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The Booker Prize 2025 longlist. Image: Yuki Sugiura for Booker Prize Foundation.
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Booker Prize 2025: longlist announced

This year's Booker Prize longlist features authors representing four continents and nine countries.

Ebony Bott, the incoming Artistic Director of Brisbane Festival. The photo shows a confident, fair-skinned woman with lightly curled, shoulder-length blonde hair smiling at the camera. She wears a charcoal-coloured jacket and pants over a white shirt.
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Brisbane Festival appoints Ebony Bott as New Artistic Director

Ebony Bott’s first Brisbane Festival program will be presented in 2026.

Regional Arts WA Minderoo Foundation: a portrait style photograph of four people: left to right: person 1 is female in her fifties with dark long hair, person 2 is male in his forties with short dark hair, person 3 is a female in her sixties with short white hair and classes, person 4 is female in her forties with long light brown hair.
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Regional Arts WA announces new $3.3M philanthropic partnership

Regional Arts WA has announced a milestone funding commitment from the WA-based philanthropic Minderoo Foundation.

A group of contemporary dancers, blurred in motion. The photo illustrates ArtsHub's On the move column, summarising the week's arts sector appointments.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Three women with their backs to the camera admire a colourful mural, an emample of work supported by Regional Arts Development Orgsnisations in NSW.
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Regional Arts Development Organisations protest NSW funding changes

Three regional arts development organisations have lost out on four-year Create NSW funding, putting their programs and activities at risk.

A group of young women are standing outside under strings of lights holding books and talking. Sydney Writers' Festival.
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Sydney Writers' Festival partners with State Library of NSW for new literary hub 

Sydney Writers' Festival and the State Library of NSW have partnered on an initiative allowing year-round storytelling.

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ANU's planned restructure threatens studio arts practice

Details of the proposed changes at ANU's School of Art and Design have sparked grave concerns.

Discover the best new opportunities, grants and awards. Image: Noah Buscher on Unsplash.
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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 28 July to 3 August 2025

ArtsPay releases No Fuss funding, 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards now open, callout for new romance anthology, New York residency…

Five middle-aged Caucasian artists standing in a gallery with beige walls and artworks, including four long hanging tapestry or textile pieces. 2025 Miles Franklin Award, Siang Lu. Arts prize winners, recipients, shortlists.
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Top arts prize winners, shortlists and finalists: 22 to 28 July 2025

Winners of LGBTQIA+ choir competition, 2025 Pinnacle Awards, plus arts grant recipients sharing $15 million and more.

The Butterfly Club is closing. The photo shows a collection of dead butterflies pinned in a case.
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Breaking: Melbourne’s Butterfly Club to close indefinitely

The sudden announcement has shocked cabaret artists and theatremakers booked to perform at the intimate CBD venue in the coming…

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