Shadow Minister for Music and the Night Time Economy, John Graham and State Member for Newcastle, Tim Crakanthorp have today met with the Newcastle Live Music Taskforce and local musicians from across the city to announce Labor\u2019s support for the local music scene.
\nThe Newcastle Live Music Taskforce will push for Newcastle to be the first place in the state to achieve the new \u2018music community\u2019 designation under this plan.
\nUnder the NSW Liberals and Nationals, venues are closing across NSW, funding for the industry has been stagnant at $4 million over the last 4 years compared to $27 million in Victoria over the same period, and the Government has declared war on music festivals.
\nLabor\u2019s plan for the music sector which includes:<\/p>\n
Labor will also launch a new youth music organisation, which will work with Music NSW to support young artists and promoters get a start in the industry. Shadow Minister for Music and the Night Time Economy, John Graham and State Member for Newcastle, Tim Crakanthorp have today met with the Newcastle Live Music Taskforce and local musicians from across the city to announce Labor\u2019s support for the local music scene. The Newcastle Live Music Taskforce will push for Newcastle to be the … Continue reading “PUSH TO RECOGNISE NEWCASTLE AS FIRST \u2018MUSIC COMMUNITY\u2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLabor\u2019s plan to stop the Liberal Party\u2019s war on live music comes on the heels of measures already announced to save live music in NSW including implementing the Parliamentary Music Inquiry\u2019s 60 recommendations, and implementing measures to improve conditions for music venues.
\n\u201cLabor wants to keep venues open, and keep musicians in work. We want to see a thriving music community in Newcastle.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThe measures that we have announced will help the NSW music scene reach its potential.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI am committed to re-building our music industry.\u201d
\n<\/em>
\n\u201cThe Live Music Taskforce has worked hard over the last 12 months getting the Live Music Inquiry here and seeing the results of that input through the inquiry recommendations.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cBased on that work we want Newcastle to be the first community in NSW to be designated a \u2018music community\u2019 under this new plan.\u201d<\/em>
\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"