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Push for Senate inquiry into Budget AusCo cuts

Australia's peak arts bodies have called for a Senate Inquiry into cuts to the Australia Council budget, a push backed by both Labor and the Greens.

2 Jun 2015

Richard Watts

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Shadow Minister for the Arts, Mark Dreyfus, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam and ArtsPeak Co-convenor Tamara Winikoff all made the call this week, saying a Senate inquiry was needed into the new National Programme for Excellence in the Arts.

The inquiry is needed to investigate why it is necessary to create a new arts bureaucracy under the control of Senator Brandis, said the Shadow Arts Minister in a statement.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts