The battle over the scrapping of an advisory council that oversees Victoria’s official archive is heating up,
The state opposition and crossbench will team up to save an independent council that oversees Victoria’s official records after the government moved to scrap it as part of a digital-age overhaul.
The change could have allowed a neighbour to build a driveway through her property, but she found hard-copy road boundary records – including a 120-year-old document from Public Record Office Victoria, the official archive for state and local governments – to challenge it.“There needs to be security and oversight of our public databases,” she said. “Land data, our titles system, should be some of the most secure records in the state.
Opposition spokesman David Davis said everyone should be troubled by the government’s planned changes. “Sometimes it is only the actual, real original records that tell the true story, and these can’t be re-created where they have been summarily destroyed.” Premier Jacinta Allan insisted on Tuesday that Victoria’s public records would continue to be scrutinised under her government’s changes, but she would not be drawn on whether the Public Record Office Victoria board – or any replacement – would continue to be enshrined in law.
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