'A state of desperation': battlers of the arts reflect on Australia Council furore
Meanjin, Next Wave festival, Express Media and Force Majeure are just four of 62 arts companies which had their funding cut by Australia CouncilI was living in a wooden house in Bulli when the copy of Voiceworks arrived in the mail.Young, living cheap with my boyfriend in the Wollongong 'burbs, the arrival of that magazine was as transformative to belief in my own prospects as the appearance of an owl with a Hogwarts…