Where Australia’s arts funding goesFollowing up from his great piece on the Australia Council’s failure to adapt to the digital era, Marcus Westbury charts exactly where our country’s arts funding is — and isn’t — going. In a word: orchestras.
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Sackwatch 12: Unemployment figures may be staying put for a while…
Crikey continues to track the job-loss carnage.
Australia Council strikes as @kathyinvenice tweets
Staff at the Australia Council are striking, angry over reduced conditions and wages, writes Nicholas Pickard.
Media briefs: Pirates capture the Australia Council’s Facebook page
Schweppes release hairy man bibs … Sun-Times cut non-union staff … PolitiFact.com wins a Pulitzer
Art Monthly editor plays into Hetty’s hands
Editor Maurice O’Riordan is a total fool for putting the image of a naked young girl on the latest cover of Art Monthly, writes Nicholas Pickard.
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Saving the Murray River .. Alexander Downer … emissions trading … Zimbabwe … Gippsland … Greenwashing Greenland …
Arts grant applicant tells: the bureaucracy is killing us!
While sympathetic to the individuals who have lost their jobs, something has to give at the Australia Council, writes an arts insider.
Kevin Rudd’s efficiency dividend hits the Australia Council
The Australia Council is trimming its staff to appease Kevin Rudd’s bottom line. But will artists lose out? ask Nick Pickard and Ben Eltham.
US08: Romney’s out, unless of course Al-Qaeda step in…
Romney has suspended his candidacy, rather than withdrawn it – a technicality which means he’s still in the race. What’s he hoping for? Huckabee won’t split the ticket. He’s hoping, of course, that McCain will have a stroke before the Convention and be out of the running, and the party will have no-one else to turn to. It’s a long shot, but it sounds a hell of a lot better bet than the thirty million he pissed up against the wall in his lacklustre, America’s CEO, campaign, writes Guy Rundle.
Australia Council axes The Program
The Australia Council is axing its innovative youth arts website and email newsletter, TheProgram.net.au, in a move to “streamline” its resourcing of youth arts, writes Ben Eltham.
Where did ArtStart go?
On Saturday, Mr Garrett officially launched the ALP’s arts policy. But ArtStart suddenly disappeared from the official speeches and the press releases approved by Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd’s office, writes Nicholas Pickard.
Howard loves the arts, ask the Sydney Dance Company
If the Sydney dance Company was a housing mortgagee owing a lot of money in Sydney’s west, it would have been either foreclosed and sold up, or it would have had its loan re-organised with new terms, writes Glenn Dyer.
Arts minister clears the decks: what does he know?
Ten emails in one day from the arts minister? Surely no coincidence, writes Nicholas Pickard.
