Critic blasts Australia Council for leaving too many artists out in the cold

Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September 2005, Australia

The arts are an ecosystem and artists are like slime mould, says the cultural critic Keith Gallasch. This, science confirms, is good, because slime moulds can turn themselves into new shapes for survival. But Gallasch believes there's a new omnivore threatening the ecosystem: the Australia Council for the arts.