Australia has a potent cultural brand trademarked by vitality, confidence and humour but we don’t understand the strength of our international profile.
Whilst the Australian arts sector is well developed and has an established international reputation, there is often a lack of robustness, even fragility, around many of our arts organisations that support artists and arts practice.
We do not have policy settings that place our nation’s cultural infrastructure in the same mind-space as the other types of national infrastructure that service what is perceived to be more urgent human need.
