Business Systems Coordinator – Australian Museum

Business Systems Coordinator • Clerk Grade 5/6 – ($73,882 – $81,520) with remuneration package up to $90,365 per annum • Temporary employment for a period up to 8 months • Based in Sydney CBD The Australian Museum operates within the NSW Department of Trade and Investment. The Museum provides access, engagement and scientific research to […]

Lead Curator – Canterbury

Lead Curator Part-time (0.5 FTE) We have an opening for an energetic and results-driven people motivator with an active and proven research record to join the team at one of Canterbury’s most popular and dynamic attractions for locals and tourists alike. You will be the champion of curators and curatorship within the Museum, leading, managing […]

‘Where’s Abbott’s cultural policy?’

Julian Meyrick, Professor of Strategic Arts at Flinders University, ‘OzCo has a new strategic plan – where’s Abbott’s cultural policy?’ The Conversation, 28 August 2014   As with other emissions of choice opacity – horoscopes, Bible stories, RBA economic forecasts – cultural policy announcements invite construal of their mystical meaning. Nothing is quite as it […]

Science and the Coalition

Mathew Bailes, Swinburne University of Technology, ‘Science and the Coalition: two big policies, one year and no minister’, The Conversation, 28 August 2014   On science and technology, the Abbott government is somewhat of a paradox. On one hand, the government passionately believes that deregulating the university sector is essential. By taking caps off fees […]