Why Do We Fund What We Do In The Arts?

“The Sydney Symphony receives nearly $9 million each year. That is more funding than goes to all of Australia’s visual artists, or all of the nation’s writers and publishers, or all the dancers, or all the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, or all the community art practitioners. My problem is not that we still fund classical European culture, it’s just that we fund so bloody much of it and so very little of everything else.”