Shadow Arts Minister Mark Dreyfus says small-to-medium sector ‘hugely important’

The self-described ‘black sheep' of his music-loving family spoke to ArtsHub about the importance of arts education and the value of culture in our daily lives.
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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.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's 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 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts