Opinions & Analysis
Creative Australia without Crean
Where does the sacking of the Arts Minister leave the National Cultural Policy?
How your copyright is changing
Copyright is important to creators working across all art forms, providing income as well as a legal basis for artistic…
Cultural Policy fails people with disabilities
Arts Access Australia is running a campaign to get a better deal for people with disabilities from the National Cultural…
Literary festival emerges out of censorship
Up close and bookish with Aung San Suu Kyi at Myanmar’s First International Literary Festival.
Arts education should replace literacy testing
Evidence shows the tens of millions of dollars spent on improving NAPLAN results would be better spent on using arts…
Picking winners: how future stars are spotted
Careers depend on being spotted for an exhibition of emerging artists. It helps to understand how the curator thinks.
Are the arts now on the national agenda?
Now we have a National Cultural Policy, government should talk up the arts and encourage business to foot the bill.
What does Asia think of Australia?
With so much emphasis placed on what Australia thinks of Asian art, we neglect to think about the reverse.
Think small for arts-business partnerships
Arts organisations tend to target big corporates but smaller enterprises can deliver excellent value for creative partnership deals.
Crafting up a new initiative
The most active arts community isn't where you think it is, and they are finding new direction.