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Gaypalani Waṉambi wins the Telstra Art Award at the 2025 Telstra NATSIAA
The Yirrkala artist won the $100,000 award for a monumental etched metal work, now showing at MAGNT in Darwin.
‘Creative theft’: arts and screen bodies respond to AI proposals in PC’s 2025 report
The MEAA, AWG, APRA and more say the Productivity Commission's AI suggestions will legitimise theft.
Beleaguered Opera Australia announces its 2026 season
Next year marks the national opera company’s 70th anniversary, and follows a tumultuous 12 months for Opera Australia.
Pierce The Veil expected to land in Australia, frenzy builds
Buzz is building for an expected career-spanning arena tour by Pierce the Veil across the country.
Arts Queensland reveals recipients of Organisations Fund: more money, same players
Arts Queensland's latest round of the organisations fund represents an essentially unchanged landscape for the next four years.
You're killing me: tax reform for artists is needed now
An urgent call for tax reform, as studio artists and creatives miss out on annual wage index but still forced…
On the move: latest arts sector appointments
Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.
The Drover's Wife – The Opera to have 2026 world premiere at QPAC’s new Glasshouse Theatre
Adapted by Leah Purcell AM from her play, novel and film, The Drover's Wife – The Opera features a score…
Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 4 to 10 August 2025
Now open: 2026 Stella Prize, Emerging Artist Award, Songwriting Competition, Peter Porter Poetry Prize and more grants and opportunities.
Arts prize winners and finalists: 29 July to 4 August 2025
William Barton portrait awarded Archibald People's Choice, memoir of war wins National Biography Award. This week's prize winners and finalists.