Just when I'm starting to bag the Federal government, they're starting to hand out the dough (but they'll have to do plenty more to change my rock-bottom opinion of them). Aaanyway, it's been a good day for us at QUT, with to funding decisions in favour of the Creative Industries Faculty [2]: not only will we be setting up a new ARC Centre of Excellence in Cultural and Media Industries [3], but in addition our founding Dean John Hartley will become a Federation Fellow [4]. Congratulations to everyone involved with the applications - this will mean a great deal of additional research oportunity in our field, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it filters through to the rest of the Faculty!