eBay Australia has announced that the site’s category structure will be undergoing significant change in July, August and September, calling it a move toward a new platform that would deliver more relevant results for buyers.
eBay said that eBay Australia’s category structure will evolve to become a list of product types rather than a hybrid system [...]

Bonhams and Goodman are now inviting entries for their July and August auctions of Fine Art, Decorative Arts, Collectables and Fine Jewellery.
Australian, International and Aboriginal Art
Geoffrey Smith, National Head of Art +61 (0)3 8530 3906 geoffrey.smith@bonhams.com
Decorative Arts and Antique Furniture
James Hendy, National Head of Decorative Arts +61 (0)2 9327 9909 james.hendy@bonhams.com
Fine Jewellery (Melbourne)
Patricia Sedgwick, [...]

Officials from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) told a Senate estimates hearing yesterday that the auction planning process for the digital services — which include a new in-home channel and another service, possibly mobile television — was running behind schedule.
There is also a second complication, conceded yesterday by Communications Minister Helen Coonan, that [...]

Auction house Lawson-Menzies has agreed to withdraw six Aboriginal artefacts from an indigenous art auction in Sydney tonight, following claims that the items were “secret and sacred”.
The items - six wooden boards used in indigenous ceremonies in Arnhem land and Central Australia - were due to be part of an auction of more than 300 [...]

Adelaide, Monday 28 May at 6pm
Collectors of enamelled boxes, needlecases and ivory are well catered for in this offering as are collectors of glass paperweights, slump glass doorstops and Swiss musical bird ornaments. Additonally, a vast array of Australian colonial cedar furniture including a Debney servery table, cedar chest of seven drawers, three tier dumb [...]

OZtion, Australia’s second largest online auction site (www.oztion.com.au), has today announced new simplified GST tracking and handling for Australian businesses looking to sell products online.
The new simplified GST handling extends OZtion’s standard seller accounts, allowing professional automated business invoicing, use of ABN and business address details, and automatic GST tracking for invoicing. It is possible [...]

The firm’s first pictures sale - held on May 9 and 10 in Melbourne but also aired in Sydney at the firm’s near-city Surry Hills gallery - raised $8.6 million. That included no less than 24 works that sold for $100,000 or more, most of which also sold well above estimate.
Among the successes was the [...]