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Despite heavy rain thousands of Sydneysiders responded to the GetUp call for national action with more than 100 diverse community actions held simultaneously around the country. GetUp’s rallying call in the lead up aimed to mobilise the country: “We can’t let this Government think …

In my desperation to see Foals I was willing to travel abroad, and so booked tickets to their show at Le Zénith in Paris where the Oxford quintet are performing as part of Festival Les Inrocks, a series of live music nights …

Tamarama sculptor Lucy Humphrey won this year’s Sculpture by the Sea first prize with Horizon, a stunning glass globe that gave a crystal clear albeit distorted perspective to the beach surrounds. Another standout was New Zealand artist David McCracken’s Diminish Ascend – a …

Australia and America share many similarities historically. Both are young countries, both are built on a pioneering spirit, and both were quick to create their own mythologies, royalties and national characters from the very start. Taking in the Art Gallery of New …

Last Saturday grief and shock overwhelmed what had been relief and happiness as France celebrated the release of French hostages kidnapped three years ago in Niger by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. But only days after the release of Pierre Legrand, Daniel …

Renowned for their frolicsome take on what could be misjudged as fustily antique Renaissance and Baroque music, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra has found soul mates in Ensemble La Chimera, an Argentine group formed by lutenist Eduardo Eduez to celebrate a fusion of …

From Tom Waites to Claude Debussy, 31-year-old Australian classical saxophonist Amy Dickson’s musical tendencies are as far reaching as dusk is from dawn. Dickson’s latest offering, titled Dusk and Dawn, is a stylish reworking of classical, jazz and popular tunes including Chopin’s “Nocturne”, Bellini’s …

Based on the classic 1988 film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, now on at Sydney’s Theatre Royal, returns the audience to memorable classic moments of this highly successful comedy. Directed by Roger Hodgman(Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Grey Gardens, Sweeny Todd) this all new Australian …

I don’t generally spend my Saturday nights watching middle-aged women pose nude in front of strategically placed baked goods and floral displays, but when I do I make sure it’s for an excellent cause. Epicentre Theatre Company’s production of Calendar Girls at …

Bursting with the energy of youth and fuelled by vodka, hormones and the addictive madness of first lust, Sydney Theatre Company’s Romeo and Juliet is a stunning modern interpretation that reworks Shakespeare’s classic love story into a tale of teenage rebellion fit for a …