Creative Business Wrap – September 2026
October 5, 2026 | Business Wrap
Spring has sprung, and with it comes that familiar urge to throw open the windows and clear out the clutter. Out with the old, in with the new, or so …
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Creative Business Wrap – August 2026
August 28, 2026 | Business Wrap
Have you had to hustle recently? Are you hustling right now? The word “hustle” is used as shorthand for something entrepreneurs have to do. Sometimes a badge of honour, sometimes …
Creative Business Wrap – July 2026
July always feels like there’s a new mountain to climb. One financial year has ended and another looms, waiting to be fed with work and projects and clients and… well, …
Payday super for Music Festivals
Recently I was asked about how a not-for-profit music festival might transition to the new payday super rules. Although the requirement to pay super to musicians (and other creative professionals) …
Creative Business Wrap – June 2026
July 6, 2026 | Business Wrap
A happy June to all and sundry! It’s the end of financial year for many, so before I jump into the usual handful of interesting creative business snippets from around …
Creative Business Wrap – May 2026
If you could go back to the start, when you were just beginning your creative business or even your creative practice, what advice would you give yourself? Do this. Don’t …
Why Regional Arts Organisations Matter
June 22, 2026 | big ideas
WHY REGIONAL ARTS ORGANISATIONS MATTER A speech delivered at South Coast Arts AGM, 10 June 2026 Thank you for tonight. This is by far the best AGM I’ve ever …
Creative Business Wrap – April 2026
May 19, 2026 | Business Wrap
Happy April, and welcome to our Creative Business Wrap. Lots to get through this month, including the struggles of creative R&D, the true cost of global tariffs on the design industry, and …
Creative Business Wrap – March 2026
April 10, 2026 | Business Wrap
Welcome to the March Creative Business Wrap. This month: entry fees for museums, the barriers holding back working-class creatives, the ongoing battle between human artistry and AI, and award-winning research on innovation. But first… …
Creative Business Wrap – February 2026
March 3, 2026 | Business Wrap
Welcome to February’s Creative Business Wrap. For those of you in Sydney and further north, I hope this humidity isn’t getting you down. Regular ocean dips are helping me navigate …
Creative Business Wrap – January 2026
As a new year begins, many of us find ourselves in a “strange pause”. The impressively named Saul Betmead de Chasteigner says that most of us handle this pause by …
Creative Business Wrap – December 2025
I wondered whether to send out this newsletter this month. Events in Bondi over the weekend have cast a long shadow. When terrible things happen, everything we fill our days …
Creative Business Wrap – November 2025
Much to talk about this month, from AI changing how music is made, why women and under-35s are quitting the arts, current trends in architecture and design and even a …
Creative Business Wrap – October 2025
November 6, 2025 | Business Wrap
A happy October to you all, and a slightly different Wrap this month as I take a look at two major industry events in Sydney: the Art of Tax Reform summit and SXSW …
Creative Business Wrap – September 2025
Spring: sunshine, flowers… tax reform? September isn’t usually the time to be talking tax, but the Art of Tax Reform summit, convened by the NSW government, is happening later this month. I …
Creative Business Wrap – August 2025
How many mistakes have you made this month? I was thinking about this when a friend rang me to ask for my advice on what to do after a fairly …