{"id":30489,"date":"2024-12-06T01:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T01:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=30489"},"modified":"2024-12-06T01:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T01:50:54","slug":"canberra-youth-theatre-suffering-amid-labor-starving-art-sector-of-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/canberra-youth-theatre-suffering-amid-labor-starving-art-sector-of-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra Youth Theatre Suffering Amid Labor Starving Art Sector of Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Today the ACT Greens have called on the Labor Government to urgently double arts funding amid news that Canberra Youth Theatre can no longer afford to stage productions, and are cutting programs, due to a systemic lack of funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRight now, organisations like Canberra Youth Theatre are struggling to survive, and all it would take from this Labor Government to adequately support them is less than they spend on handouts to horse racing,\u201d said ACT Greens Member for Ginninderra, Jo Clay.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear, this is not a one off incident. If this government does not inject more money into the arts sector urgently, we will continue to see community based arts organisations drop off the radar as they go insolvent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn 2021, the previous Labor Minister for Arts released a \u2018Statement of Ambition\u2019 which set the aspiration for Canberra to become the arts capital of Australia. Now\u2019s the chance for the new minister to walk the talk and actually make this a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the 2024 ACT Election, the Greens made a commitment to properly support our arts sector by doubling their funding \u2014 because we recognised that our community needs more than just lip service, they need action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis would mean going from an already very small $9 million a year to the arts sector, to a reasonable $18 million so the sector can get a well deserved reprieve and continue to deliver entertainment for thousands of Canberrans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe question we have to ask ourselves is \u2014 do we want an arts sector here in Canberra or are we happy for Labor to let it fail?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the ACT Greens have called on the Labor Government to urgently double arts funding amid news that Canberra Youth Theatre can no longer afford to stage productions, and are cutting programs, due to a systemic lack of funding. \u201cRight now, organisations like Canberra Youth Theatre are struggling to survive, and all it would take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/canberra-youth-theatre-suffering-amid-labor-starving-art-sector-of-funding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Canberra Youth Theatre Suffering Amid Labor Starving Art Sector of Funding&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30489","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=30489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30490,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30489\/revisions\/30490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}