In the arts in Australia, precarious employment, unpaid work and short-lived careers are the norm.
But the unsustainability of creative careers was already well known to artists, academics and governments.
one in which you’re employed in your practice to the extent that you can live. For a lot of artists that’s just about a roof over their head and feeding themselves. […] I think we should be able to have mortgages and raise kids […] I look at some of the singers that I work with and that’s really hard for them to do.
