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April 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards will be presented at the State Library of NSW in November – a change of management, venue and timing.
The changes follow an independent review commissioned by the Premier, Barry O’Farrell, who considered the previous Labor government had allowed the awards to languish.
“The reinvigoration of the awards is a clear demonstration of the importance that my government places on re-establishing Sydney and NSW as the cultural capital of Australia,” he said today.
The announcement was brought forward to counter speculation about the NSW awards being cancelled after the new Liberal-National government in Queensland dropped its state literary awards as part of its budget cuts.
“It is a good fit with what we do in collecting literature and history,” said Dr Alex Byrne, the State Librarian. “It will reflect the process of literary creation by having the awards in the home of creation.”
On a practical level, he said, the library knows how to “appoint judges, run the process appropriately, keep to deadlines and organise the event”.
The State Library already administers awards including the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the National Biography Award and takes over the Premier’s awards from Arts NSW.
Dr Byrne said the library would promote the Premier’s awards through its network of 374 public libraries, with more prominence for the People’s Choice Award.
The NSW Literary Awards, started by Labor Premier Neville Wran in 1979, have been presented as part of Sydney Writers’ Week in May for several years, at a dinner at the Art Gallery of NSW or the Opera House.
They are delayed this year because of the review, headed by the Sydney Institute’s Gerard Henderson, which was submitted last November.
Next year the literary awards will return to the writers’ festival in May and the history awards to History Week in September. And from this year the awards events will be held in the historical Reading Room of the Mitchell Library wing of the library.
Susan Wyndham is the Herald’s Literary Editor.
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