Robbie Burns Day and its associated Burns Dinner is a celebration of all things Scottish and an excellent opportunity to toast Scotland with Scotch whisky
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In the grim war of attrition waged by successive federal governments against the arts over recent decades, writers have sustained the sharpest losses. Apportioned a meagre 2.4 per cent of the entire 2021–22 budget of the Australia Council, literature has been an afterthought in federal arts policy – if any thought can be said to have been dedicated to it at all.