The MCA Music in Australia Knowledge Base is funded in part with a generous grant from the Music Board of the Australia Council for the Arts, the Commonwealth Government’s arts funding and advisory body.

The editor gratefully acknowledges Julie Stott’s continuing technical guidance, especially during the formative stages of the knowledge base, always prepared to answer his questions as a friend. As a website designer, Julie specialises in ‘creating affordable masterpieces’ for the web through her company Clicknetoz.

The genesis of the knowledge base was a previous conventional statistical database on the MCA website, and a 2005 report for the Cultural Ministers Council on a statistical framework for the music sector, written by cultural and ecological economist Hans Hoegh-Guldberg of Economic Strategies Pty Ltd, and MCA’s executive director Richard Letts.

Hans manages and edits the knowledge base and welcomes comments either by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or using the facilities below. He presented the idea of a knowledge base at the MCA Assembly in Brisbane in September 2005. We acknowledge the interest and ideas of a large majority of councillors, continuing to this day.

Following the publication of the knowledge base as a link from the MCA website in July 2006, we obtained general agreement and support at the MCA Assembly in Perth in September of that year. This support was reinforced at the Sydney MCA assembly in September 2007.

Special thanks are due to Helen Lancaster and the Australian Music Centre for the use of the 2004 survey of post-secondary music education reported in the statistical paper on that subject.

The authors of all contributions, written as an extra chore in busy schedules, are gratefully acknowledged. Prospective contributors are asked to refer to “Guidelines for contributors” (click sidebar entry to the right).

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