Tag: heritage skills Australia

Craftsmanship – what Australia still has to protect.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date June 24, 2026

On 17 October 2003, UNESCO adopted the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by overwhelming majority, naming traditional craftsmanship alongside language and ritual as a category of heritage requiring legal protection. One hundred and eighty states have since ratified. Australia has not. CWA has built the infrastructure ratification would require — twenty-three years after the world said yes.

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The story of Provenance

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date June 17, 2026

A 50-pence pot with a maker’s mark. A family of twelve learning the story of jewellery their great-great-grandmother once wore. Provenance is not a commercial instrument. It is the technology humans have always used to carry a story across time. The Southern Cross Mark and the Geographical Indications Directory for Crafts, Industrial Products, and Cultural Works are the infrastructure that keeps Australian stories alive.

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2.4 Million Australian Women Are Making Things

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date May 18, 2026

2.4 million Australian women participate in craft activities — the most popular cultural activity in the country. 95,000 earn some income from it. The average is $12,330 a year. Artists’ incomes haven’t moved in forty years. The ABS has been counting these women for years. The system has not yet decided to count them as workers. Here is what the data actually shows — and what infrastructure would change it.

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