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Acting CEO Ben Dickson [Photo Courtesy of the ABC] I stepped into the role of Acting Chief Executive Officer in July 2025, taking the reins from our substantive CEO, Belinda McMartin, while she was on maternity leave. The past year has been one of the most enlightening of my professional life, and the Museum of Fire has continued to grow throughout it. I am proud to have been part of that journey. As my time as Acting CEO draws to a close alongside my departure from the Museu

Throughout the month of May the Museum team has been kept very busy with lots of events and more projects throughout the Museum to update several exhibitions and displays. We also opened our temporary exhibit “The Longest Serving Regional Brigades in NSW”, which you may have seen if you visited the Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) display at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. This year marks 140 years since the creation of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB), which today is known as

Every time I write a CEO blog, I use the same phrases about being busier than we ever have been before and I think I’m starting to sound like a broken record. While this is still 100% true, and our last month since I last wrote a CEO Blog has been one of our busiest on record, I decided to ask all of our senior staff to come to our senior team meeting last week prepared with one sentence to describe the previous month. They didn’t know that this was purely so I could garner i