Re: Glenaladale Fingerboards Critical Mineral Sands Mining Project East Gippsland: To: Planning Impact Assessment Unit, Department of Environment, Planning and Resources Response to Draft Environmental Effects Statement Scoping Requirements By Jo Moulton: Creative Industry and Cultural Heritage Advocate/Publisher Native Orchid Celeana (Flying Duck Orchid). Photo by Michael Prideaux Introduction My name is Jo Moulton. I grew up in Bairnsdale, associated closely with Lindenow

“The role of creative skills in the evolution of our future economy needs to become mainstream knowledge. Creative skills are some of the least likely to be supplanted by automation and they have been integral to fast-growing industries over the last decade.” Stuart Cunningham, Professor, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Canberra. Sanctuary E.G. Inc. co-design lab is advocating for a regional mind-shift, one that recognizes the potential of the Creative Industry to pl

Two Men Lifting a Cow by Irish Australian Artist John Kelly Oil on Canvas 1995. It is nearly thirty years since former Prime Minister, Paul Keating, launched his Creative Nation policy, the first to define a national identity inclusive of First Nation’s culture and multi-cultural diversity. It reshaped and broadened 'The Arts' into a Creative and Cultural Industry that contributes to GDP and value-adds to tourism, education, manufacturing, media, trade and community health a