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While the Minister for the Arts Senator George Brandis has been strangely quiet on the importance of the small-to-medium sector, instead speaking out strongly in support of established companies and ‘the great classical works and artistic movements which have shaped and defined Western civilization’, the Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for the Arts, Mark Dreyfus QC, has emphasised the importance of independent artists and small-to-medium companies in an interview with ArtsHub this week.