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ACT & National Refuse to Support Gallipoli Painting Purchase
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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