Published: May 10, 2021
In considering how to properly support the arts, public broadcasting, universities and First Nations Australians, we decide who we are as a country
Big thinking has been unfashionable for too long. Over the past decade, successive Australian leaders have overseen cuts to universities, the arts and public broadcasting. There has also been a rejection of First Nations attempts to wrestle back dignity and create lasting change for the whole country.
When former arts minister George Brandis cut the Australia Council budget by $100m in 2015, no one could predict the whopping 65 arts companies and 70% of grants to individual artists that would be lost.
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