A Statement from the Powerhouse Museum Alliance on Labor’s Arts and Cultural Policy, 21 January 2019 The Powerhouse Museum Alliance (PMA) welcomes Michael Daley’s commitment to protect the Powerhouse Museum (PHM) and spend $500m on a new Western Sydney cultural institution in Parramatta, based on consultation with local communities. Jennifer Sanders, the former deputy director … Continue reading Statement from the PMA on Labor’s Arts and Cultural Policy, 21 January 2019

9 July, 2021 Bulletin 66 re Powerhouse Museum: a year since the reprieve of July 4, 2020 FOR VERSION WITH PHOTOGRAPHS READ HERE: 9 July Bulletin 66 Tom Lockley Campaign to Save the Powerhouse Responsibility for facts stated is taken by Tom Lockley, PO Box 301, Pyrmont 0403 615 134 tomlockley@gmail.com It is now six … Continue reading Bulletin 66: Summary – a year since the reprieve – Tom Lockley

  Extracts from NSW Legislative Council taken on 9 August, 2019: from Hansard transcripts from 8 May, and 7-8 August 2019 (Next sitting 20 August) For full records, go to this site and download pdfs: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/papers/Pages/house-papers.aspx?tab=Browse&browseHouse=LC&type=Hansard&filterHouse=LC&paperType=Hansard&s=1 ————————————————— Hansard transcript: | Wednesday, 8 May 2019 Legislative Council- PROOF Page 12: PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE NO. 4 – LEGAL AFFAIRS … Continue reading Museums and Galleries Inquiry: extracts of Hansard transcripts, August 2019

Wide campaigning during late 2015 and early 2016 by many individuals and organisations, including the Powerhouse Museum Alliance, successfully gained over 12,000 signatures on a petition to keep the Powerhouse Museum at its Ultimo site while also supporting a specific cultural facility in Parramatta. As a result, a Legislative Council Standing Committee was set up … Continue reading Upper House Inquiry, Museums and Galleries: submissions, schedules and transcripts

26 November, 2020 ‘Analysis of documents released under SO52 order of 13 May 2020’ After months of painstaking research, Tom Lockley documents his comments on and analysis of the papers released under government Standing Order 52 about the planning process behind the move of the Powerhouse Museum. ‘Six years ago today, the Premier of the … Continue reading Analysis of documents released under SO52 order of 13 May 2020 – Tom Lockley

Kylie Winkworth                                                                                                2 December 2019 How much has … Continue reading The Consultants’ Picnic: consultant fees and related costs of the PHM to Parramatta Project – Kylie Winkworth

By Jennifer Sanders and Kylie Winkworth On behalf of the Powerhouse Museum Alliance, October 2017 The PMA strongly supports the development of a distinctive new cultural centre at Parramatta based on open consultations about the form, focus and themes of the new museum/art gallery and its location. The PMA and thousands of informed supporters believe … Continue reading Powerhouse and Parramatta: Summary of the Powerhouse Museum Alliance’s position

Powerhouse Museum Alliance (PMA): Statement on the mooted MOU/ partnership with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), noting the November 14 article in the Sydney Morning Herald: see https://powerhousemuseumalliance.com/find-out-more/a-news-chronology/ ———————————————————— Partnerships are at the heart of the way modern museums work in their communities. Most exhibitions, collection research and education programs are developed through partnerships. … Continue reading Statement of concern: Powerhouse and UTS

Friday 27 April 2018 Statement on the Future of the Powerhouse Museum From the Powerhouse Museum Alliance (PMA) Another day;  another secret sell-off of public assets in NSW. Nothing is safe. Not even a treasured public museum is secure from the secret real estate deals of the Berejiklian government. In the face of sustained community … Continue reading PMA Press release, 28 April 2018

 Public consultation meetings: Parramatta and Ultimo 26 and 31 July, 2017  Long-awaited public consultation took place in late July at meetings organised by the Dept of Planning and Environment with MAAS: on 26 July in Parramatta, and 31 July in Ultimo. Attendees had been asked to register beforehand, and send in their ‘top three questions’. … Continue reading Community consultation meetings: July 2017

1.0 Delivery of Summary Business Case 2.0 Provision of Business Case papers 3.0 On-line access: list of documents from Business cases READ HERE: for informed Responses and Comments to these papers. Refer also to the related sequence of News Chronology,  Letters to the Editor, and other files on this Powerhouse Museum Alliance website. If you want to … Continue reading 2018 Business cases: access to documents

2018: ‘Waves of People’, a report on a history of Parramatta. To read it, see: The ‘Waves of People’ (PDF,8MB) This report, published in print and on-line by the City of Parramatta in 2017, demonstrates the rich indigenous and migration history of this region, and could be said to provide a strong argument for a better focus … Continue reading ‘Waves of People’: report on Parramatta

Well over 11,000 people signed a petition objecting to the sale and relocation of the Powerhouse Museum while supporting a new museum in Parramatta. This prompted a request for a review in a NSW parliamentary debate on the 25th of February 2016, led by MPs Alex Greenwich and Jamie Parker, following a preliminary meeting which … Continue reading Debate in Parliament: Hansard 2016

The Voters’ Choice: saving the PHM and building a new western Sydney cultural institution  Kylie Winkworth  22 January 2019  Voters will have a stark choice in the March election after opposition leader Michael Daley launched Labor’s cultural policy outside the Powerhouse Museum (PHM). The centrepiece of the policy is the promise to save the Powerhouse … Continue reading The Voter’s Choice: saving the PHM and building a new western Sydney cultural institution – Kylie Winkworth