In December, Creative Australia announced some recipients of its Four Year Investment for Organisations program for 2025 to 2028. The four-year funding represents the economic backbone of most small and medium-sized arts businesses nationwide. It can serve as a litmus test for the health of the country’s creative ecology overall.
While not all recipients have been announced, the publicly available data shows a creative nation exploding with growth, but suffering from volatility, inequality and the pressure to achieve more with less.
