What other issues do you think are important?

Improve the TAFE & higher ed system to make it more accessible to part-time students. Many design courses are only offered during the day and TAFE appears to have appalling IT systems that don't permit online class registrations etc.

In developing a national cultural policy there is an opportunity to review how arts and cultural endeavours are measured. Currently most measurements are in quantitative terms and largely ignore the qualitative impacts. I would like to see the policy address this. I believe that arts and culture should be measured in terms of their "value" to society - economic, educational, cognitive, environmental, health etc - to explore the "why" and "how" the arts and culture impact positively on people and community lives.

i would like to see a Policy on investment in Arts Infrastructure-if we want a vibrant and creative community then we must have Infrastructure to support it.

I believe strongly in the private/public sector partnership model but this requires a formal policty too on where the government will match funding

When the 2020 summit came up with the notion of a need for a "cultural policy" what was the rationale for this perceived need ?

I'm interested to know what perceptible difference a cultural policy might make particularly when the majority of the cultural debate in this country seems to be centred around funding issues.

If the need for a cultural policy is so pressing I would have expected more from the Minister and the Creative Advisory Group . The three points

1/ Keep Culture Strong

2/ Engage Community

3/ Power the young

read more like motherhood statements than any philosophical

or passionate statement about the centrality of culture to people's lives. If this is the beginning of an Australian cultural policy what will the end be ?

I agree that it is time for a new look at and collection of, peoples ideas for the future of Oz culture.

Culture is and should be treated as a live organism.

To be true and efective,there needs to be policy designed like the new Bio science.Cultural Policy designed to feed and nurture and sustain, but deal with end products as well.

Too visceral for some? Well the arts are not for the faint hearted so it's not just about the safe stuff and the socially, majority acceptable idioms.The organic model needs to be inclusive of the whole gammut, diversity is vital,just like our population.

Whilst Culture is important and crucial to the advancement of Australia as a whole, I would like to point out the importance of learning and education. At the moment, we are taking the "if the kids can't do this, we should make it easier so they can all pass and feel good" This approach in the long run, has lead to many skilled and talented scholars to leave Australia for other countries with well developed schemes for talented individuals. It has been pointed out previously that we are losing many talented people in the creative sphere but we need to also look at the talents we lose in academia also.

I suggest that we start a program to help develop the skills of talented individuals in terms of merit in creative arts and also academia. People who are gifted needs to be given the opportunities to further their skills. Though a problem with this would be under what criteria should this scheme be undertaken. Possibly we could take this one baby step at a time, and perhaps help develop talented musicians, mathematicians...etc.

In general, we should keep the nation up with higher aims, and seek advancement.

Why on earth does it seem "culture" means the Arts? Art is definitely NOT what makes Australian culture & is not the thing I miss when I'm overseas! The Ozzie way of living, interacting, sharing and a fair go are what constitutes our culture.

I love art but believe it's something we do in our spare time - will our culture disappear if a certain painting gets done or not? Just some food for thought....

I think IT'S TIME for the Australia Council to become decentralised and have an office in each state as this would provide greater accessibility for all in the arts.

To have a national policy we need a truly national body that is part of each state's creative landscape

Go 'Democracy' - I too think IT'S TIME for the Australia Council to become decentralised.

I see the arts sector extremely demoralised through neglect.

At the the institutional level principally by the Australia Council loosing its focus on its core business and

at the political level whereby artists and artistic expression has been demonised, trivialised, sadditionised and marginalised.

The French Government do sport, military and arts in equal passion. Australia - girt by AFL and Ruby League and the odd noisy Collins class submarine. A collective spend 50 - 100 times the arts spend.

inspiration, interaction , celebration

What will support people to create and be inspired to do so on a life long journey.

What possible interactions could be fostered through collaborations between artists, arts and business, arts and health etc

Celebrating our achievements in the arts from the bottom up. From where a child first engages with a cultural experience and sees it is a respected and positive part of life who knows where this will lead. If we value the arts as a tool to bind our communities and strengthen our culture we need to celebrate it.

