{"id":580507,"date":"2026-04-02T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:11:11","slug":"the-castle-director-rob-sitch-tapped-to-shape-australias-cultural-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580507\/","title":{"rendered":"The Castle director Rob Sitch tapped to shape Australia\u2019s cultural policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Sitch directed one of Australia\u2019s best-loved films, and now he is among those tapped by the Albanese Government to help direct its next national cultural policy.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian and co-writer of The Castle will join one of the five expert panels that federal Arts Minister Tony Burke has created to guide policy for the arts and culture sector, which contributed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infrastructure.gov.au\/research-data\/bureau-communications-arts-and-regional-research\/arts\/cultural-and-creative-activity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$67.4 billion or 2.5 per cent of Australia gross domestic product in 2023-24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Sitch directed one of Australia\u2019s best-loved films, and now he is among those tapped by the Albanese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-580507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}