Sports policy focuses on the grassroots – is this missing from arts policies?

In this article for The Conversation, Margaret Sears AO, Emeritus Professor and Senior Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia, argues that mapping community participation in the arts, gleaning concrete data to draw back into arts policy setting, can deliver the kinds of funding and political benefits long enjoyed by the sport sector in Australia. 
​The Conversation article may be accessed here.