Note to a Mate

Tamara Winikoff, NAVA's Executive Director, writes an open letter to the Federal Government's Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten.
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Hi Bill. I hear you’ve had this cool idea about long service leave for musicians. And I think I’m right that you said you would get a House of Reps committee to investigate the idea. Wow that sounds amazing!

I guess as a music lover and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Financial Services and Superannuation you would be thinking that it would be nice to get musicians up to speed with the same kind of entitlements that most employed people expect. And I think you also wanted to include other artists too, like maybe visual ones.

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Tamara Winikoff
About the Author
Tamara Winikoff OAM is Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA).