The Australia Council for the Arts (commonly called the Australia Council) is the Australian Government's arts council. This article describes the national government of Australia. ... The Arts Council of Great Britain was a Quango dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Britain. ...

The Australia Council provides over 1700 grants each year to artists and arts organisations. In addition, it supports strategies to develop new audiences and markets for the arts both in Australia and overseas. The Council also conducts research and policy development, and advises governments and industry.

The Australia Council was formed as an interim Council in 1973 and was given statutory authority by the Australia Council Act 1975. It replaced an earlier agency called the Australian Council for the Arts which was established in 1968 as a division of the Prime Minister's Department. It took over other government initiatives, such as the Commonwealth Literary Fund, which had supported writers since 1908, and the Commonwealth Arts Advisory Board, which was set up in 1912 to develop a national art collection and to provide advice on the visual arts. It operates in co-ordination with state government agencies. Sir Robert Walpole, the first Prime Minister A Prime Minister is a politician who serves as the head of the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. ... A state government is the government of a subnational entity in nation-states with federal forms of government, which shares political power with the federal government or national government. ...

Website

• www.ozco.gov.au