Creative Victoria will support 90 arts organisations from across the state over the next four years.

Given that the LNP’s arts policy is as wafer-thin as its electoral majority, the future of Australia’s creative industries remains uncertain today as Prime Minister Turnbull celebrates winning the Federal election. There is, however, cause for many artists in Victoria to also celebrate today, as an announcement this morning by the Victorian Government revealed an investment of over $113 million in the State’s independent arts sector.

In total, 90 independent arts organisations will receive funding over the next four years, “providing stability and fuelling the state’s creative economy and cultural life.” The arts funding initiative by Creative Victoria is helping to bridge the funding gap caused by cuts to the Australia Council’s budgets in recent years. Australia’s arts funding crisis came to a head in May, when over 60 arts organisations from around the country lost out on operational funding applications to the Australia Council. The Victorian Government’s Creative State strategy has sought to close this funding gap by offering grants to cover the operational costs of many small, medium and large arts organisations from across the state. A...