In the final session of ATF2015, delegates voiced a motion of no confidence in the actions of the Federal government.

MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE
(Australian Theatre Forum 2015)

We, the undersigned delegates of ATF2015, voice a motion of no confidence in the actions and ideology of the Federal government currently lead by Prime Minister Anthony Abbott.

This motion is voiced due to our extreme concerns regarding the widespread and devastating attacks on our social infrastructure, and the sustained cuts upon the very underpinning of Australian civil society.

In voicing this motion we, the undersigned delegates of ATF2015, are not merely motivated by the widespread cuts to national investment in the arts and culture. Rather we are compelled to respond by our urgent concerns about the ideologically-driven erosion of our collective social fabric, which, unless checked, will radically reduce our capacity to hope, dream, imagine, build and share.

The irreparable social and cultural cost to the future of this nation will be felt for generations and must be urgently resisted.

This, our motion of no confidence in the actions and ideology of the Federal Government currently led by Prime Minister Anthony Abbott, is voiced by:

Leticia Caceres
Chris Bendall
David Williams
Vissolela Ndenzako
Justin Smith
Helen Ramoutsaki
Tim Stitz
Samara Hersch
Emma Valente
Lily Shearer
Ashton Malcolm
Emma Webb
Yasmin Gurreeboo
Sarah Austin
Alex Walker
Olivia Allen
Roslyn Oades
Richard Watts
Fiona Hallenan-Barker
Nat Randall
Rebekah Berger
Barbara Vickery
Rose Godde
Edwin Kemp
Attrill Mina Mokhtarani
Adena Jacobs
Phyllis Jane Rose
Jo Thomas
Afeif Ismail
Racheal Missingham
Joanna Agius
Ilana Gelbart
Todd MacDonald
Fiona Blair
James Wheeler
Sally Blackwood
Mish Grigor
Richard Higgins
Luke Cowling
Petra Kalive
Julie Walker
Ellen Steele
Jennifer Greer
Holmes Carlos Gomes
Stuart Halusz
Rob Brookman
Colin Kinchela
Alice Cooper
Fiona de Garis
Dan Koop
Simon Wellington
Katherine Lyall-Watson
James Lawson
Finegan Kruckenmeyer
Sally Richardson
Daniel Santangeli
Guy Hooper
Chi Vu