Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C01223:reg:219:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021C01223
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 219 (pt 1/6)
Character Range: 327715–331084

219                    Lucretia Terrace    Municipal Council Syd  House            3  10
                       A Helling
221- 223               Washington House    Estate late A. Benton  Flats & offices  3  25

[1] The Commonwealth Bank was established by The Commonwealth Bank Act 1911 with its head office located in Sydney.  Based on the Conservation Plan for the Reserve Bank of Australia - Adelaide Branch by Weidenhofer Architects Dec 1999, p10.
[2] The Reserve Bank Act 1959 separated the commercial activities of the Commonwealth Bank from its central banking functions.  The Commonwealth Bank was to be renamed the Reserve Bank of Australia and would act as the nation's central bank.  The newly created Commonwealth Banking Corporation would operate as a trading bank.
[3] The building project also included specially commissioned modern sculptures were located on the terrace and in the entrance foyer and an 'Australian' native garden was established in Macquarie Street.
[4] The Campbell Committee, cited https://www.rba.gov.au/about-rba/history/
[5] Total staff numbers were reduced by about 40%.
[6] Reserve Bank archive, RBA:MD-011708 - MD-017708?31, Proposed Headquarters Sydney for the Reserve Bank of Australia
[7] Detailed information on the design as approved are contained in the document prepared by the Department of Works titled "Proposed Headquarters Sydney for The Reserve Bank of Australia" held in the Reserve Bank Archives.
[8] Architecture in Australia September 1966, Reserve Bank of Australia
[9] Equivalent to 610mm by 330mm.
[10] RBA MD-011708 Proposed Headquarters Sydney for The Reserve Bank of Australia p4
[11] Russell Rodrigo, 'Banking on Modernism: Dr HC (Nugget Coombs and the Institutional Architecture of the Reserve Bank of Australia', Fabrications, JSAHANZ, page88.
[12] Washington House, formerly located at 221-223 Macquarie Street, comprised two shops at street level, with 17 offices and residential flats above.
[13] RBA: MD-011709 - MD-011709/29 Reserve Bank of Australia, Head Office Sydney -Number 2 Site
[14] The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works Report, Refurbishment of Head Office, Reserve Bank of Australia Martin Place, Sydney, NSW, (eighth report of 1990), (Eighth PWC Report of 1990), p1.
[15] Levels 3, 5, 6, 9, 18 and 19 were leased to separate tenants for various periods from c2002 to 2018.
[16] Obituaries Australia, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/coombs-herbert-cole-nugget-246 and https://www.science.org.au/fellowship/fellows/biographical-memoirs/herbert-cole-coombs-1906-1997
[17] https://www.hccoombscentre.gov.au/about/
[18] Ref. RBA SRP -a -89 -Premises - Sydney project - Wall Enrichment.
[19] Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hinder-margel-ina-18079
[20] Biographical notes on Margel Hinder - The Age, Saturday August 25th, 1962
[21] Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lewers-hettie-margaret-margo-11402
[22] Australian Dictionary of Biography, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ward-frederick-charles-fred-15863
[23] The London Circuit building was designed by the Perth -firm of
[24] Eric Martin and Associates, RBA (Canberra Branch) Heritage Management Plan, March 2012p.14 citing Schedvin, C B In Reserve – Central Banking in Australia – 1945-75, Allen & Unwin,