Missing in action: a vision for the arts in the 2019 budget
- Written by Peter Tregear, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne

Dancers perform a scene from the Sydney Dance Company's WOOF: the arts are one of the ways we make sense of our place in an increasingly confusing, and confused, world.Joel Carrett/AAP
It says something about the place of the arts in Australian public life that a federal budget speech delivered on the eve of an election chooses not to mention them....
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