Valuable publications
The Parliament of Australia - Parliamentary Library publishes and links to an extensive variety of creative industries websites and publications via http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sp/sparts.htm
Cultural Ministers' Council Statistics Working Group: Arts and Culture in Australian life: A 2008 Statistical Snapshot (2008): brings together the latest data on Australia's arts and cultural sector.
Australian Bureau of Statistics: Three Tiers of Government 2005-06 (2006): presents details of cultural expenditure by each of the three levels of government during 2005-06.
Australia Council for the Arts: Securing the Future: An Assessment of Progress 2001-2006 (2007): an annual report which tracks Australia's major performing arts companies in areas of artistic vibrancy, access and financial viability. (First report: DCITA [now DBCDE]: Securing the Future: Major Performing Arts Inquiry final report, 1999.)
David Throsby & Virginia Hollister: Don't Give Up Your Day Job: An Economic Study of Professional Artists in Australia (2004): survey of the economic circumstances of 1063 practising professional artists.
Kevin F McCarthy, et al / The Wallace Foundation: Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts (2004): comprehensive study of art's benefits to individuals and communities
Jon Stanford: Economic Analysis of the Droit de Suite – The Artist's Resale Royalty (2002): discussion paper about artists' resale royalty.
Katrina Gunn: Resale Royalty Rights: Possible Models for Australia: Research Note (2005).
Report of the Contemporary Visual Arts & Craft Inquiry (2002).
Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts: Indigenous Art – Securing the Future: Australia's Indigenous Visual Arts and Craft Sector (2007): government report into Indigenous visual arts and crafts sector.
Robin Pascoe et al: National Review of School Music Education: Augmenting the diminished (2005): government report into teaching and learning of music in Australian schools.
