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The Bendigo Writers Festival has had to cancel several of its sessions. Image: Matthew Henry on Unsplash.
Opinions & Analysis

Bendigo Writers Festival has questions to answer over code of conduct

At a time when journalists are being permanently silenced by Israel’s genocidal forces, it is incomprehensible that a writers’ festival…

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Bendigo Writers Festival 2025: why we cancelled our panel

33 writers have cancelled their appearances at Bendigo Writers Festival in protest over a last-minute request to sign a ‘self-censoring’…

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10 upcoming photography festivals across Australia and Asia

Photography is trending globally – from collectors to content creators. We look at what’s hot, and where to see it.

AI and artists. Image: Kyle Head on Unsplash.
Opinions & Analysis

AI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped?

Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that…

Small black and white photographers arranged in two clusters on either side of two mirrors, each with a small photographer in the centre. Man Ray and Max Dupain at Heide.
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Man Ray and Max Dupain review: an exhibition exploring two important 20th century artists

Man Ray and Max Dupain's photographic works span still life, nudes, portraits, fashion and advertising.

A woman with short brown hair and a white top. Wenona Byrne. Writing Australia
Q&A

Wenona Byrne: 5 questions for Writing Australia's new director

Wenona Byrne discusses some of the ins and outs of her new position as Director of Writing Australia.

Actor Andrew McFarlane in a promotion image for David Williamson's The Social Ladder', which opens Ensemble Theatre's 2026 season. The actor, a dapper, tanned man with grey hair, wears a suit, shirt and cravat, and is posing before an ornate gilded picture frame against a bright red background.
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Ensemble Theatre announces its 2026 season

Ten productions have been programmed for Ensemble Theatres 2026 season, including four new Australian productions, one of them by David…

Detail from Would That I Were A Fortress cover art, by June Jones. Image: Arkie Barton & June Jones.
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Would That It Were a Fortress review: June Jones EP is a chrysalis

June Jones’ music is intensely personal, interrogating gender identity, mental health, disability and what healing might look like.

A man, Ian Stenlake, sitting in a chair near a shuttered blind in The 39 Steps.
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The 39 Steps review: Hitchcock gets the slapstick treatment

Hitchcock spy thriller meets Monty Python-style humour in The 39 Steps, a rollicking action-comedy. 

The secret diary of an Australian arts freelancer. Image: Onischenko on Unsplash.
Features

The secret diary of an Australian arts freelancer, aged 46¾

Being an Australian arts freelancer can be lots of fun, right? Well, yes, kind of, but ...

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