Arts election campaigning heats up

With a Federal election looming, it’s time for the sector to get serious about lobbing local MPs and promoting the importance of the arts.

While the date of the 2022 Federal election has yet to be set, arts organisations are ramping up their efforts to ensure that cultural issues are placed squarely on the political radar in the coming weeks.

One such campaign is Fund the Arts, which is looking to put the screws on political candidates this election and ask what they’re doing for the 408,000 people employed in the creative sector, and those who enjoy its fruits.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts