All the World's a Stage-some can't get in
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 00:40
Australia cannot afford to let disability and language remain barriers to creativity, writes The Sydney Morning Herald's Adam Fulton.
The news this week was upbeat: Australians are increasingly embracing the arts, with fewer people regarding them as elitist compared with a decade ago, and about 17 million people engaging with forms from music and theatre to literature.
But amid the graphs and tables illustrating the positive findings in the Australia Council for the Arts report More than Bums on Seats: Australian participation in the arts was some less palatable news: people with disabilities and migrants from non-English-speaking countries are being left behind.
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