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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy?
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'Culture, writes David Throsby, refers to beliefs and values that bind us together. And if we know what our culture is, why would we need a cultural policy? ... A cultural policy would be a powerful tool with which to show what we really value about being Australian. A national debate, to define and assert our common values could well alleviate the fears at present dividing us.' (Publisher's blurb.)

Notes

  • Launched on 8 February at Wharf 2, Sydney, by Cate Blanchett and David Throsby.

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    • Strawberry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Currency House , 2006 .
      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 0975730134
      Series: y separately published work icon Platform Papers Currency Press (publisher), Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2004-2020 Z1171343 2004 series - publisher 'A quarterly publication (January, April, July and October) on an issue affecting the health of the performing arts.' Number in series: 7

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y separately published work icon Art, Politics, Money : Revisiting Australia's Cultural Policy David Throsby , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2018 13850489 2018 single work criticism

'In 2006 I wrote one of the early Platform Papers (No. 7) under the title Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy? I was prompted to ask this question because it was then twelve years since the appearance of Australia’s first (and only) cultural policy, the document Creative Nation: Commonwealth Cultural Policy (October 1994) produced by the Keating Government. In the interim, following the Labor Party’s defeat at the 1996 election, we experienced ten years of John Howard’s prime ministership. Howard led a conservative administration that effectively buried Creative Nation when it came into office and subsequently showed no interest in formulating a cultural policy of its own.' (Publication summary)

Culture Needs Cultivating Christopher Pearson , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 February 2006; (p. 28)
Policy-Free Zone, Please Imre Salusinszky , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 February 2006; (p. 40)

— Review of Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy? David Throsby , 2006 single work criticism
Policy-Free Zone, Please Imre Salusinszky , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 February 2006; (p. 40)

— Review of Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy? David Throsby , 2006 single work criticism
Culture Needs Cultivating Christopher Pearson , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 February 2006; (p. 28)
y separately published work icon Art, Politics, Money : Revisiting Australia's Cultural Policy David Throsby , Strawberry Hills : Currency Press , 2018 13850489 2018 single work criticism

'In 2006 I wrote one of the early Platform Papers (No. 7) under the title Does Australia Need a Cultural Policy? I was prompted to ask this question because it was then twelve years since the appearance of Australia’s first (and only) cultural policy, the document Creative Nation: Commonwealth Cultural Policy (October 1994) produced by the Keating Government. In the interim, following the Labor Party’s defeat at the 1996 election, we experienced ten years of John Howard’s prime ministership. Howard led a conservative administration that effectively buried Creative Nation when it came into office and subsequently showed no interest in formulating a cultural policy of its own.' (Publication summary)

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