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Annual Report

Western Australian Museum 

Annual Report 2000 - 2001

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© Western Australian Museum 2001 

Coordinated by Nick Mayman and Ann Ousey 

Edited by Amanda Curtin, Curtin Communications 

Designed by Rosalie Okely, Keystrokes 

Layout by Gregory Jackson 

Published by the Western Australian Museum 

Francis Street, Perth, Western Australia 6000 

www.museum.wa.gov.au 

ISSN 0083-8721 

Western Australian Museum Annual Report 2000–2001

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Western Australian Museum Annual Report 2000–2001 

Letter to the Minister 4 

A Message from the Minister 5 

PART 1: Introduction 

Introducing the Western Australian Museum 7 

The Museum’s Vision, Mission, Functions, Strategic Aims 9 

Executive Director’s Review 10 

Visitors to Western Australian Museum Sites 15 

Organisational Structure 16 

Trustees, Boards and Committees 17 

Sponsors, Benefactors and Granting Agencies 21 

Volunteers 22 

Western Australian Museum Foundation 24 

Friends of the Western Australian Museum 28 

PART 2: The Year Under Review 

Western Australian Museum–Science and Culture 31 

Western Australian Maritime Museum 44 

Western Australian Museum–Albany 49 

Western Australian Museum–Geraldton 51 

Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder 54 

Fremantle History Museum 57 

Visitor Services 59 

Museum Services 66 

Business Management and Development 70 

PART 3: Compliance Requirements 

Accounts and Financial Statements 76 

Outcomes, Outputs and Performance Indicators 93 

APPENDICES 

A Staff List, 2000–2001 99 

B Staff Membership of External Professional Committees 103 

C Fellows, Honorary Associates, Research Associates 105 

D Publications List 106 

Contents

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The Hon. Sheila McHale MLA 

Minister responsible for the Museum Act 1969 

Minister 


Letter to the Minister 

In accordance with the provisions of section 66 of the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985, we have 

pleasure in submitting for your information and presentation to Parliament the Annual Report of the Western 

Australian Museum for the financial year ending 30 June 2001. 

The past year has been one of noteworthy achievements. The innovative new exhibition Western Australia: 

Land and People was completed and opened, and has been extremely popular with visitors to our main 

Perth site. The Museum acknowledges the contribution of many people and organisations to its success, and 

in particular the support of the Lotteries Commission. 

The new Western Australian Museum–Geraldton was opened in July 2000 and exhibition installation will be 

complete in the next year. The Batavia portico has been installed in the Museum’s Shipwrecks Gallery and 

makes a strong statement about the early maritime history of this State. Already, the new Museum has 

become a focal point for the Geraldton community. 

Construction of the new Maritime Museum in Fremantle progresses well. Teams of Museum curators continue 

to work with exhibition designers in planning for the exciting visitor experience that will be unveiled towards 

the end of 2002. 

The Trustees of the Western Australian Museum acknowledge the sustained support of the State Government 

in achieving quality Museum outcomes for the people of Western Australia. We thank you, in your new role 

of Minister for Culture and the Arts, for your commitment to working with the Museum in maximising our 

contributions to the State. The Museum faces significant challenges concerning infrastructure over the next 

few years, but we are confident that in working with you and your government we can make great advances 

towards overcoming them. The Trustees also acknowledge with thanks the support of the Hon. Mike Board 

JP MLA, as Minister for the Arts under the previous government. I would add, too, our appreciation of the 

assistance provided by the central offices of the Ministry for Culture & the Arts, and the efforts of the Director 

General, Mr Alastair Bryant. 

The Trustees also acknowledge the leadership and guidance of the Executive Director, Dr Gary Morgan, and 

the work of Western Australian Museum staff in maintaining the place of the Museum as a research centre of 

international repute and in continuing a vibrant program of exhibitions and educational programs. We also 

thank the Western Australian Museum Foundation, the Friends of the Western Australian Museum, and the 

site and disciplinary advisory boards for all that they have done, and continue to do, in assisting the Museum 

achieve its goals. 

DR KEN MICHAEL AM 

Chair, Board of Trustees 

Western Australian Museum

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I am pleased to table in Parliament the 2000–2001 Annual Report of the Western Australian Museum. 

With the election of the new Labor Government this year, it has been a great pleasure for me to assume 

responsibility for the Culture and the Arts portfolio, and all of its agencies. There can be no doubting the vital 

importance of these agencies in supporting and contributing to the knowledge base and well-being of our 

society. 

I have been impressed with the breadth of functions of the Western Australian Museum and the dedication 

of its staff. The Museum is one of the State’s oldest research institutions and continues a fine tradition of 

scholarship relating to the environment, biodiversity, culture and history. This scholarship underpins its public 

programs that are delivered across this enormous State. 

The opening of Western Australia: Land and People was just one of the achievements of the Museum this 

past year. The Maritime Museum development in Fremantle progresses well and the new Museum in Geraldton 

is already a landmark for that city. 

As Minister, I appreciate how wide is the definition of ‘Culture and the Arts’. The Museum is as much an 

institution of science as it is of the arts, and it is this cross-disciplinary nature that uniquely places the Museum 

to explore societal issues in a multidisciplinary way. 

I look forward to working with the Trustees and staff of the Museum in getting Western Australian Museum 

products widely distributed across the State and available to, and used by, all Western Australians. 

SHEILA MCHALE MLA 

Minister for Culture and the Arts 

A Message from the Minister

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PART 1 

Introduction

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BACKGROUND 


The Western Australian Museum was established in 1891 (as the ‘Perth Museum’) and its initial collections 

were of geological, ethnological and biological specimens. Indeed, it can claim to be one of the oldest 

scientific institutions in the State. In 1959, its botanical collection was transferred to the new Herbarium and 

it continued to concentrate on earth sciences and zoology. The 1960s and 1970s saw the addition of 

responsibility for developing and maintaining the State’s anthropological, archaeological, maritime 

archaeological and social and cultural history collections. 

The collections, currently numbering more than two million specimens/artefacts, are the primary focus of 

research by the Museum’s own staff and others. The Museum’s aim is to advocate knowledge about the 

collections and communicate it to the public through a variety of media, but particularly through a program 

of exhibitions and publications. 

During the year, a total of 768,947 visitors, of whom 53,487 were school students, visited the various 

Museum sites. 

The Museum’s recurrent Consolidated Grant for this year was $10,904,000, plus $1,610,000 for Capital 

Works. A further $2,150,182 was attracted from external funding sources, of which $496,818 comprised 

research grants. The Museum has a total staff of 175.94 full-time equivalents. 

ESTABLISHMENT 

The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum 

Act 1969. It is a Body Corporate with Perpetual Succession and Common Seal, governed by a Board of seven 

Trustees, including the Chair and Vice-Chair. The Governor of Western Australia appoints the seven Trustees. 

The Director General of the Ministry for Culture & the Arts, or their nominee, is a Trustee ex officio. Appointments 

are made for four years and incumbents are eligible for reappointment. 

Under section 36 of the Museum Act, the Trustees have established the following branches of the Western 

Australian Museum, each with a Board to which certain powers and authority have been delegated, under 

section 19 of the Act: 

• Western Australian Museum–Science and Culture (Perth site; Fremantle History Museum) 

• Western Australian Maritime Museum (based at Cliff Street, Fremantle) 

• Western Australian Museum–Albany 

• Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder 

• Western Australian Museum–Geraldton 

The Museum also operates Samson House in Fremantle. 

ACCOUNTABLE AUTHORITY 

Introducing the 


The Trustees are the Accountable Authority for the purposes of the Financial Administration and Audit Act 

1985.

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OTHER RELEVANT 

LEGISLATION 

State Acts (as amended) 

• Maritime Archaeology Act 1973 

Commonwealth Acts (as 

amended) 

• Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976 

• Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage Act 

1986 

PUBLIC ACCESS 


Head Office and Administration 

Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA 6000 

Telephone: (08) 9427 2700 

Facsimile: (08) 9427 2882 

Open daily 9.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. 

Boxing Day and Anzac Day 1.00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m. 

Western Australian Maritime 

Museum 

Cliff Street, Fremantle, WA 6160 

Telephone: (08) 9431 8444 

Facsimile: (08) 9431 8492 


Admission by donation 

Slipway 

Victoria Quay, Fremantle, WA 6160 

Telephone: (08) 9430 6756 

B-Shed 

Victoria Quay, Fremantle, WA 6160 

Telephone: (08) 9430 4680; (08) 9336 4151 

Facsimile: (08) 9430 4680 


Introducing the 


Fremantle History Museum 

Finnerty Street, Fremantle, WA 6160 

Telephone: (08) 9430 7966 

Facsimile: (08) 9430 7966 

Open Monday–Friday 10.30 a.m. – 4.30 p.m.; 

Saturday, Sunday and public holidays 1.00–5.00 p.m. 

Entry by donation 

Samson House 

Cnr Ellen and Ord Streets, Fremantle, WA 6160 

Telephone: (08) 9335 2553 

Open Thursday and Sunday 1.00–5.00 p.m. 

Entry donation $3.00 

Tours $5.00 per person 

Western Australian Museum– 

Albany 

Residency Road, Albany, WA 6330 

Telephone: (08) 9841 4844 

Facsimile: (08) 9841 4027 



Geraldton 

Museum Place, Batavia Coast Marina, 

Geraldton, WA 6530 

Telephone: (08) 9921 5080 

Facsimile: (08) 9921 5158 



Kalgoorlie-Boulder 

Hannan Street, Kalgoorlie, WA 6430 

Telephone: (08) 9021 8533 

Facsimile: (08) 9091 2791 


Note: All sites closed Christmas Day and Good Friday

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As part of the Ministry for Culture & the Arts, the Western Australian Museum operates within the Ministry’s 

Outcome Statement: ‘A community that is informed of, and has access to, a diverse range of innovative 

ideas, knowledge and cultural experiences’. 

The Output Description for the Western Australian Museum is: ‘Delivery and promotion of museum services 

through collection development and management, research, education and visitor services’. 

VISION 

To have all Western Australians and visitors to Western Australia visit the Museum or use the Museum services 

every year. 

MISSION 

To develop with the people of Western Australia a vital, innovative Museum and enhance appreciation and 

understanding of our natural environment and cultural heritage. 

FUNCTIONS 

The major responsibilities of the Museum are to: 

• preserve significant and representative examples of Western Australia’s heritage for the enrichment of 

present and future generations; 

• investigate the natural and cultural world; 

• share ideas and information on natural and cultural heritage, through a variety of public programs. 

STRATEGIC AIMS 

The strategic aims of the Western Australian Museum are to: 

The Museum’s Vision, Mission, 

Functions, Strategic Aims 

• implement innovative public programs across all sites; 

• enhance community consultation; 

• increase access to collections and information; 

• improve the preservation of collections; 

• maintain excellence in research programs; 

• contribute to the government’s tourism strategy; 

• increase the proportion of self-generated revenue; 

• maintain merit, equity and probity in human resources management.

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Having arrived at the end of my first full year as 

Executive Director, I can look back on 12 months that 

might indeed be described as ‘full’. The Museum has 

made advances in vision and strategy, products and 

processes. 

Staff and Trustees have worked together to develop 

a new Corporate Strategic Plan that will guide our 

decisions and resource allocation over the next five 

years. This strategic planning exercise did not see 

senior executive managers going into a secluded 

retreat and emerging with a new plan to be handed 

down, like Moses delivering the Commandments, to 

a bemused but thankful staff. Rather, it involved a 

very large number of staff, who can have true 

ownership of the vision. 

Fundamental to the strategic directions for the 

Western Australian Museum will be: 

• placing the Museum as a gateway to the natural 

and cultural heritage of Western Australia; 

• reinforcing the Museum as a forum for debate 

and discussion, whereby members of the public 

may interact with issues of significance to the 

community; 

• configuring the Museum to be able to respond 

to and profile topical issues as they are happening 

and evolving, with a focus on the scientific, 

technical and societal development of the State; 

• exploring how the intellectual strengths of the 

Museum can be more supportive of nature-based 

and cultural tourism in Western Australia; 

• taking our products and services even more into 

regional Western Australia to reinforce that we 

are indeed a Museum for all the people of this 

State; 

• claiming the Indian Ocean region, including 

South-East Asia, as our cultural and intellectual 

catchment; 

• in pursuing all of the above, working in 

partnership with other government agencies, the 

private sector and community groups. 


Executive Director’s Review 

We have developed a new concept we have called 

BiosphereWest, which embodies these and other 

directions. Underpinning this concept is the 

understanding that we humans inhabit three 

environments concurrently: 

• the natural environment 

• the social environment 

• the built environment. 

Our programs will be gateways, or portals, that allow 

the visitor to enter the experience of this State and its 

place in the world. In particular, we will explore the 

place of Western Australia in its region—South-East 

Asia and the Indian Ocean basin. Perth–Fremantle 

and Western Australia are well placed to claim this 

region as their cultural and intellectual catchment, 

and we will work with our partners in strengthening 

that regional commitment. 

I would extend thanks to all those who have assisted 

and supported the Museum in various ways during 

the year. I would particularly acknowledge the 

Minister for Culture and the Arts, the Hon. Sheila 

McHale, for her interest in and concern for the 

Museum; the Board of Trustees for their ongoing 

guidance and wisdom; the Director General and staff 

of the central Ministry for Culture & the Arts; the 

Museum’s Foundation and Friends; and, by no means 

least, the staff of the Museum who have worked so 

hard to make things happen (sometimes in the face 

of significant odds). 

And finally, while it might seem a small thing, the 

Museum launched this year a new family of logos 

that link the various sites of the Western Australian 

Museum and yet recognise their unique attributes. I 

like the colourful nature of the new logos, as they 

emphasise the liveliness of museums rather than 

conveying a stuffy image. In each logo, we emphasise 

the ‘use’ of museums, because that is why we are 

here: to be used, and by as many people as possible. 

DR GARY MORGAN

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OVERVIEW OF CORE 

FUNCTIONS 

The Western Australian Museum’s core functions can 

be categorised as: 

• collections management 

• knowledge generation 

• knowledge communication. 

It is important to appreciate, however, that these 

functions are a continuum—from collecting and 

collections management, through research and 

investigation, to communicating information through 

media such as exhibitions, publications, lectures and 

the Internet. The fundamental purpose of the 

Museum is discovery leading to learning. 

The Museum has advanced on or concluded several 

major projects during the year. The new Maritime 

Museum building rises strikingly on the Fremantle 

Port foreshore, and its iconic architectural lines are 

now evident. Exhibition planning for the new 

Museum goes well, and is on track for the opening 

in late 2002. 

The new Museum at Geraldton was handed over to 

the Western Australian Museum in July and was 

opened to the public in December. The new building 

is in a spectacular setting in the new marina, and 

major exhibitions will be installed and opened 

progressively throughout 2001–2002. 

Collections Management 

The Museum recognises its vital role as a custodian 

of the State’s collections of scientific and cultural 

heritage. The management and proper use of these 

collections are fundamental to our operations, as they 

comprise the objects that excite, inspire and educate 

our visitors. 

The Museum also recognises that it must play a 

leading role in acquiring objects for these collections 



that reflect the nature of the society in which we live 

and enhance our understanding of it. 

The highlight of collections management was the 

return of Australia II, the historic America’s Cup 

winning yacht, and, after careful negotiations, 

approval by the Museum for Australia II to participate 

in the America’s Cup Jubilee Regatta in Cowes, 

England. Seeing Australia II sailing again off Fremantle 

brought back vivid memories to many people of the 

1983 win at Newport and the exciting 1987 defence 

at Fremantle. 

Another major event was the unveiling of the newly 

restored cannon from the English East India Company 

ship Trial by the Minister for the Arts. Mr Peter Hickson, 

a Trustee of the Western Australian Museum and a 

Board Member of the Western Australian Maritime 

Museum, kindly sponsored the building of the Trial 

guncarriage to hold the cannon. 

On the testing side, the Museum’s ageing facilities 

continue to prove a great challenge for us. Our 

collections are poorly housed and now far exceed 

the storage areas we have for them. A major cleanup 

of the main Perth site resulted in the following 

significant improvements in collection storage: 

• relocation of the entire fish collection (43,000 jars 

of alcohol-preserved specimens) to a new 

flammable liquids store in the ‘Tunnel’ in the 

Francis Street Building; 

• movement of more than 700 20-litre drums 

containing large specimens to an off-site 

commercial dangerous goods store. This, 

however, is expensive and provides unsatisfactory 

access to specimens; 

• the installation of an additional 430 square metres 

of compactus shelving in the Lower Basement 

specimen storage area, in order to accommodate 

specimens not previously able to fit into the 

flammable liquids store.

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Knowledge Generation 

The Museum recognises that research is a mainstay 

of its operations and that the knowledge generated 

through research by staff and external researchers 

working on the Museum’s collections must be of 

relevance to our society. 

The past year has seen more than 140 scientific and 

popular publications resulting from research by 

Museum staff and associates. Among them was a 

truly significant work, Broken Circles: Fragmenting 

Indigenous Families, by Dr Anna Haebich, which 

went on to win the Premier’s Book Award in New 

South Wales. One of our staff, Dr John Long, was 

awarded the highly prestigious Eureka Prize for 

Promotion of Science. This was a great recognition 

of John’s work, but also reflects the very high priority 

the Museum places on all forms of science 

communication. 

A high-profile event was the discovery of the wrecks 

of the ships of the explorers de Freycinet and Dampier, 

at the Falkland and Ascension islands, respectively, 

by an expedition led by Dr Mike McCarthy from the 

Western Australian Maritime Museum. Who can 

forget the image flashed around the world of the 

excited expeditioners holding aloft the ship’s bell from 

Dampier’s Roebuck? The expedition was made 

possible with more than $60,000 of external funds 

and $10,000 more in sponsorships. 

The ongoing partnership between the Museum and 

Woodside Energy saw an International Marine 

Biological Workshop held at Dampier. Forty participants 

from around the world, foremost experts in their field, 

studied the natural habitats and biota of the rich 

Dampier Archipelago. Woodside Energy has 

sponsored the Western Australian Museum to the 

extent of $640,000 over a four-year period. Projects 

include a major biodiversity study in the Dampier 

Archipelago and the production of a video 

documentary. 



Other highlights included the following: 

• A significant paper by Charles Dortch and 

collaborators documented research on Devils Lair 

cave. Through the use of a variety of advanced 

dating techniques, the age of the deposit has 

been established at 50,000 years before present 

(BP), with the first traces of human occupation 

appearing at about 48,000 BP. 

• The publication of ‘Biodiversity of the Southern 

Carnarvon Basin’ brought to a close a project 

commenced in 1994 in conjunction with the 

Department of Conservation and Land 

Management (CALM) and funded by the 

Australian Nature Conservation Agency. This 

Supplement to the Records of the Western 

Australian Museum contains 19 papers and sets 

a new benchmark for collaborative studies 

documenting the biodiversity of Western 

Australia. 

• John Long undertook a field expedition (partly 

funded through a grant from the Museum 

Foundation) to search for dinosaurs in the Great 

Sandy Desert. This resulted in the discovery of an 

oviraptorosaurid dinosaur bone of Late 

Cretaceous age from the Giralia Range, as well 

as an isolated bone of a mosasaur and a variety 

of fossilised shark teeth. 

• Ric How, Norah Cooper, Ron Johnstone and 

Laurie Smith participated in a survey of the 

mammals and herpetofauna of the Yampi 

Peninsula in the Kimberley, run by Environment 

Australia. This survey, undertaken in March with 

helicopter support, enabled sampling there for 

the first time in the wet season. 

• Materials Conservation developed a program of 

analysis for residual chloride salts. 

• The first detailed study of the chemical and 

physical microenvironment of the James 

Matthews wreck in Cockburn Sound was 

undertaken.

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• With significant input from volunteers, the 

Museum library indexed more than 900 journal 

articles, thus greatly assisting with knowledge 

generation from the collections. 

Knowledge Communication 

The Museum recognises that, in order for the 

knowledge it generates to have impact, it must be 

communicated in a relevant, engaging and 

interactive way, and that the Museum must respond 

effectively to the needs and wants of its customers. 

The knowledge we communicate will more and more 

reflect that gained through partnerships with 

government agencies, industry and the community. 

A new major exhibition, Western Australia: Land and 

People, opened this year in the restored Hackett Hall 

at the Perth site. This is a broadly sweeping 

exploration of people and their place in Western 

Australia, incorporating history, anthropology and 

natural science. The exhibition would not have 

happened without the huge support of the Lotteries 

Commission. 

The year saw a good program of temporary 

exhibitions, including the moving Anne Frank: A 

History for Today. Another highlight was the 

completion and opening of the Baudin: The French 

Connection exhibition, which commemorates the 

historic and scientific aspects of Baudin’s exploration 

of Australia. This exhibition will travel to many centres 

around the State as well as interstate. This is the first 

time the Museum has developed an exhibition for a 

State-wide tour. 

Design and development continued for the exhibition 

galleries at the new Maritime Museum, which will 

house the complete maritime history collection. Major 

themes are ‘Indian Ocean’, ‘Fishing’, ‘Leisure’, 

‘Fremantle–Swan River’, ‘Maritime Trade’ and ‘Naval 

Defence’. The designers, Cunningham Martyn 



Design, based in Melbourne, are preparing detailed 

drawings and documentation. 

Our regional branches continue to take Museum 

products outside the Perth–Fremantle basin. The new 

Western Australian Museum–Geraldton is already 

proving to be a significant focus point for Geraldton. 

The Batavia portico was installed this year in the soon 

to be completed Shipwrecks Gallery and stands as a 

dramatic statement of the maritime history of this part 

of the State. 

Our Kalgoorlie-Boulder branch won the 2000 

Goldfields Business Awards inaugural Goldfields 

Tourism Award. Work began this year on its new 

ethno-botanical garden, which shows the 

relationship between Aboriginal life and the botanic 

environment. 

The Anzac 2001 commemorations at Albany revolved 

around the Museum’s Albany branch, with the Light 

Horse Memorial Troop a highlight. All of the regional 

branches provide important conduits between the 

Museum and regional Western Australia. 

The Museum Assistance Program visited 104 small 

museums and communities and conducted 13 

workshops this year. Without this program, many 

small museums would have little or no direct contact 

with professional museum expertise. 

Other significant achievements in knowledge 

communication throughout the year were as follows: 

• A marketing strategy was developed to provide 

a framework for marketing and communications 

during the development of the new Maritime 

Museum. The plan covers communication with 

key stakeholders and promotion to attract 

sponsors, foster partnerships and engage public 

interest. Presentation materials, including a 

multimedia ‘fly-through’ of the new facility and a 

colour pamphlet, were developed, and the new

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Museum was promoted through the web site, 

magazine and newsletter articles, advertising 

(including a special promotion on Channel 7 

during the Olympics in association with the 

Western Australian Tourism Commission), and 

media relations. 

• The submarine Ovens continued to attract people 

from all over the world (more than 41,000 

visitors). After a closure from February to May for 

painting, the Ovens was officially reopened by 

the Patron, the Hon. Kim Beazley (Leader of the 

Federal Opposition), in May at a ceremony with 

300 invited guests. In the same week, 

International Museum Day was celebrated at the 

submarine with a ‘Forties Swing Dance’, attended 

by members of Museums Australia. 

• The 50 specially trained Submarine Guides 

received the prestigious Fremantle Heritage 

Award 2001 for their ‘significant contribution to 

Fremantle’s social, cultural, built or natural 

heritage’. 

• The Museum partnered the Perth International 

Arts Festival (PIAF) in developing the Grapevine 

Club at the Perth site. 

• Alcoa FrogWAtch remains a wonderfully 

successful community program that connects the 

expertise of the Museum with people around the 

State. This year’s Frog Friendly Day was an 

exuberant occasion, marked by a love of all things 

green that croak. 

• Dr Pichai Sonchaeng and Mr Adisorn Monvises 

of Burapha University, Thailand, visited the 

Museum to develop ideas for the university’s new 

seven-storey museum devoted to marine science, 

and to foster future cooperation between 

Burapha University and the Aquatic Zoology 

Department. 

• The Dampier Marine Gallery and the Dampier 

web site were both completed in July, thanks to 

ongoing support from Woodside Energy. 



• A 48-minute documentary video was completed 

in June. The production has twin themes: the 

biodiversity of the Dampier Archipelago and the 

role of the Museum in assessing its biodiversity. 

This was again through Woodside support. 

• The Western Australian Museum–Albany had a 

phenomenal response from throughout the 

region to its call for items and writings to go in a 

time capsule. 

• The Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie- 

Boulder successfully concluded negotiations to 

display the State Gold Collection, along with the 

first gold bar poured in Kalgoorlie. 

• The Materials Conservation Department 

undertook a one-month program setting up a 

shipwreck conservation laboratory in Trinidad- 

Tobago and developed a conservation 

photographic archive on the City of Launceston 

in Port Phillip Bay. 

• Materials Conservation also treated an original 

letter by Albert Einstein written in German to La 

Guardia, the Mayor of New York. This became a 

key local piece for a travelling exhibition on 

Einstein. 

• The Museum provided assistance to 58,988 

school students throughout the year. 

Organisational 

Structure

COMPARATIVE ATTENDANCE FIGURES, 

1999–2000 AND 2000–2001 

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Visitors to Western Australian Museum Sites 

Accounts and Financial Statements 

Public School Groups Totals 

Perth Site (Western Australian Museum–Science and Culture) 

2000–2001 210,964 28,886 239,850 

1999–2000 238,786 26,683 265,469 

Maritime Museum and B-Shed/Submarine 


1999–2000 199,648 20,987 220,635 

Fremantle History Museum and Samson House 


1999–2000 48,911 3,721 52,632 

Western Australian Museum–Albany 


1999–2000 67,049 3,998 71,047 

Western Australian Museum–Geraldton 


1999–2000 55,413 1,541 56,954 

Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder 


1999–2000 107,838 2,058 109,896 

Western Australian Museum Annual Totals 


1999–2000 717,645 58,988 776,633 

MONTHLY VISITORS 2000–2001 

CENTRE Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun TOTAL 

PERTH 28,803 23,182 16,967 24,233 20,104 16,201 23,637 11,293 15,877 18,519 17,920 23,114 239,850 

FREMANTLE 4,835 4,341 4,000 3,932 4,208 2,661 4,024 2,783 2,775 3,335 3,355 3,801 44,050 

MAR MUS 18,762 17,166 22,069 21,478 19,229 17,771 24,224 12,894 18,248 21,725 13,258 17,123 223,947 

SAMS HSE 42 38 47 52 64 22 56 37 42 43 54 56 553 

ALBANY 3,162 2,975 5,027 5,308 4,582 5,790 12,959 3,087 6,801 14,771 4,287 3,748 72,497 

GERALDTON 4,499 10,089 13,912 9,938 6,857 6,965 6,855 1,520 1,587 3,156 2,315 3,619 71,312 

KALGOORLIE 9,970 8,761 12,252 10,351 7,295 6,485 8,485 4,818 7,813 8,985 7,759 7,065 100,039 

TOTAL 70,073 66,552 74,274 75,292 62,339 55,895 80,240 36,432 53,143 70,534 48,948 58,526 752,248

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Foundation 

Aquatic Zoology 

Terrestrial 

Invertebrates 

Science Terrestrial Vertebrates 

and Culture 

Earth and Planetary 

Sciences 

Minister for Culture and the Arts Anthropology 

Board of Trustees 

History 

Education 

Maritime Museum Maritime History 

Maritime 

Archaeology 

Ministry for Culture Executive Director 

& the Arts Education 

Management & Business 

Development 

8.5% 

New Maritime Museum 

13.8% 

Superannuation 

4.0% 

Building Services 

6.5% 

Salaries On-costs (WCI) 

1.4% 

Consolidated Fund 

Total Recurrent Expenditure 2000-2001 

FBT 

0.2% 

Regional Museums 

9.2% Maritime Museum 

11.8% 


Museum Friends 

Salaries & Allowances 

Tribunal 

1.2% 

Science & Culture Directorate 

21.1% 

Exhibition Development 

3.7% 

Organisational Structure 

Museum Services 

8.6% 

Visitor Services 

10.0% 

Visitor Services Exhibition and Design 

Marketing and Media 

Finance and 

Administration 

Human Resources 

Information Systems 

Business Publications 

Management and 

Development Imaging and New Media 


Shop 

Property and Security 

Records Management 

Risk Management 

Materials Conservation 

Museum Assistance 

Program 

Library 

Western Australian 

Museum–Albany 


Museum–Geraldton 


Museum–Kalgoorlie- 

Boulder

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TRUSTEES OF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 

Dr Ken Michael AM BE(Hons) DIC PhD FTS HonFIEAust FCIT FAIM Chair 

Mrs Sally Anne Hasluck Vice-Chair (until 17 April 2001) 

Professor Lyn Beazley MA(Hons) PhD 

Mr Alastair Bryant BBus (ex officio) 

Mrs Ainslie Evans 

Mrs Bridget Faye AM BA DipTheol 

Dr Charles J. Fox BA(Hons) MA PhD 

Mr Peter Hickson (until 17 April 2001) 

Ms Irene Stainton (observer) 

Trustees, Boards and Committees 

BOARDS AND COMMITTEES 

Western Australian Museum Foundation Board of 

Governors 

Sir Charles Court AK KCMG OBE CitWA Patron 

Mr Simon Lee AO Chair 

Ms Julie Bishop LLB MP Deputy Chair 

Mr Bob Cronin 

Mr Darcy Farrell 

Mr Michael Gangemi OAM JP 

Mrs Sally Anne Hasluck (Trustees’ representative) (until May 2001) 

Mr David Maguire 

Dr Ken Michael AM BE(Hons) DIC PhD FTS HonFIEAust FCIT FAIM (Trustees’ representative) 

Dr Gary Morgan BSc(Hons) PhD (ex officio) 

Mr John Poynton 

Mr Timothy Ungar 

Museum of Natural Science Board 

(to December 2000) 

Dr Phillip Playford AM BSc(Hons) PhD DSc Chair 

Professor Lynda Beazley MA PhD (Trustees’ representative) 

Dr John Dodson BSc(Hons) MSc PhD 

Dr Jean Hillier BSc(Hons) PhD 

Ms Elaine Horne BScEd MEd 

Mr Barry Muir BSc(Hons) (to October 2000) 

Professor Harry Recher BSc PhD 

Mr Enzo Sirna DipEd MACE MIEA(WA) MACEA

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Western Australian Museum Aboriginal Advisory Committee 

Mr Brian Blurton 

Mr Ken Colbung AM MBE JP 

Ms Sandra Hill 

Mr Darryl Kickett BA 

Mr Noel Nannup 

Mr Craig Somerville BA 

Ms Irene Stainton BA 

Ms Verna Voss DipEd MA 

Western Australian Maritime Museum Board 

Mr Michael Kailis Chair 

Professor Frank Broeze LittD Vice-Chair (deceased April 2001) 

Mr Ronald Packer BCom AIVLE(Econ) FAICD Solicitor of the Supreme Court (England and Wales) Vice-Chair 

(from June 2001) 


Mr John Farrell MechEng 

Mr Ray Glickman MBus MA(Oxon) MX(Brun) CQSW FAIM AIMM 

Mr Peter Hickson (ex officio; Trustees’ representative) (to April 2001) 

Ms Karen Jackson BA GradDipAppHerStud (to 30 June 2001) 

Mr Doug Kerr 

Mr David Maguire (ex officio) (from February 2001) 

Dr Gary Morgan BSc(Hons) MSc PhD (ex officio) 

Mr Noel Robins OAM (to May 2001; leave of absence from June 2000) 

Mr Malcolm Smith (from December 2000) 

Western Australian Maritime Museum Archaeology Advisory 

Committee 

Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO MA DPhil Chair 

Mr Ian Baxter 

Dr Christopher Chubb BSc(Hons) PhD 

Dr Ian Crawford BA(Hons) DipPrehistoricArchaeol MA PhD 

Professor David S. Dolan PhD 

Mr Ian Milliner 

Mr Michael J. Myers 

Associate Professor John Penrose PhD 

Mr Chris Simpson

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Western Australian Maritime Museum History Advisory 

Committee 

Associate Professor Ken McPherson Chair 

Ms Anne Brake 

Ms Margaret Medcalf BA ALAA (retired) 

Dr Brian Shepherd 

Dr Malcolm Tull 

Dr Andrea Witcomb 


Western Australian Museum–Albany Advisory Board 

Mr Bill Moir Chair 

Ms Dorothy Bail 

Ms Dixie Betts 

Cr Judy Cecil (City of Albany representative) 

Mr Phil Cockayne 

Ms Ainslie Evans (Trustees’ representative) 

Dr Glenda Lindsey 

Mr Chris Parr 

Mr Robert Reynolds (Department of Indigenous Affairs) 

Western Australian Museum–Geraldton Board 

Mr Malcolm Smith Chair 

Mr Peter Rock LLB Vice-Chair 

Mr Ron Ashplant 

Mr Wayne Collyer (from December 2000) 

Mr Barry Dodd 

Mr Shane Harriot 

Dr Mort Harslett (from December 2000) 

Ms Sally Anne Hasluck (Trustees’ representative) (to April 2001) 

Ms Elaine Patterson 

Mr Chris Richards 

Mr Bob Urqhart

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Mid West Museum Development Committee 

Mr Malcolm Smith Chair 

Mr Graeme Basjou (Mid West Development Corporation representative) 

Mr Max Cramer 

Mr Barry Dodd (Aboriginal community representative) 

Ms Ruth Ezes (community representative) 

Ms Sally Anne Hasluck (Trustees’ representative) (to April 2001) 

Dr Rik Malhotra MSc PhD 

Dr Gary Morgan BSc(Hons) MSc PhD 

Ms Elaine Patterson 

Mr Peter Rock 

Mr Andrew Storey 

Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder Board 

Mr Ian Kealley BF Chair 

Mr Barry Kingston (Kalgoorlie-Boulder Chamber of Commerce representative) Vice-Chair 

Mr Frank Andinach 

Ms Bridget Faye (Trustees’ representative) 

Mr David Johns 

Ms Amanda Lovitt 

Cr Karen McGay (City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder representative) 

Ms Barbara Piercey 

Mr Geoffrey Stokes

Abbott, Mr Michael 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 

Commission 

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies 

Centre 

Albany City Council 

Alcoa World Alumina Australia 

Anderson, Mr James N. 

