avril
Vorsay, Phuong (Annie) Vu, Jeffrey
Waiyee, Alice Walker, Geraldeen
Walker, Natalie Wall, Margaret
Wallace, Robert Wallis, Belinda
Walsh, Ara Wang, Elsie Wang, Jiahui
Wang, Lin Wang, Yufei Wang, Robyn
Ward, Christine Waters, Elizabeth
Watson, Lex Watson, John Watt,
Wendell Margaret Watt, Aurelia
Webster-Hawes, Leonard Werman,
Alison Wheeler, Robert Wheeler,
Craig White, Elaine White, Sharon
Whittaker, Janet Whitten, Clarice
Wilkins, Tony Wilkinson, John
Williams, Chris Wilmott, Margaret
Wilmott, Laraine Wilson, Marie
Wilson, Michael Wilson, Yuk Yi Wong,
Robert Wood, Rex Wood, Sophia
Woolaston, Valerie Worswick,
Constance Wright, Elinor Wrobel, Xi
Yang, Cecilie Yates, Jill Yates, Pui
Ming Yeung, Julie Young, Young Yu,
Ron Yuan, Loretta Yuen, Mary Zarate,
Jennifer Zerial, Edith Miriam Ziegler,
Bonnie Zhou, Zicci Zhou, Kay Zhu,
Ghazal Zolghadr, Adrian Zonaga
Historic houses trust
of new south wales
FINANCIAL statements
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Understanding our financial statements
This information is to assist readers to understand our
financial statements, which are made up of four reports
and accompanying notes:
> Statement of comprehensive income
> Statement of financial position
> Statement of changes in equity
> Statement of cash flows
The statements disclose separately the Trust, which is
known as the Parent Entity, and the group of organisations
under the control of the Historic Houses Trust of New
South Wales (HHT), which is known as the Consolidated
Entity. The Consolidated Entity includes all of the entities
which fall under our control:
>Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust
of New South Wales
>Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust
of New South Wales Limited
>Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust
3. Statement of changes in equity
This statement recognises income and expenses,
and describes the movement in equity and the source
of those movements during the reporting period.
All contributions or distributions are adjusted against
the equity account.
> Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Limited
4. Statement of cash flows
The New South Wales Auditor-General audits New South
Wales public sector agencies such as the HHT and its
controlled entities. The Auditor-General’s audit certificate
is included with the financial statements and it states the
Auditor-General’s audit opinion of the HHT’s financial
statements.
This statement shows the nature and amount of cash
inflows/outflows. The statement reflects a recording of
cash (as opposed to accruals as in the statement of
comprehensive income) when it is received or paid.
1. Statement of comprehensive income
This statement looks at our performance over the financial
year (1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013) and is reported as a
surplus/deficit in delivering our services. The statement
enables readers to identify the costs of goods and
services provided and the extent to which these costs
were recovered, as well as the source of the funding. It
also allows the reader to compare the result against the
previous financial year to see the change in resources as
a result of operations. The statement is prepared on an
accruals basis, which means it accounts for income and
expenditure when it is earned/incurred and not when
money is received or paid. Accrual accounting also
recognises non-cash items such as depreciation of assets.
Other comprehensive income includes changes in
revaluation reserve, gains and losses.
2. Statement of financial position
This statement sets out the net accumulated financial
value at a point in time, in this case, the end of the financial
year. It shows the assets held as well as the liabilities or
claims against these assets. The statement is also
prepared on an accruals basis. Assets and liabilities are
expressed as current or non-current. Current assets are
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those that are expected to be realised within 12 months
after the reporting date or assets that are cash or cash
equivalent. Current liabilities are obligations which are
expected to be settled within the Trust’s normal
operating cycle and for which the Trust does not have an
unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for
more than 12 months after the reporting date.
Non-current assets/liabilities are those assets and
liabilities that are not current and are generally unlikely to
be settled within the next 12 months. The difference
between total assets and total liabilities is expressed as
net assets, which equals total equity – that is, the net
worth of the organisation at the end of the financial year.
The statement of cash flows has only two sections:
>The cash flows from operating activities summarises
those cash flows that relate to the provision of goods
and services. The statement includes cash flows from
government.
>The cash flows from investing activities summarises
those activities that relate to the acquisition and
disposal of non-current assets and other productive
assets, and investments not falling under the definition
of cash, for example, the sale of plant and equipment.
A resulting net increase or decrease in cash results from
the total of the cash flows from operating and investing
activities. This is then added to or subtracted from the
opening cash position to arrive at the closing cash
position for the year.
5. Notes to and forming part of the financial
statements
he notes provide further information in relation to
T
the rules and assumptions used to prepare the financial
statements, and give more specific information and
detail about items within the financial statements.
Any changes to accounting standards, policy or
legislation will be disclosed in the notes. The ‘note’
column indicates which note the reader can refer to
for further information.
Financial statements contents
76 Independent auditor’s report
78Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales statutory financial statements
79Statement of comprehensive income
80 Statement of financial position
81 Statement of changes in equity
82 Statement of cash flows
83 Notes to and forming part of the financial statements
83Note 1: Summary of significant accounting policies
89Note 2: Expenses excluding losses
90
Note 3: Revenue
91
Note 4: Gain/(loss) on disposal
91
Note 5: Other gains/(losses)
91
Note 6: Conditions on contributions
91
Note 7: Service groups of entity
91Note 8: Current assets – cash and cash equivalents
91Note 9: Current/non-current assets – receivables
92Note 10: Current/non-current assets – inventories
92Note 11: Restricted assets
92Note 12: Non-current assets – assets held for sale
92Note 13(a): Non-current assets – property, plant and equipment
97Note 13(b): Capital works in progress
97Note 14: Intangible assets
97
Note 15: Current liabilities – payables
97Note 16: Current/non-current liabilities – personnel services provisions
98
Note 17: Current/non-current liabilities – other provisions
98
Note 18: Commitments for expenditure
98
Note 19: Contingent assets and liabilities
98
Note 20: Budget review
99Note 21: Reconciliation of cash flows from operating activities to net result
99Note 22: Non-cash financing and investing activities
100Note 23: Financial instruments
104Note 24: Property leases
105
Note 25: Events after the reporting period
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76
77
statutory financial statements
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2013
STATEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 41C(1C) OF THE PUBLIC FINANCE AND AUDIT ACT 1983
Pursuant to Section 41C(1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and in accordance with a resolution of the Board
of Trustees of the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, we state that:
a)The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Public Finance
and Audit Act 1983 and Regulation 2010, applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which include Australian
Accounting Interpretations), the Treasurer’s Directions and TPP 13-01: Financial Reporting Code for NSW General
Government Sector Entities;
b) The financial statements and notes thereto exhibit a true and fair view of the financial position as at 30 June 2013,
and the results of their operations for the year ended on that date;
c) At the date of signing we are not aware of any circumstances which would render the financial statements misleading
or inaccurate.
Michael Rose
Chairman
Mark Goggin
Director
Dated 23 September 2013
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beginning OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTs
Statement of comprehensive income
Notes
Consolidated Entity
Parent Entity
Actual
Budget*
Actual
Actual
Actual
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
2013
2013
2012
2013
2012
Expenses excluding losses
Operating expenses
Personnel services expenses
2(a)
17,707
17,451
19,089
17,660
19,027
Other operating expenses
2(b)
11,194
7,787
11,825
11,117
11,691
Depreciation and amortisation expenses
2(c)
Total expenses excluding losses
653
546
622
653
622
29,554
25,784
31,536
29,430
31,340
4,520
5,572
5,457
4,520
5,457
Revenue
Sale of goods and services
3(a)
Investment revenue
3(b)
322
290
416
182
262
Grants and contributions
3(c)
25,174
20,762
25,920
25,314
25,812
Other revenue
3(d)
88
11
369
81
358
30,104
26,635
32,162
30,097
31,889
(526)
(243)
TOTAL REVENUE
Gain/(loss) on disposal
Other gains/(losses)
NET RESULT
4
5
(334)
(526)
–
(17)
(334)
(17)
(310)
851
–
(243)
130
–
(29)
130
(29)
–
–
(3)
–
3
366
(193)
289
Other comprehensive income
Items that will not be reclassified to net result
Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant
and equipment asset revaluation surplus
Other (prior year adjustment)
Total other comprehensive income
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
130
(180)
–
851
(32)
334
130
(63)
(26)
263
* Refer to Note 20.
The accompanying notes form part of these financial statements.
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Statement of financial position
Notes
Consolidated Entity
Actual
Budget
Actual
Actual
Actual
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
2013
Assets
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
ASSETS
Current assets
8
7,768
4,381
7,313
4,876
4,318
Receivables
9
495
688
388
487
367
Inventories
10
315
755
441
315
441
Non-current assets held for sale
12
Total current assets
1,250
4,700
1,737
1,250
1,737
9,828
10,524
9,880
6,928
6,863
280,991
283,280
282,012
280,991
282,012
719
700
571
719
571
38,021
36,490
37,689
37,113
36,781
Non-current assets
Property, plant and equipment
< Land and buildings
< Plant and equipment
< Collection assets
Total property, plant and equipment
13(a)
319,731
320,470
320,272
318,823
319,364
Capital works in progress
13(b)
445
2,277
163
445
163
14
396
70
291
396
291
9
791
–
–
791
–
321,363
322,817
320,725
320,455
319,817
Intangible assets
Receivables
Total non-current assets
Total Assets
331,191
333,341
330,606
327,383
326,681
2,079
LIABILITIES
Current liabilities
Payables
Provisions
15
2,145
2,447
2,090
2,133
16/17
1,606
2,564
1,682
1,604
1,679
3,751
5,011
3,772
3,737
3,758
Total current liabilities
Non-current liabilities
Provisions
Total non-current liabilities
Total Liabilities
Net assets
16/17
805
12
19
805
19
805
12
19
805
19
4,556
5,023
3,791
4,542
3,777
326,635
328,318
326,815
322,841
322,904
165,796
165,696
165,664
165,563
165,433
Equity
Reserves
Accumulated funds
Total Equity
80
160,839
162,622
161,151
157,278
157,471
326,635
328,318
326,815
322,841
322,904
Statement of changes in equity
Consolidated Entity
Accumulated
funds
Balance at 1 July 2012
Correction of errors
Restated total equity 1 July 2012
Net result for the year
Asset
revaluation
reserve
Total
$’000
$’000
161,151
165,664
326,815
(2)
2
–
161,149
165,666
326,815
$’000
(310)
–
(310)
Net increase/ (decrease) in property, plant and equipment
–
130
130
–
130
130
160,839
165,796
326,635
160,785
165,696
326,481
366
–
366
Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant and equipment
–
(29)
(29)
–
(3)
(3)
–
(32)
(32)
Total comprehensive income for the year
Balance at 30 June 2013
(310)
336
161,151
130
(32)
165,664
(180)
334
326,815
Parent Entity
Asset
revaluation
reserve
Total
equity
$’000
$’000
157,471
165,433
322,904
–
–
–
157,471
165,433
322,904
Accumulated
funds
Correction of errors
Restated total equity 1 July 2012
$’000
(193)
–
(193)
–
130
130
–
130
130
157,278
165,563
322,841
157,182
165,459
322,641
289
–
289
–
(29)
(29)
–
3
3
–
(26)
157,471
165,433
(193)
289
130
(26)
(63)
(26)
263
322,904
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Statement of cash flows
Notes
Consolidated Entity
Actual
Budget
Actual
Actual
Actual
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
(17,788)
(17,453)
(19,234)
(17,740)
(19,174)
(8,617)
(9,727)
(9,885)
(8,541)
(9,749)
(26,405)
27,180
(29,119)
(26,281)
(28,923)
4,337
6,095
5,638
4,325
5,638
297
334
445
157
293
22,867
20,397
22,873
23,006
22,769
88
1,908
567
81
557
27,589
28,734
29,523
27,568
29,257
1,184
1,554
404
1,287
334
1,148
–
–
1,148
–
(1,877)
(1,000)
(1,711)
(1,877)
(1,711)
–
(44)
–
–
–
(729)
(1,044)
(1,711)
(729)
(1,711)
–
–
–
–
–
(1,377)
2013
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
Payments
Personnel services
Other
Total payments
Receipts
Interest received
Other
Total receipts
NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING
ACTIVITIES
21
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from sale of land and building, plant
and equipment, and collection assets
Purchases of land and buildings, plant and
equipment, and collection assets
Other
NET CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING
ACTIVITIES
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
NET CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
NET INCREASE/(DECREASE) IN CASH
Opening cash and cash equivalents
CLOSING CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
82
8
455
510
(1,307)
558
7,313
3,871
8,620
4,318
5,695
7,768
4,381
7,313
4,876
4,318
Notes to and forming part of the financial statements
1Summary of Significant Accounting
Policies
a) Reporting entity
The Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT)
is a New South Wales Government entity. The Trust is a
non-profit entity (as profit is not its principal objective). The
HHT is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient under items
1 and 4 of the table in Section 30-15, and Subdivision 30-D
of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. The HHT is
registered as a public museum under the Act and is
registered for GST. The financial statements cover the
Consolidated Entity and the HHT as an individual
Parent Entity.
The Trust as a reporting entity comprises all the entities
under its control, namely:
i)
Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of
New South Wales
The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New
South Wales was established for the promotion,
advancement and development of the museums under
the care, custody and control of the HHT.
In the process of preparing the consolidated financial
statements for the economic entity, consisting of the
controlling and controlled entities, all inter-entity
transactions and balances have been eliminated.
The consolidated financial statements for the year
ended 30 June 2013 were authorised for issue by the
Board of Trustees on 23 September 2013. They are
consolidated as part of the NSW Total State Sector
Accounts.
ii) Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of
New South Wales Limited
The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of
New South Wales Limited was established for the sole
purpose of acting as Trustee to the Foundation for the
and has never traded in its own right. There were no
financial transactions for the year.
iii) Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust
The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust was established on
27 October 1994 and holds collection items in and
about Rouse Hill House. These were revalued during the
year ended 30 June 2010.
iv)Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Limited
The sole purpose of the Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection
Pty Limited is to act as the Trustee of the Hamilton
Rouse Hill Trust and it has never traded
in its own right.
