In a pre-budget announcement the Federal Government promised funding to the National Collecting Institutions (NCIs) with an additional $79.9 million in the 2021-22 Budget to be delivered this week. This includes $11.3 million stretched over four years for the Museum of Australian Democracy (MOAD) at the Old Parliament House and a smaller $2 million for the threatened National Film and Sound Archive.
In a statement Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, said this funding boost was in part a response to the damage caused by COVID-19.
