The Arts- Survival of the BIGGEST?

The arts community of Australia has weathered the recession extremely well. While shopkeepers are shutting their doors, factories are shedding their workers, and the average Australian contemplates life in the same house for the next five years, the average artist continues on pretty much as always.

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Anna Ward

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Nelson English

Incidental Benefits: Arts Industry Rhetoric and Policy Objectives

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Susan Cochrane

Aboriginal Art, the Nation State Suburbia

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Peter Sutton

Uncertainly Thinking

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Catherine Lumby

There's Magic in your Hands

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Karen Brown

The Ham Museum ARCO 1992

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Vicious Circles: Women's Exclusion from Contemporary Visual Art

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Dorothy Broom

Between the Clues Lies the Evidence

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Managing ARX

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Catherine Speck

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