Creative Australia

Yep.

And over the three years of development, we've had funding from Creative Australia, from Creative Victoria, from Hobson's Bay Council, from Maribyrnong Council.

Yes.

Did I miss

And in terms of, yeah, I worked really hard on the writing.

The writing was something that Yeah, like I was fortunate because during COVID I took up a lamplight residency at Veruna and that was, you know, really, really fantastic and I'd received some Australia Council money and, you know, so I knew that the work...

I'd received some literary grants, not just grants for a historical project but actual literary grants and it meant a lot to me and it meant a lot to be able to kind of... write the book and then go through all of the comprehensive, like, editing process and all of those things and refine it and sharpen it and get over my own fear of perfectionism and all of those kinds of things, get over myself.

But, yeah, to just kind of let the story...

These are just kind of from the notes that I've jotted down.

Um, uh, but David Stewart from Creative Australia had a session talking about strategy evaluation, um, and talking about, you know, there's a real gap and opportunity there about what it means to sort of be evaluating strategy and what does that mean when a strategy is kind of the evaluand, um, as distinct from, say, programs.

Um, and yes, admittedly, I had to duck out early, so I, I will try to pin him down, um, to maybe speak a little bit about what he came up with.

But I think this idea of, you know, evaluands at different levels and what does that mean for the way in which we approach the evaluand, um, or the evaluation, I should say, of that evaluand and those different levels, it's kind of an interesting question.

Come on.

The Jewish women of Australia Council are saying this.

Saying sorry for how people interpreted her words is not an apology and that the original comments had real-life consequences.

Her original comments, by the way, prompted 145 complaints to the ABC ombudsman.

I had my daughter.

My daughter's only one years old, and I was thinking, but I wrote an Australia Council grant and got myself a two-day-a-week job at the emergency department as their artist-in-residence.

The whole idea behind that was a community consultation, human-led design, and just thinking about how we could create interventions in the emergency department, creative interventions, that would improve the experience of the emergency department for people.

Because I think at the time, the staff felt just the way the public health works and just the situations that they just felt like they're the level of care that people were experiencing wasn't the level of care.

Sammy Edmund with the latest news.

And we'll hear from Creative Australia CEO Todd Greenberg as well when the BBL privatisation announcement is made a little bit later on.

So I'll bring you the latest there.

But I was just talking to Gerard Waitley as well.

And what I learned through Lizzie Humber and in creating that Matressence Festival, first we did one in the UK and we had some funding from the Arts Council of England over there.

Then I did one in Melbourne last year, sold out too with Creative Australia.

And at both of those events, I learned deeply that when mothers are regulated and looked after, when they're spoken to as full complex human beings, when they're given full permission to be themselves and their kids are as well at the same time, The kids are automatically regulated.

We had 80 kids and we had a lot of women coming to us saying, I thought this was going to be like an academic kind of conference.

But you do need to report that to the ATO.

If you don't, they'll give you a call and say, hey, where's that $30,000 that you got from Creative Australia or something like that? And then prizes.

This is tricky.

Technically, a windfall, so if you win the lottery, that is not accessible.