Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Amongst other things. As I said, here we have an example from the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Some documents were sitting around in a dingy storeroom on Salamanca Place—a beautiful part of town, but probably no place for incredibly important documents. They were on velum, animal skin, so probably very sensitive to the elements, and they were just sitting around. I'm pleased we have legislation which deals with the management of these incredibly important documents, pieces of our history. Once pieces of history are lost, they're gone forever. You can't get them back. They didn't make carbon copies and they didn't have photocopiers in 1839. So I'm pleased to see that this legislation does contain elements that relate to archives management and that's why I'm so pleased to support this legislation in every element that it touches on. I commend the bill to the Senate.