Australia's Arts and Entertainment Sector underpins cultural and social innovation, improves the quality of community life, is essential to maintaining our cities as world class attractors of talent and investment, and helps create ‘Brand Australia’ in the global marketplace of ideas (QUT Creative Industries Faculty 2010). The sector makes a significant contribution to the Australian...

Australia's theatre sector is described as alive, various, glorious, messy, idiosyncratic and even world class. But is it vibrant? Chris Mead from Playwrighting Australia says yes, and no… Australia does not yet have a vibrant theatre culture, certainly not when measuring it against the recent definition set out by the Australia Council for the Arts...

The creative industries concept was born in the UK, nurtured in Australia (among other countries), but is now being implemented most vigorously in China. The UK and Australia seem to be pulling back from the concept: Critical response to CI policy in the UK; and post-GFC cutbacks limit scope for government action. Australia relies on...

Covering topics including employment in culture, time spent on cultural activities, attendances at cultural venues and events, expenditure on culture, and imports and exports of cultural goods and services, this report provides a comprehensive statistical overview of culture in Australia. This report also provides profiles of the cultural sectors, grouped according to the Australian Culture...

This framework is a way for organisations to talk about artistic impact internally and with others. It offers a way to capture the value arts and culture create for the society, economy and community.