A grim report from a progressive think tank warns that the arts and entertainment industry faces serious, long-term damage from the pandemic, without a new, ambitious, sustained program of public investment in the arts | NickdMiller
A grim report from a progressive think tank warns that the arts and entertainment industry faces serious, long-term damage from the pandemic, without a new, ambitious, sustained program of public investment in the arts.
A “whole of Australia public streaming platform” would help bring culture out of the institutions to the masses, and a new focus on arts education would help raise a generation better able to appreciate and contribute, the report said.
The pandemic had exacerbated problems that were already endemic in these industries, the report said. And the federal government had not adequately responded to the scale and severity of the crisis, the report found, despite its $250 million relief package announced in June 2020, the JobKeeper wage subsidy, and a $285 million package in the 2021-22 budget.
“It is not clear that the group of recipients funded through RISE [the federal cultural relief fund] corresponds to the areas of greatest need,” the report found, with little emergency funding reaching small and medium arts enterprises that generate most arts sector activity.
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