Family First have developed 15 core policy areas but they
have no specific policy about arts and culture. They do have, however a high regards for
arts, literature and culture.
Literature and art comes out of a healthy culture and that
society drives that.
They are there to give families and small businesses the
opportunity to express themselves in a way that is wholesome and good for our
culture and our society. “One of the key driving factors behind our cultural
expressions in art and literature primarily sits elsewhere,
"Having the ability
and resources to do poetry and to write literature, we need those
resources,
"One of the first things Family First would be looking
at would be tax complexity and tax rates across the Australia. We are looking at
reducing tax making it easier to do business, be it a NFP art studio or any
other small business across Australia we are looking to reduce the tax rate to
20% which will increase the resources to put into arts and culture and
literature endeavurs.
"I think a healthy community will produce good wholesome,
healthy art and the other way around too, good wholesome art and cul;ture and
literature helps a society to grow and be more mature as a culture, as a
civilisation.
"Family First is a family values driven party and the
primary driver for policies is what is in the best interests of ‘the family’
and children in our society.
"We certainly don’t want to have art that’s out in the public eye that is not for their (children's) eyes, so good wholesome art needs to
consider the audience and who it is being presented to.
"We can get into it;
what ‘good and wholesome’ is, I think there is objectivity to art and
objectivity to culture and to literature as well and it gets down to the debate
about what is good and what is not good.
As a Family First candidate, personally, I am a Christian I can take an
objective stand and say something is right or wrong based on my world view and
assumptions."
Trevlyn loves to read, though his time is squished, but he is
‘audio reading’ in the car on the way to work. His family is a one of
readers and they encourage their children to read a lot of books across a lot
of genres. His son read over 250 books last year!
He enjoys historical fiction and can’t go past PG Wodehouse.
Again, the full interview here.
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