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Irreverent articles about contemporary Australian society, popular culture, the creative economy and the digital and online world – life in the trenches and on the beaches of the information age
After a hiatus of ten long years Australia finally has a new national cultural policy that maps out what the current Albanese Government plans to do in support of Australian culture and creativity. At first glance the new policy appears to be an arts policy, rather than a broader cultural policy, but on closer scrutiny it is connected to far wider initiatives. Part of a series of three articles that consider different aspects of the cultural policy, this article looks at the boost to the national collecting
Finally, after decades of neglect, this Government has seen fit to start to address the dire state of our national cultural institutions . These are the publically-owned institutions which belong to the Australia people and which play a crucial national role in supporting and preserving Australia’s culture and heritage. Yet over decades their work has been steadily and stealthily crippled by the operation of the ‘efficiency dividend’ the 1.25 per cent annual levy introduced in 1987 by the Hawke government a
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