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Additional $1 million a year promised for South Australian artists

A bipartisan promise to increase grants funding for artists has been made by the major parties in the lead up to the state election on 17 March.

7 Mar 2018 12:00

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

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An additional $1 million a year increase in grants funding for early career artists and individual artists has been promised by South Australia’s Shadow Minister for the Arts, John Gardner MP, should the Liberal Party be voted into office when the state goes to the polls on 17 March.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts