Current issues affecting theatre in Australia

Be fair and give me a chance!! This is in fact the starting point of my research on a topic quite unfamiliar to me. Not being an arts student and being given this assignment with very little information to go on I think I'm lucky to have found this site, one of very few that contain a forum for such issues. The many Western Australian Arts sites I have visited over the past week unfortunately have not ventured into such area's and only tended to tell the 'success' stories. Hence my venturing outside WA and throwing a line out. Further, I have in fact printed out several posting from this site and have spent the past few hours reading through them. However, regardless of your sarcasm I still appreciate your feedback.