Just What Is The New Australia Council?

The Australia Council is undergoing a makeover. So what do the reforms amount to? It calls for turning artform “managers” into artform “directors” who will “work towards increasing efficiencies in grant management through more effective systems and grant management processes and through centralising administrative task” (sic). And on it goes, bullet-point by bullet-point. No wonder that a separate idiot sheet, providing council members with prepared answers, rightly predicted they might face the curly question: “So what’s the plan actually for?”