This is a presentation I gave at the International Symposium on the Measurement of Digital Cultural Products in Montreal on May 10th, 2016 on the Kinomatics research into reciprocal cinema exchange. Moderator: Ronald Jansen – United Nations Statistics Division (United States) Continue…
Since the 1970s the argument for government subsidy to the local film industry has been made in terms of the opportunity it provides for Australians “to tell our own stories”. What isn’t clear in this aspirational statement is that, from the outset, these stories have been told almost exclusively in monotone.
I join ABC commentator Jon Faine on The Conversation Hour to speak with feminist activists Dr Helen Pankhurst and Renee Carr on December 1, 2015 Continue…
An article written with Ben Eltham and published in The Conversation on March 29, 2015. We use evidence of cultural consumption and production in Australia to refute claims claims made by Senator Brandis in his justification of severe Federal government budget cuts to the arts. Continue…