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More on The Loch Ard, Eva Carmichael & Tom Pearce.

At the end of the ABC Breakfast Radio podcast, this cracked me up:

“And so, the first colonial artist was also the first to be executed by the state, and some might say that set the tone for the relationship between the government and the arts community ever since.”

- Mark Bannerman