AQ034 Cultural Policy.qxd - Arts Queensland
AQ034 Cultural Policy.qxd - Arts Queensland
AQ034 Cultural Policy.qxd - Arts Queensland
- No tags were found...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
The <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong><br />
2002
Julie Reeves<br />
Instigate 2001<br />
Oil on padded canvas<br />
Photo courtesy of artist and Artbank. Artist represented by<br />
Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane.<br />
“The process begins with a fragment - an insignificant<br />
background detail. It starts as something familiar, even<br />
comfortingly domestic, but reinterpretation heightens its<br />
intensity and ability to insinuate.<br />
It aims to affect.<br />
The intimate and shadowy terrain which is propagated seems to<br />
encourage the sensation that something lies just beyond reach.”<br />
Julie Reeves
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s arts and cultural community<br />
Is diverse and unique,<br />
Like droplets of a humid summer rain<br />
Bound for the corrugated iron roof of a homestead,<br />
Entities of vibrancy,<br />
Making their-own sound heard,<br />
Each varying in brevity and impact…<br />
Verse for the <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>…<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> and Culture in <strong>Queensland</strong>…<br />
(excerpt)<br />
Samuel Wagan Watson
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
ISBN 0-9581823-1-0<br />
October 2002<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> is the <strong>Queensland</strong> Government department for arts and cultural<br />
development.<br />
Copyright protects the artworks and poetry appearing in this document and may not<br />
be reproduced without prior permission. Permission has been given for the use of<br />
the works in this document.<br />
Milestones in <strong>Queensland</strong>’s <strong>Cultural</strong> History<br />
The milestone events contained in Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> are a selection of cultural<br />
events in <strong>Queensland</strong> from pre-settlement to the present that have been important<br />
in forming the arts and cultural industries of today. It is not intended to be an<br />
exhaustive historical account.<br />
Milestones in <strong>Queensland</strong>’s <strong>Cultural</strong> History has been developed through research<br />
and consultation with key figures in the arts and cultural industries, from existing<br />
documentation and from feedback received during consultation in the development<br />
of Creative <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the John Oxley Library<br />
and the <strong>Queensland</strong> Performing <strong>Arts</strong> Museum in providing historical information.<br />
Images in Milestones in <strong>Queensland</strong>’s <strong>Cultural</strong> History are courtesy of the John Oxley<br />
Library and <strong>Queensland</strong> Newspapers unless otherwise stated.
Contents<br />
From the Premier and <strong>Arts</strong> Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2<br />
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3<br />
Strong Foundations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />
The <strong>Cultural</strong> Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />
Delivering the Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
- Lifelong Learning and Education<br />
- Leadership and Professional Excellence<br />
Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
- Community Engagement and Renewal<br />
- <strong>Cultural</strong> Tourism<br />
Places, Collections and Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
- New Technologies<br />
- Infrastructure and Services<br />
- Enhancing Public Places<br />
Creative Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
- Jobs and Training<br />
- Research and Development<br />
- Export Development<br />
- Business Development and Creative Industries<br />
Consultation and Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002
From the Premier<br />
and <strong>Arts</strong> Minister<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002, Creative <strong>Queensland</strong>, is the first<br />
whole-of-Government policy which sets the future directions for delivering a vision for a culturally<br />
dynamic State.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> recognises that cultural development is a key component of the Smart State through<br />
its contribution to the social and economic wellbeing of <strong>Queensland</strong>ers.<br />
It is a commitment to a cultural environment which enlivens us as individuals and enriches our<br />
communities.<br />
We affirm respect for the Indigenous cultures of <strong>Queensland</strong> as fundamental to our identity as a<br />
community.<br />
This policy is a commitment to the importance of arts and culture in our society.<br />
We recognise that <strong>Queensland</strong>’s geographic decentralisation is a source of cultural strength. The world<br />
looks different in Bamaga from the way it looks in Coolangatta. Support for regional arts is not just about a<br />
fair go for the regions; it is principally about cultural diversity and celebrating the many voices in the choir.<br />
From jobs and training to research and development; from creative enterprise to cultural traditions; from<br />
exports to infrastructure; from public celebrations to community renewal, Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> charts a<br />
new course for whole-of-Government action.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> provides a framework for all departments and agencies to work together to deliver an<br />
innovative range of strategies in which the Government’s key priorities, industry expertise, and community<br />
and individual aspirations meet.<br />
There is a diverse range of arts and cultural activity being undertaken across Government which is<br />
reflected in Creative Government, a companion document to the <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>. This document sets the<br />
scene for the development of productive partnerships between the public, private, community and tertiary<br />
sectors which will deliver the vision of Creative <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> is the result of extensive consultation across <strong>Queensland</strong> with industry experts, the<br />
arts and cultural sector, individuals and groups.<br />
We are grateful to the large number of people who took the time to provide information, offer comments or<br />
were involved in public forums. By reflecting the diverse range of interests and views which exist in the<br />
community, your ideas have assisted in shaping the <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>.<br />
The next steps will be equally important and we look forward to continuing our work across the State to<br />
deliver the vision for a culturally dynamic <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Peter Beattie MP<br />
Premier<br />
and Minister for Trade<br />
Matt Foley MP<br />
Minister for Employment, Training and Youth<br />
and Minister for the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
2 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002
Introduction<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>, Creative<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>, provides a whole-of-<br />
Government framework to underpin the<br />
Government’s investment in arts and<br />
cultural development.<br />
It recognises the unique contribution<br />
that the arts make to <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
cultural life.<br />
A strategic investment in arts and<br />
cultural development will contribute to<br />
achieving the <strong>Queensland</strong> Government’s<br />
vision for:<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> to be a<br />
culturally dynamic<br />
place, rich in diversity<br />
and experiences -<br />
where ideas and talent<br />
are supported; where<br />
artistic and cultural<br />
pursuits are<br />
encouraged; and where<br />
the economy is<br />
enhanced by excellence<br />
in creative innovation.<br />
Central to this vision is<br />
a respect for diversity<br />
and the cultural rights<br />
of Indigenous people.<br />
To achieve this vision, the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government will invest in people,<br />
communities, places, collections and<br />
traditions, and creative enterprise to:<br />
• promote individual and community<br />
wellbeing, participation in the arts<br />
and access to arts and cultural<br />
events and collections;<br />
• provide jobs and training<br />
opportunities in the cultural and<br />
creative industries and foster the<br />
creation of local content for<br />
knowledge economy enterprises; and<br />
• strengthen community capacity and<br />
our sense of identity, foster social<br />
cohesion, and enhance infrastructure<br />
and cultural services.<br />
These outcomes contribute directly to<br />
the <strong>Queensland</strong> Government priorities of<br />
Community engagement and a better<br />
quality of life, More Jobs for <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
- Skills and Innovation - The Smart State,<br />
and Building <strong>Queensland</strong>’s regions.<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government will<br />
invest in people, communities,<br />
places, collections and traditions,<br />
and creative enterprise<br />
Donna Marcus, Spine and Bone, 1998, aluminium (teapots). Photo courtesy of<br />
the artist and Artbank. Artist represented by Diane Tanzer Gallery, Melbourne.<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
35,200 to 500 years ago<br />
Archaeological evidence of<br />
Aboriginal occupation at<br />
Nurrabullgin (Mt Mulligan),<br />
100 kilometres west of Cairns.<br />
27,700 years ago Rock<br />
painting in the Laura<br />
1.<br />
region practised by Aboriginal<br />
artists. What is known as the<br />
Quinkan style dominated from<br />
4,000 years ago and painting<br />
and engravings continued until<br />
European contact.<br />
▼<br />
22,300 years<br />
ago Aboriginal<br />
occupation<br />
recorded at<br />
Kenniff Cave in<br />
the Carnarvon<br />
Ranges.<br />
2,700 years ago Earliest<br />
evidence of sustained<br />
settlement in the Torres Strait.<br />
1824 Foundation of the<br />
Moreton Bay Settlement.<br />
1. Photo courtesy the Environmental<br />
Protection Agency.<br />
1847 Former Sydney Theatre<br />
Royal performer and tightrope<br />
walker George Croft opens<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s first<br />
amphitheatre in Brisbane.<br />
1851 First School of <strong>Arts</strong><br />
building opened at corner of<br />
Creek and Queen Streets in<br />
October.<br />
1853 Aboriginal man Tetaree<br />
(alias James Alexander) gives<br />
Brisbane School of <strong>Arts</strong> concert<br />
after being tutored in England.<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government’s role in<br />
achieving the Creative <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
vision is to stimulate an environment<br />
that promotes growth and innovation in<br />
the arts sector and the cultural and<br />
creative industries.<br />
1858 Ex-convict William Wilkes<br />
has first of seven short stories<br />
published in the Moreton Bay<br />
Courier under the name of<br />
Jack Bushman.<br />
1858 German pianist Otto<br />
Linden forms Brisbane<br />
Philharmonic Society.<br />
1859 <strong>Queensland</strong> colony<br />
separates from New South Wales.<br />
1859 The formation of the first<br />
scientific society in<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> - the Philosophical<br />
Society - formed the collections<br />
that were to become those of<br />
the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Museum.<br />
1862 The<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Museum<br />
64729 established.<br />
1865 Brisbane’s Town Hall<br />
opens in Queen Street, between<br />
George and Albert Streets. It was<br />
also used as a concert venue.<br />
▼<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 3
Introduction Continued<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong>’s role is to facilitate<br />
strategic investment in arts and cultural<br />
activity through building partnerships<br />
across all levels of Government, and<br />
with the private, education and<br />
community sectors.<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government’s<br />
investment in people, communities,<br />
places, collections and traditions,<br />
and creative enterprise will be guided<br />
by the following key strategies:<br />
• enhance lifelong learning and<br />
education through artistic and<br />
cultural activity;<br />
• foster leadership and professional<br />
excellence in the arts;<br />
• foster community capacity and<br />
renewal through cultural<br />
development;<br />
• promote cultural tourism;<br />
• enhance public places, cultural<br />
infrastructure and services;<br />
• increase employment and training<br />
opportunities in the cultural and<br />
creative industries;<br />
• promote research and development,<br />
and adoption of new technologies in<br />
the cultural industries;<br />
• enhance export and business<br />
development opportunities; and<br />
• foster growth in the creative<br />
industries.<br />
Achievement of<br />
Government priorities<br />
and outcomes through<br />
investment in arts and<br />
cultural development<br />
will require a whole-of-<br />
Government approach.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> will<br />
play a leadership role<br />
across Government<br />
and will develop an<br />
implementation plan<br />
that specifies:<br />
• the outcomes to be<br />
achieved and<br />
relevant indicators<br />
to monitor progress towards<br />
achievement of these outcomes;<br />
• a suite of integrated services and<br />
products to be delivered by agencies<br />
across Government; and<br />
• output performance measures that<br />
will monitor the efficiency and<br />
effectiveness of these services and<br />
products in<br />
delivering<br />
specified<br />
Government<br />
outcomes.<br />
Without artists and<br />
cultural activity,<br />
the Creative<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> vision<br />
cannot be<br />
achieved.<br />
At Cooloolah<br />
Lisa O’Neill in Ghosting by Jill Barker, Adam Donovan, John Rodgers,<br />
Jeff Erbacher, Jay Younger Curator, Cox Rayner Architects and Project Services.<br />
Photo Mark Bergin.<br />
EXCERPT<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> builds on<br />
substantial achievements in the arts and<br />
cultural industries and recognises that<br />
changing demographics and social<br />
trends, diversity, globalisation,<br />
employment, technology and new<br />
economies present challenges and<br />
opportunities that can be addressed<br />
through an investment in the arts and<br />
the cultural and creative industries.<br />
The blue crane fishing in Cooloolah’s twilight<br />
has fished there longer than our centuries.<br />
He is the certain heir of lake and evening,<br />
and he will wear their colour till he dies;<br />
but I’m a stranger, come from a conquering people.<br />
I cannot share his calm, who watch his lake,<br />
being unloved by all my eyes delight in<br />
and made uneasy, for an old murder’s sake.<br />
Judith Wright<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1865 Musician and hotelier<br />
George Mason draws 400<br />
people to the opening night of<br />
his Concert Hall in Brisbane.<br />
Later the venue was named<br />
Victoria Theatre or Victoria<br />
Concert Hall and after<br />
renovations in 1874 was known<br />
as the <strong>Queensland</strong> Theatre.<br />
1866 Oxford Music Hall, later<br />
known as the Royal Alexandra<br />
Theatre and the Bijou Theatre,<br />
opens in Edward Street between<br />
Elizabeth and Charlotte Streets.<br />
1863-1904 Forced<br />
migration of South Sea<br />
Islanders to work on<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s sugar<br />
plantations from eight<br />
Pacific islands, primarily<br />
Vanuatu and the Solomons.<br />
1867 Gold discovered in<br />
Gympie, later Charters Towers<br />
and Mt Morgan. <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
population quadrupled in a<br />
decade.<br />
4 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
1871 Wandering photographer<br />
William Boag produces images<br />
of Moreton<br />
Bay region in<br />
his horsedrawn<br />
20261 dark room.<br />
1872 Musical Union<br />
established. It was the first<br />
organisation dedicated to<br />
development of musical culture<br />
in the settlement.<br />
▼<br />
1874 The <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Herbarium established<br />
(originally part of the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Museum).<br />
1876 Exhibition Building opens<br />
providing Brisbane’s first large<br />
concert hall and occasional<br />
skating rink. Burns down in a<br />
spectacular blaze to be<br />
replaced in 1891.<br />
1879 Public Library built<br />
(F.D.G.Stanley architect).<br />
1881 The first Albert Hall opens<br />
in Adelaide Street, between<br />
Albert and Edward Streets. Later<br />
known as the Academy of Music<br />
and the Gaiety Theatre, it<br />
operated until the end of the<br />
century.<br />
1881 Brisbane’s Theatre Royal<br />
in Elizabeth St opens, designed<br />
by Andrea Stumbuco.<br />
1884 Brisbane Technical<br />
School for training of visual<br />
artists opens.
