The Institute of Public Affairs’ Bella d’Abrera says the Resilience Fund’s COVID-19 arts grants are more evidence of the K-shaped recession where the public sector and “swamps like the council of arts” flourish.
The resilience fund is a grant created at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic by the Australian Council for the Arts to bail out struggling artists during this time. Ms d’Abrera said the whole premise of the fund would be reasonable if “the projects were reasonable”.
“But when you look at what they’re spending our money on, it’s just outrageous,” she told Sky News. “It is absolute lunacy. “It’s more evidence of this K-shaped recession wherein where you have a flourishing public sector and you have swamps like the Australian Council of Arts absolutely doing brilliantly. “Then you have the private sector which is languishing”.
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