Two-year funding for Australian music industry representative organisations whose primary activity is providing services to key areas of the contemporary Australian music industry.

The Music Australia Core Contribution Fund supports Australian music organisations that represent specific cohorts of Australian artists and industry professionals. These include peak bodies, trade associations and member organisations. It provides a two-year investment for core operations and staffing to build stability and capacity in the Australian contemporary music sector.

This investment will support your organisation's core operational needs, providing stability and building capacity in the contemporary music sector.

This can include:

• staffing costs including wages and fees
• administration and other operational running costs
• professional skills development for artists and/or arts workers
• sector development or capacity building
• promotion and marketing
• market development activity
• event costs (such as conferences, symposiums and awards).

• music industry representative organisations whose primary activity is providing continuous services to key areas of the contemporary Australian music industry in one of the following groupings:
  • a specific musical genre
  • diverse representation (e.g. gender equity)
  • geographic representation (e.g. a specific fixed regional area)
  • a specific music industry membership group.
• The activity of the organisation must meet the Music Australia Council's agreed definition of contemporary music, as follows:

"Australian contemporary music is any genre or subgenre of music currently composed, written, produced by Australians and licensed, recorded, presented, and distributed through commercial and non-commercial activity. For the purposes of Music Australia's investments, the focus is on musical works that are new, original and relevant to contemporary Australia."

• Australian organisations that are registered under Australian law (for example - an incorporated association or company limited by guarantee) or created by law (such as a government statutory authority).

• Website: https://creative.gov.au/about-us/contact-us