This report pulls together profiles on the major subscription and broadcaster video-on-demand services operating in Australia and notes the streaming platforms that have failed. It also shares insights from industry insiders that consider the deeper implications, opportunities and challenges of streaming on key local genres and formats.

Australia’s social cohesion is being tested by domestic and global challenges. This paper provides a resource for people and organisations looking for policy initiatives that can bring and keep people together through arts and culture. It combines research insights with an analysis of Australian and international policies that are leveraging cultural and creative engagement to...

The live music industry forms a critical part of Australia’s wider cultural and creative industries which contribute $21.8 billion to Australia's Gross Domestic Product. This report is on the challenges and opportunities within the Australian live music industry and makes recommendations to strengthen the industry, including introducing a tax offset and monitoring anti-competitive activities.

Despite the removal of COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions and a strong economic recovery, live music venues in Victoria continue to struggle. This paper explores proposals to resolve some of the challenges that live music venues face including reforms to government funding, levies on major live music events as a revenue source for smaller venues, voucher programs...

This report brings together the results of an investigation into how best to measure social and cultural infrastructure. It develops a framework for measuring the assets, facilities and spaces that make up shared social and cultural infrastructure, and considers its practical applications for a range of organisations.

This report establishes the first nationally consistent methodology and analysis of the direct economic contribution of Australia’s music industry. It provides estimates of the direct economic contribution, direct employment and value of export revenues of the industry. It also includes the economic contribution of music industry subsectors in 2023–24.

This report provides data on the barriers and motivations for Australians' attendance at live music events. It finds that music is important to the majority of Australians but cost is a barrier to attending live music events and people are prioritising major international acts at large venues.

A report on a project to develop an intergenerational arts program for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in South Australia. The report details the project’s methodology, analyses key findings and provides recommendations for future actions. It examined the existing gaps, strengths and weaknesses of intergenerational arts programs for CALD communities.

This position paper outlines two practical actions that governments can take now to secure Australia’s place as a cultural powerhouse by 2035. The first is to develop a new 10-year national arts and culture strategy. The second is to establish a Ministerial Council on cultural access and the cultural and creative industries.

This report explores creative engagement programs in museums that support emotional, cognitive, and social wellbeing of people living with dementia. The report explores a variety of international program models, methodologies, and insights from leading museum practitioners in dementia programming.