National Museum of Australia WHAT HAPPENS when the Federal Government puts a call out to the public to make suggestions about a cultural policy? After a few hours of reviewing some of the submissions, it would be fair to say that the quality and usefulness of the submissions so far have been decidedly mixed. Despite [...]
Crowdsourcing a cultural policy?
November 23rd, 2009 View Comments
Tags: ABC · Arts Funding · australia council · Creative Nation · crowdsourcing · National Cultural Policy · nobel prize · patrick white · Peter Garrett · Rudd Government · screen australia
A history of Australian arts policy
November 22nd, 2009 View Comments
In response to some recent posts and articles of mine about arts funding and cultural policy, Nick Herd from the Australia Council pointed me to this comprehensive history of arts policy in Australia prepared by the Parliamentary Library. It’s very useful background reading for anyone thinking of putting in a submission to the National Cultural [...]
Tags: Arts Funding · Arts Policy · australia council · cultural policy · National Cultural Policy · parliamentary library
Where Australia’s Arts funding goes
November 6th, 2009 View Comments
I’m basically just posting this here so i can link to it from this discussion over at Larvatus Prodeo. But it’s a reminder though that I’m involved in many debates and discussions about arts funding and policy priorities in Australia at the moment (most recently here and here) and too easily forget that most people [...]
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