Information on the type of license needed for broadcasting, use in education, events, theatre, online, film, advertising, etc. 
APRA/AMCOS

As Asia is transformed through strong economic growth and rising incomes, AusAID is changing the way it does business.

Asialink

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Provides a statistical overview of culture in Australia. Contains information on a range of topics including employment in culture, time spent on cultural activities, attendances at cultural venues and events, expenditure on culture, and imports and exports of cultural goods and services. Also provides profiles of the cultural sectors, grouped according to the Australian Culture and Leisure Industry Classification.
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Australian Music Industry Network and Association of Artist Managers
Want to take control of your acts’ futures but didn’t quite make the managers development program cut for last year? AMIN and the Association of Artist Managers (AAM) are pleased to announce the release of a series of podcasts recorded during the CONTROL program last November.
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Australian Copyright Council
The internet opens up new opportunities and presents new challenges for creators and users of copyright material. In this book we identify key copyright issues for anyone engaging with the online environment. 
Details and how to purchase online on website.

Australian Taxation Office

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is encouraging people in the community to take care when claiming tax deductions for gifts or donations made to organisations.    read more...

Is music your forte? How about history? Australian culture? The National Library of Australia is giving you a way to appreciate all three. Forte presents the Library’s collection of digitised sheet music, more than 13,000 individual items - your very own browsable, portable and practical music book.

National Library Website.

Community Run

This petition of citizens of NSW brings to the attention of the NSW Legislative Assembly the urgent need for maintaining funding for accessible art education in TAFE. The cultural sector is an economic force, contributing over $30 billion to Australia each year – the arts not only create jobs but also create communities that are more vibrant, cohesive, healthy and innovative. TAFE in NSW puts the ability to make art in the hands of people, without regard to their age, wealth or background. TAFE provides hands on training that develops the skills necessary for artists to succeed. TAFE art students go on to work in many art roles across other industries – in museums and galleries, in community health and local government, in entertainment and hospitality industries. Many of them set up small businesses teaching, producing and selling their art. We undersigned petitioners therefore call on the Legislative Assembly, the NSW Premier, the Minister for Education and the Minister for Arts to recognise the value of TAFE arts education to NSW and to ensure it continues to be funded at viable levels that makes it accessible to all.
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The Greens
Australia

Arts and culture are vital to our social wellbeing and economy.  Supporting, promoting and protecting Australian artists and their work.
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Jennifer Craik - Australian National University
Published 2007

In this monograph, Jennifer Craik undertakes a critical and historical analysis of the main imperatives of arts and cultural policy in Australia. With forensic skill she examines the financial and policy instruments commonly relied upon in this much contested and diverse area of public policy. Craik uses her analysis of past and current policy responses as a platform for articulating future options. This is a valuable work for cultural professionals and administrators, art historians and, indeed, anyone with an abiding interest in the management of the nation’s cultural estate.
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The National Cultural Policy will set the framework for Australian Government support for arts, culture and creativity for the next ten years, providing Australia with a common strategic direction and rationale for current and future investment.

National Cultural Policy

This Website "www.musicresearch.in" is devoted to the area of Research in Music. It is divided into two sections, Research and Documentation.  (Based in India)
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University of NSW
Research in music science at UNSW involves physicists, engineers and musicians working in collaboration. This page give a brief overiew of some of the projects. For more detail about particular areas, we usually give links, or you can use the navigation bar at left, or the site map.
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The value of arts and culture to this city has long been recognised. Our community’s aspiration for a cultural and creative city was affirmed as one of the ten strategic directions of Sustainable Sydney 2030, an aspiration that gave voice to our community’s love of the arts, its relevance in our daily lives and the desire for creativity to be celebrated and better integrated into the way we live.  Read More.

Participate in the development of a three-year 'Arts for all Queenslanders Strategy'. The strategy will identify priorities and actions to:

• Grow the arts sector, and
• Foster a community of arts.

The strategy will be developed in three stages:

1. February to March 2013 - Starting the Discussion
2. April  to  August 2013 -  Draft strategy release and statewide consultation
3. September to December 2013 – Final strategy developed for release and delivery commencing 2014

Full details on website.

Research by Melbourne Business School into the arts sector - asks how we might unlock the potential of the arts?
Download article by clicking here.

That, under section 33 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003, an inquiry into the extent, benefits and potential of music education in Victorian schools be referred to the Education and Training Committee for consideration and report no later than 30 September 2013,

Victorian Parliament

"Sounds of the Soul - Lian Husi Klamar", by Ros Dunlop is now available.  Written for Timorese and English riders, the publication includes CD and DVD.  This book will appeal to those interested in the traditional culture of Timor, particularly its music and the visual splendour of the country.  Available online through Tekeemedia or Amazon, or a selected independent booksellers.
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The Music in Communities Network’s research agenda includes filling some statistical gaps in our understanding of the community music sector. The first in a series of surveys focuses on community orchestras. The results paint a picture of a diverse and creative sector embracing all age groups and playing a wide range of music.

Read it online at the Music in Communities Network website

Queensland Conservatrium,
Griffiths University

The Smart Music Research Group is an international collaboration of music researchers applying theories of music perception to algorithmic composition.
Our research aims both to improve perceptual theories and to provide new techniques for algorithmic composition.
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The annual report is a report on the operations of the Australia Council for the 2010-11 financial year.

Australia Council for the Arts

University of NSW, Australia
Research in music science at UNSW involves physicists, engineers and musicians working in collaboration. This website give a brief overiew of some of the projects.
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Music Research is recognized as the first full-service marketing research organization devoted exclusively to the study of popular music and consumers. From 1974 through 2004, Music Research has continuously conducted consumer-based Record TestSM surveys from its home base in the cultural "melting pot" of Southern California.
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Ministerial statement to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee - Improvements to Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
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Arts Law is the national community legal centre for the arts. Arts Law provides legal advice and information on a wide range of legal and business matters for musicians

Senior managers can apply practical insights from neuroscience to make themselves—and their teams—more creative.

Source: McKinsey Quarterly

The Arts in Psychotherapy publishes 5 issues per annum, and is an international journal for professionals in the fields of mental health and education. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles (including illustrations) by art, dance/movement, drama, music, and poetry psychotherapists, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists

WEBSITE

Organisation: The Australian Council for International Development

A decision of the High Court of Australia today reflects a contemporary understanding of charitable work, says the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the peak body for Australian aid and development NGOs.

Organisation: Freemuse

When you deal with visa issuing offices and embassies it may sometimes be useful to refer to various points set out in international conventions and recommendations.

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Organisation: Music Council of Australia

The submission lays out the basic argument from the cultural sector for the exclusion of culture from free trade agreements.

Organisation: Music Council of Australia

This review is focused on identifying specific areas of Australian Government regulation that are unnecessarily burdensome, complex or redundant or duplicate regulations or the role of regulatory bodies including those in other jurisdictions.