NSW Police throwing out records? Is NSW Police losing its history? One mole reports the force has dismissed or demoted a cadre of archivists and record-keepers “who had faithfully and professionally captured and managed records of police activities”. The archive facility — which “holds sensitive records, including those relating to protected witnesses” — will also be closed. And apparently untrained contract staff are being used to appraise and destroy vast numbers of inactive records. Do you know more?

ACMA rating ‘ISP filtering’. One eagle-eyed government web watcher reports: “ACMA has been submitting a truckload of content to the classification board over the past few weeks with a new naming sequence. Most have come back RC with the occasional MA, R and even a G rating. The applicant is listed as “ACMA — ISP FILTERING”. The mandatory-voluntary ISP filtering of the Interpol list — as Crikey recently reported — started around the same time. “Although,” our reader says, “correlation does imply causation.”

Newman’s mailing his old supporters. Seems one of the things Campbell Newman took from City Hall to his new post as Queensland’s exiled opposition leader was a campaign database. One reader reports her friend received an email last week from the Liberal-National Party inviting her to attend the “carbon tax town hall meeting” with Joe Hockey at a Brisbane school last Monday. “My friend has never been a member of a political party but a few years ago did sign up for Campbell Newman’s lord mayoral e-newsletters,” they write. “She’s wondering if her contact details have been passed on to the LNP and is making inquiries with the Privacy Commissioner. She rang the LNP but they haven’t returned her call yet.”

Professor Stanhope at uni. Another pollie to ply their backroom knowledge on a university campus: former ACT minister Jon Stanhope will join the University of Canberra as a professorial fellow next month, the university has just announced. He says of his three-year term: “As chief minister I was proud to forge closer ties between the ACT government and the University of Canberra through a memorandum of understanding. I am proud now to be able to build on that relationship in this new and exciting role.”

The Age has a slate ceiling. A couple of weeks ago, The Age reached into its moth-filled wallet to invite a group of newsagents and their partners to a night at the footy, an offer that included dinner and drinks. But one Crikey-friendly agent tells the story that after two pre-dinner beers himself and the wife made a beeline to the buffet spread after an hour of chit-chat. Deciding on a glass of wine each with dinner, after taking their food to the table, they went to the bar and ordered two glasses of white. “That’s $17,” said the barman, “The Age tab has finished.” A premature cut-off for clients that boost the all-important circulation bottom line.