Australia Yearbook - 2001

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5 These amounts are equivalent to about $1.3m,
$0.9m and $0.4m respectively in 1998–99 prices.
6 See further in Helping Literature in Australia:
The Work of the Commonwealth Literary Fund
1908–1966 (Canberra: Commonwealth
Government Printer, 1967), and Thomas Shapcott,
The Literature Board: a Brief History (St. Lucia:
University of Queensland Press, 1988), pp. 13–18.
7 Sir Robert Garran, “Australian CEMA—its origin
and purpose”, in Arts Council of Australia (NSW
Division), A Five Years’ Record 1943–1947,
(Sydney: the Council, 1947), p. 3.
8 For further on the origins of the State
symphony orchestras, see K.S. Inglis, This is the
ABC: The Australian Broadcasting Commission
1932–1983 (Melbourne: Melbourne University
Press, 1983), esp. pp. 157–161.
9 Holt’s announcement was made in the
Commonwealth Parliament on 1 November 1967;
see CPD, vol. H. of R. 57 (1967), pp. 2515–7.
10 For some contemporary international
comparisons see Geoffrey Dutton, “The work and
prospects for the Australian Council for the Arts”,
in Derek Whitelock (ed.), Government Aid to the
Arts (University of Adelaide, Department of Adult
Education, 1968), pp. 8–20.
11 In 1998–99 prices this is equivalent to around
$90m, or $6.70 per head of population; by
contrast the Australia Council’s 1998–99
allocation amounted to about $3.80 per head.
12 For further details of the establishment of the
Council, see H.C. Coombs, Trial Balance (South
Melbourne: Macmillan, 1981), ch. 8; Gough
Whitlam, The Whitlam Government 1972–1975,
(Ringwood: Viking, 1985), ch. 16; and Justin
Macdonnell, Arts, Minister? Government Policy and
the Arts (Sydney: Currency Press, 1992), chs. 1–3.
13 For further details of film financing
arrangements over this period, see Australian
Film Commission, Get the Picture: Essential Data
on Australian Film, Television and Video
(Sydney: AFC, 1992), and Simon Molloy and Barry
Burgan, The Economics of Film and Television in
Australia (Sydney: AFC, 1993).
14 In order to increase the comprehensiveness of
the earlier framework, the ABS has developed an
updated culture and leisure industry
classification. This classification is one of three
classifications (the other two covering products
and occupations) that will be published,
during 2001, in Australian Culture and
Leisure Classifications.
15 The original report on the proposed
statistical framework was prepared by a
consulting group led by Peter Brokensha; see
Corporate Concern, The National
Culture-Leisure Statistical Framework
(Report prepared for the Cultural Ministers
Council Statistical Advisory Group, mimeo,
Adelaide, March 1989). The first report on
cultural funding based on this framework was
for the year 1988–89, and was published as
Hans Guldberg, Cultural Funding in
Australia: Federal, State and Local
Government (Sydney: Australia Council, 1991).
16 See David Throsby “Government support
for the arts and culture: the Australian
model” (Paper presented at Cultural
Crossroads Conference, Sydney, 24 November
1997). These estimates were derived from
data contained in: ABS, Cultural Trends in
Australia No. 3: Business Sponsorship of
Cultural Activities (June 1996), pp. 27–8;
Australia Council, Corporate Support for the
Arts 1993 (Sydney: Australia Council, 1993),
p. 30; Reark Research, Giving Australia: a
Quantitative Exploration of the
Philanthropic Sector of the Australian
Economy for the 1988–89 Financial Year
(Melbourne: Australian Association of
Philanthropy, 1991), vol. 1, p. 76; and Daryl
Dixon, Study of Assistance to the Cultural
Industry through Revenue Forgone (Report
for the Department of Arts, Sport, the
Environment, Tourism and Territories,
Canberra, June 1989). For further details of
business sponsorship of cultural activities in
Australia, see Australia Council, Corporate
Support for the Arts: a Discussion Paper
(Sydney: Australia Council, 1986); Yann
Campbell Hoare Wheeler, Corporate Support
for the Arts 1996 (Sydney: Australia Council,
1996); and Department of Communications,
Information Technology and the Arts,
Cultural Trends in Australia, No. 8: Business
Sponsorship of the Arts and Cultural
Activities, 1996–97 (Canberra: DOCITA, 1999).
17 For some examples of political statements
supporting this contention, see further in
David Throsby and Glenn Withers, The
Economics of the Performing Arts
(Melbourne: Edward Arnold, 1979),
chs. 10–11.