Sky News host Peta Credlin says “her biggest problem” with NSW Arts Minister Don Harwin visiting his beach house is “that he’s not hard at work figuring out how the arts sector comes back from the total closure the coronavirus has forced upon it”.
Mr Harwin was caught ignoring the Prime Minister's stay-at-home directive with the Liberal powerbroker pictured staying at his Central Coast holiday house, almost 100 kilometres from his Sydney abode. The Minister said he wanted fresh air and his beachside house had more space than his inner-city apartment. “For more than a month, there's been no live music, no plays or theatre, no stand up comedy, no opera, no orchestras, no ballet – nothing – in Sydney or elsewhere,” Ms Credlin said.
“The world-famous Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour cancelled; and thousands and thousands of musicians, theatre performers, stage directors, ticket sellers, the people who sell the ice-creams at half time even, all of them, now out of work,” she said.
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