To assist in keeping our culture alive and moving we need an arts ecosystem.

• Plenty of support for youngsters making art

• Encourage creative play and inventiveness

• Encourage a vibrant arts-making community

• Develop professionals who want to create, engage, be enterprising and resonate with who Australia really is.

Now that would win votes, help the economy and foster a happier society.

Hi,

My veiw in this subject is of a more anthropological definition of culture than what most people involved in the discourse are orienting to. It is my strong conviction that not enough of us Australians, yet understand the real relevance of being a multi-cultural society, and even understand as yet, what cultural pluralism really can be when beneficial for everybody.

Culture, and the process of acculturation, which happens from early infancy, but can happen to anybody at any age, is different from the processes of how we agree or disagree with others in the society we share. "Socialisation" is a distinct process, and we are conscious of it, but "acculturation", is by definition a process of the subconscious. That is why we communicate it via the Arts.

Yet how we receive our acculturation, whether in infancy or older, is how we become accustomed to decision making based in what we believe to be logical, and reasonable, and real. We are all socialised into a set of behaviours which are acceptable in mainstream Australian social life, yet in every family, every community, every sub-cultural context, and every distinct major cultural group, we relate to the world we live in through different beliefs about what defines the world as real.

This information needs to be taught to all our teenagers, so that they will grow up capable of being participants in valuable discourse and negotiations about what a cultural policy needs to say.

We need to comprehend how extremely different from our own, the interior of another person's cultural belief could be, before we can be capable of true respect for culture.

Keeping culture strong is very important. But how can anybody in government make a policy that is inclusive of the need to keep indigenous culture strong, when government so often so clearly has broken the most simple rules of showing good manners in indigenous culture?

Several people have mentioned decentralising the Australia Council. I’m curious to know why. Wouldn’t this just lead to extra money being spent on multiple office space and support staff instead of on practitioners? Or state and federally funding being joined together resulting in less funding bodies?

Sure gov funding is inadequate on this planet, but government grants will only ever be a small piece of the pie – artists need to go elsewhere for sugar like sponsorship, philanthropy and sales.

In turn the government can provide assistance beyond outright funding, such as creating artists/business connections and the already mentioned relief from HEC’s debt, tax concessions and opportunities in unused spaces, all of which are excellent ideas which should receive continued interest and growth. But to get visual arts sustainable, resale royalties are an absolute must.

From recent discussions on JJJ regarding who pays, or more to the point, who doesn’t pay to see Australian films, it seems it might be high time to be less precious and more inclusive when we set out to delineate an absolute criteria for what is Australian culture

I applaud point 8 in the Discussion Framework: "Australian culture is a conversation between past understandings and

future vision. Culture must both preserve and innovate, ensuring that the links between the present and past remain strong, able to incorporate new and varied perspectives."

I hope this means continuing support for Australia's collecting organisations - galleries, museums, libraries and archives. To preserve culture, and to ensure ongoing access, these organisations need funding for boring things like building maintenance, conservation & preservation, increased storage and server space, finding aids, storage materials, staff to process, interpret, research, organise and repair.

Governments like giving funding to exciting new projects, which is great, but please don't forget the less news-worthy behind-the-scenes work that is necessary for continued access to our shared culture.

There are a number of recurring phenomenom or problems for artists that are not taken into account in policy

multiple job holding by artists which blur census stats

therefore the need for a recognition in the definition of what is an artist and its translation into taxation, superannuation and indeed welfare support.

That the arts is a highly competitive industry with ever increasing participants who end up value adding to other industries and this is poorly recognised by the industry and policy.

the need for a value to be placed upon the creation of cultural stock or time required to 'innovate; - across all cultural professions and that this creative innovative process be supported and made more widely accessible

city centric notions of regional expression - policy and funding seems to think regional australia stops at the Great dividing range. Cultural expression and celebration of identity is an increasing need for regional areas as they gain more skilled workers through immigration and as they interpret significant changes in the way in which they live and interact with their environment. Increased support for cultural expression is needed now more than ever but at the community cultural development level rather than the professional development level.

