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'Droughts, bushfires, and now Covid': Australia's regional arts communities hold on for dear life

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The pandemic has only compounded difficulties facing arts centres and festivals outside the capital cities

Wiradjuri artist Michael Lyons used to receive visitors by the hour at his rural New South Wales workshop.

“Ten caravans a day – for out here, that’s a lot,” says Lyons, who lives and works in Narrandera, population 3,746.

Related: When Covid closed the library: staff call every member of Victorian library to say hello

Personally, there was a lot of time spent in paddocks screaming up at the sky

Related: Arts industry could wait three more months for Coalition's $250m Covid-19 rescue package

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