National Gallery of Australia director sent a warning to federal arts minister that mining billionaire was ‘rallying’ influential friends, documents reveal
The article isn’t entirely clear to me, but it seems that her pressure was unsuccessful.
Its shaping up to be a pretty bad day for Australian swimming based on the ABC article on the Olympic team coaches comments.
We need our government to step in and create a situation where we don’t need environmental vandals to prop up our sports.
Not sure i’m fully there with you on that one. Government seems to fund sports in general quite a lot, lots of other costs i’d rather them use any extra money on.
I think this is more a case of special interest associations like this need to think about the designs of their funding models if they want to avoid low levels of duress like this
Its shaping up to be a pretty bad day for Australian swimming based on the ABC article on the Olympic team coaches comments.
Not sure i’m fully there with you on that one. Government seems to fund sports in general quite a lot, lots of other costs i’d rather them use any extra money on.
I think this is more a case of special interest associations like this need to think about the designs of their funding models if they want to avoid low levels of duress like this