Opinions & Analysis

Never apologise. It's not funny.
How does an audience respond when a comedian steps out of character and confesses to feeling bad about a show?

Dance is missing its essential partner
Dance has won a place in the arts curriculum but the policy will be a wallflower without the partnership of…

Ditch Lonely Planet, advises writer
True travel writing needs fear and insecurity not just tourism tips.

How to make millions as a creative entrepreneur
Why you should shed the starving artist mentality and turn your creativity into a start-up like these successful creative entrepreneurs.

Music industry underpays and undervalues photographers
Music photographers are often paid next to nothing – or nothing at all - for arduous 12 hour days and…

Arts careers not as precarious as you think
Artists often complain about precarious careers and unreliable incomes but they are better off than many other modern workers.

Creative Australia fails tertiary education
New Arts Minister Tony Burke should address the glaring omission of tertiary education in the National Cultural Policy.

How art and money can enjoy getting into bed together
Business is not the big bad wolf of the creative industries, and it’s time we stopped huffing and puffing.

Literature written out of Creative Australia
When the National Cultural Policy was released last week, there was one particular artform conspicuously absent.

Creative Australia without Crean
Where does the sacking of the Arts Minister leave the National Cultural Policy?