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Additional $1 million a year promised for South Australian artists

A bipartisan promise to increase grants funding for artists has been made by the major parties in the lead up to the state election on 17 March.

7 Mar 2018

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

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An additional $1 million a year increase in grants funding for early career artists and individual artists has been promised by South Australia’s Shadow Minister for the Arts, John Gardner MP, should the Liberal Party be voted into office when the state goes to the polls on 17 March.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts