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From the Editorial Desk Our Council

Ashley Briggs Chairman
There is an attitude expressed in certain
sections of the museum membership that Wayne Denereaz Vice Chairman
considers people to be true members only if
they work on the aircraft. David Soderstrom Secretary

This is not a new attitude; it’s been around Matt Austin Treasurer
for as long as I can remember and it’s not an
attitude confined to the museum; it rears its Jason Burgess Board Member
ugly head in business as well. When I worked Tech. Library Manager
for Ford Australia there was a certain plant Alan Craigie Board Member
manager who considered that the only Curator
workers were those who wielded air drills or Michel Givord Board Member
torque wrenches. Everyone else was a
parasite. The fact that he was an office Tammie Shore Board Member
worker and therefore a parasite by his own Membership/Shop Admin.
estimation was an irony that appeared lost Ian Matthews Board Member
on him.
Newton Mattison Board Member
The one priceless advantage the museum Retail Shop Manager
possesses over professionally curated Mark Powell Board Member
ANAM Car Club Scrutineer
museums is the diversity of skills, talents and
qualifications embedded within the
membership. Museum professionals all
come out of the same system with a B.A. in PATRONS
The Hon Simon Crean, former
History, Literature or some such and a BSc in
Museum Studies. This leads to a conformity Federal Minister
of thought and action so beloved by Dr Gwynne Duigan, Duigan Family
bureaucrats the world over. Archivist
The Hon Gordon Rich-Phillips MLC,
In the museum we have a variety of skills former Minister for Aviation Industry
and talents ranging from sheet metal Insight is a publication of the
fabrication to desk top publishing and event Australian Aircraft Restoration
management. We count experts in insurance, Group ACN 005 125 244, trading
gardening, sign writing, marketing and the Austalian National Aviation
aircraft maintenance amongst our number. Museum
P.O. Box 242
Museum professionals have to pay for these Mentone, Vic. 3194
skills: we get them for nothing. All members Tel; 9580 7752
of the museum can and often do contribute Email: info@aarg.com.au
in their own way. That makes them museum Editorial Contact:
kgaff@bigpond.com
members; nothing more and certainly
nothing less. The opinions expressed in this
publication are those of the authors
Keith Gaff and do not necessarily reflect the

EDITOR opinions of the Australian Aircraft
Restoration Group.