Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The Turnbull government, along with its predecessors, invests in a total of eight flagship national cultural institutions. In addition to the National Gallery, these institutions are the National Library of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the Museum of Australian Democracy, the National Film and Sound Archive, the Australian National Maritime Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Bundanon Trust. In addition to the Australia Council, the arts portfolio now includes Screen Australia, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and seven elite national performing arts training organisations. These organisations are the Australian Ballet School, the Australian National Academy of Music, the National Institute of Dramatic Art, the National Institute of Circus Arts, NAISDA Dance College, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus and the Australian Youth Orchestra. The government also supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art centres and language centres across the country—in total, investing $698 million in the arts in 2017-18.