Every dollar invested in local live performance is multiplied in benefits to local communities. But state funding has to be strategic and targeted.
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Birds are ingenious when it comes to foraging for nest materials, but in the Anthropocene, this often comes at a cost. Giving them better options is one solution.
A divisive documentary, a top-tier Australian drama, a queer baseball comedy and more.
The first major Hollywood animation centred on Filipino culture speaks to the experience of migration that has become so deeply embedded in Philippine society.
In one research project, more than 93% of stage managers interviewed said they had ‘probably’ or ‘definitely’ experienced burnout.
A self-described ‘platypoditudinarian’, Burrell figured out how to keep these animals in captivity – which allowed them to be studied.
Many former convicts changed their names and hid their past. But over the last 50 years, Australians have increasingly discovered – and embraced – convict relatives.
It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.
One of Australian rock’s most recognisable vocalists, Angry Anderson has died at 79.
Female employees of a tech company get stuck in an elevator in Eloise Snape’s timely play about AI, corporate culture and the patriarchy.
Films using a mixture of animated and live-action elements have been around since the earliest days of animated cinema.
For nearly 60 years, Cue dressed Australian women for changing working lives. Its troubles reveal how work, fashion and professional dress have changed.
Netflix is billing its new series as a ‘modern reimagining’ of the 1971 experiment. But over the past 55 years, the original has become much criticised.
Being ‘apolitical’ sounds like being neutral – but it isn’t. Can Macklemore’s removal from the Loop tour over his ‘free Palestine’ stance be defended at all?
Talk Like A Pirate Day is one of the internet’s favourite holidays. But who were these infamous seafarers and how did they really talk?
This filmmaking technique will leave you doubting what’s in front of your eyes.
Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company is now open at QAGOMA, Brisbane. It reminds us that puppets are extensions of us.
Like many food debates, this one is tangled up in culture, history and power.
University campuses reflect the layers of architectural and landscape styles that have shaped our cities and suburbs.
The National Gallery of Australia exhibition showcases the late British artist’s mastery of intimate detail and talent for connection.
Collage can be traced back to the invention of paper. Australian artists are still exploring its possibilities today. Here’s how you can, too.
Historical games let us engage with the past, but what matters is how they frame this history, and what they ask players to do.
A new stained-glass window at the National Gallery of Victoria offers clues to one of Australia’s most familiar yet mysterious artworks.
The city’s new underground rail stations are also impressive public spaces, showing how infrastructure can go well beyond the functional bare minimum.
Sweden’s election is on September 13. In Brisbane, Adelaide, Auckland and Hyderabad, citizens voted inside the furniture giant’s blue-and-yellow stores.