Support by the New South Wales Government for the Archives Authority of New South Wales 1960-98 and State Records New South Wales 1999-2012

Abstract

Despite optimistic pronouncements by successive New South Wales governments since 1961, support for archives and records management in New South Wales is amongst the lowest in Australia. This has led to State Records New South Wales being in breach of its own legislation, because of low levels of funding and the inability to carry out its statutory functions. Numerous reviews of operations have failed to convince the New South Wales Government that recurrent funding for the agency is urgently needed, especially for continuing the Digital State Archive pilot, the preservation of the archives collection and the arrangement and description of the collection. © 2013 Copyright Australian Society of Archivists Inc.