Why didn’t the federal government increase funding for the National Archives of Australia in its recent budget?
We know it wasn’t because of budget discipline. Money was splashed around on all sorts of worthy causes. And the emergency funding to save film and magnetic tape recordings from disintegration was modest: A$67 million over seven years.
Nor was it because a scorn for history is in the Liberal Party’s DNA. The party’s founder, Robert Menzies, was a history buff. His library, which is the centrepiece of the newly established Robert Menzies Institute at the University of Melbourne, is full of books of history and biography.
The National Archives has taken in nearly $100,000 from the public but leading historians say no other archive is forced to pass the hat around to survive.
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North and West Cumbria Magistrates Court in Workington. A MAN who was under the influence of drugs while behind the wheel of a car has had 10 points added to his licence. Nicholas Graeme Davison avoided the obligatory 12-month ban for drug driving as he was charged with being in charge of a vehicle while over the drug drive limit. The automatic ban only applies to charges relating to driving. Davison, of Woodhouse Road in Whitehaven, admitted being in charge of a Ford Mondeo on May 26 while over the legal limit for drugs. He had 6.3 microgrammes of Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (cannabis) per litre of blood. The legal limit is 2 microgrammes per litre of blood.