This proposal has three components that would increase support for the creative industry.

Component 1: Invest in Australian creativity through the following five elements.

• Element 1: Provide annual ongoing funding of $10 million for a National Creativity Commission.
• Element 2: Reform broadcast content quotas to exclude New Zealand media from counting as Australian content, and require subscription television to broadcast commissioned local drama within 12 months of its completion.
• Element 3: Restore funding to the Australia Council equal to the rate it was projected to reach in 2016‐17 (as presented in the 2013‐14 Budget forward estimates period) plus three per cent.  Index the funding to the wage price index (WPI) for future years.
• Element 4: Establish a Content Creators’ Fund and provide it with $50 million in grant funding per year for 10 years, of which $2 million would be set aside for First Nations content creation.  Grant funding would be capped at $10 million per grant recipient, per year.  The Content Creators’ Fund would be administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
• Element 5: (a) Extend community broadcasting funding from an annual basis to a five‐year funding envelope by extending funding at current levels for five years; and (b) Provide annual ongoing funding of $1.4 million, indexed to inflation, for the digital transmission of community radio. 

Component 2: Establish an artists‐in‐classrooms funding program to deliver grants of $10,000 to place individual creative professionals in a school for 20 days in a school year, and grants of $30,000 to place organisations in classrooms for 20 days in a school year.  The artists‐in‐classrooms program would be managed within the Department of Communications and the Arts and would be capped at $150 million over four years, inclusive of departmental costs.

Component 3: Establish a Living Arts Fund that would supplement the fortnightly income of eligible artists.  Artists that opt into the Living Arts Fund would agree to place a proportion of any licensed copyright earnings that are generated from their art into a Living Arts Trust.  The Trust’s income would supplement the Living Arts Fund.  To be eligible, artists would be required to submit an application to a Living Arts Board each year.  A more detailed description of this component is at Attachment A.

All components of this proposal would have effect from 1 July 2019.