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NewsSound West Is the Australian-First SXSW-Style Technology and Music Fest Coming to Parramatta in 2022
The huge new event will combine a two-day conference at CommBank Stadium with three days of live music all around Greater Western Sydney.
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NewsNetflix Is Now Doing Mobile Games If You'd Like to Play 'Stranger Things' As Well As Watch It
The streaming service has just launched five mobile gaming titles via its Android app — including two 'Stranger Things' games — with more to come.
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NewsAlice Springs' Radiant Parrtjima Festival Will Light Up the Red Centre Again Next April
The dazzling ten-night Indigenous arts, culture and storytelling festival will return from April 8–17, 2022.
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NewsMona Foma Will Return to Launceston and Hobart in January 2022
MONA's summer music and arts festival is coming back for another year — and it's keeping its dual-city format.
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NewsA Massive Elvis Presley Exhibition Is Coming to Australia Direct From Graceland
The Bendigo Art Gallery will host the four-month-long showcase, which will feature around 300 items and is being curated in collaboration with the Graceland archives.
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NewsPlay-at-Home Series 'Isklander' Is Bringing Its Film, Game and Escape Room Experience Down Under
This online thriller is part interactive movie, part puzzle game and part scavenger hunt — and you and your mates can play along together from your respective homes.
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NewsHop to It: 16 Classic and Eclectic Films You Can Stream This Easter Long Weekend
Some feature bunnies. Some include eggs or chocolate. Some have provocative takes on religion.
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes films about determined architects, whirlwind romances, catty cardinals, sandworms and more.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 33 of 2025's Oscar-Nominated Movies in Australia Right Now
Massive musicals, monumental dramas, stunning animated gems, heartbreaking documentaries, two Timothée Chalamet movies: they're all Oscar contenders, and you can watch them all.
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, Aussie westerns and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or a couch date with a freshly minted Golden Globe-winner — here's what you can watch right away, and where.
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NewsTwenty-Five Movies That You Can Stream This Christmas No Matter How You Feel About the Festive Season
Pour a glass of eggnog, find your comfiest spot on the couch, then enjoy everything from 'The Holdovers' and 'Die Hard' to 'Last Christmas' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
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NewsNine 2024 Emmy-Winning TV Shows That You Should Watch Immediately
Your new must-watch list of Emmy-winners includes 'Baby Reindeer' and its has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed tale, the history-making 'Shōgun' and, yes, 'The Bear'.
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NewsNine New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Austin Butler's latest brooding role, serial-killer chiller 'Longlegs' and the animated antics of 'Inside Out 2'.
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NewsTwelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching Rashida Jones navigate a sci-fi mystery in Japan, Nicolas Cage face a post-apocalyptic future and a gripping Australian romance-scam thriller.
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NewsVivid Sydney Has Cancelled Its 2021 Festival and Is Planning to Return Next Winter Instead
Instead of trying to postpone again around Sydney's current outbreak and lockdown, the light, music and art-filled festival will focus on planning for next year.
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NewsEight of the Most Heartwarming Moments in the Olympic Games So Far
Some really, really feel-good stories for your feed.
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NewsSix of the Most Entertaining Podcasts to Listen to Now According to Our Writers
Chuck on your favourite pair of headphones and give your brain a treat.
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Vivid Has Postponed Its Already-Delayed 2021 Festival From August to September
Due to Sydney's current outbreak and lockdown, the citywide arts festival has been pushed back a month.
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NewsThe Best Books to Keep You Entertained According to Our Writers
Treat yourself to a literary feast with our writers' favourite books, novels and non-fiction.
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NewsSeven Cultural Events to Hit Up in Darwin This Winter That Are Well Worth the Trip
The Top End is celebrating First Nations culture and creativity this August with exhibitions, runway shows, art fairs and a one-night celebration of an Aussie music icon under the stars.
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NewsYour Introductory Guide to NAIDOC Week
This year's NAIDOC Week theme is 'Heal Country!' which calls for the recognition, protection and maintenance of all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
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NewsA Huge Collection of Ramses the Great Artefacts Is Coming to Sydney's Australian Museum in 2023
'Ramses the Great and the Gold of the Pharaohs' will feature more than 180 rare artefacts, which will be leaving Egypt for the first time in more than 30 years.
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NewsAunty Donna Are Touring Their New Live Show Around Australia This Spring
Fresh from their hit Netflix series, it's the trio's first live tour in more than three years.
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NewsMelbourne Aquarium Has Released an Adorable and Soothing Series of Slow TV and Meditation Videos
Featuring the venue's sea creatures, these calming clips will help you cope with this chaotic year.
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NewsEleven Ways to Get Involved in National Reconciliation Week This Year
From weaving workshops to engaging panel discussions, there are heaps of events across the country.
