Resource Links

Advocacy Resources

  • A New Approach
    Australia's leading arts and culture think tank, A New Approach has lots of fantastic analysis papers and fact sheets.

TNA Advocacy Toolkit

Advocacy is an amazing tool for creating positive change and outcomes, and a way to make best use of our democratic institutions. However, it's often difficult to know where to start, what's possible, and what works best. TNA's Advocacy Toolkit starts at the very beginning, aims to empower you as artists and arts workers, and gives you the tools to be effective advocates, both for yourselves and for the arts sector as a whole.

Check our TNA’s Advocacy Toolkit

Access & Equity Resources

  • Creative Equity Toolkit
     Links to hundreds of practical resources, inspiring case studies and important research on increasing diversity in the arts.

  • Diversity Arts Australia Resources
    Resources from Diversity Arts Australia, including an Equity and Inclusion checklist.

  • Arts Access Australia Resources
    Resources from Arts Access Australia, including accessible marketing, best practice inclusivity principles, letters of support guidelines, disability language, inclusive employment, and how to get your work online and accessible to a wide audience.

  • Arts Access Victoria Resources
    Resources from Arts Access Victoria.

  • Arts Access Victoria Training
    AAV currently have training offerings in conversations which explore our perceptions about disability, Cultural Safety in a Disability Context Masterclass, creating welcoming environments, Addressing Ableism in the Workplace: Recruiting and retaining Deaf and Disabled Staff, and Accessible Arts Practice.

  • Arts Access Victoria Consultation
    Provides assistance with making sure events are accessible, rating your current access and inclusion measures for Deaf and Disabled people, creating long-term change and developing a Disability Action Plan, customised advice, etc.

  • Hue Workshops
    Includes: 101: Understanding Race & Racism, Deconstructing Whiteness, Allyship in Your Workplace, Inclusive Feminist Spaces, Community Organising, Navigating Whiteness in the Workplace, and Board & Senior Leadership Antiracism Series.

Fees, Rates and Working Conditions

  • National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA): Code of Practice
    Covers good practice approaches to working relationships, ethical standards of access and inclusion, and payment rates for artists and arts workers in the contemporary arts sector.

  • TNA: Salary Survey Reports
    TNA’s biennial Salary Survey Reports capture the salaries, benefits, professional development budgets, tenure, and representation of small to medium organisations in the performing arts sector.

  • TNA: Independent Practice Reports
    TNA's biennial report on the working trends of independent creatives in the performing arts covers fees for benchmarking purposes, and includes TNA's recommendations on best practice around access and superannuation.

  • Auspicious Arts: Resources
    Includes budget templates, insurance and risk plans, and invoice templates.

  • ATO: Super for Contractors
    Super rate is 11%, and has to be paid regardless of amount of earnings. Contractors with an ABN, including independent artists/arts workers, are entitled to super if paid mainly for their labour.

  • Contracts in Circus Guide Sheet
    Created by TNA in partnership with Arts Law Centre Australia, this guide sheet provides helpful tips and explanations for navigating contracts as an independent circus artist - including plenty of info that is relevant to indies across other performance disciplines too.

TNA: Salary Survey Reports

TNA’s biennial Salary Survey Reports capture the salaries, benefits, professional development budgets, tenure, and representation of small to medium organisations in the performing arts sector.

Download the latest Salary Survey Report

TNA: Independent Practice Reports

TNA's biennial report on the working trends of independent creatives in the performing arts covers fees for benchmarking purposes, and includes TNA's recommendations on best practice around access and superannuation.

Download the latest Independent Practice Report

Governance Resources

Insurance

Sustainability Resources

  • Bilya
    A relational map of people, projects, and organisations engaging with the climate emergency.

  • A Climate For Art
    A growing union of arts organisations and workers committed to responding to the climate crisis through tangible action.

  • Green Art Lab Alliance
    A network of art organisations contributing to environmental sustainability through their creative practice.

  • Green Touring
    A range of tools and resources on sustainable arts touring.

  • Creative Carbon Scotland
    An organisation aiming to embed environmental sustainability within the arts and cultural sector in Scotland.

  • Next Mobility Research Book
    A research project on new international mobility and circulation in the post-pandemic era.

  • Market Forces
    Exposes the institutions that are financing environmentally destructive projects and helps Australians hold these institutions accountable.

  • Julie's Bicycle
    A pioneering not-for-profit, mobilising the arts and culture to take action on the climate and ecological crisis.