Creative industries

The government on Thursday announced a range of new grant and loan programs would roll out over the next 12 months to different parts of the sector.

Just as the creative industries are breaking down barriers between disciplines, so too are the public servants brought together under Creative Victoria, explains the new agency’s head — plus why it’s worth getting breadth of career experience as well as depth.

Should public servants consider cultural impact when developing policies? Julianne Schultz says cultural policy has been undervalued, but combating Australia’s cultural deficit has been stymied by equating culture with arts, and arts defined quite narrowly as the non-commercial sector.