Opinions & Analysis
No clear winner but a clear loser
Indeed the most positive comment in relation to Senator Fifield that we could find on Twitter was 'He turned up'.
If you work in the arts, it's time to leave Australia
The three smallest contemporary visual arts jurisdictions SA, NT and ACT have now been wiped off the map of Australia.
What you need to know ahead of the National Arts Debate
The National Arts Debate will enable voters to assess Liberal, Labor and Greens arts policies. Here’s our guide to understanding…
The great peak bodies massacre
Why have four out of the five national peak artform organisations just had their funding discontinued by the Australia Council?
95% of artists miss out on copyright payments
A new survey shows that only five per cent of artist publishing their work online receive copyright royalties.
Don’t kill the feeders
Short term thinking is destroying the arts ecology by stripping it from the grassroots up.
Jeanette Winterson on why we need the imaginative life
The arts aren’t a luxury activity. They are central to life. Art is the part of us that is met,…
Good for lawyers, bad for creators
The Productivity Commission's proposed changes to book licensing would mean less money for writers, composers and fillmakers but not lawyers.
Enough! is the message from 38 visual art signatories
Leaders in the visual arts sector respond to the stripping of organisational funding in a joint statement.
Exploitation is at the core of the arts industry
We have reached Year Zero, a point where cultural policy and infrastructure no longer serves the interests of the arts,…