Twenty-seven NSW arts organisations deemed to be in financial distress due to the COVID-19 lockdown have shared in $12.3 million worth of rescue funding.
was enthusiastically welcomed by struggling arts companies when first announced by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian in May. Half the funds were to support pandemic-battered companies with the remaining $25 million to help companies reopen when health guidelines permitted.
Musica Viva and Australian Theatre for Young People are among those arts companies hoping to successfully apply for the second part of the program focusing on restarting live performances.Calling for the government to release a full list of the successful applicants, Shadow Treasurer Walt Secord said the program was a cruel hoax. Large arts companies appeared to have been supported at the expense of small to mediums.
"This makes an absolute mockery of the Berejiklian Government’s claim that it was providing a rescue package to the arts and culture community struggling with COVID-19 and its impact on their audiences," he said. Further, it left arts organisations that needed reserves to qualify for federal and state funding potentially exposed.
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