Bias_2012 wrote on Feb 21
st, 2020 at 4:28pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Feb 21
st, 2020 at 12:47pm:
Bias_2012 wrote on Feb 21
st, 2020 at 12:53am:
Brian Ross wrote on Feb 20
th, 2020 at 10:38pm:
OK so nothing to be spent on culture
That's correct
It's like religion, keep the govt out of it, no more money spent on it, let the people sort it out and pay for it out of their own pockets
But the Government does make grants to religious groups, so why cultural groups?
I note you avoided my other points, why? Too scare of the sporties? The opera mavens? The theatre goers?
Asking why your questions are not answered is standard procedure with you .... I'll ask: why it is that you have completely ignored questions in posts of mine in various topics? I took it that you had something better to do in your life other than getting overly sedentary sitting in front of a computer screen for hours. For a variety of reasons not all questions can be answered on messages boards, perhaps you're just trying to peeve me off
It was done more than likely because I did not consider them important. That would have been a good enough answer to my question. However, in this case I do consider them important. Thank you for answering them, finally.
Quote:Sport is not necessarily thought of as "cultural" in Australia in a strict sense. And Govt money spent on it has been for political and international reasons (doing better in the Olympics for instance), two wrong reasons for funding sport in Australia, especially if it means spending it for "ethnic cultural" reasons. Sport is for either physical fitness or competition, or both.
I think those that follow sport religiously would beg to differ. Australia has a unique sporting culture amongst its followers. In some cases it has replaced religion. It is very tribal. Intensely so. Why shouldn't the Government spend money on it? The tax payers have a right to see a return on their tax dollars.
Quote:Funding should not favor one or another ethnic group, and it should only be spent on sport infrastructure so everyone can benefit from it. In that respect, if a suburb or town which is predominately populated by just a few different ethnic groups and they lack infrastructure, any new infrastructure should be built not because of those few ethnic groups in particular, but because the suburb or town needs that infrastructure. Suburban populations can be transient, we've seen that in Sydney, ethnicities and cultures change, so sport funding and facilities need to be ethnic and culture neutral
Same goes for opera and theatre
So, no concern for the Opera or Theatre goers? No comment about Government grants to religous institutions? Nothing about protecting immigrants against the rampages of the host population? I am disappointed.
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