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Brandis releases NPEA draft guidelines for comment

Almost two months after the Federal Arts Minister George Brandis announced that he would redirect $104.7 million from the Australia Council’s budget to a new National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA), the draft funding guidelines [1] have been released. The Guidelines are open for co...

AWG loses 'a genuine friend'

A dear friend of the Australian Writers’ Guild’s, Geoff Brown, has died aged 65.The executive director of the Screen Producers Association of Australia for 16 years until stepping down in 2012, Brown died on Tuesday 7 July 2015, after a long illness.AWG Vice President Roger Simpson described Brown ...

AWG members urged to contribute to Senate Inquiry

Australian Writers’ Guild members are being asked to contribute to a submission the AWG is making to a Senate inquiry on the federal government’s funding of the arts. The Senate Inquiry will assess the impact of the 2014 and 2015 Commonwealth Budget decisions on the arts, cuts to Arts C...

Parliament passes Internet Piracy Law

Parliament has passed into law the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015, [OB1] which is a legal attempt to curb Internet piracy by blocking overseas websites that are set up to infringe copyright. Rights holders are able to seek a Federal Court order to block websites that have the &q...

The Turquoise Elephant takes out the 2015 Griffin Award

Our congratulations go out to AWG member Stephen Carleton who has won the 2015 Griffin Award for his play, The Turquoise Elephant. Another member, Christopher Bryant, was one of four shortlisted playwrights. The Griffin Award is a national prize recognising an outstanding play that displays an aut...

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