Senate debates
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Questions without Notice
Laura Aboriginal Dance and Cultural Festival
2:50 pm
Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source
My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Senator Wong. Minister, why is it that, after years of the Commonwealth government funding the Indigenous dance festival at Laura in Cape York Peninsula, the federal government has refused to fund the festival this year—held just last weekend?
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