Election 2017 - Party Policies - Arts, Culture and Heritage
27th May 17, 9:57am
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Arts, Culture and Heritage
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- Promote improved communication and coordination between government ministries, funding agencies, local bodies, tangata whenua, community and other stakeholders involved in arts, culture and heritage.
- Support and promote the right of Māori to protect both traditional and contemporary Māori art and art forms via customary rights and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
- Support strategies to ensure the production of quality Aotearoa New Zealand music, films and programmes by Aotearoa New Zealand composers, producers, directors and writers through innovative incentive programmes, Creative New Zealand, the New Zealand Film Commission and NZ on Air.
- Recognise the value of community arts and community arts organisations through continued Creative Communities funding and national and local government support.
- Support the creation of a National Policy Statement for heritage under the Resource Management Act, requiring local authorities to place more weight on recognising and supporting heritage places in district plans.
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- Ensure all New Zealanders have access to and can actively participate in artistic and cultural opportunities which enrich their lives.
- Deliver stable sustainable funding to the arts and culture sector, as well as galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.
- Support the film industry by creating a ten year strategy to grow the New Zealand screen industry.
- Explore how to give New Zealand families better access to the wealth of cultural and heritage material relating to them that is held by public institutions, so that New Zealanders learn about their own history and whakapapa.
- Work with local government, heritage organisations and across central government to investigate and develop a National Policy Statement on Heritage Protections under the Resource Management Act.
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- Invest an additional $30 million over the next four years into the Regional Culture & Heritage Fund to support quake strengthening and development of cultural facilities such as museums, art galleries and theatres.
- The criteria for the fund will also be expanded so it can be accessed by heritage-listed places of worship in need of strengthening.
- The new funding injection will be added to the ongoing appropriation for the Fund, raising it to an average of $13.7 million a year, or $54.8 million in total over the next four years.
- Expand the successful Whenua Tohunga brand to more regions to better showcase our history and attract tourists to less visited destinations.
- Investing in our wider arts sector through Creative NZ and Crownfunded arts agencies, at an average of $62m a year.
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- Protect our historic heritage by amending legislation to clarify the protection of heritage sites, buildings, and objects.
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