Anderson, Ms Norma 

Ansett Australia Pty Ltd 

Arrow Pearling 

Aubrey, Mr G. 

Australian Acoustical Society 

Australian Biological Resources Study 

Australian Nature Conservation Agency 

Australian Research Council 

Ball, Ms L. J. 

Batavia Coast Maritime Heritage Association 

Batavia Motor Inne 

Baynes, Dr A. 

Bio-Gene Bioprospecting Ltd 

Biota Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd 

Bloffwitch, Hon. Bob 

Bolrette Pty Ltd 

Boot, Mr Jim 

Brambles Industrial Services 

British Airways 

Busby, Mr Bill 

Butler, Mr W. H. and Mrs M. 

Cadbury Confectionery 

Central West College of TAFE 

Charlton, Mr Mike 

Chevron Australia 

City of Geraldton 

Clema, Mr J. 

Coates Hire 

Cornish, Ms Marjorie 

Cramer, Mr Max 

Criddle, Hon. Murray 

Davies, Ms Jenny 

Department of Communications, 

Information Technology and the Arts 

(Federal Government) 

Department of Conservation and Land 

Management 

Dulux Pty Ltd 

Dylan’s on the Terrace, Albany 

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Sponsors, Benefactors and 

Granting Agencies 

Edwards, Mr Hugh 

Film and Television Institute 

Geraldton Filipino Community 

Geraldton Fishermen’s Cooperative 

Geraldton Newspapers 

Grguric, Dr Ben 

Godard, Mr Philippe 

Goh, Dr P. 

Guardian Print 

Hanrahan, Dr John 

Hardy, Sir James 

Hasluck, Justice N. P. 

Henderson, Mr G. J. 

Hickson, Mr Peter 

Hides Consulting Group 

Howarth, Mr and Mrs A. 

Industrial Bank of Japan Ltd 

Intico WA 

Itochu Corporation 

JOTUN Australia Pty Ltd 

Kailis, Dr Patricia 

Kailis family 

Kawasaki Steel Corporation 

Kolichis, Mr Nicholas 

Lamb for Liquor 

Lashmar, Mr John 

Latitude Fisheries 

Limestone Resources Australia 

Longbottom, Mr Alan 

Lotteries Commission of Western Australia 

Low Tae Kwon Do Academy (Geraldton 

and Perth) 

MacLeod, Dr I. D. 

Maersk Line 

Mainpeak Cottesloe 

Manners, Mr R. 

Maraldi, Mr George 

Maraldi family 

Marshall, Dr B. and Mrs A. 

Marubeni Corporation 

Matthews, Mr J. A. 

Mckay, Mr Rod 

Mercure Inns 

Mid West Education Centre 

Mitsubishi Corporation 

Mitsui & Co. Ltd 

Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort 

Moore Stephens BG 

Mt Romance, Albany 

NEC Australia 

Nichevich, Mr R. 

Nippon Steel Corporation 

NKK Corporation 

Nursery Industries Association 

Packer, Mr Ronald 

Percent for Arts Scheme 

Perth Parmelia Hilton 

Phelps, Ms R. 

Platts Engineering Pty Ltd 

Royal Brunei Airlines 

Playford, Dr P. 

Royal Perth Yacht Club 

Royal Western Australian Historical Society 

Shark Bay Salt Joint Venture 

Shinagowa Thermal Plastics 

Shire of Greenough 

Shire of Shark Bay 

Simon Lee Foundation 

SimsMetals Ltd 

Skywest Airlines 

Smith, Mr Graeme 

Smith, Mr J. A. 

Spices Catering 

Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd 

Sun City Resort 

Surplus Equipment Brokers 

TAS Agencies 

Telstra CountryWide 

Thrifty Car Rentals, Karratha 

Thundelarra Exploration 

Toho Gas Company 

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc. 

Tokyo Gas Company Limited 

Tokyu Corporation 

Wallenius Wilhelmsen 

Water and Rivers Commission 

Water Corporation of Western Australia 

Wesfarmers Transport 

Williams, Dr Martin 

WIN Television Network 

WMC Resources Limited 

WMC-Sir Lindesay Clark Trust Fund 

Woodside Energy Ltd

Adams, Mr Steve 

Alexander, Mr Don 

Allen, Ms Gemma 

Anderson, Ms Angela 

Anderson, Mr Dick 

Anderson, Ms Gwenda 

Andrews, Ms Mary 

Appleton, Mr James 

Arthur, Mr Robert 

Aston, Ms Edna 

Austin, Mr David 

Austin, Ms Marie 

Baff, Mr Joe 

Bajrovic, Mr Tom 

Baker, Mr Allan 

Baker, Ms Bin 

Ballantyne, Mr Paul James 

Barlick, Mr Ivor 

Barrett, Mr Mark 

Bartley, Mr Graeme 

Beale, Mr Darryl 

Beale, Mr Jeffery 

Beaver, Mr Trevor 

Beilby, Mr Michael 

Bell, Mr Alec 

Bennett, Ms Christobel 

Bennett, Ms Clare 

Berry, Ms Amanda 

Beyboer, Mr George 

Bide, Mr Max 

Bishop, Mr Ian 

Blakers, Mr William 

Bloome, Mr Carl 

Bolt, Ms Melinda 

Bonnardaux, Ms Mutsuko 

Borgan, Ms Mary 

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Bowen, Mr Hugo 

Bowen, Ms Rosann 

Bradfield, Mr Bruce 

Bradley, Mr Jason 

Bradley, Ms Judy 

Brown, Mr Andrew 

Brown, Ms Diana 

Brown, Ms Dianne June 

Browne-Cooper, Mr Robert 

Bryant, Ms Betty 

Bryne, Ms Rosemary 

Buchanan, Mr Ian 

Buck, Dr Alannah 

Bush, Mr Brian 

Bush, Mr Tony 

Cain, Mr Don 

Campbell, Ms Julie 

Carmel, Sr 

Caroll, Ms Andrea 

Chandler, Ms Lisa 

Charlick, Mr Ivor 

Chilvers, Mr Roy 

Clancy, Mr Joe 

Clancy, Ms Shirley 

Clarkson, Ms Susan 

Clifford, Ms Rochelle 

Clune, Mr Chris 

Clune, Mr Greg 

Coleman, Mr David 

Commys, Ms Aagje 

Cook, Ms Geraldine 

Cooksey, Mr Doug 

Cote, Mr Maurice 

Couston, Mr Reg 

Cowan, Mr Bill 

Craig, Mr Robert 


The Trustees and staff of the Western Australian Museum gratefully acknowledge the contribution made by volunteers to all facets of 

the Museum’s activities. Without their dedicated assistance, many projects and services offered by the Museum would not be possible. 

Particular thanks are due to the following people, who regularly, and over extended periods of time, have provided many hours of 

valuable service. 

Crane, Mr Bruce 

Crisford, Mr John 

Cross, Ms Marion 

Cuddy, Ms Maureen 

Cuddy, Mr Sean 

Cumberland-Brown, Mr Jim 

Cummings, Mr Andrew 

Cunningham, Ms Jenny 

Czabotar, Mr Sid 

Darnell, Ms Hazel 

Darnell, Mr John 

Dean-Smith, Mr Michael 

Deloli, Ms Kathy 

den Hartog, Ms Barbara 

Desmond, Mr Anthony 

Desmond, Ms Bobbi 

Desmond, Mr George 

Dewar, Mr Bob 

Digweed, Ms Blythe 

Doust, Mr Raymond Eric 

Dowsett, Ms Helen 

Drysdale, Mr Robert 

Dyer, Mr Stephen 

Earley, Ms Ailsa 

Ellis, Ms Clare 

Ende, Ms Janelle 

Eng, Mr Samual 

Erne, Ms Patricia 

Evans, Mr Owen 

Ewens, Mr Brian 

Faulds, Mr Ronald 

Fewster, Mr Damian 

Finlayson, Mr Don 

Finney, Mr Michael 

Fitzhardinge, Mr Mark B. 

French, Ms Virginia 

Volunteers 

Freund, Mr John 

Fullwood, Mr David 

Gaul, Ms Ann 

Gaul, Mr John 

Gibbs, Mr Frank 

Gibson, Mr Harrold 

Gilman, Mr Joel 

Girardi, Ms Loretta 

Glass, Dr Frances Devlin 

Gomez, Mr Salvador 

Goodman, Mr Brian 

Goretti, Sr 

Grant, Ms Sarah 

Green, Ms Susan 

Gregory, Ms Lorraine 

Hamilton, Mr Gill 

Hamilton, Ms Robin 

Hansen, Ms Gladys 

Hansen, Ms Sarah 

Harcourt Smith, Mr John 

Heald, Mr Daniel 

Healey, Ms Suzanne 

Heard, Ms Kaylene 

Hems, Ms Christine 

Henson, Mr Dean 

Heriot, Mr Shane 

Heriot, Ms Sue 

Hewitt, Ms Joy 

Hicks, Mr Richard 

Higgins, Ms Kylie 

Higginson, Ms Nancy 

Hold, Ms Mary 

Hold, Mr Ron 

Hollas, Mr Gary 

Holman, Mr Alf 

Holman, Mr Charles

Howard, Mr Roger 

Howe, Mr Keith 

Howells, Ms Doreen 

Inglis, Mr Denis 

Ivery, Mr Bob 

James, Mr William 

Johnson, Mr Ian 

Johnston, Ms Judith Anne 

Johnstone, Ms Christine 

Kavanagh, Mr Tom 

Kawauchi, Ms Myako 

Keating, Mr John 

Keen, Mr Michael 

Keen, Ms Zena 

Kelly, Ms Eileen 

Kelly, Mr Frank 

Kelly, Ms Leandra 

Kemp, Ms Annabeth 

Kenney, Mr Sean 

Kenny, Ms Dawn 

Kirkby, Mr Tony 

Konig, Ms Genevieve 

Krause, Ms Kathy 

Kuca-Thompson, Ms Christine 

Lambert, Ms Katja 

Larkin, Ms Vera 

Lauper, Ms Ruth 

Lawrence, Mr Paul 

Leary, Mr Brian 

Leary, Ms Jean 

Leaver, Ms Sue 

Lefroy, Ms Davinia 

Letchford, Ms Jerri 

Lever, Ms Sue 

Limonas, Ms Claudia 

Litster, Mr Neil 

Lowe, Mr Chris 

MacFarlane, Ms Clare 

Macgill, Ms Freda 

Mackay, Ms Marian 

Maede-Hunter, Mr Ryan 

Maley, Mr Bruce 

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Mallard, Ms Julie 

Mallard, Ms Vicky 

Manton, Mr Albi 

Marsh, Ms Loisette 

Marshall, Mr Kevin 

Martin, Mr Navarro 

Mathea, Mr Peter 

McGrath, Mr Sean 

McGrath, Ms Orla 

Mckay, Ms Marian W. 

McManus, Ms Claire 

McMillan, Mr Peter 

McMurdoo, Mr Greg 

McQuiod, Mr David 

Mellings, Mr Peter 

Mills, Mr Leonard 

Mitchell, Ms Lesley 

Mitchell, Ms Truda 

Moir, Ms Amelia 

Moir, Mr Sean 

Mollett, Mr John 

Morris, Mr Dick 

Morrison, Mr Hugh 

Mueller, Mr Otto 

Murphy, Ms Margo 

Navarro, Mr Martin 

Nejad, Mr Sam 

Newell, Mr Daniel 

Newman, Mr Raymond 

Newnham, Mr Arthur 

Nicholas, Ms Mandy 

Nichols, Mr Ron 

O’Boyle, Mr Patrick 

Osman, Mr Trevor 

Parker, Ms Ann 

Parker, Ms Eleanor 

Pasveer, Ms Juliette 

Paterson, Mr Grant 

Paterson, Ms Yvonne 

Paton, Mr Bob 

Pattison, Mr John 

Pearson, Ms Brenda P. M. 


Penson, Mr Don 

Penny, Mr Brendon 

Perera, Mr Sunil 

Perry, Mr Malcolm 

Peters, Mr Victor 

Poole, Mr Andrew 

Pouleris, Ms Kathleen 

Poyser, Mr David 

Quill, Ms Carol 

Ray, Mr Peter 

Reeve, Mr Arthur 

Regan, Mr Jack 

Renwick, Ms Jessie 

Rich, Mr Paul 

Riggs, Ms Margaret 

Riley, Mr Jack 

Robert, Ms Allison 

Roberts, Mr Andrew 

Roberts, Mr Michael 

Roberts, Ms Holly 

Robinson, Ms Jennifer 

Robinson, Ms Kathryn 

Robinson, Mr Laurie 

Rowlands, Ms Kathlynne 

Sampey, Ms Margaret 

Samuel, Mr Gordon 

Sandstrom, Ms Liane 

Seats, Mr Michael 

Seats, Mr Tim 

Sedich, Ms Anika 

Sedunary, Ms Ann 

Seeker, Mr Simon 

Self, Mr Jason 

Shaw, Ms Dena 

Shaw, Mr Frank 

Shearer, Ms Isolde 

Shekkerman, Ms Bep 

Sheridan, Ms Helen 

Shumacher, Mr Reg 

Smith, Ms E. 

Smith, Ms Jean 

Smith, Mr Joe 

Volunteers 

Stone, Mr Phil 

Strahan, Mr Edward 

Strohmann, Mr Heinz 

Summerhayes, Mr Ronald 

Sutcliffe, Mr John 

Swain, Mr Lawrence 

Talbot, Ms Val 

Tallowin, Mr Richard 

Taylor, Ms Sally 

Tetley, Ms Adriana 

Thompson, Mr Jeff 

Tinc, Ms Olivia 

Tong, Mr Charlie 

Tulloch, Mr Don 

Tunmore, Ms Heather 

Tweedie, Mr Ian 

Vahala, Ms Rachel 

Varley, Ms Kylie 

Vaughan, Ms Barbara 

Veyradier, Mr Pascal 

Vink, Mr Gerry 

Walker, Mr Peter 

Ward, Mr Steve 

Watson, Mr Bob 

Watson, Mr Donald 

Webb, Ms Michelle 

Webster, Mr Steve 

Werling, Mr Ben 

Whisson, Mr Corey 

White, Mr Graham 

Whitfield-King, Ms Julie 

Wilson, Ms Diana 

Wilson, Mr Grahame 

Wilson, Ms Jenny 

Wilson, Mr Kieran 

Wilson, Ms Rie 

Winton, Mr Trevor 

Worsley, Ms Jill 

Worsley, Mr Peter 

Worsley, Mr Tom 

Young, Ms Melanie

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PRINCIPAL AIMS 


• To raise funds to improve the Western Australian Museum’s public programs and field activities, to extend 

its research efforts, and to revitalise its network of six metropolitan and regional museums. 

• To help develop an institution of international renown. 

• To support projects at all six Museum sites throughout the State, and to introduce exciting initiatives that 

are beyond the scope of government funding. 

• To encourage greater public awareness of the activities of the Museum and its importance to the State 

and its people. 

• To establish a capital base, over a period of time, to provide income to finance these activities. 

ESTABLISHMENT 

The Western Australian Museum Foundation was established in May 1995 and publicly launched in 1997. It 

recently completed its sixth year of operations. 

FOUNDATION OBJECTIVE 

In the words of Simon Lee AO, Chairman of the Foundation: 

The State Government is a strong supporter of the Museum. However, it is clear the commitment needs 

to be shared by commerce and the community if we are to achieve our goals. We believe that with the 

support of the Foundation, dedicated people who work within the Museum will be able to help us better 

understand where we come from as a community, where we are and where we are going. 

The Western Australian Museum Foundation seeks support from the broad-based Western Australian 

community to help realise the Museum’s greater vision and achieve its objectives for the benefit of all Western 

Australians and visitors to this State. The Foundation invites the community to actively participate in developing 

a world-class Museum for Western Australia—a Museum that will provide the people of this State with a 

better understanding of both the past and present and thereby enhance their prospects of securing a better 

future for themselves and future generations. To quote Sir Paul Hasluck: ‘A nation that does not respect its 

past has no future’. 

The Western Australian Government has been very generous in its support of the Museum and Foundation. 

In 1996, it agreed to match every dollar raised by the Foundation to a total value of $3 million over five years. 

This translates into a significant contribution to the achievement of the Foundation’s objective to establish a 

capital fund of $5 million to support the Museum on an ongoing basis. These funds, along with generous 

donations from both the corporate and private sectors, will enable the Museum to fulfil some of its key 

objectives for the benefit of the community it serves. 

ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS 


Foundation 

The Western Australian Museum Foundation has been active over the past year in its efforts to encourage 

support from all sectors of the community. Major corporate sponsorships and individual donations have 

enabled important projects to be undertaken and exhibitions developed. These include:

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• Alcoa FrogWAtch: A generous sponsorship 

from Alcoa World Alumina Australia has ensured 

the continuation of the very popular and environmentally 

important FrogWAtch program. Alcoa’s 

continued sponsorship has facilitated program 

enhancements including: a dedicated web site 

and the development of a complementary program, 

‘Building Frog Friendly Gardens’. 

• Promotion of regional sites: The generous 

sponsorship of services and broadcast time by 

WIN Television Network and the Film and 

Television Institute has provided the Western 

Australian Museum with an outstanding 

opportunity to promote its regional presence in 

Albany, Geraldton and Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Three 

30-second television commercials were produced 

and are being broadcast through the WIN 

Television network. 

• Dampier Archipelago marine biological 

survey project: Woodside Energy Ltd has 

committed $640,000 to this project, which 

comprises a survey of all major marine habitats 

in the Dampier Archipelago region; an 

International Marine Biological Workshop; a 

marine biological display at the Museum’s Perth 

site; a dedicated web site; and a 48-minute 

documentary and educational resource material. 

All major components of the project have been 

completed, and information gathered is being 

collated and analysed, adding substantially to 

existing knowledge of the marine biodiversity of 

Western Australia. 

• Discovery Centre: A consortium of major 

Japanese companies contributed more than 

$350,000 to the establishment of this facility, 

which was officially opened on 26 February 

1999. Members of the sponsor consortium are 

the Tokyo Electric Power Co. Inc., Tokyo Gas 

Company Limited, Nippon Steel Corporation, NKK 

Corporation, Kawasaki Steel Corporation, 

Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd, the Industrial Bank 



Foundation 

of Japan Ltd, Mitsubishi Corporation, Mitsui & Co. 

Ltd, Itochu Corporation, Tokyu Corporation, Toho 

Gas Company and Marubeni Corporation. The 

Discovery Centre is now in its second year of 

operation and has been enthusiastically 

embraced by visitors to the Museum as a userfriendly 

and dynamic research facility providing 

access to the Museum’s vast and impressive 

collections. 

• Market research: Generous sponsorship of 

market research services by a new corporate 

member of the Foundation, the Hides Consulting 

Group, has enabled the Museum to undertake 

much needed market research at the Perth and 

Maritime Museum sites. 

• New Maritime Museum: Four new members 

of the Foundation have provided much 

appreciated assistance in the development of the 

new Western Australian Maritime Museum in 

Fremantle: the Kailis family sponsored the Board 

Room; Mr Ronald Packer contributed generously 

to the acquisition of the maritime library of Ian 

G. Stewart; Wallenius Wilhelmsen shipping lines 

sponsored the sea transportation of Australia II 

from the Australian National Museum in Sydney 

to Fremantle; and Brambles Industrial Services 

sponsored the land transportation of Australia II 

on its Sydney to Fremantle journey. 

• Australia II: Australia’s 1983 America’s Cup 

winner, Australia II, has been invited to take part 

in the America’s Cup Jubilee Regatta in Cowes in 

August 2001. The yacht’s participation in this 

historically significant celebration is being 

facilitated by donations by Limestone Resources 

Australia, Sir James Hardy, Mr Bill Busby and a 

number of members of the Royal Perth Yacht 

Club. 

• Maritime archaeological expedition: A 

major maritime archaeological expedition led by 

Dr Michael McCarthy to search for the shipwrecks 

of William Dampier’s Roebuck and Louis de

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• 

Freycinet’s Uranie was made possible by 

donations by Mr John Lashmar, Bolrette Pty Ltd, 

Shire of Shark Bay, Mr John Hanrahan, Monkey 

Mia Dolphin Resort, Shark Bay Salt Joint Venture, 

Dr John Williams and Mr Hugh Edwards. 

New Geraldton Museum: Three new 

Foundation members have provided much 

appreciated assistance in the development of the 

new Western Australian Museum–Geraldton. 

Telstra CountryWide provided vital 

• 

telecommunications equipment; Skywest Airlines 

sponsored eight return airfares; and WMC 

Resources Limited donated a bucket wheel that 

will be a feature of the new Museum. 

Handbook of Western Australian Birds: 

Following the success of Volume I of the Handbook 

of Western Australian Birds, work on Volume 

II has commenced. Donations towards this 

project have been received from Mr Joe Smith 

and Biota Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd. 

NEW FUNDING INITIATIVES 

This year, the Western Australian Museum Foundation 

launched two new fund-raising initiatives: 

• Frog Research Fund: This fund was 

established to encourage support for the research 

work undertaken by the Western Australian 

Museum into frogs and the environment, and 

also to support the work of FrogWAtch and its 

members. The Foundation thanks the Australian 

Acoustical Society for its kind donation. 

• ‘Live Forever’: The ‘Live Forever’ program was 

created to encourage support for the Museum’s 

scientific research work. Contributors are offered 

the opportunity to have a new species of animal 

discovered by the Museum named in their 

honour, enabling them to ‘Live Forever’. This 

program, which was launched in May 2001, has 

generated an enthusiastic public response and 

extensive media coverage. 



Foundation 

FOUNDATION GRANTS 

Last year marked the inaugural round of funding to 

the Western Australian Museum from the Foundation, 

and the following projects and acquisitions were 

granted funding allocations: 

• Museum NatureWAtch 

• acquisition of the library of Ian G. Stewart 

• ethno-botanical garden at the Western Australian 

Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder 

• reconstruction of a skull from the Batavia massacre 

• Dinosaur Hunt in the north of Western Australia 

• Woodside Dampier Marine Biological Workshop 

A total of $154,270 was made available for approved 

projects for the combined 1999–2000 and 2000– 

2001 years. The next call for applications will be in 

late 2001. 

BOARD OF GOVERNORS 

The success of the Foundation during the 2000–2001 

year is a direct result of contributions from the 

Foundation Governors and staff. The Museum is 

grateful to all Foundation Governors, particularly Sir 

Charles Court as Patron and Mr Simon Lee as Chair. 

These individuals have led the Foundation with great 

energy, foresight and generosity. 

This year the Foundation said goodbye to Mrs Sally 

Anne Hasluck, who retired from her position as 

Trustees’ representative on the Board. Mrs Hasluck 

was a founding Governor of the Board and 

contributed greatly to the establishment and success 

of the Foundation. The Foundation Board of 

Governors thanks Mrs Hasluck for her inspiration and 

untiring support over the past six years. 

Mr Jim Boot CPA FCIS CD and Moore Stevens BG, 

Chartered Accountants, who joined the Foundation 

last year as honorary accountant and auditors, 

respectively, continued their generous support of the 

Foundation throughout the 2000–2001 year. The 

Foundation is grateful for their contribution.

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FOUNDATION MEMBERSHIP 


Membership of the Western Australian Museum Foundation is divided into six categories. The level of 

contribution determines the category of membership. 

Distinguished 

Patron 

Woodside Energy Ltd 

Fellows 

Alcoa World Alumina Australia 

Simon Lee Foundation 

Benefactor 

Kailis family 

Founders 

Limestone Resources Australia 

WIN Television Network 

Donors 

Brambles Industrial Services 

Hides Consulting Group 

Industrial Bank of Japan Limited 

Itochu Corporation 

Kawasaki Steel Corporation 

Mitsubishi Corporation 

Mitsui & Co. Ltd 

Lashmar, Mr John 

Kolichis, Mr Nicholas (NK 

Contractors (1997) Pty Ltd) 

Nippon Steel Corporation 

NKK Corporation 

Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd 

Toho Gas Company 

Tokyo Electric Power Co. Ltd 

Tokyo Gas Company Ltd 

Wallenius Wilhelmsen 

WMC-Sir Lindesay Clark Trust Fund 


Foundation 

Members 

Ansett Australia Pty Ltd 

Australian Acoustical Society 

Baynes, Dr A. 

Bio-Gene Bioprospecting Ltd 

Biota Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd 

Bolrette Pty Ltd 

British Airways 

Busby, Mr Bill 

Butler, Mr Harry 

Clema, Mr J. (Falx Pty Ltd) 

Dulux Pty Ltd 

Edwards, Mr Hugh 

Film and Television Institute 

Goh, Dr P. 

Hanrahan, Mr John 

Hardy, Sir James 

Hasluck, Justice N. P. 

Howarth, Mr and Mrs A. 

Kailis, Dr Patricia 

MacLeod, Dr I. D. 

Manners, Mr R. (Mannwest Pty Ltd) 

Marshall, Dr B. and Mrs A. 

Marubeni Corporation 

Matthews, Mr J. A. 

Mercure Inns 

Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort 

Moore Stephens BG 

NEC Australia 

Nichevich, Mr R. (Western Reefs 

Limited) 

Nursery Industries Association 

Packer, Mr Ronald 

Perth Parmelia Hilton 

Phelps, Mrs R. 

Platts Engineering Pty Ltd 

Playford, Dr P. 

Royal Perth Yacht Club 

Shark Bay Salt Joint Venture 

Shire of Shark Bay 

SimsMetals Ltd 

Smith, Mr J. A. 

Spices Catering 

TAS Agencies 

Telstra CountryWide 

Thrifty Car Rental, Karratha 

Tokyu Corporation 

Williams, Dr Martin

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AIMS AND BENEFITS 

The Museum established the Friends of the Western 

Australian Museum as a way for members to enjoy 

the best that it has to offer, and to gain a true 

appreciation of Western Australia’s rich natural and 

cultural heritage. To achieve this, the Friends organise 

a diverse range of social and educational activities, 

presented in a friendly and congenial atmosphere. 

These events broaden the appeal of the Museum to 

the community, and help to maintain and enhance 

the Museum’s pre-eminent place in Western Australia’s 

cultural life. 

A quarterly publication, Museum News, provides 

information on Friends activities, as well as on 

exhibitions, activities and other events at all Museum 

sites. 

The Friends of the Western Australian Museum 

association is a member of the Australian Federation 

of Friends of Museums, which in turn is a member of 

the World Federation of Friends of Museums. 

Membership entitles Friends of the Western Australian 

Museum to reciprocal benefits, where available, at 

many leading Australian and overseas museums and 

galleries. 

The Friends office is located in the Roe Street Cottage 

in the Museum’s courtyard at the Perth site. 

TRANSITIONS 

The year 2000–2001 has been one of significant 

changes for the Friends of the Western Australian 

Museum. 

From June 2000, the Friends Coordinator, Sara 

Meagher, took long-service leave and subsequently 

retired effective 5 December 2000. Her outstanding 

contribution to the Museum over 40 years, including 

five years as Friends Coordinator, was recognised by 

the Council of Friends at a farewell function held on 


Friends of the 


20 March 2001, and the following day by the 

Museum Trustees at a special luncheon in her honour. 

Joanna Salomone was appointed Acting Coordinator 

from June 2000 and her secondment to the Museum 

was extended in March 2001 to June 2001. During 

that time, a membership drive was instituted. 

Improvements were made to Museum News, 

including a revised layout, inclusion of feature articles, 

increased distribution and outreach. These changes 

would not have been possible without the much 

appreciated assistance of the Publications staff. ‘New 

look’ activities were also developed for Friends, aimed 

at attracting a broader membership base. 

Introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) 

placed additional demands on Friends administration, 

and in late 2000 a volunteer bookkeeper and 

administrative assistant was recruited to assist in the 

Friends office. 

The Friends Council and the Museum discussed 

strategic development of the association, and broad 

directions were agreed to at a meeting on 

12 December 2000. 

However, by May 2001 it became apparent that the 

serious financial situation facing the Museum would 

require a reduction in staffing. As a result, the 

Coordinator’s position was not filled when it fell vacant 

at the end of June 2001. 

An interim strategy for maintaining services and for 

providing continuing opportunities for Friends to 

interact with the Museum staff and collections was 

agreed to at an extraordinary meeting of the Friends 

Council and Museum staff on 19 June 2000. These 

arrangements are to be reviewed at the Friends 

Annual General Meeting in September 2001. 

EXHIBITION GRANT 

On 20 September 2000, the Hon. Minister for the 

Arts, Mike Board, presented Friends President John

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Bannister with a cheque for $98,000. This was part 

of the $1.6 million grant applied for by the Friends 

in 1997 for development of the Western Australia: 

Land and People exhibition in the newly refurbished 

Hackett Hall at the Perth site. 

ACTIVITIES 

Through the Friends activities program, members 

have the opportunity to interact with Museum staff, 

visit behind the scenes, and explore the Museum’s 

work in a way not normally accessible to the general 

public. Social aspects of the program also serve to 

promote interaction between Friends and the 


During the year, the range and nature of Friends 

activities were varied, to broaden the appeal of 

membership. In February, Friends were treated to a 

special Saturday afternoon slide show and 

presentation on the natural environment, culture and 

history of Madagascar, courtesy of Dr Paddy Berry, 

Director, Science and Culture, and amateur naturalist 

and Friend Wayne O’Sullivan. 

In March, Friends Vice-President Ethel Lucas arranged 

a visit to the Kings Park tissue culture and genetics 

laboratory. In April, Dr Ian Godfrey, Head of 

Conservation, entertained a large group of Friends 

and Museum staff with a fascinating presentation on 

his work on Mawson’s huts in Antarctica. 

During the year, Friends were also treated to behindthe-scenes 

visits to the Conservation Department at 

the Maritime Museum, and the Museum’s meteorite, 

costumes, entomology and fish collections. 

Maritime Museum Education staff provided a variety 

of tours and presentations, including a tour of sites 

implicated in the Catalpa escape, the C. Y. O’Connor 

port walk, a Dutch exploration tour and an 

exploration of postcolonial wrecks, from sail to steam. 


Friends of the 


In September 2000, Friends revisited the Shenton Park 

Bushland for an excursion led by Friend Barbara Kent. 

The generous support of Museum staff who have 

given their time to participate in or facilitate Friends 

activities is greatly appreciated. The Friends program 

would not be possible without such support. 

MEETINGS 

The Friends Annual General Meeting was held on 

9 August 2000, with a record attendance. Elected 

were: President—John Bannister; Secretary—Joanna 

Salomone; Treasurer—Leonie Kirke; Councillors— 

Ethel Lucas (Vice-President), Angela Anderson, John 

Ellis, Eileen Orchard and Mick Poole. Bridget Faye 

(Museum Trustee) and Gary Morgan (Museum 

Executive Director) continued as ex-officio Councillors. 

Dr Gary Morgan addressed the meeting on his vision 

for the Western Australian Museum, outlining the key 

elements of the BiosphereWest concept. 

The Council continued to meet bi-monthly 

throughout the year. Major items considered 

included: details of the Lotteries Commission granting 

process; strategies for increasing membership; the 

effect of GST returns on the Coordinator’s workload; 

and the fact that the Coordinator’s position would 

not be filled after June 2001. 

Council was gratified at the completion of the Hackett 

Hall major exhibition Western Australia: Land and 

People, publicly opened by the Minister for Culture 

and the Arts on 23 March 2001.

