Australian writers sign a letter that also calls for the unique Book Council of Australia no longer to be administered by the arts ministryMusician and occasional novelist Nick Cave is among a group of Australian writers who have signed an open letter calling for arts minister George Brandis to be replaced.
The letter anticipates an upcoming cabinet reshuffle, imploring prime minister Malcolm Turnbull to “undo some of the damage caused by the senator George Brandis’s non-evidence based changes to arts funding.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com