The company has issued two $1 fully paid shares.
The HHT holds one share and the Director of the HHT
holds the other share. There were no financial
transactions in this financial year.
b)Basis of preparation
The Trust’s financial statements are general-purpose
financial statements, which were prepared in
accordance with:
>Australian Accounting Standards (which include
Australian Accounting Interpretations);
>the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit Act
1983 and the Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2010;
and
>the Financial Reporting Directions published
in TPP 13-01: Financial Reporting Code for NSW
General Government Sector Entities, or issued
by the Treasurer.
Property, plant and equipment, collection assets and
financial assets are measured at fair value. Non-current
assets held for resale are measured at the lower of carrying
amount and fair value less costs to sell. Other financial
statement items are prepared in accordance with the
historical cost convention.
Judgments, key assumptions and estimations made by
management are disclosed in the relevant notes to the
financial statements.
All amounts are rounded to the nearest one thousand
dollars and are expressed in Australian currency.
c) Principles of consolidation
A controlled entity is any entity over which the Trust
has the power to control the financial and operating
policies, so as to obtain benefits from its activities.
All controlled entities have a June financial year end.
All intercompany balances and transactions between
entities in the Consolidated Entity, including any unrealised
profits or losses, have been eliminated
on consolidation.
Accounting policies of controlled entities have been
changed where necessary to ensure consistency with those
policies applied by the Parent Entity.
d) Statement of compliance
The Consolidated and Parent entities’ financial statements
and notes comply with Australian Accounting Standards,
which include Australian Accounting Interpretations.
e)Insurance
The Trust’s insurance activities are conducted through the
NSW Treasury Managed Fund Scheme of self-insurance for
government agencies. The expense (premium) is
determined by the fund manager based
on past claim experience as well as the value insured.
f)Accounting for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Income, expenses and assets are recognised net of
the amount of GST, except where:
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historic houses trust of new south wales FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2013
>the amount of GST incurred by the Trust as a
purchaser that is not recoverable from the Australian
Taxation Office is recognised as part of the cost
of acquisition of an asset or as part of an item of
expense; and
>receivables and payables are stated with the
amount of GST included.
Cash flows are included in the statement of cash
flows on a gross basis. However, the GST component
of the cash flows arising from investing and financing
activities which is recoverable or payable to the
Australian Taxation Office is classified as operating
cash flows.
g)Income recognition
Income is measured at the fair value of the
consideration or contribution received or receivable.
Additional comments regarding the accounting
policies for the recognition of income are discussed
below:
i) Sale of goods
Revenue from the sale of goods is recognised as
revenue when the Trust transfers the significant
risks and rewards of ownership of the assets.
ii) Rendering of services
Revenue is recognised when the service is
provided or by reference to the stage of
completion.
iii) Investment revenue
Interest income is recognised using the effective
interest method as set out in AASB 139: Financial
Instruments: Recognition and Measurement.
TCorp Hour-Glass distributions are recognised in
accordance with AASB 118: Revenue when the
Trust’s right to receive payment is established.
iv) Grants and contributions
Grants and contributions include donations
and grants from the Office of Environment and
Heritage, under the Department of Premier
and Cabinet (DPC) cluster. They are generally
recognised as income when the Trust obtains
control over the assets comprising the grants
and contributions. Control over grants and
contributions is normally obtained when the
obligations relating to the receipt have been met
and, in the case of donations, on receipt of cash.
The grants and contributions income is treated in
accordance with AASB 1004: Contributions.
h)Assets
i) Non-current assets held for sale
The entity has certain non-current assets classified
as held for sale, where their carrying amount will
be recovered principally through a sale transaction,
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not through continuing use. Non-current assets
held for sale are recognised at the lower of carrying
amount and fair value less costs to sell. These
assets are not depreciated while they are classified
as held for sale.
ii)Acquisition of assets
The cost method of accounting is used for the initial
recording of all acquisitions of assets controlled by
the Trust. Cost is the amount of cash or cash
equivalents paid or the fair value of the other
consideration given to acquire the asset at the time
of its acquisition or construction or, where
applicable, the amount attributed to that asset
when initially recognised in accordance with the
specific requirements of other Australian
Accounting Standards.
Gifts, artworks or works acquired at no cost, or for
nominal consideration, are initially recognised at
their fair value at the date of acquisition.
Fair value is the amount for which an asset could be
exchanged between knowledgeable, willing parties
in an arms-length transaction. Where payment for
an asset is deferred beyond normal credit terms, its
cost is the cash price equivalent, that is, the
deferred payment amount is effectively discounted.
iii) Capitalisation thresholds
Property, plant and equipment, and intangible
assets costing $5000 and above individually
(or forming part of a network valued more than
$5000) are capitalised.
iv) Revaluation of property, plant and equipment
Physical non-current assets are valued in
accordance with the policy and guidelines paper
TPP 07-1: Valuation of Physical Non-Current Assets
at Fair Value. This policy adopts fair value in
accordance with AASB 116: Property, Plant and
Equipment. Property, plant and equipment is
measured on an existing-use basis, where there are
no feasible alternative uses in the existing natural,
legal, financial and sociopolitical environment.
However, in the limited circumstances where there
are feasible alternative uses, assets are valued at
their highest and best use.
Fair value of property, plant and equipment is
determined based on the best available market
evidence, including current market selling prices for
the same or similar assets. Where there is no
available market evidence, the asset’s fair value is
measured at its market-buying price, the best
indicator of which is depreciated replacement cost.
The Trust revalues each class of property, plant and
equipment at least every five years or with sufficient
regularity to ensure that the carrying amount of
each asset in the class does not differ materially
from its fair value at reporting date. Details of the last
revaluations are shown at Note 13.
Non-specialised assets with short useful lives are
measured at depreciated historical cost, as a
surrogate for fair value. When revaluing non-current
assets by reference to current prices for assets newer
than those being revalued (adjusted to reflect the
present condition of the assets), the gross amount
and the related accumulated depreciation are
separately restated.
Land is not a depreciable asset. Certain heritage
assets, including original artworks and collections
and heritage buildings, may not have a limited
useful life because appropriate curatorial and
preservation policies are adopted. Such assets
are not subject to depreciation. The decision not
to recognise depreciation for these assets is
reviewed annually.
The estimated useful lives of items under nine
major categories are:
For other assets, any balances of accumulated
depreciation at the revaluation date in respect of
those assets are credited to the asset accounts to
which they relate. The net asset accounts are then
increased or decreased by the revaluation
increments or decrements.
Major categoryEstimated
useful life
Revaluation increments are credited directly to the
asset revaluation surplus, except that, to the extent
that an increment reverses a revaluation decrement
in respect of that class of asset previously
recognised as an expense in the net result, the
increment is recognised immediately as revenue in
the net result.
Revaluation decrements are recognised immediately
as expenses in the net result, except that, to the
extent that a credit balance exists in the asset
revaluation reserve in respect of the same class of
assets, they are debited directly to the asset
revaluation surplus. As the Trust is a non-profit entity,
revaluation increments and decrements are offset
against one another within a class of non-current
assets, but not otherwise. Where an asset that has
previously been revalued is disposed of, any balance
remaining in the asset revaluation surplus in respect
of that asset is transferred to accumulated funds.
v) Impairment of property, plant and equipment
As a non-profit entity with no cash-generating units,
the Trust is effectively exempted from AASB 136:
Impairment of Assets, and impairment testing. This
is because AASB 136 modifies the recoverable
amount test to the higher of fair value less costs to
sell and depreciated replacement cost. This means
that, for an asset already measured at fair value,
impairment can only arise if selling costs are
material. Selling costs are regarded as immaterial.
vi) Assets not able to be reliably measured
The Trust does not hold any assets other than those
recognised in the statement of financial position.
vii) Depreciation of property, plant and equipment
Except for heritage assets, depreciation is provided
for on a straight-line basis for all depreciable assets
so as to write off the depreciable amount of each
asset as it is consumed over its useful life to the
Trust. All material separately identifiable component
assets are depreciated over their shorter useful lives.
Non-heritage buildings
40–50 years
Computer equipment
and major software
4 years
Mechanical and electronic
office equipment
7 years
Electronic equipment 7 years
Radiocommunications equipment
7 years
Telephone installations
5 years
Office fittings
Miscellaneous tools and equipment
Mobile plant
10 years
7 years
10 years
The estimated useful lives are reviewed annually to
ensure they reflect the assets’ current useful lives
and residual values.
viii)Maintenance
Day-to-day servicing costs or maintenance are
charged as expenses as incurred, except where
they relate to the replacement of a part or
component of an asset, in which case the costs
are capitalised and depreciated.
ix) Leased assets
A distinction is made between finance leases that
effectively transfer from the lessor to the lessee
substantially all the risks and benefits incidental to
ownership of the leased assets, and operating
leases under which the lessor does not transfer
substantially all the risks and benefits. Where a
non-current asset is acquired by means of a finance
lease, at the commencement of the lease term, the
asset is recognised at its fair value or, if lower, the
present value of the minimum lease payments, at
the inception of the lease. The corresponding
liability is established at the same amount. Lease
payments are allocated between the principal
component and the interest expense.
Operating lease payments are charged to the income
statement in the periods in which they are incurred.
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ong-term leases are deemed to be finance leases in
L
accordance with TPP 11-01: Lessor Classification of
Long-term Land Leases.
allowance for any impairment of receivables.
Collectability of trade debtors is reviewed on an
ongoing basis. Debts that are known to be
uncollectable are written off. Any changes are
recognised in the net result when impaired,
derecognised or through the amortisation process.
Short-term receivables with no stated interest rate
are measured at the original invoice amount where
the effect of discounting is immaterial. The credit
risk is the carrying amount (net of any allowance for
impairment). No interest is earned on trade debtors.
The carrying amount approximates fair value.
x) Intangible assets
The Trust recognises intangible assets only if it is
probable that future economic benefits will flow to
the Trust and the cost of the asset can be reliably
measured. Intangible assets are measured initially
at cost. Where an asset is acquired at no or
nominal cost, the cost is its fair value as at the date
of acquisition.
All research costs are expensed. Development
costs are only capitalised when certain criteria
are met.
The useful lives of intangible assets are assessed
to be finite. Intangible assets are subsequently
measured at fair value only if there is an active
market. As there is no active market for the Trust’s
intangible assets, the assets are carried at cost
less any accumulated amortisation.
The Trust’s intangible assets (software) are
amortised using the straight-line method over a
period of four years. Intangible assets are tested
for impairment where an indicator of impairment
exists. If the recoverable amount is less than its
carrying amount, the carrying amount is reduced
to recoverable amount and the reduction is
recognised as an impairment loss.
xi)Inventories
Inventories are held for sale and are stated at the
lower of cost and net realisable value. Net
realisable value is the estimated selling price in
the ordinary course of business less the estimated
costs of completion and the estimated costs
necessary to make the sale.
xii) Financial instruments
The financial instruments arise directly from the
Trust’s operations and are required to finance its
operations. The Trust does not enter into or trade
financial instruments for speculative purposes and
does not use financial derivatives.
xiii)Cash and cash equivalents
Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances.
Interest is earned on daily bank balances and paid
monthly at the normal commercial rate.
xiv)Loans and receivables
Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial
assets with fixed or determinable payments that
are not quoted in an active market. These financial
assets are recognised initially at fair value, usually
based on the transaction cost or face value.
Subsequent measurement is at amortised cost
using the effective interest method, less an
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xv) Investments
Investments are initially recognised at fair value plus,
in the case of investments not at fair value through
profit or loss, transaction costs. The Trust
determines the classification of its financial assets
after initial recognition and, when allowed and
appropriate, re-evaluates this at each financial
year end.
i)Liabilities
i)Payables
These amounts represent liabilities for goods and
services provided to the Trust and other amounts.
Payables are recognised initially at fair value, usually
based on the transaction cost or face value.
Short-term payables with no stated interest rate are
measured at the original invoice amount where the
effect of discounting is immaterial.
ii)Personnel services and other provisions
A.Salaries and wages, annual leave,
sick leave and on-costs
Liabilities for personnel services are stated as
liabilities to the service provider, the DPC.
The liabilities for salaries and wages (including
non-monetary benefits), annual leave and paid
sick leave that fall due wholly within 12 months
of the reporting date are recognised and
measured in respect of employees’ service up
to the reporting date at undiscounted amounts
based on the amounts expected to be paid
when the liabilities are settled. Long-term
annual leave that is not expected to be taken
within 12 months is measured at present value in
accordance with AASB 119: Employee Benefits.
Unused non-vesting sick leave does not give rise
to a liability, as it is not considered probable
that sick leave taken in the future will be greater
than the benefits accrued in the future.
The outstanding amounts of payroll
tax, workers compensation, insurance
premiums and fringe benefits tax, which
are consequential to employment, are
recognised as liabilities and expenses where
Contributions, and Australian Interpretation 1038:
Contributions by Owners Made to Wholly-Owned Public
Sector Entities.
the employee benefits to which they relate
have been recognised.
B. Long service leave and superannuation
In the financial statements of the DPC, the
liabilities for long service leave and defined
benefit superannuation are assumed by the
Crown entity. Consequently, the Trust accounts
for the liability as having been extinguished,
resulting in the amount assumed being shown
as part of the non-monetary revenue item
described as ‘personnel service benefits and
liabilities provided free of charge by the DPC’.
Long service leave is measured at present value
in accordance with AASB 119. This is based on
the application of certain factors (specified in
NSWTC 12/06) to employees with five or more
years of service, using current rates of pay.
These factors were determined based on an actuarial review to approximate present value.
