The future of TV is streaming, but the major parties have stayed mum on one of the most important issues for the Australian screen industry
Last weekend Bill Shorten did something unthinkable: he launched an arts policy. After six tumultuous, gooseflesh-raising years for Australia’s arts community, marked by deep cuts, an onslaught of grim news and a tremendous sense of uncertainty, the sector has come to expect nothing and fear everything.
What Shorten announced, at Melbourne’s Esplanade Hotel on Saturday, is nothing to scoff at. His pledges include $60m for the ABC and SBS to fund original Australian content, $20m for a fund to support live music, $25m to reinstate the Australian Interactive Games Fund, and $8m for the establishment of a national theatre for Indigenous drama.
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