Grants and Funding
Harnessing the arts voice at election time
A public forum brings the arts sector together to find a unified voice in order to amplify the voice of…
How to lobby for the arts in Election 2016
It's election time. Let your voice be heard at this critical moment when our nation's creative future is being decided.
New grants program music to neighbours’ ears
A new initiative assisting live music venues with soundproofing and sound management has been announced for Victoria.
More than 100 touring exhibitions threatened by cuts
The defunding of the NETS Australia networks jeopardised scores of projects set to tour to regional Australian galleries in coming…
Don’t kill the feeders
Short term thinking is destroying the arts ecology by stripping it from the grassroots up.
How the arts sector is grieving
From shock to anger to acceptance, the stages of mourning are all too evident as the arts sector copes with…
Good for lawyers, bad for creators
The Productivity Commission's proposed changes to book licensing would mean less money for writers, composers and fillmakers but not lawyers.
Enough! is the message from 38 visual art signatories
Leaders in the visual arts sector respond to the stripping of organisational funding in a joint statement.
Exploitation is at the core of the arts industry
We have reached Year Zero, a point where cultural policy and infrastructure no longer serves the interests of the arts,…
The Australia Council and the erosion of cultural rights
David Berthold, Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival, says we shouldn't restore lost funds to the Australia Council: we should double…