National arts and disability strategy

Read the full text

HTMLNational arts and disability strategy
Image: National arts and disability strategy, report cover detail

12 October 2009This strategy sets out a vision for improving access and participation in the artistic and cultural activities for people with disabilities. The Strategy provides a framework within which jurisdictions can assess and improve existing activities. It also identifies new priority projects that could be progressed as national initiatives or by individual jurisdictions.

The Strategy sets out eight underlying principles that will guide its implementation. These address issues such as the right for all Australians to have access to, and participate in, arts and cultural activities, and the need for people with a disability to be involved in the decisions that affect them.

Ministers have agreed on four priority areas for action. These are:

  • Addressing barriers to access and participation;
  • Supporting artistic and cultural practice amongst those with a disability;
  • Developing audiences for disability arts companies and individual artists; and
  • Improving policy development and planning within governments.

The Strategy is the result of extensive consultation, including 115 submissions made in response to a discussion paper released in late 2008, targeted consultation with arts and disability peak bodies, and consultation with government agencies at all levels.

Ministers have agreed to monitor progress on the Strategy every year. Information about activities that take place as part of the Strategy will be made available on the CMC website. Ministers will also review the Strategy after three years, in consultation with the arts and disability sector.

The Strategy is available in the following formats:

All Auslan and audio versions include transcripts. Further versions of the Strategy, including plain text with visuals, Braille, and standard hard copies, will be made available shortly.

RELATED ARTICLE

National arts and disability strategy discussion paper (October 2008)

Publication typeReport
Publisher TypeGovernment or Gov agency
CoverageAustralia
Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/19324
Views3428

Related Topics

Creative & Digital

Health

Social Policy

Related content

Most viewed: This week

1
Gender and corporate social responsibility: it’s a matter of sustainability
2
Northern Territory Emergency Response: Report of the NTER Review Board
3
The governance of sustainability: how companies manage their corporate responsibilities
4
Can cultural differences affect access of families to health care?
5
Students as learning designers: using social media to scaffold the experience

Noticeboard

Review of the Australia Council for the Arts
20 December 2011

Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts ahead of the development of the nation's first National Cultural Policy in almost 20 years.

Survey: Last chance to have your say on information technology and mental illness
15 December 2011

We live in a 'wired society'. But how much are people affected by mental illness included in this? Does social media increase isolation or help people overcome it?

National community-led disaster organisation: Call to Action
08 December 2011

 

A number of community focussed citizens from across Australia are planning a two day meeting in Melbourne in March/April 2012 to discuss the establishment of a Community-led National Disaster organisation.

Topics

APO