My take on the budget is up at artsHub: Small lift for the arts in Federal Budget 2012.

Some good stuff has also been written over at the Sydney Morning Herald by Joyce Morgan and Adam Fulton:
Galleries and museums welcome budget windfall, Tamara, Marcus and Jane are all quoted.

There’s a bit in the Oz too, from Matthew Westwood, definitely the lack of National Cultural Policy is what people are raising eyebrows about: No national vision yet but $64m for arts, museums.

and Ben Eltham’s piece is an interesting read too at Crikey: The arts: divided squeeze, but cash for Wolverine and galleries.