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❓ Question regarding the State Records Office's inability to accept archives since 2001 and the potential loss of state archives. The government is investigating storage solutions and has allocated funding for a business case.

AnsweredQoN 2785Legislative Assembly

Asked

14 March 2018

Member

Mr A. Krsticevic

Portfolio

Culture and the Arts

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I refer to the State Records Commission Annual Report 2016-2017 which states that the State Records Office (SRO) has been unable to accept the transfer of archives from agencies since 2001 and raises concerns about the potential loss or damage to more than 56.5 linear kilometres of hard copy state archives, and I ask: (a) what is being done to address this issue; (b) has any additional funding been allocated to address this issue; and (c) is the recently created Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries supportive of the endeavours of the SRO to meet its functions and obligations?

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Answered

9 May 2018

Responded by

Minister for Culture and the Arts

Response time

9 days

(a) The State is currently investigating options for a long-term storage solution for the State’s archives.
(b) Yes. The State has allocated funding to prepare a business case for the storage solution.
(c) Yes

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