Mark Levy slams ‘laughable’ $80,000 taxpayer grant to a ‘bum puppet’
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A taxpayer-funded grant has been awarded to a queer cabaret artist who has created a “bum puppet” featuring a drawing of the PM on her backside.
A Chinese Australian poet who writes on toilet rolls about bodily fluids has also been given the Australia Council for the Arts fellowships worth $80,000.
Mark Levy has called the “handout laughable”.
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