As a sector, arts and culture professionals have become much better at cross-discipline collaboration. They have also embraced the all-encompassing (and somewhat blurry) title of Creative Industries, allowing what they do to dovetail, and integrate, into new emerging creative offerings and technologies. The sector has even improved at banding together to lobby government, an outcome of the pandemic and National Cultural Policy.
The Summit program described its function: ‘A regional framework [that] unlocks the cultural ambition and potential of regional Australia by integrating industries such as tourism, hospitality, manufacturing, agricultural and technology with the creative sector, and supporting the distinctive assets of a region and their communities.’
