Australian Greens Leader, Christine Milne, attending events at Tasmania’s MONA FOMA festival this week, is launching $10 million of initiatives to support the arts and enrich the lives of more Australians. The initiatives would ensure more young and emerging artists are paid for their work, encourage more innovation in the arts, and support more touring to regional Australia and overseas. “The arts, from festivals like MONA FOMA and the Sydney Festival, to small art galleries and community theatre companies, bring so much joy to our lives,” Senator Milne said. Full story, Comment in Arts, here
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If that’s the case, consider how much $50m would enrich the lives of Evan Rolley and his mates at Ta Ann.
John Hayward
Sounds like more money being tipped into the already over-stuffed and incestuous arts community bureaucracy. Arts organisations in general are elitist parasites with very little connection to the really talented artists in the community.
If this fnding does get up then I predict it’ll be given to the usual gatekeepers in Tasmania to dole out in the usual manner to all the usual trough-feeding cronies.