‘The nine-year political attack on the arts and entertainment sector is now over. The neglect, the contempt and the sabotage of the previous government has ended,’ Tony Burke MP, Australia’s newly appointed Minister for the Arts, announced on Wednesday.
‘I am determined to deliver a better future for Australia’s creative sector,’ Burke added.
The Member for Watson in NSW (a seat which includes the Sydney suburbs of Ashfield, Campsie, Greenacre, Kingsgrove, Lakemba, Punchbowl, Rookwood and Strathfield South), Burke has a long association with the arts, including serving as Minister for the Arts in 2013, and seven years as Shadow Arts Minister.
