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Regional Arts Fund

To provide financial assistance to support and promote the creation of, participation in and access to Australian arts and culture in regional and remote Australia, including by providing support for:

(a) professional development and employment of artists and arts workers; and

(b) arts or culture projects and activities of strategic benefit to Australian arts and culture.

This objective has the effect it would have if it were limited to measures:

(a) with respect to aliens (within the meaning of paragraph 51(xix) of the Constitution); or

(b) with respect to Indigenous Australians and particular groups of Indigenous Australians; or

(c) to give effect to Australia's obligations under one or more international agreements, including the following:

(i) the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, particularly Articles 7 and 10;

(ii) the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, particularly Articles 2, 6 and 15;

(iii) the International Labour Organization's Convention concerning Employment Policy, particularly Articles 1 and 2;

(iv) the International Labour Organization's Convention concerning Vocational Guidance and Vocational Training in the Development of Human Resources, particularly Article 1; or

(d) with respect to places, persons, matters or things external to Australia; or

(e) that are peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation; or

(f) undertaken in, or in relation to, a Territory.