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$2 million boost for First Peoples with new Creative Industries Action Plan

The Victorian Government’s Action Plan is designed to boost employment opportunities for First Peoples in the creative industries, and raise the profile and availability of local Aboriginal arts and creative products.

12 Sep 2018

Richard Watts

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Tanderrum at Melbourne Festival brings together the five clans of the Kulin Nation for ceremony and song. Image: Melbourne Festival.

Developed with, by and for First Peoples over the past 18 months, the Victorian Government’s First Peoples Action Plan for the Creative Industries 2018–2020 was launched on Dja Dja Wurrung country on Tuesday, at Bendigo Art Gallery.

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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