As the government prepares to dish out the $250 million arts funding package, UNSW’s Sonya Lifschitz wants to ensure smaller companies aren’t left behind
As artists turn to crowdfunding their projects, Usman W. Chohan warns that we should be cautious about viewing it as a means of supplanting government support for the arts.
If the new arts minister, Mitch Fifield, abolishes the National Program for Excellence in the Arts and diverts its funds back to the Australia Council, he will increase arts funding at no cost to the budget bottom line, writes Joanna Mendelssohn.
The last time a minister was able to micro-manage individual grants was back in the 1950s when Menzies oversaw the Commonwealth Literary Fund, writes Joanna Mendelssohn.
Greater government control of arts funding is the likely reason for the establishment of a new National Programme for Excellence in the Arts, writes Joanna Mendelssohn.
