As Australians prepare for a Federal election in the closing months of 2001, many in the arts are again raising the question of whether Australia should have a national cultural policy. Sarah Gardner gives the background.

With much fanfare in October 1994, Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating announced Creative Nation, Australia?s first cultural policy. Such a significant symbol of political will in relation to the arts has not reappeared since. Described as both a social policy... more