The superannuation expense for the financial
year is determined by using the formulas
specified in the Treasurer’s Directions. The
expense for certain superannuation schemes
(that is, Basic Benefit and First State Super) is
calculated as a percentage of the employees’
salary. For other superannuation schemes
(that is, State Superannuation Scheme and
State Authorities Superannuation Scheme),
the expense is calculated as a multiple of the
employees’ superannuation contributions.
j)Equity and reserves
i)
Revaluation surplus
The revaluation surplus is used to record
increments and decrements on the revaluation of
non-current assets. This accords with the Trust’s
policy on the ‘revaluation of property, plant and
equipment’ as discussed in Note 1(h)(iv).
ii) Accumulated funds
The category ‘accumulated funds’ includes all
current and prior period retained funds.
iii)Separate reserve accounts are recognised in
the financial statements only if such accounts
are required by specific legislation or Australian
Accounting Standards.
k)Equity transfer
The transfer of net assets between entities as a result
of an administrative restructure, transfers of programs/
functions and parts thereof between New South Wales
public sector entities and ‘equity appropriations’ are
designated or required by Australian Accounting
Standards to be treated as contributions by owners and
recognised as an adjustment to ‘Accumulated Funds’.
This treatment is consistent with AASB 1004:
Transfers arising from an administrative restructure
involving non-profit and for-profit government entities
are recognised at the amount at which the assets and
liabilities were recognised by the transferor immediately
prior to the restructure. Subject to below, in most
instances this will approximate fair value.
All other equity transfers are recognised at fair value,
except for intangibles. Where an intangible has been
recognised at (amortised) cost by the transferor
because there is no active market, the entity recognises
the asset at the transferor’s carrying amount. Where the
transferor is prohibited from recognising internally
generated intangibles, the entity does not recognise
that asset.
l)Budgeted amounts
The budgeted amounts are drawn from the original
budgeted financial statements presented to New South
Wales Parliament in respect of the reporting period, as
adjusted for Section 24 of the Public Finance and Audit
Act 1983 where there has been a transfer of functions
between departments. Other amendments made to
the budget are not reflected in the budgeted amounts.
This disclosure is in line with TPP 13-01: Financial
Reporting Code for NSW General Government Sector
Entities. The budget variance is explained in Note 20.
m)Comparative information
Except when an Australian Accounting Standard
permits or requires otherwise, comparative information
is disclosed in respect of the previous period for all
amounts reported in the financial statements.
n)New Australian Accounting Standards
issued but not effective
At reporting date a number of accounting standards
adopted by the Australian Accounting Standards Board
(AASB) had been issued but are not yet operative.
At present, NSW Treasury is mandating not to early
adopt any of the new standards/interpretations. As
such, these new standards/interpretations have not
been early adopted by the Trust. It is considered that
the implementation of these standards will not have any
impact on the Trust’s financial statements.
NSW Treasury has mandated not to early adopt the
following new or revised accounting standards/
interpretations as per TC 13/02: Mandates of Options
and Major Policy Decisions Under Australian
Accounting Standards:
ASB 9, AASB 2010-7 and AASB 2012-6 regarding
> A
financial instruments
> AASB 10 Consolidated Financial Statements
> AASB 11 Joint Arrangements
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> AASB 12 Disclosure of Interests in Other Entities
> AASB 13, AASB 2011-8 and AASB 2012-1 regarding fair
value measurement
> AASB 119, AASB 2011-10 and AASB 2011-11 regarding
employee benefits
> AASB 127 Separate Financial Statements
> AASB 128 Investments in Associates and Joint Ventures
> AASB 1053 and AASB 2010-2 regarding differential
reporting
>A
ASB 2010-10 regarding removal of fixed dates for
first-time adopters
>A
ASB 2011-2 regarding Trans-Tasman Convergence
– Reduced Disclosure Requirements (RDR)
ASB 2011-4 removing individual KMP disclosure
>A
requirements
> A
ASB 2011-6 regarding RDR and relief from
consolidation
>A
ASB 2011-7 regarding consolidation and joint
arrangements
> AASB 2011-12 regarding Interpretation 20
o)Trustee benefits
No Trustee of the HHT has entered into a material
contract with the HHT or the Consolidated Entity since
the end of the previous financial period and there are
no material contracts involving Trustees’ interests
existing at the end of the period.
p)Taxation status
The activities of the Trust are exempt of income tax.
The Trust is registered for GST purposes and has gift
deductible recipient status.
q)Services provided at no cost
Where material contributions are made to the Trust
at no charge, an expense is recorded in the accounts
to reflect activities at the Trust and is offset by an
equivalent revenue entry.
r)Biobanking Trust Fund – receivable
The Biobanking Agreement requires that the proceeds
from the sale of biobank credits are transferred into the
Biobanking Trust Fund administered by the Office of
Environment and Heritage. The balance of the
Biobanking Trust Fund receivable represents amounts
that will be made available to the HHT in order to fund
the environmental works required under the Biobanking
Agreement.
s)Biobanking restoration provision
The biobanking restoration provision is the
environmental obligation to maintain the biodiversity
of the land in accordance with the terms and conditions
of the Biobanking Agreement. It will be funded by the
amounts receivable from the Biobanking Trust Fund.
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Notes
Consolidated
Entity
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
13,632
14,672
13,592
14,620
2 Expenses Excluding Losses
(a) Personnel services expenses
Salaries and wages (including recreation leave)
Superannuation – defined benefit plans
93
50
93
50
1,120
1,243
1,116
1,238
4
1,168
4
1,168
239
315
239
314
5
3
5
3
851
1,051
848
1,047
1,763
587
1,763
587
17,707
19,089
17,660
19,027
584
526
584
526
Auditors’ remuneration – internal
38
24
38
24
Auditors’ remuneration – external
98
84
88
74
3
–
3
–
43
40
43
40
Contract cleaning
754
741
754
741
Contract staff
642
1,051
642
1,052
Cost of sales
297
476
297
476
53
76
23
36
Exhibition fees and related costs
365
469
365
469
Fees for services rendered
701
627
668
551
Gas and electricity
700
593
700
593
Insurance
255
232
255
232
1,965
1,877
1,965
1,877
Office printing contracts
143
30
143
30
Marketing and promotion
337
468
337
464
Motor vehicle running costs
140
162
140
162
Operating lease rental expenses
192
225
192
225
Other expenses
Superannuation – defined contribution plans
Long service leave
Workers compensation insurance
Payroll tax on superannuation – defined benefit plan
Payroll tax and fringe benefits tax
Redundancy termination payments
(b) Other operating expenses
Advertising and publicity
Bad debts
Books, publications and subscriptions
Entertainment and catering expenses
Maintenance
325
484
324
480
Postage
33
60
32
60
Printing
112
39
111
39
Public programs
259
276
259
276
67
84
67
84
Stores and IT maintenance
421
536
420
536
Telecommunications
320
297
320
297
40
60
40
59
2,307
2,288
2,307
2,288
11,194
11,825
11,117
11,691
Rates
Travel and accommodation
Services provided free of charge
22
89
(c) Depreciation and amortisation expenses
Buildings
368
364
368
364
Plant and equipment
206
202
206
202
79
56
79
56
653
622
653
622
Intangibles
Notes
Consolidated Entity
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
3 Revenue
(a) Sale of goods and services
Sale of goods
Merchandise, book and publication sales
Rendering of services
Admission fees
Special activities and openings
Venue hire and catering
Rental – commercial activities
Filming and photography
632
919
632
919
632
919
632
919
1,393
1,588
1,393
1,588
356
513
356
513
1,200
1,368
1,200
1,368
867
994
867
994
72
75
72
75
3,888
4,538
3,888
4,538
67
98
58
49
233
270
103
174
22
48
21
39
322
416
182
262
18,642
19,334
18,642
19,334
1,000
562
1,000
562
93
50
93
50
4
1,168
4
1,168
4,520
(b) Investment revenue
T-Corp Hour-Glass investment facilities
Interest income – term deposit
Interest income – other
(c) Grants and contributions
5,457
4,520
5,457
From DPC
Recurrent grants
Capital grants
Personnel service benefits and liabilities
provided free of charge by the DPC
> Superannuation (defined benefit)
> Long service leave
> Payroll tax
Voluntary redundancy recoupment
From other institutions and individuals
Donations – cash
5
3
5
3
1,738
1,462
1,738
1,462
21,482
22,579
21,482
22,579
263
288
443
185
Sponsorship – cash
107
83
67
78
Grants – other
952
655
952
655
159
162
159
162
Sponsorship – in kind
Donations – in kind
Other services provided free of charge
22
13(a) & 22
63
27
63
27
22
2,148
2,126
2,148
2,126
3,692
(d) Other revenue
Other revenue
90
25,174
3,341
25,920
3,832
25,314
3,233
25,812
88
369
81
358
88
369
81
358
Notes Consolidated Entity
4
2012
2013
2012
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
(18)
(17)
(18)
(17)
(316)
–
(316)
–
(334)
(17)
(334)
(17)
(17)
(243)
(17)
(243)
Other Gains/(Losses)
Inventory
6
2013
Gain/(Loss) on Disposal
Property, plant and equipment
5
Parent Entity
(509)
–
(509)
–
(526)
(243)
(526)
(243)
Conditions on Contributions
The Trust receives monies and gifts of property subject to restrictions. The aggregate of these contributions received
for
the year has been stated as revenue. This revenue is provided for expenditure in the current year and future years.
Where the gift is a property, it is recognised as a restricted asset as reflected in Note 11.
7
Service Groups of Entity
The HHT cares for the state’s historically and culturally significant heritage properties, and operates as a single
service group.
8
Current Assets – Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash at bank and on hand
889
2,333
824
2,117
TCorp Hour-Glass cash facility
2,208
113
1,906
68
Other investments – term deposits
4,671
4,867
2,146
2,134
7,768
7,313
4,876
4,318
Cash and cash equivalents (per statement of financial position)
7,768
7,313
4,876
4,318
Closing cash and cash equivalents (per statement of cash flows)
7,768
7,313
4,876
4,318
For the purpose of the statement of cash flows, cash and cash equivalents include cash at bank, cash on hand and
short-term deposits. Cash and cash equivalent assets recognised in the statement of financial position are reconciled
at the end of the financial year to the statement of cash flows as above.
Details regarding credit risk, liquidity risk and market risk, including financial assets that are either past due or impaired,
are disclosed in Note 23.
9
Current/Non-Current Assets – Receivables
Current
Less allowance for impairment
Accrued income
Prepayments
Other receivables
Biobanking funds receivable
Non-current
Biobanking funds receivable
160
158
160
158
–
–
–
–
69
43
44
19
38
–
38
–
168
187
185
190
60
–
60
–
495
388
487
367
791
–
791
–
791
–
791
–
91
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
10 Current/Non-Current Assets – Inventories
315
441
315
441
315
441
315
441
6,595
5,895
3,703
2,899
Non-current assets
5,704
7,265
5,704
7,265
12,299
13,160
9,407
10,164
Held for resale
11 Restricted Assets
Cash and fixed assets are restricted assets to the extent that they represent bequests and donations held by the HHT to
be used in accordance with the deed of trust, caveats or other documents governing these funds.
12 Non-current Assets – Assets Held for sale
Land and buildings
1,250
1,737
1,250
1,737
1,250
1,737
1,250
1,737
The Endangered Houses Fund (EHF) program identifies significant at-risk properties across New South Wales and saves
them from demolition or unsympathetic development. Properties are acquired, conserved, protected and then offered
back to the marketplace for the use and enjoyment of future generations.
Non-current assets held for resale that meet the criteria of AASB 5: Non-current Assets Held for Sale and Discontinued
Operations have been separately disclosed in the statement of financial position. AASB 5 requires long-term assets
that are available for sale in their existing condition and being actively and marketed with reasonable expectations
of sale to be classified as ‘non-current assets held for sale’ and disclosed in the statement of financial position under
‘current assets’.
13(a) Non-Current Assets – Property, Plant and Equipment
Land and buildings
Gross carrying amount – fair value
Accumulated depreciation and impairment
Land and buildings at fair value
285,245
285,898
285,245
285,898
(4,254)
(3,886)
(4,254)
(3,886)
280,991
282,012
280,991
282,012
Plant and equipment
Plant and equipment at fair value
2,504
2,691
2,504
2,691
(1,785)
(2,120)
(1,785)
(2,120)
719
571
719
571
38,021
37,689
37,113
36,781
–
–
–
–
Collection assets
Collection assets at fair value
Total property, plant and equipment at fair value
Collection assets are not depreciated. Refer to Note 1(h)(vii).
