National arts funding, advocacy and policy were in the spotlight in a series of arts industry meetings held in Sydney on Thursday 2 July, 2015. The meetings, organised as part of the #freethearts campaign responding to the cuts to Australia …
#FreeTheArts – Campaign Coverage
What’s Happening? In Tuesday’s budget, Federal Arts Minister George Brandis pulled $104.8 million off the Australia Council, over four years, to start a National Centre for Excellence run by his own office. This will decimate the Australia Council’s discretionary budget, …