Policy Announcement: Music Hubs

policy announcement: Labor, perhaps, wins the most specific policy announcement of 2019 award, with three new Aria awards for music teachers, according to The Guardian. Among other music policies, the party has promised 28m over three years for investment in live music and music hubs, new rules on ticket scalping, and mental health support for artists and crew. I frame this as a serious question what is the use of investment in the arts if climate change is continually ignored Can we, should we, make art on a dying planet Or, to put it another way, if politicians won't even face the looming catastrophe that is global extinction, how low must the arts then rate on their interest scale But, as an arts journalist, I must consider what is there in this election for the arts Australian election 2019 how to avoid voting for a terrible micro party in the Senate Read more Music The big policy winner in the election will be contemporary music, where most of the arts conversation from the major parties has been directed. The Coalition will provide 22.5m for the Live Music Australia Grant program, supporting venues that program Australian artists. They also support phasing out advertising from SBS, additional funding for First Nations media, and have a number of strategies around media diversity and accountability. The ABC and SBS For better or worse, the ABC and SBS aren't mentioned in the Liberal party's policy statements, although in its most recent budget the Coalition announced cuts over three years and an indexation freeze on ABC funding, and an additional 14.6m for SBS. Labor has pledged to return 83.7m to the ABC, plus an extra 60m across the ABC and SBS for new Australian content, 15m for regional and emergency broadcasting, 4m for audio description, reinstating shortwave radio in the Northern Territory, and a news literacy program to fight disinformation and fake news . The Greens have committed to restore funding to the ABC and invest an additional 320m over the next 3 years, and have a plan for maintaining the ABC's editorial independence. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.