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38,021
319,731
37,689
320,272
37,113
318,823
36,781
319,364
Reconciliation
A reconciliation of the carrying amount of each class of property and equipment at the beginning and end of each
reporting period is shown below:
Land and
Plant and
buildings equipment
Consolidated Entity
Year ended 30 June 2013
Net carrying amount at start of year
Additions
Contributed assets (donations)
Assets held for sale
Disposals
Collection
assets
Total
$’000
$’000
$’000
282,012
571
37,689
320,272
780
373
78
1,231
$’000
–
–
1
1
(1,433)
–
–
(1,433)
–
(20)
(3)
(23)
Transfer of capital WIP
–
–
126
126
Depreciation expense
(368)
(205)
–
(573)
Net revaluation increments less revaluation decrements
–
–
130
130
Net carrying amount at end of year
280,991
719
38,021
319,731
280,587
592
37,557
318,736
Additions
1,080
191
146
1,417
–
–
24
24
–
–
–
–
Disposals
–
(9)
(9)
(18)
708
–
–
708
(363)
(203)
–
(566)
–
–
(29)
(29)
282,012
571
37,689
320,272
Land and
Plant and
buildings equipment
Collection
assets
Total
$'000
$'000
$'000
282,012
571
36,781
319,364
780
373
78
1,231
Parent Entity
$'000
Additions
–
–
1
1
(1,433)
–
–
(1,433)
(23)
Disposals
–
(20)
(3)
–
–
126
126
(368)
(205)
–
(573)
–
–
130
130
280,991
719
37,113
318,823
280,587
592
36,649
317,828
Additions
1,080
191
146
1,417
Contributed assets
–
–
24
24
–
–
–
–
Disposals
–
(9)
(9)
(18)
708
–
–
708
(363)
(203)
–
(566)
–
–
(29)
(29)
282,012
571
36,781
319,364
93
94
Valuation
method adopted
30 June 2013
Current use
30 June 2013
Accredited
valuer
Market-based
evidence
Endangered
Houses Fund
(EHF)
Opteon
Jun 2011
Replacement cost
EHF
Former Land
& Property
Management
Authority (LPMA)
767 Appin Rd, Gilead
Jun 2011
Replacement cost
EHF
LPMA
Tusculum
1–3 Manning St,
Potts Point
Jun 2011
Net recoverable
amount
Leased
LPMA
5
Hyde Park Barracks
Macquarie St,
Sydney
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
6
Government House
Macquarie St,
Sydney
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
7
Elizabeth Farm
70 Alice St,
Rosehill
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
8
Vaucluse House
Wentworth Rd,
Vaucluse
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
9
Wentworth Mausoleum
Chapel Rd,
Vaucluse
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
10 Rouse Hill House & Farm 980 Windsor Rd,
Rouse Hill
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
11 Rose Seidler House
71 Clissold Rd,
Wahroonga
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
12 Elizabeth Bay House
7 Onslow Ave,
Elizabeth Bay
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
13 Meroogal
35 West St,
Nowra
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
Date
valued
Property name
Property location
1
Glenfield House, Casula
Leacocks Lane,
Casula
Jun 2013
2
Throsby Park
Throsby Park Rd,
Moss Vale
3
Beulah
4
Property name
Property location
Date
valued
Valuation
method adopted
30 June 2013
Current use
30 June 2013
Accredited
valuer
14 The Mint museum
Queens Square,
Macquarie St, Sydney
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
15 The Mint, Head Office
The Mint,
10 Macquarie St,
Sydney
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum/
office space
LPMA
16 Museum of Sydney
37 Phillip St,
Sydney
Jun 2010
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
17 Young Street terraces
36–42 Young St,
Sydney
Jun 2010
Market-based
evidence
Commercial
office space
LPMA
18 Nissen hut
4 Somerset St, Belmont, Jun 2010
Lake Macquarie
Market-based
evidence
EHF
LPMA
Replacement cost
Museum
LPMA
19 Justice & Police Museum 8 Phillip St,
Circular Quay
Jun 2010
The majority of the properties were valued on depreciated replacement costs, as the properties are specialised properties
purpose-built with the majority used as museums. The properties that are to be sold are valued on market-based evidence.
Endangered Houses Fund properties
Land and buildings include properties and attached assets (2013: $5.704m; 2012: $7.265m) that have been acquired under the
EHF program. Through the EHF program the HHT identifies significant at-risk properties and saves them from demolition or
unsympathetic development. The program provides for the selective restoration of these properties and their subsequent
sale with heritage protection conditions. In 2012–13, two EHF properties were sold: Exeter Farm and Moruya manse.
COLLECTIONS VALUATION
i)The major collection items at each property have been valued by accredited valuers at their fair value. The remaining
collection items were valued internally by expert curatorial staff of the Valuations Committee, which was established by
the Finance and Audit Committee (now Audit and Risk Committee).
ii)The list overleaf identifies individual property collections valued at 30 June 2013 and earlier, valued by accredited valuers
and expert in-house valuers.
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Collections revalued at 30 June 2013
Collection
Date valued
Accredited valuer
Government House
30 Jun 2013
Andrew Shapiro
Meroogal
30 Jun 2013
Phillip Morris
These values do not differ materially from their fair values at reporting date.
Collections to be revalued in later years (past 30 June 2013)
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Collection
Date valued
Accredited valuer
Vaucluse House
30 Jun 2012
Adrienne Carlson
Elizabeth Bay House
30 Jun 2012
Adrienne Carlson
Elizabeth Farm
30 Jun 2012
Adrienne Carlson
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection
30 Jun 2011
Various external valuers
9 Jun 2011
Simon Storey Valuers
First Government House
9 Jun 2011
The Mint
9 Jun 2011
Rose Seidler House
30 Jun 2010
Various in-house valuers
Museum of Sydney
30 Jun 2010
30 Jun 2010
30 Jun 2010
30 Jun 2010
Archaeology collections
30 Jun 2010
Notes
13(b) Capital works in progress
Buildings
Software
14
Consolidated Entity
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
404
138
404
138
41
25
41
25
445
163
445
163
Cost (gross carrying amount)
1,152
968
1,152
968
Accumulated amortisation and impairment
(756)
(677)
(756)
(677)
396
291
396
291
Intangible Assets
Software
At 30 June 2013
Net carrying amount
16
15
291
121
291
121
Additions
184
226
184
226
Amortisation
(79)
(56)
(79)
(56)
396
291
396
291
Current Liabilities – Payables
Payables
Creditors
759
969
758
969
Unearned revenue
224
126
224
126
Accrued expenses
1,065
733
1,054
722
97
262
97
262
2,145
2,090
2,133
2,079
1,186
1,263
1,184
1,261
249
334
249
334
1,435
1,597
1,433
1,595
Recreation leave
62
67
62
66
Long service leave on-costs
13
18
13
18
75
85
75
84
Sundry payables
16
Current/Non-Current Liabilities – PERSONNEL
SERVICES Provisions
Current provisions expected to be settled
within 12 months
Personnel services provisions
Recreation leave
after 12 months
NON-CURRENT
Aggregate personnel services provisions
Provisions – current
Provisions – non-current
1,510
1,682
1,508
1,679
14
19
14
19
14
19
14
19
1,510
1,682
1,508
1,679
14
19
14
19
1,524
1,701
1,522
1,698
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Notes
17
Current/Non-Current Liabilities – other
Provisions
within 12 months
Biobanking restoration provisions
NON-CURRENT
Biobanking restoration provisions
Consolidated Entity
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
96
–
96
–
96
–
96
–
791
–
791
–
791
–
791
–
777
161
777
The biodiversity restoration provisions are for the Beulah property.
18 Commitments for Expenditure
(a) Capital commitments
Aggregate of capital expenditure for the acquistion of
various property, plant and equipment contracted
for at balance date and not provided for:
> Not later than one year (under one year)
161
> Later than one year but not later than five years
–
–
–
–
> Later than five years
–
–
–
–
777
161
777
161
Total (including GST)
(b) Operating lease commitments
Future non-cancellable operating lease rentals
not provided for and payable:
> Not later than one year (under one year)
> Later than one year but not later than five years
> Later than five years
Total (including GST)
407
306
407
306
1,458
992
1,458
992
–
144
–
144
1,865
1,442
1,865
1,442
The operating leases are for motor vehicles, office printers and rental lease for our storage facility at Pymble.
19 Contingent ASSETS AND Liabilities
The Treasury Managed Fund normally calculates hindsight premiums each year. There are no other contingent assets or
liabilities.
20 Budget Review
Net result
The actual net result was lower than budget by $1.2m. This is due to three factors. First, the timing of the grant of $0.3m
received from the DPC for expenses associated with the Government House refurbishment project. The Trust has
incurred the expenditure in the 2012–13 financial year without recognising the grant revenue, as it was not received as
at 30 June 2013. Second, the Trust has incurred a conservation deficit of $0.3m on the sale of two EHF properties and a
$0.5m valuation decrement on another EHF property. The Trust restores the Endangered Houses and offers back the
property to the market for the use and benefit of future generations. Third, there has been a change to the accounting
treatment of the Beulah property biobanking program. This program commenced in 2011–12 and the $0.1m receipts
were initially treated as revenue. The final transfer of biodiversity credits to the Biobanking Trust Fund occurred in
August 2012. This triggered the agreement and a decision has been taken this year to recognise a receivable, and a
provision has also been created to recognise the biobanking restoration obligation.
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Assets and liabilities
There are no significant variances between the actual and budgeted net assets.
Cash flows
The actual net cash flow is greater than budget, as the cash flow of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust
of New South Wales (Foundation) has been included in the actual.
The budget excluded the Foundation’s net cash from donations and bequests.
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
1,184
404
1,287
334
(18)
(261)
(18)
(261)
21 Reconciliation of Cash Flows from
Operating Activities to Net Result
Reconciliation of the net result for the year to
net cash flows from operating activities
Net cash generated from operating activities
Net gain/(loss) on sale of property, plant and equipment
Net gain/(loss) on sale of non-current assets held for sale
(316)
–
(316)
–
Writedown of non-current assets held for sale
(509)
–
(509)
–
Bad debts written off
Depreciation
Donation of collection/previously unrecognised assets
(Increase)/decrease in trade and other payables
Increase/(decrease) in trade and other receivables
(3)
–
(3)
–
(653)
(622)
(653)
(622)
1
24
1
24
(765)
1,230
(766)
1,229
895
(348)
911
(355)
Increase/(decrease) in inventories
(126)
(60)
(127)
(60)
Net Result
(310)
366
(193)
289
22 Non-cash financing and investing activities
The following items are brought to account as expenses in the statement of comprehensive income and are credited as
income in the form of non-cash sponsorship, non-cash donations or services provided free of charge.
Donations of collections items
1
24
1
24
1
24
1
24
Advertising through Fairfax Media Ltd
159
162
159
162
Security services by NSW Police Force
1,536
1,500
1,536
1,500
612
626
612
626
2,307
2,288
2,307
2,288
Maintenance by Royal Botanic Gardens Trust
2,308
2,312
2,308
2,312
99
The Trust received sponsorship free of charge from Fairfax Media Ltd, shown in the table on page 99 as advertising.
In 2012–13, the Trust received security services and gardening services free of charge for Government House from the
NSW Police Force and the Royal Botanic Gardens Trust respectively. The Trust’s work was also assisted by HHT members
and volunteers. These services were provided free of charge and it is considered not possible to estimate their value.
23 Financial Instruments
The Trust’s financial instruments are outlined below. These financial instruments arise directly from the Trust’s
operations or are required to finance the Trust’s operations. The Trust does not enter into or trade financial instruments,
including derivative financial instruments, for speculative purposes. The Trust’s main risks arising from financial
instruments are outlined below, together with the Trust’s objectives, policies and processes for measuring and
managing risk. Further quantitative and qualitative disclosures are included throughout these financial statements.
The Director has the overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of risk management and reviews, and
agrees policies for managing each of these risks. Risk-management policies are established to identify and analyse the
risks faced by the Trust, to set risk limits and controls, and to monitor risks. Compliance with policies is reviewed by the
internal auditor on a cyclical basis.
notes
Categories
a) Financial instrument categories
Financial assets class
Receivables
8
9
NA
Loans and
receivables
(at amortised cost)
15
Financial liabilities
measured at
amortised cost
Consolidated Entity
Parent Entity
2013
2012
2013
2012
$’000
$’000
$’000
$’000
7,768
7,313
4,877
4,318
229
301
204
277
759
969
758
969
Financial liabilities class
Payables
b) Credit risk
Credit risk arises when there is the possibility of the Trust’s debtors defaulting on their contractual obligations, resulting
in a financial loss to the Trust. The maximum exposure to credit risk is generally represented by the carrying amount of
the financial assets (net of any allowance for impairment).
Credit risk arises from the financial assets of the Trust, including cash, receivables and authority deposits. No collateral
is held by the Trust. The Trust has not granted any financial guarantees. Credit risk associated with the Trust’s financial
assets, other than receivables, is managed through the selection of counterparts and the establishment of minimum
credit rating standards. Authority deposits held with NSW TCorp are guaranteed by the state.
i)Cash
Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances and bank balances within NSW Treasury’s banking system. Interest
is earned on daily bank balances at the daily rate set by the bank. The TCorp Hour-Glass cash facility is discussed in
Note 23(e).
ii)Receivables – trade debtors
All trade debtors are recognised as amounts receivable at balance date. The collectability of trade debtors is
reviewed on an ongoing basis. Procedures as established in the Treasurer’s Directions are followed to recover
outstanding amounts, including letters of demand. Debts that are known to be uncollectable are written off. An
allowance for impairment is raised when there is objective evidence that the entity will not be able to collect all
amounts due.
This evidence includes past experience, and current and expected changes in economic conditions and debtor
credit ratings. No interest is earned on trade debtors. Sales are made on 30-day terms.
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The Trust is not materially exposed to concentrations of credit risk to a single trade debtor or group of debtors.
Based on past experience, debtors that are not past due (2013:$116,116; 2012:$71,633) and less than six months
past due (2013:$43,519; 2012:$131,269) are not considered impaired and together represent 100% of the total trade
debtors. There are no debtors that are currently past due or impaired whose terms have been renegotiated.
The only financial assets that are past due or impaired are ‘sales of goods and services’ in the ‘receivables’ category
of the statement of financial position.
Consolidated entity $’000
Parent Entity $’000
Total
Past due
but not
impaired
Considered
impaired
Total
Past due
but not
impaired
Considered
impaired
< 3 months overdue
41
41
–
41
41
–
3 months – 6 months
overdue
3
3
–
3
3
–
> 6 months overdue
–
–
–
–
–
–
< 3 months overdue
85
85
–
85
85
–
3 months – 6 months
overdue
46
46
–
46
46
–
> 6 months overdue
–
–
–
–
–
–
2013
2012
iii)Authority deposits
The Trust has placed funds on deposit with TCorp and various Australian incorporated banks. These deposits are
similar to money market or bank deposits and can be placed ‘at call’ or for a fixed term. For fixed term deposits the
interest rate payable is negotiated initially and is fixed for the term of the deposit, while the interest rate payable on
at-call deposits can vary. The deposits at balance date 30 June 2013 were earning an average interest rate of 5.22%
(2012:5.72%), while over the year the weighted average interest rate was 5.29% (2012:5.58%) on a weighted average
balance during the year of $2m (2012:$4m). None of these assets are past due or impaired.
c) Liquidity risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Trust will be unable to meet its payment obligations when they fall due. The Trust
continually manages risk through monitoring future cash flows and maturities planning to ensure adequate holding of
high-quality liquid assets. The objective is to maintain a balance between continuity of funding and flexibility through
the use of overdrafts, loans and other advances.
