Arts workers should be angry about funding cuts – we can't work harder for less

Defiance may seem heroic but running full programs with insufficient funding is a risky business. And the burden will fall on the workersThey’ve been calling the past week the worst ever for the Australian arts. They’re not wrong.The sector’s fears that Catalyst – the newly introduced arts funding program dispensed directly by the government’s arts ministry – would become an exercise of political favour and pork barrelling, seem to have come true. Almost half