More horizontal integration across all levels of government through an integrated national framework.

While innovation is 'sexy', let's start with recognising and supporting those existing resources which work really well in building the cultural life and health of our communities. Public libraries in particular are vital but under-resourced centres for our community and creative life.

Libraries are brilliant living examples of social inclusion in action - offering meeting space, computers, advice, activities and DVDs, music and books to community groups and people of all ages and levels of education - all free of charge and free of discrimination.

It is often only with this kind of welcoming environment and non-judgemental support that people can be free to grow, explore and create.

The ABC's move to feature Bananas in Pyjamas as a cartoon, as opposed to having people acting the parts, is an unfortunate precedent. Children will have access to an inferior product and actors will be deprived of work.

This in tandem with the low qualitative outcomes foreseeable with advertising on the channel.

The last global recession was due to corrupt corporate greed. Just as major content dictate what is played on commercial radio. PPCA and other organistions that are run indirectly by the majors dictate that in order for music to be played in a restaurant, That premises will have to pay a very high fee. Most small and mid size venues have opted out of the fee choosing to elect to pay a fairer fee to non PPCA providers. Most of the fees collected by PPCA will then flow on to the Major recording companies. . The chairman of the PPCA and ARIA are from the major companies. The corporate greed of controlling the market from every angle has got to stop. Its unfair trading. I would like to see more legislation in dismantling the monopoly and profit sharing spread to the Arts community. As with the event of new digital technologies smaller independent production companies should be given the opportunity to market their cultural content and not to be excluded by the majors .

• Increase Australian cultural content to be played on commercial content to also include material from independent labels

• To insist that each station provides and option to submit material to the station for consideration . “ This policy is adopted in the States”

• To discourage payola and corporate monopoly

• To have a cultural policy that is fair and inclusive to both the major and independent. It is totally one sided at the moment

My comment particularly relates to powering the young. An understanding of heritage and knowledge of the present provides young people with a sense of self and place and in their development into adults. In large part this can be assisted by the cultural heritage sector of the industry - museums, historic buildings and sites etc. I would like to see the investment in the Arts embrace this sector of the cultural industry.

I often wonder why our successful veteran artists are not cherished like the national treasures they are. I'd like to see the government provide ongoing structured opportunities for those artists whereby they have avenues to increase their involvement in our communities, connecting, educating and inspiring both young and old. Thank you for the opportunity to make a comment.

“Empowering the young”. Ageist, exclusionary and sentimental. Have we left it too late to empower people who have put up with the system as it is so far? Will we empower the young because it is a clean slate???

The development of a national cultural policy needs to create opportunities that empower the whole community and are accessible to the whole community. This is not to say that new practices should not be put in place to empower our young people - they should. No age group, demographic group, racial or religious group should be singled out a national cultural policy level for special consideration. Culture is broad and at policy level should treat all of us Australians equally.

BUILD AUDIENCES

We have a high standard of artists in Australia, but a low apreciation of them. If we built audiences, increased access and encouraged audiences to explore experimental arts then arts would be more sustainable based on sales.

Increase access by familiarising audiences with venues, subsidising artworks, increasing discussion around the arts and connecting all Australians through remote outreach.

Build audiences by understanding the consumers of each artform better and connect with them regularly through subscription or other membership models. Develop ways to communicate more effectively with audiences through the internet and assist industry change aound technology (heavily impacting book and music industries).

I think a lot of people in Australia specially don’t know how important the Art and Music is for a Community.

