Acknowledgements

Numerous people have in a variety of ways contributed to the production of Walking a Tightrope. They include John Bransgrove, Shilpi Sanghera, Emma Della Marta, Richard Cox, Nadia Karasawa, Precilla Boota, Angelo Burgo, Tahsin Haque, Neenah Gray, Amy Johnson, Jeff Nelson, John Pierce, Toby Roberts, Lauren Santos, Katherine Lin, Max Phillips, Alina Caballero, Sally-Anne Lyster, Ruth Sheridan, Roland Stanmore, Ian Ly, Janet Shen, Kevin Pugh, Laura Hughes, Mislav Joos, Rovert Staples – and Marina van der Walt, for her executive sponsorship. Members of the NSW Treasury First Nations Expert Advisory Panel, including Phillipa McDermott and Glen Brennan, contributed comments on the text. Roberta Carew’s thesis on the Treasury’s history up to 1976 provided a valuable resource for many of the authors. Matthew Ricardson shared initial ideas about the structure of Walking a Tightrope.

Greg McGarr, Aaron MacDonald, and Amy Mathai guided and led the project at Treasury. 

Thanks are also due to the organisations and individuals for helping provide the photos throughout Walking a Tightrope. In particular: NSW State Archives (in particular Norm Ricaud); the Art Gallery of NSW (in particular Ciara Derkenne, for providing a digital copy of Sydney Ure Smith’s 1919 etching of The Old Treasury Building); Jennifer King at the Australian War Memorial; Lithgow Library (for the image of a masked nurse in the 1918-1919 influenza epidemic); the National Library of Australia; the State Library of NSW; Fairfax Media; and cartoonist Alan Moir.

Paul Tilley is owed a special debt of thanks for providing valuable comments and suggestions on the draft text.

Matthew Richardson and Patrick Keyzer would like to thank John Bransgrove, Nell Brown, Kathryn Burgess, Andrew Constance, Warren Hogan, Patrick Maher, Jim Moore, Jeff Nelson, Tony Pooley, Annette Rowette, Rick Sondolini, Jim Simpson and Frankie Timar for assistance in developing their chapter.

Thanks to Gordon Xu for building Walking a Tightrope into webpages.

Finally, many thanks go to, Anika Martin who is responsible for the design of Walking a Tightrope, along with Ekaterina Majanni, Jennifer Cavill, and Amelia Rice.