A Cultural Unit For Launceston
SUMMARY
There is a perception that the proposed 'cultural unit' is intended to be a part of Launceston Council's operational structure. Likewise, that perception is underpinned by a notion that there is no imperative on the part of Council's operational wing to actively engage with, take advice from or initiate collaborative/cooperative concept development with the 'cultural communities' that are the subject of the proposed unit's work – albeit that this is ambiguous currently.
As a 'cost centre' the unit is bound to be a drain at some level on Council's recurrent budget. The extent to which it may be is open to speculation but it is clear that Launceston's aldermen have not actively considered the fiscal implications of putting such a unit in place – at least not yet. This being the case the unit's future must be regarded as being 'politically vulnerable'.
Given that there has been no clear and unambiguous 'purpose' for the proposed unit set out so far it follows that the proposal is unsupported by a set of objectives. Likewise, the rationales in support of the initiative are unclear and far from being anything that might be considered 'unambiguous'.
That this is the outcome of a consultancy it is hard to imagine that the city's aldermen have serious interrogated the proposal and the veracity of the apparent assumptions informing the imitative. In fact, allowing this proposal to proceed to its current stage of development without serious investigation around the table in open Council raises a series of uncomfortable questions – question that deserve further consideration. ... CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
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