• Media in Australia don’t do anything to promote Art and Cultures, and if they have programs about art and Music, they usually show it when not many people watching TV.(Community education is very poor in this area)

• Art and Cultural Centres have to be run by Artists and people who enjoy cultural activities but unfortunately most of them in Australia are only normal Public Services who don’t know the issues and solutions for the society.

• We need to take art and cultures out of Museums and Galleries to the streets, to people’s life, people’s home and everywhere in the country.

• Our next generation must be prude of being an artist and people will look at it as a job not a hobby.

Hi - and thanks for the opportunity - ( deadline happens to be tomorrow so lucky perhaps . I have been watching for several years now as Australia grapples with isues such as drought and recall seeing a doco on ABC about the great floods of Central australia . ultimately they germinate life - albeit briefly and the runoff gos into the Earth or evaporates.

Strikes me as dumb. We recycle so much - we are still a growing nation and if a lottery could be the oxygen of the Harbour Bridge surely we could perhaps see about - developing an inland centre to create employment and save this water. Thinking oin a large scale it would actually be possible to do something like the Snowy Mountains scheme - and well - lookm what that did for Australian multi culture. These days you also have the net for closer harmonic balance and there other aspects.

Think of the farmers , the rivers and sources who may benefit. Realiistically we could maybe even set up communities and even provide adventure ata small price (?) for some back packer s and see what australian life is like. Of course being youthful we would also have to have such things as arts festivals - ( music , exhibitions ) and well we would focus on buildoing in a spider web pattern so as it could be expanded . Yes - even second hand pipes from the public or alternatively recycled ones. How often do we see SA is in drought ? Or Victoria - or NSW is in Bushfire ( because of drought ). It is part of our lifestyle and surely it is time that we adapted to elliminating its dire consequences .

Yes - make it a tax deductible thing but why leave a goose that lays eggs of gold to die of thirst . It seems silly. Please note that by setting up these small town type infrastructures - it would develop the heart of Australia and simultaneously be a fine opprtunity to develop a n undersatnding from within the newer elements of the community.

Focusing upon the community I would also like to see the Federal Government scrutinize the ( dareIsay it ) logic applied for the growing infrastructure of the urban areas and transports. In My case I look at the magnificent ( though definitely ailing ) Hornibrook Bridge near Redcliffe Qld ( the longest of its type in the Southern hemisphere ) and it is to be left to fall or be destroyed and while they scoff their bickies at tea time - it seems TOO HARD to evaluate that it is a magnificent piece for a cyclist or a walker - IDEAL FOR VENDORS ( and thus raise revenue ) and IF It were repaired with Community help - it COULD PROVIDE - WHAT THE NORTHSIDE NEEDS - A LIGHT RAIL LINK FROM North BOONDALL THRU TO KIPPA RING and ULTIMATELY - Maybe Deception Bay . Furthermore I think - with some elbow grease it MAY be done somewhat economically.

The Major Problem I am aware of is - The Surface would have to be replaced and strengthened. How To Do CHEAP?

I would reccomend that we see if we could find some talented musoicaians who would be interested in playing a benefit there upon completion ( eg Powderfinger , Kate Miller Heidke and some others - and for them they would be able to perform with the backdrop being the magnificent backdrop of the mangroves as the sun falls . and video it. Wortker s - donate say two days work and are then elligible to see the performers and attend a meet and greet 9 ( who knows if someone asked very nicely XXXX or Golden Circle may provide some refreshments. After all it is all good publicity.

Now you may wonder the benefit there - - it would probably take when developed up to 5000 cars per week off the road. A fgact that is green. melbourne has light rail why can't Brisbane. ? They have almost completed the new bridge there - but even then still haven't had the sense to include a light rail - despite the mayors ' combined frustration of the traffic. As Mr Campbell Newman said to me - they already have the land - for the rail works ( - but the truth is they have held it for a century. An entire century and just... let it sit. They are building a new Gateway Bridge .. but likewise there is no lightlink there .. HELLO !! Is this a national problem? Apologies if I am somewhat cynical but they rally could do so much IF ONLY they would avail themselves to the public and ACTUALLY listen at a place centrallized. ( Not everybody drives I am afraid ) .

