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The government also promises that beyond the four years, the institutions will get indexed funding
Seven years after the #fundtrove campaign, the National Library’s Trove is once again under threat – and it’s part of a broader neglect of Australia’s cultural institutions.
There is not a single historian, publisher or archivist on the review panels whose feedback will help shape Australia’s new cultural policy
Funding for writing and publishing is not just low: it’s also declining. Ben Eltham looks at a grim federal budget for literature, in the context of ongoing neglect for written culture in Australia.
The National Library of Australia’s web archive preserves online Australian content dating back to 1996. The next step is to archive platforms such as Facebook and Twitter - but it won’t be easy.
The research libraries attached to Australia’s art galleries are one of the nation’s great cultural assets. But the National Gallery of Australia’s library is losing crucial staff as ‘efficiency dividends’ hit home.
Australia has one of the world’s best reference libraries, available freely to anyone with an internet connection. Severe funding cuts will cripple Trove’s capacity – and that should worry everyone.
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Postdoctoral Fellow—Indigenous and Colonial Histories, University of Tasmania
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Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics, University of Alberta
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University
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Professor of Public Humanities and Director of the ANU Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne