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Story: 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)

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

Story by Martin Durrant, published 10 October 2013.