How do you keep the world’s earliest rising city awake past 9pm?

Artist and policy consultant Rebecca McIntosh, aka Bec Mac, says there’s an answer in creating a nighttime economy that goes beyond drunk teenagers stumbling through the Valley.

And for her vision to come to life, she argues, women must be at the heart of designing safer public spaces.

Bec Mac at Creative Time, an arts organisation, in New York.

You might remember Mac as Labor’s candidate for The Gabba in 2024 . Since then, the vivacious creative has been on a research tour through Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin and Avignon.

As part of her Churchill Fellowship , she’s been investigating the nighttime economy, arts and culture, and impacts on safety and accessibility for women and m

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