Film archive 'compromised' by carbon tax

Michael Loebenstein-0899 — Michael Loebenstein.

The National Film and Sound Archive estimates that the carbon tax will cost it between $85,000 and $150,000 a year.

CEO Michael Loebenstein has told Senate Estimates hearings that the archive is a “high energy user”.

Committee member, ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries, said in a subsequent media release that the agency’s capacity to do its vital job would have to be compromised, “as a triple whammy of the efficiency dividend, Budget cuts and the carbon tax cut in”.

“Almost another half a percent of the Film and Sound Archive’s budget is going to be used up to pay for Labor’s carbon tax.

“The National Film and Sound Archive has a vital role to maintain and display Australia’s rich history through film and sound and the fact is, they can’t do that without money in the bank.”

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