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[edit] notes for superpatron blog 2-21-10

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[edit] australia archives budget

• http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/budget-cuts-put-recorded-history-of-the-nation-under-siege/story-e6frg6nf-1225832363511

Here, in short, is the raw material of northern history, and here everyone assumed it would remain: until, that is, the morning of November 13 last year, when National Archives of Australia director-general Ross Gibbs announced that the state offices and reading rooms in Darwin, Hobart and Adelaide would be shut down during the next 2 1/2 years. The reason: budget cutbacks during that period of $3.5 million, a sliver of the NAA's annual $77m funding. Uproar ensued. Fierce argument engulfed the historical profession. Archivists emerged from the shadows, hurling broadsides.