2013 in review: a rollercoaster ride

It’s been a year of great promise and considerable disappointment in Australia’s cultural sector with the best news in a generation offered and then left dangling.
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Image: Alexander Leydenfrost, Charcoal promotional drawing for This is Cinerama

We got a sparkling new cultural policy, with new funding attached. But we also got a new government, whose commitment to that policy and funding remains unclear. We welcomed important changes at the Australia Council, but sales and attendances across many parts of the cultural industries were patchy.

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Ben Eltham
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Ben Eltham is ArtsHub's industry columnist.