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The Google search that could have averted Khaled Sabsabi art disaster

The Google search that could have averted Khaled Sabsabi art disaster

The Front · The Australian

February 26, 202516m 3s

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Show Notes

Artworks depicting Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah and the 9/11 attacks were missed by bureaucrats choosing Khaled Sabsabi for the Venice Biennale. Creative Australia’s CEO Adrian Collette cops it at fiery Senate estimates hearing.    

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This episode of The Front is presented by Claire Harvey, produced by Stephanie Coombes and edited by Joshua Burton. Our team includes Kristen Amiet, Lia Tsamoglou, Tiffany Dimmack and Jasper Leak, who also composed our music.

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