Alice Grundy
Alice Grundy is an editor, researcher and teacher, with over 15 years’ experience working in book publishing, and a Visiting Fellow at ANU. She is the Australia Institute’s Press, Managing Editor and Research Manager.
If you win most literary prizes, you pay tax. If you win The Block, you don't. How is this fair?
When Goorie and Koori poet Evelyn Araluen won last week’s $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, along with the $25,000 Indigenous Writing prize, she called on the Australian government to change the way it taxes arts prizes.
Was the Adelaide University merger really worth $185 million in consultants?
The first full academic year for Adelaide University – the product of a merger between the University of Adelaide and University of South Australia – is about to start. The merger cost a total of $500 million with a significant portion of that going to consultants. It was Deloitte that won the contract worth $185 million to manage the merger.
To be clear: if protests didn't work, governments wouldn't try to ban them
Today we will find out the ruling from the NSW Supreme Court on whether the planned protest in Sydney’s CBD against Israeli President Isaac Herzog can go ahead legally.
What is the future of Australia’s embattled writers festivals?
For more than 65 years, book lovers have descended on Adelaide every summer for Australia’s longest running literary festival. That is, until this year, when around 180 invited authors (including me) boycotted Adelaide Writers Week, following the board’s decision to “uninvite” Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. The festival was cancelled.
It's time to rethink speeding fines
The current system is arbitrary, inconsistent and unfair - here's what we could be doing differently.
Every four hours a gun is stolen in Australia: new research
Gun violence has been in Australian headlines regularly in recent months.
5 new Australian publishers are making defiant, weird, grass-roots books
Perentie Press, Pink Shorts Press, Evercreech Editions, Aniko Press and Bakers Lane Books.
The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers
Australia can be a leader in this space, not a follower.
