Files can’t wait: the future of the National Film and Sound Archive

The NFSA has been conducting a fence-mending exercise with stakeholders after its recent restructure drew an angry reaction.
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A still from The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), the world’s first feature film.

It goes without saying these are difficult times for the country’s museums and archives. In recent months, the National Library, War Memorial, Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and others, have all flagged belt-tightening and cutbacks to services or staff.

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Barbara Alysen
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Barbara Alysen is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Communication, University of Western Sydney