Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

On the question of the arts, it is really interesting to hear the member put these questions to us and provide a set of fairly misleading statistics on the arts budget because when we came to the last election the then government—the now opposition—did not have an arts policy at all. Under the former arts minister, Senator Brandis, I do not know what happened but there was no delivery of an arts policy at all from the Howard government to the Australian people—not one.

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