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The Big Picture:
Expenditure on Artistic, Cultural and Creative Activity by governments in Australia, 2007-08 to 2023-24
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Our latest Insight Report
The arts, culture and creativity system in Australia: How it ticks
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A New Approach (ANA) named in worldwide list of
100 Think Tanks to Watch 2025
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Imagine 2035:
Towards an arts and culture system that delivers for all Australians
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Government, Culture and Creativity:
It’s about more than just funding.
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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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Spending on arts and cultural activities lags, with state and territory investment outpacing federal expenditure for the first time

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ANA encourages creators, organisations and audiences to participate in new national cultural policy consultation process

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Australia first country to use new UNESCO framework to model its arts and culture system 

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Publications

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Interactive
April 2026

The Big Picture: Expenditure on artistic, cultural and creative activity by governments in Australia in 2007-08 to 2023-24

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Insight Reports
November 2025

The arts, culture and creativity system in Australia: How it ticks

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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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Events

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National Press Club

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

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Photograph of the interior of Boola Bardip museum, with coloured lights projected over a large skeleton suspended from the roof. There are two mezzanine levels with railings, and at the ground level people are talking and sitting on chairs, preparing to listen to a presentation. At one end is a stage with a screen and the word REMIX
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WA Museum Boola Bardip

REMIX Perth Summit
an address by ANA CEO Kate Fielding

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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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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.

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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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