History

Regional Arts Australia is the modern guise of The Arts Council of Australia, a long-standing collaborative forum of bodies involved in regional arts. The new name was adopted in 1998 in recognition of the organisation’s reorientation as a pro-active member of the regional arts community. Along with the new name, came a renewed concentration on creating a national voice for those issues, concerns and opportunities that are of common interest to all who work in and for the arts in regional, rural and remote Australia.