Australia’s National Portrait Gallery has been short on exhibition space for a long time, but this year, “arguing that 90 per cent of its 1000-plus collection was acquired without government money, the gallery successfully lobbied the Howard Government for a campaign promise of $56.5 million to build a new place to show them. At its current home in the former parliamentary library in Old Parliament House, the NPG can display only about 100 works in its permanent hang.” The new building will likely be near Australia’s High Court building in Canberra.