Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Where else would you find a tax policy but in Labor’s arts policy! In New directions for the arts, you find on page 6, under the heading ‘Supporting Australian Artists’, that Labor will review the current state of artists’ incomes—add that one to the review! That is No. 68, I think! It says that Labor ‘will review the current state of artists’ incomes and introduce initiatives that enable artists currently on welfare greater opportunity to produce work’. I will repeat that: artists who are on welfare need greater opportunity to produce work. You might say to yourself, ‘If you’re on welfare, you would have a lot of time to produce work if you were an artist.’

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