PAMS 2022
The 2022 Premier’s Anzac Memorial Scholarship (PAMS) ran from 23 September until 6 October. Twenty scholars and three teachers with a shared passion history participated in an intensive study tour which visited significant military sites and exciting places across Australia.
- Rookwood Necropolis to visit Naval cemeteries, Commonwealth War Graves and Jewish Holocaust Memorial
- Lithgow Small Arms Factory
- Abercrombie House, Bathurst
- Cowra POW Camp, Commonwealth War Graves and Japanese War Cemetery
- Rocky Hill War Memorial and Museum, Goulburn
- Canberra memorials and Australian War Memorial; Royal Military College Duntroon
- Darwin Second World War sites, Darwin Military Museum
- Adelaide River War Cemetery and Darwin Aviation Museum
- Litchfield National Park
- Sydney Harbour and military history, 73rd Re-enactment Group display
- Garden Island Naval Heritage Centre and North Head: 3rd Quarantine Cemetery, gun emplacements and memorials
- Sydney Jewish Museum, State Library of NSW, Art Gallery of NSW and NSW Parliament House
Photo: 2022 scholar Karina at the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum. The factory opened in 1912 and the museum has an extensive collection of machinery, firearms and commercial items that were manufactured there.
Photo: 2022 scholars and teachers with historian Brad Manera at Abercrombie House, Bathurst. Constructed in 1870, the property is steeped in military history including housing the Australian Women's Land Army who harvested asparagus in Bathurst.
Photo: 2022 study tour group at the Bathurst War Memorial Carillon. One of only three carillons in Australia, the Carillon was unveiled in 1933 as a memorial to those of the Bathurst district who served in the First World War.
Photo: 2022 scholars at the spectacular Litchfield National Park, Northern Territory.
Photo: 2022 scholars and teachers with historian Brad Manera at the Darwin Aviation Museum in front of one of the few surviving B-52 Mitchell Bombers from the 1940s.
Photo: 2022 scholars attending an artillery display by 73rd Regiment of Foot Re-enactment Group at Middle Head, Sydney.
Photo: 2022 scholars and teachers with historian Dr Catie Gilchrist at the Garden Island Naval Heritage Centre, Sydney
2022 scholars and schools
| Name | School | Electorate |
| Aaron Rucinski | SHORE School | North Shore |
| Alexander Woolnough | Wollemi College | Londonderry |
| Angus O'Brien | Jindabyne Central School | Monaro |
| Auryn Griffiths | Dulwich Hill High School of Visual Arts and Design | Summer Hill |
| Blainey Heath | Kandos High School | Bathurst |
| Chloe Familton | Cherrybrook Technology High School | Epping |
| Gabrielle Varnakulasingham | St Patrick College Campbelltown | Campbelltown |
| Gwen Rumbel | Dungog High School | Upper Hunter |
| Iris Lee | Barker College | Hornsby |
| Jack Izzard | Richard Johnson Anglican School | Mount Druitt |
| Jorja O'Brien | Hennessy Catholic College | Cootamundra |
| Karina Kowalczyk | Willoughby Girls High School | Willoughby |
| Lachlan Middlemiss | St Philips Christian College Gosford | Gosford |
| Laura Perry | Holsworthy High School | Holsworthy |
| Megan Johnson | Oxley High School | Tamworth |
| Meisha Green | MidCoast Christian College | Myall Lakes |
| Molly Simpson | Corpus Christi Catholic High School | Shellharbour |
| Rebecca Edmonds | Cumberland High School | Parramatta |
| Scarlett Hall | Mackillop College Bathurst | Bathurst |
| Sophia-Rose Markham | Armidale Secondary College | Northern Tablelands |
Accompanying teachers and staff
| Name | School / Office |
| Sue Frost | Chester Hill High School |
| Tom Inatey | St Joseph's Regional College, Port Macquarie |
| Simone Arts | Ambarvale High School |
| Brad Manera | Senior Historian and Curator, Anzac Memorial |
Banner photo by Martin Clark (2022).