This paper contributes to recent debates about how urban policy discourses travel, whether they are transferable and what is lost in their translation.

A considerable body of research seeks to map and measure the impact of the creative industries. This is constrained in cities like Adelaide by a narrow conceptualisation of creativity that fails to reveal how diffuse creativity is within the economy and society.

The objective of this Green Paper is to open up a policy debate about the drivers of the Creative Industries in the Nordic Region, and to understand the opportunities and challenges facing the sector.

This is the Labor Party's arts policy document for this year's federal election. It includes a commitment to increase arts funding, to introduce a resale royalty scheme for visual artists and to examine ways to adequately protect artist's copyright given the challenges posed by new and emerging platforms and changes in consumer patterns.

The relationships between publicly funded culture and the creative industries are often assumed to be clear and straightforward. In some cases this is true, but there are more complex factors at work. The creative industries are poorly understood in policy, partly because they often do not conform to traditional expectations about how businesses work, and...