Opinions & Analysis
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…
In 2026, can we please have fewer books published in Australia?
Publisher and all-round book lover Terri-ann White thinks too many books are published and rails against the cult of the…
20 years of Arts House: reflecting on where it all began
The founding Artistic Director of Arts House takes a look back at the early days of Melbourne’s home of contemporary…
La Mama 2026 and beyond: reflect, reconnect, relaunch
La Mama reopens after a year of reflection and reconnection, doubling down on ‘complete artistic freedom’ and committing to staging…
Anatomy of a campaign: What the AI copyright win teaches us about collaborative advocacy
Nicholas Pickard of APRA AMCOS takes us behind the scenes of the major AI copyright campaign and finds many lessons…