Creative Communities is an expansive, ten-year policy that recognises the unique place of arts, culture and the creative industries in New South Wales.

The purpose of this paper is to summarise attitudes on arts, culture and creativity among cohorts of middle Australians aged 18–75.

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.

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.