AGNSW staff to walk off in protest at noon today (28 August)

AGNSW is planning to slash 51 jobs, all public-facing except one, and the public sector union has responded.
The exterior building of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, a colonial sandstone structure with the Australian flag flying on top. AGNSW.

The Public Service Association (PSA) has released a statement this morning announcing that its members at Art Gallery of NSW (AGNSW) will walk off the job and protest in response to the plan for mass layoffs at the gallery.

AGNSW is facing a $7.5 million cut in expenditure due to reduction in government funding for the 2025-2026 financial year, and has made the decision to cut 10% of its staff as part of the restructure.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's former Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs, and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram: @lleizy_