Shadow Minister for the Arts Mark Dreyfus labels new ministerial fund “policy on the run.”

The art of political satire is alive and well, and currently focusing its attentions on the Attorney General and Minister for the Arts George Brandis. Since the Federal Budget announcement revealed major changes to the arts funding infrastructure in Australia, with $104.8 million syphoned from the Australia Council to fund the new Arts Ministry administered National Programme for Excellence in the Arts, artists across Australia have rallied, petitioned and even danced to express their concerns over the changes.

However a collective working under the banner The George Brandis Live Art Experience, scattered across social media, have found one of the most innovative, if not light-hearted ways to protest, by photoshopping Senator Brandis into famous art works. Although less than a week old, the group has already attracted well over a thousand likes on its Facebook page.

Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus

Meanwhile the Federal Opposition yesterday called for a Senate inquiry to look into what they described as a “Coalition Arts Slush Fund.” Shadow Attorney-General and Shadow Minister for the...