Comments on: 2020 Hindsight

By: Creative Australia and Ministerial Impersonators

Creative Australia and Ministerial Impersonators — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:57:43 +0000

[...] as with the period leading up to the 2020 summit (you can see various posts about it here, here and here) I would strongly encourage input from you [...]

By: Colin Hubert

Colin Hubert — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:51:19 +0000

Surely someone at 2020 was rude enough to suggest that spending nothing on arts is not ‘low or no cost’.

By: Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:03:04 +0000

PS The 1 per cent thing was apparently not represented as presented either – the original proposal was that departments track the money they already spend on things like design, artworks etc.

By: Alison Croggon

Alison Croggon — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:00:54 +0000

Hi Marcus – a good report of a pretty flummoxing experience! And it pretty much sums up my experience of the Summit. A very heady couple of days, that ranged from exhilarating to sheer cringe…

By: Fortune Grey » Blog Archive » Creative strand unravels

Fortune Grey » Blog Archive » Creative strand unravels — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:36:00 +0000

[...] attendee, the prolific (check his CV) Marcus Westbury, posted a blog entry saying much the same thing a week earlier. Meeting people. The summit was a [...]

By: Feargus

Feargus — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:11:05 +0000

Thanks heaps for the run-down Marcus. I can imagine it was a pretty intense 48 hours so i’m not surprised that you have been left with some mixed feelings. My boss went as well – he was in the regional group – and he definitiely felt more postive than negative overall.

Just one comment on what u have written about the government being firmly placed in middle of things. They r the government now, it was their summit, and they will be the ones who have to do something with the ideas, so i feel its fair that they were right in the middle of the proceedings. But like u said, maybe that’s just how i feel about it.

Again thanks very much for all the insights. Hope u r having a little bit of a rest at this stage.

By: Tamara Marwod

Tamara Marwod — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:10:59 +0000

It was all kinda nuts really – the only commentary I caught up on was that Cate was looking fabulous walking straight out of the delivery room into the lime light.

I guess it all comes down to networking really – and having a good mishmash of people must surely create new ways of people thinking and problem solving and doing business

By: Sam Hinton

Sam Hinton — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:59:43 +0000

Well. I’d like to say thanks Marcus. I’m impressed you managed to get your voice heard at all. Well done, and thanks a lot for not only asking for input but for taking it seriously and attempting to present it at the summit.

By: Scoot

Scoot — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:07:33 +0000

Watching from the sidelines (ie: ABC-TV Coverage) I agree with your range of feelings towards the 2020. In one sense this is quite a big thing, to publicly get quite a bit of ideas thrashing out in the open, and as you identified I also felt myself scrutinising the way it appeared to have been pre-determined.
Unlike many conservative commentators I don’t think the point was to get 30 ideas implemented straight away, and infact even those that made the initial report, I wouldn’t care if they weren’t implemented, that is not the real point. It was the very nature of a summit to get people together, rather than dividing and conquering, that is the big part, and for those groups to make connections and to go away and do stuff. Why leave it up to one group (ie: the Federal Government) to do everything, if each group present goes away and does something with another group that was there towards getting a project off the ground, then I think it has been a success. The outcomes are in re-activating the activists, that is the real hidden agenda.

By: TimT

TimT — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:36:06 +0000

PS Your comments box seems to be cutting out my paragraphs. Censorship! Censorship!