Constructing policy is always head-splitting. Firstly, because the level of consultation and reporting required for an accurate picture is exhaustive. But secondly, because that investment is fruitless unless it allows innovation and fresh thinking to capture the imagination of stakeholders to the degree that it is actually taken on.
It is a massive task to achieve, and perhaps one of the reasons Australia has vacillated for too long around implementing a new national Arts and Cultural Policy.
