Policy
UK arts channel to broadcast live for arts funding
UK Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has suggested the implementation of a new state-subsidised arts channel that will require arts groups…
Melbourne Festival receives tourism funding boost
Following record attendance at last year’s Melbourne Festival, the Victorian Government has announced $75,000 in tourism marketing funding for this…
TAS council approves gay rights artwork
An artwork commemorating the 1988 arrest of gay rights activists has been approved for Hobart's Salamanca Place.
Funding coup for Tuggeranong
Canberra’s Tuggeranong Arts Centre has received $2 million from the State Government to transform the centre into a community haven…
Esther Anatolitis is the new director of RAV
Melbourne Fringe Festival CEO Esther Anatolitis is now the director of Regional Arts Victoria.
New appointments for the Australia Council
Two new chairs have been appointed to the Australia Council for the Arts Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board…
Controversy over $20,000 grant for metal band
3AW shock-jock has questioned the artistic merit of death metal, after band OUROBOROS received $20,000 from the Australia Council to…
A step closer to the National Cultural Policy?
With the release this week of the Independent Review of the Australia Council for the Arts a new National Cultural…
Arts Minister appoints top spots
Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced new posts to Australia’s national cultural institutions.
Melba to lose all its government funding
The well-endowed Melbourne label, a champion of local artists, was the envy of the Australian record industry... until the Australia…