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PART 2 

The Year Under 

Review

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COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT 

Anthropology 

The Western Australian Museum is committed to the 

repatriation of Indigenous restricted access religious 

objects and human skeletal material currently held 

in its collections. This is in accord with the Australiawide 

agreement by museums that Indigenous people 

have prior rights over these categories of material. 

During the year, elders of the Warburton Community, 

after visiting the Museum to examine material held, 

requested the return of a large number of religious 

items to their country. Transfer of custodianship of 

the material was completed in April. 

Discussions with other communities are progressing. 

With the assistance of a major grant from the 

Department of Communication, Information 

Technology and the Arts, it is anticipated that the 

Museum will be able to better inform appropriate 

community elders throughout the State about its 

holdings of restricted religious items from their 

country. It is likely that further transfers of 

custodianship will be negotiated. 

Also as part of the repatriation program, Mance 

Lofgren assisted with preparation of human skeletal 

remains stored by the Museum for the Aboriginal 

Affairs Department (AAD), so that they could be 

interred in the AAD’s newly established Keeping Place 

at Karrakatta. 

Joe Dortch was contracted to work on documenting 

restricted access religious items in readiness for 

repatriation. Kathryn Robinson was contracted to add 

some of the State’s large collection of archaeological 

material to the electronic database. She also took 

digital photographs of some items in the collection, 

including 2,000–5,000 year old Egyptian pottery that 

has been in the Museum’s collection for over a 

century. 



Science and Culture 

Anna Edmundson, recently appointed Assistant 

Curator, with expertise in the anthropology and 

material culture of South-East Asia and Oceania, has 

sharpened our awareness of the strengths and 

weaknesses of our international ethnographic 

collection. She has been able to add greater depth 

to our understanding of the cultural significance of 

some of the objects—for example, a world-class 

standard 19th century carved canoe prow, or 

nuznuz, from the Solomon Islands. 

During the year, significant items added to the 

collections included artworks by Valerie Takao Binder, 

whose work documents her experiences as a fourthgeneration 

member of ‘stolen’ Noongar peoples. 

History 

Collections management has, of necessity, focused 

on a number of major new exhibition projects. 

Collections Manager Wendy Bradshaw managed the 

selection, retrieval and documentation of objects 

associated with these projects. The new 

environmental history exhibition, Western Australia: 

Land and People, required more than 500 artefacts 

from the collection, as well as loans from individuals 

and external agencies. More than 700 artefacts were 

retrieved and conserved for the new Maritime 

Museum and the new Western Australian Museum– 

Geraldton. 


The Woodside Energy Ltd–Western Australian 

Museum partnership again dominated the Aquatic 

Zoology Department’s activities. Most of the 2,916 

specimen lots identified and accessioned into the 

collections resulted from earlier expeditions to the 

Dampier Archipelago and the Marine Biological 

Workshop that was held in Karratha in July–August 

2000.

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The Museum’s ‘Woodside Collection’ now has a total 

of 8,708 specimens: 2,893 in the Marine Invertebrates 

Section, 1,207 in Molluscs, 3,200 in Crustaceans and 

1,408 in the Fish Section. Work on identifying and 

accessioning additional specimens into the ‘Woodside 

Collection’ will continue beyond July 2001. 

The entire fish collection was relocated from the 

basement of the heritage-listed Jubilee Building to a 

new facility fitted with compactus shelving in the 

‘Tunnel’ in the Upper Basement of the Francis Street 

Building. This move had become essential because 

of the potential fire risk. The relocation of 43,000 jars 

of alcohol-preserved specimens was a huge 

undertaking. Sue Morrison planned and supervised 

the move and has continued with sorting and 

labelling the collection. Sue received an Executive 

Director’s incentive award in recognition of her efforts. 

In order to reduce the quantity of alcohol stored in 

the Francis Street Building, the department’s large 

specimens stored in 135 drums were relocated to an 

off-site commercial warehouse in May 2001. 

Large collections of specimens collected by the Centre 

for Research on Introduced Marine Pests in Fremantle 

Harbour and by the Geraldton Port Authority in 

Geraldton Port were received for identification. Diana 

Jones identified barnacles from major surveys in Port 

Botany, Port Kembla and Port Darwin. Staff also 

identified specimens collected by the Australian 

Institute of Marine Science in a survey off North West 

Cape and from depths between 50 and 850 metres. 

A total of 44 type specimens were added to the type 

collections in Aquatic Zoology, comprising 17 new 

species of barnacles, 19 other crustacean species, 

three opistobranch molluscs, two new sponges, two 

new holothurians (sea-cucumbers) and one new fish 

species. 




Earth and Planetary Sciences 

Invertebrate Palaeontology and 

Palaeobotany 

In addition to the 2,774 specimens registered into 

the collection, other significant new material was 

acquired. Honorary Associate Alan Longbottom 

donated large collections of Eocene and Miocene 

echinoids and molluscs from the Nullarbor Plain. 

Senior Curator Ken McNamara, assisted by Curtin 

University Honours student Shelley Cooper, made 

significant collections from a new, highly diverse fossil 

plant site in the lower Murchison River district. The 

collection also benefited from the donation of an 

important collection of Jurassic molluscs from 

boreholes put down off the North-West Shelf by 

Chevron. 

Vertebrate Palaeontology 

During the year, 42 registered specimens were added 

to the vertebrate palaeontology collections, although 

a larger number of specimens were received and 

await sorting and registration. Three loans were 

issued, including specimens used in the recently 

published paper dating the extinction of Australian 

megafauna co-authored by Research Associate Alex 

Baynes. 

Minerals and Meteorites 

The mineralogical collections are constantly used by 

the public, industry and academia. Plans are well 

advanced to make the expanded database of the 

collection available on the Internet. 

A significant addition to the mineral collection was 

the type specimen of Woodallite, a new mineral 

described and donated by Dr Ben Grguric. 

Terrestrial Invertebrates 

The Arachnology Section processed a scorpion 

collection donated by the family of the late Graeme

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Smith. This valuable addition to the Museum’s 

collection contains several thousand specimens from 

many parts of Australia, but mostly from the Western 

Australian Wheatbelt. 

Terry Houston undertook two insect collecting 

expeditions: one to the Cooloomia Nature Reserve 

between Kalbarri and Shark Bay; the other to various 

localities between Perth and the Murchison Region. 

The objective was principally to obtain additional 

specimens of various undescribed native bees and 

spoon-winged lacewings, but the expeditions also 

provided an opportunity to make general insect 

collections. 

Argyle Diamonds donated a substantial collection of 

insects from its Argyle mine site. 

Bill Humphreys conducted major surveys of 

stygofauna (animals confined to groundwater) in the 

Fortescue Valley, the northern goldfields (with the 

South Australian Museum) and the Northern Territory 

(with the Northern Territory Department of Lands, 

Planning, Environment and Water Resources). 

Terrestrial Vertebrates 

In order to accommodate concerns regarding onsite 

storage of alcohol, the Terrestrial Vertebrates 

Department relocated off site more than 700 drums, 

comprising nearly 7,000 specimens of larger 

vertebrates. A major reorganisation of the tissue 

collection (stored as both ethanol and ultra-frozen) 

was completed. Technical Officer Brad Maryan 

conducted an audit of the herpetological collection, 

with major changes being made to the digitised 

databases in all sections to accommodate off-site 

storage of specimens. 

Collections in all areas continue to expand as a result 

of material and vouchers supplied by the public, 

government departments and consultants. A 

particularly valuable collection of voucher specimens, 




covering a large area of the central Pilbara, was 

received from Biota Environmental Sciences Pty Ltd. 

The CALM study of the Kingston Block in the Jarrah 

forest continued to provide important specimens. 

Specimens were also received from Honorary 

Associate Peter Kendrick, from CALM in Karratha. 

KNOWLEDGE GENERATION 

Anthropology 

Extensive research was focused on developing 

exhibitions, and there were major outcomes for 

several ongoing research projects during the year. 

Charles Dortch was awarded his doctorate on a thesis 

exploring part of his long-term research into South- 

West prehistory. His dissertation, which deals with 

territorial organisation and specific aspects of huntergatherer 

economy in the estuarine lower South-West, 

is a welcome contribution to a topic that otherwise 

has received little attention in the region. 

The Museum, led by Charles Dortch, has pursued 

research at Devils Lair, a cave in the South-West of 

the State, for more than 30 years, making it among 

the best studied prehistoric sites in Australia. Because 

of many advances in dating technology, a series of 

new samples from Devils Lair were submitted for 

analysis. Employing Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 

Carbon 14 dating with new sample preparation 

techniques, recently published results have now 

pushed the age of the deposit back to more than 

50,000 years BP. The first traces of human occupation 

appear at about 48,000 BP. These dates have been 

further verified by complementary ages for samples 

dated by Optically Stimulated Luminescence, Electron 

Spin Resonance, Uranium Series dating of flowstones, 

and Carbon 14 dating of emu eggshell carbonate. 

Moya Smith provided an expert witness report on 

Bardi ethno-archaeological evidence from the 

Dampierland Peninsula.

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History 

Research focused on the exhibition Western Australia: 

Land and People, which integrates a range of social, 

cultural and environmental issues to portray the 

emergence of a distinctive Western Australian 

landscape and the complex interactions of people 

and place over time. It reflects increasing community 

and academic interest in the relatively new field of 

environmental history. 

The department was also involved in the production 

of a scholarly collection of essays related to broad 

themes of Western Australia’s environmental history. 

This volume, a collaboration between the Museum’s 

History Department and the Centre for Western 

Australian History at The University of Western 

Australia (UWA), is nearing completion and will be 

published in 2001. Entitled Country: Visions of Land 

and People in Western Australia, it is edited by 

Mathew Trinca (History Department), Andrea Gaynor 

(UWA) and Anna Haebich (formerly of the Museum 

and now at Griffith University in Queensland). 

Curator Mathew Trinca continued research into 

migrant experiences and conceptualisations of place 

in Western Australia. In particular, he has examined 

the circumstances and conditions of life of Italians 

on the goldfields, focusing on the hybridised cultures 

that incorporate elements of their home and host 

experiences. 

Wendy Bradshaw is currently working towards a 

Master’s degree, investigating the history of domestic 

pottery in Western Australia from the 1890s to the 

1940s. This research includes a social and economic 

history of Western Australian potteries, and an 

archaeological analysis of the early potteries, focusing 

on technologies and products. The work will greatly 

enhance understanding of the Museum’s collection 

of Western Australian pottery. 





The Woodside Dampier Marine Biological Workshop 

was launched jointly by Mr John Akehurst, Managing 

Director, Woodside Energy Ltd, and the Hon. Mike 

Board MLA, then Minister for Employment and 

Training; Youth; the Arts, at the Western Australian 

Museum on 24 July 2000. The workshop attracted 

40 international, Australian and Western Australian 

scientists, and fieldwork was conducted over three 

weeks by ship- and shore-based teams. The results, 

which are expected to include descriptions of many 

species new to science, will be published by the 

Museum in two years’ time. One highlight, recorded 

on film possibly for the first time, was the observation 

that trapeziid crabs (small crabs that live only among 

branching coral) actively defend their hosts from 

predation by Crown of Thorns seastars by using their 

claws to attack the soft underparts of the starfish. 

Jane Fromont was one of the Principal Investigators 

successful in receiving an Australian Biological 

Resources Study (ABRS) grant that supports research 

by Kayley Usher, a PhD student she co-supervises at 

UWA. Kayley is examining marine symbiosis between 

the sponge genus Chondrilla and cyanobacteria 

(light-requiring microbes). Jane continues to cosupervise 

Lea McQuillan, who is in her final year of 

study as an MSc student at Edith Cowan University 

(ECU). Lea received Coastcare funding to conduct 

research into processes affecting sponge distributions 

in the Marmion Marine Park. 

Jane Fromont and Robert Craig continued research 

on the bio-eroding sponge Cliona, and Luisa 

Rawlinson, an Honours student at ECU, completed 

her thesis on the same project. Luisa received 

accolades for her thesis from the Western Australian 

Fisheries Industry Council and the Pearl Producers 

Association, which funded the project. 

Fred Wells participated in a Marine Rapid Assessment 

Program survey of the Raja Ampat Islands in Irian

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Jaya, Indonesia, run by Conservation International, 

an organisation based in Washington, DC. Fred 

examined the mollusc fauna, recording more than 

600 species. As a result of this fieldwork, Conservation 

International is making recommendations to the 

governments of Indonesia and the Province of Irian 

Jaya about protecting the area as a marine park. 

Fred Wells continued his research on three projects 

as part of the Woodside program: biology of the 

mudwhelk genus Terebralia, feeding biology of the 

intertidal seastar Astropecten, and systematics of 

planktonic heteropod molluscs. All three are based 

in the Dampier Archipelago. Fred also completed his 

supervision of Corey Whisson, who received First- 

Class Honours from Curtin University for his thesis on 

the invertebrates of the Peel-Harvey estuary. 

Diana Jones continued research on a collection of 

deep-water cirripedes from the Muséum national 

d’histoire naturelle, Paris, and a collection of 

hydrothermal vent barnacles from the Senckenberg 

Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. The former resulted 

in a major publication on the barnacles of New 

Caledonia, in which Diana describes a new subfamily, 

four new genera, and 18 new species of deep-water 

balanomorph barnacles. Diana also continued 

fieldwork on the behaviour of the fiddler crab Uca 

elegans on the back-flats of mangrove areas at the 

Burrup Peninsula. 

Barry Hutchins continued his long-term study of 

tropical reef fish recruitment at Rottnest Island in 

relation to the Leeuwin Current. Indications are that 

the Leeuwin Current has returned to its more normal 

pattern after the strong flow of the previous two 

years. 

While in South Africa attending the Conference on 

Indo-Pacific Fishes in Durban, Barry Hutchins 

undertook a survey of the reef fishes at Aliwal Shoal, 

a large area of reefs 40 kilometres south of Durban, 

with a similar fauna as that found at the Houtman 




Abrolhos. Barry Hutchins and Sue Morrison continued 

research into the clingfish genus Alabes. 

Shirley Slack-Smith continued research on the pectinid 

(bivalve molluscs) collection in collaboration with 

H. Dijkstra, Amsterdam. She also undertook a survey 

of the Cape Leeuwin swamp population of the 

endangered species of amphibious snail 

Austroassiminea letha for the Water Corporation, and 

surveyed and reported on sections of the Pilbara nonmarine 

molluscan fauna near Whim Creek and in an 

area of the Burrup Peninsula. 

Jane Fromont and Sue Morrison undertook a field 

expedition to examine the biota of the Carnarvon 

jetty. This survey resulted in a report on the marine 

invertebrate fauna and fish species that were found 

beneath the 100-year-old jetty. 



Palaeobotany 

Ken McNamara continued studies of Devonian 

trilobite faunas from the Canning Basin, working with 

PhD student and Research Associate Malte Ebach on 

the harpetid trilobites. He also completed his study 

of the ontogeny and heterochrony of the Early 

Cambrian oryctocephalid trilobite Arthricocephalus, 

with colleagues Zhou Zhiyi and Yu Feng from the 

Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, 

China. 

Other research included the completion of two 

papers on Cretaceous serpulids from Western 

Australia and an analysis of fossil echinoids from the 

7th to 8th century archaeological site of Busayra in 

Jordan. A new project on the developmental 

mechanisms involved in postcephalic segmentation 

in trilobites was commenced. 

Research Associate George Kendrick undertook 

research on Cenomanian bivalves from South India;

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on mangrove–oyster associations in the fossil record, 

with colleagues from the University of Paris; and 

studies of Pleistocene and Middle Holocene molluscs 

for Carbon 14 dating and oxygen isotope analysis 

with Dr Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll from UWA. 

Research Associate Robert Craig was awarded his PhD 

during the year for his work on the Cretaceous and 

Tertiary brachiopods of Western Australia, work that 

he undertook in the department. 

Research Associate Malte Ebach undertook an area 

cladistic analysis of harpetid trilobites and the 

taxonomy of Late Devonian trilobites from the 

Canning Basin. 

Research Associate Yu Wen continued his studies of 

Cambrian molluscs from China, in particular micromolluscs 

from the Yangtze River region. 


Curator John Long continued research on Devonian 

fish faunas of Western Australia and greater 

Gondwana. He undertook a field expedition (partly 

funded through a grant from the Museum 

Foundation) to search for dinosaurs in the Great 

Sandy Desert. This resulted in the discovery of an 

oviraptorosaurid dinosaur bone of Late Cretaceous 

age from the Giralia Range, as well as an isolated 

bone of a mosasaur and a variety of fossilised shark 

teeth. 

John Long’s research included editing a 420-page 

monograph on the Palaeozoic biota of Gondwana, 

and co-authoring three research papers on Devonian 

fish remains from Iran, in addition to reviewing papers 

on Australasian Devonian vertebrates and a 

biogeographic comparison of the dinosaur faunas 

of Australia with those of South-East Asia. 

Mineralogy and Meteorites 

Peter Downes continued his research on diamondbearing 

alkaline rocks of Western Australia, for which 




he received continued financial support from 

Thundelarra Exploration to assist fieldwork and 

research at its Aries prospect (now a joint venture 

with BHP) in the Kimberley. Samples collected from 

the Nifty Copper Mine were examined, and a report 

on the mineral species represented and their 

paragenesis was submitted to the owners, Straits 

Resources. 

Research Associate Robert Hough spent a year in the 

department on a Travelling Research Fellowship 

funded by the Royal Society of Great Britain. Dr 

Hough worked on impact-altered rocks from the 

recently recognised Woodleigh Structure in Western 

Australia, and on the first discovery of cosmic 

spherules in Australia. Papers on both these topics 

have been submitted to international journals. 


Grants by ABRS have enabled the continued 

production of computer interactive identification keys. 

The first, awarded to Mark Harvey and three 

associates from Canberra and Adelaide, is for a key 

to the terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate orders 

of the world. Erich Volschenk, Research Officer 

employed under the grant, has made excellent 

progress on the key. The second, awarded to Mark 

Harvey and Robert Raven of the Queensland 

Museum, Brisbane, is for the production of an 

interactive key to the spider subfamilies of Australia, 

which should be released by the end of 2001. 

Mark Harvey continued his research into arachnid 

systematics, publishing taxonomic papers on water 

mites, pseudoscorpions and schizomids. Of particular 

interest is the discovery of new genera of schizomids 

from northern and eastern Australia. 

Analysis of new material collected during the year 

by Terry Houston has clarified the geographic ranges 

and taxonomic status of several undescribed forms 

of native bees in the genera Ctenocolletes, Hyleoides

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and Leioproctus and spoon-winged lacewings in the 

genus Chasmoptera (Neuroptera: Nemopteridae). 

Terry continued writing manuscripts describing these 

new forms and dealing with the habits and floral 

associations of various other bees. 

Grants by ABRS and the Australian Research Council 

(with colleagues at the South Australian Museum) 

have enabled Bill Humphreys to extend the analyses 

of the groundwater fauna of the ‘Western Shield’ to 

include molecular methods. The use of stable isotope 

ratio methodology has provided insights into the 

trophic structure of subterranean systems. 


Research on Western Australian mammals by Assistant 

Curator Norah Cooper resulted in the clarification of 

the identity of two species of the small carnivorous 

marsupial Dasycercus, a genus that is listed as 

Threatened Fauna. This is of significance for 

management and conservation of the genus 

throughout Australia. Examination of taxonomic 

problems in Planigale, Pseudomys, Sminthopsis and 

Antechinus is continuing. 

Ken Aplin completed his research on the taxonomic 

status of numerous reptile taxa encountered during 

the major survey of the Carnarvon Basin between 

1994 and 1996, and made preliminary examinations 

of problem taxa discovered during Brad Maryan’s 

audit of the herpetological collection. Laurie Smith 

finalised publications on the herpetofauna of the 

Recherche Archipelago, made progress with the 

systematic revision of the Lerista muelleri complex, 

and completed a listing of the primary types in the 

herpetological collection. 

Ron Johnstone continued his detailed study of the 

breeding biology and conservation concerns of three 

species of threatened forest cockatoos, a project 

undertaken in collaboration with the Perth Zoo, CALM 




and the Water Corporation. Further sampling of 

Bungendore Park continues to document the rich 

ground fauna of the Darling Scarp adjacent to the 

Perth urban sprawl. In collaboration with Honorary 

Associate Geoff Lodge, Ron is also documenting the 

avifauna of the remote Kimberley islands. 

Research Associate John Darnell completed a detailed 

examination of the avifaunal reference collection at 

the University of Singapore’s Zoology Department as 

part of ongoing studies of the avifauna of the Lesser 

Sunda islands. 

In December, Ric How and Norah Cooper completed 

the final vertebrate fauna survey of the area around 

the Griffin Gas Plant near Onslow. This concludes a 

very detailed three-year study of the herpetofauna 

of the central Pilbara coast, which has provided a 

significant collection of voucher specimens. 

Ric How, Norah Cooper, Ron Johnstone and Laurie 

Smith all participated in a survey of the mammals 

and herpetofauna of the Yampi Peninsula, run by 

Environment Australia. This survey, undertaken in 

March, with both logistic and helicopter support, 

enabled sampling in five remote locations on the 

Yampi Sound Defence Training Area and provided 

valuable information and material from a poorly 

known area of the Kimberley during the height of 

the wet season. 

A winter survey of the frog fauna of the Lexia 

wetlands on the northern outskirts of Perth was 

undertaken by Johnny Prefumo and Brad Maryan, 

funded by the Water and Rivers Commission. This 

project will define base levels of amphibian 

populations in these important wetlands on the 

Gnangara Mound and provide new information on 

the spread of the frog chytrid fungus in the outer 

urban areas.

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KNOWLEDGE 

COMMUNICATION 

Anthropology 

Contributions to the multi-disciplinary exhibition 

Western Australia: Land and People included liaison 

with Aboriginal Advisory Committee member Noel 

Nannup in selecting and obtaining specimens of 

various targeted foods for the ‘Noongar Island’ display 

segment. The models, produced by preparator Kirsten 

Tullis, look extremely life-like, and most Noongar 

visitors have commented with enthusiasm on the 

catching/gathering and preparation of these foods. 

Anna Edmundson coordinated a highly successful 

changing exhibitions program in the temporary 

exhibition space in Katta Djinoong: First Peoples of 

Western Australia. This space is designed to allow for 

a relatively rapid changeover program, to widen the 

themes of the gallery and to inject an air of vibrancy 

and interest in the overall space. 

One of the main aims of the space is to allow for 

increased participation from Aboriginal community 

groups. It was hoped to create a casual, accessible 

atmosphere for members of the Aboriginal 

community who might be unfamiliar or uncomfortable 

with larger museum institutions. 

This year’s Katta Djinoong program, sponsored by 

the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 

featured: Images of his Country, a series of sketches 

and mixed-media paintings from the artist Ngarra 

(Barney Yu), depicting his relationship to country 

around the Fitzroy Crossing region; Valerie Takao 

Binder’s Sandy Country/Yile Boodjar, a series of 

paintings and mixed-media works centring around 

the artist’s experiences as a member of the Stolen 

Generation; Valerie Takao Binder’s Dwelling Place/ 

Mia Mia (a co-presentation of PIAF and the Western 

Australian Museum), a mixed-media installation that 

distils some of the artist’s early memories of childhood 




before she was taken from her family as part of the 

Stolen Generation; and a series of ten gouache 

paintings depicting Western Australian orchids by 

Yamatji artist Christine Latham. 

There has been a positive response to this project 

from the artists contacted and from community 

centres and other institutions working as cultural 

brokers for Aboriginal art and material culture in this 

State. It is hoped that the Katta Djinoong changing 

exhibitions program will develop into a dynamic, 

popular and long-term feature of the Museum. 

Moya Smith organised the launch of the touring 

exhibition Albert Einstein: Man of the Century. The 

exhibition includes reproductions of original 

photographs, manuscripts, documents, correspondence, 

sound recordings and film held at the 

Albert Einstein Archives at the Jewish National and 

University Library in Israel. It profiles not only his 

scientific research but also his personal life, his work 

for peace and his Jewish identity. In addition, there 

is some charming and somewhat whimsical 

correspondence between Einstein and children. The 

launch was enlivened by Alex Bevan’s succinct 

explanation of the meaning of relativity, and Terry 

McClafferty’s demonstration of the principles of light 

and energy. 

Various staff members have taken visiting groups, 

including Aboriginal artists, Indigenous tour operators 

and students, on tours of Katta Djinoong 

accompanied by lectures focusing on the specific 

interests of these groups. Increasingly, Indigenous art 

students are seeking to explore the stored collections 

as well as the gallery. 

Charles Dortch presented several talks on his 

archaeological research in the South-West and 

participated in filming at Devils Lair for a German 

documentary. A paper co-authored by Charles has 

firmly established the antiquity of human occupation

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of Devils Lair at over 48,000 years. This is an important 

contribution to the debate about the timing of human 

settlement of Australia. 

Moya Smith presented a paper in the ‘Indigenous 

Exhibitions’ session at the Museums Australia 

Conference in Canberra. 

History 

The opening of the new gallery Western Australia: 

Land and People in March 2001 represented the 

culmination of several years’ intense research and 

development effort by the History Department. This 

exhibition, generously funded by the Lotteries 

Commission of Western Australia, has successfully 

combined every facet of the Museum’s broad 

expertise in a display covering more than 700 square 

metres detailing the environmental and cultural 

history of this State. 

History and Exhibition and Design staff worked closely 

throughout the design and installation phases of this 

gallery. It is the most ambitious single exhibition 

project undertaken and completed by the Museum 

to date. Mathew Trinca, Sue Graham-Taylor, Wendy 

Bradshaw, Phyl Brown and Anna Haebich, led by 

Head of Department Ann Delroy, played a pivotal 

role, developing content for the gallery and 

coordinating the contributions of colleagues in other 

research areas. They also developed and supervised 

the multimedia programs and interactive displays that 

are central elements of the exhibition experience. 

Western Australia: Land and People uses interactive 

multimedia technology to provide additional 

interpretive, contextual information to enhance the 

visitor experience. Seven touch-screens are used at 

locations within the exhibition, some providing more 

detailed information on topics covered only briefly 

in the exhibition. In ‘Yellagonga’s People’, for instance, 

the viewer may access information about some 




members of what early colonists described as 

‘Yellagonga’s tribe’. ‘Living with the Land’ provides 

the Noongar names for the plants and animals eaten 

by Noongar people in the South-West and details of 

how the foods were hunted, gathered and prepared 

for eating. Other interactive displays, such as ‘Living 

in the City’, ‘Naming the Country’ and ‘Timber Terms’, 

challenge the visitor to respond to questions related 

to their knowledge of a particular subject. 

Public response to the gallery has been extraordinary, 

with significantly increased visitor numbers. 

Qualitative feedback from visitors has been very 

complimentary, with many people moved to 

congratulate the Museum through visitor feedback 

forms and personal notes. The gallery has also 

attracted praise and support from government and 

other organisations and agencies. 

A major catalogue for the gallery, to be published 

later in 2001, is in preparation. This volume is aimed 

at a general audience, but also engages with 

elements of the primary and secondary school 

curricula in relevant areas. The department has also 

maximised opportunities to produce associated 

products and merchandise, including postcards, 

reproductions and other items. 

Led by Ann Delroy, the department researched and 

developed an on-line version of the Western Australia: 

Land and People gallery, to be hosted on the 

Museum’s web site later this year. This is an important 

element in the Museum’s commitment to deliver its 

programs to remote and isolated audiences. 

The department worked closely with the Education 

Section, especially Kate Akerman and Sue King, in 

developing education support materials for the 

exhibition. Three packages, one for primary schools 

and two for secondary schools, are nearing 

completion and will be sold on a cost-recovery basis 

to schools and teachers. Elements of these packages

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will also be available on the Museum’s web site and 

should ensure that there is adequate support material 

for school visits and work related to the new gallery. 

A highly successful public lecture by leading Australian 

novelist Robert Drewe was arranged, attracting a ‘full 

house’ to the new foyer in James Street. The evening 

lecture was a paid ticketed event and drew strong 

approval from all who attended. The event served 

as a pilot for what we hope will become a permanent 

program of public lectures and presentations, 

showcasing the breadth of the Museum’s own 

expertise and key Australian and international 

speakers. 

Mr Patrick Dodson launched the award-winning 

publication Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous 

Families 1800–2000, by History Department Curator 

Anna Haebich, at the Museum in October 2000. 

Published by Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Dr Haebich’s 

book won the Gleebooks Prize as well as taking out 

the overall prize at the 2001 New South Wales 

Premier’s Literary Awards in June. The judges 

described her book as: 

the best kind of public history. It engages one of 

the most significant moral issues faced by 

Australians—the so-called stolen generation—at 

a time when the debate has been clouded by 

politics and accusation. The book’s great virtues 

are that it explores root causes, and is passionate 

without sacrificing objectivity. 


The Dampier Marine Gallery and the Dampier web 

site were both completed in July 2000. These two 

major projects guide the public through the 

Woodside Energy Ltd–Western Australian Museum 

marine biodiversity program being undertaken in the 

Dampier Archipelago. 

Also completed in June 2001 was a 48-minute 

documentary video production highlighting the 




biodiversity of the Dampier Archipelago and the role 

of the Museum in assessing its biodiversity. The 

distribution of the documentary, produced and 

directed by Clay Bryce, has been taken up by Hit 

Entertainment (UK). Funding is being sought to make 

a shortened educational version for schools. 

A travelling exhibition on the Baudin expedition to 

Australia was launched at the Busselton Jetty 

Interpretive Centre to accolades from all present. 

Project Leader Diana Jones’s role in the project 

included four years of research and considerable 

interaction with French custodians of original material 

and images. 

Diana Jones revised the popular book Field Guide to 

the Crustaceans of Australian Waters, co-authored 

by Gary Morgan, which will be published later this 

year. Each section of the text has been fully updated 

by international experts, and 41 new or replacement 

photographs are included. 

Clay Bryce represented the Museum as a tour guide 

on a trial marine eco-tour of the Kimberley coast 

between Wyndham and Broome, run by a 

commercial tour operator. Over 13 nights, guests 

were treated to spectacular scenery and historic sites 

and took part in organised reef and beach walks, 

informal natural history discussions and nine prepared 

talks on Kimberley marine life presented by Clay. Guest 

reaction to the cruise was very favourable, with 

several people expressing the desire to repeat the 

experience next year. 

Aquatic Zoology staff attended a number of 

conferences and workshops throughout the year. 

Jane Fromont attended an ascidian taxonomy 

workshop at the Museum of Tropical Queensland in 

Townsville (September). This was a unique 

opportunity to learn from the only Australian expert 

on this group, retired Queensland Museum Curator 

Patricia Mather. Ascidians are one of the major sessile 

marine groups on our coastline and an important

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component of the Museum’s marine invertebrate 

collections. 

Fred Wells was invited to participate in the Tropical 

Marine Mollusc Program (TMMP) as a resource expert 

at its 11th annual conference and workshop held in 

Southern India (September–October), and presented 

a paper on work done in Thailand on the mangrove 

muricid Chicoreus capucinus. Fred proposed holding 

a final TMMP meeting in Perth in 2004 as part of the 

3rd World Malacological Congress. He also 

represented the Museum at a ‘Conference of Marine 

Life’ meeting—an ambitious international program 

that aims to name all the species of marine life over 

the next decade. The project is being facilitated by 

Mr Jesse Ausubel of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 

New York. 

A total of 37 talks, lectures, excursions and behindthe-scenes 

tours were undertaken by staff, as well as 

36 media interviews or articles. Diana Jones 

coordinated a series of articles for the North West 

Telegraph, written by marine staff, on the findings 

of the Woodside Dampier Project. These articles 

resulted in school projects at the local school and 

have been well received by the public. 


A new, much improved departmental web site was 

completed. Numerous tours of the Diamonds to 

Dinosaurs gallery were undertaken by Drs 

McNamara, Bevan and Long. 


Palaeobotany 

Ken McNamara completed co-editing Human 

Evolution through Developmental Change, which 

will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press 

later in 2001. A popular booklet entitled Fossil Plants 

of Western Australia was written in collaboration with 

Dr Steve McLoughlin of Melbourne University. Articles 




on stromatolites and ancient beliefs in fossil echinoids 

were written for the popular science magazine 

Newton and the Museum magazine, Tracks, 

respectively. 


John Long was awarded the Eureka Prize for the 

Promotion of Science. John’s contributions have 

included serving as the Museum’s representative on 

the State National Science Week Committee, and on 

the organising committee for a State-wide science 

quiz night (‘Bush to Beach’, held in 53 communities 

around the State). Science Week events organised 

by John as project leader have included: The Art of 

Science, an exhibition of scientific art at the Western 

Australian Museum, and 2001: Space, Odysseys and 

the Science Behind Sci-Fi Literature held at Steve’s 

Nedlands Park Hotel, which was attended by 60 

people. 