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NewsSydney Solstice Is the New Festival Taking Over the City This June with More Than 200 Events
Popping into Vivid's usual winter slot, it's bringing its huge lineup of food, music and performances to four inner city precincts.
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NewsDark Mofo Has Unveiled Its Massive (and Mostly Free) 2021 Lineup
After being forced to cancel its 2020 event due to the pandemic, the Tasmanian winter arts festival is making a comeback.
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NewsThe Federal Government Has Promised to Give the Arts Nearly $300 Million in COVID-19 Relief
The 2021-22 Budget will see $125 million dedicated to the Government's RISE fund, $20 million for independent theatres and $10 for Support Act.
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NewsThe Sydney Opera House Now Has Its Own Streaming Service Filled with Gigs, Shows and Talks
It currently features over 30 hours of programming — which spans more than 45 different events.
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NewsFive Summertime Clips to Watch When You Want to Forget You're Back at Work
Let those warm, fuzzy summer vibes wash right over you.
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NewsMore Than 200 Artefacts From London's Famed Natural History Museum Are Coming to Melbourne
The history-changing pieces will be part of the postponed 'Treasures of the Natural World Exhibition', which will make its Aussie debut at Melbourne Museum in June.
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NewsSydney's Huge Tutankhamun Exhibition Has Been Cancelled Due to the Pandemic
'Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh' was originally scheduled to display at the Australian Museum from February this year.
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NewsA Lego Exhibition That Recreates 'Jurassic World' with Six Million-Plus Bricks Is Touring Australia
Lego finds a way, with more than 50 dinosaurs, props and scenes from the movie built out of the popular plastic bricks.
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NewsFive Epic Backyard Cricket Wins That'll Make You Want to Ditch Work for the Rest of the Day
Tell me you play cricket without telling me you play cricket.
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NewsFive Aussie Road Trip Videos That'll Make You Want to Quit Your Job and Holiday More
Escape that sad desk lunch and watch these funny and dreamy road trip clips instead.
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NewsSix Pride-Filled Videos to Get You Pumped for Mardi Gras Celebrations This Week
You so pretty and we like that.
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NewsAlice Springs' Luminous Parrtjima Festival Has Revealed Its Full 2021 Program
The ten-day Indigenous arts, culture and storytelling festival is back with a lineup of large-scale light installations, live tunes, performances and more.
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NewsAlice Springs' Dazzling Parrtjima Festival Will Light Up the Red Centre Again in April
After COVID-19 delays in 2020, the Indigenous arts, culture and storytelling festival will return in its usual time slot in 2021.
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News'The Whole Table' Is NITV's New Three-Part Series Exploring Indigenous Issues in the Arts
It's co-produced by Sydney Theatre Company, and guests include Taika Waititi, Miranda Tapsell, Adam Briggs and Meyne Wyatt.
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NewsAll About Women Is Back for 2021 with Another Jam-Packed Day of Talks, Panels and Workshops
This year's one-day lineup covers everything from the evolution of the feminism movement to coping with doomscrolling.
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NewsSally Rooney's First Novel Since 'Normal People' Will Hit Bookstores This Year
You'll be able to read the Irish author's first book in three years this September.
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NewsMargaret and David Have Reunited On-Screen to Review (and Argue About) 2020
In this comedic segment for 'The Shovel, of course they disagreed about this hectic year.
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NewsThe ABC Is Bringing Back 'Spicks and Specks' in 2021 for a Full New Season
The beloved music quiz show has been dropping specials over the past year — but now it's returning for a whole new series.
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News'Spicks and Specks' Will Explore Tunes From the Past Decade In Its Latest Music Quiz Special
Relive the decade we all just lived through — including the bangers, one hit wonders and songs you'd rather forget.
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NewsAustralia Is Getting a New National Centre for Photography in Regional Victoria
It'll sit inside a 1860s-era heritage-listed building in Ballarat.
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NewsMona Foma's 2021 Festival Will Fill Launceston's Cataract Gorge with a Light and Laser Show
It'll also fill an entire Hobart warehouse with video installations, art and sculptures by local and international artists, too.
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NewsQuentin Tarantino Is Turning 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Into Your Next Must-Read Novel
If you loved the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring movie, you'll soon be able to read Tarantino's novelisation — which'll mark his first fiction book.
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NewsSydney Festival Will Return This January with 130 Events Across the City
A floating installation of bees, a huge pop-up stage in Barangaroo (with all tickets just $25), an homage to George Michael and a vigil — this year's program is packed and diverse.
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NewsVivid Will Bring Its Luminous Installations and Live Performances Back to Sydney in August 2021
After cancelling its 2020 event due to COVID-19, the annual festival will return next year — in a later time slot.
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NewsJapan's Multi-Level Super Nintendo Theme Park (and Its 'Mario Kart' Ride) Will Now Open in Early 2021
It'll also feature the world's first Mario cafe, which is opening this month ahead of the rest of the park.