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Making the most of your first working decade
Studies show your lifetime income is determined largely by how well you earn in the first decade of your working…
A new model for publishing (and paying) writers
A new online platform aims to democratise the entire publishing process and create new opportunities for writers.
What an arts career really looks like
No arts career looks the same, but they all have one thing in common - no one really knows where…
Jazz losing time to capitalism's bebop
A great festival success deserves stability. Instead Wangaratta Jazz has lost both triennial funding and visionary leadership.
Rediscovering your curiosity
We often use our curiosity to great effect in the arts but few of us manage to recapture the innate…
Abusive tweets bloom into artworks
A Newcastle artist visualises Twitter abuse of Australian politicians, with a little help from a social scientist.
Smaller galleries are at breaking point
Small to medium visual arts organisations do double the work for less than half the funding.
How to manage intelligent workers
Creative workers need to know that they are understood and valued as a whole person and not an expendable unit…
Why 'The Play that Goes Wrong' is wrong about theatre
The assumptions that makes amateur theatre an old joke are really a power play that creates a fall guy for…
Not lost in translation
Funding programs such as Catalyst encourage cross-cultural collaboration, but there’s more than language barriers to consider when embarking on such…