A new book reminds us, perhaps unintentionally, that not everything that has mattered in the performing arts started with the Australia Council or the Whitlam government. The establishment of the Australia Council was important but it was not created by Whitlam; it had been brought into being in 1970 by Gorton, followed up by McMahon.
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