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Louise Adler >> Back to top |
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Lisa Andersen Her arts experience includes production, performance and marketing working with a broad range of organisations: from the Sydney Opera House to the Dareton Aboriginal Women’s Network in far western NSW. She was marketing, media and sponsorship manager for the first Paralympic Arts Festival, as part of Sydney 2000. Her 'portfolio of careers' includes time in media and education
outreach for the International Red Cross, history and English literature teaching
in China, marketing manager for the British Soft Drinks Industry Association,
research manager with the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building and
co-director of the punk label, Hopeless Records Australia. Lisa also currently works as the community project manager at the Shopfront Community Program, University of Technology, Sydney, where she teaches community research, writes on community leadership, and has facilitated more than 150 projects with the community sector in the past nine years. >> Back to top |
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John C. Barsness >> Back to top |
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Pamille Berg,
AO Hon FRAIA
Among other major public art projects, Ms. Berg completed the Master Plan and coordination for the $13 million Parliament House Art Program from 1982-1989 with over sixty major commissions to artists and craftspeople; the commissioned Public Art Program for the new Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Hawaii) from 1991-95; the $2 million Art/Craft Program for the fifty-two building SAFTI Military Institute in Singapore from 1994-1998, and the Art Program for St. Patrick's Catholic Cathedral in Parramatta, NSW from 2000-2005, which won the national RAIA Sir Zelman Cowan Award for the best public building in Australia in 2004. Major public art strategies and master plans have been a special focus of Ms. Berg's work, including:
In July 2002 Ms. Berg established her own firm in Canberra, Pamille Berg Consulting Pty Ltd, to focus full-time on the provision of art/architecture master planning, coordination and consultation services to a wide range of public and private clients in Australia and overseas. Her professional achievements in the field of public art have been recognised recently by her being named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) in 2002, and being appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in 2004 for her services to public art in Australia, with particular note of her creation of opportunities for emerging artists and Indigenous artists in remote communities. >> Back to top
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John Birmingham Now I write books and magazine and newspaper articles full time. My last book was an alternate history gunfest called Weapons of Choice. My first was He Died With A Felafel in His Hand. It was about share housing. Roommates, if you're American. I had about a hundred of them and I kept notes. I wrote that book as a commission job. I had no interest in writing books back then. All I wanted to do was work on magazine features. It suited my itinerant lifestyle. You have to sit still for a long time to write a book, but once you get up to speed you can crank out a five or six thousand word article in a couple of days. If you're getting a dollar a word, it adds up. Not for me though. I was lazy. I'd crank an article then take a few months off. Surf. Play videos. Smoke a few cones. It was cool. Now I lose count of the number of publishers and media groups I'm into for work. John was born in Ipswich, Queensland, in 1964. In 1994 he published his first book, He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, which became a cult youth book and eventually a bestseller. For his second book, the pulp fiction The Search for Savage Henry, he used the pseudonym Harrison Biscuit. (Out of print, but available from the shop on this website.) This was followed by another shared housing comedy bestseller, and sequel to He Died with a Felafel in his Hand, The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco. John's fourth book, How
To Be A Man, written with Dirk
Flinthart, appeared in 1998. He Died with a Felafel in his Hand has been
turned into a successful play, and is was filmed by Richard Lowenstein (director
of Dogs in Space). Felafel was published in Italy in early 1997
and in Britain by HarperCollins in October 1997. It was the Guardian's book of
the week and was described by Loaded as "one of the funniest books ever". >> Back to top |
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Dr Paul
Brown Based in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at UNSW, his academic research interests focus on nuclear and chemical industry policy and politics. He is also an established author of plays and films which have environmental themes, and is well known for his verbatim play Aftershocks about the Newcastle earthquake. He is currently developing a play on British Nuclear Testing, meanwhile co-editing a book on governance and community relations based on legacies of toxic waste. Paul is the co-author of the Australia Council's recent publication Art and Wellbeing. >> Back to top |
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Julian Burnside >> Back to top |
