Corporate plan

The Australia Council for the Arts' vision is to enrich our nation by supporting the practice and enjoyment of the arts.

Our mission

  • Enable Australia's arts and its artists to pursue excellence
  • Preserve, maintain and develop the distinctive features of Australia's culture
  • Ensure all Australians have the opportunity to engage with the arts and to enjoy a rich cultural life
  • Shape a future in which the arts play a meaningful and vital role in everyday life.

Our scope

To help artists and arts organisations make excellent arts and give Australians the opportunity to experience and enjoy it, we:

  • Support artists and organisations through funding programs
  • Invest in opportunities for all Australians to enjoy the arts
  • Promote the arts in all their diversity and build new audiences in Australia and overseas
  • Build the capacity of the arts sector
  • Facilitate partnerships between artists, governments, business and communities
  • Research the arts and culture
  • Develop arts policy and provide advice
  • Advocate for the arts with government and the community.

Our strategic priorities

The focus of our current business plan is a set of four strategic priorities:

  1. Cultural leadership
  2. Realising the potential of broadband
  3. Innovative practice
  4. Diversified models for support.

Our behaviours

  • Innovation
  • Service
  • Teamwork and enthusiasm 
  • Ethics and Integrity
  • Professionalism
These are referred to as the InSTEP behaviours.
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