Mitch Fifield Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate
2:18 pm
The straightforward and direct answer to Senator Collins' question is 'no'. The reason that the arts rests with myself under Prime Minister Turnbull's administration is because the Prime Minister has a view, which I think has been a longstanding view, that communications and the arts have many synergies and sit well together. I think it is a good rationale that the one minister has responsibility for content issues, responsibility for copyright issues. There are a lot of synergies in having communications and the arts together and it would be quite wrong to see a reflection on anyone who has held responsibility in this area before.
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