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While Arts Minister Mitch Fifield stepped into a firestorm lit by Senator Brandis, he took the first actions to extinguish those tensions when he met with #Freethearts sector advocates in a national roundtable in Sydney last week.
Over sixty delegates gathered at Carriageworks on Friday at a timely moment, as the three-month long Senate hearings into arts funding and the formation of the National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) were wrapped up.