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Kill Climate Deniers at the You Are Here Festival

On Saturday 16 April I was lucky enough to be a part of the You Are Here Festival, launching the Kill Climate Deniers project. This is what happened: First, the festival and I put together a conversation event at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Journalist Ginger Gorman, legal theorist Mark Fletcher and artist Bernie Slater gathered […]

Should projects like Kill Climate Deniers receive government funding?

When Kill Climate Deniers received government funding through ArtsACT in 2014, conservative commentators including Andrew Bolt criticised the project, and ACT Liberal Minister Brendan Smyth pushed to have the funding withdrawn. Smyth’s comments have provided us an opportunity to begin a conversation about whether or nor taxpayer funds should go to ‘political’ art, and whether […]