❓ The Minister for Culture and the Arts updates the house on the expansion of the 'Getting the Show Back on the Road' program, highlighting its success in supporting WA's events industry, regional tourism, and agricultural shows during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AnsweredQoN 263Legislative Assembly
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CORONAVIRUS
— CULTURE AND THE ARTS
263. Mrs J.M.C. STOJKOVSKI to the Minister for Culture and the
Arts:
Before I ask my question, I acknowledge
the representatives from the Woodvale Little Athletics Club in the public
gallery today.
I
refer to the McGowan Labor government's continued efforts to support
jobs and businesses in WA's events industry through the COVID-19 pandemic. Can the minister
update the house on what the expansion of the WA government's Getting the Show Back on the Road program will mean for businesses and workers
in WA's events industry, in particular those who rely on tourism events
and regional agricultural shows?
— CULTURE AND THE ARTS
263. Mrs J.M.C. STOJKOVSKI to the Minister for Culture and the
Arts:
Before I ask my question, I acknowledge
the representatives from the Woodvale Little Athletics Club in the public
gallery today.
I
refer to the McGowan Labor government's continued efforts to support
jobs and businesses in WA's events industry through the COVID-19 pandemic. Can the minister
update the house on what the expansion of the WA government's Getting the Show Back on the Road program will mean for businesses and workers
in WA's events industry, in particular those who rely on tourism events
and regional agricultural shows?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Kingsley for
the question, and I also thank her for her very strong support of all things
cultural, all things arts and all things tourism. It is wonderful and it is
important. I am sure you would be interested in this too, Madam Speaker! The
Premier, the members for Churchlands and Nedlands, the Minister for Agriculture
and Food and I have just come from the Claremont Showground, where a very
important announcement was made this morning that will see our Royal Show for
2021 supported strongly by the McGowan government. Our package will see that
important historic show in Western Australia's history held again this
year. It will be supported by the McGowan government. There will be a reduction
in costs for families to attend. That is magnificent.
That also includes an expanded
Getting the Show Back on the Road program, which has been very successful. I launched that program late last year with the
Premier, and it has already provided tremendous support to the events and performing arts industries, but we are now expanding it to include regional
tourism events, events in regional Western Australia,
music and other events that people in Western Australia want to get to and
enjoy. The Getting t he Show Back on the Road program will see an
extension of support, and that includes expanding the safety net for those
events to go ahead. We will see agricultural shows in regional Western Australia
supported and able to access this
opportunity. That is very important, because as we know, last year, sadly, many
agricultural shows, some of them having operated for over 100 years,
could not operate for the first time in their history because of COVID-19. This
program will assist those agricultural shows.
In
the six months the Getting the Show Back on the Road program has already been
operating, it has provided some $4 million
in risk-share support, and nearly 50 events have been supported through that
program so they could take place. I remind members that other states and
territories in Australia have not been able to hold many events at all. Western Australia has been able to, because we
have kept the place safe through our very important safety protocols . We
also want to make sure that regional and local economies are stimulated, and
the people who work in those industries, who
have been hit hard, have been supported. This Getting the Show Back on the Road
program is focused on that. We have
seen events happen in Kings Park, including concerts by Human Nature and John
Williamson. There were also the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with
the Birds of Tokyo and Missy Higgins. The Black Swan State Theatre Company has
been able to hold its productions because of the support of this program. There
were the Fairbridge Festival, the Fringe World Festival and the Perth Festival.
All of those things were supported by Getting the Show Back on the Road. We are
expanding that program now, and it means that a whole range of other events
will be supported. This is a great initiative by the McGowan government. It is
a demonstration of our commitment to culture, arts and tourism, and the
importance of those industries to the state's economy, the people who
are employed by them and businesses that rely on that income for their
existence. We will keep doing it. We will keep supporting those things so we
can have a vibrant Western Australia.
the question, and I also thank her for her very strong support of all things
cultural, all things arts and all things tourism. It is wonderful and it is
important. I am sure you would be interested in this too, Madam Speaker! The
Premier, the members for Churchlands and Nedlands, the Minister for Agriculture
and Food and I have just come from the Claremont Showground, where a very
important announcement was made this morning that will see our Royal Show for
2021 supported strongly by the McGowan government. Our package will see that
important historic show in Western Australia's history held again this
year. It will be supported by the McGowan government. There will be a reduction
in costs for families to attend. That is magnificent.
That also includes an expanded
Getting the Show Back on the Road program, which has been very successful. I launched that program late last year with the
Premier, and it has already provided tremendous support to the events and performing arts industries, but we are now expanding it to include regional
tourism events, events in regional Western Australia,
music and other events that people in Western Australia want to get to and
enjoy. The Getting t he Show Back on the Road program will see an
extension of support, and that includes expanding the safety net for those
events to go ahead. We will see agricultural shows in regional Western Australia
supported and able to access this
opportunity. That is very important, because as we know, last year, sadly, many
agricultural shows, some of them having operated for over 100 years,
could not operate for the first time in their history because of COVID-19. This
program will assist those agricultural shows.
In
the six months the Getting the Show Back on the Road program has already been
operating, it has provided some $4 million
in risk-share support, and nearly 50 events have been supported through that
program so they could take place. I remind members that other states and
territories in Australia have not been able to hold many events at all. Western Australia has been able to, because we
have kept the place safe through our very important safety protocols . We
also want to make sure that regional and local economies are stimulated, and
the people who work in those industries, who
have been hit hard, have been supported. This Getting the Show Back on the Road
program is focused on that. We have
seen events happen in Kings Park, including concerts by Human Nature and John
Williamson. There were also the West Australian Symphony Orchestra with
the Birds of Tokyo and Missy Higgins. The Black Swan State Theatre Company has
been able to hold its productions because of the support of this program. There
were the Fairbridge Festival, the Fringe World Festival and the Perth Festival.
All of those things were supported by Getting the Show Back on the Road. We are
expanding that program now, and it means that a whole range of other events
will be supported. This is a great initiative by the McGowan government. It is
a demonstration of our commitment to culture, arts and tourism, and the
importance of those industries to the state's economy, the people who
are employed by them and businesses that rely on that income for their
existence. We will keep doing it. We will keep supporting those things so we
can have a vibrant Western Australia.
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