Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Launched in March 2003 as an Australian Federal Government initiative , and originally proposed in 1998 , the website was actively updated until 31 March 2007 , at which point its role transferred to that of an archive .
Simplified: It started in March 2003 , but the people who looked after it , the Australian Government , stopped working on it on 31 March 2007 .