Creative Frictions: Arts Leadership, Policy and Practice in Multicultural Australia

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
	Table 1: Proportion of professional NESB artists in each artistic field, 2009 and 2015
	Table 2: Expected and actual levels of representation of NESB artists in 2005
	Table 3: Member organisations of kultour in 2000
	Table 4: Longevity of multi-artform multicultural arts organisations
	Table 5: Chronology of multicultural arts policy at the Australia Council
List of Illustrations
	Image 1: Annalouise Paul, Mother Tongue, 2014
	Image 2: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019
	Image 3: Hossein Valamanesh, The Lover Circles His Own Heart, 1993
	Image 4: Hossein Valamanesh, Practice, 2006
	Image 5: Lex Marinos, The Slap, 2011
	Image 6: Konstantin Koukias, Sea Chant. Settlers, Ships and Saw‑Horses, 2001
	Image 7: Hossein Valamanesh, This Will Also Pass, 2007
	Image 8: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019
	Image 9: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019
	Image 10: Konstantin Koukias, To Traverse Water, 1995, Melbourne International Festival of the Arts
	Image 11: Sean Ly (director and videographer), Beyond Refuge: Flashbacks, 2016
	Image 12: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019
	Image 13: Annalouise Paul, Forge, 2016
	Image 14: Hossein Valamanesh, Untitled Map, 2002
	Image 15: Annalouise Paul, Mother Tongue, 2014
	Image 16: Annalouise Paul, Isabel, 2008
	Image 17: Annalouise Paul, Mother Tongue, rehearsal, 2014
	Image 18: Konstantin Koukias, Tesla—Lightning in His Hand, 2003
	Image 19: Lex Marinos, The Slap, 2011
	Image 20: Counting and Cracking, Belvoir Street Theatre, 2019
	Image 21: Bong Ramilo, Treasure Language Storytelling, performance, 2016
	Image 22: Annette Shun Wah
	Image 23: Contemporary Asian Australian Performance Artists Lab brochure, 2020
	Image 24: Bong Ramilo with Pia De Compiegne, 1991, launch of the New South Wales Multicultural Arts Association
	Figure 1: Governance structure of the Australia Council, 2006–11
	Figure 2: Art + Cultural Difference + Global Collaboration workshop
	Figure 3: Contemporary Asian Australian Performance and Playwriting Australia. Cycle of change using creative and organisational leadership
	Figure 4: Cycle of change using creative and organisational leadership
Acronyms
Introduction
Advancing Multicultural Arts: Policies, Problems and Practice
Leading for the Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Shaping the Discourse of Arts in a Multicultural Australia
Creative Leadership: The Agency of the NESB Artist
Challenges of Institutional Leadership: Reluctance in the Australia Council
Organisational Leadership: Expanding the Multicultural Arts Milieu
Epilogue: Towards a Supportive Multicultural Arts Milieu
Appendix A: Participant Biographies
Appendix B: Chronology
Appendix C: Governance
Appendix D: Art + Cultural Difference + Global Collaboration
Appendix E: Cycle of Change
References