Han Pao-te, who heads the preparatory office to set up the Tainan National College of the Arts, has written that Australia is a country with only a century of history, whose restorers 'skills cannot compare with those of Italy and other ancient European countries. "The fact that they became a hot news topic just shows how childish our own restoration efforts are."
台南藝術學院籌備處漢寶德主任則為文指出，澳洲不過是個百年歷史的新興國家，修護古物的本事怕不能與義大利等歐洲古國相比，「他們在台灣造成大新聞，只反映了我們古蹟維修的幼稚」，他寫道。