Pre-budget funding announcement follows a groundswell of support for cultural institutions after decades of budget cuts
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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.