Gina Fairley
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In Depth: Mines Versus Aboriginal Culture
With four accounts in the past month coming to attention, we take a look at the escalating disrespect for traditional…
Words without Borders: Celebrating refugee poets
Refugee poets and spoken word artists share their work online, confronting issues of racism, injustice, colonialism, blackness, and empowerment in…
Pre-pandemic thinking creates timely digital performance-based festival
Two-years, two venues and five new commissions – BLEED is a collaborative digital festival envisaged pre-COVID-19, where the digital is…
Could paid entry become the new norm for galleries and museums?
Research shows that numbers drop off when museum entry is imposed, but are there ways around it to bolster revenue?
How divided are readers on removing Australia's colonialist monuments?
Reader comments show that the removal of colonial monuments in Australia is a deeply divided debate.
Are Australian monuments in line to be toppled?
As a trend sweeps the world, from the US to London, Brussels, Edinburgh and beyond, we ask what Australia’s colonialist…
Is ageism in the workplace making a pandemic comeback?
As some return to the work – and others continue to face unemployment – we take a look at perils…
Who made the Queens Birthday Honours List 2020?
In a list that is heavily weighted towards the law and politics this year, the arts barely gets a look…
First sector survey results in and they are worse than expected
Among the many COVID-19 surveys currently being conducted, Music Victoria and partner peak bodies reveal that 42% of operators in…
COVID crowdfunding that will get a dance company open
A new work by dancers with disability uses crowdfunding and matched funding to open a new work in Lismore despite…