Cultural commentator and academic (and Breakfasters segment regular!) Ben Eltham joins Richard Watts on SmartArts to talk about the Save Our Arts campaign. Save Our Arts is campaigning to put arts reform and funding on the agenda ahead of the federal election – Ben dives into what the arts scene looks like right now and some solutions to move the dial this election.

'It's a bigger and bigger problem – these large platforms, mostly based overseas, control more and more of our local content... Spotify has about 70% of the streaming audio market in Australia, and that's a more dominant position than Qantas has in aviation. And they don't have rules in place on Spotify about how much local music they have to play. They don't have to play any at all if they don't want to. And anecdotally, we know they aren't.'

Learn more about Save Our Arts here.