In closing - though it is a tad lengthy - as a musician I am sure Sr Garrett will appreciate the benefits of a good venue and well with the old Hornibrook Bridge - what an amzing backdrop foir a small intimate performance to be put on film. Water carries sound ( as does wind unfortunately) but given the fact that this area is said to be in the top 3 of the world for viewing the sunset and stars ( NASA) what a venue - complete ( if not too loud with Australian Flying Foxes at sunset heading off to feed .Not even The Gallapagos Isalnds would be able to match that. NOw IF a stage were built within the mangrove area - for musiocains ( and away from the public ) it would be superb - . Yes build another strip - and use that for such top notch performers as Elton John , Stevie Wonder , sorry to go on - but I don't think Melbourne or Sydney would be able to match that. ( I come from Victoria originally ) . Yes it would be a big job but - go to google image and see this old landmark - its brilliant . As a person who cannot drive for medical reasons - it would be ashame to see it wasted because of some short sighted bureaucrats. If I seem stern there - the local shelter was the end of my residency in Sandgate after a Council decision built on an incorrect location ( not advertised at all on the plans ) and despite pleas ( and a 2-1 vote to have it removed )to remove it - we were railroaded and it remained. No Sir that is not your domain - but what a waste of a great opportunity. They build tunnels to deal with the problem but they are failing to really address it. In addition - IF they were lucky they may well be able to sell of some of that land. Sorry for the length of the submission . pls note - that shed remained after no location could be found and Cr Newman insisted they could not waste $70K on a building . He did however spend just as much on his chauffeurs chairs to ensure they could both have a siesta as reported in The Courier Mail. Thank You. Peter

It does fall within culture but - CARS. As a child I like many Australians became a fan of the Australian Musclecar. I even used to to correspond with the PR people .When the Supercar Saga exploded - it was a sad day. The industry I believe suffered. Motor racing clearly did.

I full well understand the concerns of the parents but a graded licence system prevents many an issue like fatality if administered properly & would raise REVENUE for the GOVTS

The crux of the matter is the best drivers come from.... GO KARTS.

To that end if we could devise a way of establishing a national way of educating people within this field - the community as a whole would be so much better off. Some people who have - M SCHUMACHER,R SCHUMACHER, A SENNA , JUAN MONTOYA , CRAIG LOWNDES , MARK SKAIFE , MARCOS AMBROSE. Well I am sure I have made a point .Could we do it? Maybe .

The ill fated cars are often catalogued or somewhere in existence. The Phase 4s are still in existence ( 3 of them anyway ) , The XU-2 TORANA was destroyed but there are supposedly lists of the components available online. The Charger. That is the one question only .

One of the Car Mags in about June - way before Bathurt showed the Phase 4 works cars and that was the beginning of the whole Saga. Now as that race set the groundwork for a cavalcade each year - victory was crucial and even Howard Marsden said the Valaiant Charger should have won.Given the huge amount of preparation time - it would seem - that - they must have worked on a Valiant 340 4 Speed and it has vanished or been destroyed. BUT any mechanic who worked upon it would surely recall its components and IF THAT were the case perhapos a dozen mock ups could be made up and prepared by TAFE students and run a National series. Add a surcharge of say $15 per adult and $10 pensioner and then you accrue a nest egg to develop a safer youth.

The mindset is no different today and are we resourceful or complacent? In addition pls note Schuey makes approx $60 m pa .

Support for arts and culture has to start in schools - the arts need to be included as core National curriculum area, with funded arts experiences for all children and young people.

youth mental health - kids are freaking out at an alarming rate!

health and education reform - less emphasis on infrastructure and more on human resources!

increased spending on social services - years of neglect and policy failure together with an increasing income gap!

cultural development - more output less bureacracy!