Creativity at the centre of the creative industries
Creative Australia, formerly the Australia Council for the Arts, is the Australian Government’s principal arts investment and advisory agency. Central to the national cultural policy Revive and established under the Creative Australia Act 2023, it plays a strategic role in advancing Australia's cultural and creative landscape.
Creative Australia invests in the creative ecosystem that underpins the broader creative industries – supporting the generation of original IP, capability development, and employment – from community-embedded work to innovation across industries.
Through partnerships across government and with industry, it facilitates collaboration, drives productivity, and opens new market opportunities for Australian creatives.
In collaboration with Austrade, Creative Australia supports the Government’s trade diversification strategy by expanding international markets for Australia’s cultural and creative exports – aligning cultural investment with economic and trade outcomes.
For more information, visit Creative Australia.
Creativity connects us: to ideas, to each other, to new perspectives and to the world.
The Australian Government’s National Cultural Policy, Revive: a place for every story, a story for every place, launched on 30 January 2023 by the Prime Minister, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, and the Minister for the Arts, the Hon Tony Burke MP, set a new direction for arts and culture in Australia, building momentum for the creative sector.
Within it, Revive recognises the critical contribution of culture to Australian society and provides the framework for these contributions to be fully harnessed and realised. Establishing Creative Australia is a centrepiece of the policy, transforming the Australia Council for the Arts into Creative Australia, a bigger, bolder champion and investor in Australian arts and creativity.
Creative Australia functions and dedicated investments maximise the impact of Australia’s creativity. Specific to the creative industries, Creative Australia supports the cultural creation at the centre of the creative industries - its ecology of ideas, people, organisations and structures – generating original IP, engagement, jobs, new capabilities, productive partnerships, and global exchange.
Creative Australia’s investments and our people work actively to increase audiences for Australian arts and to create connections for Australian artists to foster collaboration and exchange. It’s investment through Music Australia and Writers Australia deepen engagement with the commercial parts of these sectors, strengthening these industries while dedicated investment through a First Nations-led Board recognises the centrality of First Nations culture to Australian arts and culture.
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