Costings announcement follows the high-profile withdrawal of artist Khaled Sabsabi’s appointment as Australia’s Venice Biennale representative
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A Coalition government would divert more than 10% of annual government funding for Creative Australia to a single cultural project and unspecified broadcasting programs if elected at Saturday’s federal election.
In the Coalition’s policy costings, released on Thursday, the “safe, sustainable and connected communities” section contained a pledge to “redirect” $33.2m of Creative Australia’s annual funding of $312m “to Melbourne Jewish Arts Quarter and supporting broadcasting”.
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