The Witness Podcast: How did we get here?

by Ben Keene June 1, 2018 0 comments

Arts funding. It’s not a sexy subject, but anyone interested in Australian culture needs to know how it works. Since 2013, the absolute number of individual artists and organisations funded by the Australia Council has decreased by 73 per cent. Alison Croggon and Robert Reid take a look at how we got here and what this means.

Further reading:

Alison Croggon on the cultural crisis in Australia
Black Friday: Alison Croggon on the Brandis debacle

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Ben Keene

Ben Keene is the sound engineer, editor and composer on podcasts and videos for Witness. He graduated with distinction from the RMIT Digital Media Course in 2016 and was awarded the RMIT Higher Education Award. He is currently a casual academic and completing his Honours degree at RMIT. His sound design credits include the Melbourne Theatre Company, Expressions Dance Company, TheatreWorks, Hoy Polloy, Finucane Smith and Big West Festival. He works closely with Darrin Verhagen as part of the band Shinjuku Thief (with whom he completed additional composition for the AFI award nominated soundtrack The Boys in the Trees in 2016) and as a research assistant at AkE (Audiokinetic Experiments) Lab.

The Witness Podcast: How did we get here?

You can subscribe to Witness podcasts through iTunes or an RSS feed. Click here for instructions on how to subscribe.

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