Fourteen months after it was announced, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts has handed down its report, Sculpting A National Cultural Plan, on Australia’s cultural and creative industries and institutions.
Labor finished six years in government in 2013 with the launch of Creative Australia, our last national cultural policy. The Coalition finishes an eight year stretch with a call to think about developing one. Still, a plan for a plan is better than no plan at all.