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Australia’s Government Unveils $250M Package to Restart Music and Arts Industries
was resubmitted, and not accepted.In recent days and weeks, industry figures were quietly fearing the worst, that those talks would come to nothing.With today’s announcement, the worst-case scenario has been buried.As the music and arts industries digest the details of the JobMaker package, figures from the creatives sector welcomed the development.The package, explains APRA AMCOS CEO Dean Ormston, “will provide a necessary and critical lifeline to many music businesses and organizations to ensure they can get through the next 12 months.”In particular, the PRO and others applaud the $90 million pledged in concessional show starter loans, and the creation of $75 million seed investment to reactivate productions and tours, with funding slices