Cultural Development versus Creative Industries The retheorisation of contemporary cultural policy under the rubrics of cultural development and creative industries involves a complex set of thorny issues, and has generated much discussion over the past couple of years. Culture: Development, Industry, Distribution, the latest issue of leading international journal Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy (issue 102, February 2002), explores the issues which have emerged in this field, and sheds light on them from a range of perspectives. In commissioning pieces for this issue, editors Lisanne Gibson and Tom O'Regan were concerned to explore the continuities and differences between cultural development and creative industries rationales for government's relations with culture. They see securing a productive conjunction between these models as the central problem facing the contemporary government of culture. Contributors include Stuart Cunningham, Ben Goldsmith, Andrew McNamara, Ron Callus and Mark Cole and Shane Homan. Culture: Development, Industry, Distribution is the current issue of Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, which deals with contemporary issues in media and cultural policy. It is published quarterly by the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy. Culture: Development, Industry, Distribution can be purchased as a single issue ($30.80+ p&h) by completing our order form at www.gu.edu.au/centre/cmp/MIACP102.html Annual subscriptions are also available, see all details and subscription form at www.gu.edu.au/centre/cmp/subscription_info.html

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