WA Parliamentary Question on Notice regarding the number, cost, and funding requests for websites maintained by departments, agencies, and corporations under the Minister for Local Government; Heritage; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests. The response details website information for each portfolio area.

AnsweredQoN 255Legislative Assembly
Asked
26 November 2008
Portfolio
Local Government; Heritage; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests

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(a) how many websites are maintained for each office or any government department, agency or publicly owned corporation under each of the Minister’s portfolio;
(b) how many new websites are set be created for new portfolio areas and associated new departments, agencies or publicly owned corporations;
(c) as at November 25 2008, what is the global budget allocation for each website; and
(d) what government departments, agencies or publicly owned corporations under the control of the Minister have requested website funding increases in time for the 2008 mid-year review?

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Answered
4 January 2009
Responded by
Minister for Local Government; Heritage; Citizenship and Multicultural Interests
Response time
39 days
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
(a) One
(b) Nil
(c) $17 630 - Website - Department of Local Government and Regional Development
(d) Nil
METROPOLITAN CEMETERIES BOARD
(a) One
(b) Nil
(c) $80 000 ($50 000 Expenses $30 000 Capital)
(d) Metropolitan Cemeteries Board - Nil
HERITAGE COUNCIL
(a) One.
(b) Nil
(c) Approximately $5000, for general hosting and up-keep costs.
(d) No funding increase has been requested in time for the 2008 mid year review.
NATIONAL TRUST
(a) The National Trust of Australia (WA) maintains 4 active web sites as follows from membership income:
www.naturalheritage.org.au
<
http://www.naturalheritage.org.au/
>
www.burrup.org.au
<
http://www.burrup.org.au/
>
www.ntwa.com.au
<
http://www.ntwa.com.au/
>
www.goldenpipeline.com.au
<
http://www.goldenpipeline.com.au/
>
The National Trust of Australia (WA) also maintains a series of content rich web-sites for the purposes of education, research or community benefit. These web-sites are maintained by volunteers as part of the National Trust heritage and education and learning commitments. The urls of these sites are
www.heritageatrisk.org.au
<
http://www.heritageatrisk.org.au/
> (maintained for the Australian Council of National Trusts)
www.placestovisit.com.au
<
http://www.placestovisit.com.au/
>
www.defenceheritage.org
<
http://www.defenceheritage.org/
>
www.valuingheritage.com.au
<
http://www.valuingheritage.com.au/
>
(b) Nil
(c) Of these
www.naturalheritage.org.au
<
http://www.naturalheritage.org.au/
> and
www.burrup.org.au
<
http://www.burrup.org.au/
> have no recurrent costs (hosting donated) and were designed and published established in house using web development software ($700) at a cost of approximately $2000 each.
The other two sites
www.ntwa.com.au
<
http://www.ntwa.com.au/
> and
www.goldenpipeline.com.au
<
http://www.goldenpipeline.com.au/
> have recurrent costs of $600 each per annum. Initial set up costs were $5,000 for NTWA in 1999 and $11,000 for goldenpipeline in 2003.
In summary, for the four National Trust of Australia (WA) web sites initial set up costs were $20,700; annual recurrent costs are $1,200; and annual internal maintenance costs are $7,000 based on the percentage of staff time devoted to that task.
(d) No additional funding for the maintenance of these web sites has been requested in 2008/09
OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL INTERESTS
(a) Three
(b) None
(c) The OMI main website (multicultural.wa.gov.au) and Citizenscape citizenscape.wa.gov.au) budget is $1 000. The Online WA Multicultural Communities Gateway budget is $7 000.
(d) None
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