Culture in Australia offers an incisive and up-to-date examination of the forces that are reshaping Australian cultural priorities, policies and practices at the start of the twenty-first century. It draws on the work of some of Australia's leading cultural analysts.

Part I. Policy and Industry Contexts: Introduction; 1. Knowing the processes but not the outcomes: Australian cinema faces the millennium Tom O'Regan; 2. Globalisation, regionalism and Australianisation in music: lessons from the parallel importing debate David Rowe; 3. Reshaping Australian art institutions Terry Smith; 4. Tourism: leisure, culture, industry Jennifer Craik; 5. Coombs: cultural policies and continuities Tim Rowse; Part II. Australian Culture and its Publics: Introduction; 6. The writing public: literature and the commercial spirit David Carter and Kay Ferres; 7. Reshaping public institutions: popular culture, the market and the public sphere Graeme Turner; 8. Public service broadcasting: multiple publics, values and the popular Gay Hawkins; 9. Men, women, class and culture Tony Bennett, Michael Emmison and John Frow; 10. Lost horizons: searching for youth culture in the postmodern public sphere Catharine Lumby; 11. Gender and the governmentalisation of Australian amateur sport Jim McKay, Geoffrey Lawrence, Toby Miller and David Rowe; Part III. Programs of Cultural Diversity: Introduction; 12. Multiculturalism: contested agendas James Jupp; 13. 'Race' portraits and vernacular possibilities: pluralism, heritage and cultural institutions Chris Healy; 14. Indigenous presences and national narratives in Australian museums Nicholas Thomas; 15. Electronic networking: indigenous media and communications in Australia Helen Molnar; 16. Regional cultures Robin Trotter.