2024–25 Pre-Budget Submission

Opportunities towards becoming a cultural powerhouse

This submission presents recommendations to help Australia capture a once-in-a-generation opportunity for interjurisdictional collaboration on arts and culture and international cultural
relations. These opportunities arise for two main reasons:

• An unprecedented focus on arts and culture across Australian jurisdictions: By the end of 2024, ANA anticipates new cultural policies from WA, SA and NT, and a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into cultural and creative industries. These will complement the 2023 National Cultural Policy and NSW Arts, Culture and Creative Industries Policy.
• The Olympic and Paralympic Games: The Sydney 2000 Games showed Australians and the world the confidence of a multicultural nation, proud of our First Nations peoples, inclusive of people with disabilities in and beyond sport.

Building on this, the Brisbane 2032 Games could help Australia become a cultural powerhouse,
but closer collaboration between Australian governments and interoperability between policies is needed. The work on arts, culture and creativity for the Brisbane 2032 Games Legacy Strategy has already begun, spanning ten years before and after 2032.

Recommendation 1: An intergovernmental plan for long-term collaboration on arts and culture

Recommendation 2: A secretariat for the Cultural Ministers to meet regularly

Recommendation 3: Explore options for an international cultural relations institution

Recommendation 4: Support interoperable implementation and inform evaluation in arts and culture

For the full submission text, download the PDF.