Introduction Continued<br />
A companion document, Creative<br />
Government, reflects the diverse range<br />
of arts and cultural activities being<br />
undertaken across the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government and provides the building<br />
blocks for new partnerships that will be<br />
fundamental to delivering the<br />
strategies in the <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>.<br />
To ensure that partnerships,<br />
research and consultation result<br />
in high quality and consistent<br />
outcomes, <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> will develop<br />
a partnership and engagement charter<br />
based on the principles set out in the<br />
Government’s Community Engagement<br />
Directions Statement - inclusiveness,<br />
reaching out, mutual respect, integrity<br />
and affirming diversity.<br />
A <strong>Cultural</strong> Export <strong>Policy</strong> to<br />
take <strong>Queensland</strong>’s arts and<br />
cultural products to the world<br />
Key investments in the areas of<br />
Indigenous <strong>Arts</strong><br />
and Culture,<br />
Children and Young<br />
People, Regional<br />
Communities, Jobs<br />
and Training, and<br />
Creative Enterprise<br />
are profiled in the<br />
snapshots that<br />
accompany Creative<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> contains a range of<br />
key initiatives which underpin the<br />
Government’s commitment to investing<br />
in arts and cultural activity. These will<br />
be built on during the life of the<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>.<br />
Key initiatives include:<br />
• An annual Creative Fellowship to<br />
recognise leading <strong>Queensland</strong> artists;<br />
• A small business start-up program,<br />
including skills development, to assist<br />
new businesses in the cultural sector;<br />
• A poetry and short story competition<br />
in <strong>Queensland</strong> schools to raise the<br />
profile of writing;<br />
• A <strong>Cultural</strong> Export <strong>Policy</strong> to take<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s arts and cultural<br />
products to the world;<br />
• The establishment of the position of<br />
Government Curator to manage<br />
artwork collections across<br />
Government;<br />
• A major research project to identify<br />
the social and educational impact of<br />
arts activity on children in the middle<br />
school years;<br />
• An Indigenous cultural network to link<br />
a range of Aboriginal and Torres Strait<br />
Islander arts and cultural activity and<br />
new facilities in Brisbane; and<br />
Gordon Bennett, Explorer II, 1991, oil and acrylic on canvas. Photo courtesy of the<br />
artist and Artbank. Artist represented by Bellas Gallery, Brisbane.<br />
• An Indigenous Youth <strong>Arts</strong> Foundation<br />
to assist Indigenous high school<br />
students to develop career paths as<br />
professional artists.<br />
1887 Discovery of artesian<br />
water gradually transforms the<br />
resources of the west and<br />
brings prosperity to the whole<br />
State. A building boom<br />
resulted, and the<br />
1880s and 1890s<br />
saw the building of<br />
the Public Library,<br />
The Supreme<br />
Court, The Opera<br />
House (Her<br />
Majesty’s),<br />
Customs House, National Bank,<br />
Treasury Buildings, Exhibition<br />
Building and Concert Hall.<br />
1887 <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Society<br />
founded through the activities<br />
of artists, Isaac Walter<br />
Jenner, Oscar Fristrom and<br />
L.W.K.Wirth.<br />
1888 Her Imperial<br />
Majesty’s Opera<br />
House opens in Queen<br />
Street, Brisbane, designed<br />
16875 by Andrea Stumbuco.<br />
▼<br />
1888-1905<br />
English<br />
anthropologist<br />
Alfred Cort<br />
Haddon<br />
collects more<br />
than 1,000<br />
artefacts from the Torres Strait<br />
for the Cambridge University<br />
Collection. 2002 sees the<br />
collection return temporarily to<br />
Australia at the Cairns Regional<br />
Gallery’s exhibition Past Time.<br />
1889 Customs House<br />
in Brisbane built.<br />
1891 Exhibition Building<br />
and Concert Hall built in<br />
Brisbane (J.M.Addison,<br />
architect).<br />
1891 Great<br />
Shearer’s Strike<br />
occurs prompting<br />
workers to raise<br />
the Eureka flag.<br />
Armed troops were sent in by<br />
the government to quell the<br />
100069<br />
▼<br />
▼<br />
uprising. After<br />
the burning of<br />
Dagworth<br />
Station, Banjo<br />
Patterson put<br />
117228<br />
▼<br />
pen to<br />
paper to<br />
write the<br />
stirring<br />
words of Waltzing<br />
Matilda. First performed<br />
in Winton in 1895.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 5
Strong Foundations<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s cultural past has<br />
laid the foundations for the<br />
lifestyle we enjoy today and is a<br />
strong base from which to embrace new<br />
challenges and opportunities.<br />
From the oldest of Australia’s art forms<br />
– ancient Aboriginal rock art found in<br />
caves in Far North <strong>Queensland</strong> to one of<br />
the most contemporary, the 14-year-old<br />
music festival Livid – <strong>Queensland</strong> is rich<br />
in cultural heritage and cutting-edge<br />
arts.<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> has been a fertile ground<br />
for international, national and local<br />
success stories in film, television,<br />
writing, dance, theatre, music and visual<br />
arts - bands like Savage Garden and<br />
george, writers David Malouf and Nick<br />
Earls, actors Geoffrey Rush, Sigrid<br />
Thornton and Bille Brown, and poet<br />
Thomas Shapcott to name but a few.<br />
There is a new dynamic associated with<br />
the artistic and creative potential of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>'s Indigenous artists.<br />
Brisbane band george. Photo courtesy of Festival Mushroom Records.<br />
Photo Sophie Howarth.<br />
Contemporary talent<br />
such as artists Tracey<br />
Moffatt and Rosella<br />
Namok, actors<br />
Deborah Mailman and<br />
Leah Purcell, director,<br />
actor and playwright<br />
Wesley Enoch and<br />
performing arts<br />
companies such as<br />
Kooemba Jdarra are<br />
paving the way for<br />
national and<br />
international recognition<br />
of the State’s many<br />
Indigenous artists.<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> is host to more than<br />
300 festivals and events that attract<br />
international audiences such<br />
Geoffrey Rush during a break in<br />
filming of Swimming Upstream at the<br />
Valley Pool. Photo Anthony Weate.<br />
as the acclaimed Asia-Pacific<br />
Triennial of Contemporary Art,<br />
Woodford Folk Festival,<br />
Brisbane Festival, <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Biennial Festival of Music,<br />
Brisbane International Film Festival,<br />
Laura Dance<br />
and <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Festival, Out of<br />
the Box Festival<br />
of Early<br />
Childhood and<br />
the Charters<br />
Towers Country<br />
Music Festival.<br />
The State’s film and<br />
television industry has<br />
experienced huge growth<br />
over the last decade –<br />
generating more than<br />
$2 billion in economic<br />
impact and thousands of<br />
jobs for the State. The<br />
Government’s Pacific Film<br />
and Television Commission<br />
works with the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
industry to attract an<br />
increasing flow of major<br />
international productions<br />
such as Scooby Doo and<br />
Peter Pan. Production is set to increase<br />
with the expansion of the Warner<br />
Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> has been a fertile<br />
ground for international, national<br />
and local success stories<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government’s<br />
$260 million five-year Millennium <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Project is doubling the size of the State<br />
Library of <strong>Queensland</strong>, building the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Gallery of Modern Art and<br />
the Musgrave Park <strong>Cultural</strong> Centre, and<br />
supporting 16 projects in regional<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> such as a centre for<br />
contemporary arts in Cairns. The project<br />
has already delivered The Judith Wright<br />
Centre of Contemporary <strong>Arts</strong> and a new<br />
home for the <strong>Queensland</strong> Theatre<br />
Company, and has increased access to<br />
arts and culture in regional, rural and<br />
remote areas.<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1892 William Lane publishes<br />
The Working Man's Paradise to<br />
raise funds for shearers<br />
convicted at Rockhampton for<br />
striking over wages and<br />
contracts.<br />
1895 Edison kinetoscopes for<br />
motion pictures demonstrated<br />
at the Exhibition Building for<br />
the first time in <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1895 <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery<br />
opens in Brisbane’s Town Hall<br />
through the efforts of artist<br />
Godfrey Rivers - President of<br />
the <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Society<br />
1892-1911 and Art Master of the<br />
Brisbane Technical College.<br />
1895 Sydney Bulletin<br />
publishes first literary<br />
sketches about bush<br />
life by Toowoomba’s<br />
Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey<br />
Davis). He publishes On<br />
Our Selection in 1899 later<br />
adapted for the theatre.<br />
Becomes ABC radio series<br />
▼<br />
6 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
Dad and Dave in 1937 (until 1953).<br />
1896 Public Library established<br />
(forerunner to the State Library<br />
of <strong>Queensland</strong>).<br />
1897 First motion<br />
picture produced in<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> (Filmed<br />
in Queen Street,<br />
Brisbane).<br />
1899 Pamela<br />
Travers, who would<br />
write Mary Poppins,<br />
64150<br />
born in Maryborough.<br />
1901 <strong>Queensland</strong> Museum<br />
moves to the Exhibition Building.<br />
1901 With Federation,<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> becomes a State in<br />
its own right.<br />
1901 Albert Hall opens in Albert<br />
Street providing a venue for<br />
developing local theatre groups<br />
including Twelfth Night,<br />
Brisbane Repertory Theatre and<br />
Brisbane <strong>Arts</strong> Theatre.<br />
1902 Dame Nellie Melba<br />
performs at Brisbane’s<br />
Exhibition Building. Admitted to<br />
the Australia Record Industry<br />
Association Hall of Fame in 1989.<br />
1902 The Brisbane Public<br />
Library renamed the Public<br />
Library of <strong>Queensland</strong> and<br />
opened to the public.<br />
1904 Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences<br />
of Early <strong>Queensland</strong> published<br />
by daughter Campbell<br />
Constance Petrie.
Strong Foundations Continued<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>ers enjoy a<br />
network of 326 public<br />
libraries, more than<br />
200 museums, such<br />
as the Stockman’s Hall<br />
of Fame in Longreach<br />
and the new<br />
Workshops Rail<br />
Museum in Ipswich,<br />
and many commercial<br />
and public art galleries<br />
across the State.<br />
An investment of<br />
$110 million in the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Heritage<br />
Trails Network is<br />
delivering 43 cultural<br />
tourism projects<br />
across <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
The Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Development Fund<br />
and the more recent Indigenous<br />
Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Development Fund are<br />
funding the grassroots development of<br />
arts and cultural activity in regional,<br />
rural and remote areas.<br />
The Government’s investment<br />
in arts and culture is also<br />
reaching across the State<br />
The Australia-first Art Built-in <strong>Policy</strong>,<br />
which requires two per cent of all Statefunded<br />
capital works projects in excess<br />
of $250,000 to be spent on integrating<br />
public art into the built environment, is<br />
providing jobs for artists and improving<br />
the aesthetic appeal of public places.<br />
Tracey Moffatt, Something More # 3, 1989, series of 9 images edition of 30 photographs. Photo courtesy<br />
of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery. Artist represented by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> for Young<br />
People has created new opportunities<br />
for young people to gain hands-on<br />
experience in arts and cultural activities.<br />
Successful programs like the Youth <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Mentoring Program have used a<br />
mentoring approach to build and share<br />
skills and ideas.<br />
The Government’s investment in<br />
arts and culture is also reaching<br />
across the State. The Flying <strong>Arts</strong><br />
program, the work of regional<br />
organisations like <strong>Arts</strong> West, and the<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Regional Touring Service and<br />
Schools Touring Program presented by<br />
the <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Council, are<br />
examples of how the Government<br />
supports cultural services in regional,<br />
rural and remote areas.<br />
This strategic<br />
investment in arts and<br />
cultural activity has<br />
occurred in a period of<br />
growth which started<br />
with the 1991 policy<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> – A State<br />
for the <strong>Arts</strong>. This policy<br />
set a new direction for<br />
the Government to<br />
support infrastructure<br />
and services,<br />
individual professional<br />
development, peer<br />
assessment and<br />
development in the<br />
regions.<br />
It was the first major<br />
review of the arts since<br />
an <strong>Arts</strong> portfolio was established by the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Government in 1968 under<br />
the direction of a Minister for <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Activities.<br />
In mid-1995, the Government released<br />
Building Local, Going Global, which<br />
celebrated local diversity and new<br />
international horizons. It paid particular<br />
attention to regional distinctiveness,<br />
Indigenous cultures, and the information<br />
economy.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> will build on this<br />
history and develop new strengths in<br />
Government and in the community<br />
sector through a focus on the whole-of-<br />
Government delivery of arts and cultural<br />
services and programs.<br />
1906 The first permanent<br />
picture theatre, The Lyceum,<br />
opens in George Street<br />
(Renamed Elite Theatre in<br />
1920s, rebuilt as the George in<br />
1965 and now the Dendy).<br />
1906-1908 Loan collections<br />
from the <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery<br />
went on tour to country towns.<br />
1910 Stadium opens on the<br />
corner of Albert and Charlotte<br />
Streets. Later became Festival<br />
Hall. It was a popular music<br />
venue which also hosted<br />
opera, dance and sporting<br />
events.<br />
1911 Cinemas open in Brisbane<br />
at Spring Hill, South<br />
Brisbane and Paddington<br />
and The Empire in Albert<br />
Street (demolished 1986 to<br />
make way for the Myer<br />
Centre). Empire Theatre<br />
opens in Albert Street,<br />
designed by Atkinson and<br />
McLay. Refitted as a cinema<br />
53950<br />
it reopened as the St James in<br />
1933, and in 1965 as the Paris.<br />
1911 Open-air Cremorne<br />
Theatre (on Melbourne Street in<br />
front of today’s<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Art<br />
Gallery site) hosts<br />
its first variety<br />
program.<br />
1912 Bundabergborn<br />
Gladys<br />
Moncrieff<br />
(“Our Glad”)<br />
▼<br />
debuts at the Empire Theatre to<br />
launch 50-year career.<br />
1912 Moving picture<br />
theatres/gardens open in<br />
Brisbane at Toowong, Kedron<br />
Park, Hamilton and Kelvin Grove;<br />
open air cinema at Bulimba.<br />
1912 Open-air vaudeville<br />
theatre Palace Gardens opens.<br />
1914 England declares war on<br />
Germany. Australia at war.<br />
1915 Cinemas begin to pose<br />
threat to live theatre in<br />
Brisbane with opening of the<br />
Majestic Theatre in Queen<br />
Street (Odeon Cinema 1957).<br />
1915 Tivoli Theatre and Roof<br />
Garden opens in Albert Street<br />
as a double live theatre and<br />
continues until the 1920s when<br />
film becomes a regular feature<br />
with live support acts. Live acts<br />
continue until the talkies take<br />
over. Closes 1965 for King<br />
George Square development.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 7
The <strong>Cultural</strong> Context<br />
The priorities of the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government include Community<br />
engagement and a better quality<br />
of life, More Jobs for <strong>Queensland</strong> -<br />
Skills and Innovation - The Smart State,<br />
and Building <strong>Queensland</strong> regions.<br />
Environmental influences present<br />
challenges and opportunities to achieve<br />
these priorities. By responding<br />
effectively to these influences, arts and<br />
culture can create opportunities to<br />
improve quality of life, social equity and<br />
economic independence.<br />
There are a number of factors which will<br />
influence the nature and direction of<br />
the Government’s future investment<br />
in arts and cultural activity, including:<br />
• Broad social trends, such as<br />
changing family and household<br />
structures, and the drift of the<br />
population to urban and coastal<br />