During the current and prior years, there were no defaults or breaches on loans payable. No assets have been pledged
as collateral. The Trust’s exposure to liquidity risk is deemed insignificant based on prior periods’ data and current
assessment of risk. The liabilities are recognised as amounts due to be paid in the future for goods or services received,
whether or not invoiced. Amounts owing to suppliers (which are unsecured) are settled in accordance with the policy set
out in Treasurer’s Circular 11/12: Payments of Accounts. If trade terms are not specified, payment is made no later than
the end of the month following the month in which an invoice or a statement is received. Treasurer’s Circular 11/12 allows
the minister to award interest for late payment. No interest was paid during the financial year 2012–13 (2011–12: nil).
All of the Trust’s liabilities mature in less than 12 months and are non-interest bearing.
d) Market risk
Market risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes
in market prices. The Trust’s exposure to market risk is primarily through interest rate risk on the Trust’s borrowings and
other price risks associated with the movement in the unit price of the TCorp Hour-Glass investment facilities. The Trust
has no exposure to foreign currency risk and does not enter into commodity contracts.
e)Interest rate risk
The Trust’s exposure to interest rate risk is set out in the table on the following page.
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Consolidated entity
$’000
-1%
1%
Carrying amount
Profit
Equity
Profit
Equity
2013
Financial assets
Receivables
Payables
7,768
229
(78)
–
(78)
–
78
–
78
–
759
–
–
–
–
2012
Financial assets
Receivables
Payables
7,313
301
(73)
–
(73)
–
73
–
73
–
969
–
–
–
–
2013
Financial assets
Receivables
Payables
4,877
204
(49)
–
(49)
–
49
–
49
–
758
–
–
–
–
2012
Financial assets
Receivables
Payables
4,318
277
(43)
–
(43)
–
43
–
43
–
969
–
–
–
–
Parent Entity
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Other price risk – TCorp Hour-Glass facilities
Exposure to ‘other price risk’ primarily arises through investment in TCorp Hour-Glass investment facilities, which are
held for strategic rather than trading purposes. The Trust has no direct equity investments. The Trust holds units in the
following Hour-Glass investment trusts:
Consolidated entity
Facility
Cash facility
Parent entity
Investment
sectors
Investment
horizon
2013
$’000
2012
$’000
2013
$’000
2012
$’000
Cash, money market
instruments
Up to 1.5 years
2,208
114
1,906
68
The unit price of the facility is equal to the total fair value of the net assets held by the facility divided by the number of
units on issue for that facility. Unit prices are calculated and published daily. NSW TCorp is the trustee for each of the
above facilities and is required to act in the best interests of the unit holders and to administer the trusts in accordance
with the trust deeds. As trustee, TCorp has appointed external managers to manage the performance and risks of
each facility in accordance with a mandate agreed to by the parties. However, TCorp acts as manager for part of the
cash facility and strategic cash facilities and also manages the Australian Bond Portfolio. A significant portion of the
administration of the facilities is outsourced to an external custodian.
Investment in the Hour-Glass facilities limits the Trust’s exposure to risk, as it allows diversification across a pool of
funds with different investment horizons and a mix of investments.
NSW TCorp provides sensitivity analysis information for each of the investment facilities, using historically based
volatility information collected over a ten-year period, quoted at two standard deviations (that is, 95% probability).
The TCorp Hour-Glass investment facilities are designated at fair value through profit or loss and therefore any change
in unit price impacts directly on profit (rather than equity). A reasonably possible change is based on the percentage
change in unit price (as advised by TCorp) multiplied by the redemption value as at 30 June each year for each facility
as set out below.
Consolidated entity
Facility
Hour-Glass investment – cash facility
Parent entity
Change in
unit price
2013
$’000
2012
$’000
2013
$’000
2012
$’000
+ /-1%
22
1.1
19
0.7
f)Fair value compared to carrying amount
The Trust has no financial instruments with the exception of the TCorp Hour-Glass facilities, which are measured at fair
value. As discussed, the value of the Hour-Glass investments is based on the Trust’s share of the value of the underlying
assets of the facility, based on the market value. All of the Hour-Glass facilities are valued using ‘redemption’ pricing.
Except where specified overleaf, the amortised cost of financial instruments recognised in the statement of financial
position approximates the fair value, because of the short-term nature of many of the financial instruments.
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g) Fair value recognised in the statement of financial position
The Trust uses the following hierarchy for disclosing the fair value of financial instruments by valuation techniques:
> Level 1 – derived from quoted prices in active markets for identical assets/liabilities;
> Level 2 – derived from inputs other than quoted prices that are observable directly or indirectly;
>Level 3 – derived from valuation techniques that include inputs for the assets/liabilities not based on observable
market data (unobservable inputs).
consolidated Entity
2013
Financial assets at fair value
2012
Level 1
$’000
Level 2
$’000
Level 3
$’000
Total
$’000
–
–
2,208
2,208
–
–
2,208
2,208
–
–
113
113
–
–
113
113
–
–
1,906
1,906
–
–
1,906
1,906
–
–
68
68
–
–
68
68
Parent Entity
2013
2012
24Property leases
Properties owned under long-term lease
The HHT is the registered proprietor of the property Tusculum. This property is a Regency mansion built 1831–37 and
has considerable heritage significance. The property was independently valued at 30 June 2011. The fair value of the
property is $7.425m. The property is encumbered by a long-term lease with the Australian Institute of Architects. The
lease commenced on 22 May 1987 for a term of 99 years with provision for an option to renew. The lease was in place
at the time of the transfer of responsibility for this property in 2007 from the minister administering the Heritage Act
1977. The terms of the lease are $1 rent per annum over the term of the lease with provision for renewal at the end of
the lease. The terms of the lease provide for any renewal being at commercial rental rates. The market rental for this
property, assessed independently by the NSW Government Land and Property Valuation Services as at 30 June
2011, was $262,500 per annum. The HHT has no responsibility for funding the cost of maintenance or insurance.
Its responsibilities are limited to ensuring maintenance and insurance are adequate. In accordance with TPP 11-01:
Lessor Classification of Long-term Land Leases, the property has been valued at $1 in the accounts of the HHT.
As the property has restrictions on its use, it is recognised at $1 being the present value of future cash flows.
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25 Events after the reporting period
On 12 September 2013 an amount of $2.85m, excluding GST, was receipted for the Stamford Hotel Easement
Deed, which has provided the property owners with a 6-metre air and space easement over the adjacent Justice
& Police Museum.
No other matter or circumstance has arisen since the end of the financial year to the date of this report that has
or may significantly affect the activities of the HHT, the results of those activities, or its state of affairs in the ensuing
or any subsequent financial year.
END OF AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
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FOUNDATION
107
foundation for the historic houses trust of new south wales FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2013
108
109
Statement by the Directors of the
Trust of New South Wales Limited
The Directors of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited, being the Trustee of the
Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, declare that:
a) The accompanying financial statements and notes thereto comply with applicable Australian Accounting Standards
(which include Australian Accounting Interpretations), the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and Regulation 2010;
b) The attached financial statements and notes thereto give a true and fair view of the financial position and
performance of the Trust;
c) In the Directors’ opinion, the attached financial statements and notes thereto are in accordance with the
Trust Deed;
d) In the Directors’ opinion, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Trust will be able to pay its debts
as and when they become due and payable;
e) The Directors are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars included in the financial
statements to be misleading or inaccurate;
f) The financial statements have been properly drawn up and the associated records have been properly kept
for the period from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013, in accordance with the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 (NSW)
and Regulations; and
g) The internal controls exercised by the Trust are appropriate and effective in accounting for all income received
and applied by the Trust from any of its fundraising appeals.
Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors.
On behalf of the Directors
Curtis Smith
Chair
Dated 9 October 2013
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Mark Goggin
Director
historic
trust
of new
south wales FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2013
OF AUDITED
FINANCIAL
STATEMENTs
beginninghouses
Notes
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
$
Expenses excluding losses
$
Operating expenses
Personnel services expenses
2(a)
47,440
62,022
Other operating expenses
2(b)
422,853
290,545
470,293
352,567
Total expenses excluding losses
Revenue
Investment revenue
3(a)
139,534
153,662
3(b)
206,561
264,739
Other revenue
3(c)
7,118
11,005
353,213
429,406
Net increase/(decrease) in property, plant
and equipment asset revaluation surplus
–
–
Other comprehensive incomE
–
–
(117,080)
76,839
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
2,995,566
Total revenue
NET RESULT
(117,080)
76,839
Items that will not be reclassified to net results
Notes
$
assets
$
Current assets
6
2,891,660
Receivables
7
24,651
24,706
2,916,311
3,020,272
Total Assets
2,916,311
3,020,272
9
28,078
14,522
10
2,260
2,697
30,338
17,219
2,885,973
3,003,053
LIABILITIES
Current liabilities
Payables
Personnel provisions
Total Liabilities
NET assets
30,338
17,219
Equity
Accumulated funds
Total Equity
2,885,973
3,003,053
2,885,973
3,003,053
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Notes
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
Accumulated
funds
Total
equity
3,003,053
3,003,053
(117,080)
(117,080)
$
Net result
$
–
0
Total comprehensive income
(117,080)
(117,080)
Net result
2,885,973
2,885,973
2,926,214
2,926,214
76,839
76,839
–
–
Total comprehensive income
76,839
76,839
3,003,053
3,003,053
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
(47,875)
(61,134)
Notes
$
$
Payments
Personnel services
Grants and subsidies
Other
Total payments
(346,000)
(156,750)
(63,298)
(135,369)
(457,173)
(353,253)
Receipts
Interest received
139,589
152,028
206,560
260,739
Other
Total receipts
NET CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
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NET CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
10,635
423,402
–
–
–
–
(103,906)
70,149
(103,906)
70,149
2,995,566
2,925,417
2,891,660
2,995,566
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7,118
353,267
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1 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
d)Insurance
a)Reporting entity
The Foundation’s insurance arrangements are made
through the NSW Treasury Managed Fund Scheme of
self-insurance for government agencies. The expense
(premium) is determined by the fund manager based
on past claim experience as well as the value insured.
The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South
Wales (Foundation) was formed on 14 November 2001 and
commenced operation in October 2002. The Foundation is
a non-profit entity (as profit is not its principal objective).
The Foundation is a public ancillary fund with deductable
gift recipient status (DGR item 2) and charitable tax
concessions. The Foundation’s role is to encourage private
and corporate support for the activities of the Historic
Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT) that are not
funded by the New South Wales Government. The
Foundation is administered by a Trustee, the Foundation
for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited
(Trustee). Directors of the Trustee receive and review
submissions for project funding from the HHT. Funding
decisions are made by the Directors consistent with the
objectives of the Foundation and the specific requirements
of corporate and private donors to the Foundation.
The Foundation is a controlled entity of the HHT and is
part of the Trust’s consolidated accounts. The financial
statements for the year ended 30 June 2013 were
authorised for issue by the Board of Directors on
9 October 2013. They are consolidated as part of
the NSW Total State Sector Accounts.
These general-purpose financial statements are prepared
in accordance with the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983
and Public Finance and Audit Regulation 2010, the
Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 and the Financial
Reporting Directions published in TPP 13-01: Financial
Reporting Code for NSW General Government Sector
Entities or issued by the Treasurer and applicable Australian
Accounting Standards (which include Australian Accounting
Interpretations). The financial statements are for the
Foundation as an individual entity. The financial statements
have been prepared on an accruals basis, and are based on
historical costs modified by the revaluation of selected
financial assets and financial liabilities for which the fair
value basis of accounting has been applied where
applicable. Judgments, key assumptions and estimations
management has made are disclosed in the relevant notes
to the financial statements. All amounts are rounded to the
nearest dollar and are expressed in Australian currency.
c)Statement of compliance
The Foundation’s financial statements and notes comply
with Australian Accounting Standards, which include
Australian Accounting Interpretations.
e) Accounting for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Income, expenses and assets are recognised net of the
amount of GST, except where:
>
the amount of GST incurred by the Foundation as
a purchaser that is not recoverable from the Australian
Taxation Office is recognised as part of the cost of
acquisition of an asset or as part of an item of
expense; and
>receivables and payables are stated with the amount
of GST included.
Cash flows are included in the statement of cash flows on
a gross basis. However, the GST component of the cash
flows arising from investing and financing activities which
is recoverable or payable to the Australian Taxation Office
is classified as operating cash flows.
f)Personnel services and other provisions
The HHT provides administration services for a charge on
the basis of cost recovery. All payments to personnel and
related obligations are in the Department of Premier and
Cabinet (DPC) name and ABN, and are classified as
‘personnel services’ costs in these financial statements.
The costs recovered by the HHT are reviewed and
approved by Directors of the Trustee Company.
g)Income recognition
Income is measured at the fair value of the consideration
or contribution received or receivable. Additional
comments regarding the accounting policies for the
recognition of income are discussed below:
i)
Donations and contributions
Donations and contributions from individuals
and other bodies (including grants and donations)
are generally recognised as income when the
Foundation obtains control over the assets
comprising the appropriations/contributions.
Control over appropriations and contributions
is normally obtained upon the receipt of cash.
ii) Investment revenue
Interest income is recognised using the effective
interest method as set out in AASB 139: Financial
Instruments: Recognition and Measurement.
TCorp Hour-Glass distributions are recognised
in accordance with AASB 118: Revenue when
the Foundation’s right to receive payment
is established.
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h)Assets
i)Cash and cash equivalents
Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances.
Interest is earned on daily bank balances and paid
monthly at the normal commercial rate.
ii) Loans and receivables
Loans and receivables are non-derivative financial
assets with fixed or determinable payments that are
not quoted in an active market. These financial assets
are recognised initially at fair value, usually based on
the transaction cost or face value.
adopted by the Australian Accounting Standards
Board (AASB) had been issued but are not yet operative.
At present, NSW Treasury is mandating not to early adopt
any of the new standards/interpretations. As such, these
new standards/interpretations have not been early adopted
by the Foundation. It is considered that the implementation
of these standards will not have a material impact on
the Foundation’s financial statements.
