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$5.4 million cut from Australia Council budget

The Federal Government has reallocated $1.8 million a year over three years from the Australia Council to Creative Partnerships Australia.

19 Dec 2017 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

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The cuts will take effect from 2018-19. Additional budget cuts have been made to welfare, family payments and higher education as part of the Coalition’s plan to return the budget to surplus by 2020-21.

The disruption caused by Brandis – including a 70% reduction in Australia Council grants to individual artists and projects – is still being felt.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts