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Political bite-sized meaty chunks

What do we read into this? … You don’t become a senior judge this way … Independent inquiry compromised?

Arts minister clears the decks: what does he know?

Ten emails in one day from the arts minister? Surely no coincidence, writes Nicholas Pickard.

Finally, Hank Ebes stops playing possum

For the past decade, Hank Ebes, the Melbourne Aboriginal art dealer who put Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s Warlugulong up for auction, has been deploring the fact that many of Australia’s most important indigenous art works have been going into private collections or sold to overseas buyers, writes Geoff Maslen.

National Gallery of Australia snares the Possum

The National Gallery of Australia last night paid $2.4 million for Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri’s huge painting Warlugulong at a Sotheby’s auction in Melbourne, writes Geoff Maslen.