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Language no barrier to refugee's budding braid business

Language no barrier to refugee's budding braid business

Language barriers pushed one new Australian to draw on her family skill in styling hair to create a successful business, with a little help from a scholarship.

Rapper crowned 'the sickest' can rest after final album

Rapper crowned 'the sickest' can rest after final album

Rapper crowned 'the sickest' can rest after final album

Rapper crowned 'the sickest' can rest after final album

A rapper who crowned himself 'the sickest' and became known as 'King' can rest after releasing his final album, proving industry figures wrong along the way.

St Kilda takes stage as Vic's first live music precinct

St Kilda takes stage as Vic's first live music precinct

St Kilda takes stage as Vic's first live music precinct

St Kilda takes stage as Vic's first live music precinct

St Kilda has become Victoria's first ever designated live music precinct and the local council hopes the declaration will help to transform the area.

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Digital art exhibition to celebrate Aboriginal culture

Digital art exhibition to celebrate Aboriginal culture

More than 500 artworks from Indigenous artists will be displayed at The Lume in Melbourne as part of a showcase celebrating the world's oldest culture.

Ballet dancers put foot down with rare action over pay

Ballet dancers put foot down with rare action over pay

The Australian Ballet will delay a performance in Melbourne in the first time dancers have taken industrial action in more than 20 years.

Queer memoir in purgatory as board reviews book ban

Queer memoir in purgatory as board reviews book ban

The classification review of a queer graphic novel has been delayed after being swamped with submissions as one conservative commentator calls for a ban.

Snook bound for West End in Australian hit Dorian Gray

Snook bound for West End in Australian hit Dorian Gray

Succession's Sarah Snook will take Sydney Theatre Company's groundbreaking one-woman show The Picture of Dorian Gray to London's West End.

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Puppet opera on water features in Adelaide Festival

Puppet opera on water features in Adelaide Festival

Puppet opera on water features in Adelaide Festival

Puppet opera on water features in Adelaide Festival

The Robert Lepage production of The Nightingale and Other Fables will form the centrepiece of the upcoming Adelaide Festival.

Record crowds flock to Sydney's Vivid festival

Record crowds flock to Sydney's Vivid festival

Record crowds flock to Sydney's Vivid festival

Record crowds flock to Sydney's Vivid festival

Sydney's annual Vivid festival has hit its biggest ever attendance record boasting a crowd of more than 3.28 million.

A shimmer covers the wall of Souths' new home ground

A shimmer covers the wall of Souths' new home ground

A shimmer covers the wall of Souths' new home ground

A shimmer covers the wall of Souths' new home ground

A newly designed artwork celebrating the native sea life that calls Kamay Botany Bay home is covering the walls of the South Sydney Rabbitohs new home ground.

Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin retiring from Qld Ballet

Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin retiring from Qld Ballet

Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin retiring from Qld Ballet

Mao's Last Dancer Li Cunxin retiring from Qld Ballet

Li Cunxin, the acclaimed ballet dancer and author of Mao’s Last Dancer, is retiring as artistic director of Queensland Ballet following ill health.

Minister seeks briefing on ABC decision to cut jobs

Minister seeks briefing on ABC decision to cut jobs

Minister seeks briefing on ABC decision to cut jobs

Minister seeks briefing on ABC decision to cut jobs

Following an announcement that the ABC will cut up to 120 jobs, the communications minister is seeking a briefing from the organisation over the decision.

On a mission from God: MTC stages a voyage of vengeance

On a mission from God: MTC stages a voyage of vengeance

On a mission from God: MTC stages a voyage of vengeance

On a mission from God: MTC stages a voyage of vengeance

Is God Is opens at the Melbourne Theatre Company with a tale of familial revenge.

Tale of new Australia in Miles Franklin shortlist debut

Tale of new Australia in Miles Franklin shortlist debut

Tale of new Australia in Miles Franklin shortlist debut

Tale of new Australia in Miles Franklin shortlist debut

First-time author Kgshak Akec has made the Miles Franklin shortlist with a "novel of national significance" grounded in her own experience as a new Australian.

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Hamish Blake, Leigh Sales among Gold Logie nominees

Former ABC 7.30 anchor Leigh Sales has been nominated for a Gold Logie for the first time, alongside repeat winner Hamish Blake and actor Mark Coles Smith.

Midnight shows Aussie musicals aren't just a fairy tale

The world premiere of Midnight: The Cinderella Musical updates the classic tale for today.

Immersive underwater show farewells historic theatre

The latest production from Broad Encounters, Love Lust Lost, will be the last staged at a former theatre and dance hall in Melbourne.

Exhibition delves into Australia's 'secret war'

A mixed-media exhibition in Mildura explores Australia's past through the looking glass of renowned Aboriginal artists Judy Watson and Yhonnie Scarce.

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First jobs and losing athletes: memories on display

Images showing the beauty of trying and the difficulty in having a go feature in a new showcase of famed contemporary artists' works.

Two federal bodies created to bolster arts sector

Laws have passed parliament setting up two new arts bodies as part of the renamed Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council.

'Desperate' ABC staff redundant as axe falls on 120

Veteran journalist and political editor Andrew Probyn is among up to 120 staff being made redundant at the ABC.

Australian embassy contacts dissident artist in Poland

The Australian embassy in Poland says it has offered support to a Chinese-Australian artist in Warsaw, as Chinese diplomats attempt to shut down his exhibition.

'Exceptional' newly discovered Tom Roberts auctioned

A newly discovered painting by Australian Impressionist Tom Roberts has gone under the hammer in the United Kingdom for $A18,600.

Artist calls for Aust help as China tries to stop show

A Chinese-Australian artist says the Australian government should do more to help him, as Chinese diplomats attempt to shut down his latest exhibition.

The Slam premiere serves up tales of Australian Open

The Slam documentary has a volley of tennis tales, and premieres at the Melbourne International Film Festival.

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