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Music Australia’s Export Development Fund celebrates 12 months of global impact

Music Australia has announced the latest recipients of investment through its Export Development Fund, marking 12 months since the program launched.

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05 Mar 2025

The Australian String Quartet perform on their national tour of Florescence at the Melbourne Recital Centre, October 2023. Credit: Kane Moroney.
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Strengthening the music industry’s core: Music Australia invests over $2 million into contemporary music sector organisations

Music Australia has today launched the Core Contribution Fund, a new funding initiative designed to support the core operations for Australian organisations providing services to the contemporary music industry.

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17 Feb 2025

Hot 8 Brass Band, Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2023 Photo by Wil Hamilton-Coates
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Music Australia’s Export Development Fund celebrates 12 months of global impact

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05 Mar 2025

Strengthening the music industry’s core: Music Australia invests over $2 million into contemporary music sector organisations

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17 Feb 2025

Celebrating First Nations excellence at the First Nations Arts and Culture Awards 2024

Senior First Nations artists Uncle Badger Bates and Aunty Mabel Juli have both been awarded the prestigious Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2024 First Nations Arts and Culture Awards.

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27 May 2024

First Nations Arts and Culture Awards 2024 recipients
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First Nations Arts and Culture Awards 2024 recipients

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Australia Council invests $8.8 million in arts and culture including First Nations musicians, youth and regional artists

Emerging First Nations musicians, new Australian works by younger artists, regional artists and literature projects are among the recipients of the latest round of arts projects grants supported by the Australia Council.

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15 Jun 2021

Jannawi Dance Clan, Hannah Hanson, Serene Yunupingu and Peta Strachan performing at the Hawai'i Convention Centre
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Celebrating First Nations excellence at the First Nations Arts and Culture Awards 2024

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27 May 2024

Australia Council invests $8.8 million in arts and culture including First Nations musicians, youth and regional artists

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15 Jun 2021

Announcing the shortlists for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

Creative Australia has today unveiled the shortlists for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the richest literary prize in the nation.

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14 Aug 2024

Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024
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Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024

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Australian literature gets a boost in international markets  

Today we have announced the recipients of the most recent round of the Literature Structural Investment fund, which includes translation, rights travel, and author travel.

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21 Jun 2023

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Katherine Brabon and Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Announcing the shortlists for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards

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14 Aug 2024

Australian literature gets a boost in international markets  

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21 Jun 2023

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Patrick Carter

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Patrick Carter is a Noongar man and interdisciplinary artist who combines performance, movement, video, sound and painting to create his stories and songs. Family is a driving theme, and his work features many motifs drawn from his Noongar culture. 

Patrick is a recipient of our Creative Australia Awards 2024.

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We acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and honour their Elders past and present.

We respect their deep enduring connection to their lands, waterways, and surrounding clan groups since time immemorial. We cherish the richness of First Nations peoples’ artistic and cultural expressions. We are privileged to gather on this Country and to share knowledge, culture and art, now and with future generations.

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