Tag: Policy Reform

The Missing Architecture

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 11, 2025

This article examines why leadership programs cannot fix a structurally unsupported arts sector, and argues for a national creative workforce model — certification, standards, pathways, and provenance — as the only sustainable foundation for Australia’s cultural and economic future.

Tags Arts Sector, Australia Creative Policy, Certification, Creative Economy, Creative Industries, Creative Women, creative workforce, CWA, Economic Strategy, Gender Equity, Harris Tweed model, national standards, Policy Reform

The End of Theory-as-Rhetoric

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 10, 2025

This article argues that Australia can no longer treat creative work as a grant-dependent sector. Using the CWA’s four-pillar solution architecture — Innovation, Creativity, Sovereignty, Integral — it reframes creativity as a national workforce requiring certification, standards, and structural recognition to drive economic and cultural innovation.

Tags Arts Sector, Australia Creative Policy, Certification, Creative Economy, Creative Industries, Creative Women, creative workforce, CWA, Economic Strategy, Gender Equity, Harris Tweed model, national standards, Policy Reform, provenance, Workforce Development

Certification Is What Creates a Workforce

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 9, 2025

Australia’s creative sector is stalled not because of funding scarcity, but because no national certification system exists to turn practitioners into a recognised workforce. Using national data, this article explains why certification — not grants — is the foundation of a functioning creative economy, and how the CWA model provides the missing infrastructure.

Tags Arts Sector, Australia Creative Policy, Certification, Creative Economy, Creative Industries, Creative Women, creative workforce, CWA, Economic Strategy, Gender Equity, Harris Tweed model, national standards, Policy Reform, provenance, Workforce Development

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Biology’s Biggest Bill

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 7, 2025

Born female? Prepare to pay the price. From lost wages to unpaid labour, biology handed women the ability to create life — society turned it into a lifelong economic penalty. The numbers don’t lie — but they do demand change

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Field Notes from the Frontlines

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 6, 2025

Women’s stories are more than anecdotes—they’re the frontline data society needs. Discover why lived experience is essential to shaping policy that works.

Tags Creative Women’s Association, Feminist Policy, Lived Experience Research, Policy Reform, Qualitative Evidence, Social Change, Storytelling, Women’s Lived Experience, Women’s Voices

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