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Comedy reviews: Rhys Mathewson: Time Trial and Science Friction: Fandom Wars, MICF 2025

A bearded New Zealander romping across different topics and geeks battling it out.

A Caucasian woman with short curly dark hair has her eyes closed and is holding a picture over the lower half of her face with a big smiling mouth on it. Ruby Wax
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Comedy review: Ruby Wax, I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was, Comedy Theatre, MICF 2025

You think it's comical being treated for severe depression? Ruby Wax can see the funny side.

A Caucasian woman with shoulder length blonde hair and a flower pattern blouse has a butterfly on her raised hand and three more flying around her head. Sara Pascoe. I Am A Strange Gloop
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Comedy review: Sara Pascoe, I Am A Strange Gloop, Melbourne Town Hall, MICF 2025

Sara Pascoe got married and had children. She's happy about that... mostly.

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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)

Tina Stefanou: You Can't See Speed

Transforming the gallery into a living instrument, the exhibition creates an experiential landscape of films, soundscapes, haptic sculptures, live performances…

against a pink background a woman with a grey mohawk and a short sleeved colourful shirt smiles at the camera. Geraldine Hickey
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Comedy review: Geraldine Hickey, Meander, Fairfax Studio, MICF 2025

Seeing Hickey is like catching up with an old and genuinely beloved friend... who doesn't happen to know north from…

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Comedy review: Jessica Barton: Dirty Work, The Motley Bauhaus, MICF 2025

Come clown around with this multitalented comedian in her debut show.

Comic artist Janty Blair smiles for photograph.
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The 2025 Stand Up! grant recipients have arrived

Six years since being established, the supportive initiative is back to champion more rising comics.

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Melbourne Writers Festival highlights include Colm Tóibin, Marian Keyes and Booker Prize-winner

MWF's new director Veronica Sullivan unveils the 2025 program.

Khaled Sabsabi, a middle-aged Lebanese Australian man with thin, should-length black hair, gray beard, wearing black shirt and pants, standing against a graffitied brick wall.
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Khaled Sabsabi twice cancelled – Monash University 'indefinitely postpones' exhibition

Monash University's Board is behind the decision to pull an upcoming exhibition including Khaled Sabsabi's works from its art museum.

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Performance review: THE WET, Alexander Theatre, Monash Performing Arts Centres

A stunning physical and aural celebration of the Wet and how it affects all beings living on Country in Far…

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