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The Australian band, The Wiggles, who utilise YouTube to connect with their audience.
Features

YouTube youth ban: how Australia’s new rules could reshape kids’ content creation

Australia’s YouTube youth ban will make the country one of the strictest markets globally for underage social media.

A woman sits in front of a laptop, perhaps browsing OnlyFans.
Features

OnlyFans for Australian artists: Lil Tay’s $1 million scandalous splash

Lil Tay’s OnlyFans windfall prompts Australian artists to weigh both promise and pitfalls.

Tax reform for artists is needed. Image: Dillon Wanner on Unsplash.
Opinions & Analysis

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…

Two male breakdancers perform on a high building, the cityscape visible behind them. The two young men are photographed in joint handstands; with their legs extended, their feet touching as if supporting one another. The photo illustrates Artshub's On the move column, a weekly summary of Australian arts sector appointments.
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On the move: latest arts sector appointments

Your weekly round-up of Australian arts sector appointments.

Opportunities, grants & awards. Image: Marty O’Neill on Unsplash.
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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.

The artist Loribelle Spirovski (a young woman with brown hair in an up do smiling) with her hand on the shoulder of her sitter, William Barton (a middle-aged Aboriginal man holding a didgeridoo) in front of a large portrait painting of Barton sitting at in a room with a similar position.
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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.

NSW Minister for the Arts John Graham MLC launches the Plan for Western Sydney Arts, Culture and Creative Industries: 2025-2028. The photo shows an animated man with silver hair and wearing a blue suit and white shirt but no tie. He stands at a lectern and gestures with his left hand.
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$5 million arts strategy announced for Western Sydney

The NSW State Government has released a new three-year arts strategy for Western Sydney.

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.

Young man with white t-shirt in lecture theatre at educational facility. University cuts
Opinions & Analysis

Shock to bewilderment as ANU strips cultural legacies and denies creative futures

Whose good idea was it to take an axe to ANUs Schools of Art and Design, Music and Museum Studies?

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.

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