Candidate Questionaires for 17 October

At least they have the balls to answer the survey. How many Libs have submitted theirs?

Has anybody else noticed that the Labor responses almost all dodged the phrase ‘taxpayer funded public art’ and instead start on ‘public art’?

John Hargreaves’ dodge was speaking in abstracts, and he doesn’t use the word ‘I’.
“So we should make provision in each budget for funds that can be applied to public art so that our stories will live into the future.”
I guess he’s encouraging everyone to have their own 1% system, talking about ACT Labor and the need to have their stories carried into the future, or just using the royal we, like the Queen.

Mary Porter:
“I support public art; I think it is important that art not just be something tucked away in galleries but part of our everyday lives…”
Not an actual response to the taxpayer funding question, though.

Chris Bourke:
“Great cities include public art as an integral part of the urban landscape, reflecting the city’s character and ambience… Percent for Art is a standard public art policy… I personally applaud this policy…”
Still a dodge, taxpayer funded public art is a subset of public art as a whole, he is not actually nailing himself to an answer.
Percent for Art is used as a requirement on developers, not just governments in several places.

David Matthews comes close to giving an answer, but he ends on an ‘if’ statement, like he doesn’t actually know wether or not the current policy is a responsible one:
“Government has a responsibility to… support the nurturing and awareness of art and culture. The funding of public art is one way of achieving this… But if we responsibly fund public art, I believe we are on the whole enhancing Canberrans’ quality of life.”

Andrew Barr manned up and actually gave a neck-on-the-line answer to an unpopular question.
“I support the provision of taxpayer funded and privately funded public art. I believe that it enhances our city.”

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