Mitch Fifield offers veiled criticism of his predecessor George Brandis for using the 2014 and 2015 budgets to cut support to arts organisations without warningThe federal arts minister,Mitch Fifield, has said the government will exercise better consultation with the industry, or hinted at “meaningful changes” to the contentious fresh arts excellence program and called small-to-medium organisations “the beating heart” of Australian arts.
Fifield said during a Friday roundtable event with 40 delegates in Sydney that he was reviewing a Senate inquiry with more than 1200 submissions into the impact on the arts of the 2014 and 2015 federal budgets. The inquiry ended on Thursday and will be tabled on 26 November.
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Source: theguardian.com