Setting the cultural agenda: The Monthly one-on-one with Tony Burke
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Is Ministerial Discipline the Worst of All Systems?
One of the things that characterised the successive coalition governments approached the arts was a diminishment of the Australia Council. How important is restoring those structures to you? And aren't you a little bit tender to apply some ministerial discretion? Isn't there, you know, just the one gig that you want to bankroll before you go back to best practice? "I think it is a disaster of decisions about artistic merit of being made by a minister"
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