Julie Kerr has founded Music Love, an online platform to showcase women across all branches of the Australian music industry.

Historically, the music industry has been very male dominated. Sydney-based composer and musician Julie Kerr sees no reason why that should be the case, given the vast amount of female talent in Australia, so she has formed Music Love, an online platform designed to showcase that talent to new audiences. The site features music, curated playlists, editorial and podcasts by female artists and musicians working across musical genres: classical, opera, electronic, jazz, folk, musical theatre and indie pop. It also tells the stories of dynamic female producers, engineers, managers, label heads, coaches and publicists.

^{Julie Kerr. Photo by Alex Carlyle Photography}

So far, articles include a long, lively interview with opera mezzo-soprano Jacqueline Dark, a feature about Siobhan McGinnity, who founded Musicians 4 Hearing and is helping children with hearing loss in Cambodia, and an interview with Australian engineer Catherine Marks conducted by UK singer/songwriter Laura Marling, among others.

Music Love follows the formation of Women in Theatre & Screen (WITS), established to raise awareness of gender disparity in the Australian...