 This censorship was committed without any consultation with or notification of the artist.In May 2015, it withdrew $8,000 worth of funding after it deemed that the best-selling graphic novel "The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye" by Sonny Liew, which it had previously read in full in draft form and approved of, had "sensitive content" and the potential to "undermine the authority and legitimacy of the government".This led to a heated debate between artists and the council.