Sector celebrates Labor win

Peak bodies welcome the new Labor government and the many Greens and Independents who were also elected on Saturday.

The Australian arts sector has celebrated the results of Saturday’s landmark election, in which the Morrison Government was ousted and a range of Labor, Greens and Independent candidates swept to power across the nation.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese was sworn in as Australia’s 31st Prime Minister on Monday.

The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) was among numerous arts organisations to congratulate Prime Minister Albanese and his team – as well as the many successful Greens and Independent candidates who won seats at Saturday’s Federal election.

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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 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts