This week’s arts news and trending topics

We report it – you read it. This week's top arts news stories.
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Clearly, bad news is good reading this week. We take a look at the arts news that pushed to the top of the heap this week, including tributes to great creatives lost, walking away from top jobs and funding cuts biting hard.

Vale Jack Hibberd – great Australian playwright and author of Dimboola
Jack Hibberd, the author of Dimboola and one of Australia’s best known and most prolific playwrights, has died.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina