After months in limbo, staff at the South Australian Museum know their jobs are safe with the state government scrapping a suite of controversial changes to the institution. Following a review, the state government will inject more than $4 million to help overhaul of the museum's strategic vision.
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00:00There's been protests and petitions and now the so-called reimagining of the South Australian
00:07Museum has been thrown out.
00:09The proposed changes that were put on the table to the museum are now off.
00:14The state government canning a controversial restructure which would have replaced 27 jobs
00:19in its research division with 22 of a lower pay.
00:23Those jobs are safe but one person who will go is board chair Kim Cheetah.
00:28We have accepted his resignation as a means to ensure that we're recalibrating the path
00:35that the museum is on.
00:37Replacing him as chair is Professor Robert Sait, a former research head at Flinders University
00:42who guarantees research will remain.
00:45It'll be one of the key factors.
00:47As well as implementing all six of the review's recommendations the government will also hand
00:52an extra $4.1 million to the museum over two years.
00:57We can't be serious about wanting to recalibrate the path the museum is on without being serious
01:03about putting more money into it.
01:04But it's been very very obvious to us that more funding is needed.
01:08But according to the union the damage to museum staff has already been done.
01:13A number of workers at the museum have chosen to leave the institution over the uncertainty
01:18and the distress that this period has caused.
01:21While the Premier's review has now been released key stakeholders are still waiting on further
01:25investigations into the South Australian Museum.
01:27A parliamentary inquiry into the museum and the art gallery is still ongoing as the Liberal
01:32Party considers whether to start an inquiry of its own.
01:35I think that's absolutely our intention.
01:37We look forward to having that debate in the parliament.
01:39Current Chief Executive David Gamester will stay on in his role and says he's looking
01:43forward to creating a new vision for the museum in the year ahead.