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A New Approach (ANA) named in worldwide list of
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Imagine 2035:
Towards an arts and culture system that delivers for all Australians
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Our latest Insight Report
Government, Culture and Creativity:
It’s about more than just funding.
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Belong, Trust, Connect:
Policy opportunities for social
cohesion through arts and culture
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Transformative Edge 2024:
How arts, culture and creativity impact our prosperity, cohesion, security, health and sustainability.
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A New Approach (ANA) is Australia’s arts and culture think tank. We work to create an arts and culture system that delivers for all people and communities. ANA is independent, evidence-led and non-partisan.

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A New Approach (ANA) named in global 100 Think Tanks to Watch 2025

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It’s time to create an arts and culture system that delivers for all Australians 

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It’s about more than just dollars

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Factsheets
October 2025

Building a legacy: Tax and the arts and culture system

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Factsheets
August 2025

Culture and creativity: The productivity gains hiding in plain sight

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Position Paper
July 2025

Imagine 2035: Towards an arts and culture system that delivers for all Australians

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Past Event
National Press Club

Becoming a Cultural Powerhouse
an address by ANA Chair Rupert Myer AO

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Enabling actions to support access and strengthen industries
a webinar exploring enablers that can complement cultural funding

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National Gallery of Australia

Regional Art Forum
an address by ANA CEO Kate Fielding

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Creating and encouraging opportunities for people to experience arts, culture and creativity assists populations to live well – with prosperity, cohesion, security, health and sustainability.

Insight Reports

Transformative Edge 2024: How arts, culture and creativity impact our prosperity, cohesion, security, health and sustainability

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With Australia’s productivity growing at its lowest rate in 60 years, arts and culture can make a contribution towards solving this problem.

Insight Reports

Accelerate: Reframing culture’s role in productivity

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Enablers that complement and enhance direct cultural funding are uniquely available to governments, and in some cases, may prove themselves to be cheaper, easier and more effective than direct funding.

Insight Reports

Government, Culture and Creativity: It’s about more than just funding.

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Middle Australians report arts and culture as being embedded in and inseparable from daily life.

Analysis Papers

Intergenerational arts and culture: Lessons across middle Australia

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Long-term trends show government investment in arts and culture is not keeping pace with population growth or with Australia’s international peers.

Insight Reports

The Big Picture 4: Expenditure on artistic, cultural and creative activity by governments in Australia in 2007–08 to 2021–22

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