The withdrawal of Karen Wyld’s A$15,000 fellowship for a Stolen Generations novel, due to a Gaza-related tweet, is part of a recent pattern.
- Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
What does ‘peer review’ and ‘arm’s lenth funding mean’? And what’s next for Creative Australia’s relationship with artists?
The continued reductions in arts funding seem counter intuitive given the negative impact of COVID on the arts and cultural sector.
This is not quite a game changer, but it is going in a healthier direction.
Arts Minister Tony Burke says the government is waiting for its new cultural policy. But artists are struggling now.
A new scheme in the Republic of Ireland provides a compelling model for supporting Australian artists.
The pandemic has been a wake-up call: we need to properly acknowledge and support Australia’s cultural wealth.
Artists are some of the poorest people in our community, and yet are prepared to forgo their limited income to support fellow artists from other countries – in this case Palestine.
Circus Oz was a revelation: so joyous, funny, imaginative, talented, witty – and so Australian.
Perth’s Fringe World is being critiqued, again, for accepting sponsorship from Woodside Petroleum.
The government needs to address the whole ecosystem of the arts, increasing funding to the Australia Council so individual artists and small organisations get adequate support.
Arts Minister Paul Fletcher has taken aim at what he calls a ‘cosy club’ of arts elites. But his claim of ‘unprecedented’ arts funding and a push for greater fairness don’t add up.
The first round of RISE funding recipients has been announced — but is it the best use of money?
Lockdowns, job loss and university courses struck down: 2020 was a difficult year for Australia’s artists. But there was light through the darkness.
In a year of lockdowns, The Impossible Project gives life to shows that never reached the stage. More than 150 events are listed on this online archive, and sadly, more are likely to come.
After seven months of waiting for a support package, artists can finally apply for funding. But with ministerial sign-off, the guidelines don’t instil hope.
While the government is showing support and generosity to foreign filmmakers and commercial television interests, it seems less inclined to demonstrate similar largesse to its own creators.
The arts and cultural sector was plunged into crisis three months ago and pleaded for help. Now a federal rescue package has been announced – but who is it for and is it enough?
New modelling from the Grattan Institute estimates up to 75% of people employed in the creative and performing arts could lose their jobs. Why don’t they have targeted support?
A number of measures from both state and federal goverments will offer support to Australia’s arts industry.
Artists and entertainers have raised millions of dollars for the current bushfire crisis – so why are they still at the receiving end of so much criticism and so little funding and support?
Among growing feelings of despair in the Australian arts sector, more than 700 leading artists and arts-workers have signed a petition calling for the Major Performing Arts framework to be abolished.
Both the Australia Council’s and South Australia’s new five-year arts plans talk the talk, but fail to provide vital arts funding and structural support for a diverse arts culture.
Labor’s arts election policy includes more funding for the Australia Council and the ABC. But while this is welcome, arts and culture deserve far greater attention.
The arts have long been championed in SA, but in recent years the sector has started to stagnate.
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