Art is like a mortar, joining the many building blocks of our young and cosmopolitan society into a nation. Without it we can be nothing more than a crowd, whatever organisation it may have. What are we going to build with our “blocks” depends on our vision, support and understanding of the many specific requirements of hundreds of art forms, as diverse as we are. It can be just another shanty or as magnificent as the Opera house.

Our admiration and patronage of arts will encompass the following directions:

• We shall continue and improve the funding and support for most established art bodies, projects and other istitutions.

• Provide stronger support for our own film industry.  

• Additional funding will be provided to ABC, National Museum of Australia, National Library  National Gallery and other pillars of our culture.

• Continue the strong support for art training institutions like the Australian National Academy of Music, National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australian Ballet School, etc. Arts education shall also to be important part of the public school system.

• Special attention will be paid on uniform distribution of our cultural institutions, and avoid over-concentration of our cultural treasures in big cities or the capital.

• We shall encourage our artistic community to reflect objectively our past and provide fair and unbiased image of our history and many of its controversies. If we acknowledge our past mistakes we have a better chance of avoiding new ones.

• We shall deliver more arts to every corner of our continent by means of touring exhibitions, shows, performers, etc. Programs like Visions of Australia will be expanded to incorporate more arts and modern equipment.

• We shall strengthen local TV and radio content requirements in order to safeguard our  culture and ensure our artists a place under the sun. We encourage cultural exchange but not foreign cultural domination.

• We also recognise the fact that art is still a privilege of the chosen minority and will undertake many reforms to make it more affordable:

• We shall provide free admission for children and pensioners to government art galleries and museums.

• We still pay dearly for CD’s and DVD's, while they are much more affordable elsewhere. We shall introduce practical measures to reduce their prices which will benefit both artists (!) and consumers.

• While we are totally committed to support all forms of creative art, we shall put similar effort to reduce the impact of some destructive and violent pseudo-art. Such “art” is ruining our society and is incompatible with our pacifist principles. We are determined to improve the moral standards of our entertainment and clean up our cinemas, pop-concerts and similar venues from sadism and violence (find out more in Families and children).

• We shall also discontinue the government funding for events and arts with controversial moral or ethical values.