Opinions & Analysis
Creative Australia fails tertiary education
New Arts Minister Tony Burke should address the glaring omission of tertiary education in the National Cultural Policy.
How art and money can enjoy getting into bed together
Business is not the big bad wolf of the creative industries, and it’s time we stopped huffing and puffing.
Literature written out of Creative Australia
When the National Cultural Policy was released last week, there was one particular artform conspicuously absent.
Creative Australia without Crean
Where does the sacking of the Arts Minister leave the National Cultural Policy?
How your copyright is changing
Copyright is important to creators working across all art forms, providing income as well as a legal basis for artistic…
Cultural Policy fails people with disabilities
Arts Access Australia is running a campaign to get a better deal for people with disabilities from the National Cultural…
Literary festival emerges out of censorship
Up close and bookish with Aung San Suu Kyi at Myanmar’s First International Literary Festival.
Arts education should replace literacy testing
Evidence shows the tens of millions of dollars spent on improving NAPLAN results would be better spent on using arts…
Picking winners: how future stars are spotted
Careers depend on being spotted for an exhibition of emerging artists. It helps to understand how the curator thinks.
Are the arts now on the national agenda?
Now we have a National Cultural Policy, government should talk up the arts and encourage business to foot the bill.