Image; Bananas hard at work outside the launch in front of puzzled tourist.
The Gershwin Room, home to RockKwiz, rocked to a very different beat just a week before the election as the ALP launched its arts policy in the iconic St Kilda music pub, The Espy.
Shadow Arts Minister Tony Burke moved seamlessly between his own announcements and a subsidiary role as Emcee, joyously announcing the arrival of Bill Shorten, who gave a cracker of a speech that never sounded like a lazy bunch of cliches. He quoted Whitlam,he linked this moment proudly with Hawke, Keating, Rudd and Gillard. Once again he anchored his version of the ALP in the work on the Creative Nation strategies of his predecessors.
