Document - Manuscript, Robin Boyd, A Subtle New State Aid to Culture, 1971

Historical information

Discusses the hotel and motel accommodation situation in Victoria and lack of first class hotels, overall, in Australia. Sir Henry Bolte's 10% tax on hotel and motel accommodation saw many proposals for new hotels being shelved.

Significance

Original manuscript of an article published in "The Sunday Australian" as ‘Bolte’s Victorian Melodrama’, 26.9.1971.

Physical description

Typewritten (carbon copy), quarto, 8 pages.

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