Australia’s artists show courage by making risky, boundary-pushing art. But there aren’t enough courageous organisations willing to back them.
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The art market attracts money-laundering activities. How can it better protect itself?
The music industry relies on a huge, highly skilled workforce. But it’s often undervalued.
Instead of treating creative work as a legitimate field, US labor policy, copyright law and the tax code have failed to offer artists stability or protection.
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Sydney’s new year-round program of literary events is budgeted at $1.5 million, creating over 300 paid opportunities for writers over 12 months.
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Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.
The river’s health has been suffering, with a number of harrowing mass fish deaths events taking place in recent years.
Culture has the power to help people imagine and inspire action through dialogue, images, storytelling and shared experiences.
Arts and culture are neither luxuries nor commodities, but integral parts of a thriving society. Balancing profitability with artistic integrity demands new ways of thinking.
Hate speech can harm, but where does art cross the line from thought-provoking into genuinely harmful?
Contentious figures have always featured in Australian art – and this fact is what makes Khaled Sabsabi’s removal from the Venice Biennale so confronting.
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Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Professor of Media and Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Artist, Curator, Producer, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Theatre, University of Bristol
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Professor of Economics, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Cultural Policy and Creative Industries, Adelaide University
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DECRA Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, UNSW
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Acting Director, Ian Potter Museum of Art at, The University of Melbourne
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Staff Tutor and Lecturer, The Open University, The Open University
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Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
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Philosopher, The University of Melbourne