NSW Treasury has mandated not to early adopt the following new or revised accounting standards/ interpretations as per TC 13/02: Mandates of Options
and Major Policy Decisions Under Australian
>A
ASB 13, AASB 2011-8 and AASB 2012-1 regarding fair
>A
value measurement
>A
employee benefits
>A
ASB 1053 and AASB 2010-2 regarding differential
reporting
>A
first-time adopters
> A ASB 2011-2 regarding Trans-Tasman Convergence
> A ASB 2011-4 removing individual KMP disclosure
requirements
> A
consolidation
The category ‘accumulated funds’ includes all current and
prior period retained funds.
> A ASB 2011-7 regarding consolidation and joint
arrangements
k)Comparative information
Subsequent measurement is at amortised cost using
the effective interest method, less an allowance for
any impairment of receivables.
iii)Investments
Investments are initially recognised at fair value plus,
in the case of investments not at fair value through
profit or loss, transaction costs. The Foundation
determines the classification of its financial assets
after initial recognition and, when allowed and
appropriate, re-evaluates this at each financial
year end.
i)Liabilities
i)Payables
These amounts represent liabilities for goods and
services provided to the Foundation, and other
amounts. Payables are recognised initially at fair
value, usually based on the transaction cost or face
value. Short-term payables with no stated interest rate
are measured at the original invoice amount where
the effect of discounting is immaterial.
ii) Other provisions
The Foundation recognises the personnel services
related provision payable to the HHT for the staff
providing administrative services.
j)Equity and reserves
Except when an Australian Accounting Standard
permits or requires otherwise, comparative information
is disclosed in respect of the previous period for all
amounts reported in the financial statements. As a
controlled entity of the HHT, the Foundation has
adopted to comply with TPP 13-01: Financial Reporting
Code for NSW General Government Sector Entities.
The comparative figures for the previous year have been
adjusted where applicable.
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l)New Australian Accounting Standards issued
but not effective
m) Taxation status
The activities of the Foundation are exempt of income tax.
The Foundation is registered for GST purposes and has gift
deductible recipient status.
Notes
2
2013
2012
$
$
40,862
52,904
3,841
4,534
Workers compensation insurance
553
505
Payroll tax and fringe benefits tax
2,184
4,079
47,440
62,022
10,150
9,650
346,000
156,750
Entertainment and catering expenses
31,192
39,672
Fees for services rendered
32,932
76,346
64
3,914
1,057
3,785
Postage
567
50
Printing
220
–
Stores and IT maintenance
644
276
Travel and accommodation
27
102
422,853
290,545
Expenses Excluding Losses
(a) Personnel services expenses
Salaries and wages (including recreation leave)
Superannuation – defined contribution plans
(b) Other operating expenses
Auditors’ remuneration
Donations to the HHT
Marketing and promotion
Other expenses
3
Revenue
(a) Investment revenue
T-Corp Hour-Glass investment facilities
Interest income
Interest income – other
(b) Grants and contributions
9,161
49,137
129,011
95,828
1,362
8,697
139,534
153,662
166,561
259,598
from other institutions and individuals
Donations – cash
Sponsorship – cash
(c) Other revenue
Other revenue
4
Conditions on Contributions
40,000
5,141
206,561
264,739
7,118
11,005
7,118
11,005
Details of restrictions
Allocated funds*
Minimum contingency fund
50,000
50,000
Museum of Sydney
395,741
395,741
2,178,692
2,168,825
Endangered Houses Fund (donations)
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Notes
Creditor payments – HHT
2013
2012
$
$
30,339
17,219
Throsby Park Collection
–
50,000
Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection acquisitions
–
50,000
Museum of Sydney master plan
–
40,000
–
30,000
Total allocated funds
Connected Classrooms
2,654,772
2,801,784
Total restricted funds
2,891,660
2,995,566
Unallocated funds†
236,888
193,782
* T
hese funds have been specifically restricted in accordance with Board resolutions and, where applicable, donor requirements, to be used on the
projects identified. This allocation is made after a thorough evaluation of available projects put forward by the HHT. The balance also includes a
contingency fund of $50,000.
hese funds have not at the current date been allocated to a specific project. The number and value of projects under consideration is in excess of the
† T
current balance of cash and investments.
Funding for such projects will rely upon use of the unrestricted cash and interest earned on cash and cash equivalents, future bequests and donations.
5
Service Groups of Entity
The Foundation’s role is to encourage private and corporate support for the activities of the HHT that are not funded by
the New South Wales Government.
6
Current Assets – Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash at bank and on hand
Other investments – term deposits
Cash and cash equivalents (per statement of financial position)
Closing cash and cash equivalents (per statement of cash flows)
64,561
216,486
302,151
45,990
2,524,948
2,733,090
2,891,660
2,995,566
2,891,660
2,995,566
2,891,660
2,995,566
For the purpose of the statement of cash flows, cash and cash equivalents include cash at bank, cash on hand and
short-term deposits. Cash and cash equivalent assets recognised in the statement of financial position are reconciled
at the end of the financial year to the statement of cash flows as above.
7
Current/Non-Current Assets – Receivables
Accrued income
Other receivables
24,638
24,332
13
374
24,651
24,706
8
Restricted Assets
2,891,660
2,995,566
2,891,660
2,995,566
Cash and fixed assets are restricted assets to the extent that they represent bequests and donations held by the
Foundation to be used in accordance with the deed of trust, caveats or other documents governing these funds.
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9
2013
2012
$
$
Current Liabilities – Payables
Payables
Creditors
Accrued expenses
Payable to the HHT
10 CURRENT/NON CURRENT – PERSONNEL Provisions
593
407
11,356
10,680
16,129
3,435
28,078
14,522
1,876
2,238
Current provisions expected to be settled within 12 months
Recreation leave
On-costs
271
324
2,147
2,562
99
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Current provisions expected to be settled after 12 months
Recreation leave
On-costs
Total Provisions
11 Reconciliation of Cash Flows from Operating ACTIVITIES
TO NET RESULT
Reconciliation of the net result for the year to net cash
flows from operating activities
Net cash inflows from operating activities
(Increase)/decrease in trade and other payables
14
17
113
135
2,260
2,697
(103,906)
70,149
(13,555)
1,577
(Increase)/decrease in provisions
436
(893)
Increase/(decrease) in trade and other receivables
(55)
6,006
(117,080)
76,839
Net Result
12 Financial Instruments
The Foundation’s principal financial instruments are outlined overleaf. These financial instruments arise directly
from the Foundation’s operations or are required to finance the Foundation’s operations. The Foundation does
not enter into or trade financial instruments, including derivative financial instruments, for speculative purposes.
The Foundation’s main risks arising from financial instruments are outlined on the following pages, along with
the Foundation’s objectives, policies and processes for measuring and managing risk. Further quantitative and
qualitative disclosures are included throughout this financial report.
The Finance and Legal Committee has overall responsibility for the establishment and oversight of risk
management, and reviews and agrees on policies for managing each of these risks. Risk management policies
are established to identify and analyse the risks faced by the Foundation, to set risk limits and controls, and to
monitor risks. Compliance with policies is reviewed by the Finance and Legal Committee.
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CATEGORIES
2013
2012
$
$
a) Financial instrument categories
Financial assets class
6
N/A
2,891,660
2,995,566
Receivables
7
Loans and receivables
(at amortised cost)
24,638
24,706
9/10
measured at amortised
cost
28,077
17,219
Financial liabilities class
Payables
Credit risk arises when there is the possibility of the Foundation’s debtors defaulting on their contractual obligations,
resulting in a financial loss to the Foundation. The maximum exposure to credit risk is generally represented by the
carrying amount of the financial assets (net of any allowance for impairment).
Credit risk arises from the financial assets of the Foundation, including cash, receivables and authority deposits.
No collateral is held by the Foundation. The Foundation has not granted any financial guarantees.
Credit risk associated with the Foundation’s financial assets, other than receivables, is managed through the selection of
counterparts limiting exposure to any particular counterpart, and the establishment of minimum credit rating standards.
i)Cash
Cash comprises cash on hand and bank balances. Interest is earned on daily bank balances at the daily rate set by
the bank. The TCorp Hour-Glass cash facility is discussed in Note 12(e).
ii)Receivables – trade debtors
All trade debtors are recognised as amounts receivable at balance date. Collectability of trade debtors is reviewed
on an ongoing basis. Procedures as established in the Treasurer’s Directions are followed to recover outstanding
amounts, including letters of demand. Debts that are known to be uncollectable are written off. An allowance for
impairment is raised when there is objective evidence that the entity will not be able to collect all amounts due.
This evidence includes past experience, and current and expected changes in economic conditions and debtor
credit ratings. No interest is earned on trade debtors. Sales are made on 30-day terms.
The Foundation is not materially exposed to concentrations of credit risk to a single trade debtor or group of
debtors.Based on past experience, debtors that are not past due are not considered impaired and these represent
100% of the total trade debtors. There are no debtors that are currently past due or impaired whose terms have been
renegotiated.
Statutory receivables are excluded, as these are not within the scope of AASB 7: Financial Instruments: Disclosures.
iii) Authority deposits
The Foundation has funds on deposit with various Australian incorporated banks. These deposits are similar to
money market or bank deposits and can be placed ‘at call’ or for a fixed term. For fixed term deposits the interest
rate payable is negotiated initially and is fixed for the term of the deposit, while the interest rate payable on at-call
deposits may vary. The term deposits at balance date were earning an average interest rate of 4.29% (2012 at 5.44%).
The weighted average interest rate over the year was 4.72% (2012 at 5.60%) on a weighted average balance during
the year of $2,520,329 (2012: $1,599,162). None of these assets are past due or impaired.
b) Liquidity risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Foundation will be unable to meet its payment obligations when they fall due.
The Foundation continually manages risk through monitoring future cash flows and maturities planning to ensure
adequate holding of high-quality liquid assets.
During the current and prior years, there were no defaults or breaches on amounts payable. No assets have been
pledged as collateral. The Trust’s exposure to liquidity risk is deemed insignificant based on prior periods’ data and
current assessment of risk. The liabilities are recognised for amounts due to be paid in the future for goods or services
received, whether or not invoiced. Amounts owing to suppliers (which are unsecured) are settled in accordance with
the policy set out in NSW TC 11/12: Payment of Accounts.
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If trade terms are not specified, payment is made no later than the end of the month following the month in which an
invoice or a statement is received. Treasurer’s Direction 219.01 allows the minister to award interest for late payment.
No interest was paid during the financial year 2012–13 (2011–12:nil).
All of the Foundation’s liabilities mature in less than 12 months and are non-interest bearing.
c) Market risk
Market risk is the risk that the fair value or future cash flows of a financial instrument will fluctuate because of changes
in market prices. The Foundation’s exposure to market risk is primarily through other price risks associated with the
movement in the unit price of the TCorp Hour-Glass investment facilities. The Foundation has no exposure to foreign
currency risk and does not enter into commodity contracts.
d)Interest rate risk
Exposure to interest rate risk arises primarily through the Foundation’s interest-bearing liabilities. The Foundation does
not account for any fixed rate financial instruments at fair value through profit or loss or as available for sale. Therefore,
for these financial instruments, a change in interest rates would not affect profit or loss or equity. A reasonably possible
change of +/- 1% is used, consistent with current trends in interest rates. The basis will be reviewed annually and
amended where there is a structural change in the level of interest rate volatility.
The Foundations’s exposure to interest rate risk is set out in the table below.
The effect on profit and equity due to a reasonably possible change in risk variables is outlined in the information on
the following pages for interest rate risk and other price risk. A reasonably possible change in risk variables has been
determined after taking into account the economic environment in which the entity operates and the time frame for the
assessment (that is, until the end of the next annual reporting period). The sensitivity analysis is based on risk exposures
in existence at the date of the statement of financial position. The analysis is performed on the same basis as for 2012.
The analysis assumes that all other variables remain constant.
-1%
1%
Carrying amount
Profit
Equity
Profit
Equity
2,891,660
24,638
(28,917)
–
(28,917)
–
28,917
–
28,917
–
28,077
–
–
–
–
2,995,566
24,706
(29,956)
–
(29,956)
–
29,956
–
29,956
–
17,219
–
–
–
–
2013
Financial assets
Receivables
Payables
2012
Financial assets
Receivables
Payables
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e)Other price risk – TCorp Hour-Glass facilities
Exposure to ‘other price risk’ primarily arises through investment in the TCorp Hour-Glass investment facilities, which are
held for strategic rather than trading purposes. The Foundation has no direct equity investments. The Foundation holds
units in the following Hour-Glass investment facility:
Facility
Cash facility
Investment
sectors
Investment
horizon
2013
$
2012
$
Cash, money market
instruments
Up to 1.5 years
302,151
45,990
The unit price of the facility is equal to the total fair value of the net assets held by the facility divided by the number
of units on issue for that facility. Unit prices are calculated and published daily. NSW TCorp is the trustee for the above
facility and is required to act in the best interests of the unit holders and to administer the trusts in accordance with the
trusts’ deeds. As trustee, TCorp has appointed external managers to manage the performance and risks of each facility
in accordance with a mandate agreed to by the parties. However, TCorp acts as manager for part of the cash facility.
A significant portion of the administration of the facilities is outsourced to an external custodian.
Investment in the Hour-Glass facilities limits the Foundation’s exposure to risk, as it allows diversification across a pool
of funds with different investment horizons and a mix of investments.
NSW TCorp provides sensitivity analysis information for each of the investment facilities, using historically based volatility
information collected over a ten-year period, quoted at two standard deviations (that is, 95% probability). The TCorp
Hour-Glass investment facilities are designated at fair value through profit or loss and therefore any change in unit price
impacts directly on profit (rather than equity). A reasonably possible change is based on the percentage change in unit
price (as advised by TCorp) multiplied by the redemption value as at 30 June each year for each facility as set out below.
Facility
Hour-Glass investment – cash facility
Change in
unit price
2013
$
2012
$
+ /-1%
3,022
460
f) Fair value compared to carrying amount
The Foundation has no financial instruments, with the exception of the TCorp Hour-Glass facilities, which are measured
at fair value. As discussed, the value of the Hour-Glass investments is based on the Foundation’s share of the value of the
underlying assets of the facility, based on the market value. All of the Hour-Glass facilities are valued using ‘redemption’
pricing. Except where specified below, the amortised cost of financial instruments recognised in the balance sheet
approximates the fair value, because of the short-term nature of many of the financial instruments.
