This report provides an updated overview of trends in arts and culture expenditure by governments in Australia between the years of 2007–08 and 2020–21. The research draws on a new release of Australia’s most comprehensive dataset on this topic - the cultural funding by governments series.

The contribution of live music to our creative economy has been confirmed following the release of the Australia’s live music sector: an occupation-based analysis report, undertaken by the Bureau of Communications, Arts and Regional Research. The analysis reflects the diversity of occupations such as musicians, ticket collectors, advertising managers and bar attendants needed to run...

Despite the radical impact of climate change on Australian communities, there has been very little research in the Australian performing arts sector’s response to the climate crisis and aspiration to do so. This report explores how a small selection of Australian performing arts organisations are currently responding to the global ecological crisis.

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.