This report draws upon quantitative and qualitative findings from a five-year, mixed-methods, Australian Research Council–funded research project, that aimed to identify ways in which the craft skills required to sustain and grow future making can be maintained and extended.

This report presents a ‘state-of-play’ of the finances in Australian arts, culture and creativity.

This briefing paper presents an overview of cultural and creative activity in Australia, drawing on custom tables of employment data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ five-yearly Census of Australian Population and Housing.

This paper presents an analysis of embedded cultural and creative activity in Australia. It builds on the overview of Australian cultural and creative employment presented in Briefing paper 1 in this series.

The findings of this research reflect the need to build greater understanding, transparency and accountability in order to fully include disabled workers in the Australian screen industry.