Part 1Secretary’s review

Changing direction

Our ongoing liaison and consultation with architect Romaldo Giurgola’s nominated moral rights administrators, Ms Berg and Mr Guida, is bearing much fruit. Through our collaborative collegiate approach, design intent advice is being provided at the early stages of a capital works project, and continues through the project’s lifecycle. This enables us to address any concerns regarding potential impacts to the design intent of Parliament House and incorporate consistent design ideas during the project. This approach has several benefits, not least that projects are not unnecessarily delayed, and we avoid aborted work, which has often resulted in previous years when issues of design integrity were raised. We have more work to do to embed design integrity as a natural feature of our thinking but I am confident we are on the right track.