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Creative Australia has reinstated Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino as the creative team for the 2026 Venice Biennale – after facing much criticism.
The second year of the Melbourne festival delivered talent and creativity in spades – leaving me disrupted, enlivened and uplifted.
For Australia’s artists, the cost of living crisis is also a wellbeing and art making crisis. And the effects of this will reach us all.
New research shows COVID-19 threw existing inequalities into sharp relief: well-funded institutions were able to move their projects online, while smaller galleries struggled.
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.
Australian musicians make it work by balancing music and non-music jobs, self-employment, contracts, and a love for the art.
Concert halls may slowly be able to reopen – but difficulties will remain.
JobKeeper is designed for people with steady jobs. The arts don’t work that way.
A number of measures from both state and federal goverments will offer support to Australia’s arts industry.
The cancellation of cultural events will be devastating for artists and arts workers. A $186 million stimulus package could help stem the damage.
We care less about the arts when there is less to care about. The government of the day has backed Australian arts and culture into a corner and it must start telling its story better to survive.
Australia’s three major summer festivals in Sydney, Perth and Adelaide give an interesting insight into how festival programming is changing – or not.
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.
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Cultural Policy and Creative Industries, Adelaide University
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Professor of Cognitive Science, Western Sydney University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University
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Director of Curriculum and Teaching Transformation, Professor of Learning Futures, Griffith University
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Teacher in Arts and Cultural Management, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Arts and Cultural Management, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Incoming Assistant Provost and Director, Transformation CoLab, Bond University
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Adjunct research fellow, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Music Industry and Popular Culture, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University
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Professorial Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne