Why are Australian arts in such bad shape? Director Barrie Kosky thinks he knows: “[There is a] terrible arts funding dilemma in Australia but that’s just the skin. Look at the muscle and the bone and the blood system, see what it’s actually about. It’s about fear. There has to be something inherently distrustful of art in the Australian psyche for there to be such problems. I don’t think it’s ultimately about money. To me, it’s fear of sadness, fear of going within yourself, fear of the heart of darkness.”