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Little trust in Creative Australia after Venice snafu

Trust in Creative Australia is at an all-time low due to the Venice Biennale controversy, but the decision to reinstate the artistic team may bring healing.

AAP · Jul 4, 2025

Apology for hurt and pain as Venice arts duo reinstated

The federal arts funding body has apologised to an artist and curator axed from representing Australia at the Venice Biennale, but who have now been reinstated.

AAP · Jul 2, 2025

Creative Australia chair to retire following Khaled Sabsabi biennale controversy

Robert Morgan is expected to be replaced by the First Nations playwright and creative director Wesley Enoch

The Guardian - AU · May 23, 2025

‘The government has listened’: Australia’s peak bodies praise $300m federal arts policy

Launched by Anthony Albanese at Melbourne live music pub the Espy, the policy offers welcome support for the beleaguered industry

The Guardian - AU · Jan 30, 2023

Morning Mail: Body image activist Taryn Brumfitt honoured, Albanese fights for voice

Body image activist from South Australia takes the top national award; PM urges opponents to see the national interest; and pro-Russian tennis fans quizzed by police

The Guardian - AU · Jan 25, 2023

Is A Raisin in the Sun just as relevant in 2022 Australia as it was in America in 1959? Some say very much so

The Australian main stage debut of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun offers audiences a reality check, without beating you over the head, according to some of its cast members.

ABC News · Sep 7, 2022

Sydney Theatre Company’s A Raisin in the Sun is an enormous achievement with superb cast, direction and staging

Review: A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Wesley Enoch for the Sydney Theatre Company.

The Conversation · Sep 2, 2022

Dropping plans for Indigenous cultural centre at Barangaroo a ‘backward’ step, Aboriginal leaders say

NSW government under fire after scrapping proposed standalone venue at the Cutaway site

The Guardian - AU · Aug 19, 2022

Indigenous musical The Sunshine Club, a tribute to Brisbane's postwar dance halls, returns to Queensland Theatre

The Sunshine Club celebrates the postwar equivalent of social media for Indigenous people, says writer and director Wesley Enoch: “The only way you got the gossip, or you met new people, or you got to exchange knowledge.”

ABC News · Jul 7, 2022

First XI of 1868: The story of the all-Aboriginal cricket side that was Australia's first sports team to tour overseas

It's a great sporting story but you may never have heard of it. The director of a play about the First XI of 1868, an all-Aboriginal cricket side, wants to change that.

ABC News · Apr 3, 2022