'It's all been very weird': arts organisations still waiting for promised funds

Arts minister promised Covid-19 rescue funds would ‘flow immediately’ but successful applicants still waiting

Arts organisations across Australia that were told by the federal government in November they would receive emergency Covid-19 relief funding “immediately” are still waiting.

Six months after the grants program was announced and a week before Christmas it is unclear whether any of the promised $60m from the first tranche of the $75m restart investment to sustain and expand emergency funding has flowed into the struggling cultural sector.

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