{"id":25496,"date":"2024-03-04T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=25496"},"modified":"2024-03-04T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:05:26","slug":"labors-silence-over-its-national-cultural-policy-speaks-volumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/labors-silence-over-its-national-cultural-policy-speaks-volumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor&#8217;s silence over its National Cultural Policy speaks volumes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Albanese Labor Government has failed to deliver its promised twelve-month review of its much-hyped National Cultural Policy, which was due on 1 March 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor massively hyped the National Cultural Policy, claiming it would \u2018transform\u2019 the arts,\u201d Mr Fletcher said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut twelve months in, the reality falls a long way short which is doubtless why the government is delaying the promised review.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coalition delivered record new arts funding commitments during the 2019-2022 term totalling $1.153 billion, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>$400 million for the Location Incentive.<\/li><li>$220 million for RISE.<\/li><li>$187.1 million for our National Collecting Institutions (in October 2020, May 2021 and December 2021).<\/li><li>$90 million for Showstarter Loans.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor will have to do a lot better than the National Cultural Policy to deliver similar levels of funding,\u201d Mr Fletcher said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albanese Labor Government has failed to deliver its promised twelve-month review of its much-hyped National Cultural Policy, which was due on 1 March 2024. \u201cLabor massively hyped the National Cultural Policy, claiming it would \u2018transform\u2019 the arts,\u201d Mr Fletcher said. \u201cBut twelve months in, the reality falls a long way short which is doubtless &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/labors-silence-over-its-national-cultural-policy-speaks-volumes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor&#8217;s silence over its National Cultural Policy speaks volumes&#8221;<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496","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=25496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25497,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions\/25497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}