Federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett says a decision not to proceed with charges against photographer Bill Henson is the right one.
Twenty of the artist's photographs were seized from Sydney's Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery last month after complaints from the public.
Charges against Henson and the gallery were dropped yesterday, after the New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions told police there was no reasonable prospect of a conviction.
Mr Garrett says the courtroom is not the right place to debate the merits of art.
"The courts were not the appropriate forum for resolving strongly held views in a debate which I think is much wider than just the impact or otherwise of works of art," he said.
"We shouldn't see the police knocking on the doors of art galleries to try to resolve matters which are really better resolved by the community having mature debate."
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