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That's An Award

The Australian Writers’ Guild congratulates founding member and Oscar nominee Ken Shadie for his Order of Australian Medal in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours.The man who helped put Crocodile Dundee’s “That’s not a knife” in the lexicon of world-famous ...

Two winners to learn 'What Happens Next?'

Two writers – Katie Pollock (L) and Rebecca Johnstone (R) – will share first prize in the Australian Writers Guild’s inaugural “What Happens Next?” scriptwriting competition.“What Happens Next?” is a competition designed to unearth unpublished scripts that demonstrate the skill of writing for perfor...

2015 Budget compromises creative arts sector, writers say

The Australian Writers’ Guild – which represents more than 2,200 writers in stage, new media, television and film – believes the latest changes to industry funding demonstrate a fundamental failure in Canberra’s understanding of the creative arts sector. AWG Executive Direct...

Royalty battle continues for Australian writers

The work of collecting payments for Australian performance writers goes from strength to strength, the AWGACS annual meeting was told. Tim Pye, chairman of the Australian Writers Guild Authorship Collecting Society, told its annual meeting in Sydney on 21 May 2015 that AWGACS now had almost 1,500 m...

AWG launches new Code of Conduct for television

The annual meeting of the Australian Writers Guild has approved a new Code of Conduct for television writers. The new code was launched at the AWG Annual General Meeting in Sydney on 21 May 2015. AWG Vice President and chair of the Guild’s Television Committee Mac Gudgeon says that, for the first...

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