CPD Fellow, Ben Eltham will be joining Professor Nikolas Kompirdis at the University of Sydney this Thursday to deliver a paper on the political economy of Australian cultural policy as part of the Centre for Cultural Research Seminar Series. Here’s a little more on what you can expect to hear about from Ben Eltham: Drawing on the work of Vincent Mosco … more
Articles tagged: cultural policy
NSW’s creative future at the next Fabian forum: Art Attack!
Should the NSW Government have more interest in the state’s creative
future? How are the arts related to NSW’s economic fortunes? What can
be done to resuscitate the arts?
I am part of a team of organisers who are asking these key questions as part of the next Fabian forum: Art Attack!
ALP arts policy hits the right note but won’t rock the suburbs
It may be a dull read, but the ALP's new arts policy discussion paper is the most forward-looking arts policy to emerge from either side of politics since Paul Keating's 'Creative Nation', writes Ben Eltham. PLUS Eltham's musings on the early resignation of Australia Council CEO Jennifer Bott more
How to Support Starving Artists
Ben Eltham calls for an urgent rebalancing of our cultural investment away from big organizations and towards the creative human capital of our sector. At present individual artists receive 6.3% of Australia Council grant funding, with the rest going to arts organizations. According to Eltham, this imbalance explains the strikingly low average wage for individual artists and the brain drain that results. more
EXTRACT: What Price a Creative Economy?
If we stop seeing creativity as a burden on the public purse and begin to see it as leading innovation in post-industrial growth, writes Stuart Cunningham, then we could build a creative economy that is independent, self sustainable and profitably our own more