Right now, dotted across regional and remote Australia, there are inspiring examples of creative industry partnerships generating transformation in the most challenging of contexts. There are countless examples of the social, environmental, cultural and economic benefits of the creative industries to the nation and its regions.

Regional Arts Australia and the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation have come together to explore new ways to build vibrant and sustainable regional communities. We recognise that out of necessity, both regional and creative industries have learnt how to be resourceful, innovative and adaptive. We believe that by working together more strategically and systemically, we can discover novel ways to support regions through transition towards more thriving futures.

The vehicle for this was the Creative Industries Leadership Action Initiative – a process of convening a series of conversations leading to a national gathering of key regional, rural and remote industry leaders to challenge and test their assumptions with creative industries leaders.