Tag: arts funding
Artists help communities during a crisis, not hinder. Why are we still told they don’t matter?
Images in support and thanks of firefighters were projected
onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House on January 11.
Picture: Paul Braven/AAP
Artists are again...
Remember the arts? Departments and budgets disappear as politics backs culture into a dead end
The federal decision to eliminate a department of arts came
as a surprise to public servants. Image: Jade Ferguson/Opera Queensland
The decision to merge the Department...
Australia’s major summer arts festivals: reckoning with the past or retreating into it?
Wesley Enoch’s Sydney Festival has placed First Nations
people and artists at its heart. Victor Frankowski/Sydney Festival
Australia invests heavily in its major...
Arts and culture under the Coalition: a lurch between aggression and apathy
Communications and Arts Minister Mitch Fifield during a
press conference in Canberra in June 2018. Over the last six years
of Coalition government,...
With support for arts funding declining, Australia must get better at valuing culture
While the arts certainly have an economic
benefit,they must also be recognised for their intrinsic value. JAMES HORAN
Governments at all levels allocate around...