Advance aaustralia

hello!! Citing the Malthouse in the last post was just that. We still in this country have no theatre company playing "all australian" plays with a focus on new work. Does that matter? Perhaps Black Swan may be the last? The point is yes we have spoken about this with colleagues, peers, friends and artists forever and yes funding is a problem and subsidies and support for new writers etc- however if we are going to be finanically constrained in the arts then how to we move past this to a better cultural future? Does it matter how we chose to express ourselves? - linear or arty plays, any type of visual performance, puppetry, film, radio?. The point is this is our expression for the moment in this country. Thank god for places like La mama who will take a risk and perform a new Oz work regardless of format. So how do all of us together unite and try to support ourselves and advance australia artistically, because obviously we are cultural future.