Policy
National calls for a national plan
In the wake of 2020’s devastating impacts on Australia’s cultural life and creative industries, what’s the most important role for…
Writers represent the arts’ fragility at Parliamentary Inquiry
At the first hearing at the Parliamentary Inquiry into the arts, three writers and a literary journal editor told of…
Meet the ACT’s new Minister for the Arts
A voracious reader who loves the theatre, Tara Cheyne MLA was born in Queensland but is passionate about her adopted…
SA budget 2020-2021 includes significant arts investment
$50M towards Adelaide's Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre, $2.3 million for country theatres, and a purpose-built storage facility for the…
20x20: Facing the truth, ‘We remain a colonised country’
Commemorating 20 years of ArtsHub, we revisit this 2019 keynote speech by Worimi woman, curator Genevieve Grieves, which asks what…
Technology means disability is no longer invisible, but it's not enough
Wongaiibon woman, and wheelchair user Gayle Kennedy used her keynote speech at Artstate Wagga Wagga to say, 'Stop, you are…
20x20: What to do when you're defunded
After the tears and the rage, what should your next step be if your funding is cut, or axed altogether?…
Why ‘COVID comms’ need more artists and less jargon
As Victorians emerge from lockdown, cartoonist David Blumenstein thinks governments need more artists to help them focus on how they…
Opinion: Greens support for the arts in Queensland
Amy MacMahon (Greens candidate for South Brisbane) and Kirsten Lovejoy (Greens Candidate for McConnel) spruik their party's arts policies in…
Opinion: The Palaszczuk Labor Government is backing the arts
Queensland Minister for the Arts, the Hon. Leeanne Enoch MP, outlines Labor's ambitions and plans for the arts if the…