in New Zealand's history. (He used to have this on his picasa page, and has since removed it ) to document the most significant natural disaster in New Zealand's modern history for our National Archive. Some say his Wife has some involvement being head of the Parliamentary Library, on the 10th of October when the Auditor-General got involved, Moira annouced she would be leaving the Library. On Monday I announced that I am moving on from the Parliamentary Library on 2nd December.New adventures beckon. I did some digging on this and found out some interesting stuff. So let's talk about it. So how much has Ross received from the National Library? Total payments to Mr. Becker from the period 29 September 2010 to 29th February 2012 total $63,090.19 excluding GST. ( Source : Department of Internal Affairs) that's $883.61 a week! Ross is now being paid at a rate of $500 +GST per day he spends in the Red Zone and additional photographic processing, including the supply of metadata is charged at the rate of $75 +GST per hour. ( Source : Department of Internal Affairs) This is not the only income that Ross Becker and Moira Fraser are getting for this work. The Department of Internal Affairs have confirmed that Ross and Moira have also "shared" copyright (ownership) of the work with the National Library and they have been selling the images from the project for commercial purposes. Then Ross and Moira have the audacity to ask the public