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    Sydney Opera House Announces Ambitious New Ideas Festival, ANTIDOTE

    It will replace the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in 2017.

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    Netflix Is Finally Making an Original Australian Series

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    The New York Times Officially Launches Australian Coverage

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    Australia's Getting a Bingo Rave

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    The Best Things to Do Around Brisbane This Long Weekend

    From Easter egg hunts around bars to 18-hour pinball tournaments and long lazy Easter brunches.

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    The Team Behind Serial and This American Life Just Dropped a Brand New True Crime Podcast

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    St Kilda Is Getting Australia's First Pride Centre

    Modelled after San Francisco’s LGBTI Community Centre, it will highlight queer culture, provide services and offer a safe gathering space.

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    Vivid Sydney Announces Massive 2017 Program

    AIR, Shepard Fairey, Laura Marling, lights at Barangaroo.

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    A Two-Day Food and Music Festival is Coming to Melbourne's Historic Pentridge Prison

    Live tunes, market stalls and meals on wheels will help celebrate 20 years since the prison closed its doors.

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    YouTube is Bringing Live TV Streaming to All of Your Devices

    The US service will allow viewers to watch live TV wherever they happen to be and enjoy unlimited recording.

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    The Six Best Things to See at Brisbane's MELT Festival 2017

    Brisbane's celebration of queer arts and culture is back for its third year.

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    15 Ways to Spend the Australia Day Public Holiday in Brisbane

    Join a protest, count down the Hottest 100 and get amongst one of our favourite summer music festivals.

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    Women's Marches Draw Massive Crowds Around the Globe

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    Netflix Has Turned Your Favourite TV Shows Into A Video Game

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    Concrete Playground's 2016/17 Summer Reading List

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    Nine Supremely Festive Things to Do This Christmas in Brisbane

    Parties, fancy dinners and music festival markets.

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    Venice's Annual Carnevale Masquerade Festival Is Coming to Australia

    Prepare to don your fanciest threads and best facial covering.

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    Coming to our shores harder than the knuckle train to Fist Planet.

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    You Can Now Download Netflix Shows to Watch Offline

    Binge watch even without an internet connection.

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    Emma Watson Has Been Hiding Feminist Books on the London Underground

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