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Kōrero: Arts funding and support

First minister for the arts

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First minister for the arts

New Zealand’s first minister for the arts, Allan Highet, is shown here with his fiancée, artist Shona McFarlane. Highet had been a member of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council in the 1960s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-165-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Martin Durrant, Arts funding and support – Government’s developing role, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/42989/first-minister-for-the-arts (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Martin Durrant, i tāngia i te 10 October 2013.