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Sport v Arts

Mon, 11 Sept 2000, 05:22 pm
Norma4 posts in thread
did anyone see the page in the "100 Greatest WA sports Stars' supplement to Monday's West? see page5 , the one next to the article on Shirley de la Hunty)
Quick maths reveals that $65 million (Yes) has been spent by the Government on Sports facilities in WA over the last twelve months.
How much on the Yarts I wonder?
Incidentally Mike Board, Minister for among other things The Arts will be opening the 2000 DramaFest on Thursday September 28th at Fremantle . Polite protests only please.

RE: Sport v Arts

Thu, 21 Sept 2000, 12:59 am
Walter Plinge
This is an off the side addition to the comments alresdy made on the disparity between the funding of arts versus sports, but has anyone else noticed that extremely annoying and also a little disturbing add for C7sports? It involves a lot of sporting identities talking about what to do now that the football season is over and one of them is reading Shakespeare. The end result is that there is still plenty of sport to watch and the copy of Shakespeare gets thrown into the sand.
Has anyone else seen this? I'd like to know what you all think, if you have. I think it's disgusting, but unfortunately it could be a rather disparaging show of what we are being programmed to believe by the media. I f you're reading Shakespeare, there's a good chance that you won't have the TV on at the same time.

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