Leo Schofield was a trustee of the Powerhouse for 10 years. He was a member of the executive of the National Trust (NSW) and a chairman of the federal government’s committee on new uses for heritage properties
This is an occasion not for triumphalism but for quiet celebration that sanity and vision have won out over political opportunism.
This operation has been described as a 'relocation'. It is no such thing. To me, the Powerhouse plan is the wholesale destruction of a much loved institution.