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Affected companies, state funding bodies and arts allies have begun to address today’s devastating news as the impact of the Australia Council’s reduced funding pool hits home.
Shadow Minister for the Arts, the Honourable Mark Dreyfus QC MP, noted that the ‘devastating’ news had come ‘just days after the Abbott-Turnbull Government snuck out $24 million in grants through Catalyst, its ministerial slush fund, destroying the principle of arms-length, independent funding for the arts in this country.
