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Best opportunities, grants and awards for creatives: 11-17 August 2025

New award opportunities, commission for Queensland playwrights and grants up to $80,000.

The Productivity Commission ... IMage: Holden Sheppard by Mark Flower.
Opinions & Analysis

The Productivity Commission just advocated for theft and I'm f**king livid

The arts sector is united in rage at the Productivity Commission's new 'Harnessing Data' report.

How – and should – we separate the art from the artist? Image: Angel Sanchez on Unsplash.
Features

Separate the art from the artist? It’s not nearly that simple

A few questions you can ask to help you navigate the perennial moral dilemma: can we separate the art from…

The PC suggests training AI on pre-existing creative works will improve industry productivity. Image: Canva composite.
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‘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.

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Features

Pro-Palestinian protests censored: how theatres and literary communities respond

Debate about pro-Palestinian support, and censorship, is growing in the arts amid mass public protests and a readers and writers…

Arts Queensland has announced the reciepients of its flagship Organisational Fund.
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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.

Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell in Anyone But You. Image: Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Features

Sydney Sweeney is the new 'it' girl: redefining star pressure in 2025

Sydney Sweeney's 'it' girl status builds on producing work, savvy business deals and self defined fame.

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.

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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…

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