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Fewer than 1 in 10 professionals artists making full-time living in Australia

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Paintings in an art gallery at Melbourne Art Festival 2024.(ABC News: Emilia Terzon)

Many of our greatest artists have found odd jobs to make ends meet before getting their big break. But for the next generation of Australian artists, that break is getting further away and harder to make a living from.

New research out of Macquarie University has found fewer than one in ten artists are making a full-time living from their talents.

GUEST: David Throsby, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University

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