FW: Cultural Strategy - discussion paper

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From: Ray Norman
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:08:19 +1000
To: Richard Mulvaney
Subject: Re: Cultural Strategy - discussion paper

Hi!

Well as you might expect, I see considerable shortfalls and failures in what appears to be the ‘strategy’ in play here. That any of this might be imagined as ‘confidential’ OR ‘commercial-in-confidence’ approaches the outrageous! It is ridiculous to say the very least.  Imagining that the ‘expertise’ (the cultural expertise) exists anywhere other that within the communities that gives it expression is arrogant to a point almost beyond belief.

You are just the messenger here I’m sure. Nonetheless, the proponents it seems are exiting ‘stage-right’ in a pall of smoke with mirrors flashing. Moreover the ‘trustees’ it seems cannot trust their constituency with anything resembling their own assessment of Launceston’s cultural realities. Curiously, the issue of accountability springs to mind given that the ‘trustees’ are an aspect  of Launceston’s cultural realties, not separate to it nor indeed in control of its expression(s) despite everything.

Compounding the problem here is the fact that the consultant's brief seems also to be a secret further compounding the process’s opacity. What is there to hide? And compounding all this even more is the ‘word around the traps’ being that the Mayor intends “get rid of” the Museums Governance Advisory Board ASAP thus eliminating, it would appear, whatever formal independent ‘advice’ that Council/Trustees might have available to it.

On top of all this there is the extraordinary length of time this whole business has been dragged out over with all it attendant obfuscation. Given that I’m imagining that the QVMAG’s Community of Ownership & Interest are somehow involved in all this, and given that  about 30K of them are conscripted funders of the institution, if they feel they are being held in contempt that’d be entirely understandable – reasonable even.

I look forward to receiving any further information that you might be able to offer.

Regards,

Ray

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On 10/05/2017 12:29 pm, "Richard Mulvaney" <Richard.Mulvaney@launceston.tas.gov.au> wrote: