Opinions & Analysis
Anatomy of a campaign: What the AI copyright win teaches us about collaborative advocacy
Nicholas Pickard of APRA AMCOS takes us behind the scenes of the major AI copyright campaign and finds many lessons…
With ADC’s forced closure, CEO reflects on ambition and legacy
CEO Lisa Cahill reflects on Australian Design Centre in the wake of the organisation’s announced 2026 closure.
We've achieved a successful AI copyright ruling – but 'significant' advocacy is still needed
The CEO of the Australian Publishers Association welcomes the recent TDM ruling, which upholds authors' copyright in the training of…
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…