Has Stanhope gone mad!

sepi, the ACT does fork out for a state galley. It is called the Canberra Museum and Gallery, located in the north Building on London Circuit. We also pay for a number of smaller facilities such as the Nolan Gallery, Lanyon and Mugga Mugga Homesteads, Calthorpes House, the Canberra Glassworks and a whole host of Arts Centres including Gorman House, Ainslie, Watson, Strathnairn, etc.

Now on top of all that we have to pay for a black toilet seat in West Row …..

I don’t disagree with public art. But the number of public artworks that have been commissioned in the last year or two seems abnormally high. Stanhope’s last stand?

Colossus of Canberra with big balls, i would support.

Every state spends on art. We are lucky in a way that the National Gallery is here, so the ACT govt doesn’t have to fork out for a state gallery.

Bring on the public art!

It’s all part of the mix. I doubt any of this stuff would appeal to me, but I guess School or Art graduates have to make a living so let ’em at it.

I’r rather have public art to bitch about than the bottomless pit that is the public health system – I just can’t believe people would have the cheek to actually complain about a middle-class welfare gravy-train like public hospitals!

This latest development proves clearly that stanhope has lost the plot.

How can any sane Canberran approve of him squandering our precious taxes again, and again, and again on absolute meaningless rubbish like this?

Hmmm – I must admit I have wondered, given the odd decisions that Stanhope has been making, if possibly he has suffered a nervous breakdown….!?

smart a$$ 🙂

Clearly you have too much free time Skid…

Then and than are words with different meanings and usages.
They are not even homophones.

Then is used as a a time marker or as part of a sequence of events.
After Mad John is finished spending taxpayer funds on bizarre artwork, he should then continue spending money on a dragway.

Than is comparative, and should be used when contrasting two subjects.
I would much prefer to see taxpayer funds used on A) bizarre artwork than on B) a dragway.