ACT & National Refuse to Support Iconic Gallipoli Painting Purchase
A Gallipoli painting Aucklanders will know from the Museum’s Scars on the Heart exhibition, could be lost from public
view and possibly New Zealand, all because Act and National are refusing to back New Zealand First’s motion for it to be
purchased for the nation.
“Why would they not seek to protect the most important painting to emerge from Gallipoli?” asks New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters.
“It is hard to imagine the Australians even debating the purchase of a painting which defines mate-ship?
“The twin of the painting up for auction hangs in the Australian War Memorial.
“If this is not purchased by a museum, or by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage for the nation tonight, then it will
be a dark stain on this centennial year of the ANZAC landings,” says Mr Peters.
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