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Toss Gascoigne CHASS is a Canberra-based advocacy body, and has sprung to prominence by organising a series of events and meetings to increase access to the decision-making process and new funding opportunities for people working in the sector. These events have included regular meetings with the Minister, members of Parliament, and bureaucrats in policy areas. CHASS is prominent in writing submissions, proposing ideas for change and in mobilising the energy of people working in the humanities, arts and social sciences. CHASS currently has 134 Member Organisations. Before CHASS, Toss Gascoigne was Executive Director of FASTS and helped build it into a powerful voice for working scientists. His innovations included "Science meets Parliament" Day, and science forums at the National Press Club. His books include a history of the discovery and exploration of Antarctica, and editing for Penguin three anthologies of short stories for children. He was the Tasmanian on the national judging panel for the Children's Book of the Year Awards for 2 years. >> Back to top
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Helene George She has worked as a consultant, manager of creative companies and facilities, independent artists' agent, export trade representative and as an executive in local government. In addition to successfully managing her own creative business for over a decade, she has been regularly engaged as a business development consultant, project manager and policy adviser by both government and the private sector. In 2001, Helene developed and authored Australia's first Creative Industries Strategy for Brisbane City Council. She lectures in Business Development in Creative Industries at the Brisbane Graduate School of Business, QUT and is a Board Director of the Queensland Creative Industry Skills Counci and a member of the Prime Minister's Working Party, Creativity in the Innovation Economy . >> Back to top |
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Courtney Gibson Courtney has a background as a writer and producer of TV programs and commissioning editor of documentaries. >> Back to top |
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Cathy Henkel >> Back to top |
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Victoria Keighery Victoria has a Master of Arts in Arts Management from UTS and has lectured and tutored at graduate and post-graduate levels in Arts Environment, Arts Management and CCD at UTS, the Sydney College of Fine Arts, UNSW and NAISDA. She has also been engaged in accredited curriculum development and tutoring for the NSW Community Arts Association since the early 1990s. Victoria has undertaken arts and cultural projects, conferences, research, policy development and publication projects, and conducted management reviews and strategic planning processes working with both community and cultural agencies and organisations at national, state and local levels. >> Back to top |
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Ralph Kerle In 1992, he founded Eventures Australia Pty Ltd and is currently CEO/Creative Director. Eventures was one of Australia's first experience design and production companies basing its design methodologies on theatrical processes and practices. Its clients have included such Top 500 companies as Walt Disney, Dairy Farmers, General Motors, Nestle, Caltex, Toyota, Kraft Foods Australia, Hewlett-Packard, Peugeot, Telstra, TNT. Its awards include a Gold Medal at the US Association of Fairs and Expositions for Best Overall Programme for Fair Going Public for attendances of 500,000 to 1,000,000 people for its work in redeveloping and redesigning the attractions and entertainment in the Royal Melbourne Show and in association with the Australian Tourist Commission, an Australian Marketing Institute Award of Excellence in Incentive Marketing. It was a finalist in the 2000 Nortel e-Business Awards. Ralph is a Graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts in the Dramatic Arts Faculty, a regular Guest Lecturer at The University of Technology, Sydney in the Master of Management, Event Management course and is currently doing a Professional Doctorate in Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology where he is developing a design methodology for creating commercial experiences. He is the American Creativity Association Chapter Leader in Australia and is an Accredited Team Leader of the US Creative Problem Solving Institute. He is a Fellow of the US think tank, the Center for Cultural Studies and Analysis and is a regular international presenter on creativity and innovation in particular in North America where his work on creative processes that are informed by theatrical methodologies is highly regarded. He is a Board Member of the Festival and Events Association of Australia. He has just completed a month's residency at the Banff Centre in Canada as Innovation Coach and Researcher in Residence in their Creative Leadership Laboratory, recognized as one of the world's leading arts and business incubators. >> Back to top |
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Malcolm Knox >> Back to top |
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Ron Layne Ron has over 30 years experience in the arts industry. He began
