• Julian Meyrick
• The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy

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02 November 2009An online video of a presentation made by Julian Meyrick, an artist, academic and member of the Creative Australia Advisory Group. In his presentation Julian covers a wide range of ideas about cultural policy, including what a cultural policy would mean for Australia, why have a cultural policy, and how to fix some of the common ‘faults’ made in designing and delivering cultural policies. One interesting idea Julian puts forward is for a national cultural policy to scale down the excessive (instrumental) claims and verbiage that afflict Australian cultural policy.

It’s a long vodcast, and has an academic bent given the audience, but it’s worth sticking with. The presentation was made on 19 October 2009 at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University of Buffalo, USA.

(Summary via the Australia Council's Research Hub blog)