Arts and culture in Victoria are in crisis. Funding for artists and small-to-medium cultural organisations has declined 35% since 2022. Artists are leaving the sector. Cultural organisations are closing. Creative Victoria has lost the sector’s trust. Victoria’s reputation as ‘the cultural capital’ has been decimated. And the sector’s viability is at significant and immediate risk.
Continue reading “Don’t break our arts this election”Category: Advocacy
Looking for hope: censorship versus care
The recording of my Greg Binns Memorial Lecture on looking for hope amongst almost unprecedented arts censorship in Australia is now live on the Art Gallery of Ballarat website.
Continue reading “Looking for hope: censorship versus care”Have your say on Artificial Intelligence in Australia
The Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence is calling for submissions to a broad parliamentary inquiry about the opportunities, impacts and regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Australia.
Continue reading “Have your say on Artificial Intelligence in Australia”Palestine as a governance issue
By my count, 87* Australian arts and cultural organisations have now been accused of many more instances of censoring, threatening or otherwise harming their own artists, cultural workers or audiences between 2023 and 2026 alone (*updated 5 November 2026).
Continue reading “Palestine as a governance issue”Disrupting the arts
Art is the business of disruption.
No matter the medium, platform or level of professionalism, the act of making is innately transformational: whether it turns thought into matter (or the other way around), brings different elements together or breaks them down to be shared or understood in different ways.
Continue reading “Disrupting the arts”And another thing: on advocacy as hope
After the Revive national cultural policy consultation, reactions to the proposed NDIS cuts and more, this month’s ‘and another thing’ vlog is about advocacy as an act of hope.
Continue reading “And another thing: on advocacy as hope”Have your say on the NDIS cuts
The Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee is currently taking submissions on the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, which will arbitrarily cut 160,000 current NDIS participants from the scheme and make it even harder for new applicants to get the support they need.
Continue reading “Have your say on the NDIS cuts”Have your say on the new national Cultural Policy consultation
The Australian Government is calling for public submissions to inform it’s update of the Revive National Cultural Policy.
Continue reading “Have your say on the new national Cultural Policy consultation”Raining on the parade of Generative AI in the arts
The Victorian Government released its updated cultural policy, Creative State 2028, at the end of last year. But I won’t be surprised if you missed it.
Continue reading “Raining on the parade of Generative AI in the arts”And another thing: strategic venting and collegiality as care
Inspired by SACSA’s workforce Plan Updates for the Australian Arts sector, I’ve been thinking about the importance of strategic venting and collegiality as care – two common-sense strategies we’ve all seemed to lose the knack of in recent years.
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