The holy trinity of cultural crises continues under Malcolm Turnbull | Paul Daley

How does Australia want to be seen and to see itself? The attacks on our national institutions, the arts and science limit our ability to answer that

Australian cultural identity is balanced at the edge of a cliff.

This country’s scientific advancement, its artistic communities and the national institutions that curate its stories and make it possible to tell new ones are buckling under what can only be seen as ideologically driven federal government funding cuts.

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