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Why I started Readers and Writers Against the Genocide (RWAG)
'As a literary community, we trade in creative freedom, free speech and the contestation of ideas,' says RWAG founder Aviva…
Arts students with disability faced harsh odds 40 years ago – what’s different now?
The Executive Director of one of our largest disability arts organisations, DADAA, identifies positive changes in tertiary arts training, but…
Why is there so little nature writing by disabled Australian writers?
Author Jessica White considers ecobiography, and how deafness shapes her relationship with natural and built environments.
I was the Archives Editor at Meanjin – its closure is baffling
As Archives Editor, Emma Sutherland had ‘read everything’ in Meanjin's past, but was unprepared for its troubled present.
What Arts Minister’s press briefing reveals about policy evaluation
Digging in to Federal Arts Minister’s recent media briefing points to some of his policy evaluation preferences.
Meanjin's value? We’ve done some calculations – and it’s not about money
Meanjin has an extraordinary record for contributing to public debate on matters important to the social fabric of Australian life.
Was Sydney Contemporary a sales success? The numbers are in
It was always going to be tenuous this year, but was Sydney Contemporary a reflection of a struggling economy, or…
ArtsHub's verdict on Sydney Contemporary art fair’s hottest stands in trying times
This was always going to be a different art fair, staged in a flagging economy, but the changes were unexpected.
Art shouldn't make us afraid: my three principles for healthy artmaking
Percussionist, composer and author Steven Schick makes a case for optimism in art ahead of his upcoming Australian residency.
Meanjin: bean counting misses the intangible value of reading and imagining
The closure of Australia's second oldest literary journal Meanjin contradicts Melbourne's stance as a UNESCO City of Literature.
