What is happening to the national cultural policy review?
PAUL FLETCHER MP
Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy
Shadow Minister for Science and the Arts
Manager of Opposition Business in the House
A nine-month delay in Parliament’s review of the National Cultural Policy suggests that the policy is falling well short of the breathless hype which accompanied it.
The Senate Committee conducting the review was due to issue its report on 20 June; that has now been delayed to 26 March 2025.
“Labor claimed the National Cultural Policy would transform the arts, but clearly their rhetoric got well ahead of reality,” Shadow Minister for the Arts Paul Fletcher said.
The Coalition delivered record new arts funding commitments during the 2019-2022 term totalling $1.153 billion, including:
- $400 million for the Location Incentive.
- $220 million for RISE.
- $187.1 million for our National Collecting Institutions (in October 2020, May 2021 and December 2021).
- $90 million for Showstarter Loans.
“Labor will have to do a lot better than the National Cultural Policy to deliver similar levels of funding,” Mr Fletcher said.
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