Creative Australia

For the non-governmental national peak body for non-metropolitan arts organisations in Australia, formerly the Arts Council of Australia, see Regional Arts Australia.

Creative Australia
Founded1968
FounderGovernment of Australia
TypeCultural institution
Area served
Australia
Key people
Adrian Collette AM CEO; Robert Morgan (chair); Wesley Enoch AM (deputy chair)
Websitecreative.gov.au/australia

Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia.

The council was announced in 1967 as the Australian Council for the Arts, with the first members appointed the following year. It was made a statutory corporation by the passage of the Australia Council Act 1975. It became the Australia Council in 2013, and then Creative Australia, with a new organisational structure, from 24 August 2023.

The organisation has included several boards within its structure over the years, including more than one incarnation of a Visual Arts Board (VAB), in the 1970s–80s and in the early 2000s.