Creative Australia celebrates Australia’s strong, diverse and inclusive culture. It describes the essential role arts and culture play in the life of every Australian and how creativity is central to Australia’s economic and social success: a creative nation is a productive nation.
Creative Australia aims to ensure that the cultural sector—incorporating all aspects of arts, cultural heritage and the creative industries—has the skills, resources, and resilience to play an active role in Australia’s future. Creative Australia reflects the diversity of modern Australia and outlines a vision for the arts, cultural heritage and creative industries that draws from the past with an ambition for the future.
Creative Australia has five equally important and linked goals at its core:
GOAL ONE
Recognise, respect and celebrate the centrality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures to the uniqueness of Australian identity.
GOAL TWO
Ensure that government support reflects the diversity of Australia and that all citizens, wherever they live, whatever their background or circumstances, have a right to shape our cultural identity and its expression.
GOAL THREE
Support excellence and the special role of artists and their creative collaborators as the source of original work and ideas, including telling Australian stories.
GOAL FOUR
Strengthen the capacity of the cultural sector to contribute to national life, community wellbeing and the economy.
GOAL FIVE
Ensure Australian creativity thrives in the digitally enabled 21st century, by supporting innovation, the development of new creative content, knowledge and creative industries.
These goals are realised by pathways for action under three key themes:
THEME ONE
Modernise funding and support.
THEME TWO
Creative expression and the role of the artist.
THEME THREE
Connect to national life for a social and economic dividend.
To read the cultural policy online, visit the Creative Australia website.
To download a copy of the policy document, click here.
Media releases from the Minister's office are available here.
http://creativeaustralia.arts.gov.au/assets/Creative-Australia-PDF.pdf