The NSW Labor government is today launching Creative Communities, the state’s first creative industries policy.

Resulting from six months of consultations, a dozen town hall meetings and nearly 800 written submissions, it arrives almost a year after the launch of Federal Labor’s national cultural policy, Revive.

“It’s a 10-year vision for the arts sector and cultural institutions, with a clear goal of growing the creative industries,” said NSW Arts Minister John Graham. “This policy is not an end point. It’s where we’re starting, and where we’re heading.”

Amberlilly Gordon and the cast of Yuldea, Bangarra Dance Theatre, 2023. Photo © Daniel Boud

Encompassing music, screen, literature, fashion, design and architecture, the gaming, tech and food and beverage sectors as well as the traditional arts sector, the policy “commits the government to advocating for the value of culture, to enabling and investing in culture with the whole of government,” says Graham.

Riverside Theatres, Parramatta. Photo supplied

Among the policy commitments are: securing of the inner west of Sydney’s Callan Park precinct for film production; the ongoing use of the White Bay Power Station...