centres;<br />
• Globalisation and the need to<br />
retain <strong>Queensland</strong>’s unique<br />
physical, social and cultural<br />
environment, its diverse<br />
communities and the lifestyles of<br />
its people;<br />
• Ageing of the population coupled<br />
with a strong youth market;<br />
• Increasing contribution of tourism to<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s economic growth;<br />
• The way information is shared and<br />
accessed as a result of the digital<br />
revolution;<br />
• A rapid increase in new<br />
communication channels, such as the<br />
Internet, DVDs and Pay TV, leading to<br />
demand for new local content;<br />
• Emergence of the “knowledge”<br />
economy and the rising importance of<br />
creative industries to the State’s<br />
economy; and<br />
• Growing pressure on cultural<br />
organisations to diversify their<br />
revenue base and respond to<br />
changing community demand,<br />
increased competition and audience<br />
expectations.<br />
Liza Lim’s Moon Spirit Feasting with the ELISION Contemporary Music<br />
Ensemble. Photo courtesy of ELISION.<br />
These factors pose challenges to the<br />
quality of life of many <strong>Queensland</strong>ers.<br />
An investment in culture and the arts is<br />
one way the Government can foster an<br />
environment where these challenges can<br />
be turned into opportunities.<br />
Changing Social Fabric<br />
The social fabric of <strong>Queensland</strong> and<br />
Australian households is changing. It is<br />
predicted there will be a decline in the<br />
average size of Australian households,<br />
an increase in children living with only<br />
one parent and an increase in people<br />
living alone 1 .<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> has experienced a 10-year<br />
average employment growth of 2.7 per<br />
cent, 0.8 per cent higher than the<br />
national average 2 .<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> is the fastest growing State<br />
in Australia and the most<br />
decentralised mainland<br />
State with almost 35 per<br />
cent of <strong>Queensland</strong>ers<br />
living outside the South-<br />
East <strong>Queensland</strong> area 3 . A<br />
number of rural areas are<br />
experiencing declining<br />
populations 4 .<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s geographic<br />
dispersion poses<br />
difficulties in delivering<br />
equitable access to<br />
services and infrastructure.<br />
Declining birth rates are<br />
resulting in an ageing<br />
population and over time,<br />
may lead to a contracting<br />
workforce 5 .<br />
1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Household and Family Projections,<br />
Australia, 1996-2021<br />
2 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Labour Force, Australia<br />
3 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Brisbane and Moreton Statistical<br />
Divisions, Estimated Resident Population 2001<br />
4 Priorities in Progress 2000-01, <strong>Queensland</strong> Government<br />
5 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Population Projections Australia 1999-2101<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1918 Cooktown Wuuringu<br />
painter Joe Rootsey born. His<br />
first solo show in Brisbane in<br />
1958 saw him acclaimed as the<br />
‘second Namatjira’. He was the<br />
first Indigenous painter<br />
promoted by the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government through the<br />
Department of Native Affairs’<br />
Aboriginal Creations Gallery.<br />
1920 Dick Roughsey born. The<br />
Mornington Island painter who<br />
was taught by Percy Tresize<br />
introduced millions of children<br />
around the world to the creation<br />
myths and legends of the<br />
Aborigines of Cape York<br />
Peninsula.<br />
1921 First <strong>Queensland</strong> radio<br />
broadcast of a concert from the<br />
Savoy Theatre, Clayfield.<br />
1923 John Oxley Library<br />
established.<br />
1924 Winter Garden opens in<br />
Queen Street designed by<br />
8 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
Ballantyne and Hare; it was one<br />
of Australia’s earliest large<br />
capacity picture palaces and<br />
was fully air-conditioned.<br />
1924 First <strong>Queensland</strong> poetry<br />
Anthology, A Book of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Verse, by J.J.Stable<br />
and A.E.M.Kirkwood is<br />
published in celebration of the<br />
Centenary of settlement.<br />
1925 Brisbane Repertory<br />
Theatre, now known as<br />
La Boite, is formed.<br />
1925 Warwick-born Charles<br />
Chauvel returns from Hollywood<br />
to make his silent film the Moth<br />
of Moonbi beginning a 34-year<br />
career as producer and director;<br />
to become the father of<br />
Australia cinema (d.1959).<br />
1928 Bundaberg’s<br />
Bert Hinkler<br />
completes first<br />
solo flight from<br />
England to<br />
Australia.<br />
1929 The lavish Regent Theatre<br />
(now Hoyts Regent) opened in<br />
Queen Street accommodating<br />
more than 2,500 patrons.<br />
1930 Brisbane City Hall built<br />
including Daphne Mayo’s public<br />
artwork The Progress of<br />
Civilisation in the State<br />
of <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1930 Brisbane’s first<br />
commercial radio stations,<br />
4BC and 4BK, go to air.<br />
31184<br />
▼
The <strong>Cultural</strong> Context Continued<br />
These trends affirm:<br />
• the importance of building social<br />
cohesion and a sense of belonging and<br />
connectedness through participation<br />
in arts and cultural activity and access<br />
to local and family history collections;<br />
• the need to promote equitable access<br />
to this activity;<br />
• the value of creating jobs in the arts<br />
and cultural sector; and<br />
• the challenge of delivering<br />
infrastructure and services to<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s dispersed communities.<br />
Building <strong>Queensland</strong> Regions<br />
Changing economies, populations and<br />
access to services are challenging the<br />
social and economic wellbeing of some<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
regions, while<br />
posing<br />
opportunities for<br />
others. <strong>Arts</strong> and<br />
cultural activity<br />
provide one means<br />
of addressing these<br />
challenges.<br />
Craig Koomeeta<br />
of Aurukun, Freshwater<br />
Crocodile 2001, Cast aluminium.<br />
Courtesy of the artist and Andrew<br />
Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane. Photo<br />
courtesy of Urban Art Projects.<br />
Support for cultural traditions and<br />
heritage, celebrating public festivals and<br />
creating and enjoying culturally exciting<br />
public places, builds social cohesion<br />
and a sense of belonging and improves<br />
the liveability of cities, towns, regions<br />
and remote communities.<br />
By developing and marketing the unique<br />
physical and cultural attractions and<br />
distinctive heritage and traditions of<br />
regions, <strong>Queensland</strong> can differentiate<br />
itself in the global tourism market,<br />
thereby boosting development in<br />
regional and remote communities.<br />
Central to boosting regional<br />
development is a commitment to<br />
building partnerships with regional<br />
communities and ensuring greater<br />
community participation in Government<br />
decision-making processes.<br />
Tourism<br />
Tourism provides a significant and<br />
growing economic contribution to<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s economy. It contributes<br />
6.4 per cent to Gross State Product and<br />
employs more than 151,300 people,<br />
equivalent to 9.3 per cent of all people<br />
employed in 1998-99 6 .<br />
Many tourists travel to seek out unique<br />
experiences as is evidenced by the<br />
burgeoning eco and cultural tourism<br />
markets. Government support to coastal<br />
and rural and remote <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
communities is enabling these areas to<br />
build attractions which position them in<br />
the tourism market, while protecting<br />
cultural heritage unique to their area.<br />
This support will be increasingly<br />
important to counterbalance an eroding<br />
economic base in particular communities<br />
adversely affected by global competition<br />
and declining populations.<br />
Protecting and promoting the unique<br />
landscapes, cultural heritages and<br />
artistic and cultural traditions of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> regions will contribute to<br />
their regeneration and support the eco<br />
and cultural tourism markets.<br />
Globalisation<br />
Globalisation offers challenges to the<br />
cultural vitality and diversity of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>. Global technologies,<br />
businesses, communication networks<br />
and arts and cultural products threaten<br />
to “homogenise” our society.<br />
Global competitive pressures also<br />
threaten the<br />
economic base of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
towns and<br />
regions.<br />
However,<br />
globalisation also<br />
offers opportunities<br />
to market products and services<br />
internationally and to attract<br />
internationally mobile firms and workers.<br />
An investment in arts and cultural<br />
activity will be important to:<br />
• maintain the distinctiveness of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s culture, heritage and<br />
traditions;<br />
6 Office of Economic and Statistical Research, <strong>Queensland</strong> Treasury<br />
1930 Babette Ferguson (later<br />
Stephens) joins Brisbane<br />
Repertory Theatre and launches<br />
40-year career as actor, director<br />
and administrator.<br />
1932 Australian Broadcasting<br />
Commission founded.<br />
1932 Bundaberg’s Molly De<br />
Gunst stars in the opera Aida in<br />
Sydney.<br />
1934 Shakespearean actor John<br />
McCallum Jnr makes his acting<br />
debut at the Cremorne Theatre;<br />
develops career in the UK where<br />
he marries Googie Withers.<br />
1935 Toowoomba Art Society<br />
formed and a space is set aside<br />
in the Town Hall for an art<br />
gallery.<br />
1936 ABC establishes the<br />
Brisbane Symphony Orchestra.<br />
1936 Brisbane Amateur Theatre<br />
and Twelfth Night Theatre<br />
established.<br />
1937 Metro Cinema in Albert<br />
Street, Brisbane opens (later<br />
Albert cinema).<br />
1938 First free municipal library<br />
established by the State<br />
Government in Townsville.<br />
1938 <strong>Queensland</strong>’s first<br />
regional art gallery opened in<br />
Toowoomba.<br />
1939 Australia at war.<br />
1938-39 300 theatres operating<br />
throughout <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Cinema has become the most<br />
popular form of mass<br />
entertainment and remains so<br />
until the advent of TV in 1959.<br />
1940 Literary journal Meanjin<br />
begun in Brisbane, moving to<br />
Melbourne in 1945.<br />
1940 Noel Coward, English<br />
dramatist and composer,<br />
entertains troops at Grovely<br />
military camp and performs at<br />
Red CrossConcertatHis<br />
Majesty’s Theatre.<br />
68325<br />
1940 Storey Bridge built in<br />
Brisbane linking Fortitude Valley<br />
with Kangaroo Point.<br />
1941 Australian modernist<br />
artist Margaret Preston collects<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Aboriginal<br />
sculptures at Djarra, south of<br />
Cloncurry; attributed to Linda<br />
Craigie and Nora Nathan.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 9
The <strong>Cultural</strong> Context Continued<br />
• provide new opportunities for export<br />
and import replacement through the<br />
creation of local content;<br />
• regenerate and vitalise <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
regions; and<br />
• build liveable communities and places.<br />
Knowledge Economy<br />
In a knowledge economy, a strong and<br />
vibrant arts and cultural sector is<br />
essential to jobs and to the achievement<br />
of the Government’s Smart State vision.<br />
Industries that rely on creativity and<br />
intellectual property are fast becoming<br />
an integral part of the State’s economy.<br />
The new knowledge economy creates<br />
many opportunities for artists, writers,<br />
filmmakers, designers and musicians.<br />
Support for local ideas and the fostering<br />
of creative and artistic excellence will be<br />
important in developing commercial<br />
potential within the <strong>Queensland</strong> arts<br />
and cultural sector and in producing<br />
high quality arts and cultural services<br />
and products which are competitive in a<br />
global marketplace.<br />
Technological Change<br />
Technology is increasingly revolutionising<br />
our way of life. It connects community to<br />
community and individual to individual.<br />
It has brought the world closer together,<br />
allowing communication between those<br />
who were once considered<br />
geographically remote. It also allows<br />
artists to bring their cultural products<br />
and artistic goods to a global<br />
market, increasing their influence and<br />
earning power.<br />
There is an opportunity to decrease the<br />
high reliance on cultural imports and<br />
facilitate a two-way exchange in the<br />
creative industries which are becoming<br />
increasingly reliant on the use of new<br />
knowledge and technologies. To remain<br />
sustainable and profitable in the longterm,<br />
arts and cultural organisations will<br />
need to develop and integrate new<br />
technologies.<br />
Technological advances offer<br />
the potential to improve access<br />
to the State's cultural<br />
collections and events for<br />
regional and remote<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>ers through the use<br />
of communication technologies<br />
such as the Internet, and the<br />
digitisation of the State's<br />
collections and performances.<br />
Amusement parks, home<br />
theatre systems, computer<br />
games and the Internet are<br />
changing audience and<br />
consumer expectations,<br />
creating the need for museums,<br />
galleries, performance venues, libraries<br />
and even our homes to use new<br />
technologies to provide new ways of<br />
presenting, displaying and accessing<br />
collections.<br />
Skilling and Education<br />
The growth of <strong>Queensland</strong>’s arts and<br />
cultural sector and the State’s creative<br />
industries will require appropriately<br />
skilled workers. Traditional models of<br />
education and training are changing to<br />
adapt to new demands for lifetime and<br />
accelerated learning, re-training and<br />
vocational-based training.<br />
TAFE <strong>Queensland</strong> has responded to this<br />
growth by working in partnership with<br />
creative industries to deliver<br />
qualifications from Certificate to<br />
Advanced Diploma level in disciplines<br />
Young visitors to the Museum of Tropical <strong>Queensland</strong> explore<br />
scientific principles in the Tropical Sciencentre. Photo courtesy of<br />
the Museum of Tropical <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
such as film and television, radio, music,<br />
the performing arts, entertainment,<br />
graphic design, digital art, web design,<br />
animation and multimedia.<br />
Education <strong>Queensland</strong>’s New Basics<br />
program, other curriculum reforms and<br />
initiatives contained in Education and<br />
Training Reforms for the Future support<br />
the development of creative, innovative<br />
and culturally literate citizens.<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1941 Charles Chauvel’s<br />
masterpiece movie 40,000<br />
Horsemen released; Sons of<br />
Matthew, based on the<br />
pioneering life of O’Reillys in<br />
Lamington National Park area,<br />
released in 1949.<br />
1941 US Showbiz<br />
couple Will Mahoney<br />
(comedian) and his<br />
wife songbird Evie<br />
Hayes arrive in<br />
Brisbane to entertain<br />
▼<br />
the troops; stay on to manage<br />
the Cremorne Theatre and to<br />
present variety shows.<br />
1942 South Brisbane becomes<br />
the entertainment centre for<br />
Australian and American troops<br />
with Cremorne<br />
Theatre, Trocadero<br />
Ballroom, Blue<br />
Moon Skating Rink<br />
and Stanley Street<br />
hotels. Cremorne<br />
burns down in 1944.<br />
10 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
1943 Libraries Act created the<br />
legal deposit for the State<br />
Library of <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1944 Poet Judith Wright evoked<br />
local sense of place in her<br />
writing and conservation work<br />
(to 1970s).<br />
1944 Purga Aboriginal<br />
tenor, teacher and<br />
activist Harold Blair<br />
“discovered” by<br />
soprano Marjorie<br />
Lawrence.<br />
▼<br />
1945 Library Board<br />
of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
established.<br />
1946 Theatre Royale<br />
reopens, after the<br />
war, with Peter Pan.<br />
A young Leo 61681<br />
McKern plays a pirate.<br />
1947 57-member<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Symphony<br />
Orchestra formed under<br />
resident conductor John<br />
Farnsworth Hall formerly of<br />
144141<br />
Sydney Symphony (to 1954);<br />
gives first concert at City Hall.<br />
1947 Popular Brisbane<br />
wartime venue Cloudland<br />
Ballroom at Bowen Hills<br />
reopens.<br />
1948 Bundaberg’s Donald<br />
Smith debuts in Brisbane Opera<br />
Company’s first season. Goes<br />
on to perform with Australian<br />
Opera and becomes one of the<br />
greatest tenors of the 20th<br />
century (d. 1999).<br />
▼
The <strong>Cultural</strong> Context Continued<br />
Indigenous Cultures<br />
Indigenous people have strong and<br />
diverse cultures, languages and<br />
traditions that are integral to their sense<br />
