Music, literature and First Nations at the forefront of a $300m boost to the arts, Labor to announce

Part of the $200m funding boost to the arts sector announced under the Albanese Labor government is a new Indigenous-led body on creative and cultural expression. Photograph: Thurtell/Getty Images

The federal government’s 48-year-old arts funding and advisory body will get a $200m funding boost and a new name in the Labor government’s overhaul of Australia’s arts and culture sectors.

The Australia Council for the Arts will be rebranded Creative Australia and will take two-thirds of almost $300m that the Albanese government is promising to inject back into arts, entertainment and culture over the next four years.