Bill
Creative Australia Amendment (Implementation of Revive) Bill 2024
passed, as at 2024-07-09. Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-06-05
- second reading — 2024-06-05
- second reading — 2024-06-25
- other — 2024-06-25
- second reading — 2024-06-26
- second reading — 2024-06-27
- second reading — 2024-06-27
- other — 2024-07-01
- third reading — 2024-07-01
- introduced — 2024-07-02
- second reading — 2024-07-02
- second reading — 2024-07-04
- third reading — 2024-07-04
- passed — 2024-07-04
- royal assent — 2024-07-09
Divisions
- Creative Australia Amendment (Implementation of Revive) Bill 2024 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea — 2024-07-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 39, noes 2
- Creative Australia Amendment (Implementation of Revive) Bill 2024 - Third Reading - Pass the bill — 2024-07-04, Senate: affirmative, ayes 39, noes 2
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-06-05.
This bill would create two new bodies within Creative Australia to support First Nations arts and the literature sector.
The Australia Council Board would oversee both bodies and could give them directions, but could not overrule the First Nations Board's funding decisions.
The First Nations Board would have up to ten members including two co-chairs, all appointed by the minister after consulting the co-chairs.
- Establishes First Nations Arts and Writing Australia as separate parts of Creative Australia.
- Creates a First Nations Board with a co-chair structure and a Writing Australia Council to advise the Australia Council Board.
- Allows the chief executive officer to appoint a director of First Nations Arts who must be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.
- Applies the existing delegation rule for the Music Australia Council chair to the Writing Australia Council chair.
- Waives consultation requirements for the first round of appointments to the new boards.
Creative Australia, First Nations arts organisations, the Australian literature sector, and the minister.
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