his For the Australia Council he has overseen the development of Web sites (eg THE PROGRAM, fuel4arts, OzArts Online and Australian Music Online) and numerous publications; managed conferences (eg 'Imagining the Market') and major events (eg the Australian Performing Arts Market, 'Next Wave Down Under' with the Brooklyn Academy of the Arts in New York); represented the Australia Council and Australia's contemporary performing arts industry at several overseas performing arts markets; and created, developed and overseen the delivery of several professional development programs for the arts community- including the current 'Leading Voices' initiative (a program of presentations and workshops by visiting international arts marketing and audience development specialists). Ron was instrumental in the development of NOISE, Australia's 'virtual' youth, media and culture event which is delivered online, in print, and on TV and radio, reaches an audience of 15 million, involves over 80 media partnerships, and has been adopted in several other countries (eg UK, Canada, and Singapore). He was also instrumental in the development of fuel4arts, a leading international Web site for arts audience development and marketing with over 18,000 regular users worldwide. He has developed and managed key arts industry research (eg older Australians and the arts); developed and implemented policy (youth and the arts, arts and education); developed, implemented and evaluated diverse arts initiatives and programs; and has managed small arts organisations and worked in community organisations. Ron has a Masters of Public Policy and Applied Social Research
(Macquarie University, Sydney); Graduate Diploma of Business (University SA);
Graduate Certificate in Marketing (University of Technology Sydney); Executive
Certificate in Event Management (University of Technology Sydney); Bachelor of
Arts [Communications] (Griffith University, Brisbane). >> Back to top |
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Christopher
Madden Christopher has extensive experience in modelling the cultural
sector, in developing frameworks for cultural statistics and cultural indicators,
and in analysing data for cultural policy. A significant part of his independent
research has addressed issues of evidence-based advocacy. Since his Media
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Sandy McCutcheon Sandy was the founder of the Illusion Farm Community, a Buddhist centre in the mountains of Tasmania that provided rest and retreat facilities free of charge for people in need. The Farm also provided the base for the Illusion Circus Theatre Company which toured many of his plays. In his broadcasting career, Sandy has worked in both commercial and public radio with the highlights being his time on Double Jay and his present position as the producer/presenter of Australia Talks Back heard every weekday around Australia on ABC Radio National and overseas through ABC Radio Australia. He also presents and produces a monthly book discussion program on Radio National called Australia Talks Books which has attracted some of the world's best-known writers including Peter Carey and John Le Carre. Sandy has produced radio documentaries in many parts of the world including Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, Mozambique, South Africa and North and South Sudan. In Finland he has worked with the Finnish National Broadcaster. He has a strong connection with Finland where he lived and worked on a scholarship from the Finnish Government. Sandy's radio work has been recognised with awards in Australia and at the prestigious New York Radio Festival Awards. He has also been awarded the International Kalevala Medal by the Finnish Government for services to Finnish culture. Sandy's first novel "In Wolf's Clothing", was entered in the HarperCollins National Fiction Prize in 1995 and was runner-up out of a field of 400. Sandy's subsequent novels, Peace Crimes, Poison Tree, Safe Havenand and Delicate Indecencies are all bestsellers. He has also written two non-fiction titles and an illustrated children's book called Blik! Two new novels are due out next year. Sandy McCutcheon currently lives in Brisbane. >> Back to top |
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Deborah Mills Art and Wellbeing is relevant to decision-makers concerned with health and wellbeing, integrated approaches to policy, planning and service delivery, ecologically sustainable development, natural resources management, rural revitalisation, community strengthening, active citizenship and diversity and inclusion. Deborah has a diverse background in community and cultural development and a strong record in public sector social and cultural policy development in commonwealth, state and local government spheres. >> Back to top |
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Dr Martin Mulligan In particular he is working on a project funded by the Australian Research Council, with VicHealth as the industry partner, which is seeking to discern what kinds of community arts practices are likely to have beneficial outcomes for community wellbeing. In 2003 he initiated planning for a festival to celebrate and explore the local and national legacy of the great Australian poet and environmentalist Judith Wright. Held in Braidwood, NSW, in March 2005, the Two Fires Festival of Arts and Activism attracted around 1000 people to participate in performances, workshops, political discussions and an academic conference over a period of four days. Mulligan is the co-author of Ecological Pioneers: A Social
