Writer
Julian Meyrick
Julian Meyrick is Professor of Creative Arts at Griffith University. He is General Editor of Currency House’s Platform Paper series and Literary Adviser for the Queensland Theatre. He was Associate Director and Literary Advisor at Melbourne Theatre Company 2002-07 and Artistic Director of kickhouse theatre 1989-98. He has directed over 40 award-winning theatre productions and published numerous books and articles on Australian arts and culture, including What Matters? Talking Value in Australian Culture, co-authored with Robert Phiddian and Tully Barnett (2018).
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Notes for the new minister: arts and culture on a knife edge
Australia is at a tipping point. Our democracy is at stake, and cultural policy (or lack thereof), is an integral part of the crisis. Forty years of hollowing out the public sector, degrading the public service, and a winner-takes-all attitude to the electoral process fuelled it. The result is Australia’s embrace of authoritarian ‘managed democracy’, Continue reading »