Remember the arts? Departments and budgets disappear as politics backs culture into a dead end
- Written by Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University
The federal decision to eliminate a department of arts came as a surprise to public servants. Jade Ferguson/Opera Queensland
The decision to merge the Department of Communications and the Arts with Transport, Infrastructure and Regional development (dropping the “Arts” entirely) ends a year in which Australian politics has been deeply...