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    Sydney Festival Is Taking Over the AGNSW Like Never Before

    Immerse your senses in an after-dark audiovisual adventure combining art, space, dance and sound.

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    The Best Free Things to Do in Brisbane This Summer

    Swallow your disdain for crowds and curb your complaints about people who only go to exhibition openings for the complimentary drinks and get amongst these events, which you can attend gloriously cash-free.

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    The Best Free Things to Do in Melbourne This Summer

    Swallow your disdain for crowds and curb your complaints about people who only go to exhibition openings for the complimentary drinks and get amongst these events, which you can attend gloriously cash-free.

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    The Best Free Things to Do in Sydney This Summer

    Swallow your disdain for crowds and curb your complaints about people who only go to exhibition openings for the complimentary drinks and get amongst these events, which you can attend gloriously cash-free.

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    Summer Reading List 2018–19

    Including a controversial memoir, this year's Man Booker winner and the latest effort from the author behind 'Call Me By Your Name'.

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    Cali Club Is Sydney's New Live Music Venue and Nightclub in the Former World Bar Site

    The Kings Cross venue's new incarnation will host regular gigs and and club nights — but without the teapot cocktails.

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    The All About Women Festival Returns for 2019 with Talks About Hip Hop, Toxic Masculinity and #MeToo

    Feminist author Clementine Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Emily Steel and Arab-Australian human right advocates Sara Saleh are some of the women taking the stage.

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    Alcohol Is Now Permanently Banned on the St Kilda Foreshore During Summer

    The 24-hour ban will be in place from November 1 to March 31, every year.

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    Carriageworks Unveils Its Ambitious 2019 Program

    Expect a packed program of risk-taking art, performance and ideas.

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    Dr Jane Goodall Is Coming to Australia to Chat About Her Pioneering Work with Chimpanzees

    Nearly 60 years after she first lived with chimps in Tanzania, she'll also chat about animal welfare and her ongoing conservation efforts.

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    Massimo Bottura, the Chef Behind the World's Best Restaurant, Is Coming to Australia

    He'll take the stage for four exclusive Aussie appearances next August

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    Melbourne's Best New Events of 2018

    The six most innovative and inclusive events to have landed in Melbourne this year.

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    Six Weird and Wonderful Shows to See at Brisbane Powerhouse's 2018 Wonderland Festival

    This year's must-sees include a 20s-themed dance party, an interactive exploration of 'Love Actually' and a two-man Tarantino show.

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    The Redfern Post Office Will Be Transformed Into an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Hub

    It's part of the City of Sydney's Eora Project, celebrating the culture of local Indigenous communities.

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    Melbourne Might Be Getting a New Major Pride Festival

    The European-style event would take place in Fitzroy's Smith Street and Gertrude Street in 2021.

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    This New NSW Parliamentary Inquiry Confirms That Sydney's Music and Nightlife Industry Is in Peril

    It's given 60 recommendations on how to save it — none of which reference the lockout laws.

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    Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Has Unveiled Its Fearless 2019 Program

    With pool parties, balls, burlesque shows, fairs, colourful after-dark art and moving choral performances.

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    This New Collection of Audiobooks Has Been Specifically Curated for Dogs

    The new Audible for Dogs collection aims to calm down canines left home alone.

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    Adelaide Festival Has Announced a Massive 2019 Program Worth Heading Interstate For

    Including soap made from human fat 'Fight Club'-style, real-time theatre across two days and Tim Minchin's new show.

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    'The Handmaid's Tale' Author Margaret Atwood Is Coming to Sydney

    She'll speak at the Sydney Opera House and share her thoughts on today's key issues — and what sort of dystopian futures they might foretell.

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    You Can Now Pay for Your Copy of 'The Big Issue' Simply by Tapping Your Card

    Many vendors of the charity magazine are offering cashless payment options from today.

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    Ten Things You Definitely Need to See and Do at Sydney Festival 2019

    From cycling to the moon to an immersive theatre show within the QT hotel.

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    Sydney Festival Has Unveiled a Dramatic and Diverse Program for 2019

    The summer festival will include overnight vigils, Parisian-style nightclubs, moon pillows and world premieres.

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    Here's How the NSW Government Plans to Make Music Festivals 'Safer'

    It will introduce on-the-spot fines for drug possession and new liquor licences for festivals, but it won't consider pill testing

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    SBS Is Opening Up Australia's 2019 Eurovision Entry to a Public Vote

    There'll be a national song contest to decide who'll represent the country in the Eurovision Song Contest.

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    Launceston's First Mona Foma Has Revealed Its Impressive and Eclectic 2019 Lineup

    It has everything from real human body parts to onesie exhibitions to Courtney Barnett — and free tickets for the local Amish community.

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    Seven Cultural Experiences Found Around the South Island that Aren't Just Going to a Gallery

    Visit New Zealand's one and only castle and help deliver the mail by boat.

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    Sydney Is About to Be Shrouded in Purple Flowers as Jacaranda Season Returns

    If you're a sucker for anything bright and floral, here's where to get a glimpse of the jacaranda trees in full bloom.

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    Eight Interesting (and Free) Talks Coming to Sydney in October

    Covering everything from artificial intelligence to climate change, these talks are a good excuse for being out on a school night.

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    Dead Letter Club Is Turning the Art of Handwritten Correspondence Into a Boozy Game

    Grab a pen (and a drink) and start scrawling letters the old-fashioned way.

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    Ten Out-of-Town Spring Events Worth Planning a Weekend Away Around

    Spring weekends are made for getting out of the city — plan a road trip around glamping pop-ups, colourful flower displays and food festivals.

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    Alice Springs' Incredible Light-Filled Parrtjima Festival Has Unveiled Its 2018 Program

    The Red Centre's Indigenous festival of light returns for its third year.

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    Stephen Fry and an Ex-Westboro Baptist Church Member Will Speak at the New-Look Festival of Dangerous Ideas

    After a year off, FODI will return to Sydney for two days of thought-provoking discussion in a new harbourside venue.

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    Melbourne's White Night Is Moving Its All-Night Arts Extravaganza to a New Winter Time Slot

    It'll form part of a broader city-wide winter arts festival that's set to launch in 2019.

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    Worksmith Is Collingwood's New Hospitality-Focused Co-Working Space

    It features desks, meeting rooms, a podcasting studio, an eleven-metre bar pumping out craft beers and an event space that caters for up to 100 people.

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    We're Giving Away a Noble Court Experience at St Ives Medieval Faire

    Get the royal treatment at this medieval weekend faire.

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    If you're single, you'd best get ready to mingle.

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