Did you know that you don’t need to incorporate as a not-for-profit organisation for your work to serve a purpose?
My latest ‘and another thing’ vlog is about an exciting new governance innovation that’s come out of the US this year: The Artist-Corporation or A-Corp.
Continue reading “And another thing: introducing Artist Corporations”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”Arts boards, did you know that you don’t need a Chairperson? And that you don’t need a Treasurer either?
Continue reading “And another thing: board officeholders”By my count, 80 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.
Continue reading “Palestine as a governance issue”This month’s ‘and another thing’ rant is about the newly-released Board (lack of) Diversity Index and our lower-than-low definitions of success.
Continue reading “And another thing: board (lack of) diversity”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”Most of my work and writing over the past several years has focused on the failings of Australia’s arts, cultural and non-profit boards and governance models.
In addition to dozens of articles, panels, keynote speeches and vlog episodes on the subject, this has now led to a new book, which I hope to share with the world this year: Beyond ‘best practice’ boards: why (nearly) everything you think you know about governance is wrong.*
Continue reading “Help support ‘Beyond best practice boards’”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”Should arts boards be made up of artists or cultural workers with direct experience of an organisation’s work? Or should we have more business people on boards to apply a corporate lens to how things ‘should be done’?
Continue reading “And another thing: on issues with representative boards”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”