of identity and contribute to<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s unique identity nationally<br />
and internationally. Indigenous art, both<br />
contemporary and traditional, has now<br />
staked a claim on the art world.<br />
Aboriginal people and Torres Strait<br />
Islanders experience significantly poorer<br />
health, educational, employment and<br />
income levels than other <strong>Queensland</strong>ers<br />
and are over-represented in the criminal<br />
justice system.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> affirms the<br />
importance of investment in<br />
contemporary and traditional Indigenous<br />
arts and cultural activities to:<br />
• build social capital and wellbeing in<br />
Indigenous communities;<br />
• support the unique cultural heritage<br />
and traditions of Indigenous people;<br />
• improve the earning capacity of<br />
Indigenous artists by supporting the<br />
export of Indigenous art and cultural<br />
products;<br />
• provide a sense of identity through<br />
supporting the preservation of<br />
traditional languages and teaching<br />
them to future generations of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>ers; and<br />
• promote reconciliation.<br />
Kopen Tibetan Monks performing at the Woodford Folk<br />
Festival. Photo courtesy of the Woodford Folk Festival.<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> Diversity<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> is a culturally and<br />
linguistically diverse State with more<br />
than 16 per cent of its population born<br />
overseas 7 . The Government is committed<br />
to multiculturalism through the<br />
Multicultural <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>, ensuring<br />
that cultural diversity is a defining<br />
characteristic of modern <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
The Government has formally recognised<br />
the Australian South Sea Islander<br />
community as a distinct cultural group.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> encourages an<br />
environment that supports culturally<br />
diverse artistic practice and recognises<br />
that the arts are a creative expression of<br />
culture. This, in turn, contributes to the<br />
development of a vibrant cultural<br />
environment.<br />
People with a Disability<br />
In 1998, 686,700 people in <strong>Queensland</strong>,<br />
or one in five people, were identified as<br />
experiencing a disability 8 . People<br />
experiencing disabilities make a<br />
valuable contribution to a diverse<br />
cultural landscape and share both the<br />
same and similarly diverse ideas about<br />
artistic expression, cultural identity and<br />
community belonging as the rest of the<br />
population.<br />
Yet there are still barriers to equitable<br />
access to work opportunities and<br />
community participation. Economic<br />
disadvantage, the design of the built<br />
environment and geographic isolation in<br />
regional areas pose challenges to<br />
gaining arts education, training, access<br />
to new technologies, employment and<br />
enjoyment of shared cultural activity.<br />
Working with the disability sector to<br />
remove these barriers will ensure greater<br />
access and participation for people<br />
experiencing disabilities.<br />
this koala<br />
busy thinking not moving<br />
gum-tree Buddha<br />
*<br />
veranda bed:<br />
corrugated sky &<br />
nailhole stars<br />
Ross Clark<br />
7 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1996 Census of Population and Housing<br />
8 Disability: A <strong>Queensland</strong> Profile, Disability Services <strong>Queensland</strong> 1999<br />
1948 University of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Press established in<br />
demountable building in<br />
George Street. Becomes major<br />
publisher of Australian<br />
literature, history, politics,<br />
cultural and media studies.<br />
1949 Vaudeville returns to<br />
Brisbane with comedian George<br />
Wallace Jnr following in his<br />
father’s footsteps (for the next<br />
decade). The Vaudeville Show<br />
became a popular Friday night<br />
TV show from 1961-69.<br />
1950 Establishment of the<br />
Johnstone Gallery which became<br />
the exhibition centre for many<br />
Brisbane and interstate visual<br />
artists including Margaret Olley,<br />
John Rigby, Kath Shillam,<br />
Kenneth Jack, Douglas Annand to<br />
name a few particularly after it<br />
re-opened in Bowen Hills in 1958.<br />
1952 Atherton-born composer<br />
Ron Grainer leaves for England;<br />
writes for film, stage and<br />
television and known for TV<br />
themes of Dr Who, Steptoe and<br />
Son and Maigret (d.1981).<br />
1953 After visiting in 1945,<br />
Scottish-born artist Ian<br />
Fairweather moves to Bribie<br />
Island. Works exhibited in<br />
London 1961 (d. 1974).<br />
1955 Brisbane’s first Americanstyle<br />
drive-in cinema opens at<br />
Capalaba with Has Anybody<br />
Seen My Girl<br />
1955 Controversy over<br />
screening of movie, Blackboard<br />
Jungle, at Metro picture theatre.<br />
1955 Movie Director<br />
Charles Chauvel’s<br />
Jedda released with<br />
Aboriginal actors such<br />
as Rosie Monks in lead<br />
roles. First Australian<br />
film to appear at the<br />
Cannes Film Festival. 31116<br />
His 13-part TV series for the BBC<br />
Walkabout completed in 1959.<br />
▼<br />
1956 <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Conservatorium of Music<br />
founded in Brisbane. Begins<br />
first academic year in<br />
1957.<br />
1958 Gibb brothers Barry,<br />
Robin and Maurice arrive<br />
in Brisbane as part of<br />
British migrant family; go<br />
on to international pop<br />
music fame over 30 years<br />
as The Bee Gees. Admitted to<br />
the ARIA Hall of Fame 1997.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 11
Delivering the Vision<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government’s<br />
vision is for: <strong>Queensland</strong> to be a<br />
culturally dynamic place, rich in<br />
diversity and experiences - where ideas<br />
and talent are supported; where artistic<br />
and cultural pursuits are encouraged;<br />
and where the economy is enhanced by<br />
excellence in creative innovation.<br />
Michael Zavros, Rise, 2000, oil on canvas. Photo courtesy of the artist<br />
and Artbank. Artist represented by Mori Gallery, Sydney.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> recognises that<br />
culture is about a way of life: the<br />
enjoyment and wellbeing derived from<br />
participation in social traditions and the<br />
sharing of knowledge, ideas, beliefs,<br />
values, spirituality, standards and<br />
responses.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> promotes a culture<br />
of collaboration, innovation and success<br />
as part of the Government’s Smart State<br />
vision by fostering an environment where<br />
creativity and ideas can contribute to the<br />
social, cultural and economic wellbeing<br />
of individuals and communities.<br />
This policy affirms the Government’s role<br />
in supporting <strong>Queensland</strong>ers’<br />
participation in the artistic and cultural<br />
life of the community. At the same time,<br />
it recognises that building the cultural<br />
life of the State is the collective<br />
responsibility of individuals and<br />
communities across <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> provides a strategic<br />
framework involving <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong>,<br />
other Government agencies and the<br />
creative, arts and cultural industries to<br />
support the development of:<br />
• People to enhance quality<br />
of life through engagement<br />
in arts and cultural activity<br />
through lifelong learning<br />
and education and<br />
leadership and artistic<br />
excellence;<br />
• Communities to build<br />
capacity and promote<br />
renewal and cultural tourism;<br />
• Places, collections and traditions to<br />
enhance sense of identity and<br />
belonging, respect cultural heritage,<br />
create better public places, and provide<br />
infrastructure and services; and<br />
• Creative enterprises to develop<br />
innovative and sustainable cultural<br />
businesses to create jobs and greater<br />
economic prosperity.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> sets a framework<br />
for <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> to work in<br />
partnership across Government and with<br />
the education and community sectors.<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> Funding Mechanisms<br />
Funding for arts and cultural development<br />
in Australia may have originated in 1818<br />
when the poet Michael Massey Robinson<br />
was granted two cows from the<br />
Government herd “for his services as a<br />
Poet Laureate” 9 . In 1968, <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
was the first state government to<br />
establish a cultural portfolio and since<br />
then state and local governments have<br />
significantly increased their financial<br />
support for cultural activity.<br />
Ensuring <strong>Queensland</strong> Government<br />
funding for arts and culture achieves the<br />
best possible outcomes is a key<br />
responsibility for <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Maintaining and increasing a strong<br />
focus on outcomes will require regular<br />
review of cultural funding mechanisms<br />
to ensure resources are directed and<br />
applied in the most effective way.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> funding traditions, at all three levels<br />
of government, essentially revolve around<br />
grant and capital infrastructure programs<br />
as the central policy tools. However, other<br />
mechanisms exist that can be equally or<br />
more effective. Alternative support<br />
mechanisms, such as the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government’s two per cent for public art<br />
policy, Art Built-in, will be examined to<br />
seek a range of more sophisticated and<br />
sustainable mechanisms of stimulating<br />
cultural activity.<br />
The following section provides examples<br />
of just some of the partnerships,<br />
programs and activities across the<br />
Government that contribute to the key<br />
strategies in Creative <strong>Queensland</strong>. These<br />
strategies will be built on during the life<br />
of the <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>.<br />
9 The Australian Encyclopaedia Sydney: Australian Geographic 1996, pp 2599-2600<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1958 Artist and educator Vida<br />
Lahey awarded OBE (d.1968).<br />
1959 <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery<br />
purchases Pablo Picasso’s La<br />
Belle Hollandaise.<br />
1959 <strong>Queensland</strong> Centenary as<br />
a separate colony. Centenary<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> Scheme allocates<br />
1 million pounds for regional<br />
and city cultural centres.<br />
1959 <strong>Queensland</strong>’s first<br />
commercial TV stations QTQ9<br />
and BTQ7 begin<br />
transmission.<br />
1960 <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Ballet established<br />
as the Lisner<br />
Ballet.<br />
1960 Thea Astley<br />
publishes her first novel<br />
A Descant for Gossips; goes on<br />
to win the Miles Franklin Award.<br />
1961 Australian modernist<br />
exhibition at the Whitechapel<br />
▼<br />
12 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
Art Gallery in London<br />
included four<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> artists,<br />
Charles Blackman, Jon<br />
Molvig, Andrew Sibley<br />
and Ian Fairweather.<br />
1961 First Musica Viva<br />
season in Brisbane.<br />
1961 Formation of the<br />
Townsville Cinema Club, oldest<br />
cinema group in Australia.<br />
1961 Brisbane <strong>Arts</strong> Theatre<br />
opens in renovated building in<br />
Petrie Terrace, but burns down<br />
in 1964.<br />
1961 <strong>Arts</strong> Council of Australia<br />
(<strong>Queensland</strong>) established by Dr<br />
Gertrude Langer; later renamed<br />
the <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Council.<br />
1961 The Contemporary Art<br />
Society of Australia (<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
branch) was established (until<br />
1973) at the instigation of Dr<br />
Bernard Schaffer, Roy Churcher,<br />
Ian Still and Bronwyn Yates. The<br />
Society was dedicated to<br />
abstraction and more radical<br />
approaches to visual art.<br />
1962 Brisbane holds its first<br />
Warana Festival.<br />
1962 Indigenous Australians<br />
gain the right to vote in Federal<br />
elections.<br />
1963 Diane Cilento nominated<br />
for an Oscar in the film Tom<br />
Jones.
People<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> recognises<br />
the importance of supporting the<br />
creative and innovative spirit of<br />
people – as individuals and artists, and<br />
as part of families and communities.<br />
Both Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> and the<br />
Government’s Putting Families First<br />
policy support the need to balance<br />
social and economic outcomes for the<br />
future wellbeing of individuals and<br />
communities.<br />
In supporting people, Creative<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> also affirms respect for<br />
cultural diversity and support for<br />
culturally diverse artistic practice.<br />
The key strategies for the Government in<br />
supporting people are to: enhance<br />
lifelong learning and education through<br />
artistic and cultural activity; and foster<br />
leadership and professional excellence<br />
in the arts.<br />
Supporting creative professionals such<br />
as artists and filmmakers is central to<br />
encouraging distinctive local ideas and<br />
work that will distinguish <strong>Queensland</strong> in<br />
the global marketplace.<br />
Lifelong Learning and Education<br />
through Artistic and <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Activity<br />
Connecting people of all ages with the<br />
diverse cultural resources of the<br />
community will foster broader<br />
participation of individuals in artistic and<br />
cultural experiences, develop creativity<br />
and critical thinking skills and build<br />
audiences which are culturally aware.<br />
Fluff performed by Christine Johnston and Lisa O’Neill,<br />
a <strong>Queensland</strong> Performing <strong>Arts</strong> Centre (QPAC)<br />
co-production as part of the 2002 Out of the Box<br />
Festival. Photo courtesy of QPAC.<br />
Creativity and innovation can lead to the<br />
discovery of imaginative solutions to a<br />
diverse range of problems. The<br />
artistic experience embodies<br />
creativity and self-expression and<br />
can be a vehicle for personal<br />
development. An understanding<br />
of culture, both past and present, helps<br />
build a more tolerant and cohesive<br />
society.<br />
Working across the Government, and<br />
particularly partnerships between <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> and Education <strong>Queensland</strong>,<br />
will strengthen the relationship between<br />
arts and cultural activities and lifelong<br />
learning and cultural literacy.<br />
To enhance lifelong learning and<br />
education in the community through<br />
arts and cultural activity, the<br />
Government will develop initiatives<br />
including:<br />
• Conduct a poetry and short story<br />
competition in <strong>Queensland</strong> schools,<br />
with winning works to be displayed on<br />
buses, to raise the profile of writing,<br />
provide innovative publishing<br />
opportunities for young people and<br />
present positive images of young<br />
people.<br />
• Conduct a major research project to<br />
identify the social and educational<br />
impact of arts activity on children in<br />
the middle school years.<br />
• Deliver arts and cultural experiences<br />
through visits to theatres, museums,<br />
archives, film production studios,<br />
galleries and libraries and<br />
participation in festivals.<br />
…enhance lifelong learning<br />
and education through<br />
artistic and cultural activity<br />
• Establish an Indigenous Youth <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Foundation to assist Indigenous high<br />
school students to develop career<br />
paths as professional artists and<br />
engage in a range of arts events such<br />
as contemporary music festivals.<br />
1963 National Trust of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> formed by and<br />
constituted under an Act of<br />
Parliament.<br />
1964 8,000 fans<br />
at Brisbane<br />
airport greet The<br />
Beatles while<br />
antagonists<br />
toss garbage and<br />
▼<br />
suggest they get haircuts (the<br />
Fab Four perform to packed<br />
audiences at Festival Hall).<br />
1964 Aboriginal poet<br />
and activist Oodgeroo<br />
Noonuccal (Kath<br />
Walker) from North<br />
▼<br />
46645 Stradbroke<br />
Island<br />
becomes first<br />
Aborigine to<br />
publish with<br />
the release of We Are<br />
Going. The collection of poetry<br />
My People appears in 1970.<br />
(b. 1920 d.1993).<br />
1964 <strong>Queensland</strong> rock star<br />
Billy Thorpe moves to<br />
Sydney to become lead<br />
singer of The Aztecs.<br />
Admitted to the ARIA Hall of<br />
Fame 1991.<br />
1965 <strong>Queensland</strong> Youth<br />
Orchestra formed in Brisbane.<br />
1967 Forum Cinema opens in<br />
Adelaide Street. Three-quarters<br />
of Brisbane’s suburban theatres<br />
closed since the advent of TV in<br />
1959.<br />
1967-76 Aboriginal Relics<br />
Preservation Act recognised all<br />
‘relics’ as property of the Crown<br />
and provided for the Minister to<br />
purchase land or take<br />
protective measures and control<br />
access to sites.<br />
