As swingeing cuts to the culture budget hit Australia, Paul Karp explains how the Arts party is proposing to make big companies fund a “cultural renaissance”.
The Arts party has bold policies for the 2016 election – to triple arts funding and make big companies pay a special 0.2% tax on their revenue to pay for a cultural renaissance in Australia.
But it’s the party’s unorthodox approach to politics that’s grabbing attention. Which other party can boast it has a poet in residence?
The party leader, Patrick James Collins, a maker of short films, said: “It’s about time a political party had a poet in residence – he’s up in Brisbane, busy writing poems about the election. I would call on all major parties to get one... Keep reading on The Guardian
The Arts party has bold policies for the 2016 election – to triple arts funding and make big companies pay a special 0.2% tax on their revenue to pay for a cultural renaissance in Australia.
But it’s the party’s unorthodox approach to politics that’s grabbing attention. Which other party can boast it has a poet in residence?
The party leader, Patrick James Collins, a maker of short films, said: “It’s about time a political party had a poet in residence – he’s up in Brisbane, busy writing poems about the election. I would call on all major parties to get one... Keep reading on The Guardian