"The Australian Council for the Arts established in 1968"
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- "The Australian Council for the Arts established in 1968"
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- The Australian Council for the Arts was established in 1968. This came after a push during the late 1960s for better support of the arts in Australia. The Council replaced the Elizabethan Trust as Australia’s main arts body, although the Trust continued to receive funding from State governments. The Council was later given statutory authority in 1975 and called Australia Council. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is recognised as a key political supporter of the arts. The election of Whitlam (serving from December 1972 to November 1975) gave unprecedented and considerable attention and funding to an arts policy which would establish an Australian cultural identity raising international awareness. The Australian Council for the Arts received an unprecedented $14 million in funding in the 1973/74 budget. This was “more than double the allocation the bodies out of which it evolved had received the year before. The Council’s allocation was increased by a further 50 per cent in the 1974/75 Budget."
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- AC00018
- Publisher
- Disability Arts History Australia
- datePublished
- 1960s and Prior, 1970s
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- Create Action
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- inLanguage
- English
- keywords
- Disability Arts Policy, Multi Arts
- copyrightNotice
- © Disability Arts History Australia, Contributed by Annie Rolfe
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