With waves of bad news through ​the past year, the capacity of the arts for resilience will be sorely tested in 2016.
The dismal predictions we have been hearing all year came true last week when the Australia Council finally delivered its first post-Budget funding round. With the cancellation of earlier rounds forced by the Budget cuts, the September project funding round was ​even more highly competitive than usual: ​more than 1,700 applications submitted with only 290 successful.
