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Amid all the destructive behaviour and the turmoil going down in Canberra during the past few weeks, a final piece in the long overdue puzzle of arts and cultural policy reforms in Australia finally happened.
The Australia Council Bill passed the Senate and suddenly our ‘creative nation’ became a productive nation too, with both arts and culture seen as integral to each other; acknowledged as being central elements of Australian economic and social life.
This new law will see the old top-heavy art form boards of the Australia Council, through which most federal funding for the arts flowed in the past, abolished and a flexible new workable structure put in place, one that involves peer review.
This the final piece of legislation ensuring that the …
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Carolyn McDowall, thecultureconcept circle
