Australian arts need a stimulus package. Here is what it should look like
- Written by Ben Eltham, Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University

In 1606, Shakespeare and his company bolted the doors of the Globe Theatre and fled London as bubonic plague led to a total shutdown of theatres.
Now we know what it must have felt like.
The sudden implosion of Australia’s performing arts sector in recent days has been breathtaking.
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