History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action (Cambridge University
Press, Melbourne 2001) and co-editor of Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for
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Kate Oakley She is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology, where she recently spent a semester teaching on the Master of Creative Industries course. While in Australia, she completed a national series of policy Masterclasses on 'Building Creative Regions'. The workshops explored the issues of creative industry development in the context of place, linking policy on the knowledge economy and innovation with spatial developments both in the urban and rural context In 2000, Kate was the author, together with Charles Leadbeater of The Independents, a groundbreaking study of Britain's 'cultural entrepreneurs' and Surfing the Long Wave, a look at networks in the UK's knowledge economy. More recently, she was the prime author of the "Creative London" Report, and has worked with a number of cities and regions on public policy in the creative industries. Kate is an Associate Director of the Local Futures Group, a 'geography think tank', which specialises in the geography of economic and social change. She is also an Associate of the independent think-tank, Demos and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is a member of the Advisory Group for IPPR's Digital Manifesto Project and an Advisor to the North West Development Agency on Creative Industries. She previously held research and consulting posts with the Policy
Studies Institute and Manchester Business School, where she had a Fellowship in
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Jeremy Sim He provides business advice and network support to enhance the commercial success of those companies, and is honoured to be a part of some of Scotland's more remarkable creative success stories. Jeremy's previous experience is in corporate tax consulting and management research. Companies that he has worked with include Hanjin Shipping, Channel4, Quaker Oats, IBM, the Chicago Tribune and numerous SMEs in the US, Europe and East Asia. >> Back to top |
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Professor David
Throsby David Throsby holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics. He has been Professor of Economics at Macquarie University in Sydney since 1974. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the OECD, FAO and UNESCO as well as many government organisations and private firms. In 1990-1992 he chaired three of the Prime Minister’s Working Groups on Ecologically Sustainable Development. Professor Throsby has held numerous position on Boards and Committees, including President of the NSW Branches of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society and the Economic Society of Australia, President of the Association for Cultural Economics International, and Foundation Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts. He has served on the Boards of the Australian Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Copyright Agency Limited and VISCOPY. He is also currently a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Cultural Economics, the International Journal of Cultural Policy, Poetics, and the Pacific Economic Bulletin. David Throsby is listed in Who’s Who in Australia and Who’s Who in Economics (3rd edn.). He was elected a fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 1988. >> Back to top |
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Sam Wagan
Watson Also winner of the 1999 David Unaipon Award for poetry volume Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight, Sam Wagan Watson's other works include Hotel Bone (2001) and Itinerant Blues (2002) and the co-authored website The Blackfellas, Whitefellas, Wetlands. He has also published widely in literary journals and international poetry publications. Sam Wagan Watson was born in Brisbane in 1972, of Irish, German, Bundjalung and Birri Gubba ancestry. He has been a salesman, public relations officer, fraud investigator, graphic artist, laborer, law clerk, film industry technician, and an actor. He describes his influences as Nick Cave, Tom Waites, Jack Kerouac,
Charles Bukowski, and Robert Adamson. His other influences are his father, the
novelist Sam Watson, and his mother, who is a specialist teacher. >> Back to top |
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Sam Watson A lecturer of Black Australian Literature at the University of Queensland, Sam Watson is writing his second film and his first book for children based on bedtime stories he tells his grandchildren. Sam Watson was born in Brisbane and studied law and arts at the University of Queensland. During the 1970s he was a committed Aboriginal activist and worked for the Brisbane Aboriginal Legal Service. He was co-founder of the Black Panther Party of Australia (1971) and was active in the Anti Springbok mobilisations (1971) and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy (1972). He has helped to establish organisations and programs at a local,
regional and national level concerning legal, health and housing issues. >> Back to top |
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