John Long gave 18 talks to school groups during 

Children’s Book Week, talks to UWA Friends of the 

Reid Library, and talks at Subiaco Library. He delivered 

a keynote lecture at the national meeting of the 

Science Teachers’ Association and the Western 

Australian science teachers conference at Muresk. 

Research Associate Alex Baynes attended the AQUA 

(Australian Quaternary Association) biennial 

conference in Port Fairy, Victoria. He also presented 

a paper, jointly authored by Ken Aplin of the Museum, 

and John Chappell and Brad Pillans of the Research 

School of Earth Sciences, Australian National 

University, based on research carried out on Pliocene 

and Quaternary vertebrate faunas from a succession 

of karstic and related coastal deposits on Barrow 

Island. 

The Dinosaur Club continued to provide children and 

adults around Australia with the latest information 

about prehistoric discoveries. This year issue 16 of 

Dinonews magazine was published, and issue 17 is 

in production.

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Mineralogy and Meteorites 

Curator Alex Bevan completed a book (co-authored 

by Professor John de Laeter) entitled Meteorites: A 

Journey through Space and Time, currently in press 

with University of New South Wales Press. In 

December, Alex Bevan and Assistant Curator Peter 

Downes attended the 4th Mineralogy in Museums 

Conference in Melbourne. They delivered papers on 

Nullarbor meteorites, alexandrite gems from 

Dowerin, and diamond-bearing rocks from the 

Kimberley, and Alex Bevan presented a poster on the 

Museum’s Diamonds to Dinosaurs gallery. Alex and 

Peter also contributed a paper on ‘Mineralogy at the 

Western Australian Museum’ to a commemorative 

volume of the Australian Journal of Mineralogy. 

Alex Bevan and Ken McNamara updated their 

extremely popular book on tektites, which is in press 

with the Museum. The revised and enlarged third 

edition carries a foreword by one of the world’s 

leading experts on tektites, Professor Christian Koeberl 

of the University of Vienna. 

Alex Bevan lectured to first-year students at both the 

Department of Geology and Geophysics, UWA, and 

the Department of Geology at Curtin University of 

Technology. Alex also took part in a popular writers 

forum for Science Week held at Steve’s Nedlands Park 

Hotel, gave talks to the Mineralogical Society of 

Western Australia, and, with John Long, delivered a 

well-attended popular lecture during Museum Week 

in October. 


The publication of ‘Biodiversity of the Southern 

Carnarvon Basin’, Supplement 61 of the Records of 

the Western Australian Museum, brought to a close 

a project commenced in 1994 by Mark Harvey, in 

conjunction with CALM and funded by the Australian 

Nature Conservation Agency. Containing 19 papers, 




it sets a new benchmark for collaborative studies 

documenting the biodiversity of Western Australia. 

In March, Mark Harvey, Julianne Waldock and Erich 

Volschenk attended the XV International Congress 

of Arachnology in Badplaas, South Africa, where they 

presented several talks and a poster. Dr Harvey was 

invited by the congress organisers to present a 

keynote address on his research on the smaller 

arachnid orders. 

Data from the Museum’s bee collection (more than 

23,000 specimens) were made available to Dr Ken 

Walker of the Museum of Victoria for an Australian 

native bee web site using shared data from various 

institutions. The web site was established initially 

within that of the Council of Heads of Australian Insect 

Collections, pending upgrading of the Museum of 

Victoria web site. The site permits the data to be 

queried in various ways and distribution maps to be 

generated. 

Terry Houston resumed work on a manuscript for a 

popular book on Australian native bees and began 

another on ants, in collaboration with four 

colleagues, on behalf of the WA Insect Study Society. 

Bill Humphreys was invited to the Asia Pacific Forum 

on Karst Ecosystems and World Heritage held in 

conjunction with the opening of the Gunung Mulu 

World Heritage area in Sarawak, under the auspices 

of the International Union for Conservation of Nature 

and Natural Resources (IUCN). He also served as coeditor 

of Ecosystems of the World, vol. 30, 

Subterranean Ecosystems, a major synthesis of world 

subterranean ecosystems. 


A major initiative by the department during the year 

has been the production of the first authoritative 

checklist of the vertebrate species of Western Australia. 

The soon to be published Supplement to the Records

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of the Western Australian Museum will document this 

initiative, and the checklist of accepted names will 

be included on the Museum’s web site. 

Norah Cooper and Ken Aplin published the 

description of a new species of carnivorous marsupial, 

Pseudantechinus roryi, the first new mammal species 

from Western Australia to be described since 1988. 

Ron Johnstone continued work on the second 

volume of the Handbook of the Birds of Western 

Australia; the project is due for completion within 

the next year. 

The revised edition of Frogs of Western Australia was 

launched on 5 July, and the revised edition of Lizards 

of Western Australia I Skinks received the Whitley 

Award for best Australian field guide. Laurie Smith 

attended the presentation in Sydney and received 

the award on behalf of the Museum. 

Staff have been kept busy providing specimens and 

information for the completion of the Western 

Australia: Land and People exhibition in Hackett Hall 

and the travelling exhibition Baudin: The French 

Connection. 

Staff continue to present lectures, interviews and 

public seminars, while student projects are facilitated 

by all sections within the department. Laurie Smith 

has undertaken three times the usual number of 

requests from CALM for expert witness statements 

resulting from prosecutions pursued by that 

department, while identifications for the Customs 

Department have been undertaken by all sections. 

Anthea Paino, assisted by Lyndal Sleep and Anne- 

Marie Shepherd, continued to coordinate the 

numerous activities pivotal to the ongoing success 

of Alcoa FrogWAtch, while Laurie Smith provided 

professional advice and management in the absence 

of Ken Aplin. The FrogWAtch program now has a 

membership of almost 6,000—an increase of 




2,500—including many from regional areas, 

especially Geraldton, Kalgoorlie and Albany. 

A highlight was the Frog Friendly Day held at the 

Perth site, which attracted large numbers of visitors 

on a Sunday during a traditionally quiet time at the 

Museum. They enjoyed frog pond building 

demonstrations, frog fungus research workshops, 

displays by environmental community groups, and 

children’s activities, including a ‘frogstickle’ obstacle 

course and craft at the Discovery Centre. A new book, 

Building Frog Friendly Gardens, which is the 

backbone of the ‘Building Frog Friendly Gardens’ kit, 

was launched on the day. The book (and kit) fills an 

important gap in the literature and aims to encourage 

Western Australians to build gardens suitable for 

Western Australian frogs. The book has been very 

popular and is already in its second printing. 

The Alcoa FrogWAtch web site was launched at 

. Visitors to 

the site can see colour pictures of local frog species, 

access audio of their calls, register on line as frogwatchers, 

download the latest FrogWAtch 

information and email the office. 

Staff provided talks to school groups who visited the 

Museum and to external schools and communities, 

ran information stalls, and guided frog-watching 

walks. Frog distribution monitoring continued during 

the year.

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The Western Australian Maritime Museum manages 

maritime archaeological and general maritime history 

collections in accordance with government policy, 

the Museum Act 1969, the State Maritime 

Archaeology Act 1973, the Commonwealth Historic 

Shipwrecks Act 1976 and the Australia Netherlands 

Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks Treaty. The 

maritime archaeology collection has long been 

recognised internationally, and the maritime history 

collection, which includes Australia’s largest museum 

watercraft collection, is developing an international 

reputation with the addition of such icons as the 

Oberon submarine Ovens and the America’s Cup 

winning yacht Australia II. 

In managing these internationally significant 

collections, Maritime Museum staff play a leading role 

in national forums such as the Australian Institute for 

Maritime Archaeology (AIMA), and international 

preservation initiatives such as the United Nations 

Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation draft 

Convention for the Protection of the Underwater 

Cultural Heritage, through the International Council 

on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). 

The new Maritime Museum will, on completion in 

2002, be the State’s most prestigious cultural heritage 

facility. Preparation of the maritime history collection 

for the new Museum has been the focus of the 

Maritime History staff. Much of the collection has been 

relocated from B-Shed to A-Shed for exhibit 

preparation. B-Shed will be vacated early in the new 

financial year. The building construction is scheduled 

for completion in February 2002, when the 

installation of exhibits will commence. 

The America’s Cup winning yacht Australia II was 

returned to the Maritime Museum in accordance with 

the October 1994 Cultural Address to the Nation by 

then Prime Minister Paul Keating. 


Western Australian Maritime Museum 

A major project for the Maritime Museum was the 

relocation of the Batavia wreck stone portico from 

the Batavia Gallery to the new Western Australian 

Museum–Geraldton, in line with the 1992 

Parliamentary Select Committee’s recommendations. 

Geoff Kimpton managed the portico relocation and 

the manufacture of a replica portico for the Batavia 

Gallery. 

The submarine Ovens was closed from February to 

May for painting, and officially reopened by the 

Patron, the Hon. Kim Beazley (Leader of the Federal 

Opposition), on 14 May 2001 at a ceremony with 

300 invited guests. In the same week, International 

Museums Day was celebrated at the submarine site. 

Staff are improving the interior of the submarine to 

ensure its long-term conservation. A fully climatecontrolled 

air-conditioning system was recently 

installed. The displays around the submarine site have 

been improved as more naval items are received for 

the new Maritime Museum. 

Additions to the maritime archaeology collection 

included: a metal prisoner-of-war model of HMAS 

Sydney II donated by James and Norma Anderson; 

glass serviette rings from SS Lygnern donated by Mrs 

L. J. Ball; a model of the Don Francisco as a slaver 

before it became the James Matthews, donated by 

Rod Mckay; a JP Webb ensign and scrapbook/photo 

album donated by Mr G. Aubrey; a metal badge 

marked ‘VOTES FOR WOMEN’ donated by Jenny Davies 

(of the Broadhurst Family); various ship’s fittings from 

the SS Emden, and a ship’s compass recovered from 

the schooner Seaflower (1923) by the sole survivor 

of the wreck, Lt Cyril Richard Cornish DSO, and 

donated by Marjorie Cornish. 


The Maritime Museum’s research role was in earlier 

years recognised by the Commonwealth Government 

with the prestigious status of National Centre

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of Excellence. Although funding for the centre has 

now expired, an active research program is continuing, 

with a number of partnership initiatives. 

Maritime Archaeology staff continued research into 

techniques for replicating Batavia shipwreck ‘survivor’ 

skulls and making a wax model. Stephen Knott, of 

QEII PathCentre, visited Madame Tussaud’s 

laboratories in London in August 2000 to observe 

wax models manufacture and gain information about 

the materials and techniques used. 

Jeremy Green participated in the 2000 Tektash 

(Turkey) expedition for six weeks, assisting with the 

underwater surveying photogrammetric recording 

of the site using Photomodeller. The site is a 4th 

century BC shipwreck lying in 40 metres of water. 

The production of a series of documentary films, 

entitled ‘The Shipwreck Detectives’, by Prospero 

Productions is facilitating ongoing field research on 

several projects. The first is the grave-site of the Batavia 

shipwreck ‘survivors’, partially excavated in 1999. 

Survey work was carried out this year at Long Island 

on the Abrolhos to locate the mutineers’ execution 

site, and ground-penetrating radar was used to 

attempt to locate other graves on Beacon Island. 

The second project is an investigation of the 

Deepwater Graveyard off Rottnest. The area was 

initially searched using side-scan sonar; Prospero 

Productions then commissioned UTS, a local survey 

company, to carry out an airborne magnetometer 

survey over an area of 32 square kilometres. Eight 

sites were located and subsequently investigated with 

a side-scan sonar. Work on this, involving remotely 

operated vehicles, is ongoing. 

The third project is a search for the aircraft destroyed 

during the Japanese raid on Broome. Side-scan sonar 

has located a number of new sites, which are being 

investigated. 



A team from the Maritime Archaeology Department 

visited Middle Island, near Esperance, to examine the 

grave-site of Matthew Flinders’s bosun, Douglas, and 

other historical sites. The survey did not reveal the 

location of the Douglas grave, but the remains of 

several buildings and a well were surveyed, together 

with the camp-site of the people who salvaged the 

Penguin wreck. 

Inspections were completed on the Penguin and 

Belinda wrecks on Middle Island. The historical 

buildings on Middle Island are thought to be part of 

the whaling and sealing camp and possibly also 

associated with the salt works. Negotiations regarding 

sealing and whaling studies in the Recherche 

Archipelago off Esperance are under way with staff 

of the Centre for Archaeology, UWA, and also with 

the Southern Australian Whaling and Sealing Study 

Group centred at Flinders University. 

A team comprising Geoff Kimpton (chief diver), John 

Lashmar and Dr John Williams of Augusta, Les Moss 

(President, Shire of Shark Bay), author Hugh Edwards, 

Carmelo Amalfi (science writer for the West 

Australian), and leader Mike McCarthy travelled to 

the Ascension and Falkland islands. With the 

assistance of Philippe Godard and island residents, 

they located the wreck-site of HMS Roebuck (1701) 

of William Dampier fame, which was lost on 

Ascension Island, and the wreck of the lovers Rose 

and Louis de Freycinet’s exploration vessel Uranie 

(1820), lost in the Falklands. The expedition was 

made possible by donations and sponsorships from 

private individuals, notably Dr John Hanrahan of 

Perth, and corporations such as the Shire of Shark 

Bay, Shark Bay Salt Joint Venture, Monkey Mia Resort, 

Royal Brunei Airlines and Mainpeak Cottesloe. 

A site inspection for the proposed Blacklip Pearl Oyster 

aquaculture lease west of Gun Island, inside Half 

Moon Reef, was carried out. The proposed area is 

inshore of the Zeewijk (1727) wreck-site. The

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inspection included a survey of the lease area to 

record any material within it, and an evaluation of 

the site condition, to ascertain whether further 

artefacts were likely to be uncovered in the future. 

Corioli Souter conducted a site monitoring program 

and detailed literature search to ascertain the extent 

of potential archaeological remains at the new 

Maritime Museum site. Artefacts were reported and 

catalogued, and representative objects were collected 

for display in the new Museum’s Swan River Gallery. 

Jeremy Green and Corioli Souter conducted a sidescan 

sonar survey of Carnarvon Bay, Port Arthur, 

Tasmania, to locate cultural material on the sea floor 

related to colonial industry and the settlement of Port 

Arthur. This project is part of an archaeological survey 

by the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority. 

Maritime History Department staff have been fully 

engaged in developing gallery themes for the 

Maritime Museum redevelopment. 

An increasing function of the Education Section over 

the course of the year has been the continuing 

development of the Children’s Trail in the new Museum 

and the family Activity Centre in A-Shed. Designers 

Blackwell and Associates were appointed to study the 

feasibility of creating a maritime heritage activity centre 

for school visitors and families. The hands-on Activity 

Centre will provide a focus for active learning to 

complement Museum guided tours, precinct walks, 

cycle tours, and special programs such as beach 

sweeps and fishing—all of which further our vision of 

a ‘museum without walls’ in the maritime precinct. 

KNOWLEDGE 

COMMUNICATION 

Marketing Manager Karen Majer has developed a 

marketing plan for the period leading up to the 

opening of the new Maritime Museum in the second 

half of 2002. The plan is designed to fully exploit the 



international marketing opportunities of events such 

as the return of Australia II and the yacht’s participation 

in the America’s Cup Anniversary Regatta at Cowes. 

Maritime Archaeology staff assisted the Western 

Australian Museum–Geraldton to prepare exhibits for 

the Shipwrecks Gallery, and conducted a Coastcare 

Abrolhos Islands archaeological sites project. Staff also 

participated in the AIMA conference in Adelaide in 

December 2000; the Commonwealth/State 

Delegates/Practitioners’ Meeting; and the AIMA/ 

Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) Maritime Training 

Program, which has helped to increase the 

membership of the Museum’s amateur wing, the 

Maritime Archaeological Association of Western 

Australia. 

Negotiations are under way with James Cook 

University (JCU) and Flinders University to start a sixmonth 

graduate diploma course in 2002, located at 

the Western Australian Maritime Museum. During the 

year, staff instructed students at the Flinders/JCU Field 

School at Wardang Island, South Australia, in the use 

of HPASS and remote sensing equipment. 

Ray Sutcliffe, working with Maritime Museum staff 

and with the assistance of Prospero Productions, 

finalised the video Caught in Time: The Story of the 

Xantho. 

An Inspectors course for the Fisheries Department 

was held on the Abrolhos Islands. 

The Education Schools Programs attracted nearly 

14,000 school children. The department’s ability to 

deliver a wide selection of programs to Western 

Australian children can be largely attributed to the 

unswerving commitment of Education volunteers. 

In addition to hundreds of hours of service in guiding 

groups through the galleries, volunteers assisted with 

general clerical work, building learning tools and 

making the monthly Batavia Lecture Series and special 

events such as the Australia II Welcome Home 

Celebration a great success.

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Staffing targets for volunteer recruitment were met 

for all Education programs, and induction and 

training requirements were fulfilled. Six new 

volunteers joined us during the year. Ongoing and 

refresher training was provided. 

The Batavia Lecture Series proved a success yet again, 

with local and international guests showcasing a 

diverse and entertaining range of maritime heritage 

topics. A change of venue from the Batavia Gallery 

to the function room did not dampen the enthusiasm 

of the public: recent lectures have attracted audiences 

well in excess of capacity. 

Highlights of school holiday programs included the 

Easter Holiday premiere of ‘Pieces of Eight!’, a pirate 

treasure trail developed by Education staff. This offbeat 

and light-hearted family activity earned the 

participants a pewter replica of a Western Australian 

shipwreck coin at the end of the trail. Visitor Services 

provided additional children’s activities, such as pirate 

storytelling by talented Maritime Museum attendant 

Julia Sylvester. The pirate program was the most 

successful on record, with 1,000 children participating. 

Education oversaw an increased involvement of 

Visitor Services in school holiday programs, which 

has further accorded the Museum status as an 

excellent family venue. 

The Education Section is committed to developing 

and maintaining ties with the community. In March, 

it was involved in Sea Week 2001, providing an 

opportunity for Western Australian teachers to dive 

on the Shark wreck-site off Rottnest Island, among 

other activities during this all-day annual event. Curtin 

University’s Sir Charles Court Young Leaders’ Program 

uses the Maritime Museum as an annual venue, and 

in partnership with Education has developed highly 

successful programs that address the needs of special 

student groups. 



The Education Section contributed specially 

developed tours to Fremantle Heritage Week and 

participated in the Fremantle Festival parade. The 

section is taking the Museum into the community by 

visiting schools and libraries, giving talks to 

organisations, and being involved with other 

education providers and volunteer guiding groups. 

The submarine Ovens has continued to attract visitors 

from all over the world—a total of more than 41,000. 

The submarine is open to the public Friday to Sunday 

and on Wednesday to Sunday during school 

holidays. In consultation with the Education 

Department, school groups tour the submarine on 

Tuesday and Wednesday, with 222 school children 

visiting during the year. 

The 50 specially trained submarine guides received 

the prestigious Fremantle Heritage Award for their 

‘significant contribution to Fremantle’s social, cultural, 

built or natural heritage’. 

VALE FRANK BROEZE 

UWA made a very sound decision in 1970 when it 

gave the go-ahead to its newest member of staff, Dr 

Franklin Jan Aart Broeze, to begin a course in Maritime 

History. His linguistic talents saw him publish in 

French, German, Dutch and English, with many 

articles being translated into Spanish, Arabic and 

Greek. His brilliance in teaching drew him to the 

attention of the wider community and this is how 

many of his Museum connections were made. We 

were charmed by his rich, melodious voice on ABC 

Radio 6WF programs, and he had a special talent 

for communicating with the public on complex 

philosophical and historical issues without 

condescension or pretentiousness. 

The Museum community and many hundreds of past 

and present students were saddened when the news 

came through that Professor Frank Broeze had finally 

succumbed to cancer on 4 April 2001. All of us were

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touched by his remarkable energy and passion for 

maritime history and for how it can be used to gain 

an insight into contemporary society and the world 

at large. His vision was as limitless as the horizons 

over the ocean paths. The deliberations of the Board 

of the Maritime Museum, the Maritime Archaeology 

Advisory Committee, and the team working on the 

redevelopment of the new Maritime Museum all 

benefited from his involvement. 

His response to the drain of administration and of 

dealing with internal committees saw him frequently 

outwitting his opponents. He had the unique ability 

to find infinite time for good-humoured dialogue with 

colleagues and students. His wit was sharp, his 

counsel wise and his friendship a thing to be valued. 

Our loss is heaven’s reward and we extend our 

condolences to his beloved wife Ulrike (Ulli) and his 

son Carsten, who will miss him more than can be 

imagined. The contribution that Ulrike has made over 

more than 30 years’ working in the Conservation 

Department has been enhanced by the support that 

Frank was able to give over a generation. Like all 

great teachers, his work will live on in the lives of all 

who came into his orbit. May he rest in peace. 


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The Western Australian Museum–Albany’s collections 

were successfully cared for throughout the year. 

Six hundred new items were acquired. Of special 

importance were the Albany Port Authority’s donation 

of items dredged from the bottom of the harbour, a 

span of the Deep Water Jetty, and the acquisition of 

the contents of Mouchemore’s Cottage. 


My Albany—Memories and Stories, a collection by 

John Genoni, was completed during the year, while 

An Albany Walk Downhill by Keith Murray and an 

origin placename book, Albany Who and What by 

Les Johnson, are in preparation. Research was 

undertaken for an Albany and Federation exhibition 

and booklet, and also on the history of the 

Mouchemore family for a conservation plan. 

Material for a Millennium Time Capsule was actively 

collected from community groups and schools 

throughout the region. More than 300 items were 

donated, which will be an invaluable resource for 

researchers in the future. Contributors were asked 

why they belonged to their group and how they 

envisaged the group functioning in 50 to 100 years’ 

time. 

The first of three heritage walk trails was completed 

in partnership with the Albany City Council. The route 

of the ‘Amity Trail’ is marked with plaques on the 

buildings and pictures made in mosaic tiles on the 

ground, produced as a community arts project. The 

trail is proving very popular and is increasing visitors’ 

knowledge of the city. 

KNOWLEDGE 

COMMUNICATION 

Special exhibitions kept the number of visitors to the 

Museum much the same as in previous years, in spite 



Albany 

of a reduction in tourists visiting the region. The 

population base of about 28,000 represents only a 

third of the number of visitors to the Museum. Thus 

the Museum plays an important role in informing 

tourists about the area they are exploring. 

The Museum organised a week-long visit from the Light 

Horse Memorial Troop as part of the Anzac 2001 

Federation Festival. The troop performed at the 

Museum in the mornings, with the horses pulling a 

guncarriage, the gun being fired and opportunities 

being made available for the public to talk to the riders. 

The troop then delivered coffee in sacks to Dylan’s in 

Stirling Terrace, providing a historic photo opportunity. 

In the afternoon, an exhibition of horsemanship, with 

historical commentary, was presented on an oval. A 

video has been made of the performance. The events 

proved very popular, with 1,500 people attending the 

last performance. The Museum obtained sponsorship 

from the City Council, Mt Romance and Dylan’s on 

the Terrace to assist with costs. 

Other exhibitions and events that were much enjoyed 

by visitors were: 

• Feral Peril from Fisheries WA: shows fish and other 

water animals that can cause problems if 

imported accidentally into Western Australia. 

• Silent Invaders, prepared and installed by Customs 

and Agriculture West: demonstrates the items that 

have come into Western Australia via visitors and 

the harm these items can do. 

• Albany and Federation prepared by the Western 

Australian Museum’s Exhibition and Design 

Section: uses artefacts from the Albany Historical 

Society and the Museum history collection. 

• Too Dark for the Light Horse from the Australian 

War Memorial: a travelling exhibition of great 

interest especially to Noongar people, who 

supplemented the exhibition with objects, turned 

out in large numbers for the opening, and 

travelled long distances to see it.

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• Gallipoli Images: a popular exhibition of large 

paintings by Stewart Cownie (a retired illustrator 

from the West Australian) and photos taken at 

Gallipoli that have never before been exhibited. 

• Millennium Time Capsule: exhibition of the 300 

items collected, while work was undertaken to 

stabilise them. 

• ‘Frog Friendly Gardens’: two days of workshops 

and talks for individuals and schools with Ken 

Aplin from the Alcoa FrogWAtch program. A 

permanent garden was completed containing 

three ponds, and a frog population is now in 

residence. More than 300 people were involved 

in various ways—all interested in frogs and 

requiring more knowledge. 

In conjunction with the Department of Conservation 

and Environment, and Waters and Rivers, the 

Museum participated in a river cruise for the Coastcare 

program, providing commentary about the origin of 

landforms and their relationship to plants and wildlife 

in the region. The Museum also provided commentary 

for beach excursions at Cosy Corner and 

Middleton Beach. Other talks were given to Rotary, 

the National Trust and various school groups. 

All exhibitions had education components, and 

special activities were organised for school holidays 

using both the permanent and ephemeral 

exhibitions. All of these proved very popular, especially 

the free ones! 

Assistance in the form of knowledge was given to 

many community groups, including the Albany 

Historical Society, the Old Farm, Strawberry Hill, the 

Anzac 2001 steering committee and the Wellstead 

Progress Association. 



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COLLECTIONS 

MANAGEMENT 

The Western Australian Museum–Geraldton does not 

have its own collection: every item on display is on 

loan from the Western Australian Museum collection 

or from individuals or institutions. However, the 

Museum has a responsibility for maintaining and 

managing the collection in its care. We have been 

working continuously towards improving our 

collections management—the net result being the 

development of the new Western Australian 

Museum–Geraldton. A state-of-the-art building was 

commissioned during the year, and we have been 

occupied with acquiring additional items for new 

temporary and permanent exhibitions. 

A team of conservators from the Department of 

Materials Conservation visited Geraldton to assess the 

conservation status of the various relics. While some 

were treated in situ, others were sent to Fremantle 

for conservation work. Work is also in progress on 

digitising the images to be used in the new 

exhibitions. 


The design and development of exhibitions are critical 

to the concept of knowledge generation. The 

curatorial consultants for the new Museum have been 

working during the year on exhibitions. The 

consultants and the exhibition designers held a 

community consultation workshop in December, 

which was attended by 25 stakeholders. 

Chris Williamson, an artist from Fremantle, was 

contracted by the Friends of the Art Gallery to come 

to Geraldton under an artist-in-residence program. 

In consultation with Museum staff, he designed 

twelve Feather Banners for the new Museum. Chris 

also organised and coordinated a workshop of the 

Friends of the Art Gallery to stitch the banners. 



Geraldton 

Educational activities are another means of 

generating knowledge. The Museum celebrated 

National Science Week by organising the ‘Great 

Marsupial Night Stalk’ program at Wicherina reserve, 

in conjunction with CALM. More than 50 people, 

including Museum staff, local community members, 

students, CALM officers and CALM carers, surveyed 

an area of 1,215 hectares and collected data on 

marsupials and feral animals as part of a national 

research project. 

The annual Clem Burns Heritage Award competition 

received 45 entries from three different schools: 

Geraldton Grammar, Shark Bay Primary and Mount 

Tarcoola Primary School. An award function held on 

12 September was attended by about 70 children, 

teachers, parents and local media representatives. 

KNOWLEDGE 

COMMUNICATION 

The Western Australian Museum–Geraldton 

communicates knowledge through public lectures, 

exhibitions and education programs. 

Public Lectures 

As our main focus this year was on the new Museum 

building and its exhibitions, there were limited 

opportunities for public lectures. Dr Ken Aplin visited 

Geraldton in November as Skywest Visiting Fellow, 

to promote the FrogWAtch program. His talks and 

demonstrations were of great interest to students and 

to the general public who attended his evening 

lecture. 

In March, Ms Corioli Souter from the Western 

Australian Maritime Museum gave a public lecture 

entitled ‘Mapping the Massacre’ immediately after her 

fieldwork in the Abrolhos Islands. This lecture was 

well received and attended by about 90 guests. 

A series of lectures by prominent speakers and a 

screening of rare footage on the retrieval of shipwreck

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materials were organised at the Museum during the 

June long weekend. Hugh Edwards spoke on ‘The 

Near Loss of a Historic Plate’ and ‘The Wake of HMS 

Roebuck’. Max Cramer spoke on his favourite subject 

(also the title of his book), ‘Treasures, Tragedies and 

Triumphs of the Batavia Coast’. Chris Fleming 

charmed the audience with his recent experience 

on the Abrolhos Islands with his talk ‘Digging up the 

Past’, while Bill Newbold gave a lecture entitled ‘Time 

and Time Again’. 

Exhibitions 

While the curatorial consultants were busy with the 

development of exhibition concepts and finalisation 

of objects for the exhibitions in the new Museum 

galleries, there was plenty happening to interest the 

visiting public and schools. The Batavia portico was 

moved from Fremantle to Geraldton in April. Geoff 

Kimpton and his team meticulously reassembled the 

stones, returning the portico to its regal glory. The 

Bristol Tourer plane travelled from Greenough Airport 

to its permanent home, and a team of more than a 

dozen volunteers from the local aero club restored 

the aircraft to its original shape. The Cobb & Co. coach 

travelled from Whitman Park to its new home at the 

Museum’s Mid West Gallery. 

The glass panels designed by local Marra Marra 

women and fabricated at Warburton were installed 

in the Mid West Gallery. This work was funded from 

the Percent for Arts Scheme. 

Travelling exhibitions from all over the country were 

displayed at the Museum: 

• Impressions: Australians in Vietnam from the 

Australian War Memorial was launched by the 

Minister for the Arts and local Vietnam veterans 

on 11 July. 

• A photographic exhibition, As It Was: East Timor 

1971, by Dr Romela McSwain and Dr Hugh Jones 

opened on 15 July. 



Geraldton 

• In September, Customs and Agriculture West 

hosted Silent Invaders, along with Fisheries WA’s 

Feral Peril. 

• From the Steps of Bonegilla from Albury Museum 

opened on 15 May. 

• History of the Western Australian Constitution was 

brought in from the Constitution Centre of 


There was no dearth of local content and talent at 

the Museum, with the following exhibitions having 

been displayed: 

• Filipino: Art and Culture, an exhibition by the local 

Filipino community, was opened by the Mayor 

of Geraldton and Gerald Donnelly, Honorary 

Consul for Philippines in Western Australia, on 

22 July. 

• The spirit of the Sydney Olympics was very much 

alive in Geraldton, with an exhibition on martial 

arts organised at the Museum to celebrate the 

introduction of tae kwon do in the Olympics. It 

was curated by local tae kwon do enthusiasts, 

who also provided floor demonstrations. 

• Entries for the Clem Burns Heritage Award—a 

primary school level competition—were on 

display during September. 

• A model of Geraldton City circa 1925 was 

developed by local modellers with the help of 

the local studies unit of the City of Geraldton 

Library. 

• A time capsule put together in 1979 was opened 

at the Geraldton Secondary College on 

2 November, and its contents were on display at 

the Museum in February and March. 

• Mosaic on Midwest, designed by local artist Julie 

Nunn, was installed at the entrance of the 


The Museum’s own travelling exhibition on the history 

of the Zuytdorp was displayed at Kalbarri between 

July and January.

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Education 

The Museum’s school holiday programs attracted a 

large number of participants for activities like 

astronomy, science, art and craft, ‘Ocean Adventure’, 

‘Planets in Jar’, pottery potpourri, colourful collage, 

‘Antarctica in the Oven’, ‘The Deep’, ‘Time Capsules’, 

harbour cruise/navigation, ‘Museum Zoo’, ceramic 

mosaics, Abrolhos Island adventure, ‘Treasure Hunt’, 

marine biology, ceramics and fishing clinics. These 

entertained children, parents and volunteers alike. 

The programs were made all the more interesting 

with the introduction of interactive technology. Our 

‘Time Capsules’ workshop was attended by the past 

and present Mayors of Geraldton. 

Travelling exhibitions such as Impressions: Australians 

in Vietnam, Silent Invaders and Feral Peril attracted a 

sizeable number of students from schools in the 

region. Dr Ken Aplin’s FrogWAtch talks were attended 

by more than 300 school children. 

The Museum sees the local Spalding Park Reserve as 

an important ecological oasis in the surrounding 

suburban development, and has begun the process 

of coordinating education activities with other 

interested groups, such as CALM, to emphasise the 

importance of the reserve. 

Students from all over the State visited the Museum’s 

maritime displays and associated educational 

activities. With our new displays, programs and 

activities, we will be well equipped to cater for an 

increasing number of school visits in the years ahead. 



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COLLECTIONS 

MANAGEMENT 

The Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder 

continues to develop the State’s collections relating 

to the development and history of the goldfields 

region. 

