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South Australia’s got talent
Joint winners have taken out the Flinders University Young Playwrights Award.

Why this toilet won a top design award
A bathroom sink, toilet and tap beat off cars, jeans and even a clothes peg to take out the top…

Drawing ambition blooms at last
After a decade of trying, an Australian artist has won an important specialist drawing award.

The internet is improving arts participation
If public funding followed public opinion, arts funding may have increased by 14% in the past 14 years - and…

Country Arts WA announced new appointments
Regional arts organisation retains its Chair while it freshens up its board.

Ballast added to Games Festival Board
Freeplay gears up in anticipation of its tenth festival.

Wheeler Centre to host City of Literature Office
Melbourne gains a welcome new addition to its thriving literary landscape.

Designing a library for the 21st century
Australia’s newest library opens in Melbourne’s Docklands this weekend, designed by architectural team Lindsay and Kerry Clare.

Balnaves Indigenous Playwright Award announced
A radical re-imagining of a Henry Lawson tale has won its author a $12,500 commission to write a new play,…

Can philanthropy pick up the Federal arts budget slack?
The silver lining of the Federal Budget cloud is support of corporate philanthropy and the arts has no choice but…