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

‘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.

Palestinian protestors on top of a car.
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.
News

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.

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.
News

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.
News

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.

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