File picture: Ian Walker, former Assistant Minister of Planning, is Queensland's new Arts Minister. Picture: Liam Kidston Source: The Courier-Mail
FRESHLY minted arts minister Ian Walker has made his maiden speech to an arts crowd.
At a function celebrating the second week of the World Theatre Festival just hours after being sworn in as arts minister Mr Walker spoke of his extraordinary day.
"This morning my wife Heather and I woke as normal people, by lunch time I was the arts minister and by this evening Heather was a celebrated actor," he told the assembled crowd of arts lovers and industry figures.
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The minister and his wife spent his first night on the job at the World Theatre Festival seeing The Gob Squad's Kitchen based on the Andy Warhol film.
His wife was called onto the stage to participate in the show.
He also paid tribute to the organizers of the World Theatre Festival and celebrated the Queensland participants in the festival.
The arts crowd, who had been generally hostile towards his predecessor greeted his arrival with a cheer and offered a warm reception.
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