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Future of creative arts education in Australian universities

05 March 2013 | Australian playwright David Williamson says that short-sighted assault by both sides of the political divide threatens creative arts education in Australia. His 2012 National Tertiary Education Union lecture reflects on his own career, traverses what is happening to the creative arts within higher education in Australia and puts the case for greater funding and institutional support.