Wylie Miller was performing on a cruise ship when the pandemic upended his life. Miller had long spent six months of the year voyaging the world as a headline act on cruise ships. He had stepped off a ship arriving into Sydney, and was due to travel to New Zealand and on to New Caledonia. âNew Zealand called and said, âWe arenât allowing any ships inâ,â he says. âThe cruise ended right there. We flew back home.â Miller was among the 15 per cent of arts workers who, during those initial frightening weeks of the pandemic, saw their main source of income disappear.