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‘Arts ceases to exist’: top billing lost in public service shake-up

Tom McIlroy

The Morrison government has stripped the arts of top billing in its shake-up of the federal bureaucracy, merging cultural policy functions with infrastructure, transport and regional development.

The move, part of a reorganisation slashing the number of departments from 18 to 14, ends the prominence of the arts dating back to the Hawke government's public service overhaul in 1987.

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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com

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