Here’s the Art Student speaking to a meeting at NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre last week about the imminent cutting of all funding to fine art education in TAFE.
Ain’t she something?
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- Belvoir: The Boomkak Panto (Virginia Gay 2021) 27 November 2021
Me fail? I fly! 
Brava! And now that the “black hole” has proven to be a sleight-of-hand accounting construct – funding will naturally be restored at once!
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Consider me rallied!
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If this art thing doesn’t work out, she’s always got politics to fall back on. She’s got my vote.
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Reblogged this on Save TAFE and commented:
From the NSW Teachers Federation Community Forum last week
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Thanks, beetgoes. I love your blog – wish BO’F would read it.
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