Tony Davis became a fan of Trove while completing his PhD, and still uses it extensively. So do millions of others. But this unique Australian archive is under imminent threat.
Dr Marie-Louise Ayres had never heard of the “lock hospitals” in 2011 when she took over responsibility for Trove, Australia’s online archive of 6 billion documents.
Few people had. The grim story of the rugged islands off Western Australia where “diseased” Aboriginal men and women were shipped in the early years of the 20th century had all but faded away.
