• Additional funding should be allocated to facilitate such collaboration and continue to enhance the impact of creative • Demonstrating that action research is already accrued by the arts projects with CALD communities in Western Sydney, with community itself and community arts workers through their the ultimate aim of producing benefits for the broader work in the field and at the grassroots. [...] It would be connecting the data points that we have to demonstrate the value of our work, the methodology of our work, the impact we're having and the characteristics of our impact; and really importantly, also in the right form for our audience. [...] It provides the metropolitan, the national, and the international contexts.’ ‘It would be useful to map who is where, what they want and what's available in their area, and then find the gaps and work with the community to fill them. [...] In the context of working with diverse communities, research can assist practitioners to build connections within and between communities, and to elucidate the dierent realities and experiences of the diverse communities across Greater Western Sydney present in the area. [...] When it comes to local councils, it is down to really being able to understand the needs of what's going on; and to the ability to reconcile that conflict between what the current focus of the council is around arts and culture versus what is actually wanted by the community.’ ‘There are many interesting aspects at play: the dierence between communities, the dierent understanding of government and.
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