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Article: Fed: Rudd slams art depicting naked children

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July 6, 2008
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AAP General News (Australia)
07-06-2008
Fed: Rudd slams art depicting naked children

CANBERRA, July 6 AAP - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he can't stand artwork that depicts
naked children.

Mr Rudd today said work such as that shown in this month's edition of Art Monthly Australia
did the opposite of restoring dignity to the debate over depictions of children in art.

The taxpayer-funded magazine used a picture of a naked six-year-old girl on the cover
of its July edition in protest against the treatment of artist Bill Henson.

Angered by the "hysteria" over Henson's pictures of a 13-year-old girl, the magazine
also has a number of highly sexualised images inside, according to the ...

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