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Australia's 'wisest cultural investment ever made'
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam had to personally approve the purchase of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles, because it was worth more than $1 million.
Latika Bourke is a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in London. She has previously worked for Fairfax Media, the ABC and 2UE in Canberra. Latika won the Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the Year in 2010.
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam had to personally approve the purchase of Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles, because it was worth more than $1 million.
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