• Australia - Arts groups refusing corporate funding may be penalised
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[img]http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/3/14/1394757328146/a00d608b-effc-450c-bd8c-19fcfa6e2dd9-460x276.jpeg[/img] [quote=Guardian][b]George Brandis has not ruled out penalising arts companies and festivals for refusing funding from a tobacco company under a new policy he has asked the Australia council to create.[/b] Arts organisations could be penalised with a reduction or refusal of federal funding if they reject sponsorship from corporate sponsors on “unreasonable” grounds under the policy being developed. [b]The arts minister has asked the Australia council, which distributed commonwealth arts funding, to develop the policy after Biennale Sydney parted ways with Transfield Holdings and its chairman, Luca Belgiorno-Nettis, after artists objected to the company’s role as a contractor for the Manus Island detention centre.[/b][/quote] [url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/arts-refusing-corporate-funding-face-penalties?CMP=twt_fd]Source[/url]
"Here is money. Take it so we can dictate your creativity. If you don't take it, we'll punish you into poverty so that you have to take the money." This quote is sickening. [QUOTE] “It’s fine for artists to make political statements, this is free country, I’m a member of a government that’s trying to make it a freer country, artists are perfectly entitled to have their own view, they’re perfectly entitled to decline to participate in an arts festival even if it is for reasons as irrational as these particular arts in this particular case,” he said. “But what we can’t have in this country is a culture where arts companies and arts administrators are not encouraging private philanthropy. The heart and soul of good arts funding policy is to look to every explore avenue to encourage private philanthropy.”[/QUOTE]
He's just looking for excuses to defund arts organisations. Shifting the burden of funding onto corporate charity means the companies get a good name regardless of how shitty they are and the ability of art to be radical or political is diminished.
What a piece of shit. Australia thrives on the arts but apparently the LNP hates that - like when they pulled funding from a state author promotional program and instead put it into fucking Big Brother of all things.
How in the heck does something like this even get rationally thought of?
You guys have state funded art creation or what? I don't understand. [editline]14th March 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=1239the;44229544]What a piece of shit. Australia thrives on the arts but apparently the LNP hates that - like when they pulled funding from a state author promotional program and [B]instead put it into fucking Big Brother[/B] of all things.[/QUOTE] Like that, is your government in control of TV shows? This is a really confusing concept to me
Yeah, the government partly subsidises art organisations, art exhibitions and various state galleries. I think locally produced TV shows may also get some funding even if they are intended for commercial channels. They don't control them by a long shot, just make them more financially viable.
The Australian government is a gaggle of corrupt frauds. This seems to be an annoyingly common problem these days.
[QUOTE]“Every arts company is constantly thinking about the relationship they have with potential sponsors. It’s not just about the money, you’re looking for a like-minded ethos,” he said.[/QUOTE] Not only about the money? Ew.
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