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A view from above as someone handwrites into a notebook, thereby avoiding any issues of AI copyright.
Features

AI copyright crisis: Australian writers push back against AI training deals

AI copyright tensions escalate as authors challenge publishing contracts that allow their work to train artificial intelligence models.

An AI-generated photo of an entirely AI band: The Velvet Sundown.
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The Velvet Sundown: AI-generated band stirs controversy across global music industry

With millions of streams and a viral retro image, The Velvet Sundown has reignited global debate over AI music, raising…

Image is painting of William Shakespeare and a bust of an Ancient Greek man. Arts, Anger and Advocacy
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Arts, advocacy and anger

When it comes to advocating for the arts, passion can be as destructive as it can be constructive. But there…

From the side we see a woman in a red cloak and white bonnet who bows her head so we can't see her face; she is in a line with other women dressed the same. The Handmaid's Tale.
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Every story finds its audience – what we can learn from The Handmaid's Tale

What the final season of the TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel teaches us about storytelling, voice and the power…

Olivia Ansell: a portrait photograph of a smiling white woman in her forties with long light brown hair with her arms crossed in front of her, wearing a black short sleeved top standing in a light-filled white-walled room next to a window with light coming in through the window. Toronto
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Ex-Sydney Festival Director delivers first program in new Toronto festival role

Australian arts leader Olivia Ansell sends a postcard from Canada after her first months in new festival role.

A lavishly set up photograph featuring a red velvet sofa and a figure dressed in a blond wind, cut out red velvet costume where the limbs extend like bug claws. Australian Life Photography Competition finalist Chrissie Hall, ‘The bargain of a life: a couch with legs and no breasts’. Opportunities.
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Opportunities and awards

Enlighten Festival callout, SA Arts Leadership Program open, plus finalists across the 2025 National Biography Award, Bowness Photography Prize and…

Two people stand behind the glass wall of an external elevator in this photograph, taken at a distance, which also shows the horizontal lines of the building's cladding, and the sharp lines of the building's edge against a cloudy sky. The photo illustrates ArtsHub's On the mov column, a weekly round-up of arts sector appointments across Australia.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

ArtsHub’s weekly round-up of arts sector comings and goings across Australia.

A production photo of dynamic dancers dressed in black suits, forming single file while pulling at each other’s clothes. RISING
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RISING receives lifeline from Creative Australia to deliver 2026 dance biennial

ArtsHub exclusive: RISING will return in 2026 as the national presenter of the Australian Dance Biennial.

A triceratops made up of glass panels. It's lit up. Universal Kingdom: The Next Era.
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Universal Kingdom: The Next Era review: dinosaurs lit up as part of Illuminate Adelaide

A luminous installation of dinos big and small.

two panels: on the left against a black background, a middle aged woman with short blonde hair, black turtleneck and denim jacket smiles at the camera. She has her hand in her pocket. on the right a picture of Stella Miles Franklin on a purple background and the title INCONVENIENT WOMEN by Jacqueline Kent
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Inconvenient Women reviewed – Australian literary cage-rattlers and trailblazers

From the suffragists to the feminist writers of the 1970s, this book navigates both their inconsistencies and their courage when…

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