With the next South Australian election less than a year away (19 March 2022) and a Federal election looming (it must be held between 7 August 2021 and 21 May 2022), the Arts Industry Council of South Australia (AICSA) has announced the five key messages that will be the focus of its advocacy in the coming months. The five priorities have been developed from AICSA’s Key Issues Survey conducted in May, which provided a snapshot of the South Australian arts sector’s current priorities and concerns. The five platforms, in summary, are:
Valuing First Nations arts and culture, first: An ecology of initiatives, institutions, communities and contexts, of varying well-resourced scales, that are First Nations-controlled and led.