Australia

What the demise of Big Day Out means for the Australian music industry
The cancellation of the 2015 Big Day Out does not mean the rest of the music industry is in crisis.

Live music lobby has 'lost faith' in Planning Minister
Music venues and advocates say they have lost faith in Victoria's Planning Minister Matthew Guy for not protecting live music.

Jasper Jones
Barking Gecko Theatre Company develop their repertoire for young adult audiences by adapting Craig Silvey’s modern classic novel.

Who says being popularist doesn’t pay?
Fetching $1.6 million under the hammer, Leonard Joel’s recent Pro Hart auction was a sellout.

The multilingual voices of Australia's next generation of writers
Australian kids are writing and publishing books in Nuer, Dinka, Arabic, Tetun, Fataluku & Mandarin as well as English.

Chinese acrobats join Fruit Flies for Borderville
A celebration of performance and place marks 35 years of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus.

10-minute bites on Asian Art a worthy chew
Former Asialink director, Alison Carroll, walks us through Asian art in a new series screened on ABC1 that targets schools.

SLAVE to good art
Christian Capurro’s new phone-video projection tips a hat to the minimalist light artist Dan Flavin, in an exhibition at ACCA.

Japan's erotic art tradition exposed
How different is circulating a 3D digital scan of a vagina from displaying a 17th Century Shunga print? Japan's obscenity…

Adelaide audiences set for a Wilde time
A new production of The Importance of Being Earnest is set to delight audiences all over again.