Australia Council
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The Australia Council, formally the Australia Council for the Arts, is the official arts council of the Government of Australia funded through the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts.
The Australia Council provides over 1700 grants each year to artists and arts organisations. In addition, it supports strategies to develop new audiences and markets for the arts both in Australia and overseas. The Council also conducts research and policy development, and advises governments and industry.
The Australia Council was formed as an interim Council in 1973 and was given statutory authority by the Australia Council Act, 1975. It replaced an earlier agency called the Australian Council for the Arts which was established in 1968 as a division of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. It took over other government initiatives, such as the Commonwealth Literary Fund, which had supported writers since 1908, and the Commonwealth Arts Advisory Board, which was set up in 1912 to develop a national art collection and to provide advice on the visual arts. It operates in co-ordination with the various state government agencies.
Priorities for development of the Council are:
- Arts in a Multicultural Australia
- Arts in Regional Australia
- Audience Development
- Disability and the Arts
- Education and the Arts
- International
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts
- Young People and the Arts
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