This strategic plan addresses key strategic issues and strategic objectives for the arts in WA for the years of 2010 - 2014.

Meaningful Measurement is a summary of the key research in the area of measuring artistic vibrancy. It looks at: performance measurement in the arts proposed models of performance measurement in the arts the notion of “public value” and the arts the intrinsic impacts of the arts assessing artistic vibrancy, including models and examples “Public value”...

In Inside Story, Ian Anderson reviews Peter Sutton’s unsettling account of Indigenous policy, The Politics of Suffering AN INTERVIEW with Peter Sutton published in the Age in July began with the tag line, “Driven into action by loss, the linguist and anthropologist wants to shake the very foundations of Indigenous policy,” and concluded:

This publication contains estimates of Australian public funding for arts and cultural activities, facilities and services across the three levels of government for 2007-08.

The degree of independence that governments afford arts support is a universal concern. Debate has often centred on the choice between arts council or ministry, but such a dichotomy enormously oversimplifies the issues, particularly as so many countries have a mixture of the two institutional forms. This report, written by Christopher Madden, reviews the cultural...