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Efforts to resolve the record-keeping deficiencies severely criticised by the state’s Independent Commissioner Against Corruption last year.

The federal opposition says the National Archives lacks the resources to lead major reforms to information management practices in the Australian Public Service due to years of budget cuts, as the agency awaits the outcomes of a looming functional and efficiency review.

Constitutional law professor Anne Twomey thinks the National Archives is nearly useless for serious academic and historical research, partly because it is “starved of funding”

The WA government is being accused of taking the state back to the bad old days of corruption known as WA Inc. Archivists fear for the record-keeping standards that underpin accountability, but the legislative guarantee of an independent records authority remains in place.

Government agencies need to build social license before pushing ahead with open data. Two key information mandarins have concerns with reforms proposed by the Productivity Commission, ahead of a final report in March.

The National Archives of Australia has released new guidance on digital record keeping to help federal agencies meet their obligations. And Standards Australia has a new specification for IT governance.

Phyllis Williams is not only a highly respected archivist, but she is also the only one in the country working for two tiers of government at the same time.