These measures arose from an extensive consultative process with the sector chaired by the treasury department.
"The announcement in the budget... included measures which will significantly impact the work of the Australia Council on behalf of the arts sector," chair Rupert Myer said, adding that the board will be giving "full consideration" to the funding cuts before responding further.
These questions formed the heart of a seminar discussion, hosted by the Guardian and supported by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), that brought together a panel of experts from civil society and the private sector, chaired by journalist Eliza Anyangwe.
Sy's eldest daughter, Teresita Sy-Coson, has been actively involved in expanding the firm's retail sector and chairs BDO Unibank.
From his monumental contributions to the corporate world such as building healthy working environments, to holding multiple board seats across sectors (and chairing many), his civic involvement has strengthened so many worthwhile organizations and inspired peers and fellow executives.
"Do the rivalries and hierarchies in higher education undermine our ability to collaborate in the way this sector needs?" conference chair Sue Littlemore asked the audience.
Alan Boobis said: "My role in ILSI (and two of its branches) is as a public sector member and chair of their boards of trustees, positions which are not remunerated.
Lynne is chair of the Commission on the Voluntary Sector and Ageing; deputy chair of the Canal and River Trust (formerly British Waterways); SID at Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust; senior fellow at Cass Business School and sits on the FT's NED Advisory Board.
In 2002 he chaired the expert group which shaped Government's approach to the structure of the UK television production sector and he also chaired the independent committee which reported on Government communications in 2004.
In opposition, the Tories created an ambitious public sector procurement working party, chaired by Zac Goldsmith, now MP for Richmond Park.
