People tell me things. One of the things I hear too often from colleagues, friends and acquaintances in the museums sector is the wildly fragile responses that drop from the mouths of white museum leaders when the topic of racism comes up. First of all, it should come up. Regardless
Yesterday morning I learned via the r/Adelaide sub-Reddit (shame face) about the Adelaide Festival's (AF) board decision to drop Palestinian Australian author, lawyer and activist Randa Abdel-Fattah from this year's Writers' Week program. The board's full statement is here but
A more accurate summary would read, 'Publicly funded property developers with ancillary online learning portfolios seek to ensure protection of their shared edifice complex'. Australia’s top universities seek changes to key environmental reformAustralia’s top universities have aligned themselves with oil and gas producers, miners and developers
"I would beg to disagree but begging disagrees with me." Fiona Apple 2020, Fetch the Boltcutters When I was an undergraduate majoring in English in the College of Liberal Arts at a large public university in the US, I remember the business majors heh-heh-ing with each
A colleague who apparently loves to hear me rant sent me a link to a Facebook post flogging this article on Uni Melbourne's discussion blog. The bullet is that arts and cultural organisations shouldn't shy away from the concept of 'stakeholders' and should concentrate