Australian culture in the Age of FANG

FANG – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google and their ilk now dominate global culture. Where does that leave Australian identity?
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It came as something of a shock to me recently to realise that, with the exception of the ABC, all the key national cultural institutions in Australia are only about 50 years old.

Of course there are great state libraries, galleries and universities that were founded before federation, but it took more than sixty years after federation to create national cultural institutions.

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Julianne Schultz
About the Author
Professor Julianne Schultz AM is an academic, author and arts strategist. She was the founding editor of the Griffith Review and chaired the Reference Group on Creative Australia.