Tag: Cultural provenance

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Australia Is Not a State Party to the UNESCO Safeguarding Convention

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 13, 2026

Australia is not a State Party to the UNESCO 2003 Convention, meaning there is no national safeguarding system for living cultural heritage. What this means for women’s cultural work, skills transmission, and workforce recognition.

Tags Creative Women’s Association, Cultural governance, Cultural policy Australia, Cultural provenance, Cultural Workforce Infrastructure, Intangible Cultural Heritage, living heritage, Safeguarding Systems, skills transmission, UNESCO 2003 Convention, women’s work, Workforce Registry

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Skills Are the Supply Chain

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 5, 2026

Australia’s manufacturing future depends on skills transfer, certification, and workforce continuity. New findings from the Australian Fashion Council show why safeguarding skills is central to sovereign capability — and why workforce infrastructure is the missing link.

Tags Common Wealth Authority, Creative Women’s Association, Cultural governance, Cultural Labour, Cultural policy Australia, Cultural provenance, Cultural safeguarding, Heritage protection, Intangible Cultural Heritage

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Why We Call It “Value Added”

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date February 4, 2026

Value is not something added after the work is done — it is created through labour, skill, and cultural practice at the source. As economies become more abstract and debt-driven, reconnecting value to craft, community, and tangible work is not nostalgia, but economic resilience.

Tags Common Wealth Authority, Creative Women’s Association, Cultural governance, Cultural Labour, Cultural policy Australia, Cultural provenance, Cultural safeguarding, Heritage protection, Intangible Cultural Heritage, International law, Provenance Certification

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Australia Signed the Treaty.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date January 30, 2026

JAustralia ratified the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage — but never built the systems required to uphold it. This article explains what a treaty obligation actually is, why Australia remains absent from UNESCO heritage lists, and how the Creative Women’s Association is establishing the missing cultural safeguarding infrastructure.

Tags Common Wealth Authority, Creative Women’s Association, Cultural governance, Cultural Labour, Cultural policy Australia, Cultural provenance, Cultural safeguarding, Heritage protection, Intangible Cultural Heritage, International law, Provenance Certification, skills transmission, Treaty obligation, UNESCO Convention 2003, Workforce Infrastructure