Simon Crean was talking up the government’s response to the Convergence Review at this year’s Screen Producer’s Conference. TV producers — and game developers — are confident of a boost.
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Arts is local, storytelling digital, in co-creative communities
Community arts and cultural development is in transition. There might be a lack of policy direction, but grassroots organisations are getting on with the business of creating.
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McKew book: how internal polling brought Rudd undone
Maxine McKew’s new book reveals more about the role Labor’s own internal research was used to undermine Kevin Rudd.
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How government austerity is squeezing smaller arts groups
Tight state government revenues mean small-to-medium arts companies face an uncertain future. Is the golden age of funding coming to an end?
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Follow the OzCo money to find arts uncertainty
Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced that the “reform of the Australia Council” has begun. But not everyone is happy about the process, and the timetable remains uncertain.
READ MOREOz Council review: smart reform, but will Crean have the cash/courage?
Angus James and Gabrielle Trainor’s review of the Australia Council is a bold yet sensible reform blueprint for an organisation that badly needs reform. But can it really be implemented?
READ MOREAustralia Council review: artistic boards should be abolished
Arts Minister Simon Crean has released the findings of the Review of the Australia Council.
READ MORENo news is bad news for culture policy pre-budget
The National Cultural Policy has fallen off the Gillard government’s agenda. Meanwhile, new funding for the major performing arts sector is being announced outside the National Cultural Policy process.
READ MOREShorten, music appreciator, flags long service for artists
Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten is raising the issue of long-service leave for artists and musicians. But who will fund it, ask Ben Eltham and Rebecca Harkins-Cross?
READ MOREAnd the winner is … Smith, Shorten or Crean
Kevin Rudd hasn’t merely lost a vote on Labor’s leadership, he has failed to establish himself as the looming replacement for Julia Gillard.
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New cultural roadmap, but will there be a soundtrack?
The arts year will be dominated by key themes: the announcement of the National Cultural Policy, the deflation of the music festivals bubble, and fraught times at many smaller companies.
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Australia Council review secret and hopelessly compromised
Arts Minister Simon Crean’s review of the Australia Council is much needed. But it’s been hopelessly compromised already by the choice of the man leading it.
READ MOREWhere arts and policy meet in the digital sphere
The Gillard government is embarking on a “digital culture public sphere” consultation as a part of its national cultural policy development. Kate Lundy talks to Crikey about what it is and why we should care.
READ MOREArts policy converging into a government hash
Government arts policy is a hash. The now its Convergence Review — which is posing serious questions about the future shape of cultural policy — is making the National Cultural Policy irrelevant.
READ MOREA political arts discussion with broad strokes
Arts Minister Simon Crean has released a discussion paper on the government’s forthcoming National Cultural Policy. He speaks to Crikey about the competing agendas and the budget belt tightening.
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PM should take the next step
Her Green allies might not like it but Julia Gillard should take the next step in letting the people give their verdict on her carbon tax regime.
READ MORELatham: Gerard Henderson suffers from chronic corresponditis
I worry about Gerard Henderson, really. He has a chronic case of corresponditis — the inability, at the end of a protracted exchange of letters, to allow his correspondent to have the last word, writes former Labor leader Mark Latham.
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Crean gets to work on Labor’s cultural fabric
Some broad outlines of Labor’s National Cultural Policy are beginning to finally emerge. But arts minister Simon Crean faces some big questions from industry and artists.
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When pressed, Abbott discovers he has a pair
Refusing to grant Simon Crean a pair so he could address the National Press Club today was not such a good idea by Tony Abbott.
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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits: beware the record of the vanquished
Out of my comfort zone. I confess to being confused about this election. I have been writing about them, and participating in them, federal and state, for nearly 50 years but have not come across anything like this one. My experience tells me that first-term governments don’t lose when economic conditions are basically good. Yet, […]
READ MOREDEEWR and its contractors — worst-practice workplace relations in action
The secretary of Julia Gillard’s former department has called DEEWR’s treatment of IT contractors “unacceptable”, writes an anonymous tipster.
READ MOREWho will Rudd replace if Labor wins?
In an entirely minimalist pre-election reshuffle, Julia Gillard has shifted Trade Minister Simon Crean to her former portfolio, with Foreign Minister Stephen Smith picking up Crean’s workload, reports Bernard Keane.
READ MORESinodinos: Cat’s got the Crean
Simon Crean knew exactly what he was doing last week with his jibes against the RSPT. This election is being run like a presidential contest, which could be dangerous for everybody, writes Arthur Sinodinos.
READ MOREAbbott overcompensates and big business pays the price
It’s not a good idea to act as if your opponents are right. But Tony Abbott has decided he needs a big policy to fix his problem with women voters and his eggs are in the paid parental leave basket.
READ MOREExplaining the stacked deck that is parliamentary question time
It’s doubtful a coalition Opposition would take advice from a former Labor press secretary but if they did, they might want to just hand question time over to the press gallery, writes Network Ten press gallery producer Stephen Spencer.
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