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GuideThe Best Things to Do, See and Eat During Melbourne Chinese New Year 2019
Celebrate the Year of the Pig with bustling night markets, five-course feasts and free tai chi classes.
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NewsParrtjima Festival Is Returning to Light Up Alice Springs in 2019 with Six Epic Light Installations
The festival — now in its fourth year — celebrates Indigenous arts, culture and storytelling.
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Gallery: Twenty Powerful Moments from Sydney's Huge 2019 #WomensWave March
Thousands of Sydneysiders marched to protest violence against women.
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NewsYou Can Now Tour This Enormous David Bowie Exhibition Via Your Phone
The collection of more than 400 Bowie items has gone virtual.
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NewsTen Intriguing and Informative Podcasts to Listen to This Summer
From real-life tales of murdering doctors to the stories of history's trailblazing women.
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NewsA Huge Exhibition Dedicated to NASA's Space Travel Efforts Is Coming to Australia
'NASA – A Human Adventure' will display at Brisbane's Queensland Museum from March.
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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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NewsThe Six Best Ways to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Melbourne
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) in Melbourne by hitting up cultural performances, noshing on mooncakes, and gathering together a big group mates for a yum cha feed.
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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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NewsThe 15 Best Straight-to-Streaming Movies of 2024 So Far
From 2024's first half, you need to be catching an Oscar-winning documentary, Glen Powell as a fake assassin and plenty of horror shocks from your couch.
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NewsEight New Movies You Can Watch in July That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with 'Furiosa', the latest gem from Hirokazu Kore-eda and a hypnotic vision of an AI-dominated future.
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GuideMust-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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NewsThe 15 Best Returning TV Shows of 2024 So Far
These are the beloved small-screen favourites to say "yes chef!" to, sleuth along with and giggle with — and get catchy songs stuck in your head from, too.
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NewsThe 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
The best movies from 2024's first half include a meditative trip to Tokyo, a scorching neo-noir thriller, multiple Oscar-winners and a stunning robot story.
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NewsYou'll Be Able to Tour This Blockbuster David Bowie Exhibition Via Your Phone From Next Month
The collection of around 500 Bowie items is going virtual.
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GuideThe 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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NewsSummer 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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NewsAlcohol 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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NewsDr 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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NewsMassimo 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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ShopCounterweight Vinyl & Espresso
32 Chambers Street, Footscray
Browse secondhand vinyl — the specialty is classic dance and bass — or sit down for a coffee and pastry.
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GuideMelbourne's Best New Events of 2018
The six most innovative and inclusive events to have landed in Melbourne this year.
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NewsMelbourne 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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NewsThis 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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NewsAdelaide 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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News'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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EventThe Jungle Giants (DJ Set) at Canadian Club's Australian Open Party
Sun, 12 Jan, 2025
Canadian Club Racquet Club, Melbourne
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EventMelbourne Marriott Docklands Rooftop Infinity Pool Pass
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 - Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Melbourne Marriott Hotel Docklands, Docklands
Spend your summer days sipping spritzes and paddling around this rooftop infinity pool.
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EventBaby's Summer of Spritz
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Baby Pizza, Richmond
Baby's summertime happy hour deal includes a bunch of $9.50 spritzes, $6.5 Peroni Rossas and a $7.50 house wine.
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EventUnderground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 - Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick
This is the first time the archive has been exhibited outside of Europe.
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EventNGV Friday Nights: Yayoi Kusama
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 - Fri, 18 Apr 2025
NGV International, Melbourne
The NGV's big Yayoi Kusama exhibition is hosting after-hours parties so you can spend Friday evenings surrounded by dots and pumpkins.
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EventRenegades Cricket Derby
Sun, 12 Jan, 2025
Marvel Stadium, Docklands
Let the sparks fly as the Renegades Derby sees the Big Bash League reach fever pitch.
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EventDouble Shot Maggie: Irish Live Music
Sat, 7 Dec 2024 - Sat, 4 Jan 2025
The Quiet Man Irish Pub, Kensington
A night full of singing, dancing, and laughing is in store at The Quiet Man Irish Pub
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EventStars Melbourne Derby
Sat, 4 Jan, 2025
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Richmond
Experience the Stars Derby as the city’s most zealous cricket fans cheer their team to victory.
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EventThe Other Art Fair
Thu, 30 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
The Timber Yard, Port Melbourne
Showcasing works from emerging contemporary artists, alongside live tattooing, immersive installations and cocktails, this art fair does things a little differently.
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EventNew Year's Eve in Melbourne's Southside
Tue, 31 Dec, 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
It’s officially time to start sorting out your New Year’s Eve plans.
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NewsYou 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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NewsKNDRD Is Melbourne CBD's New Drop-In Meditation and Mindfulness Studio
And your first session is on the house.
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NewsSBS 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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NewsLaunceston'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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NewsSeven 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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NewsDead 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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NewsThe NSW Government Has Set Up a New Panel to Advise on How to Make Festivals Safer
But it will not be considering pill testing.
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NewsAlice 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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Season Three of 'Serial' Will Explore the Failures of the US Criminal Justice System
And it's hitting the air on September 20.
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NewsMelbourne'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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NewsWorksmith 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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GuideSeven Shows You Need to See at This Year's Melbourne International Arts Festival
From immersive fire garden installations to ancient Azerbajani operas, these are the things you'll want to have tickets for this October.
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NewsThis New Australian Opera Is Inspired by the Life of Celebrated Artist Brett Whiteley
It's coming to the Sydney Opera House in 2019 as part of Opera Australia's new season.
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NewsMelbourne Fringe Festival Has Unveiled Its Ambitious 2018 Program
Taking over 150 Melbourne venues, the festival will transform the city into a virtual playground.
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NewsMelbourne Is No Longer the World's Most Liveable City
After seven years at the top, Melbourne has been dethroned by the Austrian capital.
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News'The Betoota Advocate' Is Heading On a 13-City Tour of Australia
Clancy Overall and Errol Parker, founders of the "newspaper", will perform a satirical show responding to a recent media merger.
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NewsActivist Malala Yousafzai Is Making Her First Australian Visit
The youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate will host two speaking events in Sydney and Melbourne this December
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News
You'll Soon Be Able to Tour London's Blockbuster David Bowie Exhibition On Your Phone
The collection of around 400 Bowie items is going virtual.
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NewsMelbourne Writers Festival 2018 Will Be Headlined By a Bunch of Music Legends
Music meets literature in this year's lineup, featuring Jimmy Barnes, Paul Kelly and Sarah Blasko.
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NewsFive Ways to Get Some Culture in Your City After Work
Just because it's a 'school night' doesn't mean you have to go straight home — at least, not with this list.
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NewsThe World's First Official Studio Ghibli Restaurant Has Opened in Bangkok
Filled with Totoro figures and serving up susuwatari-shaped dishes, it's your next adorable must-visit destination.
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NewsBrisbane Festival Is Throwing a Free Garden Wedding for Eight LGBTIQ Couples
And if you're looking to tie the knot in September, it could be you.
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NewsFive Hacks for Going Back to Uni When You're Not Sure You're Ready
First and foremost, start studying something you're actually passionate about.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do in Melbourne This Month Under $20
You don't have to spend your salary to enjoy this city.
