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Originally Posted by CazMar
As our wondrous state government is now talking about cutting library funding I guess my chances of having a new system implemented are about those of the proverbial snowball in hell. And electing a different party will probably just mean the cuts will be bigger.
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Well that's pretty crap eh, CazMar? (Aussie politics is so frustrating at the moment, both state and federal -- there's almost nothing to differentiate the two major parties, and neither actually stands for anything.)
Here in the circling-the-drain NSW, I had an idea that funding allocation for libraries happened at a local council level. Am I wrong in that?
Anyway, the demographic of my area is swinging sharply towards non-English-speaking being in the majority (mostly Arabic, Indian and east Asian), so the library system has decided to put the bulk of its funding into those languages, rather than expanding (or even maintaining!) its English-language facilities. I guess I understand why (though I think we Aussies have a habit of making everybody else more "worthy" than ourselves, even in our own country), but it's pretty obvious that it makes me unhappy.