In January 2001, the Museum collected an original 

section of the Goldfields Water Supply pipe from the 

historic Bailey’s Reward mine lease in Coolgardie. The 

pipe was buried in a culvert on the lease during the 

1890s and was missed when the main section of 

pipeline was relaid in the 1920s. It is significant 

because it is possibly the last remaining section of 

pipe that retains the original lead seal used in the 

construction of the pipeline. The pipe has been 

prepared for display and will feature prominently in 

an expanded display on the pipeline proposed to 

coincide with the National Trust’s Golden Pipeline 

Project. The Museum acknowledges the support of 

the Water Corporation of Western Australia and the 

donor, Mike Charlton, in making this object available 

for display. 

In July 2000, the Museum exhibited three segments 

of the Goldfields Water Supply pipeline, showing 

different historical technologies, donated by the 

Water Corporation. 

Ongoing work on the collection was put on hold in 

the early part of 2001 due to staff shortages and the 

need to address other projects, such as the ethnobotanic 

garden. However, in March the first of a 

regular series of displays was initiated. The new 

acquisitions case featured a cutlery set won as a prize 

in a live pigeon shooting contest in Boulder in 1905, 

a series of lantern slides advertising Kapps 

Newsagency, and a camel nose peg and leather 

anklet used by local Afghan cameleers. A second 

display case will showcase well-known identities that 

have connections to the goldfields. Dean Kemp, the 




current co-captain of the Australian Football League 

team the West Coast Eagles, was featured as the first 

in this series. 


The tenders for the ethno-botanic garden were 

assessed, with Paterson Landscape and Tree Safe 

awarded the contract to implement Blackwell & 

Associates’ design. Work began in late May and is 

scheduled to finish in July 2001. Plantings and the 

installation of the interpretive panels will take place 

later in the year. The ethno-botanic garden is 

designed around six depressions that replicate the 

water catchment features of natural land systems. 

These catchment areas are designed to mimic the 

shape of the local silky pear, karlkurla, which gives 

Kalgoorlie its name. 

As part of the consultative work for the project, the 

Branch Curator undertook discussions with members 

of the local Aboriginal community. These discussions 

centred on developing an overall conceptual plan 

for the plantings to complement the landscape 

design. The six water catchment areas provide the 

opportunity to divide the garden into definable 

sections that can be planted in specific ways to reflect 

the unique knowledge of Aboriginal people in the 

goldfields region. The model developed from the 

consultations proposes that areas within the garden 

design reflect particular ‘patches’, based on the types 

of bush tucker and medicines that are used in different 

cultural areas in the goldfields region. These patches 

encourage communities from Norseman to Leonora 

to the Western Desert to associate more closely with 

the garden and enable a framework for ongoing 

interpretation of the garden as a cultural space. 

The Acting Branch Curator was invited to represent 

the Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder 

on the National Trust’s Golden Pipeline Project 

committee, and will continue to provide advice to

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this important project. He was also involved in initial 

discussions regarding the future of the world-famous 

Bush Two-up structure and the possibility of its 

relocation to a site adjacent to the Museum. 

The Acting Branch Curator continued to represent 

the Museum on the Tourism Association Executive 

Committee, and Museum clerical officer Carolyn Gray 

sat on the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder Arts Committee. 

KNOWLEDGE 

COMMUNICATION 

Visitor numbers remained steady at around 100,000, 

and are expected to rise once the Australian Miner’s 

Hall of Fame opens in October 2001. 

The program of Visiting Fellows, reinstituted last year, 

continued. Our first guest speaker was Dr Ian 

MacLeod, who presented an extremely entertaining 

and informative talk on revelations from artefacts 

excavated from the wreck of the Batavia. Dr Ken Aplin 

gave an enlightening lecture on frogs of the South- 

West and goldfields and the highly successful 

FrogWAtch program. Dr John Long enthralled the 

audience with tales of his adventures carrying out 

research in the Antarctic. The landscape and the way 

in which it is culturally constructed were the theme 

of Mr Matt Trinca’s lecture, which also gave the 

audience a preview of Western Australia: Land and 

People, prior to the opening of the exhibition at the 

Western Australian Museum in Perth. 

On 10 July 2000, the Olympic flame passed through 

Kalgoorlie-Boulder on its way to Sydney. The City of 

Kalgoorlie-Boulder organised a weekend of 

celebrations prior to its arrival, and the Western 

Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder played its part 

by hosting the Mini Ancient Games. During the day, 

more than 1,000 people visited the Museum and 

200 children took part in the program. A gold nugget 

prize was awarded to winners in each of four 

sections. 




A highlight of the year came in August, when the 

Museum was awarded the 2000 Goldfields Business 

Awards inaugural Goldfields Tourism Award. 

Nominations were judged on submissions outlining 

the history, vision and future plans of the organisation, 

and on an interview with the judging panel. 

In October, the Museum hosted a delegation of 

judges from the Western Australian Tourism 

Commission as part of Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s bid to win 

the Top Tourist Town award. 

The Museum took part in the City of Kalgoorlie- 

Boulder’s strategic planning day in November, and 

has been involved with the city and the National Trust 

in planning for upgraded facilities and better public 

access to the Mt Charlotte Reservoir via a walkway 

that will originate from the Museum. The Museum 

has also been a key stakeholder in the City of 

Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s cultural planning process. 

Issues relating to the ongoing display of the K00001 

gold bar and State Gold Collection moved closer to 

being resolved. The Geological Survey Department 

agreed to reunite elements of the State Gold 

Collection not currently on display in the Museum’s 

Gold Vault. This will result in the complete collection 

being displayed for the first time for many years. 

Negotiations between the government and the 

owners of the K00001 gold bar have been successful 

in arranging for a reduced lease fee for the next 

twelve months. News of this agreement was 

conveyed to the Museum in person by the Deputy 

Premier. This is an important first step towards 

recognition of the historic and social significance of 

the gold bar to the people of the goldfields and 


Following the previous year’s training in tour guiding, 

a program of daily tours was instigated and continues 

to prove popular with visitors. Each staff member has 

developed a tour highlighting aspects of the 

Museum’s displays and goldfields history, focusing on

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a particular theme or subject. Attendant Moya Sharp, 

applying her interest in the history of the area, has 

established a small research section in the reception 

area. In May 2001, Elaine Mackinnon participated in 

a training course on developing web sites and will 

oversee the compilation of information on activities 

at Kalgoorlie-Boulder for the Western Australian 

Museum’s intranet and Internet sites. 

The Museum hosted visits by ministers of the previous 

and current governments, including a breakfast 

function for the Minister for Culture and the Arts, 

Sheila McHale MLA, and representatives from her 

portfolio interests. On 29 June 2001, the Federal 

Member for Kalgoorlie, Barry Haase, opened the 

Australian War Memorial touring exhibition Forging 

the Nation: Federation—The First Twenty Years. This 

is a timely exhibition and one that was eagerly 

anticipated by many of the schools in Kalgoorlie- 

Boulder. 

The Education Officer continued to provide a service 

to schools throughout the State and to work with 

other education organisations such as the Education 

Department and the Goldfields Camp School in 

encouraging the use of the Museum and its displays 

in their educational programs. School bookings 

followed the pattern of previous years, although there 

was an increase in non-local schools using the 

Museum’s educational facilities. 

Links to other Kalgoorlie-Boulder organisations that 

run education programs was boosted this year 

through regular meetings of Education Officers 

coordinated by the Goldfields Camp School. 

The Museum’s profile was raised through a series of 

radio advertisements on the local commercial radio 

stations, and via television advertisements featuring 

the Western Australian Museum’s regional sites 

negotiated by the Western Australian Museum 

Foundation. 




In May, as the final part of the changeover to the 

Museum’s new logo and name (formerly the Museum 

of the Goldfields), the signs on the Ivanhoe 

headframe were replaced. A large crane, and two 

workers suspended 33 metres above the ground in 

a metal cage, removed the old signs and then 

installed the new sign with its distinctive golden logo. 

Lights to illuminate the sign and headframe will be 

installed in early 2001–2002.

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KNOWLEDGE 

COMMUNICATION 

The exhibition A New Australia: Postwar Migration 

to Western Australia, continued to be appreciated 

by the community. Many descendants of those who 

migrated to the State in the 1950s and 1960s express 

their amazement at the experiences of parents or 

grandparents. Original migrants often thank staff for 

presenting their stories and there are many return 

visits to this exhibition. Some visitors take the 

opportunity to add their migration experiences in the 

visitors’ book, thus sharing with others their stories 

and adding to the State’s migration history. 

In this year of the Centenary of Federation, the 

Western Australian Museum’s travelling exhibition, 

When Australia Was a Woman, with its evocative 

cartoons, pictorial representations and objects, has 

provided a different perspective on the traditional 

historical account. Few women were present at the 

opening of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth 

of Australia in Melbourne on 9 May 1901, and none 

yet had the benefits of full citizenship. But the new 

nation was invariably depicted in the feminine—a 

paradox that is explored throughout the exhibition. 

The many images and representations of women as 

symbols of the nation are of particular interest to 

secondary students and others interested in the 

nation’s history. 

The Museum’s education programs, led in Fremantle 

by Caroline Mutzig, are popular. The schoolroom with 

its wooden desks and austere teacher at the 

blackboard, as well as programs based on 

Foundations of Fremantle and Within these Walls, 

are particularly enjoyed by primary school groups, 

who usually come dressed in historical costume. The 

themes of A New Australia: Postwar Migration to 

Western Australia have great relevance to students 

studying the upper school curriculum. Groups of 



tertiary students, from various disciplines, also 

regularly use the Museum as part of their studies. 

Adding to a program of booked tours by various 

community and tourist groups, Fremantle History 

Museum became the second of the Western 

Australian Museum branches to introduce free daily 

introductory tours to visitors. There has always been 

great interest in the building, with its fascinating 

history as the State’s first purpose-built lunatic asylum, 

and then as women’s home, midwifery training 

school and American Supply Base during World War 

II. Most tours focus on the building and the lives of 

those who have lived there, adding extra dimensions 

to the exhibition Within these Walls. Response by staff 

and visitors has been enthusiastic, and all attendant 

staff at Fremantle History Museum are now involved 

in the tours. 

The Community Access Gallery continues to hold a 

key place in the facilities of the Fremantle History 

Museum. The space is available, free of charge, to 

community groups who work together with Museum 

staff to produce their own exhibitions. A highlight of 

the Women’s Electoral Lobby exhibition was its display 

of vibrant banners from the Suffrage Banner Project. 

A sampling of 220 banners, representing milestones 

in women’s history over the past 100 years, were 

hung in the gallery. Some were worked by women’s 

organisations including refuges, migrant centres and 

craft groups; others by schools or individuals from 

both rural and metropolitan areas. 

The Fremantle Croatian community then displayed 

100 Years of Croatian Migration to Australia through 

photographs. Display cases were filled with colourful 

traditional costumes and other precious objects 

brought to Fremantle from the homeland. The 

exhibition formed a major part of the Croatian Cultural 

Week celebrations in November and was the first time 

Museum staff have worked with this community.

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In this International Year of Volunteers, and with a 

major conference in Fremantle involving volunteers 

from all over the world, Volunteering Western 

Australia is using the Community Access Gallery to 

show what volunteers are doing to help in the 

community, in times of emergency and in caring for 

the environment. This is another first for the Museum, 

with photographs and objects being changed 

monthly to reflect the great diversity of work in which 

volunteers are involved. 


Fremantle History Museum

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Visitor Services initiated improvements in market 

research this year. As part of a sponsorship 

arrangement, the Hides Consulting Group is assisting 

with the preparation and collation of visitor surveys. 

Numbers of visitors and their satisfaction with the 

Museum are being measured. 

KNOWLEDGE 

COMMUNICATION 

Exhibition Development 

Program 

Western Australia: Land and 

People 

The major highlight of the year was the completion 

and opening of Western Australia: Land and People 

after two years of development by project manager 

Ann Delroy, Head of Social History. This major 

exhibition brought together curatorial staff of all 

disciplines in the Western Australian Museum, to 

exhibit the natural, social and cultural history of the 

State. It is one the first exhibitions in Australia to 

integrate these disciplines. 

The skilled Exhibition and Design staff expertly 

transformed curatorial words into this exciting, 

colourful and enjoyable exhibition experience. The 

displays explore themes such as the creation of the 

land from both the traditional scientific and the 

Indigenous people’s perspective. The traditional 

relationship of Indigenous people to the land is 

explored, along with the impact of European 

colonisation on the land. Environmental and social 

issues are examined through a combination of static 

displays, graphics and multimedia. 

The Hon. Sheila McHale MLA, Minister for Culture 

and the Arts, officially opened the exhibition on 

23 March 2001. More than 300 people attended the 

opening, at which Aboriginal elder Ken Colbung 



addressed the audience on the special relationship 

Aboriginal people have with the land. 

Visitors to the Museum continue to express their 

interest and enjoyment of the exhibition. One of the 

highlights, especially for our younger visitors, is the 

mighty roaring of the Carnataurus, a 5-metre high 

replica of a dinosaur that most likely roamed the early 

landscape of Australia. 

Woodside Dampier Gallery 

The opening of this gallery on 24 July allowed the 

Western Australian Museum to display the remarkable 

fauna the curatorial staff have collected and described 

during the partnership program with Woodside 

Energy Ltd. 

Generous sponsorship from Woodside Energy Ltd has 

enabled the Museum’s marine biology experts to 

undertake field trips to the Dampier region to collect 

previously unknown species. The complement of 

animals portrayed in this gallery shows the amazing 

diversity of Western Australia’s marine life. 


Geraldton 

The Key Handover Ceremony for the exciting new 

Museum building, officially opened on 11 July 2000, 

attracted more than 700 guests. The Deputy Premier, 

the Hon. Hendy Cowan, set the official proceedings 

in motion and handed the key to the Hon. Mike 

Board, Minister for the Arts, who handed it to Dr Ken 

Michael, Chair of Trustees, who handed it to the Chair 

of the Geraldton Board, Mr Malcolm Smith. The 

Western Australian Museum–Geraldton has brought 

a world-class facility to Geraldton. 

During 2000–2001, Murex Consultants researched 

pivotal aspects of the Mid West Region so as to 

develop an integrated exhibition of the region’s 

natural, social and cultural history. Planning and 

development by Exhibition and Design staff of the

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Western Australian Museum saw the opening of the 

Shipwrecks Gallery component of this exhibition on 

1 June 2001. 

This occasion introduced the original Batavia portico, 

which had previously been on display at the Western 

Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle. Originally 

bound for a citadel in Batavia (now Jakarta), this 

portico lay on the ocean bed of the Abrolhos Islands 

for more than 300 years after the 1629 shipwreck of 

the Batavia, a member of the Dutch East Indies fleet. 

The event was also used to display French bottles 

and coins found on Dirk Hartog Island and donated 

to the Museum by Philippe Godard, and to award 

the inaugural Museum Medals for contributions to 

the Western Australian Museum to Max Cramer, Kim 

Cramer, John Eckersley, Chris Shine and Tom Bradley. 

The Mid West Gallery of this new Museum is currently 

under development and is planned to open in April 

2002. 

Baudin: The French Connection 

The Western Australian Museum embarked on an 

ambitious program to develop a touring exhibition 

about the early French exploration of the Western 

Australian coastline. Curated by Dr Diana Jones and 

designed by Fran Sweetman, the exhibition traces 

the voyage of Captain Nicolas Baudin and 

acknowledges the significant contribution that this 

voyage made to knowledge of the natural history of 

Western Australia. The exhibition contains replicas of 

the artwork produced on the voyage, and of the 

actual specimens they represent. It also depicts some 

of the earliest documentation of the life of the 

Indigenous people. 

This is the first time that the Museum has developed 

an exhibition to tour regional sites throughout the 

State. 


The exhibition has drawn considerable praise from 

both the regional and the French communities, and 

there is interest from interstate and overseas. 

Art in Science Exhibition 

The Museum was a keen participant in Science Week 

(4–11 May 2001), and Education Services provided 

a significant part of the Museum’s involvement. Kate 

Akerman, Education Officer, and Curator John Long 

developed the Art in Science Exhibition in the Hellenic 

Gallery. In all, 90 works of art were exhibited, 

involving Museum staff and local artists. Additionally, 

staff worked with Mariyon Slany, Marketing, in 

developing, constructing, staffing, setting up and 

dismantling the Museum exhibition at the Science 

Week Expo held in Forrest Place during Science Week. 

The Expo gave us a great opportunity to increase 

our public exposure and to publicise events and 

exhibitions at the Museum. 

Live Forever 


The ‘Live Forever’ program was launched on 8 May 

2001 at the Discovery Centre. This program provides 

opportunities for individuals and corporations to 

contribute to the science programs of the Museum 

and to have a new species of animal named after 

them. 

Olympians/Para-Olympians attended the launch and 

were involved in a draw to choose the inaugural 

‘Live Forever’ subject. The winner, Noel Robins, will 

have a species named in his honour. 

Travelling and Temporary 

Exhibitions 

Ancient Lives: Greeks, Romans 

and Etruscans 

The Western Australian Museum coordinated the tour 

of this exhibition to six sites in Australia and New 

Zealand. The exhibition tour finished at the South 

Australian Museum in September 2000. During the

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tour and the return of the exhibition to the National 

Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, in the Netherlands, 

the Western Australian Museum’s Travelling Exhibition 

Coordinator was responsible for installation, 

dismantling and transport—a massive task whose 

execution justifiably received praise from each venue. 

BG Wildlife Photographer of the 

Year 

11 August – 2 October 2000 

(Temporary Exhibitions Gallery, Perth) 

An annual event on the Museum’s calendar, this 

exhibition displayed the winners and selected entries 

from the 1998 competition. It featured a range of 

spectacular images of the natural world by 

photographers from many countries. 

Impressions: Australians in 

Vietnam 

11 July – 21 August 2000 

(Western Australian Museum, Geraldton) 

This exhibition, mounted to celebrate the opening 

of the new Museum building in Geraldton, portrayed 

the personal experiences of Australians serving in 

Vietnam and the war’s enduring impact on those 

people. The region’s Vietnam veterans marched 

through the Geraldton township, arriving at the new 

Museum to form a guard of honour for the Hon. 

Hendy Cowan and distinguished guests. 

1918: Australians in France 

15 November 2000 – 11 February 2001 


This exhibition, developed and installed by the 

Australian War Memorial, depicted the service and 

experiences of Australians serving in France during 

World War I. On two days during this exhibition, 

Western Australians could bring in their own personal 

war memorabilia to be interpreted by a representative 


of the Australian War Memorial. A public lecture was 

also presented by Peter Burness, Head Curator 

(Military Heraldry and Technology Section) at the 

Australian War Memorial in Canberra, on Sunday, 4 

February. 

Anne Frank: A History for Today 

14 March – 20 May 2001 


This thought-provoking exhibition, which has been 

touring for 15 years, was developed by the Anne 

Frank House in Amsterdam and is toured by the 

Anne Frank Australian Exhibition Trust. Inspired by 

the diary of Anne Frank, it seeks to portray the 

experiences and emotions of a young Jewish girl 

forced into hiding by the activities of the Nazis. Visitors 

to the exhibition were assisted by 50 volunteers who 

provided guided tours. School groups had the 

chance to attend a presentation by a Holocaust 

survivor, and many children were deeply moved by 

the experience. The exhibition aimed to raise visitors’ 

awareness of their individual responsibilities for taking 

action against racism. 

Courage to Care 


14 March – 20 May 2001 


Displayed in conjunction with Anne Frank, this 

exhibition, developed by the Australian Jewish 

community, tells of the incredible risks taken by citizens 

in protecting Jewish people during World War II. 

During the exhibition, Holocaust survivors, 

coordinated by the Holocaust Institute of Western 

Australia, provided insights into their own personal 

experiences during this sad passage of history.

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Albert Einstein: Man of the 

Century 

1 June – 29 July 2001 


This exhibition, developed and sponsored by the 

Hebrew University in Jerusalem, presented a glimpse 

into the life and work of Albert Einstein and an 

opportunity to see reproductions of his personal 

papers that are usually housed at the Jewish National 

and University Library in Jerusalem. The exhibition 

looked at Einstein’s mythic status as a universal cultural 

icon, including his correspondence with children from 

all around the world. 

Forging the Nation: Federation— 

The First Twenty Years 


(Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder) 

To commemorate the Centenary of Federation, the 

Australian War Memorial developed this travelling 

exhibition, which displays the role Australian defence 

forces have played in the history of the nation. 

Baudin: The French Connection 


(Busselton Jetty Interpretive Centre) 

To local and political acclaim, this exhibition, 

developed and designed by Western Australian 

Museum staff, began its State-wide tour at the new 

Busselton Jetty Interpretive Centre. It has been a very 

popular exhibit, and the centre management is keen 

to house components of the exhibition when it 

completes its national and international tour in 2002. 


Community Access Program 

I Stimuli 

21–30 July 2000 

(Hellenic Gallery, Perth) 

This photographic exhibition showcased the work 

of graduate students of the WA School of Art, Design 

and Multimedia at Mt Lawley. 

Seniors Week 

29 October – 5 November 2000 

(Perth) 

This special week was marked by a three-day 

exhibition of art and craft produced by the Older 

Women’s Network, whose choir treated visitors to a 

few of its original songs at the opening. A number 

of Visitor Services officers were trained to undertake 

special heritage tours of the Museum’s Perth site for 

seniors during this week. 

Young Originals 

1–31 October 2000 



The Education Department once again staged Young 

Originals, an exhibition of student artworks selected 

from the Premier’s Quest for Excellence Awards. 

Ngarra: Images of his Country 

1 November 2000 – 4 January 2001 

(Katta Djinoong, Perth) 

This exhibition featured a series of sketches and mixedmedia 

paintings by the Aboriginal artist Ngarra. 

Awesome Children’s Festival 

November 2000 

(Meagher Courtyard, Perth) 

The Matrix (outdoor gallery) proved to be one of the 

most popular exhibits for the Awesome Festival this

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year, and approximately 3,000 visitors were shown 

through during the festival. 

Frog Friendly Day 

Sunday, 19 November 2000 

(Meagher Courtyard, Perth) 

Alcoa is partnering the Museum in a community 

awareness program about frogs and the disease that 

currently threatens their survival. To launch this 

sponsorship by Alcoa, a Frog Friendly Day was held, 

in which Museum staff and community groups 

provided entertainment, activities and information 

about frogs and the environments that support them. 

Survival 

5 January – 28 February 2001 


Survival, a photographic exhibition presented by the 

Coalition of Peoples, honours the contribution made 

by Aboriginal men, women and children to the social, 

cultural and economic wealth of Australia. The 

Coalition of Peoples was partnered by the Library and 

Information Service of Western Australia in creating 

this testimonial to those Aboriginal people who have 

lived through and survived times of great tragedy in 

Australian history. The exhibition was supported by 

artworks from Aboriginal artists throughout Western 

Australia. 

Dwelling Place/Mia Mia 

26 January – 18 February 2001 

(Hackett Hall Foyer, Perth) 

Dwelling Place/Mia Mia was a mixed-media 

installation re-creating the dwelling place where 

Valerie Takao Binder lived as a child before her 

removal to New Norcia and Mogumber missions. This 

installation was a co-presentation of PIAF and the 

Western Australian Museum. 



Education Programs 

The Museum’s Education Section is the major centre 

of learning about the State’s cultural and natural 

heritage. Its work includes reviewing existing 

programs; expanding and improving services to 

schools and the community; and the development 

of new resource materials, programs and professional 

development opportunities for schools. 

The opening of Western Australia: Land and People 

provided schools with expanded opportunities to 

learn about the heritage of their State. Two new 

education kits have been prepared for primary and 

secondary schools linking the Curriculum Framework 

to the contents of the exhibition. These kits illustrate 

how a visit to the Museum allows classroom teachers 

to cover aspects of their curriculum. 

Professional development courses to familiarise 

teachers with Museum displays and their links to 

classroom-based learning have been implemented. 

Education and Discovery Centre staff, in partnership 

with other government agencies, also provided 

professional development for teachers at Rottnest 

Island during Sea Week. 

The Education Section worked closely with the project 

manager of the Anne Frank and Courage to Care 

exhibitions, promoting these exhibitions to schools 

and providing a booking service for groups wishing 

to attend. 

The Education Section assisted the Primary Extension 

and Challenge (PEAC) program in the development 

of a museum-based course called ‘Museum ”Arty” 

Fact’. The program’s potential high achievers 

researched and designed their own thematic displays, 

which were then displayed in the Francis Street Foyer. 

Following its success, this course is likely to be 

repeated with other PEAC groups. 

The Education Section coordinated a tour guide 

training program for Visitor Services officers and it is

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planned to develop and conduct guided tours during 

2001–2002. 

Two Education staff undertook training to develop a 

comprehensive and attractive web site. The structure 

of the site has been developed and the site will be 

operational during 2001–2002. The site will provide 

teachers with resource notes, information sheets, and 

details on what the Western Australian Museum can 

offer schools. 

During the year, the Education Section continued 

the very popular school holiday program, including 

special activities for Museum events such as the Frog 

Friendly Day. 

Discovery Centre 

The Discovery Centre has continued to assist visitors 

and school groups wishing to research special topics. 

The centre is popular with schools, particularly 

because of its activities designed to achieve the 

outcomes of the Curriculum Framework’s ‘Working 

Scientifically’ section. 

The centre also supports the travelling exhibitions 

program by making available books, videos, CDs and 

other materials on relevant topics. 

In support of the Museum’s Alcoa FrogWAtch 

program, live displays of frogs are exhibited and are 

of considerable interest to visitors to the centre. 

Venue for Functions 

The Museum continues to be a popular venue for 

functions. Groups who hired the Museum for 

functions throughout the year included the Ministry 

for Housing, the Geological Society, the McCusker 

Foundation, the Academy of Advanced Technology, 

the Western Australian Commission of Social Services, 

HLB Mann Judd and Methodist Ladies College. The 

Habitus 2000 Conference (150 delegates) was also 

held at the Museum. 


Special Events 


The following special events were features of the year 

under review: 

• The Hon. Mike Board officially launched the 

Woodside Dampier Marine Biological Workshop 

in the new entrance foyer on Monday, 24 July 

2000. The workshop’s 140 guests were also able 

to view the refurbished Woodside Gallery. 

• The Robert Drewe Lecture, 5 October 2000, was 

a great success, with approximately 180 people 

attending. The Museum’s partnership with UWA 

in promoting and staging such events will 

continue, and negotiations are under way for the 

next lecture. 

• PIAF’s inaugural Grapevine Directors Club 

completed its residency at the Museum on 

19 February 2001. PIAF has expressed interest in 

involving the Western Australian Museum in the 

2002 Festival. 

• The Hon. Mike Board presented a cheque to the 

Friends of the Western Australian Museum for the 

Western Australia: Land and People exhibition on 

Wednesday, 20 September 2000. 

Marketing and Media 

A major achievement over the past year has been 

the development of a new logo for the Western 

Australian Museum. This logo is now being used 

across all Museum sites, each of which has its own 

particular colour and icon. The commonality of each 

logo assists in the identification of the Museum as 

being not only the Perth site but an incorporated 

Museum comprising also the two Fremantle 

museums and the three regional museums. 

Tracks, the Museum’s magazine, continues to be a 

major marketing tool, well used by both the media 

and Museum visitors. Continued improvements in its 

presentation by each editor have resulted in a 

standard layout for future issues.

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Preliminary work on a series of promotional brochures 

has been undertaken, for production in 2001–2002. 

These brochures will reinforce the ‘branding’ and 

colours of each of the sites, and each brochure is 

designed to cross-promote all Museum sites. 

Travelling exhibitions, school holiday programs and 

Discovery Centre activities were advertised in the 

media throughout the year. Media releases resulted 

in numerous articles on the work of the curatorial 

staff, as well as behind-the-scenes articles on 

exhibitions and activities at the Museum. 

The journey to Cowes by Australia II and its planned 

return to the Western Australian Maritime Museum 

have gathered plenty of media attention. The 

Museum’s national profile was also raised when 

curators took part in a debate on Radio National’s 

arts program. 

A special media preview opportunity just prior to the 

opening of Western Australia: Land and People 

resulted in good press coverage to coincide with the 

opening of this major exhibition. 

A restructure of the marketing team for 2001–2002 

will provide additional media support for the 

Museum, together with improved support for 

functions, events and venue-hire activities. 


Visitor Services

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Maggie Myers has coordinated her team of 

volunteers, which includes Roy Chilvers, Mark Barrett, 

Sue Lever, Clare MacFarlane, Don Tulloch, Genevieve 

Konig, Jason Self and Reg Couston, in working 

through thousands of objects at A-Shed. Roy has 

become skilled in cleaning, repairing and boxing 

model boats, while Mark has done sterling work on 

the sometimes obnoxious artefacts from the Parry 

Endeavour—more than 300 lots of various provisions. 

The diverse and often bizarre maritime history 

collection includes nine boat models, shadow 

puppets, baibui, prayer mats, tool sets and diverse 

clothing, all of which have been conserved and the 

data incorporated onto what will become a publicly 

accessible database. More than 2,600 objects 

required for the new maritime exhibitions have been 

assessed and estimates developed for the task of 

preparing them. A reallocation of funds will permit 

the employment of contract conservators to address 

this huge workload. 

Carmela Corvaia was instrumental in ensuring that 

the Batavia portico was safely dismantled by Geoff 

Kimpton and Jon Carpenter and that the stones were 

not damaged during the complex task of making 

latex and fibreglass resin moulds of the individual 

pieces, in order that high-density polyurethane 

moulds could be produced. The original steel work 

and stones have been re-erected in the new Western 

Australian Museum–Geraldton and the completed 

work was opened on 1 June by Philip Pendal MLA, 

chairman of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Ancient 

Shipwrecks. All members of the reproduction team 

are to be congratulated. The replica stones are being 

custom painted by former Western Australian 

Museum preparator Jamie Stuart. 

The continued secondment of conservator Kent 

Jarman as Safety Officer and the removal of major 

fire hazards have improved the safety of the 



collections, and staff, in the Francis Street and Jubilee 

Buildings. Kent’s position has been filled temporarily 

by our former Estonian conservator volunteer Kalle 

Kasi. Kalle’s previous experience in collections 

management in his homeland has proven to be of 

invaluable assistance to the Museum. 

A large collection of archaeological leather has been 

freeze dried by Maggie Myers and Ian Godfrey and 

is now available for exhibition and research projects. 

Maggie Myers prepared a series of custom-made 

boxes for the Batavia skulls so that they could be 

sent to external agencies for forensic pathological 

studies without any risk to the delicate bone 

structures. 

Maggie Myers has made a major contribution to the 

preventive care of the maritime history collection. A 

direct outcome of her attendance at the International 

Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works 

(IIC) conference in Melbourne was the development 

of Conservation Criteria for Displays, which has 

become incorporated into exhibition planning by Tim 

Eastwood, the new head of Exhibition and Design. 

Ian Godfrey continues to monitor the Museum 

environment at all sites to ensure we have the best 

knowledge of key parameters of temperature and 

relative humidity to which our collection is exposed. 

Conservation plans have been provided to the 

Geraldton Historical Society Inc., the Geraldton City 

RSL Sub Branch, Fremantle Prison and Swan Cottage 

Homes Inc., with recommendations for the care of 

specific artefacts in their collections. 

The most significant achievement of this year was 

the repainting and recommissioning of the submarine 

HMAS Ovens for ‘active service’. To convert 

an outwardly rusting 1,500 tonne steel tube into the 

sleek, black and impressive giant vessel lying up on 

the old World War II slipway by the new Maritime 

Museum was a major accomplishment. Nikki King 

Smith and Norm O’Neil slaved for months to cover

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the site with a hessian shrouded scaffolding that 

allowed a full 2.2 class sand blast to remove all the 

rust and the old damaged paint layers. As the surfaces 

were cleaned back, three layers of paint, supplied 

by JOTUN Australia Pty Ltd as part of a major 

sponsorship, were applied to the submarine. The 

special paint, designed for the offshore oil and gas 

industry, will facilitate future maintenance with little 

surface preparation. 

The second preventive conservation milestone was 

the installation of two air-conditioning plants in the 

submarine: one servicing the aft end; the second 

inconspicuously fitted into an underfloor tank in the 

auxiliary machinery space. The use of the existing 

ductwork means that although the ship’s ventilation 

has been improved, the visitor experiences the airflow 

as it was originally designed. 

The Museum library manages an increasingly 

significant collection of books, journals, magazines 

and electronic data. The addition of 646 fully 

catalogued monologues included a valuable 

donation of 100 earth science books presented by 

Professor Peter Harris. Management of the 2,278 

journal issues provides a continuing challenge, which 

is partly met with the assistance of Technical and 

Further Education student librarians volunteering 

their time. The costs of providing this collection to 

staff is largely offset through the worldwide exchange 

of copies of the Records of the Western Australian 

Museum and its Supplements, and the Journal of 

the Royal Society of Western Australia. Margaret Triffitt 

also manages the valuable research library of the 

Royal Society, which is combined with the Museum 

library. 

