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Canadian Heritage committee Of course, but if they wanted to have the centenary brand, then funding from the national council was one way of supporting their events.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee I'd have to take that on notice, I think.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee I don't have a number. I'd be happy to try to dig one up for you. My impression is that it was a small proportion of the overall spending. There was an Australia week. We had some travelling art festivals and exhibitions in Asia. The Australian feature during Winterlude was esse
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee I think all governments are sensitive about charges of being guilty of using national commemorations for party political purposes.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee It's very rare, I know--
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee --but even in my country it has been known to happen occasionally. In this case, I think the issue was really to get away from a celebration that could have been interpreted as giving undue weight to the particular views of a particular political party or a particular element of
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee As in Canada, our federal government very rarely has the same political complexion as our state and territory governments. We have a mixture of parties representing us. So any federal-state cooperative project has to be, by definition, a political compromise. Once that compromise
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee Yes. I mean, without boring you with Australian history, in many ways Sydney is the focal point. It was the place where white settlement began, and the rest of the country was settled from Sydney, effectively. That's a historical fact, but in any major celebration, we have to b
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee Merci. There were a number of events, some officially part of the centenary, and others that were what I might describe as unofficial events at the time of the centenary. Many universities, for example, hosted conferences, conventions, and symposia looking at Australian history.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee I don't have any right now. The only one I've been given information on was the event in Townsville, which is in northern Queensland. Northern Queensland has a particular cultural environment, if I could put it that way. The idea of the gathering there was to celebrate, if you
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee In many cases, yes, but not in every case. In some of the individual projects at the community level, the communities were free to put forward proposals for funding from the national council. In many cases they were approved, provided they came within the guidelines and the crite
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee The impact in a concrete sense was, as I mentioned, the railways and some of the concrete projects that were built during the centenary or constructed at the time of the centenary. They were, if you like, tangible results from the year. I'll leave it to others to make the case
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee I don't think I would even bother to venture a personal opinion on how you should run your centenary.
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee I mentioned the New Dawn ceremony that took place in Alice Springs. I think that was probably the keynote signature event, if you like. It was a deliberate attempt to not have a signature event in Sydney. That was because there was a concern that with the Olympics and with the bi
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown
Canadian Heritage committee We worked hard with the different aboriginal communities across the country, from the initial advisory committee report, which made engagement with the aboriginal community a very prominent part of its work, all the way through to the work of the national council. There was dir
November 1st, 2011Committee meeting
Justin Hugh Brown