AMaGA Victoria’s National Cultural Policy Submission

AMaGA Victoria has provided a submission for the New National Cultural Policy. The submission promotes ensuring that the broad cultural vision articulated in Revive is matched by equally broad workforce, investment and implementation settings.

Priority Recommendations

• Fund First Nations skills and workforce development, and deliver the second iteration of the First Peoples Roadmap through AMaGA.

• Support community collecting organisations as custodians of Australia’s diverse

• local stories, and establish a coordinated intergovernmental investment framework to sustain them.

• Extend workforce development investment to museum and gallery workers (paid and volunteer) with the same specificity applied to artists and performing arts practitioners, and give effect to Revive's psychosocial safety commitment through sector appropriate reporting pathways.

• Recognise the community heritage sector as foundational national cultural infrastructure and invest in its long-term sustainability.

• Fund the next edition of Significance, the national standard for collections assessment.

• Support the development of a national sector census to be delivered by AMaGA.