Australian State Arts Minister Under Fire For Secretly Redirecting Funds

“[New South Wales] Minister for the Arts, Don Harwin, rejected independent recommendations to distribute $660,000 across 17 projects in a recent Create NSW funding round. [Create NSW is the state’s arts funding body.] Harwin instead signed off on funding for only six of the 16 applications, reallocating $404,000 towards a single project, which the ABC identified as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.”