Australian writing and publishing faces ‘grinding austerity’

‘When it comes to public funding, literature has long been the poor cousin of the arts,’ wrote Ben Eltham on the recently revealed Federal Budget.

It was a grim federal budget for arts and culture on Tuesday night.

Tsiolkas told the inquiry that younger writers he had recently spent time with faced ‘real life desperate situations – how they’ll pay their rent and how they’re going to look after their young children’.

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