Tasman Bridge Disaster Sculpture

Local artists Kelly Eijdenberg and Travis Tiddy of creative agency Poco People were commissioned by the Clarence City Council to commemorate the changes to Hobart’s eastern shore brought about by the 1975 Tasman Bridge disaster.

Port Arthur named nation’s No 1 attraction

Along with my hard-working colleagues, I am very proud that the Port Arthur Historic Site took out two major awards at the recent Qantas Australian Tourism Awards. As well as being named Australia’s best Major Tourism Attraction, Port Arthur took the award for Heritage and Cultural Tourism. You can read more about it in this…

Valuing culture

In an interesting article in The Australian Julian Meyrick asks some searching questions about this very questioning, and explores some metrics around measuring the value of the arts, festivals, museums and culture in general.