Pouring an estimated $2 billion into already-bloated eastern Sydney arts coffers will deepen the city’s entrenched arts funding inequity. Sydney will never be the global arts hub it should if it keeps promoting place over people.
Failure to take culture seriously as a public good - particularly over the past decade - has disempowered the nation. The Albanese government now has an opportunity to articulate a distinctive cultural uniqueness.
Christos Tsiolkas,Clare Wright,Janet Holmes a Court and Adrian Collette are among the seven experts who will help steer the new National Cultural Policy.
The St Kilda mansion owned by the National Trust is considering letting a kindergarten operate in the building.
A new facility expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars will showcase the state’s Aboriginal cultures on the banks of the Swan River next to Langley Park.
Australians view the beach as a place where everyone is equal. The same cannot be said for Americans.
Taxpayer money was thrown at Hollywood while local productions floundered under Morrison,Burke says. He notes it took massive leaks for the National Gallery to get repairs funded.
When do we become one of those women in a public change room,who carelessly expose their naked bodies for all to see? Why do we feel such shame for being in our natural state?
Teenagers,Google,the Kardashians – literally,who do we blame?
A spectacular mark re-created in the form of AFL players suspended by ropes inspired conversations about AFL’s role in society.
When it comes to the English language,the same objects can produce key misunderstandings between Americans,Brits and Australians.