4920.0 - Arts and Culture: State and Territory Profiles, 2012

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Contents + New South Wales + Victoria + Queensland + South Australia + Western Australia + Tasmania + Northern Territory Children's Participation in Cultural and Leisure Activities Cultural Funding by Government Cultural Participation + Employment in Culture + Australian Capital Territory History of Changes	CULTURAL FUNDING BY GOVERNMENT This report presents an overview of expenditure on cultural activities funded by the Northern Territory Government. The data used in this report are available in the data cube for the Northern Territory attached to Cultural Funding by Government, Australia, 2011-12 (cat. no. 4183.0) on the ABS website. In 2011-12, the estimate of cultural expenditure funded by the Northern Territory Government was $87.9m, an increase of 13% from 2010-11. The 2011-12 estimate was 3% of the total cultural expenditure funded by state and territory governments. Recurrent expenses accounted for 85% of Northern Territory Government cultural expenditure. The estimate of per person expenditure by the Northern Territory Government was $377.90. Cultural expenditure funded by the Northern Territory Government has fluctuated over the last five years. Whilst the level of expenditure was similar from 2007-08 to 2009-10 it fell 11% to $78.1m in 2010-11, the lowest level of expenditure over the five years. The 2011-12 estimate of expenditure ($87.9m) returned to a level similar to 2009-10 ($88.2m). GOVERNMENT CULTURAL EXPENDITURE, NT In 2011-12, the estimate of expenditure of the Northern Territory Government funds on Heritage activities increased by 6% to $72.6m. Expenditure on Environmental heritage increased by 12% from $38.4m in 2010-11 to $43.2m and accounted for 60% of Northern Territory Government Heritage expenditure in 2011-12. Partially offsetting this movement was a drop in expenditure on Other museums and cultural heritage, down 7% ($0.9m) from the 2010-11 level. GOVERNMENT HERITAGE EXPENDITURE, NT In 2011-12, the estimate of expenditure of the Northern Territory Government funds for Arts activities rose 66% to $15.3m. Whilst increased expenditure was reported in the majority of funding categories between 2010-11 and 2011-12, the largest contributors to this movement were the categories of Other arts and Music composition and publishing with increases of $2.5m and $1.3m respectively. Expenditure on Other arts accounted for almost one third (32%) of all Arts expenditure by the Northern Territory Government in 2011-12. GOVERNMENT ARTS EXPENDITURE, By selected categories, NT Back to top Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.