Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Again, I just want to congratulate Tony Burke, as the Minister for the Arts. He has actually got the commitment and is able to ensure that the investment is going to be there going forward. I commend this bill. Those on the other side can laugh about what we've been able to put together going forward, but, if I were on their side of the chamber, I would be hanging my head in shame at the neglect that this sector felt over the last decade. I would be ashamed to say that I was a colleague of someone like the former minister, for his neglect and the way that he gutted the Australian arts sector.

Shame on him.