Lisa Singh (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Brandis as Minister for the Arts. I refer to the minister's decision to abolish the $6.4 million Get Reading! program. I also refer to his well-known love of books, with the construction of not one but two taxpayer funded bookshelves to house his taxpayer funded book collection. Given the minister is happy for taxpayers to fund his own reading, why is he cutting a program that encourages other Australians to read?