institutions: As the Australian War Memorial gears up for a controversial half-billion dollar upgrade which will add 10,000 square metres of exhibition space other national cultural institutions in Canberra have been struggling with the basics, according to The Guardian. Since the Coalition came to power in September 2013, institutions such as the National Gallery, the National Film and Sound Archive and the National Archives have been ordered to find more than 75m in savings dubbed efficiency dividends in bureaucratic jargon. Now that oil panorama canvas hangs on the first level of the National Gallery of Australia, where it faces the risk of being rained on itself. Coalition to spend half a billion dollars on Australian War Memorial project Read more Among the vital tasks threatened by the cuts is the preservation of Australia's audio and visual archives through digitisation. Money earmarked for acquisitions has been raided for running costs, according to an auditor general report released in June. So dire have the National Gallery's financial woes become that building maintenance has been neglected.
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