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g) Fair value recognised in the statement of financial position
The Foundation uses the following hierarchy for disclosing the fair value of financial instruments by valuation techniques:
> Level 1 – derived from quoted prices in active markets for identical assets/liabilities;
> Level 2 – derived from inputs other than quoted prices that are observable directly or indirectly;
>Level 3 – derived from valuation techniques that include inputs for the asset/liability not based on observable market
data (unobservable inputs).
2013
Level 1
$
Level 2
$
Level 3
$
Total
$
–
–
302,151
302,151
–
–
302,151
302,151
2012
–
–
45,990
45,990
–
–
45,990
45,990
13 Related Party Transactions
Transactions between related parties are on normal commercial terms and conditions no more favourable
than those available to other parties unless otherwise stated.
2013
a) Transactions with related entities
Contributions to the HHT
Current payables – controlling entity
2012
$
346,000
$
156,750
16,129
3,435
(b)Transactions with the Trustee
There were no transactions between the Trustee and the Foundation. No Director of the Trustee receives remuneration
for his/her duties as a Director of the Foundation.
14 Charitable Fundraising Activities
Results of fundraising activities
The Foundation receives many donations as a result of its day-to-day activities. In addition, other special fundraising
events were conducted during the year and the results are as follows:
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Donations
Sponsorship
2013
2012
$
$
166,560
259,598
40,000
5,141
Gross income from fundraising
A
206,560
264,739
Cost of fundraising (excluding administration expenses)
B
(32,231)
(44,619)
Net surplus from fundraising
C
174,329
220,120
Cost of services provided*
D
–
–
174,329
220,120
346,000
156,750
Transferred to/(from) accumulated funds
List of all forms of appeals – events and appeals
How appeal moneys are applied
Distributions to the HHT
Comparative figures and ratios
Cost of fundraising to gross income from fundraising
B/A
16%
17%
Net surplus from fundraising to gross income from fundraising
C/A
84%
83%
D/(B+D)
0%
0%
D/A
0%
0%
Cost of services provided to total expenditure
Cost of services provided to gross income from fundraising
* The cost of fundraising services is zero, as administrative and financial services have been provided by the HHT free of charge.
There is no information of a material matter or occurrence to report.
Fundraising income includes donations and sponsorships. Where funding is received for specific projects, these projects
may not be completed by the end of the year in which the funds are received. There was a net surplus from fundraising of
$174,456. This was applied as distribution to the HHT of $346,000 with the balance kept in investment facilities.
15 Events after the reporting period
No other matter or circumstance has arisen since the end of the financial year to the date of this report that has or may
significantly affect the activities of the Foundation, the results of those activities, or its state of affairs in the ensuing or
any subsequent financial year.
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report by the Directors of the Foundation for the
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited
report by the directors of the foundation for the historic houses trust of
new south wales limited, being trustee for the foundation for the historic houses trust
Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South
Wales Company Directors:
Angus Armour Managing Director & CEO,
Export Finance and Insurance
Corporation (to Nov 2012)
Alastair BaxterInternational rugby player
and Graduate Architect,
Cox Richardson Architects
Kate ClarkDirector, Historic Houses Trust
of New South Wales
John GordonChartered accountant &
Director (to Nov 2012)
Edwina Macarthur-StanhamCoordinator, Camden
Park House (to Nov 2012)
David O’Donnell Solicitor, Addisons
Fiona PlayfairCompany director
Michael Reid Director, Michael Reid Gallery
Michael RoseChief Executive Partner,
Allens
Edward Simpson Company director
Curtis SmithCompany director
Judith Whelan Saturday Editor,
The Sydney Morning Herald
Simon WhiteBarrister and Senior Counsel
(from March 2013)
The above-named Directors held office during and since
the end of the financial year unless otherwise stated.
principal activities
The principal activity of the Foundation for the Historic
Houses Trust of New South Wales (Foundation) during the
financial year was to act as the Trustee of the Foundation
and to do all things such as are necessary, incidental and
conducive to acting as the Trustee of the Foundation.
There was no change in the principal activity of the
Foundation during the financial year.
review of operations
The net loss of the Foundation for the financial year ended
30 June 2013 was $117,080.
The Foundation is a non-profit organisation and is exempt
from the payment of income tax under Subdivision 50-5
of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.
changes in state of affairs
One resignation from the Board was accepted during
the year. Two new Directors were appointed to the Board
during the year.
During the financial year there was no significant change
in the state of affairs of the Foundation other than that
referred to in the financial statements or notes thereto.
subsequent events
No other matter or circumstance has arisen since the
end of the financial year that has significantly affected,
or may significantly affect, the activities of the Foundation
or its state of affairs in the ensuing or any subsequent
financial year.
future developments
Disclosure of information regarding likely developments in
the operations of the Foundation in future financial years
and the expected results of those operations is likely to
result in unreasonable prejudice to the Foundation.
Accordingly, this information has not been disclosed in
this report.
distributions
A distribution was made to the Historic Houses Trust of
New South Wales (HHT) during the financial year 2012–13
of $346,000.
125
indemnification of officers
The HHT (the controlling entity) has included the
Foundation within its Treasury Managed Fund indemnity
coverage. The Treasury Managed Fund is a self-insurance
scheme owned and underwritten by the New South
Wales Government. Such inclusion of the Foundation
confers upon it ‘protected entity’ status within the
Treasury Managed Fund. The contract of coverage is
an indemnification for any and all actions leading to a
claim against the covered entity subject to the contract
of coverage. Each board member, Trustee, officer and
employee of the ‘protected entity’ is covered by the
contract of coverage for any ‘legal liability’, alleged or
actual, as long as the action is not based on an illegal
and/or criminal act or outside the scope of their duties.
directors’ meetings
The tables below set out the number of Directors’
meetings held (including meetings of committees of
Directors) during the financial year and the number
of meetings attended by each Director (while they
were a Director or a committee member). During
the financial year the following meetings were held:
seven board meetings and four Finance and Legal
Committee Meetings.
board of directors
finance and legal committee
Directors 126
Held Attended
Directors Held Attended
Curtis Smith (Chair)
7
7
John Gordon (Chair to Feb 2013)
3
3
Angus Armour
4
3
Curtis Smith (Chair from Apr 2013)
3
3
Alastair Baxter
7
5
Angus Armour
2
1
Kate Clark
7
7
David O’Donnell
4
4
John Gordon
4
3
Simon White
2
2
Edwina Macarthur-Stanham
4
4
David O'Donnell
7
5
Fiona Playfair
7
3
Michael Reid
7
3
Michael Rose
7
5
Edward Simpson
7
3
Judith Whelan
7
6
Simon White
3
3
127
128
Statement by the Directors of the
Trust of New South Wales Limited
Pursuant to Section 41C(1B) and (1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 and the Corporations Act 2001, the Directors
of the Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited state that:
a) The accompanying financial statements and notes present a true and fair view of the financial position and
performance of the company at 30 June 2013, and the results of its operations and transactions for the year on that
date ended;
b) The financial statements and notes have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Public Finance and
Audit Act 1983 and Regulation 2010, and the Corporations Act 2001 and Regulations 2001;
c) The financial statements and notes have been prepared in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards (which
include Australian Accounting Interpretations);
d) We are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars included in the financial reports to be
misleading or inaccurate; and
e) There are reasonable grounds to believe that the company will be able to pay its debts as and when they fall due. Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors made pursuant to Section 295(5) of the Corporations Act 2001.
On behalf of the Directors,
Curtis Smith
Chair
Mark Goggin
Director
Dated 9 October 2013
129
Notes
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
$
Expenses
$
–
–
Total expenses
–
–
Revenue
–
–
Total revenue
–
–
NET RESULT
–
–
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
–
–
–
–
–
–
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
Current assets
–
–
–
–
Non-current assets
–
–
–
–
Notes
$
assets
Total Assets
$
–
–
–
–
LIABILITIES
Current liabilities
–
–
Non-current liabilities
–
–
Total non-current liabilities
–
–
NET assets
–
–
–
–
–
–
Total Liabilities
–
–
Equity
Accumulated funds
Total Equity
130
6
Notes
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
Accumulated
funds
Total
–
–
–
–
$
$
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
–
–
6
Notes
$
–
$
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
131
1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
a)Reporting entity
The Foundation for the Historic Houses Trust of New
South Wales Limited is a company limited by guarantee,
incorporated and domiciled in Australia. The company
was incorporated on 13 September 2001. The company
is a non-profit entity (as profit is not its principal
objective).
> A
>A
value measurement
>A
employee benefits
The company’s registered office (and principal place of
business) is: The Mint, 10 Macquarie Street, Sydney,
New South Wales. The company is a controlled entity of
the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT)
and with the HHT is included as part of the NSW Total
State Sector Accounts.
The financial statements were authorised for issue by
the Directors on 9 October 2013.
reporting
>A
first-time adopters
>A
>A
requirements
The financial statements are general-purpose financial
statements that have been prepared in accordance
with:
>the Corporations Act 2001;
>applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which
> A
consolidation
>the requirements of the Public Finance and Audit
Act 1983 and Regulation 2010; and
arrangements
> Treasurer’s Directions.
The financial statements are for the Foundation for the
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales Limited as an
individual entity.
All amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar and are
expressed in Australian currency.
c)New Australian Accounting Standards issued but
not yet effective
The company did not early adopt any new accounting
standards and interpretations that are not yet effective,
at the date of authorisation of the financial statements.
The company has assessed the potential impact of
these new standards and interpretations and considers
the impact to be insignificant.
and Major Policy Decisions under Australian
d)Statement of compliance
The financial statements and notes comply with
Australian Accounting Standards, which include
2 TRUSTEE
The company acts as Trustee of the Foundation for
the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (the
Foundation). Income and property under the control
of the company must be applied to the promotion and
achievement of the objectives of the company. No portion
shall be paid or transferred, directly or indirectly, to
members or directors of the company. The financial
statements of the Foundation are prepared from books
of accounts kept by the HHT. The financial statements
of the Foundation are presented with the company’s
3 COMPANY AND TRUST EXPENSES
Operating costs of the company have been met by the
Foundation. All expenses incurred by the company were
in its capacity as Trustee.
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FOUNDATION FOR THE HISTORIC HOUSES TRUST OF NEW SOUTH WALES LIMITED
4 RIGHT OF INDEMNITY OUT OF TRUST ASSETS
9 REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS
The assets of the Foundation at 30 June 2013 are sufficient
to meet the Trustee’s rights of indemnity out of the Trust
assets for liabilities incurred on behalf of the Trust, as and
when they fall due.
No directors of the company during the financial year
received income from the company in connection with
the management of the affairs of the company whether
as executive officer or otherwise.
5 AUDIT FEES
10 CONTINGENT ASSETS OR LIABILITIES
Audit fees for the financial year 2012–13 of $2475 (2011–12
$2365) inclusive of GST for the company accounts are to be
paid by the Foundation.
There are no contingent assets or liabilities existing at
the close of this report.
6 MEMBERS’ LIABILITY
The company is limited by guarantee. Every member of the
company and every ex-member within one year of ceasing
to be a member is liable in the event of winding up for an
amount not exceeding $10. There were 12 members at the
end of the financial year.
11 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
There has not arisen in the interval between the end of
the financial year and the date of this report any matter
or circumstance that has significantly affected or may
significantly affect the activities of the company, the
results of those activities, or its state of affairs in the
ensuing or any subsequent financial year.
7 CONTROLLING ENTITY
The HHT is considered to be the controlling entity of
the Foundation. The HHT provided the Foundation and
company with a range of administrative support services.
These services have been provided at no charge to the
company and comprised the provision of:
> office accommodation facilities
> accounting and administrative services
> electricity and other utility services
> human resources
8 ASSETS AND LIABILITIES FOR WHICH THE COMPANY
IS TRUSTEE
Details of the underlying assets and liabilities for the
Foundation at 30 June 2013 are as follows:
Current assets
Cash
Receivables
Total Assets
Current liabilities
Payables
Provisions
Total liabilities
NET ASSETS
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
2,891,660
2,995,566
24,651
24,706
$
$
2,916,311 3,020,272
28,078
14,522
2,260
2,697
30,338
17,219
2,885,973 3,003,053
133
HAMILTON
ROUSE HILL TRUST
135
136
historic
foundation
houses
for the
trust
historic
of new
houses
south
trust
wales
of FOR
new THE
south
YEAR
wales
ENDED
FOR30
THE
JUNE
YEAR
2013
ENDED 30 JUNE 2013
STATEMENT BY the DIRECTORS OF the
ROUSE HILL HAMILTON collection pty limited
Pursuant to Section 41C(1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983, we state that:
a)The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the Public Finance and Audit Act
1983 and Regulation 2010, applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which include Australian Accounting
Interpretations) and the Treasurer’s Directions;
b)In our opinion, the financial statements show a true and fair view of the financial position and transactions of the
company; and
c)There are no circumstances that would render any particulars included in the financial report to be misleading or
inaccurate.
This statement is made in accordance with a resolution of the Board of Directors and is signed for and on behalf of the
Directors by:
Mark Goggin
Director
Miriam A Hamilton
Director
Dated 7 August 2013
137
Notes
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
–
–
$
Expenses
Total expenses
–
$
–
Revenue
–
–
NET RESULT
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
Total revenue
–
–
Notes
$
assets
$
Current assets
Cash receivable
2
Non-current assets
Collection assets
Total Assets
LIABILITIES
Total Liabilities
NET assets
3
10
10
10
10
–
–
907,988
907,988
907,988
907,988
907,998
907,998
–
–
907,998
907,998
Equity
Other reserve (Trust settlement)
Accumulated funds
10
675,000
Asset revaluation surplus
232,988
232,988
Total Equity
907,998
907,998
138
10
675,000
Accumulated
funds
$
Total
Other
Asset
revaluation reserve - Trust
settlement
surplus
$
$
$
675,000
232,988
10
907,998
–
–
–
–
Increment on revaluation of non-current assets
–
–
–
–
675,000
232,988
10
907,998
675,000
232,988
10
907,998
–
–
–
675,000
–
232,988
–
–
–
–
10
907,998
Increment on revaluation of non-current assets
Notes
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
–
–
$
–
$
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
10
10
10
10
139
1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust was established on
27 October 1994 and holds collection items in and about
Rouse Hill House. The Trust is a non-profit entity (as profit
is not its principal objective). It is a New South Wales
Government entity and is consolidated in the Historic
Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT) accounts, which
are part of the NSW Total State Sector Accounts.
