George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Once again, as I pointed out in relation to the Get Reading! program, so was also the case with the Indigenous Languages Support program: not all of the funding within that program had been allocated. So, when the government addressed the arts budget, economies were sought among other things from programs which had not been fully expensed. That enabled us to keep the economies within the arts budget very low—relatively low. The arts community did very well out of this budget. It also gave us the flexibility to introduce new measures. I mentioned the residence of the Australian Ballet School. Another is the allocation of additional funding to Creative Partnerships Australia within the arts budget so as to enable them to enhance their— (Time expired)