Space provided on the upper floor of Hackett Hall, 

utilising the shelving of the old State Library, enabled 

the storage of many back issues of journals that had 

been boxed and labelled with the help of volunteers, 

who contributed more than 1,500 hours during the 

year. 




Jon Carpenter and Ian MacLeod have developed a 

program of analysis for residual chloride salts in 

extensively corroded iron objects. Maggie Myers 

applied this program to the treatment of dozens of 

degraded tins of powdered milk recovered from Jon 

Sanders’s vessel Parry Endeavour, which became 

drenched with seawater when it pitch-poled several 

times during his famous triple-circumnavigation of 

the world. Retention of the pristine tin-coated interior, 

the original aluminium foil seals and the degraded 

paper labels provided a major conservation 

challenge. Carmela Corvaia has also applied the 

method as part of reporting on the condition of 

artefacts from the maritime history collection, prior 

to them being considered for inclusion into the final 

exhibitions on fishing and leisure activities. 

Vicki Richards completed the first detailed study of 

the chemical and physical microenvironment of the 

James Matthews wreck in Cockburn Sound, which 

has revealed the extent of degradation of the timbers, 

the impact of the shell dredging operations and the 

overall impact of the wreck on the local chemical 

and microbiological microenvironment. 

Ian Godfrey and Vicki Richards, with the assistance 

of postgraduate student Kieryn Kilminster, completed 

a research project that established the impact of deacidification 

treatments on the Batavia timbers. This 

ground-breaking work had been initiated with former 

intern Emily Williams, and the results were of such 

international significance that both Ian and Vicki were 

invited to attend a crisis meeting in Stockholm 

regarding problems with the Wasa, which sank just 

one year before the Batavia. This preliminary contact 

was followed up with a subsequent visit to an 

international conservation conference at which they 

presented six papers (with co-author Kalle Kasi a 

principal collaborator in several)—a demonstration 

of the pre-eminent position of the Western Australian

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Museum in the field of conservation of shipwreck 

materials. These papers were the culmination of more 

than ten years of applied research. 

The Museum library provides a major facility through 

the generation of specialist Internet searches and the 

provision of specialist research bibliographies. With 

input from volunteers, the indexing of more than 900 

journal articles assisted with knowledge generation 

from the collection. 

KNOWLEDGE 

COMMUNICATION 

Conservators continued to promote the research 

outcomes of the Department of Materials 

Conservation through dozens of public talks to 

community groups such as the Flying Angel Club 

and service clubs throughout the State and in several 

overseas locations. Jon Carpenter and Vicki Richards 

presented a series of lectures and workshops at a 

Summer School in Albany, with topics ranging from 

field conservation on the HMS Pandora to work on 

the wreck of HMS Bounty on Pitcairn Island. They 

also contributed to professional development 

programs for the National Accreditation System for 

commercial divers. Jon undertook a one-month 

program setting up a shipwreck conservation 

laboratory in Trinidad-Tobago and developed a 

conservation photographic archive on the City of 

Launceston in Port Phillip Bay during periods of 

annual leave. 

Team members continued to support the work of 

Richard Garcia, Manager of Technological 

Conservation, in conservation work on the car and 

vehicle collection and on contract conservation jobs 

such as assessment of the state of deterioration of 

key industrial sites associated with the pipeline from 

Mundaring to Kalgoorlie-Boulder. 

An integral part of current best practice in condition 

reporting incorporates digital videotaping of the items 



under consideration. Edited video clips of the restored 

Packard limousine, the Detroit Electric Car and the 

1927 Rolls Royce will be available for car enthusiasts 

as part of the Western Australian Museum web site 

redevelopment. 

Maggie Myers assisted in the presentation of 

‘Conservation Ethics’ in the Museum Assistance 

Program (MAP) curators’ course and trained 

Fremantle History Museum attendants in the 

maintenance of the artefacts displayed in Samson 

House. Maggie also assisted in the development and 

presentation of a Lime and Limestone Conservation 

workshop and ‘Caring for Indigenous Art’. 

Ian MacLeod and Ian Godfrey presented two oneday 

Preventive Conservation workshops to students 

enrolled in the ECU–Western Australian Museum 

Certificate in Museum Studies course. 

Ulrike Broeze-Hörnemann’s treatment of an original 

letter by Albert Einstein written in German to La 

Guardia, the Mayor of New York, ensured that it was 

a key local piece for a travelling exhibition on Einstein. 

The conservation work involved careful removal of 

the sticky tape, cleaning, humidification and the 

application of a backing and storage mount. The story 

formed the basis for a popular article in the Museum’s 

magazine, Tracks. 

Ian MacLeod presented a paper at the 50th 

anniversary conference of the IIC in Melbourne, 

which demonstrated the devastating impact of 

mineral impurities in the copper fastenings used in 

the construction of the James Matthews. 

Many staff members in Materials Conservation 

continued to share their understanding of decay in 

collections and the collapse of shipwrecks with 

students and the public around the State and at the 

Murdoch University Science Summer School.

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Our dedicated librarians processed 588 staffgenerated 

inter-library loan requests from sources 

both within Australia and overseas. The significance 

of our library collection to the wider community was 

demonstrated by the receipt of 222 requests from 

other libraries. Email services providing regular subject 

alerts and table of contents pages were organised 

for staff through the British Library’s Inside Web and 

through the United States based UnCover. All new 

acquisitions were listed in a widely disseminated 

quarterly list, while new monographs and journal 

titles were added to holdings on Kinetica, the National 

Bibliographic Database, subscribed to by most major 

Australian libraries. A CD-ROM of the combined 

databases of the Museum and Royal Society libraries 

was produced every four months, distributed to the 

Museum’s branches, and sold to libraries and 

individuals outside the Museum. 

MAP provides the 251 community-based museums 

around Western Australia with one of the world’s 

finest services in the provision of specialist knowledge 

about how best to manage and interpret their 

collections. Since these museums house many items 

of great significance to the State and to the nation as 

a whole, the program plays a major role in promoting 

excellence in collection care. 

Greg Wallace, Roz Brown and Janice Frater conduct 

training workshops, undertake regional field visits, 

and are regularly called upon by external agencies, 

such as the Commonwealth Department of 

Communications and Information Technology and 

the Arts, to provide specialist consultancies on 

heritage management issues at locations such as 

Christmas Island and Timor. The team has been given 

the responsibility of organising the next national 

conference on Regional and Remote Museums at the 

Western Australian Museum–Kalgoorlie-Boulder. 

In collaboration with Curtin University’s Research 

Institute for Cultural Heritage, MAP conducted a four- 



day Introduction to Museums course, for people 

working in or with community museums from all over 

Western Australia. As part of the unit’s wider community-networking 

focus, Roz Brown coordinated the 

Anne Frank: A History for Today exhibition, which 

promoted the Museum’s role in reconciliation.

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The Business Management and Development group 

provides the services and systems that allow the 

Museum to achieve its core objectives. 

ACTIVITIES 

Activities of Business Management and Development 

include: 

• risk management 

• financial management 

• human resource management 

• property and security services 

• information technology 

• publications 

• imaging and new media services 

• records management 

• Perth site bookshop 

Risk Management 

Risk management has been a major focus in 2000– 

2001. An officer was seconded to work full time on 

occupational health and safety issues. A fire safety 

audit was undertaken at the Perth site, and many of 

the recommendations have been implemented. The 

removal of some 700 specimen drums containing 

ethanol to off-site storage has addressed a major 

flammable goods hazard and improved storage 

facilities for those specimens required on a more 

frequent basis. All staff at the Perth site have received 

training in emergency procedures and relevant staff 

have been trained in chemicals handling. 

The issue of limpet asbestos in the Francis Street 

Building is much more difficult to resolve without 

major capital expenditure. The asbestos problem is 

being considered in conjunction with the overall 

development of the Perth site, and a master plan 

and business case are being developed. 


Business Management 

and Development 

Financial Management 

Budgeting and financial reporting within the Western 

Australian Museum have been reviewed and 

reorganised with the assistance of senior finance staff 

of the Ministry for Culture & the Arts. This has resulted 

in the production of more informative monthly reports 

and a comprehensive approach to the annual 

operating budget. 

Human Resource 

Management 

Human resource management policies and 

procedures are in the process of being reviewed and 

made more effective. This project commenced with 

the secondment in February of a staff member from 

the Ministry for Culture & the Arts Human Resource 

Unit. 

Information Technology 

The Western Australian Museum intranet was 

launched at the end of June 2001 and will enhance 

communication within the Perth site and between 

branches. An initial review was undertaken for a 

major upgrade of the Western Australian Museum 

web site. The new web site will be a significant project 

for 2001–2002. 

Publications 

Work is under way on Freshwater Fishes of Australia, 

a joint publishing project with CSIRO Publishing. 

Written by former curator Dr Gerald Allen, in 

conjunction with his son Mark and Hamar Midgley, 

the book is a result of many months’ travel and 

research documenting the freshwater fishes of 

Australia. 

Three books have been produced for the Museum’s 

site in Albany: My Albany—Memories and Stories by 

local historian and writer John A. Genoni, Albany 

Who and What by former ABC reporter Les Johnson,

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and An Albany Walk Downhill written and illustrated 

by former journalist Keith Murray. The Publications 

Department also produced brochures and flyers for 

the successful display Salute the Horse, organised by 

the Western Australian Museum–Albany as part of 

the Anzac Day commemorations. 

The department produced two editions of Frog 

Friendly Gardens by Alcoa FrogWAtch coordinator, 

curator Ken Aplin, Anthea Paino and Lyndal Sleep, 

as well as information and recording sheets for the 

Alcoa FrogWAtch program. 

It was a very busy year for the department, with the 

production of five substantial Supplements to the 

Records of the Western Australian Museum: 

• Supplement 58, ‘Mid-Palaeozoic Biota and 

Biogeography’, edited by R. Mawson, J. Talent 

and Museum curator John Long: 28 papers from 

the International Geological Program workshop 

held in Iran. 

• Supplement 59, ‘Survey of the Marine Fauna of 

the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, and 

Christmas Island, Indian Ocean’, edited by 

curators Patrick Berry and Fred Wells. 

• Supplement 60, ‘Western Australian Stygobiont 

Amphipods (Crustacea: Paramelitidae) from the 

Mt Newman and Millstream Regions’, by J. H. 

Bradbury of the University of South Australia. 

• Supplement 61, a joint publication with CALM, 

‘Biodiversity of the Southern Carnarvon Basin’: 

comprising 19 papers and running to nearly 600 

pages. 

• Supplement 62, ‘A Revision of the Gobiid Fish 

Genus Mugilogobius (Teleostei: Gobioidei) and 

its Systematic Placement’, by Helen Larson of the 

Northern Territory Museum: includes 216 plates. 

The department continued to publish the Records of 

the Western Australian Museum, as well as producing 

the Records of the South Australian Museum and the 

Journal of the Royal Society. 




With the introduction of a new logo for the Museum 

and sites, the department produced most of the 

Museum’s print requirements, involving fourteen 

interpretations of the logo. 

CODE OF CONDUCT 

The Ministry for Culture & the Arts’ Code of Conduct 

has been distributed throughout the Western 

Australian Museum and forms part of all new 

employees’ induction. The Code of Conduct is 

currently being updated by the Ministry for Culture 

& the Arts. 

FREEDOM OF 

INFORMATION 

The Western Australian Museum received no freedom 

of information requests during the year. 

CUSTOMER FOCUS 

The Western Australian Museum, as part of a 

sponsorship from Hides Consulting, has instigated 

an audience research program. This ongoing 

program will accurately assess visitor satisfaction and 

be part of a quality improvement program for visitor 

experiences. 

Focus group sessions organised by Hides Consulting 

with a variety of target markets were used to guide 

the development of exhibits and themes for the new 

Maritime Museum. 

The reception desk was moved towards the back of 

the new entrance foyer to provide a more welcoming 

appearance for visitors. This has also maximised the 

space available for organisations wishing to hold 

functions at the Museum.

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PUBLIC SECTOR STANDARDS 

Staff of the Western Australian Museum are employees 

of the Director General of the Ministry for Culture & 

the Arts. The Executive Director of the Western 

Australian Museum has delegated authority in respect 

to employment. 

The Ministry for Culture & the Arts advises on 

compliance with standards for recruitment, selection, 

transfer, secondment, redeployment, termination, 

discipline, temporary deployment and grievance 

resolution. 

The administration of the Western Australian Museum 

has complied with the Public Sector Standards in 

Human Resource Management, the Western 

Australian Public Sector Code of Ethics and the 

Ministry for Culture & the Arts’ Code of Conduct. 

The Ministry for Culture & the Arts has worked closely 

with the Western Australian Museum to review and 

clarify the procedures in relation to classification and 

submissions for reclassification of positions. 

There were no applications made in regard to breach 

of standards during the year. 

DISABILITY SERVICES PLAN 

The lift incorporated in the new entrance foyer 

provides access for visitors with disabilities to the new 

Western Australia: Land and People exhibition. 

The Western Australian Museum continues to 

implement its Disabled Services Plan by ensuring that 

the designs of the new museums—Geraldton and 

Maritime—address issues of disabled access. 




Feedback on the accessibility of galleries at the Perth 

site is well illustrated by the following unsolicited 

email: 

On Monday, 11th June this week, my little girl 

and I visited the museum just after lunch. I am in 

a wheelchair and she is only four. We had a 

fabulous time there and ended up staying for 

about four hours. The whole building was very 

wheelchair friendly and I had no trouble at all 

looking at all the displays and found no cluttered 

or cramped places where I couldn’t turn around. 

THE STAFF WERE WONDERFUL!!!!! Very helpful 

and knew what they were talking about. It’s great 

to find places and people that are very 

professional. I hope you can find out which staff 

were on at that time and give them a big thank 

you from me and my daughter, Tayla. 

See you again. . . 

Yours sincerely 

[name suppressed] 

The Western Australian Museum continues to provide 

services and programs for children and adults with 

visual or auditory disabilities. Such programs are 

provided via a booking service. 

YOUTH INITIATIVES 

The Museum remains committed to initiatives under 

the State Government’s Plan for Young People 2000 

– 2003. Young people are the primary focus of the 

newly restructured Education and Learning 

Department of the Museum with a wide range of 

services to schools and individuals. Exhibitions are 

structured to allow access by people of all ages.

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Workers Compensation Performance 

2000–2001 1999–2000 

Lost time– 30.7 2.69 

injury/disease (LT/D) 

claims 

Frequency rate 8.38 9.94 

Estimated cost of $0.7776 $0.1625 

claims per $100 

of wage roll 

Premium rate 0.67% 1.13% 

Rehabilitation N/A N/A 

success rate 

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY OF THE ORGANISATION 2000/2001 

Employment Type Total Women Men 

Permanent Full-time 109 55 54 

Permanent Part-time 43 31 12 

Fixed Term Full-time 17 5 12 

Fixed Term Part-time 8 4 4 

Casual [people paid in the last pay in June] 36 26 10 

Other 0 0 0 

Salary Range ($) (Permanent and fixed term employees only) 

Total 213 121 92 

0 - 33,556 69 45 24 

33,557 - 38,577 27 19 8 

38,578 - 43,431 29 14 15 

43,432 - 47,604 6 2 4 

47,605 - 55,376 15 7 8 

55,377 - 64,567 15 6 9 

64,568 - 72,824 10 1 9 

72,825 - 83,586 5 1 4 

83,587 - 94,798 0 0 0 

greater than 94,798 1 0 1 

Equity index (Woman) for 2000–2001 is 42. 



Total 177 95 82

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TREASURER’S INSTRUCTION 903 



Expenditure related to Advertising and Market Research Organisations 

In accordance with Section 175ZE of the Electoral Act 1907 expenditure by the WA Museum on advertising and 

related costs is listed below 

a) Advertising Agencies $ 165.60 Pacific Access Pty Ltd 

$ 175.00 VideoWall Communications 

$ 3,595.00 Visitor Guide Australia Pty Ltd 

Total Advertising agencies $ 3,935.60 

b) Market research organisations Nil 

c) Polling organisations Nil 

d) Direct mail organisations Nil 

e) Media advertising agencies 

Job vacancies $ 14,778.06 Marketforce Productions 

$ 3,825.00 Department of Premier and Cabinet 

Other $ 470.00 AAA Tourism Pty Ltd 

$ 2,615.03 Albany Advertiser Pty Lid 

$ 50.00 Alken Colour Media 

$ 350.00 Andimaps 

$ 1,401.36 Aussie Drawcards Pty Ltd 

$ 523.18 Australian Travel Directory 

$ 550.00 Business Key 

$ 1,174.01 Community Newspaper Group 

$ 816.00 Concept Media 

$ 815.00 Cooks Tours 

$ 268.18 Emergency Service Publishing 

$ 863.64 Final Print Ply Lid 

$ 650.00 Fit Marketing 

$ 630.00 Fremantle Tourist Bureau 

$ 397.18 Geraldton Newspapers Lid 

$ 50.00 Goldfields Tourism Association 

$ 3,634.03 Hocking & Co Pty Ltd 

$ 1.050.00 Hoptscotch Ply Ltd 

$ 836.36 Jorbens Luxury Hotel Guide 

$ 1,830.00 Laso Media Pty Ltd 

$ 11,979.38 Media Decisions WA 

$ 285.94 Media Monitors 

$ 395.00 Metropolitan Service & Supply directory 

$ 98.00 Mid West Times 

$ 495.00 Public Information Services 

$ 2,699.55 Radio West Network 

$ 295.00 Regional Commerce Directory 

$ 379.02 Roy Western Geraldton 

$ 2,828.44 Sunday Times 

$ 1,250.00 The Fremantle Book 

$ 454.55 Fremantle Chamber of Commerce 

$ 287.27 The Golden Mail 

$ 1,232.73 Tourist Vision 

$ 559.09 Travellers Information Radio 

$ 350.00 Universal Press Ply Ltd 

$ 5,000.00 WA Tourism Commission 

$ 1,551.57 Weekender 

$ 130.20 West Australian Newspapers 

Total Media Advertising $ 67,847.77

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PART 3 

Compliance 

Requirements

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Accounts and Financial Statements

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THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 

CERTIFICATION OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2001 

The accompanying financial statements of the Western Australian Museum have been prepared in 

compliance with the provisions of the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1985 from proper accounts 

and records to present fairly the financial transactions for the financial year ending 30 June 2001 and the 

financial position as at 30 June 2001. 

At the date of signing we are not aware of any circumstances which would render any particulars 

included in the financial statements misleading or inaccurate. 

TRUSTEE 

DATE: 29/8/2001 

TRUSTEE 


PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING OFFICER 

DATE: 29/8/2001

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 


Note 

2001 2000 

$000 $000 

COST OF SERVICES 

Expenses from ordinary activities 

Employee expenses 2 8,408 8,278 

Supplies and services 3 3,684 2,603 

Depreciation expense 4 952 836 

Administration expenses 5 1,595 1,504 

Accommodation expenses 6 864 1,063 

Other expenses from ordinary activities 25 38 

Total cost of services 15,528 14,322 

Revenues from ordinary activities 

User fees and charges 7 298 1,051 

Trading profit 8 470 451 

Commonwealth grants and contributions 165 277 

State grants 664 1,474 

Other grants and contributions non-government 312 307 

Donations and sponsorship 394 359 

Interest revenue 309 174 

Other revenues from ordinary activities 187 291 

Total revenues from ordinary activities 2,799 4,384 

NET COST OF SERVICES 12,729 9,938 

REVENUES FROM GOVERNMENT 

Appropriations 5,214 4,610 

Resources received free of charge 7,180 6,380 

Total revenues from Government 9 12,394 10,990 

CHANGE IN NET ASSETS (335) 1,052 

Net increase/(decrease) in asset revaluation reserve 15 9,680 0 

Total revenues, expenses and valuation adjustments 

recognised directly in equity 9,680 0 

TOTAL CHANGES IN EQUITY OTHER THAN THOSE 

RESULTING FROM TRANSACTIONS WITH OWNERS 

AS OWNERS 9,345 1,052 

The Statement of Financial Performance should be read 

in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION 

AS AT 30 JUNE 2001 

Note 


$000 $000 

Current Assets 

Cash assets 16 2,076 2,777 

Restricted cash assets 10 1,712 1,616 

Inventories 11 604 537 

Receivables 12 672 813 

Accrued salaries reserve 13 110 110 

Prepayments 12 12 

Accrued income 33 18 

Total Current Assets 5,219 5,883 

Non-Current Assets 

Property, plant, equipment and vehicles 14 44,006 34,235 

Total Non-Current Assets 44,006 34,235 

Total Assets 49,225 40,118 

Current Liabilities 

Payables 168 230 

Accrued Salaries 0 176 

Total Current Liabilities 168 406 

Total Liabilities 168 406 

NET ASSETS 49,057 39,712 

Equity 

Asset Revaluation Reserve 15 18,558 8,878 

Accumulated surplus/(deficiency) 15 30,499 30,834 

TOTAL EQUITY 49,057 39,712 

The Statement of Financial Position should be read in 

conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS 


Note 


$000 $000 

CASH FLOWS FROM GOVERNMENT 

Recurrent appropriations 3,604 2,928 

Capital appropriations 1,610 1,682 

Net cash provided by Government 5,214 4,610 

Utilised as follows: 

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 

Payments 

Employee costs (1,333) (2,161) 

Supplies and services (3,638) (2,558) 

Administration (1,613) (1,555) 

Accommodation (895) (1,359) 

Other expenses 8 (18) 

GST payments on purchases (687) 0 

Receipts 

User fees and charges 344 891 

Trading profit 389 393 

Commonwealth grants and contributions 223 217 

State grants 769 1,430 

Other grants and contributions non-government 323 288 

Interest received 294 185 

Donations/sponsorship 394 361 

Other receipts 98 268 

GST receipts on sales 236 0 

GST received from taxation authority 364 0 

Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities 16 (4,724) (3,618) 

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES 

Proceeds from sale of non-current physical assets 

Purchase of non-current physical assets (1,095) (736) 

Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities (1,095) (736) 

Net increase/(decrease) in cash held (605) 256 

Cash assets at the beginning of the financial year 4,393 4,137 

CASH ASSETS AT THE END OF THE FINANCIAL YEAR 3,788 4,393 

The Statement of Cash Flows should be read 

in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 

30 JUNE 2001 

1. Significant accounting policies 

The following accounting policies have been adopted in the preparation of the financial statements. Unless 

otherwise stated these policies are consistent with those adopted in the previous year. 

General Statement 

The financial statements constitute a general purpose financial report which has been prepared in accordance 

with Australian Accounting Standards and Urgent Issues Group (UIG) Consensus Views as applied by the 

Treasurer’s Instructions. Several of these are modified by the Treasurer’s Instructions to vary application, disclosure, 

format and wording. The Financial Administration and Audit Act and the Treasurer’s Instructions are legislative 

provisions governing the preparation of financial statements and take precedence over Australian Accounting 

Standards and UIG Consensus Views. The modifications are intended to fulfil the requirements of general 

application to the public sector together with the need for greater disclosure and also to satisfy accountability 

requirements. 

If any such modification has a material or significant financial effect upon the reported results, details of that 

modification and where practicable, the resulting financial effect, are disclosed in individual notes to these 

financial statements. 

The statements have been prepared on the accrual basis of accounting using the historical cost convention, 

with the exception of certain non-current assets which subsequent to initial recognition, have been measured 

on the fair value basis in accordance with the option under AAS 38(5.1). 

(a) Grants and Other Contributions Revenue 

Grants, donations, gifts and other non-reciprocal contributions are recognised as revenue when the 

Authority obtains control over the assets comprising the contributions. Control is normally obtained 

upon their receipt. 

Contributions are recognised at their fair value. Contributions of services are only recognised when 

a fair value can be reliably determined and the services would be purchased if not donated. 

(b) Revaluation of Land and Buildings 

The WA Museum has a policy of valuing land, buildings and infrastructure at fair value. The annual 

revaluations of the WA Museum’s land and buildings undertaken by the Valuer General’s Office for 

the Government Property Register are recognised in the financial statements. The transitional provisions 

in AAS 38 (10.9)(b) have been applied to infrastructure assets. (See notes 14). 

(c) Depreciation of Non-Current Assets 

All non-current assets having a limited useful life are systematically depreciated over their useful lives 

in a manner that reflects the consumption of their future economic benefits. 

Depreciation is provided for on a straight line basis, using the following rates, which are reviewed 

annually: 

Buildings 2% 

Computer Equipment 20% 

Furniture & Fittings 7.5% and 10% 

Scientific Equipment 10% 

Transport 11%

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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Equipment 10% 

Motor vehicles 25% 

Depreciation for capital works in progress is provided for upon completion. 

(d) Leased Assets 

The WA Museum has entered into a number of operating lease arrangements for motor vehicles 

where the lessor effectively retains all of the risks and benefits incident to ownership of the items held 

under the operating leases. Equal instalments of the lease payments are charged to the Statement 

of Financial Performance over the lease term, as this is representative of the pattern of benefits to be 

derived from the leased property. 

(e) Superannuation 

Staff may contribute to the Superannuation and Family Benefits Act Scheme, a defined benefits 

pension scheme now closed to new members, or to the Gold State Superannuation Scheme, a 

defined benefit lump sum scheme now also closed to new members. All staff who do not contribute 

to either of these schemes become non-contributory members of the West State Superannuation 

Scheme, an accumulation fund complying with the Commonwealth Government’s Superannuation 

Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992. 

As all the staff of the Culture and Arts portfolio agencies, including the WA Museum, are staff of the 

Ministry for Culture & the Arts, the WA Museum has no liabilities in relation to their superannuation, 

other than for superannuation payments incurred under the Superannuation and Family Benefits 

Act pension scheme. 

(f) Receivables 

Receivables are recognised at the amounts receivable as they are due for settlement no more than 

30 days from the date of recognition. 

Collectability of receivables is reviewed on an ongoing basis. A provision for doubtful debts is raised 

where some doubt as to the collection exists. Debts which are known to be uncollectable are written 

off. 

(g) Payables 

Payables, including accruals not yet billed, are recognised when the WA Museum becomes obliged 

to make future payments as a result of a purchase of assets or services. Payables are generally settled 

within 30 days. 

(h) Inventories 

Stocks are valued at the lower of cost and net realisable value. 

(i) Resources Received Free of Charge or For Nominal Value 

Resources received free of charge or for nominal value which can be reliably measured are recognised 

as revenues and as assets or expenses as appropriate at fair value. 

(j) Foreign Currency Translation and Hedges 

Transactions denominated in a foreign currency are translated at the rates in existence at the dates of 

the transactions. Foreign currency receivables and payables at reporting date are translated at 

exchange rates current at reporting date. Exchange gains and losses are brought to account in 

determining the result for the year.

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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(k) Revenue Recognition 

Revenue from the sale of goods and disposal of other assets and the rendering of services, is recognised 

when the WA Museum has passed control of the goods or other assets or delivery of the service to 

the customer. 

(l) Comparative Figures 

2. Employee expenses 

Comparative figures are, where appropriate, reclassified so as to be comparable with the figures 

presented in the current financial year. 


$000 $000 

Wages and salaries 7,501 7,363 

Superannuation 466 435 

Workers compensation premium 46 86 

Fringe Benefits Tax 32 37 

Other related expenses 177 181 

Accrued salaries expense 186 176 

3. Supplies and services 

8,408 8,278 

Consultants and contractors 618 143 

Advertising 58 68 

Electricity and gas 423 394 

Freight and cartage 87 103 

Insurance premiums 111 102 

Printing 223 173 

Legal fees 33 8 

Water 22 21 

Sundry equipment 171 125 

Travel 305 323 

Other supplies and services 1,633 1,143 

3,684 2,603 

4. Depreciation expense 

Buildings 545 533 

Computing, plant and equipment 407 303 

952 836

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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$000 $000 

5. Administration expenses 

Communication 243 224 

Consumables 570 581 

Maintenance 410 308 

Lease of equipment & vehicles 380 373 

Other (8) 18 

1,595 1,504 

6. Accommodation expenses 

Repairs & maintenance 594 761 

Security 100 141 

Cleaning 125 105 

Other accommodation 45 56 

864 1,063 

7. User charges and fees 

User charges 115 96 

Consultancy fees 115 104 

Exhibition fees 68 851 

298 1,051 

8. Trading Profit 

Sales 

Cost of Sales: 

825 838 

Opening inventory 537 462 

Less recoup of WST (16) 0 

Purchases 438 462 

959 924 

Closing inventory 604 537 

Cost of Goods Sold 355 387 

Trading Profit 470 451 

9. Revenues (to)/from Government 

Appropriation revenue received during the year: 

Recurrent 3,604 2,928 

Capital 1,610 1,682 

5,214 4,610

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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9. Revenues (to)/from Government 

(Continued) 


$000 $000 

Resources received free of charge 

determined on the basis of the following 

estimates provided by agencies: 

- Office of the Auditor General 18 19 

- Ministry for Culture & the Arts 7,162 6,361 

7,180 6,380 

12,394 10,990 

10. Restricted cash assets 

Specific purpose trust funds 1,712 1,616 

Cash held in the account is to be used 

only for the purpose of providing 

training to remote agencies. 

11. Inventories 

1,712 1,616 

Goods held for resale: 

Bulk book store 239 205 

Perth shop stock 62 68 

Other Museum shops stock 303 264 

12. Receivables 

604 537 

Current 

Trade debtors 619 813 

Provision for doubtful debts (18) 0 

GST receivable 71 0 

13. Accrued salaries reserve 

672 813 

Reserve for 27 th pay in 2004/05 (held 

by the WA Museum 110 110 

110 110

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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$000 $000 

14. Property, plant, equipment and vehicles 

Land 

At valuation 1986 0 8,878 

At valuation 2000 11,460 0 

11,460 8,878 

Buildings at cost 7,227 7,227 

Accumulated depreciation (282) (142) 

6,945 7,085 

Buildings at valuation 26,814 20,282 

Accumulated depreciation (3,397) (3,557) 

23,417 16,725 

Computer Plant & Equip 

At cost 2,380 1,857 

Works in progress 371 0 

Accumulated depreciation (1,530) (1,280) 

1,221 577 

Furniture & Fittings 551 442 


388 316 

Scientific equipment 1,373 1,371 


512 628 

Transport 74 74 


1 2 

Motor vehicle 9 0 

Accumulated depreciation 0 0 

9 0 

Works of art 24 24 


24 24 

Leasehold improvements 29 0 

Accumulated depreciation (0) 0 

29 0 

44,006 34,235 

The revaluation of freehold land, land improvements and buildings was performed in July 2000 in 

accordance with an independent valuation by the Valuer General’s Office (VGO). The valuation was made in 

accordance with a policy of annual revaluation.

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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14. Property, plant, equipment and vehicles (continued) 

Reconciliations 

Reconciliations of the carrying amounts of property, plant, equipment and vehicles at the beginning and 

end of the current and previous financial year are set out below. 

Land Buildings Computer Furniture Scientific Works Other Total 

Plant & &Fittings Equip. of Art 

Equip 

$000 $000 $000 $000 $000 $000 $000 $000 

2001 

Carrying 

amount at 

start of year 8,878 23,809 578 316 628 24 2 34,235 

Additions 893 110 2 38 1,043 

Disposals 

Revaluation 

increments 2,582 7,098 9,679 

Depreciation (545) (251) (37) (118) (1) (952) 

Write-off 

of assets 

destroyed 

by earthquake 

Carrying 

amount at 

end of year 11,460 30,362 1,220 389 512 24 39 44,006 

2000 

Carrying 

amount at 

start of year 8,878 24,007 526 327 594 3 34,335 

Additions 335 237 20 120 24 736 

Disposals 

Revaluation 

increments 

Depreciation (533) (185) (31) (86) (1) (836) 

Carrying 

amount at 

end of year 8,878 23,809 578 316 628 24 2 34,235

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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15. Equity 




$000 $000 

Reserves 

Asset revaluation reserve (I): 

Opening balance 8,878 8,878 

Net revaluation increments: 

Land 2,582 

Buildings 7,098 

Closing balance 18,558 8,878 

(I) The asset revaluation reserve is used to record increments and decrements on the revaluation of noncurrent 

assets, as described in accounting policy note 1(m). 

