Hiya to all my Aussie artists. I’m a little late to this party, but since there’s still a few days for us all to act I thought I’d add my voice.
The federal govt. is preparing a national cultural policy, and a few local orgs are pestering artists to make a submission. To that end, our mates at NAVA have made a few suggestions that I’m pretty keen on. Just yesterday I was complaining about my lack of superannuation as an arts worker, and then I see that in this list good ole NAVA have got that on their list of things we need to address in our arts policy here in Aus.
If I may be so bold, I’d say why not have a look at NAVA’s lists, and perhaps even have a chat with your arts-worker buddies, then get online to the fed gov’s submission page and head to the bottom to bash out a few of your own suggestions, or reiterate the important ones you’ve read, so that we can start to get some action around arts funding up in here!
Yours in solidarity
mc