Governments at all levels often assume arts funding is not electorally popular. New data shows they are wrong.
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Australia’s literary festivals are under threat from culture wars, climate risks, new hate speech laws and ongoing funding scarcity.
Literary journals are breeding grounds of talent – including the new Splinter, rebooted Southerly, and First Nations journal Sovereign Texts, launching next year.
Creative Australia has reinstated Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino as the creative team for the 2026 Venice Biennale – after facing much criticism.
Khaled Sabsabi has been reinstated as Australia representative for the Venice Biennale. A review offers a damning but restrained post-mortem.
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.
Australia has a rich history of artists engaging in political issues, and of such work being shown without timidity in state and national galleries.
What does ‘peer review’ and ‘arm’s lenth funding mean’? And what’s next for Creative Australia’s relationship with artists?
Creative Australia has said artist Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. The artistic community has condemned this decision.
The federal government has quietly shelved plans to introduce local requirements for Australian screen content on streaming platforms like Netflix and Disney+.
Sports policies in Australia focus on increasing participation at the grassroots. Arts policies tend to talk not so much about participation, but about audiences.
New research into the working lives of artists shows how, through lower take-home pay and volunteer hours for their community, Australia’s artists are subsidising our arts industry.
The winners of the 2023 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced – and they’re a diverse bunch of books, with a focus on reconnection, regeneration, questioning and beauty.
Any policy interventions from Creative Australia to support visual and craft artists’ incomes will need to take a sector-wide approach.
Our new research has tracked the gender of artists working at Australian opera companies and found evidence of pervasive gender inequality.
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Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Art and Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, School of Art, RMIT University
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Research Project Director at the Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
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Professor of Publishing and Audience Studies, Edith Cowan University
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Research Assistant, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Industries and ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University
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Lecturer, Digital Communication, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Cultural Economy, Adelaide University