'Mickey Mouse history': Ex-heads criticise merger move

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Former leaders of the State Archives and Records and Sydney Living Museums have accused the Berejiklian government of pre-empting a parliamentary inquiry investigating controversial plans to amalgamate the two bodies

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"To spend more money on rebranding and restructuring in anticipation of an amalgamation with State Records whilst a parliamentary inquiry into the matter is underway is both arrogant, wasteful, and an appalling breach of proper process," Dr Watts said. "Were no lessons learned over the disastrous Powerhouse proposal?"

Mr Lindsay said the advertising agency had been engaged to do preliminary planning for two possible futures, including their remaining as two separate but partnered entities. No proper justification, cost-benefit analysis, or business case had been presented to the inquiry, he said."Everything about this proposed merger has totally ignored government guidelines on transparency, fairness, and good governance," Mr Ventress said.

"The role of the archives being promoted here can best be described as what the leading American public historian, Mike Wallace, called ‘Mickey Mouse history’, which serves to promote a heritage binge rather than the advancement of knowledge, government accountability in the present and accountability for the past through which past misdeeds can be uncovered and in some cases righted," she said.

 

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