Professor Cat Hope has been announced as the presenter of this year’s Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address. Hope, a composer, performer, songwriter, noise artist and researcher, was awarded the APRA | AMC Award for Excellence in Experimental Music in 2011 and 2014 and is Head of the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at Monash University. Her new opera Speechless, a personal response to the 2014 Human Rights Commission report, will have its world premiere at next year’s Perth Festival.

Hope’s address is titled All Music For Everyone: Working Towards Gender Equality and Empowerment in Australian Music Culture. “Recent data overwhelmingly points to inherent problems in the Australian music industry, demonstrating that women and non-binary individuals do not experience the same access to opportunities as men working as music creators,” a media release from the New Music Network Australia said. “The same data also tells us that many practitioners do not believe such problems exist, despite evidence to the contrary.”

Hope’s address will examine the current situation for music creators “by bringing together some current debates and proposing appropriate actions to improve inclusion and opportunity for all people.”

“I think discussion...