Access
People need visible routes into practice and working places.
Skills & transmission
Transmission spans school and community practice, workplaces, advanced practice, succession, endangered-craft monitoring and the conditions needed to keep learning viable.
Learning / practice / succession
R&IResearch + innovation area
Keep capability in active use.
Projects in this area should leave durable capability in Australia: stronger partnerships, specialist skills, infrastructure access, tested methods, prototypes, market routes or standards participation.
Report basisMapping Australia’s Crafts Sector 2026 · Sections 6–7; Recommendations 9–11 and 13.
Advanced responsibility
Practitioners develop through complex work, mentoring and leadership.
Continuity
At-risk skills require successors, equipment, materials and continuing demand.