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Where Australia’s Arts funding goes

November 6th, 2009 View Comments

I’m basically just posting this here so i can link to it from this discussion over at Larvatus Prodeo. But it’s a reminder though that I’m involved in many debates and discussions about arts funding and policy priorities in Australia at the moment (most recently here and here) and too easily forget that most people [...]

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Niche cultures: Or why Opera is like Comic Books

September 15th, 2009 View Comments

From The Arrival by Shaun Tan CALL them subcultures, genres, specialities or whatever, but culturally we are fast becoming a society of cross-pollinating subspecies. Australia has vibrant pockets of passion for everything from Korean film, contemporary theatre, comic books, hacker culture, art deco architecture, indigenous painting, poetry, hip-hop, opera and jazz. At face value, they [...]

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