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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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Rhoda
Roberts
Rhoda was Co Creative Director of the Awakening Segment for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. For the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival she was co-creative director with Stephen Page of Tubowgule, the official opening ceremony of the Festival on Friday, 18 August. Her other role with SOCOG on a part time basis was as Indigenous Cultural Advisor. Rhoda was Artistic Director of The Festival of the Dreaming, 1997, the first of four Olympic Arts Festivals. Well known for her work with SBS television as a journalist and presenter for the current affairs program, Vox Populi, she has also worked for Network Ten and ABC Radio as a producer and journalist. Rhoda has written and produced several documentaries, and was the first Aboriginal to host a national prime time current affairs program. She continues her radio work as reporter and presenter/producer of the national music program Deadly Sounds. And the ABC Radio national weekly arts program AWAYE Her involvement in the arts is extensive. She was a co-founding member of Australia's first national Aboriginal theatre company, the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust (ANTT) and as an actor/producer and director, continues to work in theatre, film, television and radio. In 1998 as co-writer she performed the one woman show Please Explain. She is currently completing her first novel Tullymorgan. Rhoda works as a freelance journalist and arts consultant/producer, actor, director. Current Board positions, which Rhoda sits on, are: Sydney Opera House Trust, and the NSW Australia Day Council. Past Board appointments include: Darling Harbour Authority, The National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association (NAISDA), the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, Actors Equity and the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust.. >> Back to top |
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Scott Rankin In 1992 Scott Rankin and John Bakes established BIG hART Inc and since then Scott has initiated, mentored and/or created over 20 productions for BIG hART - working primarily with disadvantaged people in regional, rural and isolated areas of Australia. BIG hART's Achievements to date include:
>> Back to top In addition to his work with BIG hART, Scott has written and directed successfully for mainstream theatre, with many of his shows being produced for festivals and touring nationally and internationally. Tackling issues such as environmentalism, the rural city divide and indigenous issues, these shows have been highly successful commercially. His best known works include: Box the Pony and Kissing Frogs, Certified Male, Leaves Falling at Midnight, Pumping Irony and Beasty Girl. Scott Rankin's Awards:
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Dr Anne Bamford Anne has taught in Education and Visual and Creative Arts for over 18 years. She has been recognised nationally and internationally for her research in emerging literacies and visual communication. Anne was awarded the Institute for Educational Research, Outstanding Educational Research Award for 2002. She has edited one book and just completed her second book and published many journal articles and conference papers. Anne is a recipient of the UTS Excellence in Teaching award, and a nominee for the Australian Award for University teaching. She is currently completing research into adolescents' use of interactive imagery. She is also undertaking a major project investigating the impact of creativity on 'at risk' learners in the middle school years. Anne Bamford can be contacted on anne.bamford@uts.edu.au >> Back to top |
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Christine Burton As well, Christine developed new media strategies for the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, brokered partnerships for arts and media development in Hull (Hull Time Based Arts, community employment organisations, educational institutions and youth arts organisations) and undertook management plans for the Royal National Theatre (London) and Customs House Theatre in South Shields. Research in Britain includes:
>> Back to top Prior to relocating to the U.K. Christine worked in Parramatta City Council on the first Cultural Plan and developed public art projects and strategies. She is currently the Course Director for the Post Graduate Program in Arts Management at UTS, lecturing in arts and cultural policy and planning, management and market research methods. Recent and on-going research includes:
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Professor Stuart
Cunningham He is an experienced researcher and research manager in the fields of media, communications, cultural policy, higher education and in what is now called the ‘creative industries’. Known for his policy critique of cultural studies, Framing
Culture (1992) and for his work on Australian media and film, his recent projects
include a book on popular culture amongst Asian communities in Australia (Floating
Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas, with John Sinclair); two major international
studies for DEETYA/DETYA/DEST of 'borderless' education and its implications for
Australian higher and further education; and the standard textbooks The Australian
TV Book and The Media and Communications in Australia (with Graeme
Turner). He was co-author of the Australian
Broadcasting Authority report The Future for Local Content? Options for Emerging
Technologies and Research and Innovation Systems in the production of Digital
Content, Report for the National Office for the Information Economy, September,
He was a Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission in the 1990s and is a Councillor of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Chair of QPIX, Queensland's Screen Development Centre. >> Back to top |
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Ros Derrett Ros Derrett delivers programs in event planning and management, tourism planning and the environment, marketing and special interest tourism. She has worked extensively in education, community development and arts administration in Australia and overseas; and as a consultant for private enterprise, local government, community event management and planning authorities on local and national projects. Her research activity reflects her interest in regional consultation, cultural tourism, community cultural and economic development and tourism with a special focus on heritage, festivals and event management. She is the Project Manager of the Centre for Regional Tourism Research based at Southern Cross University and part of the CRC for Sustainable Tourism. She manages the SCU Regional Gateway initiative dedicated to effective regional connectivity between the university and its regional community. >> Back to top |
