Save Super Art now calls for a public rally to be held in Melbourne on Sunday 8th August to bury the Cooper recommendations to ban artworks from SMSFs once and for all. If you are in Melbourne next weekend please contact us to register your interest in participating in the public rally.
With the Federal election now only 3 weeks away the position of the Save Super Art campaign has become clear – Vote Arts First. It is imperative that Labor rules out the Cooper recommendations before August 21 to receive the support of the arts industry that it is clearly taking for granted.
SSA thanks you all for the great support and urges supporters to continue emailing the politicians at www.savesuperart.org.au and to write directly to Prime Minister Gillard.
Attached is a letter that you can add comments to, print off and post to the Prime Minister. You can address your letter to one or both of these addresses:
1. Office of the Prime Minister
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
2. ALP National Secretariat
Unit 5, 9 Sydney Avenue
Barton ACT 2600
You can also email any comments about this issue to laborconnect@australianlabor.com.au or to info@cbr.alp.org.au.
Template letter, HERE
18 Comments
1 Megan Williams wrote:
Yes, we’ll be in it, but I’m afraid that, knowing artists, the rally could be 3 men and a cat on the day. I think we should ensure that a decent number of people will turn up before going ahead.
BW, Meg Williams.
2 Maryanne Byrne wrote:
Thanks, as an art collector I will be voting for the coalition as the shadow minister wrote to me and notified me that they do not support the Cooper review. Ms Gillard obviously has no respect for the industry in that she just keeps you all hanging on.
3 Susanne Pearce wrote:
I shall be in Melbourne on Sunday 8 August and would like to register my interest in participating in the rally.
4 Randi wrote:
I will be in Melbourne on the 8th August- please let me know about the rally.
5 Norah wrote:
We will be in Melbourne at the Art Fair, can you please advise where, and when the rally will be held, and we will try to get a group of the WA galleries to attend.
I am leaving for Melbourne tomorrow morning at 7 and will be out of the city for a couple of days but back in Melbourne on Sunday night.
6 Kim Lawler wrote:
Dear Mr Cooper, Government Ministers and Opposition Spokespeople
I support the SAVE SUPER ART campaign against the Cooper Review recommendations banning art investments in Self Managed Super Funds. The recommendations are fundamentally flawed, serve no good purpose, are already creating damaging uncertainty in the Australian art market, and, if implemented, would create disastrous “unintended consequences” for the Australian art industry.
7 Martin wrote:
Hello Michael – thank you for the interesting but rather disturbing reports regarding the Cooper recommendations on SMSF. I see The Greens are on our side – where do Tony Abbott and his minister stand? If time permits, Kerry O’Brien on ABC 7-30 Report may like to grill the minister and thereby bring the issue to a wider audience. Just a thought. All the best Michael.
8 Tracy Smith wrote:
thanks for this I have spammed it out to as many people as I can. I will put the links on twitter and facebook as well.
Paul and I will try to book a flight to get down there but we have to make arrangements here first as we have organised an art exhibition and this is the day that the artists drop the work off.
9 Stewart MacFarlane wrote:
As a full-time artist with 30 years of practice, I have experienced the difference between Liberal and Labour Governments on my income.
A Labour Government suffocates the art world and the flow of money. A Liberal Government frees up spending and my income expands.
I would hate to think of the damage that would be done should The Greens gain any more power.
I am fully confident that a Liberal Government would rapidly invigorate any sluggishness in the art-world and take care of the Cooper recommendations.
10 Stewart MacFarlane wrote:
I will be in Melbourne for the Art fair and would like to take part in the protest rally, if you can let me know the details I would be most grateful thanks
11 John Ritson wrote:
Dear Mr Cooper, Government Ministers and Opposition Spokespeople
I support the SAVE SUPER ART campaign against the Cooper Review recommendations banning art investments in Self Managed Super Funds. The recommendations are fundamentally flawed, serve no good purpose, are already creating damaging uncertainty in the Australian art market, and, if implemented, would create disastrous “unintended consequences” for the Australian art industry.
12 Greg Weight wrote:
I am a fine art photographer, exhibiting artist and portrait photographer of Australian Artists. 90% of my annual income is generated by the Australian art market, which in itself has been steadily growing stronger since Australias settlement, more so since the 1960’s. As a nation we can be proud of our current reputation in the international art world. My carreer as well as that of every practising visual artist in Australia will suffer if the Cooper report is supported by the Government. It is a knife in the back of Australia’s cultural life and must be stopped.
13 Hans Sip wrote:
I will certainly be at the rally supporting the Aboriginal arts industry which has been hard hit by the uncertainty created by the Cooper Report. I have spoken to some very senior people over the past few days about the ramifications of so much art flooding the market should the recommendations be implemented and none support this move against the private super funds. With so much apparent disapproval it is mystifying that the report still has any legs.
One also wonders how a large private exhibition such as the one we have been tirelessly working on for so long would ever be fielded if collections such as mine were forcibly broken up. They are important cultural resources and the report has no doubt overlooked that as well.
14 Sharon Billinge wrote:
I would be interested in participating in the rally
15 John Wregg wrote:
I am writing to add my name to the list of people who will be in Melbourne on Sunday 8th August and are interested in participating in a rally against the proposed Cooper recommendations to SMSFs. Please let me know where and when, and if there is any other practical way I can assist in this protest – other than the measures you have already suggested and I have acted upon.
16 Mac Connell wrote:
Yes I think you are right – get as much info out to the people interested in the arts..to get as many voices to do the talking..before and at the ballot box.
See the thing is, not many people out there really know what is going on with this Cooper stuff, and its implications for the arts. Unless I knew you, I wouldn’t have known. The Cooper report is a silent assassin. Since the election campaigns have started, there has been no real policy stuff on the arts at all from what I can see or have heard.. The arts are so far being overlooked!
I’ll send out some emails
17 Catherine Asquith wrote:
I would like to participate in this rally.
I await your further advices regarding departure point and time.
18 Vivien wrote:
I have only just returned from the USA, where the reaction to the Cooper Report when explained left my colleagues in the arts there was of complete gaping disbelief.
I have written to all ministers related to the Cooper Report and the PM and my local representative Michael Danby.
I will also attend the rally on August 8.
Kate Owens letter is remarkable. I hope she gets a response.