SAVE SUPER ART

Dear All,

Please find below a Campaign Media Release from the ALP. We are pleased to announce that all three major political parties in Australia have now reached a consensus position to rule out the Cooper Report proposals to ban artworks from SMSFs.

As such the Australian art market can return to a state of certainty for the first time since these recommendations were made public on April 29. The audit guidelines drawn up by the Australian Artists Association in conjunction with SPAA have been accepted and we look forward to further development of these guidelines with whoever holds office following the Federal election of 21 August.

The Public Rally called for yesterday will no longer be necessary. The Melbourne Art Fair can look forward to a week of celebrations of the best Australian art without these uncertainties hanging over its head.

We wish to thank all the organisations and individuals who have assisted the campaign since May – including a big thank you to Jonathan and Katrina from MediaLink. A particular note of thanks to Lisa Gluck for keeping the website, Facebook and twitter up to date over the past month. And of course I cannot think of another individual who would have been able to bring all sides of the Australian arts industry together for this cause except Tom Lowenstein.

This is not necessarily the end of the campaign. Some supporters have called for a peak lobbying group to emerge from the chrysallis of Save Super Art. That would be great. For the time being there is an election to be decided and some accountancy work that I must now attend to!

Warm regards

Michael Fox

Campaign Co-ordinator

Save Super Art

www.savesuperart.org.au

To read the ALP Campaign Media Release, click HERE