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Clare Keating Clare's published work relating to arts policy and practice includes The Taxi Driver, the Cook and the Greengrocer: The Representation of non-English speaking background people in theatre, film and television (with Santina Bertone and Jenny Mulally); Creative Connections: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing through Community Arts Participation and Evaluating Community Arts and Community Well-Being An Evaluation Guide for Community Arts Practitioners. Clare undertook a case study of a theatre company, included in the publication Developing Effective Consultative Practices. Clare presented "Researching Arts for Health's Sake" with Susan Ball from VicHealth at the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, 2002 in Wellington, New Zealand. >> Back to top |
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Christopher Madden Christopher has extensive experience in developing frameworks and models for cultural statistics and cultural indicators, and in analysing data for cultural policy. His statistical work in Australia has included background work on developing an information model for culture and leisure statistics for the ABS, and producing statistical profiles for the Australia Council's Planning for the Future project. More recent statistical work includes Cross-country Comparisons: Problems and Solutions, and an international review of work on statistical indicators for arts policy (an IFACCA research report due out in July). A significant part of Chris' arts policy research has centred around issues of evidence-based advocacy. Since his paper arguing against the use of economic impact studies in arts advocacy was published in Media International Australia in 2001, he has gone on to explore the meaning of creativity and its implications for arts advocacy in 'Advocating Creativity' and 'Creativity, Health and Arts Advocacy' (both published in the International Journal of Cultural Policy), and 'Creativity and Arts Policy' (published in the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society ). Christopher was rapporteur on the Making the Case for the Arts session at the Second World Summit on the Arts and Culture in Singapore in November 2003. >> Back to top |
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Tony Moore Tony worked first as a policy researcher and lobbiest within the youth affairs sector in the 1980s and then as a program maker at ABC Television from 1988 to 1997, working in documentaries and current affairs. Programs include Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent, Time Frame and the documentaries Nobody’s Children and So Help Me God. Tony wrote and directed the feature length arts documentary, Bohemian Rhapsody - Rebels of Australian Culture, and writes regularly about cultural and political issues and Australian history inthe broadsheet press and scholary journals. He is currently writing a book on the Barry McKenzie films of the 1970s and has a column on the Arts Hub web site. Tony was a member of the ABC National Advisory Council between 1986 and 1988 and is currently on the Executive committees of the Australian Fabian Society and the Evatt Foundation. >> Back to top |
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Jan Muir In recent years, Jan has led research projects examining the impact of cultural programs in regional Australia. One of these was conducted in collaboration with the Australia Council, and included case studies in Port Lincoln and Maryborough. The CRU has worked closely with other groups, including the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the secretariat to the Cultural Ministers Council, academic advisers and a number of portfolio agencies. The issues they have considered include cultural statistics, cultural tourism, philanthropy and the arts, cultural mapping and the Creative Industries Cluster Study. The CRU has also developed statistical and spatial analysis capabilities which are now being applied to improve our understanding of access to cultural facilities and participation in cultural activities. It is also exploring ways of analysing the impact of particular activities on local and regional communities and the economy at large. Jan has qualifications in economics and public policy from the University of
Melbourne and the Australian National University. She has studied under Glenn
Withers, who co-authored The Economics of the Performing Arts with David Throsby
in 1979. She worked on the economics teaching staff of the ANU before joining
the (then) Bureau of Transport and Communications Economics and the Communications
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Alan Pigott As a senior Consultant with the Premier's Department of NSW, Alan has worked on the development and implementation of the Government's Public Sector Reform Agenda with a particular emphasis on rural policy and the implementation of new models of service provision in regional areas. He commenced his career with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra. Alan is a Graduate of the Queensland University of Technology
and holds a Law Degree and a Bachelor of Business Degree majoring in Public Sector
Management. He is an experienced public speaker having presented a variety of
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Dr Mandy Thomas Mandy is a social anthropologist with extensive multi-disciplinary experience which has involved research, consultancies, publications and films in the areas of Indigenous Australia, multicultural Australia, Asian studies and Creative Arts. More specifically, Dr Thomas has conducted research into: Indigenous languages; Asian migration to Australia; Asian and Middle Eastern youth in urban Australia; youth cultures, and social and political change in Vietnam; cultural traffic in the Asian region; and Asian-Australian art. >> Back to top |
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Roger Wilkins He was appointed Director-General of The Cabinet Office in 1992
and of the Ministry for the Arts in early 2001. Mr Wilkins joined the public sector in 1983 from an academic position
at Sydney University Law School, where he also undertook postgraduate studies
in law and philosophy. He studied administrative law at London University. Mr Wilkins has played a leading role in administration and law reform, corporatisation and microeconomic reform, and in Commonwealth-State relations. He is the NSW representative on the Senior Officials Committee for the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) and a member of the Cultural Ministers' Council Standing Committee. >> Back to top |
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