Transitional provisions for the Australia Council are outlined in the Creative Australia (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023.
https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r7040
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The First Nations body will be established through further legislation next year and Writers Australia the following year.
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My words, thoughts and ponderings for March includes a reminder why less is (still) necessary, some thoughts on what the new National Cultural Policy could mean for South Australia, a call to ban book banning, and some (belated) New Year’s resolutions for Boards. https://katelarsenkeys.substack.com/p/less-is-still-necessary-what-the

#ArtsLeadership #RethinkingArtsLeadership #LessIsNecessary #SelfCare #DutyOfCare #NationalCulturalPolicy #RethinkingArtsGovernance #ArtsGovernance #ArtsBoards

The recording from this week’s AICSA and Festival City Adelaide webinar on what the new #NationalCulturalPolicy will mean for South Australia is now online at https://youtu.be/KAkn-_zyBIM. Great to be part of this conversation with I’m on this panel for Mondaythe conversation.

#Revive #ArtsFunding #ArtsLeadership #AusPol

Check out my latest words, thoughts and ponderings… We can do better than Boards | A new national cultural policy | In Bed with Animals review. Enews link in bio or https://katelarsenkeys.substack.com/p/we-can-do-better-than-boards-a-new.

#ArtsLeadership #ArtsGovernance #ArtsBoards #Revive #NationalCulturalPolicy #InBedWithAnimals #BronwynLovell #AustralianPoetry #TheRelationshipIsTheProject #SelfCare #LessIsNecessary

"The next five years will be important to rebuild what was lost. What comes next requires fortitude and imagination to create a truly vibrant literary culture." Love this from Jessica Alice in Meanjin https://meanjin.com.au/blog/writers-voices-never-fail-to-cut-through/

#NationalCulturalPolicy #Revive #ArtsLeadership #ArtsFunding #AusPol

‘Revive’ is an appropriate name for a policy that recognises its deficit starting point and the sector’s ‘post’-COVID exhaustion. It is ambitious without losing perspective on either how hard things are or how much work there is to go. Whether it’s a game-changer or just a very good start, it leaves me with unfamiliar hope.

Read more on the new #NationalCulturalPolicy in ArtsHub (https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/national-cultural-policy-revives-unfamiliar-hope-2608706/).

My biggest disappointment is with the new #NationalCulturalPolicy’s continuing partisanship…

Arts and culture policy is only sustainable if it is bipartisan, particularly given no national arts and culture approach has ever survived a change in government in Australia…

We need #Revive to be more than a once-in-a-generation opportunity. We need it to be the status quo.

Read more at https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/national-cultural-policy-revives-unfamiliar-hope-2608706/

Writers Australia will be set up under the National Cultural Policy to "provide direct support to the literature sector from 2025." A focus on writers' remuneration, local literary awards, and promoting the work poets, should be among WA's goals.

https://disassociated.com/national-cultural-policy-role-writers-australia/

#AustralianLiterature #WritersAustralia #NationalCulturalPolicy #writersremuneration

So, Australia has a brand-new #NationalCulturalPolicy. And, you know what? I think it’s pretty great.

Catch me talking about my @ArtsHub article and walking the line between cautious optimism and being a critical friend on TikTok:
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8U49dFR/.

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The #NationalCulturalPolicy is ‘disappointingly silent on the climate crisis. (…) Creative Australia’s re-engagement with the philanthropic community will need to be informed by the reduced tolerance for ‘artwashing’, dismiss the ‘all funding is good funding’ rhetoric, and not disadvantage organisations who approach fundraising from an environmental or ethical perspective.” More in Artshub https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/national-cultural-policy-revives-unfamiliar-hope-2608706/

Yesterday’s #NationalCulturalPolicy launch, dubbed Revive by the Federal Government, promised ‘a new era for Australia’s arts, entertainment and cultural sector’ and delivered much-needed optimism at a time when the stakes for artists, arts organisations and audiences have never been so high. I shared my thoughts on the new policy with ArtsHub (https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/national-cultural-policy-revives-unfamiliar-hope-2608706/).

#ArtsLeadership #ArtsFunding #AusPol

My role* was very small but it still feels special to have been part of the process to develop the new National Cultural Policy.

There is so much work to do over the next five years and beyond, but Revive is a start. Let’s go!

*I was one of the members of the Policy Advisory Group to the Minister for the Arts. You can read about the process and download a copy of the policy itself here: https://www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/national-cultural-policy

#revive #nationalculturalpolicy

*keeps refreshing https://arts.gov.au/culturalpolicy*
No #NationalCulturalPolicy document yet!

3/3 (including responding to inauthentic art), funding for First Nations language programs will be included, local content quotas for streaming services will be introduced and the library lending scheme payments will be extended to e-books.

Other priorities include diversity in the arts, regional arts and the video games industry. Interestingly there also seems to be an anti-elitist art push too. Have I missed anything?
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1/4 The #NationalCulturalPolicy announcement today will be big. I've been following bits and pieces that have been reported over the last few weeks. The Australia Council will be expanded under the name Creative Australia. This new body sounds like a behemoth. It'll be doing what the Australia Council currently does, plus subsuming Creative Partnerships Australia and encompassing a new First Nations-led body, a contemporary music industry body (Music Australia), a writers and illustrators body

Not a whole lot of hope for next week’s #NationalCulturalPolicy launch. (Extremely unscientific social media) poll results say 62% predict no more cuts, but no more money either. All fingers still firmly crossed.

#AusPol #ArtsPolicy #CulturalPolicy #ArtsFunding #ArtsLeadership #ArtIsEverywhere #ArtIsEssential

Not a whole lot of hope for next week’s #NationalCulturalPolicy launch. Poll results say 62% predict no more cuts, but no more money either. All fingers still firmly crossed.

#AusPol #ArtsPolicy #CulturalPolicy #ArtsFunding #ArtsLeadership #ArtIsEverywhere #ArtIsEssential

Cynical? Hopeful? Braced for disappointment? Any predictions for next week’s #NationalCulturalPolicy announcement?

#AusPol #ArtsPolicy #CulturalPolicy #ArtsFunding #ArtsLeadership #ArtIsEverywhere #ArtIsEssential #RethinkingArtsLeadership

#Arts organisations urge whole of government approach to #NationalCulturalPolicy from #Artshub https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/peak-bodies-urge-full-investment-in-national-cultural-policy-2595899/