Progress
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.
Belinda Carlisle: ‘We’ve gone backwards – and the industry is still run by men’
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Belinda Carlisle.
It’s 2020 — where do we stand?
The music industry hasn’t been exempt from the insidious nature of gender inequality. There are women smashing the glass ceiling every damn day of the year, but International Women’s Day is our chance to celebrate how far we’ve come in the fight for gender equality, and reflect on how much further we still need to go.
50 composers to ‘renew Australian repertoire’ in major new commissioning project
Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s multimillion-dollar fund will inject genre-spanning music by diverse creators into a landscape crowded by international work.