On Monday (12 July) Creative Victoria released the state’s next four-year arts strategy backed by a $288 million budget to support the creative workforce.
While development of Creative State 2025 predates the current COVID-19 reality, the strategy identifies longstanding vulnerabilities in the creative sector as a core industry weakness that need to be addressed. Such issues include high casualisation, employment uncertainty, increased business risks, disproportionate impacts for marginalised groups and concerns for public safety.