Commentary
'Creative Australia' resets national arts policy
The Albanese Government’s cultural policy overhauls the Australia Council and “puts First Nations First”, writes Michelle Grattan.
Commentary
The Albanese Government’s cultural policy overhauls the Australia Council and “puts First Nations First”, writes Michelle Grattan.
InReview
SA arts and culture news in brief: Tutti Arts founder receives national award, writers’ residency opportunity in the Blue Mountains, canine casting call for Adelaide Uni musical, meet the ACE studio artists, ASO on tour, and an artist’s remote adventure.
Federal funding cuts have forced the planned merger of two Adelaide independent visual arts organisations that have operated in the city for a combined total of more than 100 years.
Sadness, fear and anger are just some of the emotions felt by the founders of Slingsby when they learned their federal funding had been axed. But the Adelaide theatre company will fight to survive, writes artistic director Andy Packer.
Federal funding cuts could spell the end of Meanjin, a 75-year-old Australian literary magazine which has published writers such as Patrick White, Helen Garner, Peter Carey, Judith Wright, JM Coetzee and Dorothy Porter.
A number of South Australian performing and visual arts organisations face a shaky future after missing out on federal funding in cuts that are expected to have a dramatic and lasting impact on the sector.
