Crippled Australian arts companies face another blow as funding cut

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Already facing an existential crisis in the face of coronavirus, Australia's arts sector says it's been further devastated after dozens of organisations lost federal funding.

La Mama relies on the Australia Council for a significant proportion of its funding, but Mr Watts said the loss would not spell the end of the company, which has at different times been home to artists including Cate Blanchett, Jack Hibberd, Graeme Blundell, Judith Lucy and Julia Zemiro.In recent days the Australia Council has attempted to ease the pain of the almost-complete shutdown of the performing and visual arts sectors.

The Australia Council funded this stop-gap with an additional $4 million saved from other activities and by asking the successful companies to absorb a 30 per cent reduction in their grant for 2021. "Despite unprecedented whole-of-industry collaboration in outlining urgent needs for stimulus to prevent industry collapse, I am deeply concerned that those specific needs are not understood," she said.

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This government has never supported the arts, if it has its been very grudging. Libs do not get that more people follow attend arts, theatre, concerts, galleries and festivals than ever go to the 'footy'! Yet they pour countless $$$ into it. In the UK

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