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Platform Papers 19: Beethoven or Britney
The Great Divide in Music Education.

By Robert Walker
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"Your Genre is Black" at NIDA 11 February 2009 here

Published 21 October

LORDS AND LARRIKINS;the Actor's Role in the Making of Australia
By Kath Leahy

ARTS AND PUBLIC LIFE BREAKFASTS JULY 2009

Michael Lynch will address the business community on ‘Arts, Life and Credit Crunches’ at two Currency House/ABaF breakfasts, on 7 July at Sofitel Melbourne and on 15 July at Guillaume at Bennelong, Sydney Opera House.
Michael Lynch, CBE, AM, was chief executive of the South Bank Centre in London from 2002 to 2008.He has spent most of his career in arts governance. He has been CEO of the Sydney Opera House (1998–2002); General Manager of the Australia Council, the Federal Government’s arts funding and advisory body (1994–98); and General Manager of the Sydney Theatre Company (1989–94).

Lynch was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2001 and in 2008 he was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday Honours. Last year he was also presented with the prestigious Garrett Award for outstanding achievement in the encouragement of business support for the arts.

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Published July 2009 - PLATFORM PAPERS 21
'Television: What rates in the New Tomorrow?' by Ian David

The tribal coldfire in the living room, the unblinking eye of surveillance, the medium of the everyman, is showing its age.  Assailed by the internet and cable, blunted by the lowest common denominator, television has blended truth, scandal and daily information into a ‘re-enactment’ of life that reinforces popular prejudice in the face of common sense. Yet it still has the power to cut through, inform and inspire. Where is it going?  What’s driving our devotion to it? Ian David shows why the digital age must force the networks to change their values, recognise the damage they have done and grasp the opportunities offered by the reconstructed global marketplace of the GFC.

Ian David is an award winning screenwriter. His groundbreaking documentary dramas Police State and Police Crop won AFI Awards, Joh's Jury, won the AWGIE Award, Blue Murder received the Logie Award, AWGIE Award and AFI Award for Best Screenplay. He has also written the comedy series, Bad, Cop, Bad Cop and the adaptation of the Robert Drewe memoir, The Shark Net. His latest work 3 acts of murder, a 95 minute telemovie based on a true story about Arthur Upfield, will be screened on ABC 1 on Sunday June 14.