Gina Rinehart’s personal message to NGA about her portrait revealed in FOI documents
Submitted 4 weeks ago by vividspecter@lemm.ee to australia@aussie.zone
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Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 weeks ago
Damn the portrait is an upgrade.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Not especially interesting unfortunately. The actual juicy bits are all redacted.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Have we read the same article? Which bits are redacted?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Democracy dies in the dark; Redactions cast long shadows.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I never would have known about this were it not for her request.
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Remember when everyone pretended this was good art for a week? Extremely funny.
Minarble@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Gina has successfully scrubbed this from the interwebs…
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unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
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I am proposing we make this the new banner for !environment@aussie.zone
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Hoping someone will make a big mural out of it.
Minarble@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Oh that would be beautiful…