Up till now,the major political parties have “combined” to convince the electorate that a vote for a minor party,or even worse an independent,was a wasted vote. But democracy in Australia is changing.
New images reveal the National Gallery of Australia has fallen into such a state of neglect that buckets and towels are needed during downpours.
The May budget will contain funding for cultural institutions as Arts Minister Tony Burke said the previous government had deliberately let run them down.
A properly funded - and protected - national gallery really shouldn’t even be up for debate. We must fix the National Gallery of Australia.
As important to the nation as Medicare,the national gallery’s building is in disrepair and urgent funds are needed to protect the collection.
Need an obscure 1936 recipe for fried bananas? You’ll find it in Trove – a vast online portal used daily by over 70,000 people,but its future hinges on the May budget.
The public broadcaster’s “everything correspondent” goes big on the corporate speaker’s circuit.
The most publicly derided acquisition in modern Australian art history has proved to be one of the nation’s bargains of the century.
Months out from the federal budget,some of our biggest galleries and organisations say they are “very much at crunch point”.
The neglect of the National Gallery of Art not only threatens the nation’s prized $6.2 billion collection,it is an assault on our social fabric and diverse cultural identity.
Arts Minister Tony Burke says all Australia’s cultural institutions are suffering after facing a decade of neglect under the previous government.