'Setting us up to fail': funding uncertainty brings arts companies to a crisis point

A quarter of Australia’s small cultural organisations will lose their federal money in new Australia Council allocations

This month the Monash University Museum of Art is launching a book on Australia’s small art galleries. The book is entitled Permanent Recession – a pun on the seemingly endless downturn in conditions for independent galleries.

It can sometimes seem as though the arts are always in crisis – but that’s the word arts leaders are using again this week, as hundreds of smaller companies submit applications for funding to the Australia Council.

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