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Margaret Seares, Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia

Sports policy focuses on the grassroots – is this missing from arts policies?

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Every election, state and federal, we can expect to see plenty of politicians wearing sporting scarves, attending footy games and posing with elite athletes.

But why don’t we tend to see them attending performances, galleries and posing with our leading actors, musicians, dancers and artists?

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