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The Fight To Save the Australian Digital Archive Trove (abc.net.au)
Slashdot reader sandbagger writes: A digital archive and research tool developed by the Australian National Archives may be the victim of upcoming budget cuts. Used by an estimated 70,000 users per day, the system may be eliminated thanks to a $20 Million (AUD) budget cut to the agency's budget. Since its 2009 launch, Trove has grown to house four million digitised items, including books, images, music, historic newspapers and maps. Critics of the cuts say that such systems should be considered national infrastructure because there's literally no replacement service.
It isn't the conservative Govt's fault that Labors past mismanagement has created a domino effect that will head Australia into an economic death spiral. You do realise how much money is being wasted on the "Start up and Innovation" movement? Just how many talentless hacks with absolutely no understanding of what they're doing are grabbing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Australian tax payers and feeding it into horrid startups which wont amount to anything?
Here is the future of the Australian economy unless a miracle doesn't stop it from taking place.
A) The AUD is being devalued and further devaluing is taking place with the next round of RBA interest rate cuts. Until they hit 0% or go negative. It is noteworthy that 1% or 0% makes next to little to no difference because when you factor in CPI its 0% anyway.
B) The mining boom is over, cuput, no more. Iron ore exports are being devalued and the GDP vs Wage increases are getting worse. I.E Aussie are working harder to keep their devalued money afloat and at the same time more and more jobs are being taken away from Australians at the same time. All hail TPP the next wave of further distress for the Australian worker.
C) With the stagnant Govt. because Australia is a country built on socialist wingers and left wing self entitled wack jobs (such as yourself) and since nobody will back a majority Govt. Eventually Australian banks will lose their AAA rating because the rating agency will finally accept the fact that there is too much bureaucracy in AU politics and not enough action when it comes to reducing the constantly increasing Govt deficit.
It does not matter if Tourism picks up or someone in AU invents the wizbang gadget and sells it to the US or Europe. Because the 3 very things which I'm talking about will bewilder capital investment which will in turn destroy the Australian way of life.
But keep talking the same bullshit narrative. Each time one of you wack jobs take center stage with your short sighted opinions, you're just one step closer to the inevitable.