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Is creative industries policy really good for the arts?

Collecting the arts under a broader creative industries umbrella has risks as well as opportunities.

13 May 2016

Brooke Boland

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The release of Victoria Creative Industries Strategy last month is part of a national trend to think of the arts as part of the ‘creative industries’. When it comes with new money – as it has in Victoria – it sounds exciting.

Read: 40 ways the arts will improve with $115 million

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Brooke Boland

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Brooke Boland is a freelance writer based on the South Coast of NSW. She has a PhD in literature from the University of NSW. You can find her on Instagram @southcoastwriter.