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 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