1968 <strong>Arts</strong> portfolio established<br />
under the direction of a<br />
Minister for <strong>Cultural</strong> Activities.<br />
1968 Central West <strong>Arts</strong> Council<br />
School of Creative <strong>Arts</strong><br />
established which would<br />
become <strong>Arts</strong> West in 1991.<br />
1968 <strong>Queensland</strong> Potters<br />
Association established.<br />
Incorporated 1974.<br />
1968 Ray Hughes Gallery<br />
opens in Brisbane.<br />
1968 Rock group Railroad Gin<br />
established (to 1976); have hit<br />
with Matter of Time.<br />
1969 Craft Council of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> established. Traded<br />
as a company since 1978.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 13
People Continued<br />
• Implement the Smart<br />
Library Network to provide<br />
increased access to<br />
collections, including<br />
unique cultural heritage<br />
resources, information<br />
services, professional<br />
library staff and<br />
technology to enhance<br />
community education and<br />
training.<br />
• Establish a Children’s Art<br />
Centre through the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery<br />
that will present<br />
exhibitions and interactive<br />
projects designed for children as well<br />
as continuing Kids APT as part of the<br />
Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary<br />
Art.<br />
• Implement the arts education<br />
syllabus, encompassing music, visual<br />
arts, drama, dance and media and<br />
teaching children with more creative<br />
ways of engaging with the world.<br />
• Continue the Australian Children’s<br />
Film Festival as part of the Brisbane<br />
International Film Festival, and the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> New Filmmakers Awards.<br />
• Encourage artists-in-residence in<br />
schools and in the community.<br />
Leadership and Professional<br />
Excellence in the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government recognises<br />
the importance of cultural leadership<br />
and excellence. Best practice is vital to<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery's children's exhibition Play attracted more than 92,000<br />
visitors during the 2001-02 summer holidays. Photo courtesy of the <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery.<br />
building the capacity of artists,<br />
artsworkers and arts companies to move<br />
into world markets and to stake a claim<br />
on local markets.<br />
Support for leadership and professional<br />
excellence can be created through<br />
exchange programs, reward and<br />
recognition programs and opportunities<br />
to build professional skills.<br />
To foster leadership and professional<br />
excellence in the arts, the Government<br />
will develop initiatives including:<br />
• Introduce an annual Creative<br />
Fellowship recognising leading<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> artists.<br />
• Showcase <strong>Queensland</strong> films<br />
internationally to build awareness and<br />
enhance the reputation of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
filmmakers.<br />
• Support school extension<br />
programs in visual arts,<br />
performing arts and music<br />
for students with a special<br />
interest and talent in music,<br />
visual arts and dance to<br />
aspire to excellence and a<br />
career in the arts and<br />
cultural industries.<br />
• Promote excellence and<br />
leadership in arts and<br />
culture through awards and<br />
recognition programs such<br />
as the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Premier’s Drama Award –<br />
Theatre and Public Life.<br />
• Promote the Premier of <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
Export Awards to recognise the<br />
success of <strong>Queensland</strong>’s cultural<br />
industries.<br />
Picking Shells<br />
EXCERPT<br />
a crippled jetty,<br />
waves of fluid charcoal.<br />
two boys skipping stones.<br />
sun winding itself back.<br />
sky, like a great trapdoor<br />
flipping open.<br />
Melissa Ashley<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1969 Dance North, (North<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Ballet and Dance<br />
Company) founded by Ann<br />
Roberts.<br />
1969 <strong>Queensland</strong> Theatre<br />
Company established. SGIO<br />
Theatre opens.<br />
1969 State’s first multi-screen<br />
cinema opens as Valley Twin<br />
within the former Astor Theatre,<br />
New Farm.<br />
1970 Twelfth Night<br />
Theatre opened its new<br />
theatre at Bowen Hills<br />
built on land donated by<br />
the Johnstone Gallery<br />
and designed by Vitaly<br />
Gzell.<br />
1970 John McCallum Jnr<br />
elected President of the newly<br />
formed Australian Film Council.<br />
1971 Grin ‘n’ Tonic Theatre<br />
Troupe formed in Innisfail,<br />
North <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
14 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
1971 <strong>Queensland</strong>er<br />
Neville Bonner<br />
becomes first<br />
Aborigine elected to<br />
Parliament.<br />
1972 Artist and pilot<br />
Mervyn Moriarty<br />
founded Australian<br />
Flying <strong>Arts</strong> School fulfilling the<br />
vision to fly contemporary arts<br />
practice to people in regional<br />
and isolated areas. Known as<br />
Flying <strong>Arts</strong> today.<br />
▼<br />
1972 La Boite Theatre opens in<br />
Hale Street with the building<br />
designed by Blair<br />
Wilson and winning<br />
an industry award for<br />
the creative use of<br />
brick.<br />
1973 Guitarist Ed<br />
Kuepper begins career<br />
with rock band Kid<br />
Galahad and the<br />
Eternals (later punk pioneers<br />
The Saints).<br />
1975 David Malouf published<br />
nostalgic novel Johnno, which<br />
draws on post-war<br />
family experience in<br />
Brisbane.<br />
1975 Institute of<br />
Modern Art established<br />
by Roy and Betty<br />
Churcher and Ian Still<br />
with other members of<br />
the Contemporary Art<br />
Society which closed in 1973.<br />
▼
Communities<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> is the most<br />
decentralised mainland State<br />
with more than 35 per cent of its<br />
3.5 million people living in regional,<br />
rural and remote communities.<br />
Each of these communities differs in its<br />
needs, capacities and resources. Each<br />
one adds texture to the rich cultural life<br />
of <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Improved access to networking and<br />
marketing opportunities, a sustainable<br />
network of festivals and cultural tourism<br />
can make a significant contribution to<br />
regional regeneration and<br />
translate into jobs.<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government is committed<br />
to supporting communities<br />
in the development of their<br />
unique cultural assets.<br />
To foster community capacity and<br />
renewal through arts and cultural<br />
development, the Government will<br />
develop initiatives including:<br />
• Implement a Digital Outreach Service<br />
in which State Library of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
staff will travel throughout<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> to support local history<br />
societies, Indigenous communities,<br />
multicultural groups and public<br />
libraries to preserve, arrange and<br />
digitise their original <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
materials.<br />
partnership between State and Local<br />
Governments.<br />
• Support touring of performances to<br />
regional <strong>Queensland</strong> through<br />
programs such as the <strong>Arts</strong> Regional<br />
Touring Service.<br />
Each one adds texture<br />
to the rich cultural life<br />
of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
• Expand arts and cultural infrastructure<br />
in regional <strong>Queensland</strong> through<br />
programs such as the Millennium <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Regional Program.<br />
• Support community<br />
development through<br />
programs such as<br />
Community Renewal<br />
and the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Heritage Trails Network.<br />
The key strategies for the<br />
Government in supporting<br />
communities are to: foster<br />
community capacity and<br />
renewal through cultural<br />
development; and promote<br />
cultural tourism.<br />
Community<br />
Engagement and<br />
Renewal<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> and cultural activity contributes to<br />
community revitalisation and renewal,<br />
helps celebrate unique cultural<br />
identities and promotes regional<br />
distinctiveness.<br />
Cirque de Lune at Boonah, a festival funded through the Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Development Fund.<br />
• Continue to encourage a sustainable<br />
statewide network of festivals and<br />
events.<br />
• Support arts and cultural development<br />
throughout regional <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
through the continuation of the<br />
Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Development Fund<br />
• Improve access to<br />
information about arts<br />
funding programs<br />
through statewide<br />
information sessions<br />
and appropriate<br />
formats for individuals<br />
with a disability or<br />
groups that represent<br />
the disability sector.<br />
• Provide online access to significant<br />
archival Government records at the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> State Archives.<br />
• Support traditional and contemporary<br />
Indigenous cultural awareness<br />
projects such as the National<br />
1975 4ZZZ-FM, <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
first FM station, goes to air.<br />
1975 Xavier Herbert’s sweeping<br />
Australian novel, Poor Fellow<br />
My Country, wins Miles Franklin<br />
Award.<br />
1976 <strong>Queensland</strong> Theatre<br />
Orchestra first performances.<br />
1976 Dick Roughsey’s The<br />
Rainbow Serpent and The<br />
Quinkans (1979) won Children’s<br />
Picture Book of the Year Awards.<br />
1976 Mileham Hayes alias Dr<br />
Jazz becomes president of the<br />
Australia Jazz Convention;<br />
establishes the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Jazz Club 1980.<br />
1977 Employment of Ethnic <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Officer by the Ethnic Communities<br />
Council is the first Community<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> position in <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1977 <strong>Queensland</strong> Film<br />
Corporation established.<br />
1978 First <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Community <strong>Arts</strong> Conference<br />
held.<br />
1979 4MBS Classic FM,<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s first classical<br />
music FM radio station, goes<br />
to air.<br />
1979 <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery<br />
Foundation established.<br />
1979 Brisbane City Council<br />
appoints first Community <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Officer.<br />
1980 Brisbane<br />
Community<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Centre<br />
(later Metro<br />
<strong>Arts</strong>) appoints<br />
Community<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Officer.<br />
1981 Lyric<br />
Opera of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> established.<br />
1982 New Moon Theatre<br />
Company established in<br />
Townsville.<br />
1982 Brisbane hosts the<br />
Commonwealth Games.<br />
1982 Australia Council adopts<br />
the Art and Working Life policy.<br />
1982 Former Brisbane-ite<br />
Sigrid Thornton stars in the<br />
film, The Man from Snowy<br />
River. Goes on to become a<br />
film and TV favourite.<br />
1982 <strong>Queensland</strong> Community<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Network (QCAN) established.<br />
Incorporated in 1987.<br />
▼<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 15
Communities Continued<br />
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander<br />
Day of Celebration (NAIDOC).<br />
• Implement the first <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong>-<br />
Local Government <strong>Cultural</strong> Protocol to<br />
improve partnership opportunities<br />
between the Government and local<br />
authorities in the delivery of arts and<br />
cultural services.<br />
• Develop a five-year Aboriginal and<br />
Torres Strait Islander <strong>Arts</strong> and <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Reconciliation Strategy.<br />
• Support local councils through the<br />
Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Development Fund to<br />
conduct an annual Living Treasure<br />
award to acknowledge the significant<br />
contribution of an arts and cultural<br />
worker.<br />
• Assist local councils to build a filmfriendly<br />
reputation and attract film<br />
production through a film protocol<br />
developed in partnership with the<br />
South-East <strong>Queensland</strong> Regional<br />
Organisation of Councils (SEQROC).<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> Tourism<br />
Tourism is a major contributor to<br />
economic activity in <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> tourism provides communities<br />
with an opportunity for economic<br />
development through showcasing a<br />
region’s distinct and unique cultural<br />
heritage and natural assets.<br />
Coordinated tourism development across<br />
the State through, for example, the<br />
Government’s Growing Tourism Strategy,<br />
will enhance regional <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
economic and social development.<br />
Narjic Fogarty and daughter perform in Storylines<br />
Songlines by Jagera Jarjum. Commissioned by<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Performing <strong>Arts</strong> Centre for Out of the Box<br />
2002. Photo courtesy of QPAC.<br />
To promote cultural tourism, the<br />
Government will develop initiatives<br />
including:<br />
• Establish an Indigenous cultural<br />
network which will link a range of<br />
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander<br />
arts and cultural activity and new<br />
facilities in Brisbane to provide<br />
opportunities to explore Indigenous<br />
cultures, contribute to reconciliation,<br />
and present a wide range of<br />
Songs of the<br />
East Coast<br />
EXCERPT<br />
Indigenous experiences to visitors to<br />
Brisbane and locals.<br />
• Market cultural tourism destinations in<br />
regional <strong>Queensland</strong> through the Drive<br />
Tourism Program.<br />
• Deliver training which links regional<br />
arts development to the promotion of<br />
Indigenous cultural product and<br />
supports Indigenous heritage tourism<br />
planning and development.<br />
• Deliver a statewide cultural tourism<br />
training program on CD-ROM.<br />
• Support the appreciation of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s history and cultural<br />
heritage and the documentation and<br />
conservation of sites and heritage<br />
places through the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Community <strong>Cultural</strong> Heritage Incentive<br />
Program.<br />
• Develop publications to promote key<br />
heritage places and cultural tourism<br />
destinations such as Heritage Trails of<br />
the Tropical North and Indigenous<br />
Rock Art in <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
• Showcase <strong>Queensland</strong> in international<br />
films and television series and<br />
through Tourism <strong>Queensland</strong>, create<br />
cultural tourism opportunities.<br />
I am of the east coast country;<br />
Not from the great cities that play Faust,<br />
With flats for souls, but where the <strong>Queensland</strong> hills<br />
Bite the blue skies with their emerald teeth,<br />
And where the sun sets witches’ fires on the waterline.<br />
Here I was born.<br />
Val Vallis<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1983 Access <strong>Arts</strong> established.<br />
1983 Northern Australia<br />
Regional Performing <strong>Arts</strong> Centres<br />
Association (NARPACA) began.<br />
1983 Street <strong>Arts</strong> established<br />
and from this organisation<br />
Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus and Icy Tea<br />
developed.<br />
1984 4RPH, <strong>Queensland</strong>’s first<br />
radio for the print handicapped,<br />
goes to air.<br />
1984 Aboriginal and Torres<br />
Strait Islander Heritage<br />
Protection Act (Commonwealth)<br />
provided for the preservation<br />
and protection of<br />
places, areas and<br />
objects of particular<br />
significance to<br />
Aboriginals and for<br />
related purposes.<br />
2.<br />
1984 Expressions<br />
Dance Company<br />
established.<br />
16 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
1984 Far North <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Institute of TAFE establishes its<br />
Associate Diploma in Aboriginal<br />
and Torres Strait Islander Art.<br />
1984 Thomas<br />
Shapcott publishes<br />
White Stag in Exile<br />
based on emigre<br />
experience in<br />
Brisbane in the later<br />
1890s.<br />
1985 12 Edmondstone Street by<br />
Brisbane-born David Malouf<br />
▼<br />
enshrines nostalgic family life in<br />
a <strong>Queensland</strong>er.<br />
1985 Activist actor Justine<br />
Saunders wins first Aboriginal<br />
of the Year Award. Returns the<br />
1991 Order of Australia in<br />
protest against claims there was<br />
no stolen generation.<br />
1985 Duke and Duchess of Kent<br />
open the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Performing <strong>Arts</strong> Complex in<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s <strong>Cultural</strong> Centre on<br />
