Peter Sellars has been hired to run the 2002 Adelaide Festival. But instead of bringing the best international artists to town (as Australian festivals are famous for doing) he’s taking the homegrown route. We need to build the country’s “cultural infrastructure,” he declares. “It is time that poets and musicians, filmmakers and architects and chefs were around the table together. If we are asking the society itself to get better at reconciliation, shouldn’t we artists – the most notoriously bickering and biting group on Earth – make some attempt to clean our own little house?” – Sydney Morning Herald