> AASB 13, AASB 2011-8 and AASB 2012-1 regarding fair
value measurement
> AASB 119, AASB 2011-10 and AASB 2011-11 regarding
employee benefits
The financial statements were authorised for issue
by the Directors of the Trust on 7 August 2013.
reporting
>A
first-time adopters
>A
>A
requirements
> A
consolidation
arrangements
a)Basis of preparation
with:
> applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which include Australian Accounting Interpretations);
The financial statements have been prepared on an
accruals basis and are based on historical costs
modified by the revaluation of selected non-current
assets, financial assets and financial liabilities for which
the fair value basis of accounting has been applied.
The financial statements are for the Hamilton Rouse Hill
Trust as an individual entity. Judgments, key
assumptions and estimations made by management
are disclosed in the relevant notes to the financial
statements. All amounts are rounded to the nearest
dollar and are expressed in Australian currency.
b)New Australian Accounting Standards issued but
not effective
adopted by the AASB had been issued but are not yet
effective. At present NSW Treasury is mandating not to
early adopt any of the new standards/interpretations.
As such, these new standards/interpretations have not
been early adopted by the Trust. It is considered that
the implementation of these standards will not have any
impact on the Trust’s financial statements.
> A
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c)Statement of compliance
d)Collections
Collections are valued in accordance with TPP 07-1:
Guidelines for the Valuation of Physical Non-Current
Assets at Fair Value. This policy adopts fair value in
accordance with AASB 116: Property, Plant and
Equipment. There is no substantive difference between
the fair value methodology and the previous valuation
methodology adopted in the New South Wales
public sector.
The Trust’s collections have been valued by accredited
valuers at their fair market value and are brought to
account at those values. They are not depreciated.
Revaluation increments are credited directly to the
asset revaluation surplus, except that, to the extent that
an increment reverses a revaluation decrement in
respect of that class of asset previously recognised
as an expense in the net result, the increment is
recognised immediately as revenue in the net result.
Revaluation decrements are recognised immediately
as expenses in the net result, except that, to the
extent that a credit balance exists in the asset
THE
historic
HAMILTON
houses
ROUSE
trust
HILLof
TRUST
new FOR
south
THEwales
YEAR ENDED
FOR THE
30YEAR
JUNE ENDED
2013
30 JUNE 2013
revaluation surplus in respect of the same class of
assets, they are debited directly to the asset revaluation
surplus.
Revaluation increments and decrements are offset
against one another within a class of non-current assets,
but not otherwise. Where an asset that has previously
been revalued is disposed of, any balance remaining in
the asset revaluation reserve in respect of that asset is
transferred to accumulated funds.
2 CASH RECEIVABLES
The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust does not have a separate bank
account. The HHT, as the controlling entity of the Hamilton
Rouse Hill Trust, maintains $10 in its bank account.
3 COLLECTIONS
Pursuant to a chattels sale agreement, the Hamilton Rouse
Hill Collection was acquired on 27 October 1994.
Collection assets were revalued in 2009 at fair value by
Noble Numismatics and other external valuers, and were
subsequently revalued at June 2010 by expert in-house
curatorial staff conforming to AASB 116 and in accordance
with TPP 07-01. Accredited valuation of the collection at
30 June 2013 remains unchanged at $907,988. The collection
is externally valued every five years.
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
907,988
907,988
907,988
907,988
$
Collections at fair value
TOTAL
$
4 SERVICES PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE
A management agreement was entered into on 27 October
1994 between the company and the HHT, whereby the HHT,
in consideration for allowing the collection to remain in its
care and safe keeping, accepts sole responsibility for the
management and conservation of the entire collection.
The Director of the HHT is a director of the company and
their services are provided free of charge.
5 EVENTS SUBSEQUENT TO BALANCE DATE
Since 30 June 2013, no event has arisen that would be likely
to materially affect the results of the Trust or its state of
affairs in the ensuing or any subsequent financial year.
6 AUDIT FEES
Audit fees for the financial year 2012–13 of $2530 (2011–12;
$2420) inclusive of GST were paid by the HHT.
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ROUSE hill HAMILTON
collection pty limited
FINanCIAL statements
historic
foundation
houses
for the
trust
historic
of new
houses
south
trust
wales
of FOR
new THE
south
YEAR
wales
ENDED
FOR30
THE
JUNE
YEAR
2013
ENDED 30 JUNE 2013
143
144
historic
foundation
houses
for the
trust
historic
of new
houses
south
trust
wales
of FOR
new THE
south
YEAR
wales
ENDED
FOR30
THE
JUNE
YEAR
2013
ENDED 30 JUNE 2013
STATEMENT BY the DIRECTORS OF the
ROUSE HILL HAMILTON collection pty limited
Pursuant to Section 41C(1B) and (1C) of the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983, the Directors of the Rouse Hill Hamilton
Collection Pty Limited state that:
a)The accompanying financial statements and notes present a true and fair view of the financial position and
performance of the company at 30 June 2013 and the results of its operations and transactions for the year on that
date ended;
b)The financial statements and notes have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Public Finance and
Audit Act 1983 and Regulation 2010;
c)The financial statements and notes have been prepared in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards (which
d)We are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars included in the financial reports to be
misleading or inaccurate; and
e)There are reasonable grounds to believe that the company will be able to pay its debts as and when they fall due.
Signed in accordance with a resolution of the Directors.
Mark Goggin
Director
Miriam A Hamilton
Director
Dated 7 August 2013
145
Notes
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
–
–
$
Expenses
Total expenses
–
$
–
Revenue
–
–
NET RESULT
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
–
–
Total revenue
–
–
Notes
$
assets
Current assets
$
Cash
2
2
2
2
Non-current assets
–
–
–
Total Assets
–
2
2
Total Liabilities
–
–
NET assets
2
2
2
2
2
2
LIABILITIES
Equity
Accumulated funds
Total Equity
146
6
Notes
6
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
Accumulated
funds
Total
$
$
2
2
–
–
2
2
2
2
–
–
2
2
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
Notes
$
–
$
–
2
2
2
2
147
1 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
POLICIES
> A
a) Reporting entity
The Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Limited is a
company limited by shares, incorporated and
domiciled in Australia. The company was incorporated
on 26 October 1994. The company is a non-profit entity
(as profit is not its principal objective). It is a New South
Wales Government entity and is consolidated in the
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales (HHT)
accounts. The company’s registered office (and
principal place of business) is: The Mint, 10 Macquarie
Street, Sydney, New South Wales.
>A
value measurement
>A
employee benefits
The financial statements were authorised for issue by
the Directors on 7 August 2013.
reporting
>A
first-time adopters
>A
>applicable Australian Accounting Standards (which
>A
requirements
> A
consolidation
arrangements
The financial statements are for the Rouse Hill Hamilton
Collection Pty Limited as an individual entity.
All amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar and are
expressed in Australian currency.
2 TRUSTEE
with:
c)New Australian Accounting Standards issued but
not effective
adopted by the AASB had been issued but are not yet
effective. At present NSW Treasury is mandating not to
early adopt any of the new standards/interpretations.
As such, these new standards/interpretations have not
been early adopted by the company. It is considered
that the implementation of these standards will not
have any impact on the company’s financial
statements.
148
d)Statement of compliance
The company acts as Trustee of the Hamilton Rouse
Hill Trust.
3 COMPANY AND TRUST EXPENSES
Operating costs of the company have been met by the
HHT. All expenses incurred by the company were in its
capacity as Trustee.
4 AUDIT FEES
Audit fees for the financial year 2012–13 of $2475 (2011–12;
$2310) inclusive of GST for the company accounts are to
be met by the HHT.
5 RIGHT OF INDEMNITY OUT OF THE TRUST ASSETS
The assets of the company as at 30 June 2013 are
sufficient to meet the Trustee’s rights of indemnity out
of trust assets for liabilities incurred on behalf of the Trust,
as and when they fall due.
ROUSE HILL HAMILTON COLLECTION PTY LIMITED FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2013
6 SHARE CAPITAL
ACTUAL
ACTUAL
2013
2012
2
2
$
$
Issued capital
2 shares of $1 fully paid
7 RELATED PARTIES
a) Directors’ remuneration
The directors act in an honorary capacity and do not
receive remuneration in connection with managing the
affairs of the company or of the Trust for which the
company acts as Trustee.
b) Controlling entity
The HHT is considered to be the controlling entity of
the Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty Limited.
c)Support
The HHT provided the Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection
Pty Limited with a range of administrative support
services. These services have been provided at no
charge to the Rouse Hill Hamilton Collection Pty
Limited and comprised the provision of:
> office accommodation facilities
> accounting and administrative services
8 REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS
No directors of the company during the financial year
received income from the company in connection with
the management of the affairs of the company whether
as executive officer or otherwise.
9 CONTINGENT ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
There are no contingent assets or liabilities.
10 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
There has not arisen in the interval between the end of
the financial year and the date of this report any matter
or circumstance that has significantly affected or may
significantly affect the activities of the company, the
results of those activities, or its state of affairs in the
ensuing or any subsequent financial year.
149
Contacts
All properties are closed Good
Friday and Christmas Day. Visit
www.hht.net.au for opening hours
during NSW school holidays and
NSW public holidays.
of New South Wales
Head Office
The Mint
10 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T 02 8239 2288
F 02 8239 2299
E info@hht.net.au
Open Monday to Friday 9am–5pm
Infoline 02 8239 2442
TTY 02 8239 2377
www.hht.net.au
Caroline Simpson Library
& Research Collection
The Mint
10 Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T 02 8239 2233
F 02 8239 2433
E library@hht.net.au
http://library.hht.net.au
Open Tuesday to Friday 10am–4pm
Government House
Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T 02 9931 5222
F 02 9931 5208
House open Friday to Sunday
10.30am–3pm
Access by guided tour only
Grounds open daily 10am–4pm
Schools and booked groups by arrangement
Queens Square
Macquarie Street
Sydney NSW 2000
T 02 8239 2311
F 02 8239 2322
Open daily 10am–5pm
Cnr Albert and Phillip streets
Circular Quay NSW 2000
T 02 9252 1144
F 02 9252 4860
Open Saturday and Sunday
10am–5pm
Meroogal
7 Onslow Avenue
Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011
T 02 9356 3022
F 02 9357 7176
Open Friday to Sunday 11am–4pm
Cnr West and Worrigee streets
Nowra NSW 2541
T 02 4421 8150
F 02 4421 2747
Open Saturday 10.30am–3.30pm
Access by guided tour only,
on the hour
Elizabeth Bay House
Elizabeth Farm
70 Alice Street
Rosehill NSW 2142
T 02 9635 9488
F 02 9891 3740
10.30am–3.30pm
150
Museum of Sydney
on the site of first Government House
Cnr Bridge and Phillip streets
Sydney NSW 2000
T 02 9251 5988
F 02 9251 5966
Open daily 10am–5pm
Rose Seidler House
71 Clissold Road
Wahroonga NSW 2076
T 02 9989 8020
F 02 9487 2761
Open Sunday 11am–4pm
356 Annangrove Road
(PO Box 3123)
Rouse Hill NSW 2155
T 02 9627 6777
F 02 9627 6776
10.30am–3.30pm (Bookings advisable)
58–64 Gloucester Street
The Rocks NSW 2000
T 02 9241 1893
F 02 9241 2608
Open daily 2pm–5pm
Access by guided tour only
Vaucluse House
Wentworth Road
Vaucluse NSW 2030
T 02 9388 7922
F 02 9337 4963
Open Friday to Sunday 11am–4pm
Thank you to our Program
Supporters & partners
We thank the generosity, support and expertise of
the many people and groups who have assisted the
HHT this year, including:
Interpretation & Exhibitions
supporters
• HHT Volunteers
Darug elders and descendants (Rouse Hill
House & Farm interpretation)
• H
HT Foundation Board, Governors
and Supporters
ABC Open (Now and then exhibition)
• HHT Friends Committee and Volunteers
Faculty of the Built Environment, University of
New South Wales (Public Sydney publication)
EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAM SUPPORTERS
Government Architects’ Office, NSW (Public
Sydney publication)
Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP)
Big Dig Youth Hostels Australia
La Perouse Aboriginal Community (Vaucluse
House interpretation)
City of Sydney
NSW Police Force (The Force exhibition)
Chinese Historical Association of Australia
Fresh Catering
Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane (Margaret
Olley exhibition)
History Council of NSW
Powerhouse Museum
Museums and Galleries of NSW
State Library of New South Wales
New South Wales Bar Association
Museum partners
NIDA
NSW Architects Registration Board
NSW Department of Education & Communities
NSW Department of Education, Curriculum and
Learning Innovation Centre (Connected
Classrooms)
Police Prosecutions Command, New South Wales
Police Force
Sydney Architecture Festival
Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (Windmill
project)
Sydney Writers’ Festival
The Great Irish Famine Commemoration
Committee
Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority
Government House
Office of the Governor
Department of Premier & Cabinet
Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
NSW Police Force
NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service
The Rocks Educators Network
VideoConferencing Australia
Vivid Ideas
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Sponsors
The HHT would like to thank the following sponsors for their support:
Major sponsors
Government partners
Exhibition sponsors
™
Media partners
Ongoing support partners
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Cover Key to Elizabeth Bay House.
Photograph © Haley Richardson & Stuart
Miller page 1 Elizabeth Bay House.
Photograph © Haley Richardson & Stuart
Miller page 6 Elizabeth Farm. Photograph
© Haley Richardson & Stuart Miller page 34
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& Farm. Photograph © Haley Richardson
& Stuart Miller
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