Funding for Australia’s arts sector needs a ‘public-led reboot’ to survive, report finds

Arts lovers should brace for ‘big casualties’ among the country’s companies, says report’s author

Australia’s arts and cultural sector needs a reconstruction program of substantial, coordinated and sustained public investment if it is to survive let alone “snap back” after the Covid shutdown that has shredded the plans and budgets of arts organisations and artists.

A new report by Australia Institute’s centre for future work said it was time for nothing less than a “total public-led reboot” of the ways in which government thinks of and funds the arts.

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