Election year:
2023
Political party:
New Zealand First
Policy:
Arts, Culture and Heritage
- Guarantee sustainable and transparent funding for the arts
- Ensure that all New Zealanders have the opportunity to participate and to feel immersed in the arts and culture our country offers through making sure it is accessible
- Uphold the protection of culturally and historically significant places, buildings and churches.
- Promote and facilitate the development of New Zealand’s unique and dynamic arts industry in terms of trade and marketability.
- Support the protection of intellectual property
- Introduce a requirement for international streamers like Netflix and other international platforms with significant New Zealand subscriptions to contribute to the New Zealand production industry by commissioning local content production
- Provide funding to establish a New Zealand Jazz Orchestra
- Reduce the destructive impact of Building Legislation on New Zealand’s cultural heritage sites through developing a risk assessment approach to provide greater flexibility of compliance than is currently possible
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