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The Age's editorial writer applauds Victorian Premier and Arts Minister Ted Baillieu for continuing to support the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and 'not emulating his Queensland counterpart, Campbell Newman, who recently axed that state's equivalent awards, citing fiscal necessity'.