Queensland Budget delivers $173 million for the arts

Premier and Arts Minister Annastacia Palaszczuk said her Government ‘has vowed to return [the] arts back to its rightful place’.

14 Jul 2015

Richard Watts

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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk; photo via the Premier’s Facebook page.

The Queensland Budget for 2015-16, handed down today, has restored funding cut by the previous Newman Government and introduced a range of new initiatives and funding over the next four years.

The cuts introduced by the Newman Government, which included axing the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards as one of its first actions in power, were particularly damaging to the state’s smaller cultural organisations.

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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