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TO: SAM WALSH, CHAIR, AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS RE: OPEN APPLICATION FOR THE CEO POSITION, AUSTRALIA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Dear Sam, Thank you for accepting this application. I have chosen to take this open and public approach to the recruitment process. I thought it only fair to include the whole arts sector whom
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The world’s a bloody mess. And it’s all democracy’s fault, isn’t it? This idea that democracy has failed us, that it’s broken, gains traction. Sure, democracy is being challenged. Just in the last month Vladimir Putin banned virtual private networks used by democracy activists to evade censorship, Venezuela’s constituent assembly poll was boycotted by more
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In 2015, George Brandis inadvertently catalysed the cultural revolution the Australian arts needs to have if it is to drag itself kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Aided and abetted by a Senate Inquiry, a Federal Election and the dumping of the aforementioned Attorney-General as Arts Minister, the landscape continues to transform. The decades-long
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