Publishers can’t just be commentators in these times, they need to be advocates as well
Time Out Australia Managing Director Michael Rodrigues recently won Mumbrella Publish Awards for Publish Leader of the Year and Publishing Company of the Year, but his activities have gone well beyond the usual remit for a traditional “publisher”.
In 2014, in response to the deaths of two young men in Kings Cross, the NSW Government implemented a suite of measures that included no entry to venues after 1.30am, ID scanning and cessation of alcohol service at 3am.
Although enacted with the best intentions, “lockout” as it would come to be known – like weed killer sprayed indiscriminately in a garden – wreaked havoc on our city’s creative flora, impacting not only our bars and clubs and restaurants but our cultural and artistic institutions. We dimmed the lights. We made it terribly hard for our creatives to stay. We put Sydney’s beating heart on life support.
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