Australia in danger of becoming an ‘artless country’ as enrolments in creative courses collapse

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• SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s too expensive to be an artist in this country. Used to be able to work a few shifts somewhere to earn enough for food, rent, art and a drink from time to time. Now a full time job barely pays enough to rent a shoebox.

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  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s too expensive to do anything in this country. Took my daughter and wife to Breaky the other day. A meal each. A drink each. $120

    FFS It’s insanity.

    A Breaky for 3 should maybe be $60 or so.

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    • SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I get that it’s not all on the store but I can but a dozen eggs and a loaf of bread for $10, making 6-12 breakfasts. Sure they’re not as fancy as a cafe but it’s $10+minimal effort vs $150.

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• shirro@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Being a starving artist living on the safety net is more difficult with cost of living increases.

  Lots of good music came from countries like England, Sweden, Australia which were reasonably wealthy and had some minimum level of social welfare. We lost affordable tertiary education and it is one less place for people to meet and form bands or experiment.

  And people who looking for creative careers are seeing management everywhere turn to AI slop while fees go up and looking elsewhere. Everyone is hoping to find work that can’t be outsourced, can’t be automated and will still be around in 20 years. The choices seem to be narrowing.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just one thing - student debt in Australia generally isn’t a problem like it is overseas. HECS/HELP repayments are a tiny percentage of your wage, and only kick in after you’re earning above a certain amount. Student debt would affect artists the least because the likely wouldn’t have to even repay it until they’re not struggling.

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    • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Its the one thing i think the Albanese gov really wasted money on, that rebate. There are so many other important needs all those funds could have been directed towards.

      If they still wanted a positive change to the hecs/help debt scheme they could’ve increased the rate the repayments kick in back to pre-Abbott levels. Accounting for cost of living increases, it mightn’t even be a controversial policy.

      I speak as a beneficiary of the rebate. Surely the policy wasn’t that popular with hecs/help debt holders that it drove votes.

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• Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Non-market based solutions. If the economic market doesn’t value creative industries its unfortunate, but the creativity will and should carry on.

  Of course, ot does mean, there is a lack of incentives to coordinate resources. But this can be overcome with community groups and formal and informal partnerships.

  It won’t replace ‘like-for-like’ the creative outputs that can be achieved through an economic incentive structure. But the creative outputs can be just as engaging.

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Peasants do not deserve idle time, and art is only for the idle rich that can afford it.”

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No-one who’d seen Ricketts Lane would ever accuse Australia of being artless.

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