Opinions & Analysis
Victoria’s Creative Industries Minister responds to arts funding debate: building a creative sector for all Victorians
Victoria’s Minister for Creative Industries Colin Brooks says the commentary over the recent round of Victorian Government funding to creative…
2026 is the year the art world finally gets real – and other predictions
January’s prediction season is now over, so what has stuck as the key drivers shaping the art world in 2026?
The night of the long knives – Victoria's Shadow Arts Minister responds to funding cuts
Victoria's Shadow Minister for Arts and Creative Industries, the Hon David Davis MP, responds to Creative Victoria’s recent funding cuts…
Are Australia’s arts governance models setting us up to fail?
The actions of Adelaide Festival’s former board prompt important questions about the governance of statutory authority arts boards.
Cultural safety isn’t a shield, it’s a mirror, and organisations need to look into it
Amid debates about the right to freedom of expression, we are losing our sense of what cultural safety in practice…
Pants down: how it feels to publish your first book
Miriam Webster, whose debut short story collection The Slip was published in July 2025, reflects on the experience of releasing…
Creative Victoria: backing or backing away?
Creative Victoria’s recently delivered Creative Enterprise Program funding stunned some organisations and alarmed others: are the outcomes a warning sign…
Adelaide Writers Week crisis: former Adelaide Festival leaders call on Board to reinstate Randa Abdel-Fattah
The open letter to the Board of Adelaide Festival is signed by former Artistic Directors, Chief Executives and General Managers…
The Melbourne Theatre Company is too woke? Go back to sleep
Nobody benefits from disparaging words and lazy critique – certainly not those of us working in the arts.
You write like AI, people think it's AI generated—what should you do?
AI writing can be obvious, repetitive and obvious, leading to a tapestry of issues for human writers—let's delve into this…