Brisbane’s South Bank.<br />
1985 Launch of Aboriginal<br />
(Murri) Radio through 4ZZZ.<br />
Becomes independent in 1990<br />
as 4AAA.<br />
1985 Walkabout Creek Hotel in<br />
McKinlay used for the shooting<br />
of Paul Hogan’s hit movie<br />
Crocodile Dundee.<br />
1985 Laura Dance and <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Festival starts in the mid-1980s<br />
in Far North <strong>Queensland</strong> to<br />
celebrate Indigenous song,<br />
dance and music.<br />
2. Photo courtesy Thomas Shapcott.
Places, Collections and Traditions<br />
We collect, preserve and present<br />
those objects which establish<br />
and maintain a sense of<br />
community, and to assert <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
identity in all its diversity.<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> is home to a substantial<br />
network of cultural facilities – galleries,<br />
libraries, archives, museums,<br />
performance spaces, heritage centres,<br />
cinemas, tourist attractions and keeping<br />
places. These cultural storehouses<br />
provide an opportunity to connect with<br />
the past and understand that history.<br />
The State’s public collections are rich<br />
historical, scientific and cultural<br />
archives. They provide the basis of<br />
research, benchmarking and creative<br />
development of ideas.<br />
The Government has been consulting on<br />
cultural heritage legislation to provide<br />
effective recognition, protection and<br />
conservation of Aboriginal and Torres<br />
Strait Islander cultural heritage in<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
The key strategies for the Government in<br />
supporting and protecting public places,<br />
public collections and cultural traditions<br />
are to: promote adoption of new<br />
technologies in the cultural industries;<br />
enhance cultural infrastructure and<br />
services; and enhance public places.<br />
New Technologies<br />
New technologies that boost the<br />
capacity to deliver information and<br />
moving images and increase interactivity<br />
through television and the Internet<br />
provide the opportunity to make<br />
collections and traditions more<br />
accessible in a highly decentralised<br />
State. They also provide the scope to<br />
expand the nature of arts and cultural<br />
experiences available to audiences.<br />
The Government’s Communication<br />
and Information Strategic Plan and<br />
E-Commerce <strong>Policy</strong> will provide skills<br />
development and enable business, the<br />
community and local government to take<br />
advantage of the opportunities provided<br />
by information and<br />
communication<br />
technologies and<br />
e-commerce.<br />
Boiyool Michael Anning, Frogs shield/sword,<br />
2001, (shield) natural ochres and charcoal on<br />
softwood; (sword) hardwood. Photo courtesy<br />
of the artist and Artbank. Artist represented<br />
by Redback Art Gallery, Brisbane.<br />
and collections of the State Library,<br />
and other libraries and cultural<br />
institutions in <strong>Queensland</strong>, Australia<br />
and throughout the world.<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Museum at the <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Cultural</strong> Centre.<br />
Photo courtesy of the <strong>Queensland</strong> Museum.<br />
To promote the adoption of<br />
new technologies in the<br />
cultural industries, the<br />
Government will develop<br />
initiatives including:<br />
• Implement the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Information<br />
Portal to provide 24-hour<br />
access to the information<br />
• Encourage a coordinated approach to<br />
the digitisation of the State’s<br />
collections to enhance public access<br />
to cultural resources.<br />
• Distribute and promote adaptive<br />
technologies to <strong>Queensland</strong> public<br />
libraries to support computer and<br />
Internet access by people with a<br />
disability, children and older people.<br />
1985 <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery<br />
opens at South Bank <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Centre.<br />
1985 – 2002 Black Womens<br />
Film Group evolved into Murri<br />
Image Unikup.<br />
1986 Launch of Brisbane<br />
Indigenous Media Association.<br />
1986 New <strong>Queensland</strong> Museum<br />
at South Bank completed.<br />
1986 Poet Thomas Shapcott’s<br />
Hotel Bellevue published with<br />
characters protesting the<br />
destruction of the landmark<br />
hotel. Bought by State<br />
Government in 1967 to house<br />
rural MPs; demolished 1979.<br />
1986 Regional Galleries<br />
Association of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
established.<br />
1986 Rock ‘n’<br />
Roll Circus<br />
established.<br />
▼<br />
3. Photo Aaron Tate,<br />
courtesy Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus.<br />
1986 The <strong>Queensland</strong> Writer<br />
publication was launched.<br />
1986 Umbrella Studio Inc<br />
visual artists collective<br />
established.<br />
1987 BEMAC, Brisbane<br />
3. Ethnic Music and <strong>Arts</strong> Centre,<br />
established.<br />
1987 <strong>Cultural</strong> Record<br />
(Landscapes <strong>Queensland</strong> and<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Estate) Act made<br />
provision for the preservation<br />
and management of all<br />
components of Landscapes<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> and the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Estate.<br />
1987 Eyeline Magazine<br />
established promoting<br />
contemporary and experimental<br />
art in <strong>Queensland</strong> and<br />
nationally.<br />
1987 First Maleny Folk Festival<br />
now the Woodford Folk Festival<br />
held.<br />
1987 Inaugural Artist Day<br />
(13 October) established.<br />
1987 <strong>Queensland</strong> Film<br />
Development Office of the then<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Division was established.<br />
1987 <strong>Queensland</strong> Indigenous<br />
artist Fiona Foley founds<br />
Boomali Aboriginal Co in Sydney<br />
with fellow <strong>Queensland</strong>ers Avril<br />
Quaill and Arone Raymond<br />
Meeks spearheading the<br />
emerging phenomenon of<br />
‘urban’ Aboriginal art.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 17
Places, Collections and Traditions Continued<br />
• Continue to support the Australian<br />
Museums Online project in<br />
partnership with Commonwealth and<br />
other state governments.<br />
• Implement the Smart Library Network<br />
to deliver an integrated network of<br />
both physical and virtual community<br />
spaces creatively linking diverse<br />
groups of <strong>Queensland</strong>ers to<br />
information, knowledge and each<br />
other.<br />
• Explore the potential for Archives One,<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> State Archives’ core<br />
collection management software, for<br />
use by smaller heritage organisations.<br />
The Blackall Woolscour, Blackall, part of the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Heritage Trails Network. Photo Richard Stringer.<br />
• Support training and key projects<br />
involving Information and<br />
Communications Technology through<br />
programs such as the Community<br />
Skills Development Program designed<br />
to increase the level of skills within<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> communities.<br />
Infrastructure and Services<br />
Well-planned infrastructure is required<br />
to support the delivery of services.<br />
Museums, galleries, archives, libraries<br />
and other social history and science<br />
discovery centres preserve, interpret and<br />
present stories and ideas, both past and<br />
present. This infrastructure provides<br />
enjoyment and the resources for<br />
lifelong learning and education.<br />
To enhance cultural infrastructure<br />
and services, the Government will<br />
develop initiatives including:<br />
• Explore the potential for multipurpose<br />
use of Government<br />
education infrastructure and<br />
facilities to encourage greater<br />
exchange of experiences and<br />
expertise between the arts<br />
community, teachers and<br />
students.<br />
• Stage a Material Culture Forum<br />
to identify strategies for<br />
addressing service delivery and<br />
access issues in regional<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
• Establish 31 Indigenous<br />
Knowledge Centres through the<br />
State Library of <strong>Queensland</strong> in<br />
partnership with Aboriginal and Torres<br />
Strait Islander Community Councils in<br />
Cape York and the Torres Strait.<br />
• Strengthen the Museum Resource<br />
Centre Network through a new<br />
management model to provide<br />
professional support to regional, local<br />
and specialist museums and galleries<br />
throughout <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Modern technology brings to life the tales of the<br />
Pandora crew and the Bounty Mutineers at the<br />
Museum of Tropical <strong>Queensland</strong>. Photo courtesy of the<br />
Museum of Tropical <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
• Establish an Indigenous Centre at the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Museum as a dedicated<br />
place for Aboriginal and Torres Strait<br />
Islander people to access exhibitions,<br />
storytelling, information services and<br />
a meeting place.<br />
• Redevelop the State Library of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> to deliver physical and<br />
electronic collections and services<br />
supporting learning, creativity and<br />
community engagement.<br />
• Encourage the formation of new<br />
alliances between State collecting<br />
institutions to consider integrated<br />
exhibitions that showcase the links<br />
between their respective collections.<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1987 Tjapukai Dance Theatre<br />
started. 1996 Tjabukai <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Centre opens.<br />
1987 Tropic Line Theatre<br />
established in Townsville.<br />
1988 David Unaipon Award for<br />
an unpublished Aboriginal or<br />
Torres Strait Writer established.<br />
1988 First <strong>Arts</strong> Officer<br />
appointed to <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Trades and Labour Council.<br />
1988 First Livid Festival held.<br />
98430<br />
1988 Matilda<br />
Awards for<br />
Drama<br />
established.<br />
1988 New<br />
State Library of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
opened at South Bank.<br />
1988 Premier’s Poetry<br />
Award/Warana Writers Award<br />
established.<br />
1988 Steele Rudd Award for<br />
Short Stories established.<br />
18 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
1988 The Australian<br />
Stockman’s Hall of Fame<br />
opened by the Queen.<br />
1988 World Expo<br />
88 held in Brisbane.<br />
1989 Establishment of<br />
Imago: New Writing<br />
Cooperative an important<br />
vehicle for emerging writers in<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1989 <strong>Queensland</strong> Government<br />
establishes the Exhibitions<br />
▼<br />
▼<br />
Indemnification Scheme to<br />
indemnify blockbuster<br />
exhibitions of works by artists<br />
such as Van<br />
Gogh and<br />
Picasso.<br />
1989 Contact<br />
Inc youth arts<br />
and cultural development<br />
established.<br />
1989 <strong>Queensland</strong> Artworkers<br />
Alliance established.<br />
1989 Youth <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
established.<br />
1990 Aboriginal activist Sam<br />
Watson publishes the novel The<br />
Kadaitcha Sung.<br />
1990 Aboriginal filmmaker and<br />
artist Tracey Moffat represents<br />
Australia at Cannes Film Festival<br />
(also 1993).<br />
1990 Brisbane Biennial Festival<br />
of Music established. First<br />
festival in 1991.
Places, Collections and Traditions Continued<br />
• Integrate public art in the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Parks and Wildlife Service’s Great<br />
Walks of <strong>Queensland</strong>, a series of<br />
walking tracks across the State, which<br />
present and promote the natural and<br />
cultural values of <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
national parks and state forests.<br />
• Ensure the ongoing delivery of the two<br />
per cent for public art Art Built-in<br />
program.<br />
Public art at the new Cairns Government Office Building: Wik Elder Arthur Pampegan Jnr with artwork,<br />
Flying Fox Story Place, 2002. Photo Rae O'Connell.<br />
• Deliver the Millennium <strong>Arts</strong> Project<br />
including the development of the new<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Gallery of Modern Art,<br />
redeveloped State Library, an<br />
Indigenous <strong>Cultural</strong> Centre, and<br />
16 regional cultural facilities.<br />
• Continue the repatriation program for<br />
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander<br />
cultural artefacts.<br />
Enhancing Public Places<br />
Engaging artists in the development of<br />
public infrastructure, through support<br />
for public art, is a mechanism by which<br />
the Government’s investment in the arts<br />
can improve the quality and<br />
functionality of the built environment.<br />
The Government Architect also plays an<br />
important role in supporting and<br />
enhancing cultural identity by providing<br />
advice to the Government in relation to<br />
the built environment, urban design<br />
and heritage issues.<br />
To enhance public places, the<br />
Government will develop initiatives<br />
including:<br />
• Establish the position of Government<br />
Curator, the first of its kind in the<br />
Government, to assist departments to<br />
manage their artwork asset collections<br />
and manage existing collections of<br />
artworks and newly commissioned<br />
works under the Government’s public<br />
art program, Art Built-in.<br />
• Create sustainable opportunities for<br />
the involvement of young people in<br />
public art.<br />
Hope<br />
As tribal elders sit,<br />
Their tribal thoughts tie their tongue.<br />
We, the foreigners,<br />
In this our land,<br />
Know not<br />
Where lies our future track.<br />
No place forward,<br />
None back.<br />
Hearing their city tribes<br />
Talk the foreign tongue,<br />
They shuffle their tribal feet,<br />
And wait,<br />
And judge,<br />
And soon, within their age-old eyes,<br />
A light appears:<br />
Yes, it was there,<br />
Though but a pinhead size.<br />
Frustrated still<br />
They walk away,<br />
With knowing smile<br />
And gentle voice.<br />
Now…<br />
We hope…<br />
For you have taught us<br />
…hope…there is.<br />
Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal<br />
1990 Brisbane rock band<br />
Custard formed, wins Australian<br />
Academy of Music<br />
encouragement award in 1991.<br />
1990 Feral <strong>Arts</strong> established.<br />
1990 <strong>Queensland</strong> Art 4.<br />
Gallery launches the<br />
Balance exhibition.<br />
The first exhibition of<br />
predominantly<br />
Indigenous art to be<br />
curated by the<br />
Gallery.<br />
1990 First independent<br />
Indigenous artists cooperative<br />
Campfire Group established in<br />
Brisbane.<br />
1990 First <strong>Queensland</strong> Writer’s<br />
Train – journey of 800km<br />
west from Brisbane.<br />
1990 Graft ‘n’ <strong>Arts</strong><br />
established in Cairns.<br />
1990 Hands on Art<br />
established (formerly the<br />
Childrens Activity Group).<br />
▼<br />
4. Photo courtesy Hands on Art.<br />
1990 Ministers Awards for<br />
Excellence in the <strong>Arts</strong> established.<br />
1990 Playlab established.<br />
1990 <strong>Queensland</strong> Indigenous<br />
Committee for Visual <strong>Arts</strong> - an<br />
independent association of<br />
Statewide artists established.<br />
1990 <strong>Queensland</strong> Writers<br />
Centre established.<br />
1991 <strong>Arts</strong> Law Centre of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> established<br />
offering financial and<br />
accounting services to artists.<br />
Extended to Cairns in 1996.<br />
1991 Australian Association for<br />
Dance Education (<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Branch) established becomes<br />
Ausdance in 1992.<br />
1991 First Australia Festival of<br />
Chamber Music, Townsville.<br />
1991 James Blundell wins ARIA<br />
Award for best country record<br />
with Hand it Down.<br />
1991 La Luna Theatre<br />
Association Incorporated in<br />
Townsville; becomes La Luna<br />
Youth <strong>Arts</strong> (1994).<br />
1991 Pacific Film and Television<br />
Commission established.<br />
1991 Poet and author David<br />
Rowbotham receives Order of<br />
Australia.<br />
1991 Regional training<br />
residencies introduced by QCAN<br />
-CHARTS program.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 19
Creative Enterprise<br />
Underpinning the principle of<br />
Creative Enterprise is the<br />
understanding that developing<br />
innovative cultural products and<br />
services leads to job creation and<br />
greater economic independence.<br />
The cultural sector comprises<br />
many small businesses, some<br />
in receipt of public subsidy,<br />
which face common pressures<br />
of increased competition,<br />
reduced investment by the<br />
private sector, the need to<br />
embrace new technology, and<br />
the difficulty of balancing<br />
research and development<br />
against economic outcomes.<br />
New economies are<br />
increasingly based on services<br />
and intellectual property rather than<br />
manufacturing and capital assets.<br />
Investing in ideas and innovation, the<br />
foundation of the cultural industries and<br />
the Smart State, will boost the capacity<br />
for <strong>Queensland</strong> enterprises to prosper.<br />
Communication and information<br />
technologies represent a key opportunity<br />
for cultural enterprises to embrace new<br />
markets, develop new products, reach<br />
new audiences and enhance service<br />
delivery.<br />
In 1998-99 exports of cultural goods<br />
across the country totalled $964<br />
million 10 . The export of cultural product<br />
also offers significant opportunities for<br />
cultural businesses and the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
economy.<br />
Creative industries which focus on<br />
enterprises with strong potential for<br />
wealth and job creation are at the heart<br />
of the Smart State and represent an<br />
important priority for Government.<br />
The Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove being developed by the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
University of Technology in partnership with the <strong>Queensland</strong> Government through the<br />
Department of State Development. Photo courtesy of Hassel/MGT.<br />
Alongside investment in projects such<br />
as the new Creative Industries Precinct<br />
at Kelvin Grove, the Government is<br />
preparing <strong>Queensland</strong>’s first Creative<br />
Industries Strategy led by the<br />
Department of State Development. This<br />
strategy will foster greater enterprise in<br />
the State’s cultural industries and help<br />
deliver the economic goals of the<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>.<br />
The key strategies for Government in<br />
promoting creative enterprise are to:<br />
increase employment and training<br />
opportunities in the cultural and creative<br />
industries; promote research and<br />
development; enhance export<br />
development opportunities; enhance<br />
business development; and foster<br />
growth in the creative industries.<br />
Jobs and Training<br />
Many new jobs and businesses are<br />
fuelled by the power of creativity and<br />
intellectual property. Greater connection<br />
is needed between artists, industry and<br />
jobs. To do this, Government<br />
will ensure that individuals<br />
have the necessary skills and<br />
qualifications to realise their<br />
vocational potential.<br />
The Government’s Breaking<br />
the Unemployment Cycle and<br />
Skilling <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
initiatives will help provide<br />
new job opportunities and<br />
training in the arts and<br />
cultural sector. A partnership<br />
between <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
and the Department of<br />
Employment and Training, The Smart<br />
State – Investing in <strong>Cultural</strong> Enterprises,<br />
is developing new training initiatives<br />
and job opportunities for artsworkers.<br />
To increase employment and training<br />
opportunities in the cultural and<br />
creative industries, the Government will<br />
develop initiatives including:<br />
• Continue to provide flexible,<br />
responsive, accessible and relevant<br />
training and professional development<br />
programs:<br />
– expansion of industry-based<br />
accredited training, assessment and<br />
recognition of current competencies;<br />
10 Australian Bureau of Statistics - Cultures and Leisure Framework 1998-99<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1991 Refurbishment of the<br />
Thomas Dixon Building in West<br />
End for the <strong>Queensland</strong> Ballet<br />
and the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Philharmonic Orchestra.<br />
1991 <strong>Queensland</strong>: A State for<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> released by <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government. Transforms cultural<br />
industries in <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Funding for individual artists<br />
was introduced and the<br />
Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Development<br />
Fund was established.<br />
1992 <strong>Queensland</strong> Heritage Act<br />
passed in Parliament.<br />
1992 Andrew McGahan’s novel<br />
Praise published to critical<br />
acclaim.<br />
1992 Brisbane-born Barry Otto<br />
wins Australia Film Critics Award<br />
for best supporting actor in Baz<br />
Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom.<br />
1992 <strong>Arts</strong> Training <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
established.<br />
1992 Glenn Murcutt awarded<br />
20 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
the elite Aalto medal, becoming<br />
one of only eight architects in<br />
the world to hold the honour.<br />
1992 Brisbane International<br />
Film Festival introduced.<br />
1992 Joe Furlonger wins the<br />
inaugural Moet and Chandon<br />
prize - one of five<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>ers to win the award<br />
throughout the 1990s. Other<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>ers to win were<br />
