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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

Trove: National Library of Australia’s digital archives thrown $33m lifeline by federal government

A light show is projected onto the National Library of Australia building in March 2022.
A light show is projected onto the National Library of Australia building in March 2022. The institution’s digitised archives have been granted $33m in a pre-federal budget announcement. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The federal government has thrown a $33m lifeline to the National Library of Australia to save Trove, the institution’s threatened public digital archive.

The pre-budget announcement on Monday pledged the emergency funding over the next four years for Trove, plus an additional $9.2m in ongoing annual funding, to save what the arts minister, Tony Burke, called one of Australia’s most significant historical and cultural resources.

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