Ben Eltham is a national affairs correspondent for New Matilda, an industry columnist for artsHub and crikey, a research Fellow at the centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention (Deakin University) and a Fellow at the centre for Policy Development.
While they may never get a gig on the main stage, there’s no doubt that in the arts, our public servants and politicians have become adept practitioners of a certain type of theatre of power.
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Have Paul Yore and the Linden centre become unwitting targets in a new outbreak of Australia’s culture wars? For many on the political right in Australia, public funding for the arts is a hot issue.
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