Creative Equity Toolkit

Utilizing the Arts to Support Racial Justice

One of the United States' leading audience development strategists Donna Walker-Khune in conversation with Michelle Taylor the founder of the artist management company, Passion Music Group.

This inspiring conversation has a lot of educational resources and traces the history and background of The Blacksmiths, a creative coalition committed to using the arts to support racial justice movements and engaging with people of colour and the broader community in the Black Lives Matter movement.

When Should You Work For Free? (An Artist's Perspective)

A cogent article that is broadly applicable about paying artists for their work, and presents a compelling argument for why artists shouldn't work for free - and how unpaid labour feeds into deeper issues of inequity and exploitation.

White, female, and high rates of mental illness: Australian publishing industry diversity survey

This article provides a snapshot summary of a recent survey done on the Australian publishing industry, following similar studies in the UK and USA.

Published on 31 August 2022, and featuring survey data from 989 respondents, the report contains demographic data on the makeup of the Australian publishing workforce. At time of publication, the industry has much work to do in reflecting Australia’s cultural and social diversity in its workforce.

Whitewashed: why does Australian TV have such a problem with race?

Discussion of representation in Australian TV, from the awful stereotypes of the 90s, like Neighbours' first non-white family, the Lims, being accused of eating a dog, to shows that got it right, such as Gary Foley on A Country Practice.

'Crucially, Foley says, he was allowed to write his character himself. “[Creator] Jim Davern rung me up and asked me if I was interested,” Foley told Guardian Australia. “I said I was only interested if I could write my own character and my own dialogue.”'

Why and how to achieve diversity on your board

An article about how to evolve your board into a more inclusive, responsive and representative body, and the steps your organisation could take to reach that goal.