“To have a National Art Gallery that presents the best our country has to offer, makes us proud of our nation and inspires people (including with outstanding artworks from other countries) is, in my view, a very worthy purpose [the rest of the sentence is redacted].

“To be direct, the paintings a concerned friend sent me which I wrote to Ryan about (and he’s suggested I include writing to you) [a large section is then redacted].

“In my view, and I believe that of many, many good Australians, our National Gallery should plan differently, and [the remainder is redacted].