Gordon Bennett, Judy Watson,<br />
Hollie and Jude Kentish.<br />
1992 Out of the<br />
Box festival of<br />
early childhood<br />
established.<br />
1992 The Lab<br />
established in<br />
Townsville.<br />
1993 Central<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> University Press<br />
established focussing on<br />
publication of regional and rural<br />
writing.<br />
▼<br />
1993 Curator,<br />
photographer and<br />
writer Michael Aird<br />
opens Portrait of Our<br />
Elders at the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Museum.<br />
5. 1993 The famous<br />
‘Mabo’ judgement<br />
handed down by the High Court<br />
of Australia; overturns the<br />
notion of ‘terra nullius’ and<br />
recognises ‘native title’.<br />
5. Photo courtesy <strong>Queensland</strong> Performing<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Centre.
Creative Enterprise Continued<br />
– business, marketing and project<br />
management skills for established<br />
artists with a particular emphasis on<br />
export, public art projects and major<br />
cultural and sporting events.<br />
– training for volunteers in galleries,<br />
museums, sporting and cultural<br />
events and community radio.<br />
– training for<br />
established<br />
artists which<br />
assists them<br />
to contribute<br />
to and<br />
promote<br />
festivals and<br />
events.<br />
– programs<br />
designed to<br />
provide skills in<br />
the area of technology in creative<br />
arts, animation, digital arts and film<br />
and video production.<br />
• Increase transitional support programs<br />
for young people to assist them to<br />
move from study to work, for example,<br />
mentoring, industry induction and<br />
management skills training.<br />
• Provide funding to support<br />
professional development of artists<br />
through seminars, workshops,<br />
conferences and exchanges.<br />
• Generate professional job<br />
opportunities for <strong>Queensland</strong> artists<br />
through the Art Built-in public art<br />
program.<br />
Project Officer and Community Trainee Coordinator<br />
Trish Johnson (left) with trainees Krystle Sutherland<br />
and Tony Albert at the <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery.<br />
Photo courtesy of the Department of Employment and<br />
Training. Photo Mike Curtain.<br />
• Explore the development of new<br />
partnerships between artists and the<br />
private and community sectors to<br />
enhance employment outcomes.<br />
• Increase job opportunities for artists<br />
and artsworkers by supporting online<br />
information packages on training,<br />
education and employment in the<br />
arts, cultural and<br />
creative industries.<br />
• Establish a<br />
community<br />
training centre in<br />
the redeveloped<br />
State Library of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> to<br />
provide Internet<br />
and information<br />
literacy training to<br />
groups including<br />
unemployed people, business people,<br />
seniors and Indigenous people.<br />
• Implement online training programs<br />
and outreach training services through<br />
the redeveloped State Library to<br />
provide access to regional, rural and<br />
remote communities.<br />
• Deliver training which links regional<br />
arts development to the promotion of<br />
Indigenous cultural product and<br />
supports Indigenous heritage tourism<br />
planning and development.<br />
• Deliver a skills development program<br />
in partnership with the Australia<br />
Council to regional <strong>Queensland</strong> to<br />
assist arts and cultural workers and<br />
organisations in promoting their<br />
product to the broader community<br />
through the media.<br />
Research and Development<br />
In the Smart State, investment in<br />
research and development is<br />
fundamental. It identifies what<br />
collections to keep and how best to<br />
keep them; discovers the scientific and<br />
economic potential of collections and<br />
traditions; builds culturally exciting<br />
places that attract citizens and tourists;<br />
and builds innovation and creativity<br />
which benefits the broader creative<br />
industries.<br />
Public art at the <strong>Queensland</strong> Theatre Company’s new<br />
premises: detail of Julie Romaniuk’s Light the fuse -<br />
from fingertip through sternum to fingertip, 2002.<br />
Photo Three Pines Studio.<br />
1993 First Asia-Pacific Triennial<br />
of Contemporary Art,<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery.<br />
1993 Incorporation of<br />
Kooemba Jdarra –<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s first<br />
Indigenous theatre<br />
company.<br />
1993 Kickarts Collective<br />
Inc incorporated.<br />
▼<br />
1993 Museums Australia<br />
(<strong>Queensland</strong>) established.<br />
1993 <strong>Queensland</strong> Office of <strong>Arts</strong><br />
and <strong>Cultural</strong> Development (<strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>) established.<br />
1993 Sharing Lines: A<br />
collection of Aboriginal<br />
and Torres Strait<br />
Islander women’s<br />
writing edited by Jackie<br />
Huggins (Black Day<br />
Dawning) is published.<br />
1993-94 <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Industry: An Economic Profile<br />
was produced.<br />
1994 <strong>Arts</strong> Regional Touring<br />
Service (ARTS) introduced by<br />
the Government.<br />
1994 Coalition for <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Diversity in the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
established.<br />
1994 Creative Nation, the<br />
landmark federal cultural policy<br />
is released.<br />
1994 Fringe Art Collective Inc<br />
established (till 2001) to assist<br />
the development of young and<br />
emerging poets in <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1994 David Malouf’s<br />
Remembering Babylon wins<br />
world’s richest literary prize,<br />
IMPAC Dublin Award.<br />
1994 First Aboriginal and Torres<br />
Strait Islander position<br />
established at QCAN.<br />
1994 QMusic established.<br />
1994 Repatriation of Palm<br />
Island Aboriginal Tambo from<br />
Cleveland Ohio and ceremonial<br />
burial 100 years after his death<br />
in 1884.<br />
1995 <strong>Arts</strong> Nexus established to<br />
assist arts and cultural<br />
development in Far North<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1995 Biz<strong>Arts</strong> program was<br />
launched for commissioning<br />
and prototyping of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
designed furniture.<br />
1995 Cairns Regional Art<br />
Gallery established.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 21
Creative Enterprise Continued<br />
The Government’s Research and<br />
Development Strategy Issues Paper<br />
identifies the importance of research<br />
and development to <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
economic and social future.<br />
To promote research and development<br />
in the cultural industries, the<br />
Government will develop initiatives<br />
including:<br />
• Promote research alliances<br />
within <strong>Queensland</strong>,<br />
nationally and<br />
internationally to support<br />
excellence in the<br />
conservation and display of<br />
public collections.<br />
• Form strategic alliances with<br />
international research and<br />
development bodies,<br />
including the Smithsonian<br />
Institute in the United<br />
States.<br />
• Establish the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Art Gallery’s Australian<br />
Centre of Asia-Pacific Art for research,<br />
curatorial practice and the<br />
presentation of Asia-Pacific arts.<br />
• Form strategic research partnerships<br />
between the arts sector, the tertiary<br />
sector and the Government to deliver<br />
relevant and innovative research into<br />
arts, arts education and creative<br />
industries.<br />
• Provide funding to support cuttingedge<br />
ideas and experimental works.<br />
Export Development<br />
The export of goods and services is a<br />
key sector of <strong>Queensland</strong>’s economy,<br />
comprising more than one-fifth of Gross<br />
State Product 11 . It is vital that exportready<br />
cultural enterprises look to<br />
national and overseas markets to<br />
expand their business.<br />
Nalini Malani, Remembering Toba Tek Singh 1998-99, 20-minute video<br />
installation at the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2002.<br />
Photo reproduced with permission of the <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery.<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government recognises<br />
the importance of strengthening the<br />
State's export base and through its<br />
Export Solutions – the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government Trade Strategy, will increase<br />
the number of new exporting<br />
companies, facilitate access to export<br />
markets for export-ready companies and<br />
increase the State’s knowledgeintensive<br />
exports. In boosting export<br />
readiness, the Government also<br />
recognises the potential of local<br />
products to succeed in local markets.<br />
To enhance export development<br />
opportunities, the Government will<br />
develop initiatives including:<br />
• Develop a <strong>Cultural</strong> Export <strong>Policy</strong> which<br />
will build partnerships between <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>, the Department of State<br />
Development and the Department of<br />
the Premier and Cabinet to take<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> art and cultural products<br />
to world markets.<br />
• Establish an Indigenous <strong>Arts</strong> and<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> Marketing and Export Program<br />
led by the Department of State<br />
Development in partnership with <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> and the Department of<br />
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander<br />
<strong>Policy</strong> to provide links between artists<br />
and buyers. The Premier as Minister<br />
for Trade will play a key role in<br />
promoting this program.<br />
• Increase promotion of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
crew, cast, facilities, locations and film<br />
incentives in Europe, South-East Asia<br />
and the United States to attract more<br />
film production and post-production<br />
to the State.<br />
• Introduce an arts and cultural<br />
component to the existing Business<br />
Skills Development Program targeting<br />
export-ready companies and ventures.<br />
• Work with inbound and outbound<br />
trade missions to provide a link<br />
between the arts and cultural sectors<br />
and trade and investment<br />
opportunities.<br />
11 <strong>Queensland</strong> State Accounts, Office of the Government Statistician,<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Treasury<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1995 Bring Back the Magic<br />
campaign launched by<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Performing <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Museum at QPAC to collect and<br />
preserve <strong>Queensland</strong>’s<br />
performing arts heritage.<br />
1995 The real identity of Helen<br />
Darville-Demidenko is revealed<br />
after she wins the Miles Franklin<br />
Award.<br />
1995 First Indigenous Art<br />
Curator Margo Neale appointed<br />
to the <strong>Queensland</strong> Art Gallery.<br />
1995 QIAAC (<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Indigenous Artists Aboriginal<br />
Corporation) established to<br />
support and promote<br />
Indigenous artists in regional<br />
communities.<br />
1995 <strong>Queensland</strong> Government<br />
launches Building Local, Going<br />
Global policy.<br />
1995 Release of Hidden<br />
Heritage – Development Plan<br />
for Museums in <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
which sees the establishment of<br />
a network of Museum<br />
Development Officers across<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> partnered with the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Museum and Local<br />
Government.<br />
1995 The TV series -<br />
Ocean Girl, Pacific<br />
Drive and Fire filmed<br />
in <strong>Queensland</strong> as well<br />
as the movies The<br />
Phantom, The Story of<br />
the CIA and The<br />
Island of Dr Moreau.<br />
1996 Backbone Youth <strong>Arts</strong><br />
(formerly La Boite Youth<br />
Theatre) becomes its own<br />
company.<br />
1996 Brisbane<br />
band Regurgitator<br />
wins best debut<br />
album of the year at<br />
the annual ARIA<br />
Music Awards; best<br />
album in 1998.<br />
1996 House Styles architecture<br />
exhibition – first international<br />
▼<br />
tour of <strong>Queensland</strong> architecture.<br />
Tours New York, London, Paris<br />
and Jakarta.<br />
1996 Inaugural Brisbane<br />
Festival staged.<br />
1996 Inaugural <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Writers Festival established.<br />
1996 Conservatorium Theatre<br />
opens at South Bank, providing<br />
a venue for both the<br />
Conservatorium and Opera<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
22 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002
Creative Enterprise Continued<br />
• Coordinate inbound and<br />
outbound trade missions for<br />
filmmakers to attract<br />
production finance and<br />
distribution deals.<br />
Business Development<br />
and Creative Industries<br />
Promoting economic<br />
independence for cultural sector<br />
companies is central to their<br />
growth and prosperity in the<br />
future. <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> will<br />
work to promote business<br />
outcomes in the cultural<br />
industries, in partnership with<br />
the Department of State<br />
Development, as part of the<br />
broader objective to foster<br />
growth in the creative industries.<br />
To enhance business development<br />
opportunities for the cultural and the<br />
wider creative industries, the<br />
Government will develop initiatives<br />
including:<br />
• Establish a business start-up program,<br />
including skills development, for new<br />
businesses in the cultural sector<br />
where a strong business case can be<br />
demonstrated.<br />
• Continue to invest in innovative film<br />
ideas that attract market interest<br />
enabling them to be developed,<br />
manufactured, marketed and sold<br />
internationally.<br />
• Develop a Creative Industries Strategy,<br />
led by the Department of State<br />
Shaun Wake-Mazey, Disco, 2000, oil on wood. Photo courtesy of the artist<br />
and Artbank. Self represented.<br />
Development, to promote nationally<br />
and internationally competitive<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> firms and products.<br />
• Develop and implement a learning<br />
framework to assist Indigenous artists<br />
throughout <strong>Queensland</strong> to develop<br />
skills in industry development and<br />
marketing.<br />
An Ordinary Evening<br />
in Hamilton EXCERPT<br />
The garden shifts indoors, the house lets fall<br />
its lamp light, opens<br />
windows in the earth<br />
• Contribute to the development<br />
and promotion of creative<br />
industries research, education<br />
and enterprise through<br />
investment in the Creative<br />
Industries Precinct.<br />
• Undertake research and promote<br />
new models of service delivery<br />
and business development for the<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Portfolio and non-government<br />
sector that promote innovation,<br />
networking and partnering,<br />
particularly in regional and rural<br />
areas of <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
• Undertake a review of writing in<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> to identify<br />
opportunities for stimulating<br />
growth in the sector.<br />
• Support business development<br />
initiatives, such as the Music Business<br />
Advisory Service, in sectors with strong<br />
potential for wealth and job generation.<br />
• Partner with national agencies, such<br />
as the Australian Business <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Foundation, to drive increased<br />
business outcomes for the cultural<br />
sector.<br />
and the small stars of the grass, the night insects, needlepoint<br />
a jungle more dense<br />
than any tapestry, where Saturn burns, a snow owl’s nest, and melons<br />
feed<br />
their crystal with hot sugars of the moon.<br />
David Malouf<br />
1997 Aboriginal Centre for the<br />
Performing <strong>Arts</strong> launched in<br />
Brisbane.<br />
1997 <strong>Arts</strong> Business Culture: a<br />
Research report on an<br />
Indigenous cultural<br />
industry in <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
published by <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1997 Brisbane duo<br />
Savage Garden enter<br />
record books<br />
winning eight ARIA<br />
▼<br />
awards, the most ever won by a<br />
group in one year.<br />
1997 Indigenous Library Unit<br />
opens in Cairns.<br />
1997 OPAL scheme (Online<br />
Public Access in<br />
Libraries)<br />
launched a rollout<br />
of Internet<br />
services to<br />
public libraries<br />
in the State.<br />
1997 Launch of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government’s Your Culture, Your<br />
Move - the first youth cultural<br />
policy for <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
1997 QAG Pathways Exhibition<br />
opens.<br />
1997 QPIX (<strong>Queensland</strong> Screen<br />
Resource Centre) established.<br />
1997 Stage X festival for young<br />
people begins.<br />
1997 Subverse <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Poetry Festival founded (until<br />
2001) to become <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Poetry Festival in 2002.<br />
1997 University of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Press appoints first<br />
Indigenous editor.<br />
1997 Waltzing Matilda<br />
Centre at Winton<br />
established.<br />
1997 Toowoomba’s<br />
Geoffrey Rush wins the<br />
Oscar for Best Male Actor for his<br />
performance in the film Shine.<br />
1998 Optus Playhouse<br />
officially opened.<br />
1998 Brisbane Festival<br />
established.<br />
1998 Nick Earles<br />
wins Betty Trask<br />
Award in UK with best<br />
selling novel Zigzag<br />
Street; published 1996.<br />
▼<br />
1998 First Torres Strait<br />
Islander Community <strong>Arts</strong> Officer<br />
appointed.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 23
Consultation and Research<br />
The <strong>Queensland</strong> Government<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> is the result of<br />
extensive research and<br />
consultation.<br />
On 3 December 2001, State Cabinet<br />
endorsed the release of an ideas paper,<br />
smart state ➔ creative queensland, for<br />
public consultation to assist in the<br />
development of the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Glossary<br />
For the purposes of this policy, the<br />
following definitions apply:<br />
Artists, whether professional or unpaid,<br />
are individuals who practise in any<br />
aspect of the arts and create arts or<br />
cultural product 12 .<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> encompasses all forms of cultural<br />
and artistic activity and expression 13 .<br />
<strong>Arts</strong>worker is a person who manages or<br />
facilitates the development of arts and<br />
cultural activity 14 .<br />
Creative enterprise is the use of<br />
creativity and arts in commerciallyfocussed<br />
activity.<br />
Creative industries are “activities which<br />
have their origin in individual creativity,<br />
skill and talent and which have the<br />
potential for wealth and job creation<br />
through the generation and exploitation<br />
of intellectual property” 15 .<br />
Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>. The closing<br />
date for submissions was 20 February<br />
2002.<br />
The consultation process was extensive<br />
including 27 public forums across the<br />
State, wide distribution of the ideas<br />
paper and feedback through an online<br />
forum.<br />
<strong>Cultural</strong> industries include the arts, but<br />
cover a wider range of enterprises, such<br />
as the media, museums, archives,<br />
libraries, entertainment industries, sport<br />
and recreation, urban planning and<br />
architecture.<br />
Culture is about a way of life; the<br />
important patterns and symbols that<br />
reflect knowledge, ideas, beliefs, values,<br />
spirituality, standards and responses.<br />
Ballet dancer Michelle Giammichele and Julian<br />
Lankshear during a dress rehearsal for Romeo and<br />
Juliet 1996. Photo Patrick Hamilton, The Australian.<br />
In addition, <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> researched<br />
previous and current cultural policy<br />
development models, both nationally<br />
and internationally. This ensured the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong><br />
was developed in recognition of key<br />
international trends in cultural and<br />
government policy.<br />
Information technology and<br />
telecommunications (IT & T) are “the<br />
technologies that enable the capture,<br />
storage, manipulation, retrieval, transfer<br />
or dissemination of information” 16 .<br />
Innovation “is the conversion of<br />
knowledge and ideas into a benefit,<br />
which may be for commercial use or for<br />
the public good. The benefit may be new<br />
or improved products, processes or<br />
services” 17 .<br />
Intellectual property (IP) refers to<br />
“useful artistic and industrial information<br />
and knowledge or property that derives<br />
from the work of the mind or intellect” 18 .<br />
12 Adapted from <strong>Arts</strong>, Business, Culture: A Research Report on an<br />
Indigenous <strong>Cultural</strong> Industry in <strong>Queensland</strong> by Sharenne Bell. Brisbane:<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong>, 1997.<br />
13 Adapted from <strong>Arts</strong>, Business, Culture.<br />
14 <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Grants Handbook 2002. Brisbane: <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong>, 2002.<br />
15 Creative Industries Task Force Mapping Document 2001, Department of<br />
Culture, Media and Sport, London, 2001.<br />
16 Innovation – <strong>Queensland</strong>’s Future. Brisbane: Department of Innovation<br />
and Information Economy, 2000.<br />
17 Innovation Directions for <strong>Queensland</strong> 2001 - An Innovation Framework<br />
Supporting the Smart State. <strong>Queensland</strong> Innovation Council. Brisbane:<br />
Department of Innovation and Information Economy, 2001.<br />
18 Innovation – <strong>Queensland</strong>’s Future.<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
1998 Ilan Pasin: This is Our<br />
Way - the first survey show of<br />
traditional and contemporary<br />
Torres Strait Islander art<br />
opens in Cairns co-curated<br />
by Indigenous curators Tom<br />
Mosby and Brian Robinson.<br />
1998 Michael Anning from<br />
Ravenshoe, south of Cairns,<br />
wins Wandjuk Marika Memorial<br />
3D Award at the Darwin<br />
National Aboriginal and Torres<br />
Strait Islander Art Award.<br />
▼<br />
1998 381<br />
Brunswick Street<br />
is refurbished and<br />
opens as the new<br />
home for<br />
Artworkers<br />
Alliance, Youth<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong>,<br />
Craft <strong>Queensland</strong>,<br />
Regional Galleries Association<br />
of <strong>Queensland</strong>, Museums<br />
Australia (<strong>Queensland</strong>) and the<br />
Public Art Agency.<br />
24 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
1998 The Government’s public<br />
art policy Art Built-in is<br />
established which sees 2% of<br />
State Government capital works<br />
budgets allocated for<br />
commissioning of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
art and design. The policy came<br />
into effect on 1 July 1999.<br />
1998-2002 Indigenous<br />
Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Development<br />
Fund established and<br />
Indigenous Community <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Officers appointed.<br />
1999 Global <strong>Arts</strong> Link opened<br />
in Ipswich.<br />
1999 <strong>Queensland</strong> Biennial<br />
Festival of Music established.<br />
1999 <strong>Queensland</strong> Premier’s<br />
Literary Awards established for<br />
emerging <strong>Queensland</strong> writers.<br />
These awards complement the<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Judith Wright<br />
Calanthe Award for Poetry, the<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Steele Rudd<br />
Australian Short Story Award,<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> David<br />
Uniapon Award for Indigenous<br />
Writing and the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Unpublished Poetry Award.<br />
1999 Theatre <strong>Arts</strong> Network<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> (TANQ) was formed<br />
through the amalgamation of<br />
the <strong>Queensland</strong> Theatre<br />
Industry Alliance (QTIA) and the<br />
Brisbane Association of<br />
Collaborative Theatre (ACT).
