ACT & National Refuse to Support Iconic Gallipoli Painting
Purchase
A Gallipoli painting Aucklanders will know
from the Museum’s Scars on the Heart exhibition, could be
lost from public view and possibly New Zealand, all because
Act and National are refusing to back New Zealand First’s
motion for it to be purchased for the nation.
“Why would
they not seek to protect the most important painting to emerge
from Gallipoli?” asks New Zealand First Leader and Member
of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters.
“It
is hard to imagine the Australians even debating the
purchase of a painting which defines mate-ship?
“The
twin of the painting up for auction hangs in the Australian
War Memorial.
“If this is not purchased by a museum, or
by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage for the nation
tonight, then it will be a dark stain on this centennial
year of the ANZAC landings,” says Mr Peters.
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