Accumulated surplus/(deficiency) 

Opening balance 30,834 29,782 

Change in net assets (335) 1,052 

Closing balance 30,499 30,834 

16. Notes to the Statement of Cash Flows 

(a) Reconciliation of cash 

For the purpose of the Statement of Cash Flows, cash includes cash at bank, amounts in suspense and 

restricted cash, net of outstanding bank overdrafts. Cash at the end of the financial year as shown in 

the Statement of Cash Flows is reconciled to the related items in the Statement of Financial Position as 

follows: 

Cash assets 2,076 2,777 

Restricted cash assets (refer to note 10) 1,712 1,616 

3,788 4,393 

(b) Reconciliation of net cost of services to 

net cash flows provided by/(used in) 

operating activities 

Net cost of services 

Non-cash items: 

(12,729) (9,938) 

Depreciation expense 952 836 

Resources received free of charge 

(Increase)/decrease in assets: 

7,180 6,380 

Current receivables 222 (390) 

Current inventories (67) (75) 

Other current assets 

Increase/(decrease) in liabilities: 

(15) (110) 

Current accounts payable (10) (409) 

Accrued Salaries (176) 0 

Other current liabilities 0 88 

Net GST receipts/(payments) (I) 

Change in GST in receivables/payables(II) 

(79) 0 

Net cash provided by/(used in) 

operating activities (4,722) (3,618) 

(I) This reverses out the GST in accounts receivable and payable.

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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17. Commitments for expenditure 

(a) Lease commitments 

Commitments in relation to leases contracted 

for at the reporting date but not recognised 

as liabilities, payable: 


$000 $000 

Within 1 year 64 35 

Later than 1 year and not later than 5 years 36 11 

Later than 5 years 0 0 

100 46 

Representing: 

Non-cancellable operating leases 100 46 

18. Explanatory Statement 

100 46 

(i) Significant variations between actual revenues and expenditures for the financial year and 

revenues and expenditures for the immediately preceding financial year. 

Details and reasons for significant variations between actual results with the corresponding items of the 

preceding year are detailed below. Significant variations are considered to be those greater than 10% 

or $ 200,000. 

2001 2000 Variance 

Over/(under) 

$000 $000 $000 

Employee expenses 8,408 8,278 130 

Supplies and services 3,684 2,603 1,081 

Accommodation expenses 864 1,063 (199) 

User charges and fees 298 1,051 (753) 

State grants 664 1,474 (810) 

Interest revenue 309 174 135 

Other revenue 187 291 (104) 

Employee expenses 

The variance is mainly due to additional salaries costs associated with the two new museums at 

Fremantle and Geraldton. 

Supplies and services 

The variance is mainly due to additional expenditure on the two new museums at Fremantle and 

Geraldton. 

Accommodation expenses 

The variance is mainly due to a reduction in building maintenance and security expenditure. 

User charges and fees 

The variance is due to additional revenues received during 1999-00 for the Pharaohs Exhibition.

NOTES 

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State grants 

The variance relates to funding received in 99-00 for the Land and People exhibition. This exhibition 

was completed during 2000-01. 

Interest revenue 

The increase is mainly due to the higher average cash balance held during the 2000-01 year. 

Other revenue 

The variance is due to a reduction in service recoup revenue during the financial year. 

(ii) Significant variations between estimates and actual results for the financial year 

Details and reasons for significant variations between estimates and actual results are detailed below. 

Significant variations are considered to be those greater than 10% or $ 200,000. 

In the interests of concise reporting those variations between the actual and actual that have already 

been explained in the previous notes have not been repeated. 

2001 2001 Variance 

Estimates Actual Over/(under) 

$000 $000 $000 

Commonwealth grants 250 165 (85) 

Appropriations 4,717 5,214 497 

Commonwealth grants 

The variance is due to less than expected grant applications being approved by the Commonwealth 

Appropriations 

The variance is mainly due to supplementary funding of $510,000 being provided for the payment of 

pension fund superannuation. 

19. Events occurring after Reporting Date 

The Machinery of Government Taskforce was established in March 2001 to report to government on a 

program to enhance the service delivery of the public sector. The reorganisations of agencies as 

recommended by the taskforce, will result in the review of the relationship between the Ministry for Culture 

& the Arts and the statutory Boards within the arts and culture portfolio. 

A portfolio management team will be established to discuss cross portfolio issues, approve and implement 

changes in the delivery of support services or any other processes in the portfolio where mutual benefits can 

be realised.

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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20. Financial Instruments 

(a) Interest Rate Risk Exposure 

The following table details the Authority’s exposure to interest rate risk as at the reporting date: 

Fixed Interest Rate Maturity 

Weighted Variable Less 1 to 5 More Non Total 

Average Interest than 1 Years than 5 Interest 

Effective 

Interest 

Rate 

Rate Year Years Bearing 

2001 % $000 $000 $000 $000 $000 $000 

Financial Assets 5.93 

Cash assets 2,076 2,076 

Restricted cash assets 1,712 1,712 

Receivables 672 672 

Other 155 155 

3,788 827 4,615 

Financial Liabilities 

Payables 168 168 

168 168 

2000 5.27 

Financial assets 4,393 953 5,346 

Financial liabilities 230 230 

(b) Credit Risk Exposure 

The WA Museum has limited credit risk exposure. The carrying amount of financial assets recorded in 

the financial statements, other than debt receivables, represents the authorities maximum exposure 

to credit risk. 

(c) Net Fair Values 

The carrying amount of financial assets and financial liabilities recorded in the financial statements are 

not materially different from their net fair values, determined in accordance with the accounting 

policies disclosed in note 1 to the financial statements. 

21. Remuneration and Retirement Benefits of Members of the Accountable Authority. 

Remuneration of Members of the Accountable Authority 

The number of members of the Accountable Authority, whose total of fees, salaries and other benefits 

received, or due and receivable, for the financial year, fall within the following bands are: 


$000 $000 

$ 

0 – 10,000 6 6 

The total remuneration of the members 

of the Accountable Authority is: 24 29 

No members of the Accountable Authority are members of the Superannuation and Family Benefits 

Act Scheme.

NOTES 

CONTINUED 

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22. Supplementary Information 

Write-Offs 


$000 $000 

Public property written off by the Minister 

during the financial year 0 24 

23. Output Information 

The WA Museum operates under the one output called Museum Services. The information shown in the 

Statement of Financial Performance represents the output information. 

24. Supplementary Information 

The WA Museum holds shares in a private company received in exchange for the Museum’s support of 

specific projects. These shares are not recorded in the financial statements as the measurement of the market 

value of the shares is not reliable.

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Outcomes, Outputs and Performance Indicators

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Outcomes, Outputs and Performance Indicators 

THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM 

CERTIFICATION OF PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 


We hereby certify that the performance indicators are based on proper records and fairly represent the 

performance of the Western Australian Museum for the financial year ended 30 June 2001. 

CHAIRMAN OF TRUSTEES 


TRUSTEE 


PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING OFFICER 

DATE: 29/8/2001

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PERFORMANCE INDICATORS 

The Western Australian Museum is an agency within the Ministry for Culture & the Arts. The Government’s 

desired outcome for the Ministry and the Museum is: 

“A community that is informed of, and has access to, a diverse range of innovative ideas, knowledge and 

cultural experiences.” 

The efficiency indicators reflect the total full accrual costs of the Museum. These amount to $15,528,000 

compared to $14,322,000 in 1999/2000. 

KEY INDICATORS 

The Museum’s role is to implement the Ministry’s Outcome, by providing information and enjoyment to the 

community at large through contact with the natural and cultural heritage of Western Australia. 

This indicator represents the number of visitors to the exhibitions and displays presented by the Museum, 

and the number of new exhibitions and displays completed on natural and cultural heritage. 

Relevance 

Visitation by the public reflects attractiveness of the Museum’s exhibitions and displays to the community in 

terms of enjoyment and educational value. 

Effectiveness Indicators 

Visitor numbers (000s) 

Exhibitions (ii) 

2000–2001 1999–2000 1998–1999 1997–1998 1996–1997 

752(i) 777 807 896 835 


Permanent 55 42 42 42 33 

Other 36 51 61 38 57 

Visitor satisfaction (iii) (iv) 

Overall ratings of 

Museum Aspects 

Total Perth Fremantle History Maritime Albany Geraldton 

Poor 0.9% 2.1% – 0.3% – 1.9% 

Good 25.8% 31.7% 26.3% 28.3% 11.1% 23.2% 

Very Good 52.0% 48.6% 52.6% 46.6% 72.2% 54.8% 

Excellent 21.3% 17.6% 21.1% 24.8% 16.7% 20.0% 

*No sampling undertaken 2000-2001 at Kalgoorlie. 

(i) The reduction in this figure is a result of a re-calibration of the electronic door counter at the Perth Site 

as well as a reduction in the number of travelling exhibitions over the last two years.

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(ii) The number of “other” exhibitions declined this year as a result of concentration on permanent 

exhibitions at Geraldton and development of the Land and People Exhibition at Perth. 

(iii) The satisfaction rates are from a sample survey of 790 visitors. The survey involved face to face 

interviews conducted on a random basis in the months of April and May. Based on this sample the 

maximum error rate at the 95% level of confidence is +/- 3.5%. 

(iv) No sampling was undertaken at Kalgoorlie. 

(v) As this year’s survey used a new methodology, no comparitive figures are available. 

Efficiency Indicators 

a. Ratio of the number of exhibition visitors to cost of gallery staff involved. This indicator provides a guide 

as to the efficiency with which the Museum is providing services to visitors. 

Cost per visitor 


$8.75 $7.70 $7.49 $7.03 $6.79 

b. Ratio of permanent exhibitions to the cost of professional staff involved. Exhibitions are a core function 

of the Museum and this ratio provides an indication of the standard at which exhibitions are being 

maintained. 

Cost of permanent exhibitions 


$24,629 $26,060 $33,572 $26,647 $32,669 

c.Ratio of other exhibitions to the cost of professional staff involved. 

This ratio provides an indication of the standard at which temporary exhibitions are being mounted. 

Cost of other exhibitions 


$31,773 $18,987 $18,870 $23,915 $16,510 

d. Ratio of requests for specialised information to cost of staff involved. 

Providing answers to public inquiries is a major function of the Museum. This ratio indicates the cost of 

this function. 

Cost per inquiry 


$22.47 $22.94 $21.59 $16.25 $18.79 

e. Ratio of collection items maintained in the Museum to cost of staff involved. 

The cost of maintaining the Museum’s collections is central to its operations. 

Cost per item maintained 


$1.29 $1.39 $1.03 $0.80 $0.81

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OUTPUT-BASED MANAGEMENT MEASURES 

Output 2: Museum Services 

Delivery and promotion of museum services through collection development and management, research, 

education and visitor services. 

The output-based management measures are provided for information only and are not audited. 

2000–2001 2000–2001 

Actual Target Comment 

Quantity 

Interactions (visitors, Internet hits, 

enquiries and exchanges) 

Items maintained that support 

1,208,018 1,200,000 

WA’s collection management 

Quality 

2,482,652 2,500,000 

Satisfaction rate—products 

Adherence to collection policy for 

95% 97% New survey 

methodology 

acquisition 

Collection stored according to 

100% 100% 

appropriate standards 5% 5% Lack of 

appropriate 

facilities 

Satisfaction rate—interactions 

Timeliness 

Hours per week public has access 

to collections: 

99% 97% Good, very good 

or excellent rating 

Perth Museum 49 52 

Fremantle History Museum 40 40 

Maritime Museum 

Length of time from decision on 

46 52 

collection to time of use 

Cost 

33 days 33 days 

Average cost per interaction $9.24 $9.83 

Average cost per item in the collection $3.57 $3.86 

Key effectiveness indicator 

Visitor numbers 752,248 780,000

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APPENDICES

STAFF LIST, 2000–2001 

Directorate 

Executive Director 

Gary Morgan BSc(Hons) PhD 

Personal Secretary 

Helen Imlay BA 

Directorate Secretary 

Lillian Van Oijen 

Foundation 

Executive Officer 

Kimlarn Frecker BEd 

Friends of the Museum 

Coordinator (P/T) 

Sara J. Meagher MA (to 5.12.00) 

Acting Coordinator (P/T) 

Joanna Salomone (to 30.6.01) 


Museum–Science and 

Culture 

Director 

Patrick F. Berry BSc(Hons) MSc PhD 

Secretary 

Anne F. Nevin 

Database Administrator 

Graeme Christie BSc(Hons) PhD (contract) 

Database Officer 

Patricia Gardner (to 10.00) 


Head of Department 

Fred E. Wells BSc MSc PhD (to 8.00) 

Jane Fromont BSc MSc PhD (from 9.00) 

Senior Curator 

Fred E. Wells BSc MSc PhD 

Curators 

Jane Fromont BSc MSc PhD 

J. Barry Hutchins BSc(Hons) PhD 

Diana S. Jones BSc(Hons) DipEd MSc 

Shirley M. Slack-Smith BSc 

Senior Technical Officer 

Clay Bryce DipAppSc(Biology) RBI 

Technical Officers 

Melissa A. Hewitt BSc(Hons) 

Sue Morrison BSc(Hons) PGCE MSc 

Technical Assistant (P/T) 

Mark P. Salotti DipAppSc 

99 


Earth and Planetary 

Sciences 


John A. Long BSc(Hons) PhD (to 12.00) 

Kenneth J. McNamara BSc(Hons) PhD 

(from 1.01) 


Kenneth J. McNamara BSc(Hons) PhD 

Curators 

John A. Long BSc(Hons) PhD 

Alexander W. R. Bevan BSc(Hons) PhD 

Assistant Curator 

Peter J. Downes BSc(Hons) 


Kristine Brimmell 

Geoff Deacon BSc(Hons) Simpson 

Collection (P/T); manager, Dinosaur 

Club (P/T) 

Carina Marshall; manager, Dinosaur Club 

(P/T) 

Danielle West BA(Ed); mineralogy 



William F. Humphreys BSc(Hons) PhD (to 

12.00) 

Terry F. Houston BSc(Hons) PhD (from 

1.01) 

Senior Curators 

Mark S. Harvey BSc PhD 

William F. Humphreys BSc(Hons) PhD 


Brian Hanich BSc 

Julianne M. Waldock BSc MSc (P/T) 



Richard A. How BSc(Hons) PhD 


Richard A. How BSc(Hons) PhD 

Curator 

Kenneth P. Aplin BSc(Hons) PhD 

Assistant Curators 

Norah K. Cooper BSc(Hons) DipEd 

Ronald E. Johnstone 

Lawrence A. Smith DipAppSc 

PGDipAppSc 

Scientific Officer 

Peter Kirkpatrick BSc(Hons) (to 1.01) 


Brad Maryan (P/T) 

Catherine Ratcliffe BSc (to 12.01) 

Alcoa FrogWAtch Education Officers 

Lyndal Sleep BSc(Hons) 

Anthea Paino BSc (P/T) 

Anne-Marie Shepherd 

Anthropology 


Moya Smith BA(Hons) PhD DipEd 

Curators 

Charles E. Dortch BSc MPhil PhD 

Mancel E. Lofgren BA MA 

Moya Smith BA(Hons) PhD DipEd 


Anna M. Edmundson BA MPhil 

Registrar 

Ross R. Chadwick BA GradDipMusStudies 

Acting Registrar 

Kathryn Robinson (10.1.01 to 6.4.01) 

Joe Dortch (21.3.01 to 15.6.01) 

History 


Ann Delroy BA(Hons) MPhil 

Secretary 

Rhonda Clark (to 23.2.01) 

Karen Klinger (23.2.01 to 06.4.01) 

Curators 

Ann Delroy BA(Hons) MPhil 

Phyllis Brown BA(Hons) 

Sue Graham-Taylor BA(Hons) PhD 

(contract) 

Anna Haebich BA(Hons) BA(FineArts) (to 

6.01) 

Mathew Trinca BA(Hons) 

Collections Manager 

Wendy Bradshaw BA(Hons) 


Kate O’Shaughnessy BA(Hons) (16.10.00 

to 2.2.01) 

Data-entry 

Emma O’Shaughnessey BA (to 15.12.00) 


Attendant Supervisor 

Natalie Dames 

Attendants 

Jill Hopkins 

Janice McCreery 

Ping McDowall 

Appendix A

Kaylene Poon 

Margaret Tribbick 

Casual Attendants 

Trish Alexander 

Wendy Aspden 

Ellie-Jo Lanyon 


Maritime Museum 

Director 

Graeme J. Henderson BA MA DipEd 

GradDipPubAdmin 

Secretary 

Erlinda S. Lawson (on leave from 10.00) 

Acting Secretary 

Mary Whittall (from 10.00) 

Maritime Archaeology 


Jeremy N. Green BSc MA(Hons) FAAH 

AdjunctAssocProf(Heritage Studies, 

Curtin University) 

Collections Manager 

Myra Stanbury BSc 

Manager Operations 

Michael McCarthy BEd MPhil PhD 

DipPhysEd GradDipMarArch 

Curator 

Juliette Pasveer BA(Hons) (to 2.01) 

Assistant Curators 

Corioli Souter BA GradDipMarArch 

Marit van Huystee MA(Dutch Linguistics & 

Literature) (P/T) (to 2.01) 

Senior Technical Officers 

Patrick E. Baker DipSciTechPhot 

Geoffrey E. Kimpton 

Technical Officer 

Robert W. Richards 

Secretary 

Susan E. Cox 

Artefact Data-entry (DEH) (P/T) 

Vacant 

Maritime History 


Sally May BA GradDipAppHerStud 


Karen Jackson BA GradDipAppHerStud 

Jon Addisson BA(Hons) MA 

Acting Assistant Curator 

Sarah Stephenson BA PostGradPubHist 

Senior Technical Officer 

Patrick E. Baker DipSciTechPhot 

Secretary 

Susan E. Cox 

Education 


Mike Lefroy BEcon DipEd 

Education Officer 

Mike Brevenholt BA GradDipEd 


George Trotter BA 

Education Assistants 

100 


Elaine Berry 

Fiona McVey (P/T) (to 1.01) 

Sarah Byrne BSc (P/T) 

Administration 

Business Support Manager 

Dan Boyes BBus DipPubAdmin 

Receptionist Clerk 

Anthea Arrow DipEd 

Bookshop Assistant 

Pauline McLay 

Acting Attendant Supervisor 

Julia Sylvester BA 

Receptionist/Attendant 

Albert Featherstone 

Receptionist/Attendants (P/T) 

Mark Barrett BSc(Hons) 

Sarah Byrne BSc 

Jennifer Gibbs CertIIMarStu 

Judith Goncalves 

Marie Jeffery CertMusStu 

Evelyn Reynolds 

Jan Ross 

Seung Lee BEng 

Maureen Wakefield 

Cleaners (P/T) 

Magdalena Kobilanski 

Ivanka Vukovak 

New Maritime Museum 

Development 

Project Administrator (Directorate) 

Naomi Bourne 

Project Manager (Directorate) 

Kurt Kenderessy AA(WAIT) 

Marketing Manager (Directorate) 

Karen Majer BSc(Hons) GradDipMedia 

Manager Submarine and Naval Display 

David Pike BBus ALAA 

Technical Adviser (Submarine & Display) 

Norman O’Neill CertMatAdmin 

CertStoAcctPro 

Submarine Assistants 

Shayne Gaddene 

Ian Walker DipProdDes (to 2.01) 

Paul Ballentyne (from 3.01) 

Exhibition Coordinator 

Sally May BA PGDipCultHerStud 

Exhibition Team Leaders 

Sally May BA PGDipCultHerStud (Fishing 

Gallery) 

Karen Jackson BA GradDipAppHerStud 

(Fremantle and Swan River Gallery) 

Mike Lefroy BEcon DipEd (Leisure Gallery) 

David Pike BBus ALAA (Defence Gallery) 

Denise Cook BA(Hons) 

GradDipWomen’sStudies (Indian Ocean 

Gallery) 

Adam Wolfe BBus BSwk GradDipMarArch 

FAII (Maritime Trade Gallery) (to 6.01) 

Team Leader Assistant (Leisure Gallery) 

Andrew White BA ALAA (to 4.01) 

Exhibition Coordinator Assistants 

Soula Vouyoucalos-Veyradier BA 

GradDipAppSc DipPhot CAPPhot 

Gemma Palfrey BA(Hons) (to 7.00) 

Michelle Webb (to 2.01) 

Marnie Lazar BA(Hons) (P/T) 

Anupa Shah BCom CertFineArt 

DipFineArt 


Museum–Albany 

Curator 

Valerie Milne BSc(Hons) 

Clerical Officer 

Carolyn Cockayne 

Supervisor 

Jill Stidwell (from 26.5.01) 

Acting Supervisor 

Anthea Beeck (to 25.6.01) 

Receptionist/Attendant 

Yvonne Coles 

Casual Receptionist/Attendants 

Jill Stidwell (to 25.5.01) 

Jared Gerace 

Daniel Smith 

Robert Arthur 

Zoe Prince 

Isolde Shearer 

Casual Gallery Marker 

Imogen Prince 


Museum–Geraldton 

Regional Curator 

Rik Malhotra MSc PhD 

Education Officer (P/T) 

Sean McGrath BA HDE 


Dianne Towton 


Paul Still 

Attendant Supervisor 

Orla H. McGrath 

Receptionist/Attendant (P/T) 

Kathleen Deloli 

Casual Gallery Markers/Attendants 

Helen Sheridan 

Holly Roberts 

Allison Roberts 

Rochelle Clifford 

Bobbie Desmond 

Chris Fleming 

Sean McGrath 

Patricia Erni 

Gary Martin 

Terri Cooper 

Bruce Bradfield


Museum–Kalgoorlie- 

Boulder 

Branch Curator 

Lorraine Fitzpatrick BA(Hons) (to 

29.12.00) 

Acting Branch Curator 

Ross Chadwick BA DipGradMusStudies 

(2.1.01 to 18.6.01) 

Terence McClafferty BSc GDipEd 

PGDipScEd MSc PhD (from 25.6.01) 

Education Officer 

Samantha Rutter BA GDipEd (to 3.1.01) 

Jeanette Evans (3.1.01 to 4.5.01) 

Jessica Kail BSc GDipEd (from 5.6.01) 


Matt Purvis (to 12.00) 

Carolyn Gray DipAS(from 10.00) 

Attendants 

Celina Smith 

Kylie Turner 

Val Creedon 

Elaine Mackinnon 

Geoff Wall 

Nicky Biggins (to 12.00) 

Moya Sharp (from 1.01) 

Grounds Officer 

William F. Moore 


Director 

Lyn Williamson 

Secretary 

Adriana Fazzari 

Education 


Vacant 

Education Officers 

Carolyn Mutzig DipTeach ASDA LSDA (to 

12.00) 

John Dell (to 5.00) 

Kate Akerman BSc DipEd (from 5.1.01) 

Graphic Designers (P/T) 

Dianne Davies DipArt&Design 

Lynne Broomhall CertGraphDes 

DipGraphDes DipPrintMaking 

Education Assistant 

Peta Osborne 

Casuals 

Carol Foley 

Suzanne Hutchison 

Sheila Liversage 

Exhibition and Design 


Tim Eastwood BA(IndDesign) (from 

13.12.00) 

Senior Designers 

Paul D. Morgan BA(Design) 

Victoria Cole BA(Arch)(Hons) (to 

15.12.00) 

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Exhibition Designer 

Fran Sweetman (from 19.2.01) 

Editor/Exhibition Planner 

Jenny Moroney 

Graphic Designers 

Simon Leach 

Darren Mok (P/T) (from 9.01) 

Preparators 

Jamie W. Stuart (to 10.00) 

Kirsten J. Tullis BSc(Hons) 

Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator 

Alan Rowe AdvCertGraphicDes 


Jacques R. Maissin BA(MechEng) 

CertMechFit CertToolmaker 

DipMachMech 

Rod van der Merwe Dip&AssocFineArts 

(P/T) 

Peter Lisiewich CertMechFit CertWelding 

DipOldArts (P/T) 

Stuart Leach 

Contract 

Neil Southam (to 8.00) 

Damon Lee BA(Craft) (to 8.00) 

Sandra Hall (to 2.01) 

James Mackey (to 12.00) 

Dennis Feaver 

Greg Giltroe 

Artificer 

Gregory C. Anderson 

Discovery Centre 

Manager 

Terry McClafferty BSc GDipEd PGDipScEd 

MSc (to 6.01) 

Acting Manager 

Chris White (from 25.6.01) 

Staff 

Rosemary Byrne BEd DipTeach 

Ciorsdan Daws BAppSc (to 3.01) 

Tricia Gardner BSc (to 9.00) 

Marcus Good 

Steven Matthews 

Kate Vyvyan BSc(Hons) PGCE 

Lyndsay Tonner 

Marketing 

Cassandra Landre (to 1.01) 

Program Development 

Manager 

Lorraine Fitzpatrick (5.3.01 to 5.6.01) 

Media and Public Relations 

Genine Read (contract P/T) (to 29.11.00) 

Dionne Lew (contract P/T) (from 

12.12.00 to 23.2.01) 

Mariyon Slany BA (contract P/T) (from 

26.2.01) 

Museum Officers 

Supervisor 

Kathy Logan (to 20.12.00) 

Julie Davy (from 12.00) 

Acting Assistant Supervisor 

Lynne East 

Officers 

Eric Bowra 

Ingrid Featherstone 

Colin Ferguson 

Ron Fuller 

Kenneth Houghton (to 12.00) 

Glynn Jarvis 

Nigel Jones 

Ellen Kelly 

Jeffrey Kickett 

Ray Lines 

Jeanne McIntyre 

Susan Murray 

Tony Pember 

Jean Stanford 

Angela Svrznjak 

Matthew Purvis 


Director 

Ian D. MacLeod BSc(Hons) PhD FRACI 

FIIC FTSE PMAICCM 

Materials Conservation 

Head 


FIIC FTSE PMAICCM (to 31.1.01) 

Ian M. Godfrey BSc(Hons) DipEd PhD 

(from 1.2.01) 

Principal Conservator 


FIIC FTSE PMAICCM (from 1.2.01) 

Curator 

Ian M. Godfrey BSc(Hons) DipEd PhD (to 

31.1.01) 

Research Officer 

Vicki L. Richards BAppSci 

GradDipAppChem MPhil 

Conservators 

Jonathan Carpenter 

S. Richard Garcia AssDipMechEng 

David R. Gilroy CertMechEng 

Nicola D. King Smith DipArt 

Maggie Myers DipConsInstArchLond 

CertMusStud 

Kent Jarman BAppSc(Materials Cons) 

(on secondment as Safety Officer) 

Conservators (P/T) 

L. Ulrike Broeze-Hörnemann 

DipDentalMech AssocPMAICCM 

Carmela Corvaia BA 

Registrations Officer 

Lucy Barrow DipSecStud 

Museum Assistance 

Program 

Manager 

Greg Wallace BSc(Hons) 

Travelling Curator 

Rosalind Brown BA MA(Museum Studies) 

Library 

Librarian 

Margaret A. Triffitt BA AALIA

Library Information Officer (P/T) 

Wendy Crawford 



Acting Director 

Nick Mayman* MBA DipLib BEc 

Finance Management Officer 

Alan Ferris* 

Purchasing Officer 

Trevor Hinscliff* 

Human Resources Consultant 

Louisa Marinozzi*BA(Hons) DipEd 

Accounts Officers 

Danny Gemelli* 

Casie Gilsenan* 

Records Management Officer 

Marilyn Gimblett 

Telephonist (P/T) 

Renate Beaton 

June Cooper 

Safety Manager 

Kent Jarman 

Property and Security Officer 

Maurice Odgers 

Shop Manager 

Kerry Chittleborough DipFashDes 

Shop Casuals 

Christine Skeels 

Laura Reece 

Publications 

Manager 

Ann R. Ousey AssocDipAppArts&Sci 

Desktop Publishing Operators 

Gregory S. Jackson 

Vincent McInerney 

Printing Machinist 

Malcolm Parker 

Casual 

Laura Reece 

Imaging and New Media 

Photographer 

Douglas S. Elford BT(Phot) AIPP RBI 

* Officer employed by the Ministry for Culture & the 

Arts. 

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STAFF MEMBERSHIP OF EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES 

K. P. Aplin 

• Member, Frog Fungus Working Group 

• Conference Steering Committee ‘Getting 

the Jump! of Amphibian Disease’, Cairns, 

August 2000 

• Coeditor, Modern Quaternary Research in 

Southeast Asia (A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam) 

P. Baker 

• Public Officer, Australian Institute for 


E. Berry 

• Secretary, Fremantle Volunteer Heritage 

Guides 

• Member, Fremantle History Society 

Committee 

P. F. Berry 

• Member, Council of Heads of Australian 

Fauna Collections 

• Member, Abrolhos Islands Management 

Advisory Committee 

• Chair, Rottnest Island Environmental 


• Member, Marine Parks and Reserves 

Scientific Advisory Committee 

A. W. R. Bevan 

• Australian Member, Cosmic Mineralogy 

Working Group of the International 

Mineralogical Association 

• Secretary, Meteoritical Trust of Australia 

• Editorial Review Board, The Australian 

Gemmologist 

• Program Subcommittee, 4th International 

Archaean Symposium 

W. Bradshaw 

• Member, Australian Registrar’s Committee 

P. Brown 

• Treasurer, Fremantle History Society 

• Treasurer, Women’s Special Interest 

Group, Museums Australia 

C. W. Bryce 

• National Committee Member, Australian 

Outdoor Writers Association 

R. Chadwick 

• Member, Hyde Park Precinct Group 

• Member, Australian Registrar’s Committee 

• Member, Department of Communications, 

Information Technology and the 

Arts Repatriation Committee 

• Member, Goldfields Tourism Association 

Executive Committee 

• Member, National Trust Golden Pipeline 

Project Goldfields Committee 

N. K. Cooper 

• Recovery Team, Pilbara Short-tailed 

Mouse 

J. Dell 

• Editor, The Western Australian Naturalist 

• State Chairman, Natural Estate Evaluation 

Panel, Australian Heritage Commission 

• Technical Working Group, Department of 

Environmental Protection, Western 

Australia 

• Steering Committee, Western Australian 

Naturalists’ Club Pollination Project 

A. Delroy 

• Member, Collection Management and 

Conservation Working Party, Heritage 

Collection Council 

• Member, Museums Australia Council 

• Chair, Museum Practice Standing 

Committee, Museums Australia Council 

• State Convenor, Museum Historians’ 

Special Interest Group, Museums Australia 

• Member, Fremantle Prison Living Museum 

Steering Group 

• Member, Society for the Study of Labour 

History Committee 

• Member, Advisory Committee, Certificate 

in Museum Studies, ECU 

C. Dortch 

• Cave Management Advisory Committee, 

CALM District Office, Busselton 

L. Fitzpatrick 

• Secretary, Museums Australia (WA) State 

Committee 

• Convenor, Museums Australia Eastern 

Goldfields Chapter 

• Vice-Chair, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder 

Cultural Affairs Committee 

• Member, City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder 

Archives Centre Advisory Committee 

• Executive Member, Goldfields Tourism 

Association 

• Member, City and Regional Development 

Sub-Committee, Kalgoorlie-Boulder 

Chamber of Commerce 

• Member, CountryArts Regional Arts 

Development Fund Panel 

R. Garcia 

• Member, Army Museum Advisory Group 

Appendix B 

I. M. Godfrey 

• Chair, Biological and Physical Sciences 

Course Consultative Committee, ECU 

• Member, Faculty of Science, Technology 

and Engineering Consultative Committee, 

ECU 

• Treasurer, Western Australian Division, 

Australian Institute for the Conservation 

of Cultural Material 

J. Green 

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Research 

Institute for Cultural Heritage, Curtin 

University 

• Fellow, Australian Academy of the 

Humanities 

• Advisory Editor, International Journal of 

Nautical Archaeology 

• Joint Editor, Australian Institute for 

Maritime Archaeology Bulletin 

M. S. Harvey 

• Chair, Advisory Committee, Invertebrate 

Taxonomy 

• Arachnology Nomenclature Committee 

(International Society of Arachnology) to 

advise International Commission on 

Zoological Nomenclature 

• Advisory Committee, ABRS 

• National Committee for Animal and 

Veterinary Sciences, Australian Academy 

of Science 

• Threatened Species Scientific Committee, 

Western Australia 

• Scientific Advisory Committee for 

Threatened Ecological Communities, 


G. Henderson 

• Western Australian delegate to the 

Commonwealth Minister for Communications 

and the Arts under the Historic 

Shipwrecks Act 1976 

• Member and Immediate Past President, 

ICOMOS International Committees on the 

Underwater Cultural Heritage Inc. 

• Executive Committee Member, International 

Congress of Maritime Museums 

• Member, Board of Studies, Curtin 

University Centre for Cultural Heritage 

Studies 

• Member, Fremantle Forum 

• Editorial Board Member, Great Circle, 

Journal of the Australian Association of 

Maritime History

• Expert Examiner, Protection of Moveable 

Cultural Heritage Act 1986 

• Patron, Australian Model Boat Club 

T. F. Houston 

• Secretary, WA Insect Study Society Inc. 

