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House Standing Committee on Communications, the Arts and Sport

9 June 2026

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Contents updated on 21 Oct 2026

The committee opens the inquiry, sets procedural parameters and hears initial statements from MusicNT, NT Writers Centre, Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation and Queensland Music Festival outlining their roles, regional remit and key challenges in attracting philanthropic support. This block establishes the institutional frame and baseline evidence on how current funding and touring models affect regional and remote arts organisations.

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Hearing opening and regional arts witness context

12:00

Opening of inquiry and procedural remarks

12:00

MusicNT — opening statement and three reform pillars

17:52

NT Writers Centre — regional writing and fundraising challenges

20:43

Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation — regional donor base and council funding

23:10

Queensland Music Festival — touring model and funding volatility

26:31

Regional arts philanthropy barriers and enabling frameworks

30:57

Panel — main barriers to arts philanthropy in regions

30:57

Capacity building and the role of Creative Australia

43:24

Making arts feel accessible, not elite

50:03

Writers festivals — headliners, local talent and cost pressures

55:57

Regional philanthropy gaps and QMF’s Friends program

58:51

Shift toward social-impact driven arts giving

01:03:27

DGR compliance, small-organisation burden and Australian Cultural Fund

01:06:41

First Nations cultural sustainability, volunteering and regional recommendations

01:14:44

First Nations cultural sustainability and philanthropic access

01:14:44

Volunteers as critical in-kind philanthropy

01:17:41

Second roundtable opening and philanthropic sector perspectives

01:45:13

Second roundtable opening and philanthropy stakeholder introductions

01:45:13

Regional Arts Australia — Regional Arts Fund and trust-based models

01:48:46

Minderoo — underperformance in giving and system-level reforms

01:52:53

Balnaves and Alberts — government partnership and ‘growing the pie’

01:56:51

Tax, DGR reform and innovative funding models

02:03:29

What’s working, and the case for comprehensive DGR reform

02:03:29

Long-term funding, impact investing and pooled arts funds

02:11:05

‘Practising Community’ — Minderoo–Regional Arts Australia co-investment model

02:21:45

International examples, small–medium fundraising and donor influence

02:30:50

Project selection, capacity building and closing recommendations

02:43:30

How foundations choose projects and the need for better matchmaking

02:43:30

Financial advisers, fundraising education and unlocking generosity

02:54:53

Investment readiness, fundraising capability and structural fixes

02:58:54

Closing recommendations and committee adjournment

03:05:44

House Standing Committee on Communications, the Arts and Sport

9 June 2026

House Standing Committee on Communications, the Arts and Sport Wed, 10 Jun 2026 Australian Parliament

12:00 - 12:59

Speaker 13

Open this public hearing of the Standing Committee on Communications, the Arts and Sport for the inquiry into arts cultural philanthropy. I acknowledge that we are joining from places that have been the meeting place of Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander peoples for tens of thousands of years, and I acknowledge the cultures of any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people with us today. A program for today's public hearing is available on the committee's website. We intend to take a short break around 11:20, twenty five or thereabouts, and the hearing is due to conclude around 01:00 Ambra time. I now call representatives for our roundtable session one from Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation, Northern Territory Writers Centre, Queensland Music Festival, and MusicNT.

12:59 - 13:26

Speaker 15

Welcome all. I think we might be short one witness. But for the Hansard record, could you please state your full names and the capacity in which you appear before the committee? And perhaps I'll start with I I recognize Northern Territory... Well, MusicNT.

Why don't MusicNT, why don't you go first?

13:27 - 13:34

Speaker 4

Thank you. My full name, Mark Smith, executive director of MusicNT up here on Larrakia Land.

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