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As revealed on Friday, Minister for the Arts Mitch Fifield has abandoned the divisive National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA), replacing it with a new program, Catalyst — Australian Arts and Culture Fund. The Minister has restored $32 million to the Australia Council but kept the rest of the $104.8 million over four years that was to fund the NPEA for the Ministry-based Catalyst program .