Announcement of funding for Australia’s public digital archives follows a groundswell of support for cultural institutions after decades of budget cuts
On Monday, Ayres said in a statement she was delighted Trove’s future had been secured.
“Hardly a day goes by when I don’t hear from a member of the public about what Trove has made possible,” she said. “Whether that is the history of a group of trees around an oval in the suburb next to my own, or the history of the LGBTQI Jewish community, or research into the Queensland Native Police, or even the ways in which endometriosis has been handled in the Australian media, or when specific fish species were last sighted in inland rivers – I never cease to be amazed at the curiosity and ingenuity of Australian researchers, and delight in that curiosity.
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