Indigenous arts, culture and languages
The value and uniqueness of Australia's indigenous cultures are recognised nationally and internationally.
A range of Australian Government programs administered by the Department aim to support indigenous arts, culture, languages and broadcasting. They include:
- 2009-10 funding guidelines
- Indigenous culture support
- Indigenous broadcasting program
- National Indigenous television
- Maintenance of Indigenous languages and records
- National arts and crafts industry support
- Return of Indigenous cultural property (RICP) program
- Indigenous remote radio replacement program
- Indigenous contemporary music action plan
- Breakthrough Indigenous contemporary music pilot initiative
The administration of these programs is supported by an Australia-wide network of Indigenous Coordination Centres.
Please note that some of the program guidelines on this site are currently only available as PDF files. A rich text format (RTF) file will be added as soon as possible.
In this section
Quicklinks
- Return of Indigenous Cultural Property
- Funding guidelines 2009-10
- Indigenous funding 2008-09
- Indigenous coordination centres
- Senate Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector 2007
- Indigenous art centres directory 2006
National Indigenous Languages survey report 2005 (PDF - 2.6 MB)
Contacts
For information on the Department’s Indigenous arts, broadcasting, culture and languages programs contact your nearest Indigenous Coordination Centre
