In December, Creative Australia announced some recipients of its Four Year Investment for Organisations program for 2025 to 2028. The four-year funding represents the economic backbone of most small and medium-sized arts businesses nationwide. It can serve as a litmus test for the health of the country’s creative ecology overall.
Most organisations that received four years of funding in the previous round (2020-2024) and the most recent round (2025-2028) received a fund bump. However, there was a very high turnover of organisations, noting issues with sustainability across the sector.
