Download the Arts Front 2030 National Cultural Policy Submission
News Flash - National Cultural Policy Launch - Monday 30 January
Monday's launch of the new National Cultural Policy is being live-streamed via Facebook from 10.30am AEDST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdWJv5P4j9U
The opportunity to develop a new national cultural policy has landed at the perfect time. This is a watershed moment for Australia. After a ‘decade of drift,’ the country is waking up. The government’s quick action on international relations, climate change, minimum wages, immigration and First Nations is very encouraging. This is the moment to bring arts and culture back to the centre of a shared vision for Australia in 2030.
Feral Arts is planning a series of new Arts Front actions contributing to the development and implementation of the national cultural policy development and implementation.
The analysis and ideas presented in this submission are distilled from contributions to the Arts Front 2030 project between 2016 and 2021. The Arts Front work is of direct relevance to the national cultural policy consultations. The project was developed as a whole-of-sector response to the absence of a national cultural policy to develop a shared, artist-led vision for the future of arts and culture in Australia. The work was supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and by Arts Queensland through the funding of project lead Feral Arts. The development of the submission was supported by Every Voice Inc.
The Arts Front 2030 project worked with artists across the country and internationally:
- in-person sector gatherings at national, state and local levels
- hundreds of face-to-face meetings and phone consultations
- 5,000+ artists profiles
- 100+ online events
- 200+ hours of live streamed sector discussions
- 2 terabytes of digital content created
This submission draws on input and ideas from independent artists, small companies, advocates and thinkers from all artforms and from right across Australia. It also highlights issues and ideas specific to the community arts, and cultural development (CACD) sector. The ‘big picture’ and ‘whole-of-sector’ focus is designed to complement submissions from artform-specific companies and national peak bodies.
The submission also draws from a number of other national arts sector projects and initiatives undertaken by Feral Arts and our partners over the last decade and a half that have connected with and fed into the national policy development processes.
This submission follows the recommended format, responding to the five Policy Pillars from Creative Australia. We have added an introductory ‘Pillar 0 - Framing the Cultural Policy’ to frame our response and put the case for a bigger and more ambitious national cultural policy consultation and development process. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute.