Tag: arts and culture policy
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Taskforce formed to improve job security for SA artists
Minister for the Arts Andrea Michaels today announced 27 experts from across the arts, cultural and creative industries would make up the taskforce. She said the group’s work would “help create better outcomes and opportunities for artists and arts workers in our state”. “Our arts, culture and creative sector contributes so much to South Australia…
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Arts funding announcement brings mixed news for SA organisations
Creative Australia, which was established this year as the Federal Government’s principal arts investment and advisory body (replacing the Australia Council), says 159 organisations nationwide will receive multi-year investment from 2025-28 – an increase of 45 organisations compared with the 2021-24 cycle. Among them are around 12 South Australian arts organisations, including Restless Dance Theatre,…
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Could Australia try a basic income for artists?
Most people prefer to forget the dark times of COVID, and with good reason. Other urgencies now occupy our attention, as we doom scroll through the newsfeeds. But it would be a mistake to forget the most recent past so easily. Remember that sense of not going back to business as usual? How the pandemic…
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Green Room: Small venues, encore screenings and bodies of work
It’s the vibe Popular music scholar Sam Whiting has drawn on his first-hand experience of the music scenes in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane for a new book exploring the role – and precarious nature – of small venues. Music scholar and author Sam Whiting. “Small live music venues are essential to maintaining a vibrant live…
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Why the arts need to be at the forefront of government policy
Audiences for arts and culture are coming back, and they are coming back with purpose. After the greatest disruptions to creative and cultural sectors in living memory – the cancelled gigs, scrapped plans and frantic online pivots of the COVID lockdowns – we have realised how important cultural participation is to social connection, and to…
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Why the arts are losing the war for talent
In 1997, consulting firm McKinsey & Company coined the term “the war for talent” to define increasing labour shortages that had significant potential to impact organisational performance. The war for talent significantly impacted corporations at the time, creating a scarcity mindset and encouraging a wave of employee-focussed initiatives designed to attract and retain staff. For…
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Picking up the pieces: What next for Australia’s cultural policy?
The recent federal election was greeted with much relief by the cultural sector, and understandably so. As Tony Burke said in his first speech as Arts Minister: “The nine-year political attack on the arts and entertainment sector is now over. The neglect, the contempt and the sabotage of the previous government has ended.” The culture…