A blog about Australian and international cultural policy by Ben Eltham. A proposal for a new Australian arts organisation to support writers. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra employs around 97 musicians on a full-time basis. There is no comparable organisation that pays writers in this way in Australia. The labour market conditions for writ.

Thoughts about Sales, Training, Technology, and Management. Welcome to February, what is your play this month? It is a short month for sure but typically if you work in any kind of production based job you have the same goals as any other month so how you handle the first few days really is the difference. No question, as a business owner or marketing manager there are endless choices of how to burn your marketing budget. In many markets an effective televison campaign can be the entire marketing bud.

Ecological economics, philosophy, climate change and public policy. This blog is primarily about economics and public policy. I use this space to bring together all of my non-academic writing and, very occasionally, republish the writing of others that I think is of note. Most of what is here has been published first elsewhere including. The title of this blog reflects my belief that the discipline of economics is in turmoil and is in need of reconstruction. In The Age explaining the problem.