Setting the cultural agenda: The Monthly one-on-one with Tony Burke
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Cultural Policy Matters
Cultural policy is big on motherhood statements and low on actionable detail. The first thing, the sort of high level principled statements, I think, matter. If you had a cultural policy in place, I don't believe they ever would have designed wage subsidies in a way that effectively cut out as many arts workers as possible. So there is a financial advantage in making the decisions earlier. But secondly, if you were to wait for the best time in the budget cycle where there'll be as much money as possible, you'd never do it right now.
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