30 major exhibitions to keep you in the cool this summer – with air-con but more importantly the wow factor.

Advice from business leaders on asking governments for money, embedding culture in the political agenda, and getting the language right when you come to the table.

Alexander Boynes and Mandy Martin team up with sound designer Tristen Parr, to create a poignant multi-dimensional exhibition that taps into our contemporary climate crisis and Australia's resources debate.

From group drawing to dissident behaviour, stealing innovation to tricking the brain into being creative, Nicole Velik of The Ideas Bodega offers techniques to super charge your think tank.

The Hon Paul Fletcher faced delegates at the Creative Regions National Summit yesterday in Canberra. This is how he responded to their pressing questions.