Creative Workplaces

Our mission

Creative Workplaces was established for artists, art workers and arts organisations to promote and enable fair, safe and respectful workplaces in the arts and culture sector. Creative Workplaces recognises artists as both creatives  and workers. 

The sector is diverse and applying workplace laws to creative workplaces can be difficult. Our goal is to make it easier for everyone in the sector. 

Our work will support the sector to understand their rights and meet their workplace obligations by providing information, resources and referral information about pay, safety and wellbeing. 

To learn more: 

 

Our foundational work

Creative Workplaces online platform 

We are developing an online platform which will be freely available to everyone in the sector. The platform will be a central hub of information and resources relating to pay, safety and wellbeing for the arts and culture sector.

The Creative Workplaces online platform will launch in early 2025.

Fair, Safe & Respectful Framework 

We are developing a practical framework to support workers and organisations of all shapes and sizes to achieve fair, safe and respectful workplaces.

Covering core areas such as harassment, discrimination and bullying, child safeguarding, safety and fair pay, the framework will assist the sector to consistently ensure workplace obligations are met.

In the meantime, we have information about accessing help and support.

Getting it right  

We are an initiative for creatives.

It is vital for us to connect and collaborate with creative communities to make sure our work fits the unique needs and challenges of creative industries.

Find out more and get involved in our consultation.

 

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Who we are

 

About the Council

The role of the Creative Workplaces Council is to inform and support the operation of Creative Workplaces. The Creative Workplaces Council reports to, and works closely with, the governing Board for Creative Australia, which will continue to be known as the Australia Council Board.

The Creative Workplaces Council meets at a minimum 4 times each year and further information about the meetings will be published on this page.

Current Council members 

The Australian Government’s Minister for the Arts announced the inaugural members of the Creative Workplaces Council on  Friday 11 August 2023 and commenced in their roles on Thursday 24 August 2023.

The members of the Creative Workplaces Council are:

Kate Jenkins AO, former Sex Discrimination Commissioner (Chair)

Simon Abrahams, Creative Director & CEO of Melbourne Fringe

Fiona Donovan, Production Designer

Ruth Hazleton, Singer, Musician, and Songwriter

Michel Hryce, Director of People and Culture at Michael Cassel Group

Tina Lavranos, Creative consultant and former Executive Director of DarkLab and Director of People and Culture, MONA Museum

Bjorn Stewart, Actor, Writer, and Director, a Kuku Yalanji/Wemba Wemba man

Our Director

Kate Schaffner, Director

Our co-investors

We are also working closely with state and territory government arts organisations, taking a collaborative national approach to creating fairer and safer creative workplaces.

We thank the following state and territory governments for co-investing in Creative Workplaces.