Tina Broad has more than 30 years in the contemporary music industry as a performer, manager, educator, advisor and advocate. She ran a music advocacy project in Australia from 2004-2012 including the Music: Count Us In school music education initiative, winning the 2011 International Music Council Global Music Rights Award for that work. She currently works with Australia’s performing rights organisation, APRA AMCOS, on a music mentoring program for secondary schools, SongMakers. She is researching contingent work in the gig economy through the learning and career experiences of Australia’s new backroom songwriters and music producers, as a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania. She runs singing workshops around the world and leads a community choir of more than 80 singers, on Yuin country, in her NSW South Coast hometown.
Reset: A New Public Agenda for the Arts offered two days and nights of thinking and discussion about how the arts and cultural sector could work to break out of the current impasse through a radical reorganisation of cultural practice and policy.