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Cheers as playwright castigates Arts Minister

Patricia Cornelius faced down Minister for the Arts Mitch Fifield at a national playwrights dinner on Tuesday.

27 Jul 2016 12:00

Richard Watts

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James O’Connell, Mark Tregonning and Lyall Brooks in Patricia Cornelius’ Savages (2013). Photo: Sarah Walker

Playwright Patricia Cornelius, the award-winning author of works including SHIT, Savages, Slut and Do Not Go Gentle… challenged Minister for the Arts Senator Mitch Fifield over the Abbott-Turnbull Government’s poor handling of arts funding in a brief but pointed confrontation on Tuesday night.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts