Music, literature and First Nations at the forefront of a $300m boost to the arts, Labor to announce

Albanese government’s new Revive program an attempt to reverse declines to the arts sector but financial details not expected until May budget

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The federal government’s 48-year-old arts funding and advisory body will get a $200m funding boost and a new name in the Labor government’s overhaul of Australia’s arts and culture sectors.

The Australia Council for the Arts will be rebranded Creative Australia and will take two-thirds of almost $300m that the Albanese government is promising to inject back into arts, entertainment and culture over the next four years.

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