The future for arts in Australia looks a little brighter post-Election. Things look grim for arts and culture in the USA where Trump is threatened more funding cuts. Also, Apple can’t keep charging fees for off-app purchases and TikTok has been fined for GDPR violations.
With the Federal Election called and Anthony Albanese returned to office, you may be wondering what that means for the arts. It’s still early days, but there are some things we know. Things may be looking up for the arts in Australia politically speaking, but the arts in the USA are still under attack from Donald Trump. If Trump has his way federal funding will be stripped from National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
In tech, we saw the second Epic v Apple case close with Apple being told it cannot charge fees on off-app purchases or prevent developers from directing users to external payment options. Also, TikTok has been fined for breaching Europe’s GDRP data rules, but it doesn’t think the decision was fair.
Oh, and may the forth be with you!
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Here’s WTF happened this week:
With Labor returned to government things are looking better for the arts
There were a few election promises pre-election, and the National Cultural Policy and Creative Australia funding is likely safe, but it is unclear what else is in store for the arts post-election.
It seems the arts dodged a bullet ⟨ more than one very likely ⟩ with the failure of the Dutton campaign to sway voters at Saturday’s Federal Election. Largely the arts had been absent from their campaign, and what we did know what troublesome. Just two days out from Election Day the Dutton campaign announced that if we saw a Coalition government voted in that they planned to take 10 percent of Creative Australia’s funding ($33.2 million) and funnel it into the “Melbourne Jewish Arts Quarter and [to] supporting broadcasting.” The other $10.8 million would have come from elsewhere in the government’s budget.
