Sydney’s new year-round program of literary events is budgeted at $1.5 million, creating over 300 paid opportunities for writers over 12 months.
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Sydneyphiles remounts Yang’s 1977 exhibition, documenting mainstream Sydney and the illegal gay party scene.
The early Australian colony of thieves was all about crime and crime control; the details, from the mid-1800s, were published in what came to be known as the Police Gazette. Now it’s been visualised.
In our world of pervasive consumerism, libraries continue to be founded on humanism. Their core purpose as accessible places is vital – yet they are also now popular tourist destinations.
Mukurtu: an online dilly bag for keeping Indigenous digital archives safe
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Mukurtu - Warumungu word meaning 'dilly bag' or a safe keeping place for sacred materials - is an online system helping Indigenous people conserve photos, songs and other digital archives.
A new room will open at the NSW State LIbrary today, furnished with objects from Donald and Myfanwy Horne’s study. Their daughter, Julia, reflects here on a writing partnership and the room that fostered it.
A new website allows you to see what other people search for in the State Library of NSW’s vast collection of artefacts – and discover things you’d never think to look up in the first place.
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Lecturer and tutor in Visual Communications, University of Technology Sydney
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University Historian and Principal Research Fellow, History, University of Sydney
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Professor of Performance and Visual Culture, Head of School of Art and Design, UNSW
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Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education & Research, University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary Associate Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
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Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University