The headlines that made 2022

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. So here’s a summary of the year that was for you to reflect on over the holidays.
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It’s that time once again when we look back at the news headlines that defined the previous 12 months.

Remember how we started the year full of enthusiasm and hope, convinced that the ravages of 2020-21 were surely behind us?

Now, as we stumble towards the finish line of the year, the arts sector seems collectively exhausted: because of every delayed event from the last two years suddenly seeming to happen all at once, by the challenges and constraints of working in the midst of pandemic-normal, and because of the repressed trauma of 2020 and 2021 slowly bubbling up to the surface.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts