Since the early 1990s, the South Australian Government has considered the arts sector an industry, one whose role is to contribute to the state economy, with somewhat less regard for ‘the essential nature of arts and cultural activities or of their broader social role’. In recent decades, several studies and sector-wide consultations have been conducted to address the role of the arts and culture in the state’s development. Unfortunately, as Jo Caust describes, these initiatives ‘did not necessarily translate into promoting arts practice or arts development’. Instead, since the 1990s, the South Australian policy-makers decided that Adelaide would be positioned both publicly and politically as a ‘cultural destination’ rather than ‘a cultural producer’. The state’s funding arrangements and c

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