The Morrison Government has a track record of treating arts and cultural institutions in Australia with contempt and neglect. They have cut the department for the arts, cut funding to the Australia Council and failed to provide desperately needed funds to arts and cultural organisations and workers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Collecting Institutions play a major role in supporting the arts and preserving Australian culture and history for future generations. The work that they do is a public service and as such, NCIs should be appropriately funded by government sources and not reliant on private donations.