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Gina Rinehart’s personal message to NGA about her portrait revealed in FOI documents
(www.theguardian.com)
Gina has successfully scrubbed this from the interwebs…
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2024
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Hoping someone will make a big mural out of it.
Oh that would be beautiful…
Not especially interesting unfortunately. The actual juicy bits are all redacted.
I'm at least partially blind
“To have a National Art Gallery that presents the best our country has to offer, makes us proud of our nation and inspires people (including with outstanding artworks from other countries) is, in my view, a very worthy purpose [the rest of the sentence is redacted].
“To be direct, the paintings a concerned friend sent me which I wrote to Ryan about (and he’s suggested I include writing to you) [a large section is then redacted].
“In my view, and I believe that of many, many good Australians, our National Gallery should plan differently, and [the remainder is redacted].
Ah I see, and plainly haven't seen what was there in plain text.
Damn the portrait is an upgrade from this vile piece of shit.
Democracy dies in the dark; Redactions cast long shadows.
I never would have known about this were it not for her request.