Glossary Continued<br />
Edward Koumans, Bush Ranger Series, Figures, 1998, found objects, plaster bandage. Photo courtesy of the artist<br />
and Artbank. Artist represented by Gallery 101, Melbourne.<br />
Knowledge economy refers to the<br />
content industries developing products<br />
that are disseminated using multimedia,<br />
through a combination of entertainment,<br />
information and education 19 .<br />
A number of <strong>Queensland</strong> Government<br />
documents have been referred to in<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong>. A brief description<br />
of each follows:<br />
Putting Families First (Department of<br />
Families, October 2001): A policy<br />
statement which provides a framework<br />
for the ongoing development of strong<br />
and effective responses to the needs of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> children, families and<br />
communities. It represents a whole-of-<br />
Government approach to building the<br />
strength and wellbeing of families and<br />
communities.<br />
www.families.qld.gov.au/families_first/<br />
policy.html<br />
Smart State: Health 2020 A Vision for<br />
the Future Discussion Paper<br />
(<strong>Queensland</strong> Health, April 2002): The<br />
strategic vision that will set the<br />
implementation strategies for<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Health until the year 2020.<br />
www.health.qld.gov.au<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> the Smart State - Education<br />
and Training Reforms for the Future -<br />
Part three (Department of the Premier<br />
and Cabinet, March 2002): Green paper<br />
that sought community views on a range<br />
of proposed Smart State reforms for<br />
education and training in <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
www.thepremier.qld.gov.au/smartstate/<br />
education_training<br />
Strategy for Growing Tourism<br />
(Department of Tourism, Racing and Fair<br />
Trading, 2001): Outlines the broad<br />
strategic direction for developing<br />
tourism in a sustainable manner and<br />
demonstrates the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government's commitment to tourism.<br />
www.dtrft.qld.gov.au<br />
Community<br />
Engagement Division<br />
Directions Statement<br />
(Department of the<br />
Premier and Cabinet,<br />
2001): Sets a vision,<br />
principles for<br />
engagement, goals,<br />
priorities and<br />
innovations for the<br />
Community<br />
Engagement Division of<br />
the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government.<br />
www.premiers.qld.gov.au/about/<br />
community/index.htm<br />
Priorities in Progress (<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Treasury, 2001): An annual report by the<br />
State Government to the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
community about the progress being<br />
made towards achieving the<br />
Government’s priorities outlined in the<br />
Charter of Social and Fiscal<br />
Responsibility. It informs the community<br />
of the impact of the Government's<br />
policies and initiatives in the previous<br />
financial year and the strategies being<br />
pursued to progress the priorities.<br />
www.treasury.qld.gov.au/ priorities2000<br />
Innovation Directions for <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
2001 (<strong>Queensland</strong> Innovation Council,<br />
Department of Innovation and<br />
Information Economy, September 2001):<br />
A discussion paper that outlines an<br />
innovation framework that will support<br />
19 Adapted from Commerce in Content: Building Australia’s International<br />
Future in Interactive Multimedia Markets. A report for the Department<br />
of Industry, Science and Technology, CSIRO and the Broadband<br />
Services Expert Group by Cutler and Company Pty Ltd, September 1994.<br />
2000 Brisbane<br />
Powerhouse Centre for<br />
the Live <strong>Arts</strong> opened.<br />
2000 Launch of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
<strong>Policy</strong> for Young People.<br />
2000 Launch of the<br />
reestablished Ningy Ningy Bora<br />
Rings.<br />
2000 Q Music began delivering<br />
the A-Venue contemporary music<br />
initiative for young people.<br />
▼<br />
6. Photo courtesy Brisbane Powerhouse.<br />
Photo Jon Linkins.<br />
2000 <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Poets Union<br />
incorporated.<br />
2000 Recognition<br />
6.<br />
statement of the<br />
Australian South Sea Islander<br />
community adopted by the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Legislative<br />
Assembly on 7 September.<br />
2000 Youth <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> manages Youth<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Mentoring Program<br />
(YAMP) for the first time.<br />
▼<br />
2001 <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
becomes the first <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Department for the arts and<br />
cultural development.<br />
2001 The Ideas Festival at the<br />
Brisbane City Council’s<br />
Powerhouse saw international<br />
speakers such<br />
as Germaine<br />
Greer, Lord<br />
Robert<br />
Winston,<br />
Gilberto<br />
Gallopin and Phillip Adams<br />
present to a large and engaged<br />
Brisbane audience.<br />
2001 Brisbane rock band<br />
Powderfinger wins six ARIA<br />
music awards in Sydney,<br />
including best group, best<br />
record and highest selling<br />
album of the year. They won<br />
four in 1999.<br />
2001 University of <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Press publishes Peter Carey’s<br />
The True History of the Kelly<br />
Gang which wins the 2001<br />
Booker Prize.<br />
2001 <strong>Queensland</strong> Performing<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Museum at QPAC opens<br />
the Tony Gould Gallery.<br />
2001 Musgrave Park <strong>Cultural</strong><br />
Centre approved for<br />
development.<br />
2001 Mt Isa musician Jason<br />
Connelly wins Most Promising<br />
New Talent at the 7th Deadly<br />
Sounds ATSI Music Awards.<br />
Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002 25
Glossary Continued<br />
the transformation of <strong>Queensland</strong> to the<br />
Smart State.<br />
www.iie.qld.gov.au/corporate/<br />
innovation_directions.pdf<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> State Education 2010<br />
(Education <strong>Queensland</strong>, 2000):<br />
A comprehensive strategy for State<br />
education in <strong>Queensland</strong> that aims to<br />
ensure that the education levels and<br />
skills of <strong>Queensland</strong>ers are among the<br />
best in the world. The fundamental aim<br />
of QSE 2010 is to increase the number of<br />
students successfully completing 12<br />
years of schooling.<br />
www.education.qld.gov.au<br />
Skilling <strong>Queensland</strong> (2001-2004)<br />
(Department of Employment and<br />
Training 2001): The <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
vocational education and training<br />
strategy provides a vision and response<br />
to global and local trends, national and<br />
state strategies and priorities, and<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>'s social, economic and<br />
geographic issues.<br />
www.det.qld.gov.au<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> R & D Strategy Issues<br />
Paper (Department of Innovation and<br />
Information Economy, April 2002):<br />
Presents a framework for coordinating<br />
and prioritising the Government's<br />
investment in R & D (research and<br />
development) and encourages further<br />
investment by other R & D sectors<br />
including the Commonwealth<br />
Government, business and higher<br />
education so that R & D activity<br />
contributes to the development of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> as the Smart State.<br />
www.iie.qld.gov.au<br />
Improving People's Lives Through<br />
Housing - An Integrated Approach to<br />
Housing for People and Communities<br />
(Department of Housing, May 2000):<br />
Outlines the strategic direction for the<br />
Department of Housing and establishes<br />
the guiding principles, key goals and<br />
strategies.<br />
www.housing.qld.gov.au<br />
Export Solutions – the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Government Trade Strategy (Department<br />
of State Development, 2001): A<br />
comprehensive whole-of-Government<br />
trade strategy that aims to boost<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong>’s export performance.<br />
www.sd.qld.gov.au<br />
Mango Weather<br />
EXCERPT<br />
Multicultural <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Policy</strong><br />
(Department of the Premier and Cabinet,<br />
1998): This policy outlines the State<br />
Government's recognition that<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> is, and will remain, a<br />
culturally diverse society and also<br />
affirms multiculturalism as the best way<br />
to manage this cultural diversity. The<br />
policy confirms the Government's<br />
commitment to fostering an inclusive,<br />
cohesive and open society. The policy is<br />
based on the three principles of access,<br />
participation and cohesion.<br />
www.premiers.qld.gov.au/about/maq/<br />
index.htm<br />
January and mango weather<br />
mosquito sunsets full moon broodiness<br />
night’s barefoot without coolness<br />
mildew nights<br />
evenings sodden with meals and kitchen stillness<br />
mango stillness shouldering crowding us<br />
we chafe we are restless we are<br />
the sudden<br />
clobber of fruit on roof-iron<br />
mangoes stinging to juice<br />
in the sweat-globules of moonlight.<br />
Thomas Shapcott<br />
MILESTONES IN QUEENSLAND’S CULTURAL HISTORY<br />
2001 The Judith Wright Centre<br />
of Contemporary <strong>Arts</strong> opened<br />
housing Arterial, the Australia<br />
Film, Television and Radio<br />
School, Elision Contemporary<br />
Music Ensemble, Expressions<br />
Dance Company, the Institute of<br />
Modern Art, Kooemba Jdarra<br />
and Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus.<br />
2001 The <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Orchestra was established,<br />
merging the <strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Philharmonic and the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Symphony<br />
Orchestras.<br />
2001 <strong>Queensland</strong> Museum<br />
palaentologists<br />
discover the largest 7.<br />
dinosaur in Australia,<br />
‘Elliot’ the sauropod, a<br />
gigantic four-legged<br />
plant-eating dinosaur.<br />
2001 The Saints<br />
inducted into the ARIA<br />
Hall of Fame.<br />
26 Creative <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> Government <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong> 2002<br />
2001 Caboolture country and<br />
western singer Keith Urban wins<br />
Horizon Award in Nashville for<br />
impact on country music.<br />
2002 On World Poetry<br />
Day (21 March) the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Queensland</strong><br />
Unpublished Poetry<br />
Award was re-named in<br />
honour of esteemed<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> poet<br />
Val Vallis.<br />
▼<br />
7. Photo courtesy Val Vallis.<br />
2001 Brisbane<br />
band george tops<br />
charts with debut<br />
album Polyserena.<br />
2002 Cairns<br />
Playwright Kathryn<br />
Ash wins the<br />
prestigious New<br />
York New Dramatist 041<br />
Award.<br />
2002 Implementation of the<br />
P-10 <strong>Arts</strong> syllabus in all<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> State schools.<br />
2002 State Library of<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> celebrates<br />
its centenary.<br />
2002 Scott Hocknull,<br />
Assistant Curator of<br />
Palaentology at the<br />
<strong>Queensland</strong> Museum,<br />
wins Young Australian of<br />
the Year Award.<br />
2002 Sunshine Coast’s Glenn<br />
Murcutt wins the prestigious<br />
international Pritzker<br />
Architecture Prize.<br />
▼
Acknowledgements<br />
Poetry<br />
In order of appearance in document.<br />
• Watson, Samuel Wagan. <strong>Arts</strong> and Culture in <strong>Queensland</strong>: Verse for the <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Policy</strong>.<br />
Commissioned by <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong>, 2002.<br />
• Wright, Judith. From At Cooloola. A Human Pattern: Selected Poems. North Ryde, New South Wales:<br />
Collins/Angus and Robertson Publishers Australia, 1990.<br />
• Clark, Ross. From Local Seasoning: A Haiku Journal. Brisbane, Australia: SweetWater Press, 1993.<br />
• Ashley, Melissa. From Picking Shells. Ulitarra 17/18 (Subversions: Generations of New Poetry,<br />
ed.Paul Hardacre and Brett Dionysius). Brisbane, Australia, 2001.<br />
• Vallis, Val. From Songs of the East Coast. Songs of the East Coast. Rockhampton, <strong>Queensland</strong>:<br />
Central <strong>Queensland</strong> University Press, 1997.<br />
• Oodgeroo of the tribe Noonuccal. Hope. From My People, 3e, The Jacaranda Press, 1990.<br />
Reproduced by permission of John Wiley & Sons Australia.<br />
• Malouf, David. From An Ordinary Evening at Hamilton. Poems 1959-89. St Lucia, <strong>Queensland</strong>:<br />
University of <strong>Queensland</strong> Press, 1992.<br />
• Shapcott, Thomas. From Mango Weather. Selected Poems 1956-1988. St Lucia, <strong>Queensland</strong>:<br />
University of <strong>Queensland</strong> Press, 1989.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> gratefully acknowledges the assistance of University of <strong>Queensland</strong> Press and the<br />
State Library of <strong>Queensland</strong>.<br />
Artbank<br />
A number of images by <strong>Queensland</strong> artists in this document were supplied by Artbank, which is a<br />
Commonwealth art rental program supporting visual artists and craftspeople across Australia.<br />
It is part of the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the <strong>Arts</strong>.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Queensland</strong> gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Artbank.
Level 16<br />
111 George Street<br />
Brisbane <strong>Queensland</strong> 4000<br />
GPO Box 1436<br />
Brisbane <strong>Queensland</strong> 4001<br />
Telephone 07 3224 4896<br />
Tollfree 1800 175 531<br />
Fax 07 3224 4077<br />
Tollfree Fax 1800 175 532<br />
www.arts.qld.gov.au