A final $20 million round of Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) funding, announced last Friday, is one of the few positives for the arts sector in the Morrison Government’s 2022-2023 Federal Budget.
Handed down in Canberra last night, the Budget was repeatedly described as an ‘act of political desperation’ by Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers this morning and is being widely reported as an attempt to bribe the electorate in the lead-up to the forthcoming Federal election, the date for which has yet to be announced.
