Late last week, Scott Morrison’s federal government announced it would be abolishing the Department of Communications and the Arts in a bid to create more “efficiency”. Communications will now be housed along with Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development, while the ‘Arts’ doesn’t appear to have a departmental home. Mumbrella’s editor Vivienne Kelly speaks to – well, attempts to speak to – industry leaders to figure out what it all means.
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‘A calculated insult’: Industry reacts to government axing Department of Communications and the Arts