An Indigenous artwork is projected on to the sails of the Sydney Opera House on 26 January. âThe arts, universities, public broadcasting and the relationship with First Nations peoples are at the frontier of the new and the important big ideas we need to embrace â and fund â to build an Australia we can be proud of,â writes Wesley Enoch. Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
An Indigenous artwork is projected on to the sails of the Sydney Opera House on 26 January. âThe arts, universities, public broadcasting and the relationship with First Nations peoples are at the frontier of the new and the important big ideas we need to embrace â and fund â to build an Australia we can be proud of,â writes Wesley Enoch. Photograph: James D Morgan/Getty Images
Big thinking has been unfashionable for too long. Over the past decade, successive leaders have overseen cuts to universities, the arts and public broadcasting. There has also been a rejection of First Nations attempts to wrestle back dignity and create lasting change for the whole country.
In one fell swoop, the funded arts sector and the creative imagination of the nation shrunk.
This money was redirected away from peer assessment into funds for distribution at the discretion of the minister. After a long and consistent outcry, much was returned to the Australia Council’s peer assessment process but grants and funding to artists from the Australia Council decreased by 19% in real terms between 2013-14 and 2019-20, and increased by $1 million in last year’s budget.
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