Gina Rinehart’s personal message to NGA about her portrait revealed in FOI documents
Submitted 2 months ago by vividspecter@lemm.ee to australia@aussie.zone
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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
Damn the portrait is an upgrade.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Not especially interesting unfortunately. The actual juicy bits are all redacted.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Have we read the same article? Which bits are redacted?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 months ago
“To have a National Art Gallery that presents the best our country has to offer, makes us proud of our nation and inspires people (including with outstanding artworks from other countries) is, in my view, a very worthy purpose [the rest of the sentence is redacted].
“To be direct, the paintings a concerned friend sent me which I wrote to Ryan about (and he’s suggested I include writing to you) [a large section is then redacted].
“In my view, and I believe that of many, many good Australians, our National Gallery should plan differently, and [the remainder is redacted].
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Democracy dies in the dark; Redactions cast long shadows.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I never would have known about this were it not for her request.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember when everyone pretended this was good art for a week? Extremely funny.
Minarble@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Gina has successfully scrubbed this from the interwebs…
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unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 2 months ago
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I am proposing we make this the new banner for !environment@aussie.zone
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Hoping someone will make a big mural out of it.
Minarble@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Oh that would be beautiful…