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Proposal art - is it just grant rhetoric or a more complex equation?
Did you get your funding this year - what happens to all those good ideas?
Why we need an arts party
The new Arts Party is not a small issue party. There are good reasons why all of Australia needs this…
Why Tasmania deserves extra funds
The Australia Council figures released last week showed Tasmania receives a disproportionate slice of funding. So it should.
Should we fund Wagner operas or Kyle Sandilands statues?
In an age of user-generated content and zombie walks, it’s hard to defend opera’s pre-eminence.
Turning women to crime
Twenty years ago the Scarlet Stilettos changed crime writing from a gritty macho genre to a sexy stage for women…
Facing the overstimulated audience
Festivals can also be places of extreme sensory overload. A recent Situate Lab tackled what that means..
Arts vulnerable in Education Review
A review into demand-driven university places may make it harder to access education in the arts.
Dead By Page 50: the Three Little Aboriginal Pigs of Australian Narrative
In art, Australia needs Aboriginal heroes and Aboriginal Everymen and Everywomen, not just noble savages or doomed innocents.
Measuring the value of the arts
Ticket numbers don't tell the whole story but how do you calculate the value of empathy, transformation or community-building?
The day the music died
Why does the death of an artist hit us so hard, and why do we need to publicise our grief?
