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CPD post: Westbury on suggestions for a cheap arts policy

By Guest Poster on August 2, 2010

During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]

Posted in Culture, federal election 2010, Policy | Tagged arts policy, CPD, Federal Election 2010, Marcus Westbury, Thinking Points | 4 Responses

CPD post: Westbury on cultural policy and the Australia Council

By Guest Poster on July 26, 2010

During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]

Posted in Culture, federal election 2010, Policy | Tagged Australia Council, CPD, cultural policy, Federal Election 2010, Marcus Westbury, Thinking Points | 2 Responses

A screenshot of Escape From Woomera, taken from the Wikipedia page about the game. A common industry rumour has it that the funding of the game by the Australia Council's New Media Arts Board eventually led to the abolition of that Board in an internal restructure.

Marcus Westbury on why the Australia Council doesn't get digital culture

By tigtog on November 5, 2009

Marcus Westbury’s column for The Age has been exploring some really interesting topics in cultural policy. His most recent column is one of his best. Now posted on his blog, the article examines the relative responses of the ABC  and the [...]

Posted in Culture, Howardia, Media | Tagged arts, Australia Council, Ben Eltham, cultural policy, Culture, digital culture, digital literacy, Marcus Westbury, politics and culture, refugees | 30 Responses

BrisCulture, the CPD and Eidos Institute present 'Creative Brisbane' tonight at 6pm

By Mark Bahnisch on May 26, 2009

<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/creative-brisbane-2.JPG" Folks might remember I talked a while back about the ‘Creative Brisbane’ event we’re presenting tonight as part of the Brisbane CitySmart Innovation Festival. The response to both this conversation and to the BrisCulture concept has been really [...]

Posted in Blogging, Brisbane, Culture, Notices, Sociology | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Bruce Muirhead, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Danielle Bentley, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Jaz Choi, Linda Carroli, Marcus Westbury, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, Urbanism, web | 12 Responses

LP and LP friends @ the Brisbane Ideas Festival

By Mark Bahnisch on March 25, 2009

<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/540_whats-on_ideas-festival-feature_ban-300×61.jpg" align=left Just a quick heads up to some sessions at the Brisbane Ideas Festival later this week which might be of interest. I’m speaking on a panel called “The Future of the Magazine”. It’s part of the “Think [...]

Posted in Activism, Blogging, Brisbane, Culture, Life, Media, Notices, Policy, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Barry Saunders, Brisbane, Brisbane Ideas Festival, creativity, Culture, democracy, Ideas Festival, Marcus Westbury, Mark Bahnisch, Media, Miriam Lyons, panel, QAG, Queensland Art Gallery, session, SLQ, Sociology, State Library of Queensland, Think Do Tank, think tanks, Urbanism | 8 Responses

Cultural policy in NSW, or $1 billion to renovate the Sydney Opera House

By Ben Eltham on March 22, 2009

Both Marcus Westbury and Nick Pickard lead their blogs with strongly critical posts about recent reports that the NSW government is about to commit to spending $1 billion to renovate Joern Utzon’s iconic Sydney Opera House. As Westbury writes, “this decision is one that is so [...]

Posted in Art, Culture, Music, Policy | Tagged cultural policy, infrastructure, Marcus Westbury, sydney opera house | 68 Responses

Guest post by Marcus Westbury: The culture of hard times

By Guest Poster on February 2, 2009

Cross-posted from Marcus’ blog. From my small air conditioned bubble in a sweltering Melbourne the abstract economic gloom of stock shocks and far away corporate collapses is getting less and less abstract with each passing day. Anecdotal reports of jobs [...]

Posted in Culture, Economics, Melbourne, Sociology | Tagged arts, Australian culture, creative industries, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, DIY, economic cycle, innovation, laneways, Marcus Westbury, Melbourne, Newcastle, recession, unemployment | 17 Responses

Not Quite Art returns

By Mark Bahnisch on October 14, 2008

Marcus Westbury’s excellent series Not Quite Art returns to ABC1 tonight – @ 10pm, with a replay on ABC2 on Sunday @ 7pm and streamable on iview. Stilgherrian has more.

Posted in Art, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc | Tagged abc, Art, creative industries, cultural policy, Culture, Marcus Westbury, Not Quite Art | 17 Responses

Q&A plug: Marcus Westbury and Germaine Greer

By Mark Bahnisch on August 14, 2008

Occasional guest poster at LP, Marcus Westbury, is on Q&A tonight – ABC1 at 9.30pm. Let’s hope he can get a word in between the pompous comedy stylings of Greg Sheridan, and the litterateur/Macquarie Bank shill Bob Carr. Germaine Greer [...]

Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Feminism, Film, TV, Video etc, Indigenous, Media, Policy, Race | Tagged ABC television, Bob Carr, Germaine Greer, Greg Sheridan, Indigenous Australia, Indigenous policy, Leigh Sales, Marcus Westbury, NT intervention, Q&A, Qanda, Tony Jones, Writings | 46 Responses

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