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Thursday, February 17, 2022
A New Approach report reveals Australia falling behind in arts funding
limelightmagazine.com.au: A new report has revealed worrying signs in long-term investment trends in the arts, finding that Australia is in the bottom third of OECD nations for government spending on arts and culture, and that spending per capita has dropped over the past decade.
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Elly Lieu Wolhardt
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Governments need to support the arts. That's just a fact. Especially if they want to cultivate culturally and artistically rich centres within their nation. Australia in particular has been falling behind on funding the arts, with the three levels of government spending $11.58 billion of public funds on arts and culture during the 2019-2020 financial year, representing 1.46 per cent of the total expenditure across all levels of government. $4.27 billion of that is for COVID-specific measures, and the rest of it, $7.26 billion, largely goes to large organisations such as the ABC. This leaves minimal government support for the thousands of smaller arts organisations across Australia–organisations that would benefit from government finances much more than the ABC. In addition to this, these smaller organisations are far more instrumental in crafting a unique arts culture in any nation then large broadcasters like that, which already have an existing support base. When it comes to theatre especially, public funds could revitalise an industry hit especially hard by COVID–providing that money is the first step.
1 comment:
Governments need to support the arts. That's just a fact. Especially if they want to cultivate culturally and artistically rich centres within their nation. Australia in particular has been falling behind on funding the arts, with the three levels of government spending $11.58 billion of public funds on arts and culture during the 2019-2020 financial year, representing 1.46 per cent of the total expenditure across all levels of government. $4.27 billion of that is for COVID-specific measures, and the rest of it, $7.26 billion, largely goes to large organisations such as the ABC. This leaves minimal government support for the thousands of smaller arts organisations across Australia–organisations that would benefit from government finances much more than the ABC. In addition to this, these smaller organisations are far more instrumental in crafting a unique arts culture in any nation then large broadcasters like that, which already have an existing support base. When it comes to theatre especially, public funds could revitalise an industry hit especially hard by COVID–providing that money is the first step.
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