Ms LAWRIE - 2003-05-01
Minister, the people of Alice Springs have been waiting a very, very long time for their own archive. Can you please inform the House of the actions that have been taken to correct this shameful situation?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this is a great day for Alice Springs. After 25 years of lobbying the Northern Territory government - and you can tell mostly who the government was that they were lobbying - we are finally going to bring back the history of Alice Springs and of Central Australia to Alice Springs. We are going to have 1.5 km of documentation archives brought back to the Centre where it belongs. This is the heart of our community, the history of our pioneer families, the remote communities, and of Alice Springs itself. That has all been sitting up in Darwin, which is 1500 km away from the heart that should be beating here.
I would like to acknowledge the efforts of Bernie and Aileen Kilgariff, Dick Kimber, Barry Allwright, Domenico Pecorari, Marilyn and Punch Hall, Judy Robertson, Pauline Cockerill, Eleanor Mangle and Trudy Hayes. We have had a great day. We have gone out there and just started to look at some of the materials that are going to come in to this archive now that we are establishing it here. Every household of any long standing in Alice Springs has probably got in the cupboards some photos, maybe some documents, that tell us about our history. People who have that material, wait until we get started, it will not be long, and we would love to see it coming forward. Let us build on this archive now; let us make it 3 km or 4 km long .
Members: Hear, hear!
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, this is a great day for Alice Springs. After 25 years of lobbying the Northern Territory government - and you can tell mostly who the government was that they were lobbying - we are finally going to bring back the history of Alice Springs and of Central Australia to Alice Springs. We are going to have 1.5 km of documentation archives brought back to the Centre where it belongs. This is the heart of our community, the history of our pioneer families, the remote communities, and of Alice Springs itself. That has all been sitting up in Darwin, which is 1500 km away from the heart that should be beating here.
I would like to acknowledge the efforts of Bernie and Aileen Kilgariff, Dick Kimber, Barry Allwright, Domenico Pecorari, Marilyn and Punch Hall, Judy Robertson, Pauline Cockerill, Eleanor Mangle and Trudy Hayes. We have had a great day. We have gone out there and just started to look at some of the materials that are going to come in to this archive now that we are establishing it here. Every household of any long standing in Alice Springs has probably got in the cupboards some photos, maybe some documents, that tell us about our history. People who have that material, wait until we get started, it will not be long, and we would love to see it coming forward. Let us build on this archive now; let us make it 3 km or 4 km long .
Members: Hear, hear!
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