Opinions & Analysis
Why Bendigo? Keys to a culturally receptive regional city
Avant-garde isn't the monopoly of cities. The Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (BIFEM) found a vital regional centre was…
What's STEM without the flower?
Education’s hottest topic is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) while the subjects that teach us human values are undervalued.
No Minister: An artist's encounter with Senator Brandis
Behind cocktails and canapes there was a fiery exchange at the Helpmann Awards this week.
Androgyny revisited: a busty Bowie fan's lament
Bowie fever has brought androgyny's appeal back to centre stage but in the cabaret tradition there are ways to mess…
GST changes may not deliver for books and music
The Treasurer is moving to introduce GST on items bought online but will the threshold be low enough for books…
Museums struggle with the entertainment imperative
First it was blockbusters, then architecture-branded museums, now slides and merry-go-rounds. Is it possible to be too entertaining?
The future of arts advocacy
The power of arts advocacy in recent weeks has implications beyond arts funding for the entire civic narrative.
The arts sector's formidable machine
If nothing else, one good thing to come out of the artquake caused by the funding cuts in the last…
Missing the boat to China
Touring Swan Lake in China is not the kind of cultural diplomacy that will help Australia gain a foothold in…
Australia needs to remain a culturally ambitious nation
Original Australian work, not majors performing classic repertoire, is what distinguishes our nation's cultural contribution to the world.