Interpretation Australia

Best of Excellent Gold Award
Old Melbourne Gaol Crime and Justice Project
Jenny Gardner, Consultant in Interpretation, National Trust of Australia, Victoria

Excellence in Interpretive Practice Winners:
1. Opening the Common Gate: Challenging Boundaries in Broome
Sarah Yu, Lingiari Foundation

2. Belair National Park Interpretation Project
Judi Francis, Department of Environment and Heritage, SA.

Best of Excellent Commendation
Kubu River Hippos
Nerissa Kamp, Werribee Open Range Zoo, Zoos Victoria

Project by a Young Interpreter
The Backyard to Bush Team
Backyard to Bush Precinct, Taronga Zoo

Best of Excellent Award
Ranger Roo – Connecting kids with parks.
Marketing and Education Team, Parks Victoria.

Excellence in Interpretive Practice Winners:

• Cardwell Bush Telegrahp Heritage Centre, Queensland.
  Claire Speedie and Malcolm Turner of Scribbly Gums.

• Swarbrick Forest Wilderness Discovery, Western Australia
  Gil Field and Shaun Bunting from the Department of Environment and Conservation, Western Australia.

• Point Fraser Development, Western Australia, Stages 1 and 2
  Dr Kathy Meney of Syrinx Environmental PL.

• Taronga Zoo Free-Flight Bird Show, Sydney.
  The Taronga Bird Show Team Members – Taronga Conservation Society Australia

Best of Excellent Award
Healesville Sanctuary, Zoos Victoria
for the Australian Wildlife Health Centre
Andrea Burgess

Best of Excellent Commendation Award
The Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
Port Augusta SA for Wattle it be for tea?
Michele Bain, Designhaus

Excellence in Interpretive Practice Winners

• Melbourne Zoo for Orang-utan Sanctuary
  Interpretation Team Zoos Victoria

• Dept for Environment and Heritage SA, Old Wilpena Station, Flinders Ranges National Park for Ikara – the meeting place
  Judi Francis, Lorraine Edmonds

• Noosa national Park Queensland for Noosa Outdoor Interpretive Precinct
  See-saw Illustration and Design, Va-Moose Creative, Dragonfly Ink

Media project category
Joint winners:
Andrea Burgess
BHP Billiton Platypusary, Healesville, Victoria

Gil Field, Shaun Bunting, Karren Shaddock
Jurabi Turtle Centre, Exmouth, WA

Media project category
Lorraine Edmunds, Stella Kondylas, Judi Francis
Old Wilpena Station – Living with Land Interpretive Trail, Wilpena Pound, Flinders Ranges, SA.

Media project category
Winner
Amanda Embury
Trail of Elephants, Melbourne Zoo, Victoria

Highly Commended:
Wendy Haylock
Kangaroo Island – stories about change and nature, change and people and change and mysteries, Flinders Chase Visitor Centre, Kangaroo Island, SA

Media project category
Janelle Hatherly and John Lennis
Cadi Jam Ora – First Encounters Garden, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney

Media project category
Spellbound Interpretation and e.g. design, Spellbound Interpretation and e.g. design
Tamar Island Wetlands Centre, Tas

Spoken Word Project Category:
Scribbly Gums
Seal Rocks Sea Life Centre, Vic

Media project category
Damien Adams, Jenny Hoysted, Susan Gregory, Dean Stewart
‘Aboriginal Heritage Walk: Spirit-Connection-Land’, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne

Media project category
Lotte Lent
‘Stumpy interprets the stromatolites’, CALM, WA