R. A. How 

• Curtin University of Technology, School of 

Environmental Biology Advisory Committee 

• IUCN Australian Marsupial and 

Monotreme Specialist Group 

• IUCN Australian Reptile and Amphibian 

Specialist Group 

• Threatened Species Network Advisory 

Committee (WA) for World Wildlife Fund 

and Environment Australia 

• Minister for the Environment’s Threatened 

Species Scientific Committee 

• Combined Ministerial Reference Group 

for Perth’s Bushplan 

• ECU, School of Natural Sciences, Course 

Consultative Committee 

W. F. Humphreys 

• Scientific Advisory Committee for the 

Threatened Ecological Communities, 


• Gascoyne Coast Technical Advisory 

Group 

• North West Cape Karst Management 


• Steering Committee for International 

Biodiversity Observation Year 2000– 

2001: Conservation of Anchialine Faunas 

Project 

J. B. Hutchins 

• Member and Scientific Adviser, Australian 

Anglers’ Association Records Authority 

• National Committee Member, Australian 

Outdoor Writers Association 

R. E. Johnstone 



• Western Long-billed Corella Recovery 

Team 

D. S. Jones 

• Western Australian Committee Member, 

‘Terra Australis 2001’ 

• Executive Committee Member, Western 

Australian Committee, ‘Terra Australis 

2001’ 

M. Lefroy 

• Member, Fremantle Chamber of Commerce 

• Chairperson, Tourism Chapter, Fremantle 

First 

• Member, Inner Harbour Community 

Liaison Group 

• Member, West End Revitalisation Group 

S. May 

• Convenor, Indian Ocean Fisheries 

Conference 

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I. D. MacLeod 

• Member, Directory Board, ICOM- 

Committee for Conservation 

• Assistant Coordinator, ICOM-Conservation 

Committee Metals Working Group 

• Member, Editorial Board, Corrosion and 

Materials 

• Member, Advisory Committee Museum 

Studies, ECU 

• Trustee, Australian and American Catalina 

Memorial Foundation 

• Committee member, Australian Institute 

for the Conservation of Cultural Materials 

(AICCM), WA Division 

K. McNamara 

• Member, National Cultural Heritage 

Committee 

• Member, Natural Estate Evaluation Panel, 

Australian Heritage Commission 

• Associate Editor, Geological Magazine 

• Australian Representative, Palaeontological 

Association 

G. J. Morgan 

• Member, Advisory Committee, Centre for 

Cultural Heritage Studies, Curtin University 

• Member, Aboriginal Cultural Materials 

Committee 

M. Myers 

• Committee member, AICCM, WA Division 

R. Richards 

• Western Australian Maritime Museum 

representative on the City of Fremantle IT 

and Telecommunications Strategy Group 

V. Richards 

• Assistant Coordinator, AICCM, Wet 

Organics Special Interest Group 

S. M. Slack-Smith 

• Member, Committee for WA Specimen 

Shell Fisheries 

• Member, WA Committee for Introduced 

Marine Pests 

• Member, Scientific Subcommittee of the 

National Black Striped Mussel Task Force 

L. Smith 



M. Smith 

• Western Australian Museum representative 

on the Board, Berndt Museum of 

Anthropology 

• Member, Aboriginal Cultural Materials 

Committee 

• Associate Member, Australian Institute of 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 

Studies 

• Member of Department of Communications, 

Information Technology and the 

Arts Repatriation Committee 

• Industry representative, Ancient History 

Syllabus Committee 

C. Souter 

• State Councillor, AIMA 

• AIMA/NAS State Tutor and Course 

Coordinator 

• AIMA/NAS National Committee 

M. Stanbury 

• Vice-President, Australian Institute for 


• Joint Editor, Australian Institute for 

Maritime Archaeology Bulletin 

M. Triffitt 

• Royal Society of Western Australia, 

Council Member and Hon. Librarian 

G. Trotter 

• Member, Arms and Armour Society 

• Member, WA Army Museum Advisory 

Group 

G. Wallace 

• Arts Portfolio Regional Services Committee 

(Western Australian Museum 

representative) 

• Course Advisory Committee, Certificate in 

Museum Studies, ECU 

• Member, Education and Training Working 

Party, Museums Australia 

• Member, Museum Assistance Program 

Western Australian Branch State Committee 

(Observer/Adviser) 

F. E. Wells 

• Abrolhos Islands Management Advisory 

Committee 

• Committee for WA Specimen Shell 

Fisheries 

• Council, Australian Marine Sciences 

Association 

• Editorial board, Molluscan Research

Fellows 

Mr John Bannister MA FLS FZS 

Sir Charles Court AK KCMG OBE 

Mr Koichiro Ejiri AC 

Hon. Mr Justice Kennedy BA LLB BCL 

Dr W. D. L. (David) Ride AM MA DPhil 

Honorary Associates 

Mr Kim Akerman BSc 

Mr Graham Anderton BEd TeachCert 

DipPhysEd HTC 

Mr Francis Balcombe QPM 

Dr Basil E. Balme BSc PhD DSc 

Mr John Bannister MA FLS FZS 

Mr Hugh J. W. Barnes 

Mr Doug Bathgate BA 

Professor Walter Bloom BSc(Hons) PhD 

Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO MA DPhil 

Professor Frank Broeze LittD MA PhD 

(deceased 4 April 2001) 

Mr Darren Brooks 

Dr Andrew Burbidge BSc(Hons) PhD 

Mr C. R. (Robert) Burgess 

Mr W. H. (Harry) Butler CBE CitWA 

Ms Rinske Car Driesens AAICCM 

Mr Ken Colbung AM MBE JP 

Mr Peter Coppin BEM 

Dr Ian Crawford BA(Hons) 

DipPrehistoricArchaeol MA PhD 

Dr Tony Cunningham PhD 

Professor John de Laeter AO BSc(Hons) 

BEd(Hons) PhD DSc 

Mr Thomas Dercksen 

Mr Rod Dickson 

Mrs Frances Dodds 

Mr Stefan Eberhard 

Mr Hugh Edwards 

Mr Rob Foulds BA DipEd GradDipAppSc 

Dr Leonard Freedman BSc PhD 

Mr George Gardner OAM 

Ms Dena Garratt BA GradDipMarArch 

GradDipILS 

Associate Professor Emilio Ghisalberti 

BSc(Hons) PhD 

Professor John Glover BSc(Hons) PhD 

Mr Philippe Godard 

Professor Richard Gould PhD 

Professor Sylvia Hallam MA FAHA 

Mrs Glad Hansen 

Mr James Henderson 

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FELLOWS, HONORARY ASSOCIATES, RESEARCH ASSOCIATES 

Mrs Joy Hewitt 

Mr Lyndsay Hill 

Mr David Hutchison BEng(Hons) BA DipEd 

Dr Hugh I. Jones PhD 

Dr Peter Kendrick PhD 

Mr Kevin F. Kenneally 

Dr Dennis King MSc PhD 

Professor Kim Kirsner BSc BComm PhD 

Mr Nicholas Kolichis 

Mrs Billie Lefroy 

Miss Jane Lefroy 

Mr G. A. Lodge 

Mr Alan Longbottom 

Dr G. J. H. (Joe) McCall DSc PhD 

Mr R. P. (Peter) McMillan AM DFC BSc MSc 

Associate Professor Kenneth McPherson PhD 

Mrs Mary Macha 

Professor A. R. (Bert) Main CBE FAA BSc(Hons) 

PhD 

Dr Barbara York Main BSc(Hons) PhD 

Miss Margaret Medcalf BA ALAA 

Mr Kevin Morgan BSc 

Dr Neil North BSc(Hons) PhD 

Mrs Mary Pandilow OAM 

Professor Colin Pearson AO MBE FIIC BSc MSc 

PhD 

Associate Professor John Penrose PhD 

Dr Philip Playford AM BSc(Hons) PhD DSc 

Mr A. A. Poole 

Mr R. (Brian) Pope BA(Hons) MPhil 

Mr Frank Richmond 

Dr Geoff Richardson BSc(Hons) PhD 

Dr J. D. (Dale) Roberts PhD 

Mr Bruce Robinson BSc(Hons) 

Mr Robin Roe 

Mr Colin S. Sanders BSc(Hons) MSc 

Mr Jon Sanders AO OBE 

Mrs Lamberta Schekkerman 

Mr Craig Somerville 

Mr Rodney Stockwell BDS MDS 

Mr Kerry Thom 

Mr Don N. Tulloch 

Mr Brian Vine 

Dr Patricia Vinnicombe DipOT MA PhD 

Mr W. S. (Bill) Warnock BA (deceased June 

2001) 

Mr Louis Warren AM 

Professor Philip Withers BSc(Hons) PhD 

Mrs Jill Worsley DipTeach BA GradDipMarArch 

Appendix C 

Research Associates 

The Museum welcomes overseas and other 

visitors to work on its collections for extended 

periods. Research Associates are afforded the 

same privileges as Honorary Associates. 

The following Research Associates worked at 

the Museum in 2000–2001: 

Dr Gerry Allen BA PhD 

Dr Alex Baynes BA(Hons) PhD 

Dr Lindsay Byrne PhD 

Dr Robert Craig BAppSc DipTheol DipEd 

PostGradDipGeol PhD 

Mr John Darnell BSc BEng 

Mr Bradley Durant 

Mr Malte Ebach BSc(Hons) MSc 

Dr Hans Jurgen Hahn MSc PhD 

Mr Lindsay Hatcher DipEd 

Dr Robert Hough BSc(Hons) PhD 

Dr Ivana Karanovic BSc MSc PhD 

Dr Tomislav Karanovic BSc MSc PhD 

Mr George Kendrick 

Mrs Loisette Marsh BA(Hons) MSc 

Ms Carina Marshall BA 

Dr Peter Morrison PhD 

Professor Brian Morton PhD 

Professor Eric Pianka PhD 

Associate Professor Lincoln Schmitt BSc PhD 

Mr Eric Volschenk 

Mr Tom Vosmer BA MAT MFA 

GradDipMarArch 

Mr Nigel West BAppSc GradDipChem 

Mr Krzysztof Wienczugow BAppSc 

Ms Celeste Wilson BSc(Hons) 

Professor Yu Wen BSc PhD

PUBLICATIONS LIST 

Research Publications 

Adis, J. & Harvey, M. S. (2000). How many Arachnida and Myriapoda 

are there world-wide and in Amazonia? Studies on Neotropical 

Fauna and Environment 35: 139–41. 

Allen, G. R. (2000). Fishes of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Records 

of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 59: 83–95. 

Allen, G. R. (2000). Fishes of the Montebello Islands. Records of the 

Western Australian Museum, Supplement 59: 27–57. 

Allen, G. R. & Adrim, M. (2000). Amblypomacentrus clarus, a new 

species of damselfish (Pomacentridae) from the Banggai Islands, 

Indonesia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20 (1): 51– 

5. 

Aplin, K. P., Cooper, N. K., How, R. A., Hutchins, J. B., Johnstone, R. E. 

& Smith, L. A. (2001). Introduction to the checklists of vertebrates 

of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 

Supplement 63: 1–7. 

Bannister, J. L. (2001). Status of southern right whales (Eubalaena 

australis) off Australia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 

Special Issue 2: 103–10. 

Berry, P. F. & Wells, F. E. (eds) (2000). Survey of the marine fauna of the 

Montebello Islands, Western Australia, and Christmas Island, Indian 

Ocean. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 

59: 1–127. 

Bevan, A. W. R. (2000). Meteorites from the Nullarbor: Keeping the 

tally. 4th International Mineralogy in Museums Conference, 

Program and Abstracts volume: 25. 

Bevan, A. W. R. (2001). Review of Grady, M. M. (ed.), Catalogue of 

Meteorites, 5th edn, 689 pp. and CD-ROM, Cambridge University 

Press (2000). Geological Magazine 138: 224. 

Bevan, A. W. R. & Downes, P. J. (2000). Mineralogy at the Western 

Australian Museum. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 6: 93–100. 

Bevan, A. W. R., McNamara, K. J., Long, J. A. & Morgan, P. (2000). 

‘Diamonds to Dinosaurs’: An integrated earth sciences gallery at 

the Western Australian Museum. 4th International Mineralogy in 

Museums Conference, Program and Abstracts volume: 26. 

Brearley, A. & Wells, F. E. (2000). Invertebrate fauna in seagrasses on 

Success Bank, Western Australia. Proceedings 4th International 

Seagrass Biology Workshop, Corsica, 26 September – 2 October 

2000. Biologia Marina Mediterranea 7: 199–202. 

Burbidge, A. H., McKenzie, N. L. & Harvey, M. S. (2000). A 

biogeographic survey of the southern Carnarvon Basin, Western 

Australia: Background and methods. Records of the Western 

Australian Museum, Supplement 61: 1–12. 

Burbidge, A. H., McKenzie, N. L. & Harvey, M. S. (2000). Biodiversity of 

the southern Carnarvon Basin. Records of the Western Australian 

Museum, Supplement 61: i–xi, 1–595. 

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Appendix D 

Burbidge, A. H., Johnstone, R. E., Fuller, P. J. & Stone, P. (2001). 

Terrestrial birds of the southern Carnarvon Basin, Western 

Australia: Contemporary patterns of occurrence. Records of the 


Clarke, J. D. A., Bone, Y., Cann, J. H., Davies, M., Macphail, M. K. & 

Wells, F. (2001). Post-glacial biota from the inner part of southwest 

Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 48: 

63–79. 

Coate, K. H., Johnstone, R. E. & Lodge, G. A. (2001). Birds of Kingston 

Rest North-east Kimberley, Western Australia. West. Aust. Nat. 23 

(1): 9–38. 

Cook, D. R., Smith, I. M. & Harvey, M. S. (2000). Assessment of lateral 

compression of the idiosoma in adult water mites as a taxonomic 

character and reclassification of Frontipodopsis Walter, Wettina 

Piersig and some other basal Hygrobatoidea (Acari: Hydrachnida). 

Invertebrate Taxonomy 14: 433–48. 

Cooper, N. K., Aplin, K. P. & Adams, M. (2000). A new species of false 

antechinus (Marsupialia: Dasyuromorphis: Dasyuridae) from the 

Pilbara region, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian 

Museum 20: 115–36. 

Craig, R. S. (2000). Brachiopoda. In R. Singer (ed.), Encyclopedia of 

Paleontology. Fitzroy Dearborn Publications, Chicago. 

Craig, R. S. (2001). A new Jurassic brachiopod from the 

Newmarracarra Limestone, Perth Basin, Western Australia. Records 

of the Western Australian Museum 20: 387–92. 

Craig, R. S. (2001). The Cenozoic Brachiopoda of the Bremer and 

Eucla Basins, southwest Western Australia. Records of the Western 

Australian Museum 20: 199–236. 

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Harvey, M. S. (2000). A check list of the 

pseudoscorpions of South Africa (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones). 

Koedoe 43: 89–102. 

Done, T. J. & Marsh, L. M. (2000). Reef-building corals of Christmas 

Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 

59: 79–81. 

Dortch, C. E. & Smith, M. V. (2001). Grand hypotheses: 

Palaeodemographic modelling in Western Australia’s South-west. 

Archaeology in Oceania 26: 34–45. 

Downes, P. J. (2000). Magmatic evolution and emplacement history of 

the diamondiferous Aries kimberlite, Central Kimberley Block, 

Western Australia. 4th International Mineralogy in Museums 

Conference, Program and Abstracts volume: 38. 

Downes, P. J. & Bevan, A. W. R. (2000). Chrysoberyl and associated 

mineralisation in metasomatised Archaean rocks at Dowerin, 

Western Australia. 4th International Mineralogy in Museums 

Conference, Program and Abstracts volume: 38. 

Edmundson, A. & O’Brien, S. (eds) (2001). Valerie Takao-Binder: Mia 

Mia/ Dwelling Place. Frank David Pty Ltd, Perth.

Fehse, D. & Kendrick, G. W. (2000). A new species of Austrocypraea 

(Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from the Late Pliocene of the Eucla 

Basin, southern Australia. Records of the Western Australian 


Fraser, T. H. & Allen, G. R. (2001). A new species of cardinalfish in 

Neamia (Apogonidae, Perciformes) from Mauritius, Indian Ocean, 

with a review of Neamia ocotspina. Records of the Western 

Australian Museum 20 (2): 159–65. 

Gill, A. C., Mooi, R. D. & Hutchins J. B. (2000). Description of a new 

subgenus and species of the fish genus Congrogadus Gunther 

from Western Australia (Perciformes: Pseudochromidae). Records 

of the Western Australian Museum 20 (1): 69–79. 

Green, J. & Stanbury, M. (2001). Draft Management Plan for the 

protection and use of historic shipwreck and associated maritime 

heritage sites in the Wallabi Group of the Houtman Abrolhos 

System. Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian 

Maritime Museum, Report no. 151. 

Green, J., Souter, C. & Baker, P. (2001). Department of Maritime 

Archaeology visit to Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago, 

Esperance, 29 April – 4 May 2001. Department of Maritime 

Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime Museum, Report no. 

154. 

Halse, S. A., Shiel, R. J., Stoey, A. W., Edward, D. H. D., Lansbury, I., 

Cale, D. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2000). Aquatic invertebrates and 

waterbirds of wetlands and rivers of the southern Carnarvon 

Basin, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian 

Museum, Supplement 61: 217–65. 

Hao, E., Fromont, J., Jardine, D. & Karuso, P. (2001). Natural products 

from sponges of the genus Agelas—On the trail of a [2+2]photoaddition 

enzyme. Molecules 6: 130–41. 

Harapetian, V., Yazdi, M. & Long, J. A. (2000). Devonian vertebrate 

biostratigraphy of central Iran. Records of the Western Australian 


Harvey, M. S. (2000). A review of the Australian schizomid genus 

Notozomus (Hubbardiidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 

46: 161–74. 

Harvey, M. S. (2000). Brignolizomus and Attenuizomus, new 

schizomid genera from Australia (Arachnid: Schizomida: 

Hubbardiidae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, 


Harvey, M. S. (2000). From Siam to Rapa Nui—The identity and 

distribution of Geogarypus longidigitatus (Rainbow) 

(Pseudoscorpiones: Geogarypidae). Bulletin of the British 

Arachnological Society 11: 377–84. 

Harvey, M. S., Sampey, A., West, P. L. J. & Waldock, J. M. (2000). 

Araneomorph spiders from the southern Carnarvon Basin, 

Western Australia: A consideration of regional biogeographic 

relationships. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 


Harvey, M. S., Sampey, A., West, P. L. J. & Waldock, J. M. (2000). The 

Chilopoda and Diplopoda of the southern Carnarvon Basin, 

Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 


Harvey, M. S., Shear, W. S. & Hoch, H. (2000). Onychophora, 

Arachnida, Myriapods and Insecta. In Wilkens, H., Culver, D. C. & 

Humphreys, W. F. (eds), Ecosystems of the World, 30, Subterranean 

Ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 79–94. 

Hirano, K., Kubota, T., Tsuda, M., Watanabe, K., Fromont, J. & 

Kobayashi, J. (2000). Ma’edamines A and B, cytotoxic 

Bromotyrosine alkaloids with a unique 2(1H) Pyrazinone ring from 

Sponge Suberea sp. Tetrahedron 56: 8107–10. 

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Hough, R. M. (2000). Discussion and reply: Possible impact origin for 

the Middle Miocene (Serravallian) Puffin Structure, Ashmore 

Platform, northwest Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 

47: 1127–8. 

How, R. A. & Dell, J. (2000). Ground vertebrate fauna of Perth’s 

vegetation remnants: Impact of 170 years of urbanization. Pacific 

Conservation Biology 6: 198–217. 

How, R. A., Cooper, N. K. & Bannister, J. L. (2001). Checklist of the 

mammals of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian 


Humphreys, W. F. (2000). First in, last out: Should aquifer ecosystems 

be at the vanguard of remediation assessment? In Johnston, C. D. 

(ed.), Contaminated Site Remediation: From Source Zones to 

Ecosystems 1: 275–82. Centre for Groundwater Studies, Wembley, 


Humphreys, W. F. (2000). Background and glossary. In Wilkens, H., 

Culver, D. C. & Humphreys, W. F. (eds), Ecosystems of the World, 

30, Subterranean Ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 3–14. 

Humphreys, W. F. (2000). Relict faunas and their derivation. In 

Wilkens, H., Culver, D. C. & Humphreys, W. F. (eds), Ecosystems of 

the World, 30, Subterranean Ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 

417–32. 

Humphreys, W. F. (2000). The hypogean fauna of the Cape Range 

peninsula and Barrow Island, northwestern Australia. In Wilkens, 

H., Culver, D. C. & Humphreys, W. F. (eds), Ecosystems of the 

World, 30, Subterranean Ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 581– 

601. 

Jaume, D. & Humphreys, W. F. (2001). A new genus of epacteriscid 

calanoid copepod from an anchialine sinkhole in northwestern 

Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21: 157–69. 

Johnstone, R. E., Burbidge, A. H. & Stone, P. (2001). Birds of the 

southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia: Distribution, status 

and historical changes. Records of the Western Australian 


Jones, D. S. (2000). Crustacea Cirripedia Thoracica: 

Chionelasmatoidea and Pachylasmatoidea (Balanomorpha) of 

New Caledonia, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna islands, with a 

review of all currently assigned taxa. In Crosnier, A. (ed.), Résultats 

des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 21. Mémoires du Muséum 

national d’Histoire naturelle, 184: 141–283. 

Jones, D. S. (2000). Key to the barnacle families (Cirripedia: Thoracica) 

of the world. In Lowry, J. K. (ed.) (1999), Crustacea, the Higher 

Taxa: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification, and Information 

Retrieval. Version 2: 2 October 2000. 

Jones, D. S. & Berry, P. F. (2000). Crustacea of the Montebello Islands. 

Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 59: 59– 

63. 

Leung, P. & Jones, D. S. (2000). Barnacles (Cirripedia: Thoracic) from 

epibenthic substrata in the shallow offshore waters of Hong Kong. 

In Morton, B. S. (ed.), The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong 

and Southern China V. Proceedings of the Tenth International 

Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Biology of Hong Kong 

and the Southern China, Hong Kong, 6–26 April 1998. University 

of Hong Kong Press. ch. 6: 105–28. 

Long, J. A. (2001). The rise of fishes. In Briggs, D. E. & Crowther, P. R. 

(eds), Palaeobiology II. Blackwell Press, Oxford. 

Long, J. A. & Artabaz, A. (2000). Occurrence of Givetian 

microvertebrate remains from the Soh area, northern Esfahan, 

Iran. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 58: 

191–6.

Long, J. A. & Buffetaut, E. (2001). A biogeographic comparison of the 

dinosaurs and associated vertebrate faunas from the Mesozoic of 

Australia and Southeast Asia. In Smith, J. M. B., Morwood, M. & 

Davidson, I. (eds), Faunal and Floral Migrations and Evolution in 

SE Asia–Australasia. Ian Metcalfe, A. A. Balkema (Swets & Zeitlinger 

Publishers) b.v., Lisse. 97–103. 

Long, J. A. & Harapetian, V. (2000). Famennian microvertebrates from 

the Dalmeh area, central Iran. Records of the Western Australian 


Marsh, L. M. (2000). Cnidaria, other than reef-building corals of 

Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Records of the Western Australian 


Marsh, L. M. (2000). Echinoderms of Christmas Island. Records of the 


Marsh, L. M. (2000). Echinoderms of the Montebello Islands. Records 

of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 59: 21–7. 

Marsh, L. M. (2000). Scleractinian corals of the Montebello Islands. 

Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 59: 15– 

19. 

Marsh, L. M. & Fromont, J. (2000). Porifera and Brachiopoda of 

Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Records of the Western Australian 

Museum, Supplement 59: 127. 

McGowran, B., Archer, M., Bock, P., Darragh, T. A., Godthelp, H., 

Hageman, S., Hand, S. J., Hill, R., Li, Q., Maxwell, P. A., 

McNamara, K. J., MacPhail, M., Mildenhall, D., Partridge, A. D., 

Richardson, J., Shafilk, S., Truswell, E. M. & Warne, M. (2000). 

Australasian palaeobiogeography: The Palaeogene and Neogene 

record. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Association of 

Palaeontologists 23: 405–70. 

McKenzie, N. L., Rolfe, J. K., Aplin, K., Cowan, M. & Smith, L. A. 

(2001). Herpetofauna of the southern Carnarvon Basin, Western 

Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 

61: 335–60. 

McNamara, K. J. (2001). Shapes of Time: The Evolution of Growth and 

Development. Kousakusha, Tokyo. 410 pp. (in Japanese). 

McNamara, K. J. (2001). The importance of heterochrony. In Briggs, 

D. E. & Crowther, P. R. (eds), Palaeobiology II. Blackwell Press, 

Oxford. 

Morgan, G. J. (2000). Decapod Crustacea of Christmas Island, Indian 

Ocean. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 

59: 117–23. 

Morton, B. & Jones, D. S. (2001). The biology of Hipponyx australis 

(Gastropoda: Hipponicidae) on Nassarius pauperatus (Nassariidae) 

in Princess Royal Harbour, Western Australia. Journal of Molluscan 

Studies 67: 247–55. 

Morton, B. (2000). The biology and functional morphology of Fragum 

erugatum (Bivalvia: Cardiidae) from Shark Bay, Western Australia: 

The significance of its relationship with entrained zooxanthellae. 

Journal of Zoology 251: 39–52. 

Roberts, R. G., Flannery, T. F., Ayliffe, L. K., Yoshida, H., Olley, J. M., 

Prideaux, G. J., Laslett, G. M., Baynes, A., Smith, M. A., Jones, R. & 

Smith, B. L. (2001). New ages for the last Australian megafauna: 

Continent-wide extinction about 46,000 years ago. Science 292: 

1888–92. 

Souter, C. (2000). Archaeological watching brief for new Maritime 

Museum site—Forrest Landing, Victoria Quay, Fremantle. 

Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Maritime 

Museum, Report no. 150. 

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Souter, C. (2000). HPASS Survey of a Roman Bridge, Maastricht, The 

Netherlands. Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western 

Australian Maritime Museum, Report no. 149. 

Stanbury, M. (2000). Coastcare: Abrolhos Islands Project 1999. In 

Stanbury, M. (ed.), Abrolhos Islands Archaeological Sites: Interim 

Report. Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime 

Archaeology, Special Publication no. 5, Fremantle. 1–3. 

Stanbury, M. (ed.) (2000). Abrolhos Islands Archaeological Sites: 

Interim Report. Australian National Centre of Excellence for 

Maritime Archaeology, Special Publication no. 5, Fremantle. 

Sutherland, F. L., Pogson, R. E., Birch, W. D., Henry, D. A., Pring, A., 

Bevan, A. W. R., Stalder, H. A. & Graham, I. T. (2000). Mineral 

species first described from Australia and their type specimens. 

Australian Journal of Mineralogy 6: 105–28. 

Talent, J., Mawson, R. & Long, J. A. (eds) (2001). Mid-Palaeozoic biota 

and biogeography. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 


Talent, J. A., Mawson, R., Aitchison, J. C., Becker, R. T., Bell, K. N., 

Bradshaw, M. A., Burrow, C. J., Cook, A. G., Dargan, G. M., 

Douglas, J. G., Edgecombe, G. D., Feist, M., Jones, P. J., Long, 

J. A., Phillips-Ross, J. R., Pickett, J. W., Playford, G., Rickards, R. B., 

Webby, B. D., Winchester-Seeto, T., Wright, A. J., Young, G. C. & 

Zhen, Y. Y. (2000). Devonian palaeobiogeography of Australia and 

adjoining regions. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian 

Palaeontologists 23: 167–257. 

Turney, C. S., Bird, M. I., Fifield, L. K., Roberts, R. G., Smith, M., Dortch, 

C. E., Grun, R., Lawson, E., Ayliffe, L. K., Miller, G. H., Dortch, J. & 

Cresswell, R. G. (2001). Early human occupation at Devil’s Lair, 

Southwestern Australia, 50,000 years ago. Quaternary Research 

55: 3–13. 

Verveer, A., Bland, P. A. & Bevan, A. W. R. (2000). Electrophonic 

sounds from the re-entry of the Molniya 1-67 satellite over 

Australia: Confirmation of the electromagnetic link. Meteoritics and 

Planetary Science 35, Supplement: A163–4. 

Watts, C. H. S. & Humphreys, W. F. (2000). Six new species of 

Nirridessus and Tjirtudessus (Dytiscidae; Coleoptera) from 

underground waters in Australia. Records of the South Australian 


Wells, F. E. (2000). Lack of imposex in the muricid Morula granulata 

from Rowley Shoals, northwestern Australia. Molluscan Research 

20: 51–5. 

Wells, F. E. & Berry, P. F. (2000). Introduction. Records of the Western 


Wells, F. E. & Berry, P. F. (2000). Introduction. Records of the Western 


Wells, F. E. & Berry, P. F. (2000). The physical environment, marine 

habitats, and characteristics of the marine fauna. Records of the 


Wells, F. E. & Bryce, C. W. (2001). Molluscan surveys of offshore coral 

reefs in northwestern Australia and adjacent biogeographical 

areas. In Hylleberg, J., Proceedings of the 10th Congress and 

Workshop of the Tropical Marine Mollusc Programme (TMMP). 

Phuket Marine Biological Centre Special Publication 21: 395–404. 

Wells, F. E. & Slack-Smith, S. M. (2000). Molluscs of Christmas Island, 

Indian Ocean. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 


Wells, F. E., Slack-Smith, S. M. & Bryce, C. W. (2000). Molluscs of the 

Montebello Islands. Records of the Western Australian Museum, 

Supplement 59: 29–46.

Wilkens, H., Culver, D. C. & Humphreys, W. F. (eds) (2000). Ecosystems 

of the World, 30, Subterranean Ecosystems. Elsevier, Amsterdam. 

791 pp. 

Yu Wen (2001). The earliest Cambrian polyplacophorans from China. 

Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 167–85. 

Popular Publications 

Bevan, A. W. R. (2001). Space invaders. Rockwatch 27: 4–5. 

Bryce, C. (2001). Ugly bizarre fishes. Western Angler February–March 

2001: 40–3. 

Bryce, C. (2001). A walk on the slimy side—Dampier sea slugs. North 

West Telegraph 14 March 2001: 10. 

Fromont, J. & Salotti, M. (2000). Creature from the deep. 

Fromont, J. & Salotti, M. (2000). Down by the seaside in spring. 

 

Fromont, J. & Salotti, M. (2000). Information sheet: Labels in the 

Dampier Marine Gallery. 

Fromont, J. & Salotti, M. (2001). Stinger season. 

Fromont, J., Marsh, L. & Elford, D. (2001). Dead seastars identified. 

 

Harvey, M. S. (2000). Scorpions—The animals that time forgot. Tracks 

Summer 2000: 8. 

Hewitt, M. (2001). Crustaceans fascinate. North West Telegraph 27 

June 2001: 25. 

Houston, T. F. (2001). Native bees of Kings Park. For People and 

Plants—Friends of Kings Park Magazine 33: 12–3. 

Humphreys, W. F. (2000). Australia at the top. Tracks Summer 2000: 5. 

Humphreys, W. F. (2000). Bundera Sinkhole—A fragile fauna site, 

unique in the southern hemisphere. Cave Divers’ Association of 

Australia, Newsletter. Guidelines 72: 16–17. 

Humphreys, W. F. (2000). Creepy crawly invertebrates that live in the 

dark. In Discovering Caves in Australia, poster and fact sheets 

compiled by Kemp, K. M. & Lewis, G. B. Australian Geological 

Survey Organisation, Canberra. 

Humphreys, W. F. (2000). Life in caves. Wetlands Alive: Newsletter of 

Wetland Care Australia 4 (2): 8. 

Hutchins, J.B. (2001). Archipelago has 700 fish species. North West 

Telegraph 18 April 2001: 12. 

Hutchins, B. (2001). Rottnest revelations. Western Angler April/May 

2001. 

Jones, D. (2001). Marine search into Archipelago. North West 

Telegraph 4 April 2001: 36. 

Long, J. A. (2000). Mountains of Madness—A Journey through 

Antarctica. Allen & Unwin, Sydney. 238 pp. 

Long, J. A. (2001). Mountains of Madness—A Scientist’s Odyssey 

through Antarctica. Joseph Henry Press, USA. 252 pp. 

McCarthy, M., & Garratt, D. (2001). The Western Australian Maritime 

Museum Wreck Access and Outreach Program. In Staniforth, M. & 

Hyde, M., Maritime Archaeology in Australia: A Reader: 282–91. 

First published in Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime 

Archaeology 22: 127–32. 

McCarthy, M. (2000). Book review, The Sinking of HMAS Sydney: A 

Guide to Commonwealth Government Records, by Richard 

Summerell. The Great Circle 22 (2): 59–60. 

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McCarthy, M. (2000). Indonesian divers in Australian waters. The Great 

Circle 20 (2): 120–37. 

McCarthy, M. (2000). Iron and Steamship Archaeology: Success and 

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