This report explains the system that delivers arts and cultural experiences in Australia, from broad and grassroots through to specialised and professional. It demonstrates how the arts and culture system is organised, governed and developed. The report also highlights how cultural literacy and creative skills building occur across the population.

This report showcases practical actions governments can take, beyond direct cultural funding, to support cultural access and strengthen creative industries. The report identifies eight ‘pro-culture’ enablers – uniquely available to governments – to make it easier for creators to work, creative businesses to operate, and consumers to access experiences and products.

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...

This report shows that creative and cultural engagement provides an unexpected edge to respond to Australia’s deepest challenges. It brings together new insights about the impacts of culture and creativity for these key public policy discussions, and presents opportunities for stakeholders to harness the benefits of creative and cultural engagement across Australia.

This paper looks at the ways Australians are now using artificial intelligence (AI) in arts, culture and creativity, and explains how government and industry are responding to its emerging impacts. Governments have the opportunity to harness the knowledge of industry on the impacts of AI in arts, culture and creativity, acknowledge these impacts in cultural...