Ms Maureen Kennelly:

I absolutely agree with the Senator about the place that the arts will have in national recovery. Over the past 16 months we have seen that the arts managed to maintain that sense of social solidarity, even as we were all told to keep away from each other and stay at home. The arts absolutely connected us, which is incredibly powerful. There is absolutely no doubt the arts will play a part in the recovery. Artists are very much up for that so if we can continue to invest in them, they will absolutely be primed and ready to play their part.