Artists and performers in the creative industries will not be guaranteed a minimum wage under Labor’s new National Cultural Policy, despite Arts Minister Tony Burke having signalled last year that he supported such a move.
, as the policy document unveiled on Monday is called, is for when they are employed by the government – as were Missy Higgins, Deborah Cheatham and their accompanying musicians at the launch event.
“We need to make sure that we are a country with minimum standards, and artists are an area at the moment where too often we just don’t,” he added.on Monday, Burke said “I’m wary of the universal basic income campaign. That model can create distance between artist and audience, and I prefer models that bring artists and audience closer.”
He said the government would “watch carefully what happens in Ireland”, where 2000 artists will be paid €325 a week for three years under a trial Basic Income for the Arts scheme.
“We … have a right to fair and just remuneration for the work we do,” they wrote. “Our work is a vocation – we do it because we love it – but that is also true for electricians and for nurses. Yet we would think it intolerable that an electrician or a nurse is not paid a fair wage.”Loading
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